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May be announced next week.
Facebook is approaching the unveiling of a new payment platform based on crypto currency, and now the Wall Street Journal reports that a number of giants have chosen to invest in the new service.
Both Uber, MasterCard, Stripe, Visa, Booking.com, PayPal and more will support the new payment platform, the newspaper says.
If the rumors vote, Facebook will unveil the new crypto poll already next week.
10 million each
The companies supporting Facebook's currency are reported to have invested $ 10 million each in a separate organization to manage the new digital currency, which is codenamed Project Libra.
The Information claims that Facebook wants to have around 100 organizations as "owners" of the crypto network to avoid a single player (Facebook) gaining too much power.
Keywords: bitcoin, facebook, krypto, libra, mastercard, visa
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The new display standard can take over HDMI
Last month, we wrote that a new version of the display connection standard DisplayPort is on its way. Now, all specifications are officially launched, although we probably have to wait at least another year before we start seeing products that support it.read more…


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YouTube has teamed up with Universal Music Group to launch a new music service, the two companies have announced.
Called Vevo the new venture will be a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG's premium video content in one handy place for users to watch and "enjoy".
Launching later this year, Vevo promises to be yet another online music video hub built for consumers that, say the companies "will blend UMG's broad catalogue of top artists and content with YouTube's leading edge video technology and user community".
Clearly hoping to make a pot of cash from the new venture Doug Morris, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group is already "bigging" up the service:
"We believe that at launch, VEVO will already have more traffic than any other music video site in the United States and in the world. And this traffic represents the most sought after demographic for advertisers, especially as advertising dollars continue their shift from old media to new".
You can see why the two companies are keen to partner; UMG's YouTube video channel has more than 3.5 billion views since its creation, making it the most watched channel on YouTube.

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Cheap Trick to be featured concert on Grandstand stage
Du Quoin, Ill. – On a day when the entire State of Illinois comes together to celebrate all that is Born, Built and Grown in our great state, the DuQuoin State Fair is proud to welcome the Hall of Fame rock ‘n’ roll band, Cheap Trick, to the Grandstand stage on Sunday, August 26.
With more than 5,000 performances, 20 million records sold, 29 movie soundtracks and 40 gold and platinum recording albums, Cheap Trick is a musical institution. Best known for timeless classics such as “I Want You to Want Me,” “Surrender,” and “The Flame,” Cheap Trick is considered one of the most covered bands of all time.
“Southern Illinois will be a key player in the state’s Bicentennial celebration,” said State Fair Manager Luke Sailer. “It seems only fitting to welcome this highly successful Illinois band to help our state mark such a historic occasion.”
Cheap Trick formed in 1974 in Rockford, Illinois. They have toured with legendary bands such as Queen, Kiss, AC/DC and Poison, and the group has been an inspiration to artists such as Kid Rock, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder and members of Pearl Jam.
Tickets for the Sunday, August 26th concert will go on sale later this spring. Ticket prices for this blockbuster concert will range from $21-to-$27. It’s important to remember that Ticketmaster and the DuQuoin State Fair Box office are the only authorized outlets to sell concert tickets for the State Fair grandstand. Third party outlets often inflate ticket prices to turn a profit and the buyer has no guarantee as to the authenticity of the ticket they just purchased.
“We take great pride in offering big name acts at an affordable ticket price,” said Assistant State Fair Manager Tibretta Reiman. “Cheap Trick plays to sold out crowds at Wrigley Field and now they are bringing their electric show to Du Quoin. These are acts that you can see at big name venues in cities like Indianapolis, St. Louis or Chicago. It’s the exact same show, but a cheaper ticket price and much better seats!”
In the coming weeks and months look for many more exciting announcements about the 2018 Du Quoin State Fair, including details on how the fair will mark our state’s bicentennial.
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News International appoints Sean Adams to insight role
By Nick Batten, mediaweek.co.uk, Thursday, 29 November 2012 11:08AM
News International has appointed founder of The Seed, Sean Adams, to the newly created role of head of commercial insight.
Adams, who joined this month, will manage a team of four specialists providing insights into current and future audience behaviour across the different platforms on which The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times are available.
Prior to taking up his new role at NI, Adams owned The Seed, a research and strategy development company specialising in brands and communications, founded in Sydney. He ran The Seed for 10 years until early this year, during which time he worked for many of Australia's leading media owners across all media channels.
Adams will report to Abba Newbery, director of advertising strategy at News International Commercial.
Newbery said: "Sean brings a wealth of research experience to the commercial team, which will be invaluable as NI evolves and innovates to keep pace with technological developments and changes in consumer behaviour."Follow @nickbatten2
This article was first published on mediaweek.co.uk
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Customs recover Indian currency from Pak women, fined Rs 9.5 lakh
December, 01st 2012
Shopping plans of seven women from Pakistan, who were on their way to Amritsar from Lahore, went awry on Friday when the Customs officials at Attari found them carrying Indian currency, in violation of norms. The women finally had to pay 50 per cent of the amount they were carrying to enter India.
Non-Indian nationals cannot carry Indian currency. Any non-Indian national can bring $ 5,000 US dollars, but Indian currency. In the case of Indian nationals, they can only carry Rs 7,500, a Customs official told The Indian Express.
The women, who wanted to purchase jewellery and clothes in Amritsar for a wedding, were carrying Rs 19.25 lakh in Indian currency. They ended up paying Rs 9.54 lakh as redemption fine and penalty, sources said. According to sources, the women told the Customs officials that they exchanged Pakistani currency to Indian currency from Western Union in Pakistan.
Late on Friday night, The Indian Express managed to track the seven women in a jewellery showroom on the Mall Road in Amritsar. Among them was a young woman, who is set to get married in March and had come to Amritsar for shopping.
As soon as Customs officials recovered Indian currency from us, we were humiliated. In no time, there were sniffer dogs around us and our baggage. While the the family of the girl set to married carried more than Rs 4 lakh in Indian currency, we carried the rest, a woman said. The women now plan to move an application with the authorities concerned, demanding a refund of the fine.


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- Così pop-up unit aims to launch growth
- Getting smaller, thinking bigger
Così's new pop-up restaurant in Chicago will be used to test new menu ideas and decor, says chief executive Carin Stutz.
Nearly a year to the day since her hiring as chief executive of Così Inc., Carin Stutz oversaw the Dec. 12 debut of the 129-unit fast-casual chain’s “pop-up” restaurant in downtown Chicago, where the brand will try out new menus and décor as an intended precursor to innovation-driven growth.
Stutz and her executive team at Così’s Deerfield, Ill., headquarters held their first meeting about the new food and design elements on display at the South Michigan Avenue store on Nov. 23, and about three weeks later arrived at the first iteration of a possible new Così prototype. The store was converted from a standard Così to the pop-up variant over the previous weekend.
A look at Cosi’s pop-up restaurant
The quick execution of the pop-up restaurant does not represent a hasty decision, but rather Così’s ability to be nimble and inventive, Stutz said. She acknowledged a sense of urgency within Così to reignite sales growth, as the brand struggled in recent years with negative earnings and a threat from NASDAQ to delist the company’s stock. Her appointment as CEO came after months of industry veteran Brad Blum, a Così investor, calling for a leadership change.
But “it’s more important to get it right than to just go fast,” Stutz said.
The goal for turning around Così’s sales is to get new traffic and to entice lapsed users to come back, Stutz said, and the chain would attempt that primarily through menu innovation.
“There’s a group of core guests that are looking for something that’s healthier, more adventuresome, and that would test the limits of their flavor palate,” Stutz said. “So we’re going to try things that you can’t get anywhere else.”
Remaking the menu
Stutz said she began trying to shore up operations at Così’s existing restaurants when she started as chief executive Jan. 1, 2012, but she and her team also examined all aspects of the business, especially the menu.
“It’s about food and food quality, first and foremost,” she said. “Second, it’s about convenience — we still play in the fast-casual arena, and we do a lot of our business at lunch, so we have to be fast. The third part is what we’re calling ‘culinary hospitality,’ where we want our people to be as passionate about the food as they are about service.”
Ideas for new menu items came from all over the company and were refined and tested by Così’s new vice president of innovation and brand strategy, Michael Foley, who had been an industry consultant following the closure of his venerated fine-dining restaurant in Chicago, Printer’s Row.
“We started at the beginning again and, in a short amount of time, came back to the key things that make Così competitive in the market and a leader in the community, and figured out why it had lost its compelling story,” Foley said. “It’s the bread and the hearth, done in a fast, fresh way.”
Così kept some signatures like its T.B.M. sandwich and the Così Signature Mixed salad, but nearly all of the items on the pop-up’s menu were new, including the Avocado & Cucumber and Vietnamese Pork sandwiches, the Sloppy Jane and Market Ham & Pear melts, and the Grains & Greens salad.


