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Oblivion draws heavily from science-fiction films of yesteryear, particularly sci-fi movies of the 1970s. The year is 2077, and humanity has relocated to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, after Earth was overrun by aliens. Tom Cruise's character, Jack, is sent back to Earth to help service drones in their fight against the extraterrestrials. It's during his time back on his home planet that he discovers he has been cloned. Nothing about Jack's reality is quite what it seems, and watching him unearth the truth is a gripping ride from start to finish.

Oblivionis definitely more of a popcorn flick than other movies you'll find on this list. It doesn't dive as deeply into the ethical ramifications of cloning, nor is it distinguished by granular scientific detail. But then, it's not interested in those things Oblivionwants to be a blockbuster sci-fi of the highest order, and completely succeeds.Cloning is only one of many sci-fi concepts the movie plays with: Rebelling robots, a post-apocalyptic setting, and subterranean cities are all here too. It pretty much wins sci-fi bingo, and that's why we love it.

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Top players in Global Hard Drive Cloning Software Market are:

Acronis (Switzerland), Symantec (United States), Microsoft (United States), Paramount Software (United Kingdom), EaseUS Software (United States), MiniTool Software Limited (United States), NovaStor DataCenter (United States), Acronis International GmbH (Switzerland), Enter software solutions (Italy), ActiveDisk Image (Canada), O&O Software GmbH (Germany)

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Brief Overview on Hard Drive Cloning Software

Hard drive cloning software enables users to fully copy all data on a hard drive, including uneditable or unviewable system files. The software offers companies the ability to create base hard drive configurations for servers, employee devices, and more. It also enables companies to quickly update hardware while keeping drive configurations the same. As drive-cloning software lets users clone one drive to numerous others, it saves businesses time and money in both setting up new devices and maintaining current ones. This is an important part of data backup and recovery for most businesses, particularly enterprise businesses with hundreds of hard drives across devices and servers.

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Chapter 4: Presenting the Global Hard Drive Cloning Software Market Factor Analysis Porters Five Forces, Supply/Value Chain, PESTEL analysis, Market Entropy, Patent/Trademark Analysis.

Chapter 5: Displaying the by Type, End User and Region 2013-2020

Chapter 6: Evaluating the leading manufacturers of the Global Hard Drive Cloning Software market which consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

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CUMBERLAND Thieves are using stolen debit card information to remove money from the accounts of First Peoples Community Federal Credit Union members, authorities said Thursday.

According to theAllegany County Combined Criminal Investigation Unit, the suspectsare obtaining the information by using skimmers at ATM locations. With that information, cloned cards are produced, which are used to withdraw cash from the victims' accounts through ATMs.

The crimes, which have been occurring over the last several weeks, have most oftenhappened on weekends when the credit union's main lobbies have been closed.

Investigators said anyone who has been a victim of the crime should contact their local law enforcement agency.

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Stranger Things season 4 has a lot of questions to answer, among those how Jim Hopper survived the explosion at the end of season 3 and how he ended up in Russia. As the Duffer Brothers have been keeping all details about season 4 a secret, fans of the series have been coming up with all types of theories, among those one that suggests the Hopper in Russia is actually a clone. Season 3 of Stranger Things left viewers wondering if Hopper was really dead, who the American prisoner is, and what will happen with Eleven now that her powers are gone and she moved out of Hawkins with the Byers.

With production of Stranger Things season 4 on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, plot details will continue to be a mystery for a while, but Netflix and the team behind the series decided to treat their fansand released a teaserwith a big revelation on Valentines Day: Hopper is alive, and hes being held prisoner in Russia. Of course, the biggest questions are now about how Hopper survived and how he became the American prisoner (supposing theres only one), and fans have come up with all types of explanations.

Related: Stranger Things' Hopper Reveal Highlights The Show's Big Problems

One of those suggests the Hopper seen being forced to work in a chain gang in Russia is not the Hopper that viewers know so well, but a clone. The theory can be supported by some details from the previous seasons of Stranger Things, as well as by some of the series (many) influences and the mystery that is the Upside Down and the creatures living in it. Heres how Hopper could be a clone in Stranger Things season 4.

