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Cryptocurrency mining continues to be all the rage, for better and worse. Of course, it is tricky for gamers, who will soon be forced to mortgage their homes for an RTX 3080 if the problem worsens. But contrarily, it is also an opportunity for manufacturers to take advantage of the game. And that Intel understood it well; According to Tom's Hardware, the blue team could soon release hardware dedicated explicitly to Bitcoin mining.
Bitcoin mining is a controversial topic, but it looks like Intel might join the fray by releasing a chip designed specifically for it. Intel may unveil a " Bonanza Mine " chip, according to the latest rumours. However, this powerful chip would be used only for cryptocurrency mining and would not interest casual users.
Often, graphics cards are associated with cryptocurrency mining. Many attribute the current GPU shortage, in part, to Ethereum mining, as cards are sold out before ordinary users can get their hands on them. However, rumours suggest Intel may be working on a specialized mining chip it calls Bonanza Mine.
According to Tom's Hardware, Intel could unveil this chip at the ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuits Conference), which will take place in February. The conference focuses on semiconductor circuits and system-on-chips (SoCs). Intel is expected to present the new Bonanza Mine processor in the Highlighted Chip Releases category.
This processor is described as an "ultra-low-voltage, low-power bitcoin (BTC) mining application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)", and it looks like it could mark a new milestone in mining hardware for Intel. The company may be looking to compete with analogue ASICs, such as those made by Bitmain, in a market sector centred around bitcoin mining.
If it's graphics cards that get the bad rap, bitcoin is usually mined on ASICs: specialized chips designed to perform only one specific task. But, as proven by Bitmain, ASICs can provide the power needed for mining at a lower cost.
It should be noted that the cost reduction comes in the form of higher efficiency and lower power requirements of the ASICs in question. When buying one from Bitmain, the price and delivery times are pretty steep. A quick look at Bitmain's website shows dozens of ASICs, some costing well over $10,000.
As Tom's Hardware reports, Intel's interest in Bitcoin mining is nothing new. The company patented a specialized ASIC optimized for SHA 256 in 2018, aimed at mining. While Intel hasn't revealed much since it looks like the chip may have been in the works all this time, and the company may be preparing to show it off.
Intel will soon launch its new Arc Alchemist discrete gaming GPUs. The company has announced that it will not limit mining on these cards, but it would prefer the cards to go to players rather than miners. However, it is also clear that Intel could support the idea of Bitcoin mining to the point of creating specialized hardware for this purpose.
The first instinct upon reading this information would have been to turn to Arc GPUs. After all, the Intel troops have already promised that specific models will be specially designed for cryptocurrency mining. But the mere presence of the word Bitcoin is already enough to exclude Arc cards from the equation since this cryptocurrency is almost entirely mined on technological platforms, ASICs. This information is confirmed by the title of the presentation spotted by Tom's Hardware, which explicitly mentions an ASIC.
Intel probably hopes to find a place in this highly buoyant market with this new product. At this time, it's still unclear if Bonanza Mine will end up on the shelves as such or if it's a research and development project. But what is interesting is, above all, the philosophy behind Intel's crypto adventure.
Raja Koduri, the honcho of Intel's GPU division, has noticed a form of market overlap like the rest of the general public. On the other, we have miners and gamers all competing for the same products. Koduri, therefore, believes that there is an urgent need to develop hardware specifically designed for mining. It is a question of increasing the availability of cards for their natural uses and optimizing a process that is currently very energy-intensive and a tad unruly.
"GPUs will take care of graphics, gaming, and all those wonderful things," Koduri explains. "But being able to perform blockchain validation operations much more efficiently [and therefore with specialized equipment, editor's note] is not an insoluble problem. We are working on it, and we will soon present interesting material for this purpose".
Intel's interest is good news for token enthusiasts. But it is also an approach that the gaming community will certainly applaud with both hands, knowing the significant impact of the cryptocurrency industry on the price of graphics cards. Indeed, we should not expect GPUs to fall back to factory prices as soon as Bonanza Mine is officially announced, far from it. But it could be a fundamental first step in this direction.
Indeed, if Bonanza Mine proves convincing enough and ends up bringing big money to Intel, other manufacturers could start developing lots of ASICs to mine various cryptocurrencies. They could thus become increasingly affordable, even more, profitable for miners than consumer GPUs. Of course, it is still much early to say that this market split will indeed take place. However, one thing is certain: Bonanza Mine will have to be followed closely because this still very discreet product could initiate significant changes throughout the world in this industry within several years.


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Ridgewood shop owners fight to keep two parking spaces
RIDGEWOOD — Shop owners are protesting the proposed elimination of two parking spaces from a busy downtown intersection, saying they are vital to their businesses.
An eastbound stretch of West Ridgewood Avenue near the train station has four 15-minute parking spaces. Eliminating two would make it easier for motorists to turn right onto Wilsey Square.
But Mark Bachardy, who has owned Westside Bagels for 11 years, called the parking spaces the “lifeblood” of his business.
“The average customer comes into my store, spends less than 10 minutes inside,” Bachardy said. “Some park across the street, but most don’t.”
Wine Seller of Ridgewood co-owner Thomas Shanley said he has observed the intersection daily for five years.
“The last thing you need to do is increase speeds in that area,” he said. “I’ve seen cars hitting cars, I’ve seen cars hitting school buses, I’ve seen cars knock down lampposts. I’ve seen the lights you put on the bicycle rack get knocked over twice. If anything, something needs to be done to make it safer.”
In addition to the bagel shop and wine store, a medical supply shop, pizzeria and salon line the street.
Bachardy recently presented a petition with 75 signatures to save the two spaces, urging the Village Council to “think long and hard" before eliminating them.
While the parked cars can sometimes block vehicles from making a right turn on red, Barchady and other merchants said drivers should exercise patience.
“This is West Ridgewood Avenue. It’s not Route 17,” said Wine Seller co-owner Geni Shanley.
Nearly a year ago, a 54-year-old Hawthorne man was struck and killed crossing at that block of West Ridgewood Avenue.
Ronald Derosenzweig of Woodfield Realty, a landlord, said his five small-business tenants on the street rely on “in-and-out” customers, and the spaces are popular with disabled customers.
Legally doesn't exist
For unclear reasons, the village code does not include the pair of spaces, Mayor Ramon Hache said.
“It turns out, those two spots don’t really exist. They were never voted on by any previous council, certainly not by us,” Hache said.
Deputy Mayor Susan Knudsen said the council may now introduce an ordinance to formally add the two spaces — before potentially holding a public hearing on their removal.
“We have to go back to square one and create those spaces,” Knudsen said.
As long ago as 2017, Patrolman Raymond Tarino made the recommendation to remove the spaces, and “it was the consensus of the Village Council members to implement” the change, according the minutes of the June 28, 2017, meeting.
“These businesses that surround those parking spots, I’m not sure you’re aware of how much they give back to our community,” resident Leigh Warren said about the current discussion. “Not only am I worried about my friends who own these businesses, I’m worried about the children who cross to go into town at that intersection.”