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Making rounds on social media recently is this netizen’s [now dubbed as Lazada Girl] post on Facebook wherein she purchased an item from an online store called Lazada.
Funny enough, instead of writing her address for the delivery, she actually wrote an instruction on how to find her house.
“Pob 1 army compound yung sa may papasaok ng sabungan diredirecho tapos sa right ka liliko yung green na bahay dun yung may silver na gate Philippines” Facebook user Rhea Prille Rose Tan wrote during her order that reflected on the delivery packaging.
It didn’t take long for the courier to locate her house since she literally wrote exactly where to deliver the item.
After her instant online fame, her friends now calls and mock her as “Lazada Girl”.


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Patio Heater Shortage May Prevent The Extension Of Outdoor Seating For Some Restaurants
DULUTH, Minn. – The pandemic is continuing to put a strain on restaurant capacities, but low temperatures across the northland are making it harder to offer outdoor seating.
As a result, the demand for patio heaters and fire pits has drastically increased.
Restaurant owners are doing the most they can to overcome the hurdle of limited indoor capacities.
Patio seating is one way to help manage that limitation.
As temperatures continue to drop, patio heaters are becoming a hot ticket item and now restaurants are scrambling to find them
“Availability on these particular patio heaters is undetermined at this point. We have some orders out looking to see if we can get them filled,” said Managing Partner of Duluth Stove and Fireplace Matt Boo.
Sir Benedict’s Tavern in Duluth is one of the many restaurants utilizing patio seating during this chilly season.
The owner says he had to do some research to find some form of heating equipment for the outdoor space.
He also says providing extending outdoor seating is more than just dealing with capacity restrictions.
“I think there is a large subset that isn’t comfortable coming inside of an establishment. This gives people an opportunity if they just want to come and get out of their house,” said Josh Stotts.
Currently, restaurants are only allowed to offer indoor seating at 50% capacity.
A recent Google study showed online searches for patio heaters have jumped by nearly 70% nationwide compared to the same time last year.


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There is no pre-order system to take orders. Only Elio Motors and Tesla use such a system to flaunt "long lines for something that doesn't exist". One more, Arcimoto also uses an order system, I believe.
Just so you know, WNY has not entirely gotten rid of mob influence. There is a lot of "influence" in big construction work there.
Looks like it was a 4mph incident. But that was a big van and algorithms "beeped" saying that something was about to happen in .3 seconds. The algorithm (if TACC was turned on) certainly should have stopped before it tried to.
Issue equity on Thursday, write covered calls on Friday ITM.
Also, did you see Tesla sold the oversupply of shares? So the raise was $1.7M but quietly reported yesterday. So, dilution was "fully realized" on the issuance.
The common consumer is not getting any deals on EVs just yet. Used Volts can be had for $15k and battery-challenged Leafs under $10k in some spots. But until a $20,000 without-incentive EV with 200 miles is on the showroom floor, consumers will not adopt. $35k or even $28k post incentives is still high for the lower to middle-class unless the lease-deals are $200/month.
Artificial levels currently. However our grand-children will be seeing a life of less oil availability. We can pump oil - but it will eventually run out. The work done in the EV world now will benefit our grandchildren. But the work done today will be slowly adopted with a smooth, slow and steady growth pattern over the next few decades.
I believe it will be the eventual price of the base model, RWD without options with the smaller of the two battery options. That comes when the GF is making 20800 sized cells and is fully built and operational. We did heat that the GF was "needed" to bring full scale to the Model 3. Early adopter pricing in 2017 may be $40,000 which then drops 2k each year to get to $35k or even less in 2020. There could also be a price drop on Model S to entice upper level buyers. 70 for say $65k. I know Tesla wants to only do RWD and DWD. But I do believe they need a FWD choice in their "consumer car".
Was this discussed today? Article on gm-volt mentions Hyundai will have its 200 miler available in 2018 and 250 miler by 2020. While this seems good, it will take much longer to get most common consumers educated and ready to live an electric lifestyle. Styling-wise, I suspect Hyundai will have a better-looking solution than the Chevy Bolt is coming out with to start. I think that some of these folks really need to build proper CUV-sized plug-ins to get the middle-class market going.
Hyundai will introduce electric vehicles with longer range before the end of the decade.
In a recent interview with Autoblog, Hyundai’s director of its eco-vehicle performance development group, Byung Ki Ahn, confirmed that a 200-mile Hyundai electric vehicle will be introduced by 2018. Range will go even further by 2020, when Hyundai plans on adding a 250-mile electric vehicle to its lineup.
That’s a major improvement compared to the Hyundai Ioniq EV (pictured) that has a 110-mile range, set to launch later this year in the U.S. The Korean automaker is investing heavily into alternative powertrains, promising to offer 26 new green models by 2020 that includes plug-in hybrids, hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Succeed how? Establish a profitable cash flow? The issue is it now is in a mode where the only way to succeed is to grow at "astronomical rates". It actually is worse-looking than before they threw out the 500,000 "build plan". But the "words on paper" don't foretell any sort of success. They will be surviving by out-running the bear until eventually the bear catches up.
Up on necessary dilution. No other company has the level of MM prop that this does. They have put out the required "one year from now" hype to buy an incredible amount of leeway.
This guy left in 2015 before the world heard that "guidance was to get employees to work harder" and not realistic guidance.
But a few accidents have happened with drivers believing the car would stop for them "in all cases".


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Chip suppliers and OEMs are about to display the first signs of interoperability for the consumer-oriented digital subscriber line (DSL) cable-modem standard, but key hardware makers remain frustrated with the technology and hint that mass deployment could be delayed for another year.
At next week's Supercomm '99 trade show in Atlanta, more than 30 chip makers and OEMs will demonstrate that their respective products are compatible with the long-awaited
G.Lite standard, a high-speed digital-modem technology that promises to deliver data at 1.5 Mbits/s-roughly 25 times the speed of today's analog products. G.Lite is a scaled-down version of asynchronous DSL (ADSL), a business-oriented technology that can transfer data at 8 Mbits/s.
Some believe the "G.Lite Interoperability Showcase" demonstration at Supercomm will allay fears about compatibility issues with the technology, and pave the way for rapid deployment of DSL services.
One of the stumbling blocks with ADSL and G.Lite is that chip makers and OEMs have a slightly different interpretation of the protocol's discrete multitone (DMT) signaling standard, a software technology that chops up data over a phone line into 128 channels running at 4 kHz.
Five companies develop and license DMT software technology, and all are scrambling to develop interoperable products to get G.Lite to market.
"Fundamentally, [the DMT] suppliers use the same algorithms," said Bob Lee, director of marketing for Integrated Telecom Express Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based supplier of DSL chips. "But in some of the gray areas, there are some fundamental differences in these DMT offerings. That's what vendors hope to resolve at Supercomm."
Modem-equipment makers, however, remain pessimistic about a quick G.Lite product ramp. Especially skeptical are Taiwanese companies. Taiwan was the world's largest analog-modem supplier last year, with a 37.9% market share, according to the government-sponsored Market Intelligence Center, Taipei.
Taiwan-based modem suppliers, which sell their parts to the world's top PC makers, are also developing G.Lite products for those customers, which include Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM.
"Like everybody else in Taiwan, we are preparing for large OEM orders [for DSL modems]," said Curtis Yang, vice president of marketing for Taipei-based modem maker CIS Technology Inc. "But there seems to be no real [DSL] standard, and the market is not there yet."
CIS is shipping small volumes of an internal DSL modem to Compaq. The modem reportedly is built around a combination ADSL/G.Lite-V.90 chipset developed by Alcatel.
At the same time, competing DSL chip makers-including GlobeSpan Semiconductor, Integrated Telecom Express, and Lucent Technologies-have announced a flurry of CIS design wins.
"We are also designing [DSL modems] with various other chipsets, but the problem is that some of the chipsets have different specifications and are not interoperable," Yang said. He did not elaborate.
Other modem makers expressed similar concerns.
"In the second half of this year the [G.Lite] standard will be finalized, and chipsets with standard specifications will follow," said Sean Chang, project manager for Taipei-based GVC Corp., Taiwan's largest modem maker. "However, we don't believe the [G.Lite] market will take off until the second half of 2000."
Indeed, despite the hype for G.Lite and other DSL services, the market remains a disappointment.
For example, many chip makers and OEMs early in 1998 promised that G.Lite products and services would hit the consumer space by the latter part of the year. However, the phone carriers have also been dragging their feet in bringing DSL services to the consumer market, thereby opening the door for the rival technology, cable modems, which provide high-speed Internet access over cable lines.
"We're just beginning to see a lot of G.Lite activity from the carriers and OEMs," said Greg Sheppard, an analyst with Dataquest Inc., San Jose. "However, we're in the ramp-up stage right now. It could take three or four years [before large-scale G.Lite deployment occurs]."
Still, the ADSL/G.Lite segment is projected to reach at least 3 million subscribers worldwide by next year, up from just 25,000 in 1997 and 100,000 in 1998, according to In-Stat Group, Scottsdale, Ariz.
But another pressing issue is that the phone carriers also sell DSL-modem products to end users, and subsidize them as well, which is a costly business model, Lee noted.
"Right now, the carriers are bundling the DSL services and modems together for end users in order to ensure that
the product works," Lee said. "But in my opinion, the only way we will see mass deployment of G.Lite services is when consumers are able to buy their modems in the retail channel. But I don't see
that happening until the second half of next year."
The key issue for G.Lite is clear: interoperability among the various DMT camps. Several DSL chip makers, including Advanced Micro Devices and Itex, are backing Alcatel's DMT technology. Others, including Analog Devices, Lucent, and Texas Instruments, have taken out licenses for Aware Inc.'s DMT scheme.
Fujitsu, meanwhile, is backing a DMT technology from Orckit Communications Ltd., while Conexant is going with a scheme from PairGain Technologies Inc. And GlobeSpan is developing its own DMT coding technology.
At Supercomm, chip makers and OEMs alike are crossing their fingers in hopes that these schemes will interoperate. Otherwise, the market could be further stunted, said Dori Braun, director of marketing for DSL chip maker Centillium Technology Corp., Fremont, Calif.
"From my point of view, I hope all chip makers can pass the test," Braun said.