The final episode of Stranger Things season 3 saw the main group and their allies divided into three factions: the Scoops Troop (Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica), the Griswold Family (Eleven, Mike, Will, Lucas, Max, Jonathan, and Nancy), and the Bald Eagle (Joyce, Hopper, and Murray). The latter group was in charge of infiltrating the Russian lab located underneath Starcourt Mall, and for that, they had to dress as Russian agents. Once there, Joyce and Hopper got to the part of the lab where the Key was (the machine designed to open gates to the Upside Down), and in order to shut it down, they had two turn two keys at the same time, but they were interrupted by Grigori (also known as the Russian Terminator). Hopper and Grigori fought near the machine, with Hopper pushing Grigori into the device, killing him instantly but also causing the Key to malfunction and trap him between the semi-open gate and a ray of energy. With seemingly no way out, he signaled Joyce to turn the keys, even if that meant he would die. Joyce did so and the machine exploded, killing those near it. Hoppers body (or what would have been left of it) was never found, which made fans wonder if he could have survived somehow.

Now that its confirmed that Hopper is alive, fans have come up with different explanations on how he survived. One of the most popular ones explains that, when Joyce closed her eyes when turning the keys and the screen went black, thats when Hopper made one final move to save himself. When the screen went back to the scene, right before the Key exploded, Hopper was not where he was supposed to, which has made fans believe Hopper found a way to escape at the last second. Its possible that the Russians learned a few lessons from their previous failed attempts to open gates and added a safe zone in case the Key malfunctioned again. With that in mind, Hopper could have found the ladder that leads to a safe area or the shockwave of the explosion tossed him away, falling into that zone. As he was wearing a Russian uniform, he might have been found by them and believed to be part of their team, which is how he ended up on the other side of the world.

Another well-known theory suggests the explosion sent Hopper through the gate and into the Upside Down, where he was trapped for a while. Given that everything about the Upside Down continues to be a mystery, it could have served as a portal of sorts that took Hopper to Russia and as the post-credits scene of season 3s finale revealed that the Russians have their own Demogorgon, that means they have successfully opened at least one gate, which could have been Hoppers ticket out of the other dimension.

Related: Stranger Things Theory: The Demogorgon Is Key To Hopper's Return

Stranger Things has relied a lot on many horror and sci-fi tropes, but it has also had its own twists. Season 4s could be that the Hopper being kept prisoner in Russia is not the real one, but a clone. The big question, then, would be how and whyhe was cloned but it might not be the Russians doing. In season 3, viewers followed Billy Hargroves transformation after his encounter with the Mind Flayer. Billy was taken to the Upside Down, where he came across with a clone of himself after the Mind Flayer planted a part of itself inside him (as it did with Will in season 2, but in a much deeper level). After that, Billy was under the control of the monster, which brought significant changes in him, both physical and behavioral.

Taking Will and Billys cases as examples, and following the aforementioned theory of Hopper being thrown into the Upside Down during the explosion, the Hopper in Russia could be a clone created by the Mind Flayer. The purpose of a Hopper clone in this case would be to continue with the monsters plans of taking over this dimension, more so after its past attempts have failed because of Elevens intervention. Cloning Hopper specifically would also help the Mind Flayer attract Eleven, given the strong bond between them, allowing it to get its revenge after all those times Eleven got in the way. The Mind Flayer has been getting stronger, and it wouldnt be surprising if it perfected its plan following its most recent defeat, including now the use of a clone.

However, if Hopper survived thanks to a safe zone in the lab and was mistaken by a Russian scientist and taken to Russia, then the purpose of a Jim Hopper clone would be different. Hopper knows too much about Hawkins Lab, the Upside Down, the monsters, and the Russians and the Russians are still experimenting on the other dimension and the creatures living in it. Cloning Hopper would not only help them get the information they need and use him however they need, but also help them get their hands on Eleven, whose powers would be very useful to them. The Russian guards line of not the American could then refer to the scientists keeping Hopper alive to clone him, so he couldnt be the Demogorgons dinner.