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Housed at The Marq on Paterson Hill luxury development, the apartment features a combination of Hermès furniture, furnishing fabrics, wallpapers, carpets, tableware, along with made-to-order leather upholstered items and a choice of artworks.
It will be used for private engagements by SC Global Developments, the luxury residential property developer that owns the entire tower and collaborated with Hermès on the apartment over an 18- month period.
Simon Cheong, Chairman and CEO of SC Global Developments, said: “We are extremely pleased this project with Hermès has presented a distinguished combination of craftsmanship, focus on design and finest quality materials.
“Each property and apartment in our portfolio is a jewel, we handcraft every unit and the project accomplished at The Marq is an epitome of these efforts.”
Hélène Dubrule, General Manager of Hermès Maison, said: “Based on a shared quest for excellence, this ambitious realisation expresses for the first time Hermès’ dedication to cater personalised interior design services, echoing the spirit of the tradition of French décorateurs ensembliers.”
Founded by Thierry Hermès in Paris in 1837, Hermès has grown to become one of the world’s most iconic luxury brands.


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As previously reported, Tesla is in the midst of rolling out a program to multiple countries that will allow owners of non-Tesla electric vehicles to plug their vehicles into the manufacturer’s network of Superchargers.
The move is seen as a significant coup in electric vehicle circles. Tesla, while being keen to underline that other brands have access to the IP behind their Supercharger technology, has never allowed other EV manufacturers to use their charging stations directly.
The move will give more electric vehicle owners access to what’s considered by many to be the best charging network in the world. The brand boasts that it’s installed over 300,000 Superchargers worldwide.
The brand has been coy about how this plan will be rolled out, electing to drip-feed the trial program across certain countries in Europe. Having started in the Netherlands, Tesla added two more countries to its roster late last week, with two more countries also having recently been named as recipients of the pilot scheme.
France and Norway are the latest countries where Tesla has allowed access to Superchargers from non-Tesla owners. The American firm has also since named Germany and Belgium as the next countries to get the roll out.
The move doesn’t mean open slather for every plug-in owner. Instead non-Tesla drivers will be able to access just 31 specific chargers across the three countries where the roll out has taken place so far — each charger being a CCS2 DC Fast Charger.
To be able to make use of the chargers, owners use Tesla’s smartphone app, selecting the ‘Charge Your Non-Tesla’ option. Payment is either issued on a single-use basis, or a subscription basis with a slightly lower price per kWh.
While prices vary from person to person, electric vehicle specialist outlet Inside EVs reports that local YouTuber Bjørn Nyland pays €12.91 ($22.05) per month for his Supercharger membership in Norway. This compares favourably to other alternatives, according to reports.
Tesla is set to announce the program’s expansion to other regions as the year progresses. Who knows. By the time New Zealand’s next summer holiday season rolls around local EV owners might be able to plug themselves into a Supercharger on their next road trip.


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The Chinese, and Chinese Millennials in particular, have incredible purchasing power. And, as quarantine measures are being relaxed, so are the purse strings of these super spenders as Millennial buying habits increase. But how did the pandemic change how the Chinese do business, and what can the rest of the world learn from it?
In news that should surprise few, mobile usage on lockdown saw an uptick, according to Quest Mobile1 – phone usage went from an average of 6.1 hours per person per day in January 2020, to 7.3, almost half of the waking day! Mobile commerce, particularly for groceries, medical supplies, and cleaning products registered serious growth, according to Kantar2 – as well as online entertainment, unsurprisingly. Douyin (China’s TikTok) and Kuaishou – two of China’s biggest social media sharing sites – became serious sources of entertainment, as the country strived to stay connected through the crisis. Find out more here on how to make the most of this social trend by selling on social media.
Tempting in digital customers with a real-life offering is not a new thing, but the concept has gained traction in the last few months due to the outbreak. Guiding online customers through the physical store itself over video, O2O platforms have seen a surge, due to obvious reasons, and it'll be interesting to see if the trend continues when people are allowed full freedom again. In addition to the big e-commerce players – such as Tmall, Taobao, and JD.com – Ele.me, Meituan, and Dingdong Maicai, for instance, have become more popular. For Chinese stores – particularly grocers – it’s become an essential, as it's allowed them to keep their stores full of fresh goods ready for consumption.
Tech has played a big part in the e-commerce experience in the nation, and physical stores have been quick to jump on it in the wake of empty shopping malls across the country. Mixc, in Shanghai, took advantage by offering VR channels that let people shop the brands they love virtually, including fashion favorites Nike, Puma and Fila, and beauty giants like L’Oréal and Sephora. Meanwhile, smart retail tech provider Chatail has been building an Instagram-style shopping feed that lets buyers chat with sales associates to pick the items they want, while WeChat Mini lets customers screenshot items and purchase them during live Instagram sessions.
While some luxury brands had resisted e-commerce until now, COVID-19 left them little choice but to get involved. Prada has joined Tmall, Alibaba’s e-commerce platform, Belgian brand Delvaux launched on JD.com, and French label Lanvin partnered with the high-end e-commerce platform Secoo to livestream their Fall/Winter 2020 fashion show, incorporating a ‘see now, buy now’ function.
Before the outbreak, there was steady growth in the ‘made in China’ market within the country itself, and local pride in the face of the struggle is being seen as a chance to show solidarity with brands that have been affected. One user (of many) on social media platform Little Red Book was noted as commenting “I will buy more pieces from Chinese labels as soon as they resume production. All local businesses are severely suffering from the virus outbreak.”
Kantar have reported that sustainable shopping is seeing a surge in China, echoing the more global trend for ethically responsible purchasing. This nation is moving towards a tendency to “pay more to buy from socially responsible brands, pay more for cleaner environment and services, and pay more attention to environmental protection and sustainability.”
The coronavirus outbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time for Chinese retailers – striking over the traditionally lucrative Lunar New Year period. As retailers were preparing themselves for record sales, they instead had to lockdown with much less money coming in. However, keen customers who are celebrating their renewed freedom are taking to ‘revenge spending’. “After a month and a half of closures and restrictions, there is a will to come back and have a real life,” says Micaela Le Divelec Lemmi, CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo3. However, it’s unlikely that revenge spending will make up for all of the lost sales. The outbreak is likely to reduce the luxury industry sales by as much as US$45 billion in 2020, according to the survey of 28 top executives undertaken by Boston Consulting Group and Sanford C. Bernstein.