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Chipotle set to open in Valley View
ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke will soon get a second Chipotle.
Chipotle Mexican Grill is slated to move into the old Ruby Tuesday in Valley View.
A sales representative says "it's still a ways out," but the restaurant is scheduled to open in the latter half of next year.
The other Chipotle is in the Towers Shopping Center.
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DATE: 15 September 2020, Tuesday
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm (GMT+8, MYT)
VENUE: Online Webinar
TOPIC: COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan Series | How can ASEAN Bounce Back: Industry 4.0 and the Forces of Change in ASEAN ~ Swedish Industry Voices in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Industry 4.0 (IR4.0) was a buzzword embraced by businesses in ASEAN and across the world. A recent study made by Business Sweden in Southeast Asia, targeting 300 manufacturers spread across the region, indicated that four out of five manufacturers were budgeting for IR4.0 investments by 2020 and one out of three had a IR4.0 strategy in place.
But how has the pandemic shifted those priorities for Swedish businesses operating in the region? What are the technologies redefining industrial practices and what are the challenges faced by companies wanting to adopt IR4.0? How ASEAN harnesses IR4.0 will have significance considering the importance of the manufacturing sector to the region.
Join us as we listen to Swedish industry voices on ASEAN’s readiness for IR4.0, how Swedish companies have responded to the pandemic and how the region can adopt IR4.0 in a post-pandemic world.
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Maag Pumps buys German machinery maker Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen
Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen specializes in the development and manufacture of high performance continuous melt filters and injection molding machines.
In a move to expand its plastic filtration operations, Swiss-based Maag Pump Systems AG has acquired German machinery supplier Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH for an undisclosed amount.
Founded in 1983, Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen specializes in the development and manufacture of high performance continuous melt filters and injection molding machines. Ettlinger melt filters are used for processing heavily contaminated material streams as well as extrusion applications where pressure stable filtration is needed. Headquartered in the German city of Konigsbrunn, the company has a North American sales and service subsidiary located in Atlanta, Ga.
Under the terms of the purchase, both companies will continue to operate in the market under their existing names. Ueli Thuerig, currently president of Maag, will head the combined business.
“Maag’s strong sales and service channel will provide us a greater penetration into new markets and will allow us to provide excellent local support to our existing customers,” Volker Neuber, CEO of Ettlinger, said in a statement.
Maag, which is a business unit of Dover Corp., manufactures gear pumps, pelletizing systems and filtration systems for demanding applications in the plastics, chemicals and petrochemicals industries. The company has production sites in Switzerland, the U.S., Germany, Italy, and China as well as additional service centres and sales offices in France, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Brazil.


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Manhattan Associates, an Atlanta-based a supply chain software company, said that a stabilizing economy helped shore up its business in the second half of 2009 and is some cause for optimism in 2010.
But CEO Pete Sinisgalli told analysts that the first half of 2009 was "abysmal." He said the company did not sign a single licensing deal for more than $1 million in the first half of the year, but had five such deals in the second half.
Chief Financial Officer Dennis Story said the company had its worst revenue year since 2004 and worst licensed revenue year since 2001. Profit in 2009 was $16.6 million on revenue of $246.7 million, compared to profit of $22.8 million in 2008 on revenue of $337.2 million.
Even though the economy appears to be improving, Story declined to give earnings guidance for 2010 citing "too much uncertainty across the global macroeconomic landscape."
The company posted profit of $5.9 million in the fourth quarter, a nearly 200 percent increase. That increase, however, reflects a $4.7 million restructuring charge after downsizing in the fourth quarter of 2008. Revenue in the fourth quarter 2009 was $62.1 million, down from $75.7 million a year ago.
The company said it signed new customers such as Goya Foods, Kwik Trip and Tractor Supply Co.
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In a massive “screw you” to leakers, Google announced the Pixel 5a 5G.
The reveal comes after several reports surfaced that the company had cancelled the phone Friday morning. Android Central reported that two independent sources confirmed Google would cancel the Pixel 5a. Further, leaker Jon Prosser tweeted that the cancellation was due to chip shortages.
Following those reports, a Google spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the company was still going to launch the Pixel 5a 5G:
“Pixel 5a 5G is not cancelled. It will be available later this year in the U.S. and Japan and announced in line with when last year’s a-series phone was introduced.”
However, the ongoing chip shortage is a very real issue, impacting tech companies, automakers and more. It appears Google is also on that list, since the statement indicates Google will limit the Pixel 5a 5G to select regions. MobileSyrup reached out to Google Canada, which offered the same statement indicating supply issues limited a larger release.
It’s also worth noting that Google said the 5a 5G would be announced in line with last year’s a-series phone. Google announced the Pixel 4a and hinted at the 4a 5G and Pixel 5 in August 2020. It seems that we’ll see the Pixel 5a 5G in August this year, which is contrary to rumours that pointed to a possible June launch.
Beyond that, other rumours have indicated the Pixel 5a 5G would be very similar — but not identical — to the current Pixel 4a 5G.
Aside from the Pixel 5a 5G, Google is rumoured to have a higher-end flagship Pixel phone later this year. Likely the Pixel 6, it could feature custom Google silicon dubbed ‘Whitechapel.’
It’s also worth noting that Google has a history of responding to leaks with phone announcements. After the huge Pixel 3 and 3 XL leaks, Google ramped up its announcement practices by tweeting an image of the Pixel 4 after it started leaking.
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Canopy Growth Corporation News
It's a Cannabis Buyers' Market
Inventory issues are forcing major retailers to lower prices to clear backed up product.
Cannabis Has More Room to Grow in Canada
Some feel there are too many dispensaries in Ontario, Canada's most populous province. But a new study suggests there is more room to grow.
Cannabis News Week: Canopy Cuts Jobs, Pennsylvania Wants Safe Banking
A majority of Americans see alcohol consumption as being more harmful than recreational cannabis consumption.
Cramer's Mad Money Recap 4/25: Twitter, Coca-Cola
Soft drink giant delivers results with plenty of fizz in spite of inflation, war and rising rates.
Cramer's Mad Money Recap 3/30: Micron, Devon Energy, Tesla
Jim Cramer says not every company can pull off the transition from cyclical to secular growth stock.
Stock Market Today - 6/29: Stocks End Mixed As Recession Concerns Mount
Stocks ended mixed Wednesday as growth bets gave way to recession fears.
Crypto Crash Exposes Robinhood and Coinbase To Predators
A year can be a lifetime in the cryptocurrency world as major players are reeling from heavy losses.
Micron Earnings Preview: Will Critical Support Hold?
Micron is set to report earnings on Thursday after the close, but the stock sits on critical support. Will it hold or will it fold?