Stranger Things is heavily influenced by many sci-fi and horror films from the 1980s, among those classics like John Carpenters The Thing and the Star Wars films. The Thing has already been referenced in Stranger Things a poster can be spotted at Mikes basement and Lucas mentioned it when explaining why he liked New Coke but its influence in terms of narrative and more hasnt really been felt yet. Viewers were quick to point out how the season 4 teaser had big The Thing vibes: set in a snowy, isolated place, where a dangerous and mysterious creature is being kept (in this case, the Demogorgon). Some even found some similarities between the strange noise/scream heard at the end of the teaser and the sound the creature from The Thing made.

Related: How The Thing's Iconic Poster Was Made (In Just 24 Hours)

Carpenters film followed a group of American researchers in Antarctica who came across with a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilated and imitated other organisms. The creature began to attack the group and pose as some of them, making them paranoid as they could no longer trust each other, as it was very difficult to know if the person next to them was the real one or the thing. Stranger Things could be following the steps of The Thing in season 4 and bring clones to the mix, with Hopper being the chosen one to introduce this concept in the series, causing (even more) conflict and paranoia among the group.

Of course, theres also Star Wars, which also has its own clones. They were genetically engineered with the purpose of killing and dying to defend their makers. Clones in Star Wars had tragic lives, as all they knew was the battlefield and werent really treated like human beings. Though it appears that all clones were gone by the time the original trilogy begins, the sequels went back to the concept of cloning by revealing Palpatine had cloned himself. The Star Wars universe is in constant change, but that doesnt mean the Duffer Brothers cant borrow the idea, even if it wasnt really present in theStar Wars films from the 1980s. Some fans have found similarities between Hopper and Han Solos arc, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is among the many influences for Stranger Things season 4, so it wouldnt be surprising if they take these influences beyond the iconic 1980 film.

As mentioned above, the consequences of a Hopper clonewould depend on who created him and with what purpose. If its the Mind Flayers doing, it would mean that the groups encounters with it are far from over, and that the creature has once more evolved and even worse, it now has at least one more gate from which it can begin to take over this dimension. If the Hopper clone is created by the Russians, the bad guys could get easy access to very important information about Hawkins, the lab, and its residents, especially those the Russian scientists came across with. Both scenarios would represent a big threat to Eleven, as both can be used as bait: the Mind Flayer wants revenge, and Eleven can easily fall when seeing the Hopper clone, and the Russians could really use her powers in their experiments.

Of course, some of the biggest questions are if and how people would realize that theyre not dealing with the real Hopper. Going back to The Thing, cinematographer Dean Cundey hasteased that he added a subtle illumination to the eyes of uninfected characters, a hint for viewers to know who was real and who was a clone. Stranger Things season 4 could have its own subtle hint, which only those truly observant and those who know Hopper very well would notice. As for the real one, he could be either trapped in the Upside Down or being kept prisoner by the Russians, though under heavier surveillance than the rest. A Hopper clone would add more conflict and drama to Stranger Things, and as its still unknown when season 4 will be released, fans will surely continue trying to find explanations to some of the series biggest mysteries.

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Chief Jim Hopper is alive, as revealed in the "Stranger Things" Season 4 teaser. However, he may not be the same Hopper fans have grown to know and love.

Fan theories are never-ending when it comes to the storyline and plot for the upcoming season. Recent speculations involve the possibility that the Hopper shown in the trailer is a clone, with the Mind Flayer responsible for the cloning.

According to Screenrant, the cloning may have happened after the explosion at Starcourt Mall in Season 3. A previous theory claimed that Hopper escaped the explosion at the underground Russian lab when he was thrown into the Upside Down. However, Hopper may have been cloned by the Mind Flayer to serve its purpose, which is to lure Eleven.

Cloning Hopper would make it easy for the monster to get its revenge on Eleven. She interfered with its plan to conquer the human world in Season 3, when she prevented Billy Hargrove from executing any more of its plans. Eleven and Hopper share a close bond and once she finds out that he is alive, she would not hesitate to approach him. This would make it easy for the Mind Flayer to kill Eleven when given the chance.