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LONDON — Spain and Italy creaked under record unemployment rates at the end of 2011, while the German jobless rate fell to historic lows — results that put the onus firmly on Germany, with Europe’s biggest economy, to take the lead in steering the euro zone back to recovery.
Joblessness in Italy rose to 8.9 percent, its highest level since current records began in 2004, the country’s statistics institute said Tuesday. Spain ended the year with unemployment at a 17-year high of 22.85 percent.
German unemployment, by contrast, fell to 6.7 percent in January, a decline of a tenth of a percentage point from December.
The German jobs data show that “there is life and fun after austerity,” said Holger Schmieding, an economist in London for Berenberg Bank.
As its economy becomes more dominant in the region, Germany faces mounting pressure to lead the euro zone in the unenviable task of promoting both growth and austerity in the region, while also trying to end an acute balance-of-payments crisis.Continue reading the main story
But hopes that Germany, which traditionally has focused on exports, has much leeway to persuade its citizens to buy more goods and services from other parts of Europe may be misplaced, and the more urgent task would appear to be restoring market faith in the euro zone.
Across the zone as a whole, meanwhile, concerns about the economic outlook appear to have dampened the traditional pre-Christmas shopping spree in Germany and France, data showed Tuesday.
In France, consumer spending unexpectedly dropped 0.7 percent in December, a sign that consumers tightened their purse strings in the face of uncertainties over jobs and economic growth.
“What’s obvious is that we’ve got a real stagnation in consumer spending, which raises questions about France’s economic model, which is based largely on dynamic consumption,” Gilles Moëc, an economist at Deutsche Bank, said.
Data suggested a similar problem in Germany, where retail sales unexpectedly fell 1.4 percent in December. But economists said anecdotal evidence, as well as recent consumer surveys, suggested that German demand remained buoyant and that the figure would be revised upward.
“As long as the labor market is doing well, consumption will be strong,” Ulrike Rondorf, an economist at Commerzbank, said.
That is a lesson Europe’s weaker countries may learn by following Germany’s lead. Back in 2005, Germany’s jobless rate soared to above 12 percent, while Spain’s fell to below 8.5 percent. Since then, Berlin has implemented changes to labor laws, matching work hours more closely to demand, introducing job sharing and encouraging part-time work. By the end of 2011 the unemployment picture of the two countries had reversed.
Germany “has showed that there is a way to prevent this rise in unemployment,” Etienne de Callatay, an economist at Bank Degroof in Brussels, said.Continue reading the main story


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Taiwanese IT company Acer today restarted its smartphone business in India in partnership with e-commerce firm Snapdeal with the launch of two new handsets, priced at Rs 11,999 and Rs 16,999, respectively.
Acer has expanded the range with six and the Aspire E5-571G is the new top-of-the-line notebook that delivers high performance hardware and specs at an unbelievable price.
Here is a list of gadgets and their specifications that have launched recently.
Amazon reported that Acer C720 Chromebook, ASUS 13-inch Chromebook, and the HP 112010nr Chromebook were the top-selling computers during the holidays.
India's private hospital operators are attracting strong investor interest as a growing number of more affluent Indian patients are willing to pay for better-equipped clinics because of the poor state of public hospitals.
India imported an estimated $38 billion worth of electronics last year, while only about $19 billion worth of goods were manufactured here, with minimal value addition.
India imported an estimated $38-billion worth of electronics last year, while only about $19 billion worth of goods were manufactured here with minimal value addition.
We've researched some of the best laptops on the market and combed through reviews to at least give you some of the best options to choose from.


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In this day and age, we all love the convenience of being able to buy something online and receive it the next day. The likes of Amazon Prime even offer same day delivery and with free returns, it means there is literally no reason to leave the house and enter a shop anymore. But what happens when the delivery system fails? What happens when the next day (or same day) service you have paid for doesn’t show up? Or if your items appear broken when they are opened? The online shopping world is sadly not short of courier delivery horror stories, from broken and lost items to rude, unpleasant and sometimes AWOL drivers. Unfortunately, we don’t usually have any control over what courier service our favourite online shopping sites choose to use, as Money Saving Expert’s Martin Lewis points out, but it seems that we certainly have our favourites, as a recent poll by Money Saving Expert has revealed. The poll was voted in by many online shoppers (over 11,000) who had had experience with several different courier firms. The were a few very familiar faces included in the poll, including DPD, Yodel, Parcelforce, Hermes and Royal Mail Parcels. So what did everyone think? Who came out on top? And who has scarred online shoppers for life?
Delivery firm to a lot of major companies including ASOS and Amazon, Yodel didn’t do so well in the revealing poll, coming out as the worst delivery firm, according to customers. A whopping six in ten people that took part in the survey voted the company’s delivery efforts as ‘poor’. The customers had all had parcels delivered by Yodel within the last year. The poll, dubbed the league of shame’ showed that Yodel had a poor rating of 4, 275 votes which was a huge 57% of voters, a quarter then rated the service as just ‘ok’ and only one in five actually declared it as ‘great’. To make matters worse, the firm was voted the third worst in the UK the previous year which means it has only gone from bad to worse – with customers dreading a delivery from the company with the unmistakable bright green vans. When asked to comment on the results of the poll, Yodel said that they were disappointed by the outcome and hope to improve. Hmmm.
Voted in the bottom five, it seems Hermes haven’t had a great year, not only when it comes to customer service, but also for the treatment of their staff. They have also recently been under fire for paying their workers less than the ‘National Living Wage’ and are currently being investigated. Reports have also emerged of their staff ‘throwing’ expensive items over fences and the like. Still, 30% of voters still gave them a ‘great’ rating which puts them in a fairly middle ground.
Royal Mail Parcels
Receiving a great rating of 49%, Royal Mail have come up trumps as the second best delivery firm of the year. Only 11% of voters recorded having a ‘poor’ experience with them, which means that they must definitely be doing something right. However, the good news comes just as Royal Mail’s sales take a tumble due to post-Brexit uncertainty. For the first nine months of the year, Royal Mail had flat revenue and although in line with expectations, the company has said they are definitely feeling the strain now that Britain has decided to leave the EU – with UK letter volumes being the hardest hit.
Also scoring fairly highly, Parcelforce received a poor rating of just 13% (793 votes), an ‘ok’ rating of 46% and the remaining 41% were singing their praises. Parcelforce may have proved to be more of a good guy than a cowboy during the last year, but they have also had their fair share of scrutiny, including CCTV footage of a Parcelforce van driver smashing into a parked car and driving off. However, other than that they have proven to be a pretty reliable service all round, with online reviews even saying that they have delivered ahead of schedule. Of course, there are some bad ones out there as well, but we’ll leave the verdict up to you…
The winner of the Money Saving Expert poll, DPD has been crowned the best delivery service by its customers, showing that once again they have achieved a great level of customer satisfaction. The company have achieved the top spot for the fourth year in a row. A whopping 71% of voters rated the DPD service as ‘great’ meaning that their win was well and truly undisputed. Their success does not stop there either, as in recent years DPD has received a Queens Award for Innovation as well as a ‘Special Award’ from Which? The ultimate consumer voice. Their continuous success could be down to the introduction of their ‘YourDPD’ app which allows flexibility for all customers, allowing them to set their own delivery times, with ‘DPDPrecise’ allowing a time to be set within just one hour. DPD has also recently been taken on by major firms Sainsbury’s and Matalan.