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Online media group Hi-Media, the European leader in monetizing the Internet audience, today published its sales figures for the 2011 financial year. · Sales up by 6% pro forma · Profitability improvement throughout the year · Strategic partnerships in the UK and Netherlands · Solid perspectives and a greater integration of the Group businesses for […]
According to comScore, 48% of European* internet users have visited Newspaper sites in November 2011. This new figure confirms the increased consumption of digital news. The penetration of online news is even higher in Western European countries. Indeed, 55% of European online users across 7 markets in 2011 (UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden) […]
According to the Nielsen/Billboard 2011 Music Industry Report, for the first time digital music sales are larger than physical sales, accounting for 50.3% of all music purchases in 2011. In a continuation of a multi-year trend, digital sales increased by 8.4% from 2010, while physical sales declined 5%. Digital track sales set a new record […]
Hi-Pay, the electronic wallet of Hi-media Group has been nominated for the Accenture Innovation Awards 2011 in the Financial services category. For more info, click here. If you’d like to vote for Hi-Pay, click here .
Online video has reached a critical mass amongst internet users. Indeed, according to comScore in october 2011, 89% of Spanish internet users and 87% of French internet users watched at least one video online during the month. With a such sizeable audience, advertisers are spending more money in online video ads, and more particularly in […]
Online media group Hi-Media (Code ISIN FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetizing the Internet audience, today announced an exclusive advertising network agreement covering the audience for SeLoger.com Group websites: SeLoger.com, Immostreet.com, Bellesdemeures.com, SeLogerVacances.com, Vacances.seloger.com and Agorabiz.com. SeLoger.com is one of the leaders in the “Real Estate” category</strong>, ranked as one of the […]


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The Baking Industry Association of South Australia (BIASA) Grain/Flour Seminar was held at Regency TAFE in May.
The seminar targeted the artisan/sourdough bread varieties and the range of flours and grains that could be used in production.
According to BIASA executive officer, Lex Brown, those who attended found the seminar to be useful and informative and gave them more areas to explore on a variety of breads for their own businesses.
Ingredient and equipment companies presented the latest trends to bakers at the seminar. Four Leaf Milling Company’s Rosemary Dunn gave a presentation on the range of grains and flours they now have available. Van Rooy Machinery’s Duncan Black and his team demonstrated their machinery, which is designed for the production of artisan breads. Soy Products Australia’s Paul Smith briefed the attendees on their speciality range and how it can be utilised in bread production.
Also, Laucke Flour Mills’ Mark Laucke gave a “very informative” presentation on their range of speciality flours and grains that can be used.


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Do you ever feel like a bit of a plonker recording snapchats in public?
Well, it seems like Snapchat have found a way of helping their users to look good whilst documenting their day.
Snapchat-enabled sunglasses were released in Britain on Friday.
Known as Spectacles, the £130 glasses let you record video clips which are uploaded to your Snapchat account. No need to hold your phone to document your travels in snippet form.
They launched in the US in November, and are the first hardware released by Snap Inc, Snapchat’s parent company.
What exactly are Snapchat Spectacles?
Snap Inc has branched out into smartware, and released a pair of sunglasses which can record 10-second videos, which are uploaded to the wearer’s Snapchat account and shared with their friends.
Shots are captured in a wide-angled circular format, mimicking an eye’s field of vision.
It means smartglasses are back, after Google’s Glass, which was withdrawn from sale in 2015 due to concerns about safety,
They cost £130 and are released in the UK today, after seven months in American stores.
What is Snapchat?
If you don’t know what Snapchat is, it’s fair to suggest you might not want to fork out for the £130 tech.
But it’s an app used by 166 million people every day, where people can send pictures, videos and messages to friends. The images delete themselves after they’ve been seen.
According to Snapchat, three billion pics are taken with its in-app camera every day.
Where can I get the Snapchat's sunglasses?
Online is the best route. They can be ordered off the official site here .
But Snapchat is also selling them from bright yellow “Snapbot” vending machines in five European cities. There is one outside the London Eye on Friday, June 2.
Snapbots will move around, so to find out where they are click here - or just buy them online.


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Back for it's fifteenth year, Passport to Dining promises to be an evening of delicious food, craft breweries, and regional wineries that attendees won't want to miss. North Tahoe Business Association (NTBA), a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve economic vitality and quality of life, will host North Tahoe's most flavorful fundraiser on Thursday, November 7, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at North Tahoe Event Center, in Kings Beach, CA.
Advance tickets are $40 and include unlimited responsible tastings. Attendees can vote for the People's Choice award for best food station. Tickets are available online at NorthTahoeBusiness.org on a limited, first-come, first-served basis. $60 day of event tickets are available exclusively at the door starting at 6 p.m. the day of the event.


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In this interview with The Guardian, Sergey Brin -- one of Google's co-founders -- warns about the demise of the Internet's freedom as we know it. With the growth of restrictive walled gardens environments (like Facebook and Apple), the entertainment's industry attempts to crack down on piracy and the desire of goverment to control it, the principles of openness and universal access are under greater threat than ever.
He said he was most concerned by the efforts of countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Iran to censor and restrict use of the internet, but warned that the rise of Facebook and Apple, which have their own proprietary platforms and control access to their users, risked stifling innovation and balkanising the web.
"There's a lot to be lost," he said. "For example, all the information in apps -- that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."
Brin's criticism of Facebook is likely to be controversial, with the social network approaching an estimated $100bn (£64bn) flotation. Google's upstart rival has seen explosive growth: it has signed up half of Americans with computer access and more than 800 million members worldwide.
Brin said he and co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create Google if the internet was dominated by Facebook. "You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive," he said. "The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation."
He criticised Facebook for not making it easy for users to switch their data to other services. "Facebook has been sucking down Gmail contacts for many years," he said.
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Bondholder Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) has released images of the new Toyota Avensis which will be built at the Derbyshire factory later this year.
Although the Toyota Avensis has been in production at the Burnaston factory since 1997, this announcement gives workers at the factory added long-term job security.
The updated model brings design influences from both the new Toyota Yaris and the Toyota Mirai – a hydrogen cell car which has recently gone on sale in Japan to reduce emissions.
In recent years, Toyota has seen soaring sales figures in particular with hybrid-powered vehicles such as the Toyota Auris which is also manufactured in Burnaston. It is understood that the new Avensis will have a new engine line-up but it is not yet known if this will include hybrid technology.


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The sharing of transaction information and deal flow in a structured format has long been a cornerstone of the channel. Over the years, vendors have made the sharing of such data a prerequisite for participating in their channel programs.
But with the rise of big data analytics platforms, vendors will soon begin collecting massive amounts of unstructured data that will be used to give them more insight into not only how end customers perceive a particular channel partner, but also increase actual sales.
Just about all the major vendors have already begun to invest in the big data analytics platforms required to gain those insights. ChannelEyes, a provider of channel sales and marketing management tools, is betting that vendors will soon become a lot more interested in a big data analytics platform that provides insights based on a much broader spectrum of data than many of them can collect.
To that end, ChannelEyes launched OPTYX, a workflow tool based on a predictive analytics application. ChannelEyes CEO Jay McBain said that rather than requiring every vendor to invest in hiring their own team of data scientists, OPTYX is designed to process transaction and behavioral data alongside data from external sources to give channel account managers more accurate visibility into how specific channel partners are likely to perform.
“In a lot of cases, the inside sales team and the marketing department can make very detailed forecasts using big data analytics,” McBain said. “OPTYX will give channel managers the same capability.”
Of course, ChannelEyes is not the first provider of channel management tools to explore the benefit of big data analytics opportunities. For example, Zyme Solutions, a provider of channel management tools, has made available a customer sentiment analysis tool as a module within its e-commerce platform.
Zyme Solutions CEO Chandran Sankaran said channel management teams are starting to appreciate the value of unstructured data.
“Channel teams want to be able to layer all the unstructured data they can collect on top of their structured data,” Sankaran said. “They want insight into how a solution provider is perceived by customers in real life.”
Once that data is collected, the channel management team can better understand how they might be able to help a specific channel partner, Sankaran said.
Role of Channel Data Management
At a recent Zyme Channel Data Management Summit conference, Gillian Campbell, director for channel data for the newly formed HP Inc., described how the PC and printer manufacturer is working with Accenture and Zyme to create a standard platform for managing the channel.
“We’re really focused on how we can simplify, how we can transform, how we can standardize, so we can move forward in this new world of channel data management,” Campbell said. “The challenge we had was [gaining visibility into how] sales flow right through to end customers. We have a pretty good view of what goes into the channel, but we don’t have a great view of the back end of the channel.”
However, vendors have to be willing to make the investment in channel data management to realize that vision, said Gerry Murray, research manager for IDC’s CMO Advisory Service, during the same conference.
“[Vendors] can understand the marketing investment that went into closing the deal. Now they can start to compare that some of the partners are taking seven months to close that deal, and some are taking five,” Murray said. “There’s a huge treasure trove of information that you could potentially get from your partners.”
Naturally, solution providers may not always appreciate that level of intrusion into their business. But as long as vendors are willing to drive business their way in exchange for access to data, the relationship should remain mutually beneficial.
Michael Vizard has been covering IT issues in the enterprise for more than 25 years as an editor and columnist for publications such as InfoWorld, eWEEK, Baseline, CRN, ComputerWorld and Digital Review.


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It's possible that the current retail success may be traced back to the epidemic's recent happenings. From an average of 2 billion monthly visitors in 2019 to 2.3 billion in 2020 and a record-breaking 2.8 billion in February 2021, Amazon.com achieved tremendous growth.
Despite the incredible opportunities the digital age presents, the retail industry is fully aware of the difficulties and restrictions it must overcome. While there is ample opportunity for growth, sellers are hampered by factors including consumers' changing shopping patterns, the increasing demands on shipping companies, consumers' wariness of online purchases, and a general lack of computer literacy. Retailers have been forced to rethink their strategies in light of the pandemic and have responded by boosting their use of IoT solutions.
What kind of opportunities do modern technological advancements provide? Is there any successful implementation of IoT use cases in the retail sector? This article will discuss these and other concerns while thoroughly analyzing the retail industry's adoption of the Internet of Things.