The question though, is how a cloned Hopper ended up in Russia as seen in the "Stranger Things" Season 4 teaser. It is supposedly likely that he ended up in a safe zone during the explosion and the Russians took him in as a prisoner.

The Russians would also have their own agenda for keeping him and not feeding him to the Demogorgon. Hopper knows a lot about the Upside Down and the monsters that live there. He is also Eleven's father figure and his connection to her would benefit them. Thus, they would likely also clone him to get their hands on Eleven so they could use her powers.

The idea of having a cloned Hopper in "Stranger Things" Season 4 is not far-fetched given how the Netflix show references 1980s movies. John Carpenter's "The Thing," which tells the story of an alien life form that takes the form of the human it kills, was heavily teased in the series (from the poster in Mike's basement and Lucas' fascination with Coke because of the film).

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Global Voice Cloning Market: Snapshot

The demand within the global market for voice cloning is expected to experience a sturdy rise in the years to come. Voice cloning has multiple applications across a wide array of industries which has played a key role in the growth of the global market for voice cloning. Several industries and sectors including banking, electronics, healthcare, and entertainment use voice cloning technologies. Voice cloning is used in electronic devices to run automated audios for giving out instructions. The rise in the demand for electronic device with audio assistance has played a major role in market growth.

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The entertainment industry frequently uses voice replication to generate video clips, audios, podcasts, and movies. This factor shall also emerge as a key driver of demand within the global market for voice cloning in the years to come. Voice cloning is also used in the healthcare industry to create automated voice assistance for high-end healthcare products. Use of voiceovers for creating explainer videos and digital collaterals has also played a major role in the growth of the global market for voice cloning. There is a stellar need for improved voice cloning to create better audio impact in animated movies and films.

The market for voice cloning in North America has been expanding at a stellar rate. This is attributed to the presence of a starry entertainment industry in the US and Canada. Moreover, the market for voice cloning in Asia Pacific is also growing due to the same reason. Other regional segments in the global voice cloning market are Europe and Latin America.

GlobalVoice Cloning Market: Overview

The demand within the global market for voice cloning has been rising on account of the need to replicate voices for various applications in industrial processes and entertainment activities. Voice cloning has enabled successful execution of text-to-speech applications in mobile phones, desktops, and laptops which has played a key role in the growth of the global market for voice cloning. The advent of several software applications that involve the use of voice cloning have given an impetus to the growth of the global market.

Furthermore, voice cloning was considered to be a complex process a few decades ago due to technological limitations. However, with advancements in software and hardware capabilities, it has become extremely easy to effectuate voice cloning in hardware devices and software applications.

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Furthermore, the advantages and agility served by voice cloning is expected to be a key parameter for growth within the global market for voice cloning. It is also true that the global market for voice cloning would expand as new entertainment avenues take shape across the world.

The global market for voice cloning may be segmented on the basis of the following parameters: component, application, deployment mode, vertical, and region. It is vital to get a thorough understanding of these market segments in order decipher the market dynamics.

A report on the global voice cloning market sheds value on some of the key standpoints for market growth. The report is a representation of the trends, opportunities, regional dynamics, and restraints that have housed in the global market for voice cloning in recent times. The regional segmentation has been distinctly highlighted in the report to give a wide purview of the market.

GlobalVoice Cloning Market: Trends and Opportunities

The demand within the global market for voice cloning has been rising on account of the tremendous technological advancements that have offset in the electronics and communication industries. New software tools that are equipped with voice feedback and other features relating to artificial voice have given an impetus to the growth of the global market for voice cloning. Moreover, the presence of multiple providers of voice cloning services has also led to the generation of voluminous revenues in this market.

Wireless assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and other modes were possible only due to the presence of voice cloning. Furthermore, chatbots are other amongst others software applications that have played a pivotal role in enhancing the growth prospects of the global market for voice cloning. Besides this, the popularity of digital games, accessibility options, and interactive learning has also created tremendous demand within the global market for voice cloning in recent times.