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It is a highly popular prescription medicine. Unfortunately, Opana is also highly popular in the wrong circles.
The drug is an opioid pain reliever similar to OxyContin. And like OxyContin, Opana is often abused. Millions of people throughout the nation crush prescription opioids like these (to defeat the pills’ extended release design), then inject or snort the medications in order to get a quick, powerful high.
The results have been devastating. Since 2003, more people have died each year from opioid abuse than from heroin and cocaine combined. Close to 15,000 opioid abusers died from overdoses in 2008, and more than 475,000 abusers were sent to emergency rooms in 2009. And every year, the number of opioid abusers—and fatalities—continues to climb. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription opioid abuse in the U.S. is “a growing, deadly epidemic.”
In response, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has pressured the makers of prescription opioids to develop abuse-resistant versions, says Prof. Marsha Cohen of University of California Hastings Law School. Endo Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Opana, complied. Endo began selling a crush-resistant version of its drug in February 2012 and ceased sales of its original version a few months later, in May.
Endo didn’t stop there, however. In August, the company petitioned the FDA to rule that Endo withdrew the original version of Opana for safety reasons. When the agency didn’t respond quickly enough, Endo filed suit Nov. 30, asking the federal district court in Washington, D.C., to force the agency to make a ruling.
Why was Endo so impatient? Because Endo’s patent on the original formulation of Opana was about to expire, and two rival drug makers were poised to sell generic versions of the drug starting Jan. 1. These generics could not be sold, however, if the FDA were to rule that the original version of Opana was withdrawn for safety reasons. Such a ruling would postpone the competition to Endo’s second-biggest-selling drug, which earns the company hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
If Endo wins its legal battle with the FDA, the company will have pioneered a novel way to forestall generic competition, according to many drug law experts. But it is unclear if Endo will succeed. “I’m sure other drug companies will be looking at this really closely because they are looking for avenues to protect their revenue,” says Anthony Fitzpatrick, a partner at Duane Morris.
Gaming the System
Innovative drug companies (and their innovative lawyers) have come up with a variety of ways to game the legal system in order to delay generic competition. One common technique is “evergreening” or “product hopping”: Before the patent on a popular drug expires, the manufacturer obtains a patent on a slightly modified version of the drug. For instance, the new version may be a capsule instead of a tablet; the amount of the active ingredient may be increased, so fewer pills need be consumed at one time; or the new version may have an extended time release formula. There are all sorts of possible modifications.
The manufacturer then replaces the old version of the drug with the new version, forcing doctors to prescribe the new version. Physicians become accustomed to prescribing the new version, and because there’s no generic of the new version, patients and health care companies must pay top dollar for this medicine.
Once they become available, generics of the old version offer little competition. The old version isn’t identical to the new version, so a pharmacy can’t substitute one for the other. In order to buy the old, cheaper, generic version of a drug, patients or health care companies must have their doctors specifically prescribe the old version. This rarely happens, so generics of the old version gain little traction in the market.
Endo’s new twist on product hopping would prevent doctors from prescribing the old version of a drug. In this case, if the FDA determines that Endo withdrew the old version of Opana for safety reasons, no one could market that old, unsafe version. Endo could sell its new, safer—and patent-protected—version without the possibility of any generic competition.
Endo’s clever stratagem, however, could fail. The FDA could rule that Endo’s withdrawal of the original version of Opana was not justified by safety concerns.
Endo stated that the original version of Opana was safe when it asked the FDA to approve the drug. The FDA subsequently found the drug was safe. So why should the drug now be considered unsafe? Endo might argue that a new, crush-resistant version discourages abuse and is therefore safer. But the FDA has never before held that a drug was unsafe simply because a new, safer version was available. “Safer is not the [legal] standard. For instance, you can buy both aspirin and enteric-coated aspirin, which is safer for users’ stomachs,” Cohen says. “Just because there’s a safer drug, that doesn’t mean the old drug is unsafe.”
Perhaps the original version of Opana always was unsafe because it could easily be abused. That, however, could be a tricky argument for Endo to make. The FDA has never previously found a drug to be unsafe simply because it could be abused, according to papers the agency filed in its litigation with Endo. “The FDA characterizes this as a novel case,” says James Czaban, chair of the FDA practice group at Wiley Rein.
Up in the Air
If Endo prevails in this case, the makers of other patented drugs could follow in its footsteps. “This is not a unique situation. There are quite a lot of pain medications, and abuse of them is common,” Fitzpatrick says.
Moreover, the strategy Endo pioneered needn’t be limited to pain medications. “Safety issues apply to all drugs. The broader issue of safety and withdrawal because of safety is something I could see used in other cases,” Fitzpatrick adds.
This strategy could offer huge opportunities to brand-name drug companies. “If Endo wins, I would suggest to all my [brand-name pharmaceutical] clients that this is a great way to extend the monopoly on all their products,” says Michael Samardzija, a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani.
Endo has lost the first round of its fight. In December 2012, the district court ruled against Endo; it held that the FDA was not unduly delaying its decision on whether the original version of Opana was withdrawn for safety reasons. As a result, on Jan. 1, two generic versions of Opana came onto the market.
But Endo is not defeated yet because the FDA must still decide why Endo pulled the original version of Opana off the market. The president and CEO of Endo, Dave Holveck, said in a statement, “We are hopeful that FDA will ultimately make the right decision before May … that the original formulation of Opana ER was discontinued for reasons of safety.”


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Lineups formed at retailers across the country on Friday as patrons hoped to cash in on the largest lottery jackpot in Canadian history, Ontario’s gaming authority said.
The prize in Friday night’s countrywide Lotto Max draw stood at $70-million, a figure the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation said is the highest-ever awarded in Canada. The draw was also to feature at least 10 smaller prizes valued at $1-million a piece.
Dita Kuhtey, a spokeswoman for the lottery corporation, said the traditional sales bump retailers experience when jackpots exceed $50-million appears to be even more pronounced this time as Canadians hope to carve out a slice of the historically large pie.
“There was a steady lineup all day, probably five to six or seven people long,” Ms. Kuhtey said of one kiosk in Downtown Toronto. “I’ve heard from other retailers on our sales team that there have been some lineups.”
Ms. Kuhtey said the current pot has reached stratospheric levels because Lotto Max has not produced a winner since Nov. 26, 2019. Each time the prize goes unclaimed, the pot increases by $5-million until reaching the $70-million cap, she said.
If no winner emerges after Friday’s draw, the same $70-million prize will be up for grabs again on Tuesday.
Ms. Kuhtey said it’s not yet possible to gauge sales figures for the draw, since historically the bulk of sales takes place in the hours before the results are unveiled. But she said sales in Ontario alone surged 29 per cent between last Friday, when a $60-million prize was up for grabs, to Tuesday when the pot reached $65-million.
“This is the first time we’re hitting that $70-million cap,” Ms. Kuhtey said, “Which is why it’s the biggest jackpot ever offered in Canadian history.”
Two major wins took place last year, when Lotto Max draws produced winners worth $65-million each. She said both prizes were claimed on single tickets, one purchased in Quebec and the other in western Canada.
Ms. Kuhtey said the spate of big paydays has come about in part owing to changes to the draw, which began taking place twice a week as of last year. At that time, the operators also raised the jackpot limit from $60- to $70-million, she said.
Canada’s other national lottery, Lotto 6/49, has also produced at least one comparable winner. Ms. Kuhtey said an Ontario winner claimed that lottery’s largest ever pot of $64-million back in 2015.
Canadians have until 10:30 p.m. eastern time to purchase tickets for the Friday Lotto Max draw. The draw follows right after.
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Pitching events mostly connect entrepreneurs with investors. InTech50 has something extra: CIOs from global corporations to hear pitches from 50 chosen Indian software makers.
In case you’re curious, here are Indonesia’s 15 best-funded tech startups to date.
If you are a startup looking for funding, you will know how tough it is to corner an investor. So you don’t want to blow it when you get your opportunity at a speed dating session.
America has a slew of organizations for high net-worth individuals to join if they’re interested in funding startups. Here’s are a few in Southeast Asia.
This is the second batch of startups to graduate from the US-based retailer’s accelerator program in Bangalore.
China’s startups pulled in well over US$7.5 billion in investment cash in 2014. After all that, let's see who are now the top-funded startups.
A list of smartphone producers that have a foothold in the Indonesian market and may stand to gain from the archipelago’s incoming regulation on 4G handsets.
Let’s take a look at five good GoPro alternatives that all cost just under US$150.
TechHub and iSPIRT collaborate to present the UK as a platform for Indian startups looking to go global. Five startups were chosen to visit The Landing, a co-working space.
‘As a business, you are consistently pitching. If you stop, you’d be dead in the water. Pitch or perish,’ says ZipMatch’s Chow Paredes.
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Lately I’ve noticed a few mainstream web publications making concerted efforts to solicit user generated content. Enabling consumers to submit news gives media access to millions of potential stories they might otherwise not know about, or not have a scoop on. I know our local (and likely national) public radio station has been soliciting user generated content and news stories for at least a year and so do some TV stations. Also, Topix.net allows users to interact with news stories on their forums which, according to Topix.net founder Rich Skrenta, has enabled a big boost in traffic.
Most recently I noticed that Yahoo News has launched You Witness News that allows you to upload photos and video for potential use in Yahoo News stories. According to comScore, Yahoo News is the #1 online news source, so marketers should take notice of such an opportunity.
So besides optimizing your video for search and submitting to the video and social search engines, marketers now have another avenue or channel to provide video content to mainstream media. There is a huge opportunity here for consumer or BtoC marketers that “get it” and are in a position to leverage video as part of their marketing efforts. I doubt things like a BtoB software company with a new product demo video is going to get any play with Yahoo News or CNN in this way.
However, if eWeek or other tech publications (hint hint) started offering these kinds of services, it could reveal some pretty interesting opportunities to capture more unique news earlier and give companies a new channel for news distribution.