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Windows 8 updates expected
NEW YORK – Microsoft is following through on a promise to update its Windows 8 operating system on a regular basis to respond to consumer complaints and other feedback.
Just months after the release of Windows 8.1, Microsoft is preparing changes to make it easier for people to use Windows with traditional keyboard and mouse controls. Among other things, Microsoft will add search, power and settings buttons to the Start page, so people don’t have to figure out how to pull those functions from the right side of their screens. The update also promises easier ways to close apps.
Microsoft Corp. outlined some of the new features in February at a conference in Barcelona, Spain, and will likely provide more details Wednesday as the company opens its annual Build software developers conference in San Francisco.
The new, yet-unnamed update is expected soon. It follows the October debut of Windows 8.1, which came a year after the release of Windows 8. The pattern contrasts with Microsoft’s past habit of waiting years to release major updates.
Microsoft is also updating its Windows Phone system to work better in corporate environments.
The company will add VPN support, for instance, to allow phones to connect with corporate networks securely. There will also be features that consumers in fast-growing emerging markets desire, including the ability for phones to have two SIM cards so people can switch carrier plans easily for the best deals.
The company hasn’t announced pricing or specific availability for either update, but both are likely to be free downloads, based on past practice. They could be available as early as this month and will be among the first major software releases since Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s CEO in February. It follows Nadella’s unveiling last week of Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Apple’s iPad.
Microsoft may also use the Build conference to update software developers on the company’s plans to integrate the Windows Phone 8 system for smartphones, the Windows 8.1 system for tablets, laptops and desktops and the Xbox system for its game console.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company has said it is working to have its various systems share more of the underlying code, while retaining separate interfaces adapted to the specific devices. The integration will make it easier for developers to adapt apps for the various devices.
Microsoft is preparing to buy Nokia’s phone business and patent rights in a $7.4 billion deal. The transaction should be completed in the next few weeks, pending regulatory approval in Asia. The deal already has approval in the U.S. and Europe.


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New analysis carried out by Grant Thornton Ireland has revealed the general value of cybercrime to the Irish economic system in 2020 to be €9.6bn. The Economic Cost of Cybercrime report revealed by Grant Thornton’s Cyber Security group estimates the direct and oblique prices incurred on account of cyber-attacks in opposition to companies, people, and the federal government. The 2020 analysis builds on Grant Thornton Ireland’s 2014 Cost of Cybercrime report, which famous an general value to the economic system of €630 million on account of cybercrime, a determine which has exponentially elevated within the newest knowledge.
Phishing and ransomware assaults, together with credit score and debit card fraud, and operational technology-focused assaults have all elevated considerably lately with ransomware assaults, by which cybercriminals demand cost for the discharge of compromised supplies, by far essentially the most vital type of cybercrime famous in 2020.
Ransomware assaults alone and the price of remedying such assaults reached over €2bn in 2020. The €2bn prices of ransomware assaults in 2020 estimate the direct prices related to these occasions i.e. ransoms paid, in addition to oblique prices comparable to infrastructure and IT payments and reputational damages incurred by means of public dialogue and media protection.
The report additionally notes a 100% enhance in pc viruses and a 20% enhance in phishing assaults, the place fraudulent communications purporting to be from respected sources had been despatched to companies and shoppers. This comes as credit score and debit card fraud additionally elevated, resulting in losses of €12m.
Speaking on the launch of the report in the present day, Head of Cyber Security Services at Grant Thornton Ireland Mike Harris stated, ‘We are all very a lot conscious of the chance of cybercrime to companies and certainly, to shoppers, however as a comparatively new phenomenon that has emerged prior to now decade or so, many companies and people are nonetheless grappling with the way to insulate in opposition to this risk.
‘Cybercriminals are progressive and opportunistic. This means we additionally have to be progressive in how we mitigate in opposition to potential cyber-attack dangers. Ransomware assaults, for instance, had been as soon as focused primarily at shoppers however we now know companies, organisations, and governments are the principle targets for some of these crimes.
‘Cyber-attacks, more generally, have huge consequences to balance sheets, reputation, and data protection, and this report highlights that the frequency of these attacks is growing rapidly.’
The previous 12 months has demonstrated big adjustments and fast digital transformation for Irish companies and their staff throughout the nation. Cybercriminals noticed these adjustments as a possibility to assault companies, organisations, and companies amid this transformation.
Research continues to point out that many staff are accessing work servers remotely and from private gadgets which with out acceptable measures, presents one other path to cyber-attacks for cybercriminals.
Howard Shortt, Director in Forensics & Cyber at Grant Thornton Ireland famous, ‘Now is the time for businesses to review their processes, to test their IT and infrastructure for weaknesses to cyber-attack, and for employees to be trained appropriately to prevent accidental exposure while working on-site or remotely. Not carrying out these preventative measures could lead to large costs in the event of an attack in future.’
The 2020 Economic Cost of Cybercrime report is the second such report from Grant Thornton Ireland.
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Benjamin Bloom was quoted in "Canadian recreational drone users have basically been grounded" on the new rules governing the use of drones by recreational users. The article was published on March 25, 2017 by mobilesyrup.
Canadian recreational drone users have basically been grounded
New rules governing the use of drones by recreational users prohibits flying near buildings, people, animals, and airports; imposes a $3,000 fine if you’re caught.
Drones, quadcopters, or UAVs as they’re officially known, have been a hot consumer item for several years, and are becoming more and more popular. Research firm Tactica last year estimated that the market for these airborne cameras would balloon from 6.4 million units in 2015 to 67.9 million by 2021. And though drone prices are gradually coming down, the NPD Group says that at least 56 percent of buyers are dropping $500 US or more on a new drone purchase, a price that indicates these are not just toys for annoying the family pet... Read the full article at mobilesyrup.


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Airbnb is to start sending the Chinese government information about customers who book accommodation in China.
Data shared with the authorities will include passport details and the dates of bookings.
Hosts listing accommodation in China will also have their details passed on once they start accepting bookings.
The online home-sharing giant said the move meant it was now complying with local laws and regulations, "like all businesses operating in China".
Airbnb China - the firm's local operation - has about 140,000 listings.
Hotels in China are already required to share their guest information with the government and local police.
And tourists and travellers staying in private homes are also technically supposed to register their accommodation details with the police within 24 hours of arriving at a destination.
Airbnb said it was simply falling in line with the traditional hospitality industry in China.
"The information we collect is similar to information hotels in China have collected for decades," an Airbnb spokesperson told the BBC.
"[It is] one step we are taking as we explore ways to help our hosts and guests follow the appropriate rules and regulations [in China]."
Unlike most countries, before customers can confirm an Airbnb China accommodation booking, they have to provide their passport information.
Airbnb said its local entity in China already stored this information and would share it with authorities on request.
But now it will be proactively sharing that data once bookings are made.
Information on new hosts on the site would only be sent to the government once that host started accepting bookings, Airbnb said.
The company sent an email to its China-based hosts on Thursday advising them that their information would be shared with the government from Friday.
It said hosts who were unhappy about the changes had the option of de-listing their accommodation offerings.
Airbnb has been focused on growing its Asia operations, especially in China, which is one of the fastest growing markets for the firm.
It launched Airbnb China in 2016 to facilitate bookings on the Chinese mainland.
Airbnb said it made it clear then to users and hosts that any information collected in China would be kept in the country and shared.
"If you reside outside of China and do not have a listing in China, nothing will change for you," the firm said in a 2016 blog posting.
"If you reside outside China and have existing listings in China, your information related to such listings will only be transferred to, stored, used or processed by Airbnb China upon your acceptance of our revised terms of service."
Airbnb said at the time the change was in line with the way China's traditional hospitality industry handled stays in hotels.
Future growth in China
Airbnb China faces tough competition from the country's biggest player in the market - Tujia.com - an online home sharing site that says it has more than 400,000 listings.
In an effort to attract more users in China, in March last year, Airbnb unveiled its new Chinese name - Aibiying (爱彼迎) - meaning welcome each other with love - which is easier to pronounce for Mandarin speakers.
On Thursday, the firm announced the launch in Shanghai of Airbnb Plus - a system that offers guests accommodation options that have been inspected and verified for cleanliness and comfort against a 100 point checklist.
It also unveiled its Airbnb Host Academy for China - a program to help hosts offer the best experience they can to guests, and to become so-called super hosts.
Airbnb has said it is aiming to have one billion annual guests worldwide by 2028.
The firm is one of Silicon Valley's most valuable companies and is already worth an estimated $30bn.


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"I’ve used the example in the past, but look at what National Geographic did. They started out as a sleepy old magazine company owned by a not-for-profit organization. They are now a channel. You can go on trips with them around the world. They have stores. They have games for schools. They have educational materials. They have super-served their consumers in a way that their brand allows it to be served. All magazine publishers should be thinking that way."
-- Time Inc. chairman and CEO Joe Ripp, from an interview with WWD. They asked him who he thought was doing the transition to digital well.