GlobalVoice Cloning Market: Regional Outlook

The technological revolutions that has birthed across the US has resulted in the development of several specialised hardware and software capabilities in the country. For this reason, the growth of the global market for voice cloning in North America is expected to trace an ascending path in the years to come. The market for voice cloning in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America is also expected to grow at a robust rate in the years to come.

GlobalVoice Cloning Market: Competitive Landscape

Microsoft, AWS, IBM, AT&T, Nuance Communications, Baidu, and iSpeech are some of the key vendors operational in the global market for voice cloning.

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Wind River Linux provides the technologies essential to building a flexible, stable, and secure platform for your embedded devices.

Based on OpenEmbedded releases from the Yocto Project, it is designed to let you customize your platform to include only the packages and features you need. Powered by bitbake, it provides the ability to build an entire Linux distribution from source by following repeatable recipes. This is really powerful, but can be foreign to application developers that already have a workflow they are comfortable with.

Developers building graphical user interfaces (GUI) have their own set of tools that they rely on. Often they prefer to use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tailored to the language and frameworks they are working with. Typically this IDE and the tools it uses are running natively on the same platform they are building for.

Fortunately, these developers can still do this on Wind River Linux. This tutorial describes building Wind River Linux with the GCC toolchain and Qt Creator included to enable native application development.

Building the entire platform has a few simple requirements to get started. Many Linux distributions are self-hosted meaning you can only build the next version of the distribution with the previous release.

Wind River Linux supports a wide variety of hosts. The official supported list of hosts is below, but many newer releases have been tested and known to work.

For details on necessary Linux Host System Libraries and Executables please refer to the documentation.

For example, on Ubuntu systems the following packages must be installed:

In addition, the deployment steps require root or sudo access for deploying to an SD Card or USB flash device.

Lastly, this tutorial has been validated for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Intel NUC devices (NUC5i3MYBE, NUC6i7KYK, NUC7i5DNK). These instructions should work on other devices, however we tested these devices specifically to ensure that the hardware acceleration was enabled for top performance.

The first step is to clone the Wind River Linux GitHub repository.

Create a directory for the tools needed to create the Wind River Linux image. This will be referred to as the parent directory from this point onwards:

In a Linux terminal, clone the repository into your build folder with the following command:

Note: A clone of wrlinux-x defaults to the WRLINUX_10_19_BASE branch with the latest update tagged. WRLINUX_10_19_BASE_UPDATE0003 or greater is required for the Raspberry Pi 4 BSP. This tutorial was written using WRLINUX_10_19_BASE_UPDATE0007.

This section describes the usage of the Wind River setup.sh tool for easy configuration of the build. We will use it to specify the target board, download the layers required, and pre-populate the configuration file.

In the parent directory that wrlinux-x was cloned into (wrlinux_qt), run the setup.sh script. Accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).

For Raspberry Pi 4 use:

For an Intel NUC use:

Note: The --machine flag specifies that it should include the board support package for your device, the --dl-layers flag downloads the package source now instead of later at build time.

After some time, you will see:

At which point the following files and directories should have been generated:

Run the environment setup scripts that were generated in the parent directory. They will create and change to the build sub-directory.

These scripts will set environment variables for the build tool as well as generate some pre-built configuration files.

Note: If you have previously built an image, running these scripts will not overwrite your existing configurations. Rename, move or delete previous configuration files to ensure the correct configuration files are generated.

This section describes how to add the required template files using git.

Clone the meta-qt5 and the meta-qt5-extra repositories in a my-layers directory

Download the required patches listed below into the wrlinux_qt/build directory:

Credit goes to my colleague, Quanyang Wang, for creating the patches to integrate LxQt desktop on Wind River Linux.

In the meta-qt5-extra directory, apply the first patch:

In the wrlinux layer directory, apply the wrlinux patches:

This section describes how to clone the meta-qt5 and meta-qt5-extra layer repositories. In addition, how to add the layers, GCC toolchain and desktop environment to the image.