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Online grocery has continued to grow as a percentage of the total U.S. grocery business — particularly for companies that have offered the service for four years or more, a study released Tuesday found.
Those companies that have offered online grocery sales for four or more years are realizing around 5.2% of their total sales online, vs. 3.4% of sales for all stores offering an online shopping option, according to the new Brick Meets Click Grocery Ecommerce Supermarket Scorecard Report.
“The good news is that supermarket ecommerce growth was happening even before Amazon announced their purchase of Whole Foods,” David Bishop, partner at Brick Meets Click and author of the report, said in a statement. “And the rapid deployment of a number of different Walmart initiatives reveals that the company considers online grocery an important gateway to their ecommerce growth. The increased competition in grocery is not just putting pressure on supermarkets to get into ecommerce; it’s requiring that they be good at it, too.”
The report was based on online transactions that took place during a four-week period ending March 31 at nearly 200 stores offering online grocery. Tuesday’s report updates the group’s previous reports, and offers participating organizations visibility into how they compare.
“While some food retailers have moved cautiously into ecommerce, adoption is now accelerating, driven partly by the increased share of households who are regularly buying groceries online. This research found that 24% of shoppers bought groceries online in the last 30 days, up from 22% two years ago,” Bishop said. Other signs of accelerating adoption include the average number of online transactions per store is up almost 20% from last year, and total online sales are growing year-over-year at over 25%.
Customer confidence in online grocery is also growing, the survey suggested. The average size of supermarket online transactions – $148, according to the recent Brick Meets Click research – shows that customers are comfortable buying a broad range of grocery products online.
Other highlights from the research include:
- The average value of customer orders increased over the previous year by more than 5%;
- About 85% of online transactions included produce items;
- Meat/seafood and deli were found in more than 66% of the transactions;
- Bakery was found in almost 50% of the transactions;
- For companies that offered both options, customers preferred to receive their offers by delivery (74%) over click-and-collect (26%) and
- Retailers continue to struggle with “lost sales” — sales that lost because an item that was ordered was not in stock and no substitute was available — than when previously polled.