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With COVID-19 restrictions lifted, the first domestic products exhibition was held in Kabul on Wednesday, with early 200 companies from 26 provinces exhibiting various products.
Exhibitors stated that due to political unrest and rising insecurity, their working conditions have not yet returned to normal.
“Corona was a big challenge that fortunately passed, and this is the first exhibition held after the widespread pandemic that women participated in as well,” said Shogofa Sadat, a participant.
“We have come here hoping to show what we have made and produced, and it’s great for our compatriots to favor and purchase them over Pakistani and Chinese products,” stated Nazia, an expo participant.
The spread of the coronavirus caused financial losses to all private companies, some more than others.
“We lost two-and-a-half to three million Afghanis financially, and unfortunately, the greatest loss our company suffered was Dr. Yaqoub Frootan, who passed away due to the virus,” said Mohammad Naeem, an exhibitor.
Along with industrial products, there were handicrafts, medicinal plants, fresh and dried products from various provinces displayed in the exhibition.
“We have brought a variety of medicinal plants from 28 districts of Badakhshan to this exhibition,” stated Zamir, a participant.
“We have brought five types of apples from Kalafgan district of Takhar. All of them are 100% organic and natural, with no chemicals used in their production process,” said Shikhullah Alyar, a participant.
“This exhibition has been organized with the name of our homeland, and we have introduced domestic products in all booths,” said Sayam Pasarlai, the expo organizer.


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Disney Plus Star Wars series The Mandalorian has Baby Yoda merch coming
This article, Disney Plus Star Wars series The Mandalorian has Baby Yoda merch coming, originally appeared on CNET.com.
Disney will soon be launching merchandise based on the Baby Yoda character from Disney Plus series , a source close to the matter has confirmed to CNET. While , as well as : and the , the baby green alien -- also known as "the child" -- was kept under wraps until the launch of the new series on the streaming platform.
Baby Yoda apparel and accessories will be available in the coming days online through Amazon, Target, Macy's, Kohl's, Hot Topic, Box Lunch and Zazzle, as reported earlier Thursday by CNBC, and Amazon's Baby Yoda T-shirts are already out now. (Note that there were previously Amazon links to some merchandise, but these are no longer working. Included below is a look at one of the shirts obtained by CNET.)
Apparel will be available before the holidays from ShopDisney, the Disney Store, Disney parks and in retail stores.
Preorders for Baby Yoda toys and a plush will begin in the coming weeks, with no details on where they'll be sold as yet.
More toys, plush, specialty apparel and other merchandise will also become available in the coming months.
Dave Filoni, executive producer of The Mandalorian, told CNET sister site Entertainment Tonight that one of the reasons he got interested in the story was "the subject of this child."
"Knowing George [Lucas] andto him, I wanted to make sure that I could help shepherd this idea," Filoni said. "We still want to keep a lot of things a mystery, we don't want to go around answering things and making them less special, but let's tell a story that's interesting and compelling and add to this great galaxy."
Disney didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Hasbro declined to comment.
The new Disney Plus streaming service is priced at $7 a month and launched Nov. 12 in the US, Canada and the Netherlands, and in Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday. It'll arrive in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain on March 31. It offers a wide range of old and new Disney, Fox, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic content. Within a day, it already had more than 10 million subscribers.
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Update, Nov. 22, 10:47 a.m. PT: Adds T-shirt image, note about Amazon links.


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A pair of newlyweds took to the ice for a wedding to remember.
Barry and Michelle Waines, from Easterside, slipped on their skates for a romantic twirl around Christmas Ice Magic, Middlesbrough's outdoor ice rink at Victoria Square.
The happy couple, who tied the knot at Middlesbrough Registry Office on Saturday, were still clad in their wedding finery - a silk wedding gown for Michelle and a suit for Barry - when they took to the ice.
Staff at the rink presented the pair with a bottle of bubbly to celebrate their union.
Barry, 31, said: "I proposed to Michelle on Christmas Day last year - this was the closest we could get to a Christmas wedding.
"We just thought let's go for it, it's something different."
Michelle, 29, was once a keen ice skater but the last time the couple took to the ice together was at the rink at Victoria Gardens to celebrate the Millennium.
Ice rink staff worked for two hours to clear four inches of snow from the ice rink in time for the couple's arrival.
Michelle, who works as a clerk typist, said: "It wasn't as cold as I thought it would be, and this is something we will always remember."


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…Exports 1million tons of seafood in 2019
By Godwin Oritse
This year marks 50 years since the first successful salmon farm in Norway a development that has placed Norway as one of the biggest producers of world’s most popular fish.
Salmon fish can be Grilled, smoked, fried, sushi, burgers, in woks, wraps, pokebowls and tacos, the options are limitless when it comes to the dishes prepared with salmon fish.
Salmon’s great versatility, taste and high nutrient content are important reasons for the pink fish’s rise to fame and increasing popularity worldwide.
The world’s insatiable love for salmon has made it the world’s most popular fish, according to a large international survey from the Norwegian Seafood Council.
The survey is the world’s largest consumer survey on seafood, and in this year’s study showed
that over 25,000 people from 20 markets have participated.
The annual Seafood Consumer Insight study is an international study and has been performed by the Norwegian Seafood Council in their most important markets for more than a decade.
In statement by Tom JørgenGangsø, Director of market insight at the Norwegian Seafood Council said that the purpose of the study is to gain insight into consumer trends, preferences, and attitudes to seafood in the most important markets for Norwegian seafood.
JørgenGangsø also said that the study provides Norwegian exporters and seafood producers invaluable insight into the markets they operate, what drivers and barriers for consumption are present, why some prefer certain seafoods to others, and how these change over time.
In this year’s study also showed that people salmon fish and other seafood at weekdays, weekends and in restaurants.
In addition, salmon is number one for all meals in seven out of 20 markets. In 13 markets, salmon is the number one choice in at least one of the meal categories.
Furthermore, the survey noted that 44 percent prefer the Norwegian origin to other countries.
“We see this also in other in-depth studies from several markets, Norwegian salmon is nearly always up there when it comes to preference. Looking across all the markets, Norwegian salmon is the world’s most preferred fish,” JørgenGangsø said
Norway has exported seafood for more than 1,000 years, but salmon exports are relatively new. 2020 marks the 50th anniversary for salmon aquaculture. The world’s first successfully farmed salmon was set out into a pen in a Norwegian fjord outside Trondheim in 1970, by brothers Ove and SivertGrøntvedt. But it would take many years before salmon become a food staple and favourite on dinner tables worldwide.
It wasn’t really until the late 80s, when the Japanese opened their eyes to eating raw Norwegian salmon that the Norwegian salmon fairytale really gained speed.
Today, Norway stands for more than half of the global market for Atlantic salmon, according to the FAO. Norway exports salmon to more than 100 countries across the world, more than 1 million tonnes in 2019, which represents 14 million meals of Norwegian salmon eaten every single day.
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We are all adapting our lifestyles and daily routines out of an abundance of caution.
But every day those changes have become more and more a matter of necessity and less so just cautionary.
Many were skeptical of what they considered an overreaction to a handful of cases of the coronavirus, dismissing the tide that was spreading elsewhere in the world. After all, measures including shutting down businesses, restricting travel and initiating the concept of six-foot social distancing wasn’t the protocol enacted during an array of previous health scourges including swine flu, ebola, zika and salmonella to name a few. How bad can this one be?
However, except for the most stubborn skeptics who may hold onto the misguided thinking that this is some sort of hoax, political plot or attack on our nation, the general citizenry has come to understand the seriousness of this pandemic and is doing whatever they can to ease the situation.
As a Saturday night, New Jersey is pretty much in a state of lockdown. Non-essential businesses were ordered to close as of 9 p.m. This sweeping “tightening of the screws” by Gov. Phil Murphy follows previous moves that closed in-restaurant dining and personal care businesses. Workers who could work from their homes were told by their employers to do so.
Within a week, the allowed gatherings quickly shrunk from no more than 250, to 50, to 10, to pretty much stay home with your family and only your family.
All of these measures are intended to “flatten the curve” of the growing number of persons contracting COVD-19, the disease resulting from the novel coronavirus.
Other phrases that have become commonplace in this period include, of course, social distancing, remote learning as schools are closed, remote working as businesses are closed and elbow bump and namiste as alternatives to personal greetings. No doubt other vernacular will come into vogue as the pandemic continues.
Murphy, in his executive orders delivered on Saturday said, “While it’s no time to panic, it’s also no time for business as usual.
“It is time to be smart, proactive, transparent, progressive.”
He added, “We need you to just stay at home. We have to change our behaviors.”
As could be predicted, local citizens and businesses swiftly reacted positively to the new normal. Restaurants reorganized their business to focus on carry-out and delivery only, grocery stores ramped up their operations to meet the accelerated demand and assure supplies are available to all, non-essential businesses altered their practices to deter spreading the virus through contact until they were eventually ordered to close, schools put into place methods to distribute free lunches to students no longer in classrooms, and neighbors are checking up on neighbors, albeit from a distance.
These challenging times are being met head-on by first responders and medical personnel who are literally putting their lives on the line confronting this new disease. Often taken for granted, these persons have earned and deserve our respect.
So, too, do educators who have faced the disruption and are providing virtual classroom experiences to help students keep up with their studies and learning.
We all need to do what we can to support each other.
Those in charge of assessing the situation are warning that this will not be over for quite some time, but are also confident it will ultimately come under control.
Beyond practicing social distancing, the best thing all of us can do to help, is also the simplest.
Even as you are chafing from all the restrictions forcing unwelcome shifts in how we live our lives, wash your hands ... out of necessity, not an abundance of caution.