Using the bitbake-layers tool, add the layers to the conf/bblayers.conf file. This allow bitbake to locate the custom layer when building the image. In addition, if using a Raspberry Pi add the Raspberry Pi Graphics layer to enable hardware acceleration.

If building for the Raspberry Pi, add in addition for hardware acceleration:

Edit conf/local.conf configuration file to add the GCC toolchain, packages required for Qt5 and the desktop environment. Append the following lines to the end of conf/local.conf:

Note: this tutorial uses the LxQt desktop, but you may replace feature/lxqt with feature/xfce if you prefer to use the desktop featured with the Raspberry Pi Foundation images.

If building for the Raspberry Pi, also add the following to enable hardware acceleration:

If building for Raspberry Pi, edit ../layers/bcm-2xxx-rpi/recipes-bsp/boot-config/boot-config/cmdline.txt file to adjust the kernel parameters.

Note: These changes ensure that the console output appears on the HDMI display and that the boot sequence doesn't wait for a DHCP connection.

This section describes building the Wind River Linux image

Build the image of your choice. As seen in the image in step 4, there are several suggested images. We will build wrlinux-image-std-sato, an image optimized for a desktop environment.

After some time, you will see the following when the build is finished:

This section describes how to identify your USB SD Card adapter or USB flash drive using fdisk.

Use the fdisk command to list the block devices detected by Linux:

Identify your device through the model name or capacity.

Note: In this case the device is '/dev/sdx' as seen by the capacity and 'Disk model'. The device name should take the format of '/dev/sdx' where x is a letter specific to your machine.

This section describes how to write the generated .wic and .wic.bmap or .iso files to the SD card or USB flash drive.

Locate the images generated by bitbake. Relative to the build directory, the image path is:

Specifically, we need the wrlinux-image-std-sato-bcm-2xxx-rpi4.wic and wrlinux-image-std-sato-bcm-2xxx-rpi4.wic.bmap files.

Using bmaptool, flash the generated files to the usb device

After up to several minutes (depending on the speed of your USB device) you should see:

Locate the images generated by bitbake. Relative to the build directory, the image path is:

Specifically, we need the wrlinux-image-std-sato-intel-x86-64.iso file.

Flash your image using dd

In some cases, dd can appear to hang while writing from memory to the USB. Check the progress with:

It should approach the low hundreds when the write is finished.

This section describes how to resize the root filesystem to take up the full capacity of the SD card. With the USB device inserted, run the following commands, replacing /dev/sdx with your device.

For the LxQt desktop, the login and password are wrluser and the $HOME directory is /home/wrluser.

After logging in you will be presented with the LxQt Desktop:

Note: If you chose to use the the XFCE desktop, the login is root with no password and the $HOME directory is /root.

The sample applications come from Qt git repositories. Cloning the repositories requires that you have a working network connection. If for any reason your device didn't automatically get a dynamic IP address you may use the following commands to obtain one.

Open QTerminal by clicking on the icon in the bottom left corner, then click System Tools > QTerminal.

In a QTerminal, execute the su command to become the root user.

Then execute the "ip a" command to verify that your device has retrieved an IP address. Refer to the inet line under eth0 to see your IP address.

If you do not already have an IP address, then you may execute dhclient eth0 to request a dynamic IP address.

Execute exit to stop running commands as the root user and become wrluser again.

This section demonstrates the mesa-demos glxgears application.

Open QTerminal by clicking on the icon in the bottom left corner, then click System Tools > QTerminal.

Execute glxgears to try the OpenGL example. If the hardware acceleration is working, it should report around 60 frames per second on the Raspberry Pi 4.

This section demonstrates an OpenGL example from the Qtbase repository.

Use git to clone the repository containing the OpenGL examples

Copy the examples folder out of the qtbase directory so that Qt Creator will let us build the project.

Launch Qt Creator from the GUI

Open the openglwindow.pro file by selecting File > Open File or Project from the menu.

Navigate to $HOME/examples/opengl/openglwindow/openglwindow.pro. Then click, Open.

Select "openglwindow" as the Active Project, then click the Configure Project button.

Build and run the application by clicking Build > Run in the menu.