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You might not think of self-driving technologies and politics having much in common, but at least in one way, they overlap meaningfully: yesterday’s enemy can be tomorrow’s ally.
Such was the message we gleaned Thursday night, at a small industry event in San Francisco, where we had the chance to sit down with Chris Urmson, the cofounder and CEO of Aurora, a company that (among many others) is trying to transform how both people and goods are moved.
It was a big day for Urmson. Earlier the same day, his two-year-old company announced a whopping $530 million in Series B funding, a round that was led by top firm Sequoia Capital and that included “significant investment” from T. Rowe Price and Amazon.
The round for Aurora — which is building what it calls a “driver” technology that it expects to eventually integrate into cars built by Volkswagen, Hyundai, and China’s Byten, among others — is highly notable, even in a sea of giant fundings. Not only does it represent Sequoia’s first biggest bet yet on any kind of self-driving technology, it’s also an “incredible endorsement” from T. Rowe Price, said Urmson Thursday night, suggesting it shows the outfit “thinks long term and strategically [that] we’re the independent option to self-driving cars.”
Yet perhaps the most interesting facet to the round is that it includes Amazon, one of the world’s most valuable companies, which could lead to variety of scenarios down the road, from Aurora powering delivery fleets overseen by Amazon, to being acquired outright by the company. Amazon has already begun marketing more aggressively to global car companies and and Tier 1 suppliers that are focused on building connected products, saying its AWS platform can help them speed their pace of innovation and lower their cost structures. In November, it also debuted a global, autonomous racing league for 1/18th scale, radio-controlled, self-driving four-wheeled race cars that are designed to help developers learn about reinforcement learning, a type of machine learning. Imagine what it could learn from Aurora.
Indeed, at the event, Urmson said that as Aurora had “constructed our funding round, [we were] very much thinking strategically about how to be successful in our mission of building a driver and one thing that a driver can do is move people, but it can also move goods, and it’s harder to think of a company where moving goods is more important than Amazon.” Calling Amazon “incredibly technically savvy,” to boot, he said that “having the opportunity to have them partner with us in this funding round, and [talk about] what we might build in the future is awesome.”
Aurora’s site also now features language about “transforming the way people and goods move.”
The interest of Amazon, T. Rowe, Sequoia and Aurora’s other backers isn’t surprising. Urmson was the formal technical lead of Google’s self-driving car program (now Waymo). One of his cofounders, Drew Bagnell, is a machine learning expert who still teaches at Carnegie Mellon and was formerly the head of Uber’s autonomy and perception team. His third cofounder is Sterling Anderson, the former program manager of Tesla’s Autopilot team.
Aurora’s big news seemingly spooked Tesla investors, in fact, with shares in the electric car maker drooping as a media outlets reported on the details. The development seems like just the type of possibility that had Tesla CEO Elon Musk unsettled when Aurora got off the ground a couple of years ago, and Tesla almost immediately filed a lawsuit against it, accusing Urmson and Andersonn of trying poach at least a dozen Tesla engineers and accusing Anderson of taking confidential information and destroying the evidence “in an effort to cover his tracks.”
That suit was dropped two and a half weeks later in a settlement that saw Aurora pay $100,000. Anderson said at the time the amount was meant to cover the cost of an independent auditor to scour Aurora’s systems for confidential Tesla information. Urmson reiterated on Thursday night was purely an “economic decision,” meant to keep Aurora from getting further embroiled in an expansive spat.
But invited to talk about his relationship with Musk on Thursday, Urmson, who has previously called Tesla’s lawsuit “classy,” declined to take the bait, telling the audience instead that Aurora and Musk, “got off on the wrong foot.” Laughing a bit, he went on to lavish some praise on the self-driving technology that lives inside Tesla cars, adding that “if there’s an opportunity to work them in the future, that’d be great.”
Aurora, which is also competing for now against the likes of Uber, also sees Uber as a potential partner down the line, said Urmson. Asked about the company’s costly self-driving efforts, whose scale has been drastically downsized in the eleven months since one of its vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, Urmson noted again that Aurora is “in the business of delivering the driver, and Uber needs a lot of drivers, so we think it would be wonder to partner with them, to partner with Lyft, to partner [with companies with similar ambitions] globally. We see those companies as partners in the future.” (He’d added that there’s “nothing to talk about right now.”)
Before Thursday’s event, Aurora had sent us some more detailed information about the four divisions that currently employ the 200 people that make up the company, a number that will obviously expand with its new round, which it plans to use to grow its current talent, hire many people, and to expand the testing it’s doing, both on California roads and in Pittsburgh, where it also has a sizable presence.
We didn’t have a chance to run them during our conversation with Urmson, but we thought they were interesting and that you might think so, too.
Below is the “hub” of the Aurora Driver. This is the computer system that powers, coordinates and fuses signals from all of the vehicle’s sensors, executes the software and controls the vehicle. Aurora says it’s designing the Aurora Driver to seamlessly integrate with a wide variety of vehicle platforms from different makes, models and classes with the goal of delivering the benefits of its technology broadly.
Below, is a visual representation of Aurora’s perception system, which it says is able to understand complex urban environments where vehicles need to safely navigate amongst many moving objects including bicycles, scooters, pedestrians and cars.
It didn’t imagine it would at the outset, but Aurora is building its mapping system to ensure what it naturally calls the highest level of precision and scalability so that vehicles powered by the company can accurately understand where they are, and easily update the maps as the world changes. We asked Urmson if, when the tech is finally ready to go into cars, they will white label the technology or use Aurora’s brand as a selling point. He said the matter hasn’t been decided yet but seemed to suggest that Aurora is leaning in the latter direction. He also said the technology would be installed on the carmakers’ factory floors (with Aurora’s help).
One of the ways that Aurora says it’s able to efficiently develop a robust “driver” is to build its own simulation system. It uses its simulator to test its software with different scenarios that vehicles encounter on the road, which it says enables repeatable testing that’s impossible to achieve by just driving more miles.
Aurora’s motion planning team works closely with the perception team to create a system that both detects the important objects on and around the road, and tries to accurately predict how they will move in the future. The ability to capture, understand and predict the motion of other objects is critical for building a technology that can navigate real world scenarios in dense urban environments and Urmson has said in the past that Aurora has crafted this workflow in a way that’s superior to competitors that send the technology back and forth. Specifically, he told The Atlantic last year: “The classic way you engineer a system like this is that you have a team working on perception. They go out and make it as good as they can and they get to a plateau and hand it off to the motion-planning people. And they write the thing that figures out where to stop or how to change a lane and it deals with all the noise that’s in the perception system because it’s not seeing the world perfectly. It has errors. Maybe it thinks it’s moving a little faster or slower than it is. Maybe every once in a while it generates a false positive. The motion-planning system has to respond to that.
“So the motion-planning people are lagging behind the perception people, but they get it all dialed in and it’s working well enough—as well as it can with that level of perception—and then the perception people say, ‘Oh, but we’ve got a new push [of code].’ Then the motion-planning people are behind the eight ball again, and their system is breaking when it shouldn’t.”
We also asked Urmson about Google, whose self-driving unit was renamed Waymo as it spun out from the Alphabet umbrella as its own company. He was highly diplomatic, saying only good things about the company and, when asked if they’d ever challenged him on anything since leaving, answering that they had not. Still, he told as, as he has said in previous interviews, that the biggest advantage that Aurora enjoys is that it was able to use the learnings of its three founders and to start from scratch, whereas the big companies from which they’ve each come cannot.
As he told TechCrunch in a separate interview last year in a question about how Aurora tests its technology, “There’s this really easy metric that everyone is using, which is number of miles driven, and it’s one of those things that was really convenient for me in my old place [Google] because we’re out there and we were doing a hell of a lot more than anybody else was at the time and so it was an easy number to talk about. What’s lost in that, though, is it’s not really the volume of the miles that you drive. It’s really about the quality of them.”


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As you all have heard, Google is working on a sequel to its Glass wearable. This is following the failure of the original Glass headset in which Google stated that they did not anticipate the hype and did not manage it properly, so here’s hoping that Google gets it right the second time around.
The features of its successor still remains shrouded in mystery, but last we heard it could be designed to be more fashionable, and now thanks to a recently discovered patent, it has been suggested that augmented holograms could be part of the Glass sequel’s features. According to the patent, it suggests how CGI could be introduced to the display of the headset.
Ultimately this would result in a headset very much like Microsoft’s HoloLens. While we suppose this does seem like a long shot given that patents don’t necessarily result in actual products, there is more evidence to support this theory, such as Google’s investment into an augmented reality startup called Magic Leap.
In a statement issued by Google to TechCrunch, “We hold patents on a variety of ideas – some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don’t. Prospective product announcements should not necessarily be inferred from our patents.” That being said the idea of introducing augmented reality to the Glass sequel isn’t that much of a stretch, but what say you?


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VOLKSWAGEN dropped the curtains to reveal its Caddy Beach campervan back in July, and it made its first public appearance at Melbourne Leisurefest held recently at Sandown Racecourse.
The Caddy “shack” mightn’t be able to rock-climb or reach remote campsites beyond the black stump, but it’s set up to give you a good night’s kip as long as you don’t veer off the blacktop.
Utilising the long-wheelbased Caddy Maxi Trendline, the Caddy Beach includes a fold-out bed, a walkthrough tent at the tailgate, two folding camp chairs and a table, tray tables for rear passengers, block-out window curtains, a rechargeable torch, and four storage bags for rear side windows.
The Caddy’s 92kW/220Nm four-cylinder turbo-petrol engine is mated to a seven-speed DSG transmission. It comes standard with autonomous braking (front Assist with City Emergency Brake), adaptive cruise control and lane assist. ‘Beach’ decal means it’ll blend in when planted kerbside at Byron Bay.
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At its July unveiling, Nicholas Reid, Marketing Manager of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Australia, said: “This marks our return to the campervan market in Australia. With the iconic and ubiquitous Kombi van, Volkswagen forged a strong connection with travellers and explorers around the world. The Caddy Beach continues this tradition with the latest in engineering and technology.”
The Caddy Beach will be priced from $44,990 when it’s launched later this year.