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Apple CEO attempted to catch the excitement of the weekend’s Super Bowl 50 with a terribly blurry photo, but instead garnered online ridicule for his lame photography skills.
Though Cook didn’t say what he took the snap with, it is widely assumed that it was captured with an Apple iPhone.
The blurry photo shows the aftermath of the biggest event in the U.S. sporting calendar, where the Carolina Panthers took on the Denver Broncos at Levi’s Stadium in California on Sunday night, with confetti is shown raining down on the field.
Naturally, the dreadful quality of the image made Cook something of an easy target, with many Twitter users mocking up new versions of Apple’s ‘Shot on iPhone’ promotions posters.
Cook later posted a far better snap to congratulate the Denver Broncos and their veteran quarterback Peyton Manning on their win, but it was too late to avoid being widely mocked for his earlier attempt.
Cook’s later effort was a vast improvement (Tim Cook/Twitter)
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Anders Fauerskov, CEO of TC Group
TC Group, the international collection of sound and audio technology brands, has quietly gone up for sale. Speaking in response to various reports surfacing around the internet, CEO Anders Fauerskov confirmed to Pro Sound News Europe, “It is correct that we have put all of the shares of TC Group up for sale.”
Danish financial newspaper Børsen estimates TC Group in total could command a price as high as 1 billion Krone, or roughly $171 million US. The company, headquartered in Risskov, Denmark, owns a variety of brands around the world, including Tannoy, TC Electronic, TC Helicon, Lab.gruppen, Lake, TC Applied Technologies and White Acoustics.
Fauerskov said that much of the impetus for the sale came from a desire to expand the company’s reach, referring to “…a recent analysis we did, showing that we can grow the company even faster and to an even stronger position, with a different, and financially stronger, ownership.” Those findings dovetailed with some financial intents as well, as he noted “some shareholders have declared their interest in selling.”
The announcement that TC Group is for sale casts a different light on the company’s recent history, most notably a major restructuring in 2010 and a new collective branding initiative in 2013. While the various TC Group companies had been linked by the same parent organization for years, the 2010 restructuring specifically created the umbrella parent company TC Group International, initiating a new sales and support structure based on vertical markets across all TCGI-owned brands that used the creation of TC Group Americas in 2009 as a business model. More recently, the 2013 branding effort aimed to bring the various companies under a new and more visible TC Group brand identity, aligning the varied companies together and enabling more synergies between them.
Fauerskov indicated that the move to put TC Group on the market was not a casual decision or a “toe in the water” exercise. “…We do not intend this process to go on for a prolonged time period,” he said, adding, “The process is being handled by an M&A firm we have retained, and we expect that a sale will complete some time in the spring.”


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Aussie country kids worried about getting enough food to eat
A new study has found one in five children living in regional or remote Western Australia are worried about getting enough food to eat.
Researchers surveyed more than 200 children in regional and remote WA to find 21.2 per cent are worried that food will run out before their family will receive money to purchase more.
Almost one in ten said they have eaten less because their family did not have enough money to buy food. Approximately 14 per cent said their meals only contained cheap low quality food.
Lead researcher, Dr Stephanie Godrich, said the research was the first in Australia to measure food insecurity as reported by children.
“Previous Australian studies looking at food insecurity have surveyed parents or caregivers rather than their children,” Dr Godrich said.
“Caregivers have reported feeling ashamed of their inability to feed their family which may have resulted in an underreporting of food insecurity in previous studies.
“By gathering this data directly from children we have been able to create a clearer picture of the problem of food insecurity in regional and remote WA.”
Researchers said they came across some unexpected findings, discovering children living in medium socioeconomic situations were more likely to have a lack of access to food than those in low socioeconomic situations.
“This suggests that some of the families in these medium SES areas may not be eligible for the types of financial assistance or may believe that they do not need it,” Dr Godrich said.
“What this tells us is that this is a systemic problem in regional and remote WA and we need government action to address it.”
Action urgently needed
Dr Godrich said action is urgently needed to address lack of access to food in childhood as it could result in poor health outcomes later in life.
“Ensuring an adequate social safety net is important. Additionally, creating local employment opportunities in regional and remote areas can increase the financial security for families,” Dr Godrich said.
“Local Governments across WA will be developing new Public Health Plans. We would like to see strategies included to improve access to affordable, nutritious food options for all families.
“Finally, we need ongoing, accurate measurement of the issue in Australia that also investigates the impact of food insecurity on health outcomes.”
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Lindsay Lohan and her fashion-line partner are hoping to create unforgettable TV and movie content with a new production company. Lohan and Kristi Kaylor, who runs Lohan's 6126 brand, named for Marilyn Monroe's birthday, have created Unforgettable Prods.
The duo are developing several projects, including a TV show called "Faux Real," described as "Entourage" for the fashion world.
There's also a game show involving dating, tentatively called "That's What Friends Are For" and a "docu-cause" TV show the pair will produce in conjunction with a charitable organisation.
Kaylor said they're also in the midst of optioning a couple of books -- one for film and the other for TV.
Before her career in fashion, Kaylor was senior vice president of Pacific Motion Pictures and had a producing deal with Longbow Prods. In 1999, she partnered with Jennifer Aniston for Voxxy, an online destination for girls that eventually was turned into a magazine catalogue and sold.
Lohan and Kaylor intend to weave digital media into everything they create at Unforgettable.
"We're taking a 360-degree approach," Kaylor said. "Lindsay is 23 years old, and she's so plugged in to mobile media."


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Latitudes & Attitudes, the popular magazine that celebrated the sailing lifestyle, recently ceased publishing.
The magazine launched by Bob Bitchin — whose birth name is Robert Lipkin — and his wife, Jody, in 1996 was sold to Sextant Publishing Inc., run by CEO Dennis “DJ” Doran, in January, according to an email Bitchin sent to Soundings Trade Only.
Most of the crew at Latitudes & Attitudes are prohibited from talking about specifics of the situation because of legal issues and non-compete clauses.
Capt. Woody Henderson, who was on the original staff of Latitudes & Attitudes, wrote June 20 in his Capt. Woody’s Blog: “Today, we find ourselves locked out of the office.”
Attempts to contact Sextant Publishing and Doran were unsuccessful. Sextant Publishing’s Web pages and bios have been taken down.
Despite the situation, Bitchin plans to launch a new publication.
“The original staff of Latitudes & Attitudes, including Capt. Woody Henderson, Tania Aebi, Sue Morgan, Zuzana Prochazka and I - as a columnist due to legal crap - have formed a new company, The Bitchin Group, and will be launching a new entity, a combination Web-based magazine, print magazine and interactive mobile app for cruisers, within a month,” Bitchin said.
— Reagan Haynes


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In a financial statement issued today, Namco confirmed its development plans for the Nintendo GameCube system. Specifically, the report mentions that Namco will be porting over games from the PS2 to the GameCube. The number of such games has not been revealed, but in stating that plans for support do not fall within this business term (which ends in March of 2002), Namco has suggested that we'll have to wait quite a bit for the games. Let's hope they don't just give us barebones ports of Ridge Racer and Tekken Tag.
Namco made additional reference to the GameCube when discussing its Online plans. The company has started work on six Online titles, and according to an internal managing director, it's possible for these games to be released on the PS2, Xbox and GCN. However, a release will not happen any time soon, as Namco does not believe that a suitable infrastructure is in place for the games.
We'll have more on Namco's GCN plans in the near future.
-- Anoop Gantayat, Contributor


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The 2020 Cadillac CT5 is an all-recent sedan that’s space to get better with age, says chief engineer Brandon Vivian, with upgrades to its Spacious Cruise semi-independent driver attend.
The 2021 Cadillac Escalade shall be equipped with the latest version of the automaker’s Spacious Cruise semi-independent driver attend, the automaker has confirmed. This frequently is the emblem’s first SUV with the blueprint, which is able to also be accessible on the upcoming CT4 and CT5 sedans.
Spacious Cruise launched in 2017 in the CT6 sedan with the flexibility to drive the vehicle inside a lane on determined divided highways, allowing a driver to let trudge of the guidance wheel and rob their feet off the pedals. It uses a facial recognition camera that could well presumably negate if a driver is taking a see forward with their eyes launch, and can also honest now not work if they’re now not.
With the recent items, Cadillac is in conjunction with an automated lane-changing functionality activated by participating the flip ticket that could well presumably merge the autos into coming attain visitors and plans to present further updates in the prolonged bustle.
Up to now, about 10,000 CT6 sedans had been sold with Spacious Cruise and Cadillac says they’ve been pushed 5.2 million times with the characteristic engaged. That figure compares to the a few billion miles Tesla dwelling owners have lined the utilization of the Autopilot blueprint in their autos, which provides more efficiency than Spacious Cruise, however currently requires the driver to help a hand on the wheel to disguise that they’re attentive.
The all-recent Escalade shall be printed at an occasion in Los Angeles on February 4 accompanied by a snappy promotional movie directed by Spike Lee. Alongside with Spacious Cruise, the SUV has an exchange-first 38-move-huge OLED dashboard disguise.