(Optional) You may click the "Compile Output" tab along the bottom to watch the toolchain output as the project builds.

After a few moments the openglwindow should appear with a spinning rainbow triangle.

This section demonstrates the QtCluster example from the Qtbase docs repository.

Open a terminal and clone the repository containing the Qt docs:

Launch Qt Creator from the GUI

Open the qtcluster-base.pro file by selecting File > Open File or Project from the menu.

Navigate to $HOME/qtdoc/doc/src/snippets/qtcluster/qtcluster-base.pro. Then click, Open.

Select qtcluster-base"* as the Active Project, then click the Configure Project button.

Build and run the application by clicking Build > Run in the menu.

Note: If the hardware acceleration is working, it should report around 60 frames per second on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Cloning, the process of generating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism. Cloning happens often in naturefor example, when a cell replicates itself asexually without any genetic alteration or recombination. Prokaryotic organisms (organisms lacking a cell nucleus) such as bacteria create genetically identical duplicates of themselves using binary fission or budding. In eukaryotic organisms (organisms possessing a cell nucleus) such as humans, all the cells that undergo mitosis, such as skin cells and cells lining the gastrointestinal tract, are clones; the only exceptions are gametes (eggs and sperm), which undergo meiosis and genetic recombination.

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Cloning is the process of generating a genetically identical copy of acellor an organism.Cloning happens all the time in nature. In biomedical research, cloning is broadly defined to mean the duplication of any kind of biological material for scientific study, such as a piece ofDNAor an individual cell.

Therapeutic cloning enables the cultivation of stem cells that are genetically identical to a patient. This approach, by avoiding risk of rejection by theimmune system, has the potential to benefit many patients,including those affected byAlzheimer disease,diabetes, andspinal cordinjury.

The cloning of humans remains universally condemned, primarily for the associated psychological, social, and physiological risks. There are also concerns that cloning promoteseugenics, the idea that humanity could be improved through the selection of individuals possessing desired traits. There also exists controversy over theethicsof therapeutic and research cloning, which makes use of embryos that are otherwise discarded.

In biomedical research, cloning is broadly defined to mean the duplication of any kind of biological material for scientific study, such as a piece of DNA or an individual cell. For example, segments of DNA are replicated exponentially by a process known as polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, a technique that is used widely in basic biological research. The type of cloning that is the focus of much ethical controversy involves the generation of cloned embryos, particularly those of humans, which are genetically identical to the organisms from which they are derived, and the subsequent use of these embryos for research, therapeutic, or reproductive purposes.

Reproductive cloning was originally carried out by artificial twinning, or embryo splitting, which was first performed on a salamander embryo in the early 1900s by German embryologist Hans Spemann. Later, Spemann, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1935) for his research on embryonic development, theorized about another cloning procedure known as nuclear transfer. This procedure was performed in 1952 by American scientists Robert W. Briggs and Thomas J. King, who used DNA from embryonic cells of the frog Rana pipiens to generate cloned tadpoles. In 1958 British biologist John Bertrand Gurdon successfully carried out nuclear transfer using DNA from adult intestinal cells of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). Gurdon was awarded a share of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this breakthrough.

Advancements in the field of molecular biology led to the development of techniques that allowed scientists to manipulate cells and to detect chemical markers that signal changes within cells. With the advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s, it became possible for scientists to create transgenic clonesclones with genomes containing pieces of DNA from other organisms. Beginning in the 1980s mammals such as sheep were cloned from early and partially differentiated embryonic cells. In 1996 British developmental biologist Ian Wilmut generated a cloned sheep, named Dolly, by means of nuclear transfer involving an enucleated embryo and a differentiated cell nucleus. This technique, which was later refined and became known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), represented an extraordinary advance in the science of cloning, because it resulted in the creation of a genetically identical clone of an already grown sheep. It also indicated that it was possible for the DNA in differentiated somatic (body) cells to revert to an undifferentiated embryonic stage, thereby reestablishing pluripotencythe potential of an embryonic cell to grow into any one of the numerous different types of mature body cells that make up a complete organism. The realization that the DNA of somatic cells could be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state significantly impacted research into therapeutic cloning and the development of stem cell therapies.