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Inovonics, Inc. has announced the retirement of its 531N FM Modulation Monitor after a successful 20-year production run. The model 531 has been a popular product since its launch in 2003, with over 5,000 units sold worldwide. The final inventory of the 531N has already been shipped, and it will no longer be available for future orders.
Recognizing the continued demand for accurate signal monitoring equipment, Inovonics has a ready replacement for the 531N with the new all-digital 541 FM Modulation Monitor.
“Developing the original 531 was a challenging collaboration between founder Jim Wood and myself as it was one of the first times we combined microprocessors with analog technology,” says Ben Barber, President & CEO of Inovonics.
“Now, we are excited to introduce the Model 541 to the broadcast community. This DSP-based FM modulation monitor is truly amazing and is already available for interested broadcasters,” he added.
The new all-digital 541 combines detailed DSP signal analysis with a menu-driven touchscreen display, plus a web server with total access for remote operation, including measurements, graphical data and direct web-browser audio monitoring of the off-air program.
Inovonics introduced the 541 this year at NAB 2023 and recently won the Best of Show Award at IBC-Amsterdam. The awards editorial team said, “This year, we received a record number of entries, and the quality across the board was incredible. Inovonics should be extremely proud of their achievement — the 541 showed true innovation and hugely impressed our judging panel.”


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New boss for House of Fraser
Brian McGowan, the thrusting industrialist who built his reputation at Williams Holdings in the 1980s, is to stand down as chairman of department stores group House of Fraser.
Together with news of McGowan's departure today, the retailer also heralded the approach of the millennium as a massive spending opportunity.
McGowan, 54, is retiring after six years at the helm of House of Fraser and will be replaced after the annual meeting in June by Robert Shrager, former right-hand man to Sir Stanley Kalms at Dixons.
Shrager, 50, left Dixons last year and is currently a non-executive director at RJB Mining and clothing chain Matalan.
"We are delighted to have got Robert," said chief executive John Coleman. "Brian wanted to get a decent board in place and he feels we now have one."
News of Shrager's appointment accompanied figures from House of Fraser, showing a decline in pre-tax profits from £29 million to £19.3 million in the 12 months to 30 January.
The fall, anticipated in the market, was blamed on a lacklustre retail environment, increased investment costs and higher interest charges. Coleman is optimistic, however, about the coming year.
"I am very hopeful about the end of the season and particularly about the autumn, which should be very strong as the millennium effect kicks in. That should prompt a feelgood factor and a surge in the purchase of occasion-alwear," he said.
During February and the first three weeks of March, sales excluding the impact of new space grew by 0.5% and margin improvements were maintained.
"We think 0.5% is a very strong figure by comparison with others retailers," said Coleman.
The company believes that major investment in its supply chain will yield net benefits of about £4 million this year and up to £15 million the year after.
There are also plans to open several new outlets, including the possibility of a store in the City.
Barkers of Kensington, which was refurbished last April, has delivered an "out-standing" performance and there are high hopes for the group's new store at the Bluewater development in Kent.
For the group as a whole, like-for-like sales climbed 0.6% last year and the gross profit margin rose from 32.8% to 33.5%.
The dividend is pegged at 5.5p. Annual revaluation of the group's £230 million property portfolio revealed a £4.1 million decline.
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Mobile market reaching maturity
The global mobile phone industry is expected to reach over a trillion dollars in 2015, reported telecoms analyst Ovum.
The market is expected to reach $1089 billion a year later than predicted which is an indicator of the impact of the global financial crisis as well as of a rapidly maturing mobile market.
Steve Hartley, principal analyst at Ovum said, “The days of high growth in the mobile market are ending. Every region has shown a marked slowdown in revenue growth between 2008 and 2009 and the result is that we now expect $1089 billion revenue worldwide in 2015, compared with 2014 in our previous forecasts.”
Ovum’s report, ‘Global mobile market outlook: 2010-2015′ also reveals the expectation that the predicted maturation will initiate increased competition among mobile providers, leading to a more cost-focused outcome.
In terms of mobile services, growth in data services will continue with total global data revenues anticipated to reach $428 billion in 2015. Although huge data growth is expected in North America and Western Europe, Asia Pacific will be the largest contributor of data services.
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Embattled Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) chief executive Elon Musk slammed the US Securities and Exchange Commission just when a US district court judge ordered him and the SEC to explain by next week why the deal they forged to settle the lawsuit the government had filed against Musk is "fair and reasonable".
In a tweet referring to the SEC as "Shortseller Enrichment Commission", Musk wrote sarcastically that the regulator was "doing incredible work". "And the name change is so on point!" he said, missing at least a word in the phrase.
When someone helpfully suggested a social media team could help him avoid typos and enraging the "Shortseller Enrichment Committee" [sic], Musk apologized for the typos - but not for slamming the SEC.
Musk has often previously vilified short sellers, who bet that the price of a stock will go down, blaming them for spreading bad press and negative analysis on Tesla's prospects.
Shares of Tesla extended earlier losses after Nathan issued her order, and were down $12.78, or 4.3 percent, at $282.02 in late afternoon trading.
Another Tesla bull, Gerber Kawasaki CEO Ross Gerber, was more blunt in expressing his disapproval of Musk's post.
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But Musk had not secured the funding, the SEC said. Nathan must approve the settlement's terms.
Separately, a roofing tile product that could collect energy from the sun was justification for buying SolarCity, a company run by Musk and some family members.
Both Tesla and the SEC did not respond to requests for comment by FOX Business.
Musk, 47, agreed to step down as chairman within 45 days and be replaced with an independent director. Musk eventually backtracked on that statement, saying the electric-car company will remain public for the time being.
"I think it's the judge being careful", he said.
Even though Musk's Twitter post appears to violate the spirit of the recent settlement, the SEC is largely powerless to stop Musk's tirades until the settlement is approved by Federal Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of NY, which could take several weeks.
SEC charged the executive with securities fraud which led to the settlement in which Musk must pay $20 million and Tesla must also cough up a further $20 million. It is also unclear whether this money will be used to cover Musk's $20 million SEC fine.


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A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, wh...
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Microsoft confirmed several months ago that it would bring its personal digital assistant Cortana to Android and iOS platforms.
The Redmond-based company announced at that time that a beta version would initially arrive on Android in summer, while iOS users would get it by the end of the year.
Last month, a beta build of Cortana leaked ahead of official release. Even if it wasn't the final version, at least we got the chance to see how the personal digital assistant works on Android and what needs to be fixed.
Today, Microsoft announced that the beta of Cortana app is available to all Android phone users. Those who are using Windows 10, already know the benefits of Cortana.
According to Microsoft, Cortana for Android is the companion to Windows 10 PC since it extends the application's functionality across any device that a user carries, everywhere they go.
Furthermore, Microsoft stated that since the closed beta of Cortana has been released to a limited number of users, it has made quite a few improvements to the experience and added new features such as the option to set Cortana as the destination for the home button press.
It's only available in the US for the moment
This means that users will now be able to access Cortana with a press of a button. Also, Microsoft stated that users would be able to notice a few differences between what the personal digital assistant can do right now in Windows and in the app on Android.
As expected, Cortana beta for Android is only available in the United States, but Microsoft confirmed plans to roll it out to other markets.
You can now download Cortana for Android for free via Google Play Store. The application should be fully compatible with all devices powered by Android 4.0 and up.