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It’s the numbers that make the 2010 edition of SmartCompany’s Hot 30 Under 30 so impressive. The businesses run by this group of rising entrepreneurs aged 30 years and under have more than $100 million in combined revenue.
They employ well over 600 people.
On average, their start up costs were under $100,000 and in most cases their companies have been in operation for less than five years.
And after breezing through the GFC, this group of young guns is looking to really ramp up their growth as the economy heads back towards top speed.
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There were two main criteria for this year’s list – entrepreneurs had to be 30 years or under and their business had to have at least $1 million in annual sales.
So how are they doing it? Here are 10 strategy secrets from the Hot 30:
Live to serve
As in the wider Australian economy, the clear trend from the list is the shift towards services – 18 of the 30 businesses on the list are service companies riding the outsourcing trend, typically in a very specific niche.
Leverage your tech edge
What sets these younger entrepreneurs apart is their ability to use technology in different ways to give themselves an edge.
At Skye Recruitment, Kye McDonald has two full-time software developers working on his IT and telecom systems to get an advantage. At luxury furniture retailer Firdarsi, Neil Singh and Candida Stephens have used technology to eliminate costs such as showrooms and warehouses and deliver better prices to customers. At 199BUDDY, Rupert Imhoff’s SMS services business relies on a global network of staff, all connected online around the clock.
Your idea doesn’t need to be revolutionary
Many entrepreneurs think they need a completely original idea or a brilliant new product to succeed. Not true – simply delivering a better product or service than currently exists is enough to build a strong business.
Michelle Hampton and Susan Wood started their PR firm with the idea that their bigger rivals were overpriced and delivering poor service. Now they work with international brand names such as Colgate, Red Bull and Quiksilver.
Look overseas for great ideas
Rupert Imhoff’s 199Buddy was based on an idea he saw overseas, as was David Hancock’s IT services business Geeks2U. Getting ahead of the local market by looking overseas is not a guarantee of success, but it can provide a strong building block.
The younger you are, the less you’ve got to lose
Starting a business when you are young can be tough, particularly when you’re trying to scrape together start up funds. But a number of entrepreneurs on the Hot 30 say this is also an advantage – the less you’ve got, the less you’ve got to lose.
“I wanted to determine whether I could start and run a successful company,” says Brendan Green of Western Australian occupational hygiene business Green Consulting Group. “The risk of failure was minimal as I would not be affected financially or from a personal perspective long-term.”
Get advice – and plenty of it
Whether it is a mentor, a board or directors, an accountant, a legal adviser or an industry expert, soaking up as much advice as possible is crucial to success.
Entrepreneurs of all ages will tell you that good staff are one of the most important ingredients for success. For young and less experienced business owners, this is especially true.
“Focus on making sure that you are working with like-minded, ambitious people,” IF Telecom co-founder Andrew Branson says. “The people in the business are by far the most important factor.”
Fight to persuade suppliers to work with you
One of the biggest challenges the Hot 30 talk about is convincing suppliers – be it suppliers of products or, more commonly, suppliers of funds such as banks and financiers – that young entrepreneurs should be taken seriously. The experience of the Hot 30 shows that it doesn’t get any easier, although success has a funny way of opening doors.
The explosive growth of a young business can be difficult for an entrepreneur to manage and the implementation of strong financial, HR and administrative systems is crucial to coping with grow.
“Systems are critical for continuity and training of staff,” says Brendan Green. “Have business processes on paper and continually review how well it all works.”
Listen to the market
Perhaps it’s their ability to tap into social networks or maybe it’s just because they have grown up as big consumers of information. Whatever the case, the Hot 30 concentrate heavily on listening to customers and gathering market intelligence.
“The market will tell you what you should do, just make sure you’re listening,” says Hard Hat’s Daniel Monheit. “If you’re young and just getting started it’s okay to not have 100% clarity on what or where you should be. As long as you’re out there meeting the right people and not sitting behind a desk, opportunities will present themselves.”


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ZEE5 India appoints Taranjeet Singh as CRO and Business Head - New Projects
Singh had quit social media platform Twitter last month where he served as the Country Director. At Zee5, he will report to CEO Tarun Katial.
Twitter's Taranjeet Singh joins ZEE5 India, the streaming service of ZEEL as their new Chief Revenue Officer and Business Head – New Projects.
On the new appointment Tarun Katial, CEO, Zee5, said, “The consumption patterns of the Indian audience are rapidly evolving. Taranjeet’s extensive experience in the media sector across print, television and digital will hold us in good stead in the times to come. His robust track record and insights will go a long way in advancing ZEE5 India’s focus to achieve new milestones.”
Singh shares, “Engaging with the content consumer has been an exciting journey for me. The OTT space is definitely booming and working with a brand like ZEE5 from the ZEE Group, a media powerhouse, is indeed an honor. Within months of launch, the brand is already number two in the OTT space and I am looking forward to joining the team to take it to newer heights.”
Prior to this, Singh was with Twitter where he joined as Business Head and was responsible for boosting Twitter's presence in India. He was leading the charge for sales and marketing support for Twitter's advertisers. In 2017 he was elevated to the position of Country Director for Twitter India.
ZEE5 recorded a growth of 190 per cent compared to April ’18 with 41.3 mn monthly active users (MAU) as revealed by the company during their quarter results of Q2FY19.
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10/1/2013 - J.D. Power: Picture quality most influential factor in HDTV purchase
Of all the features of high definition televisions consumers take into consideration before purchasing one, the quality and clarity of the picture is what they find to be the most crucial, a new survey suggests.
In its High Definition Satisfaction Report, global marketing information company J.D. Power and Associates reports that for customers who purchased an HDTV that was larger than 50 inches, more than two-thirds of respondents said that the sharpness of the picture presented on the screen was the main reason for their purchase.
However, for those who bought an HDTV that was smaller than 50 inches, price appeared to be what swayed them to do so.
"Customers purchasing a smaller HDTV tend to be more price conscious than those purchasing a larger HDTV," said Christina Cooley, director of the services industries sector at J.D Power. "Yet, we find that customers who buy larger HDTVs are more likely to research brands and features before making their purchase."
She added that while consumers do a lot of their homework regarding HDTVs online, or by asking friends about specific brands, it's ultimately not until they actually get into the store and see the televisions for themselves that they decide the best brand and style to buy.
Though HDTVs are much less expensive than they were when first available for purchase, they can still run several thousands of dollars, depending on the brand and the type of screen used. Renters insurance can provide tenants coverage for their belongings in the event their television is stolen or damaged after a weather-related event.


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Here at CES 2012 we had a moment to sit in and listed to the official Audi conference where they discussed the future of consumer electronics in automobiles. Audi was originally the first auto maker to hold a news conference at CES and they’ve continued strong here since. Today they discussed the future of Audi, and the integration of the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor.
Audi talked about an upgrade to the A3 that will be their rotary touchpad which allows gestures and touch-sensitivity good enough to write letters which are then recognized by the integrated NVIDIA-powered on-board computer. Gestures can be used to make calls, find contacts, and more. In the future, Audi notes that they’ll have head-up technology which allows for projected images above your dashboard for navigation and for passengers to enjoy the power of entertainment.
Mobile Computing is at the center of this whole project. NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang showed up to show off their Tegra 3 quad-core processor working hand in hand with Audi’s MMX port system — all at the same time consumer electronics have the chip.
“We don’t talk about autonomous driving, we talk about pilot driving.” – Ricky Hudi, Audi
“You needed a state of the art processor that was [up to the task] but had extremely low power requirements for its high powered graphics.” – Jen-Hsun Huang
While this is clearly just the beginning Audi has developed a relationship with NVIDIA and have even more planned for the future with auto pilot driving and more, all controlled and delivered by the power of the Tegra 3. This isn’t the first time or situation where Audi’s been seen as a forward-thinking group in the world of consumer electronics without a doubt — and it wont be the last.