Soon after the generation of Dolly, a number of other animals were cloned by SCNT, including pigs, goats, rats, mice, dogs, horses, and mules. Despite those successes, the birth of a viable SCNT primate clone would not come to fruition until 2018, and scientists used other cloning processes in the meantime. In 2001 a team of scientists cloned a rhesus monkey through a process called embryonic cell nuclear transfer, which is similar to SCNT except that it uses DNA from an undifferentiated embryo. In 2007 macaque monkey embryos were cloned by SCNT, but those clones lived only to the blastocyst stage of embryonic development. It was more than 10 years later, after improvements to SCNT had been made, that scientists announced the live birth of two clones of the crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), the first primate clones using the SCNT process. (SCNT has been carried out with very limited success in humans, in part because of problems with human egg cells resulting from the mothers age and environmental factors.)

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cloning | Definition, Process, & Types | Britannica

Reproductive cloning may enable researchers to make copies of animals with the potential benefits for the fields of medicine and agriculture.

For instance, the same Scottish researchers who cloned Dolly have cloned other sheep that have been genetically modified to produce milk that contains a human protein essential for blood clotting. The hope is that someday this protein can be purified from the milk and given to humans whose blood does not clot properly. Another possible use of cloned animals is for testing new drugs and treatment strategies. The great advantage of using cloned animals for drug testing is that they are all genetically identical, which means their responses to the drugs should be uniform rather than variable as seen in animals with different genetic make-ups.

After consulting with many independent scientists and experts in cloning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided in January 2008 that meat and milk from cloned animals, such as cattle, pigs and goats, are as safe as those from non-cloned animals. The FDA action means that researchers are now free to using cloning methods to make copies of animals with desirable agricultural traits, such as high milk production or lean meat. However, because cloning is still very expensive, it will likely take many years until food products from cloned animals actually appear in supermarkets.

Another application is to create clones to build populations of endangered, or possibly even extinct, species of animals. In 2001, researchers produced the first clone of an endangered species: a type of Asian ox known as a guar. Sadly, the baby guar, which had developed inside a surrogate cow mother, died just a few days after its birth. In 2003, another endangered type of ox, called the Banteg, was successfully cloned. Soon after, three African wildcats were cloned using frozen embryos as a source of DNA. Although some experts think cloning can save many species that would otherwise disappear, others argue that cloning produces a population of genetically identical individuals that lack the genetic variability necessary for species survival.

Some people also have expressed interest in having their deceased pets cloned in the hope of getting a similar animal to replace the dead one. But as shown by Cc the cloned cat, a clone may not turn out exactly like the original pet whose DNA was used to make the clone.

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Cloning Fact Sheet | NHGRI - Genome.gov

You may have had a question or two (or fifty) after watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The significance of lightsaber colors, where Babu Frik ranked on a cuteness scale from one to Baby Yoda, and oh, yeahhow the hell Emperor Palpatine came back from the dead to torment Rey, who was his granddaughter, apparently.

Star Wars gave a very Westworld answer: He was a clone! Makes total sense. And Reys father, too, was a Palpatine clone, only the job was botched. There are some Star Wars novelizations that give some more details on this, but what about the movies? This week, a Reddit user went on a deep dive of the Skywalker Saga, hunting for any kind of precedence the films couldve set for a Palpatine clone.

Turns out there are a handful of easter eggs buried throughout the series, dating all the way back to Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Check out the full breakdown if you want to see every nod the films make, but here are some highlights.

Remember those creepy baby Snokes that were bred on the Sith planet Exegol? The Reddit user says that proves that the Sith had cloning technology:

Theres a generous reading of Palpatines Look what you have made quip in The Rise of Skywalker:

The user even found a line in Episode III that could be interpreted as a prophecy for Palpatines eventual cloning:

Feeling good with those explanations? Cool. We have another Palp-related investigation for you.

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A 'Star Wars' Fan Explained How the Palpatine Clone Was Teased Long Before 'The Rise of Skywalker' - Esquire