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by Brian McCombie - Monday, July 3, 2017
Hunting generated some $38.3 billion dollars of economic impact nationwide in 2011 alone, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Very impressive, but let’s not forget that in our small towns, crossroads communities and rural areas, hunting season is often the economic force that ensures a solid bottom line for businesses and local households.
Look at just one wildlife species in one part of the country: elk in Central Montana. According to a recent study conducted by Headwater Economics, a Bozeman-based research group, elk hunting in the state’s Fergus and Petroleum Counties accounts for more than $3.8 million for local economies every year.
“Hunters are filling up at our gas stations, eating in our restaurants, staying in our hotels and they’re buying guns, ammunition and gear from my store,” said Charlie Pfau, owner of Don’s Store, a sporting goods business in Lewistown, to the Great Falls Tribune.
While these counties are large geographically speaking, they are small when it comes to human populations. “Petroleum County has a population of less than 500 and Fergus County falls just short of 12,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The income brought by hunting season is vital for the local communities,” the Great Falls Tribune noted. So that $3.8 million from elk hunting represents not just local jobs, but local families paying their mortgages and winter heating bills and keeping refrigerators full.
In New Mexico, according to that state’s Department of Game and Fish, “counties like Mora, Catron, Union, Lincoln and Sierra rely heavily on hunting to sustain their county economies. These counties are at least 20 percent dependent on tourism-generated employment to sustain their local economy. In these counties … hunting is the primary and often exclusive driver of tourism for this area … approximately 86,000 individuals participated [statewide] in sport hunting in 2013 and the industry sustained over 4,700 jobs—many of which were located in rural communities.”
For yet another example, hunting is the make-it-or-break-it time of year for Gary Redden, owner of Hunter’s Choice in Shady Spring, W.Va., a town with a population of 2,998. While Redden’s operation offers wild-game butchering services, sells groceries and processes fish from a local trout farm, he stresses that deer hunters and hunting remain the backbone of his business, which Redden says doubles from the start of the fall archery deer season through the gun deer season.
"We'll bring anywhere from 15 to 20 a day during bow season," Redden told FOX 59 in Ghent, W.Va., referring to the number of deer brought into his processing operation. "During rifle season we'll bring in 200 to 300 a day."
Without deer hunting and the money it pumps into the local economy, small towns from Montana, New Mexico, West Virginia and beyond likely would be without at least one business—and probably several more.
With Independence Day just around the corner, you can imagine how many cookouts will be featuring game meat that has benefitted local economies across the entire United States. Just another reason to celebrate our nation’s freedom—and our individual right to our beloved all-American hunting traditions.
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According to crypto analyst Luke Broyles, even $3 million per bitcoin would represent just the beginning if adoption continues to grow exponentially. In a recent tweet thread, he laid out a case for why bitcoin’s upside remains virtually unlimited.
Despite bitcoin’s stellar performance in 2023, its market capitalization of roughly $500 billion remains tiny compared to the world’s largest asset classes, Broyles highlighted. With current adoption estimated at between 0.05% and 0.5% of the global population, 10% adoption would already represent a 100x increase in users.
At first glance, valuing bitcoin’s network 1:1 with its user base would put bitcoin at $3 million. However, Broyles argues this is far too conservative given that market cap trails price, not vice versa.
As evidence, Bank of America has estimated that each $1 chasing bitcoin historically added $118 to its market cap. This 118:1 ratio could expand radically, Broyles contends, especially if 100x more users are competing for dramatically fewer coins.
Rather than $3 million, Broyles speculates that $600 million per bitcoin would be plausible with 10% adoption and a 100x network value expansion. Despite sounding absurd today, this would be analogous to the internet’s value multiplying 100x from the 2000s as adoption hit 10% of the world.
Pushing further, Broyles ponders an eventual 80% asset allocation to bitcoin as it becomes viewed as the lowest risk, highest upside investment on a long horizon. Appreciation would allow most holders to achieve this allocation without liquidating other assets.
Finally, Broyles notes that bitcoin could become the first ever “triple point” asset, serving as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account simultaneously. This would concentrate global economic productivity and innovation into bitcoin as a perpetually scarce asset, unlike anything before.
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About two dozen people gathered at the Shawanaga Band Council office on Monday, March 22nd to rally against the March 11th, 2021 raid by Anishinabek Police Services on the High-Way 69 Medicinal dispensary. The group was led by Hereditary Chief Del Riley, a former head of the National Indian Brotherhood, and one of the main authors and negotiators for the sections of the Canadian constitution which are meant to safeguard Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.
The Six Nations Cannabis Commission (SNCC) has projected costs to establish an industry at Six Nations will hit almost $3 million before any structures are built or sales made according to SNCC budget documents obtained by Turtle Island News.
The Six Nations Cannabis Commission (SNCC) may be denying community members licenses to sell cannabis on the territory even though they have no legal authority to do so – and they know it.
54 Anishinaabe people are on trial in an Indigenous hunting and fishing case that will set precedent for the ongoing North Shore Anishinaabe cannabis constitutional challenge. Lawyer Michael Swinwood is appealing for contributions to go towards paying for two expert reports that are needed as the case returns to court on May 10th, 2021.
Algonquin Amikwa Anishinaabek (Beaver People) living in Reserves #13 and #2 as described by the 1854 Rowan Proclamation and the 1850 Indians’ Protection Act are waging a legal battle to defend the Indigenous right to grow and trade cannabis.
Albert Sewell is facing some challenges in establishing his multi-million dollar, 30,000 square-foot commercial cannabis cultivation facility on the western edge of Rankin reserve.
"It's made it quite difficult for First Nations to actually do any business off-reserve, so I took it upon myself — once the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was tabled in B.C. — to step off-reserve and basically assert our rights within our territory, our practice, our rights within our territory."
At 9:30am on Monday, March 22nd, supporters of the High-Way 69 Medical Cannabis dispensary will gather in the parking lot of the store, and then travel in a convoy to the APS station in Wasauksing First Nation which launched the raid. The convoy will be led by Chief Del Riley and will demand that the APS return the stolen medicines and apologize for the raid. Supporters are asked to bring flags and signs and wear camo to show their support.
The High-Way 69 Medicinal Cannabis Shop was not deterred by the raid and has decided to re-open and will continue providing medicinal cannabis for their customers. According to one staff member, “Our rights have been violated, and I think we have to take a stand on it. By opening up again, we’re taking a stand.”
From The Chilliwack Progress by Jennifer Feinberg December 30, 2020 The provincial government declared cannabis retail business an essential service in March 2020 Chilliwack’s retail landscape for legal cannabis kept shifting in 2020. The Chilliwack area was already unique, with the first fully licensed store in the region opening in…