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Powering the trend are Britain’s art schools. “Our art and design education leads the world,” says Isobel Dennis, in her twelfth year as director of New Designers, the annual showcase for new graduates at Islington Business Design Centre. This year’s event brought 3,000 designers to London in the summer from colleges all over the country.
“Most importantly, young grads these days are commercially aware and have business plans.” Crucially, Dennis has secured an ever-expanding list of business sponsors for her show — this year’s included Sanderson, John Lewis, Wilco and Hallmark. These firms offer awards, cherry-pick the talent, and put it to immediate use.
John Lewis, for example, gave new grad Oliver Hubriak its award in 2012, and then speedily produced his much-acclaimed Finn chair, which won a prestigious furniture Design Guild Mark this year. Aged just 25, Hubriak will have more new furniture in John Lewis by Christmas.
Habitat also loves young designers, says Polly Dickens, the store’s creative director. “Our youngsters combine technology and creativity,” she says. “Their products are daring and push the boundaries of interior design.” East London’s Martha Coates, 24, joined the company straight from Manchester School of Art, and already has a rug named after her. “Martha has reinvigorated Habitat textiles,” says Dickens.
Heal’s, with its smartly revamped Tottenham Court Road shop, has talent-spotted its own new product designers for 10 years. But its “Heal’s Discovers” collective seems younger than ever this year.
Newbie Sam Lloyd is only 22, and developed his “sand-cast stools” with their distinctive aluminium tops while still at Kingston Uni, boning up on metal techniques in a foundry in east London. His aim was a ready-to-go product, for which he had even done the costings. Now the stool tops and footrests are cast in Belvedere, oak legs are turned in Whitstable, and the finished furniture is available in Tottenham Court Road.
Woolwich “woodsman” Sebastian Cox, 28, is building a career on coppiced timber, creating furniture and accessories for Heal’s and Benchmark. Particularly poetic is a tall chest for Heal’s, with a different British hardwood for each of the five drawers.
Others have become excellent entrepreneurs with burgeoning business skills. Richard Brendon, 27, who graduated from Kingston University in 2010, dreamed up his unique product, Reflect, in 2011. It’s an elegant bone china cup with a shiny gold or platinum finish that reflects a decorative “orphaned” antique saucer, thus creating a beautiful new/old pair.
In his first year Brendon sold 150 pairs. Now he is selling hundreds a month, to prestige stores such as Fortnum & Mason, Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, Le Bon Marché in Paris and Bergdorf Goodman in New York. He is developing other ranges and is determined to maintain manufacture in Stoke. “I want British industry to thrive again, and design can help,” he says.
Talented young pattern-makers include Kit Miles, with his own London studio, and Nancy Straughan, who has created wallpapers for Graham & Brown. She hosts workshops to share her skills, and her Christmas decorations workshop will be on November 23 at Smug in Islington. Visit www.ifeelsmug.com (020 7354 0253).
Leader of the pack is Benjamin Hubert, 30. In 2009, he packed a stand, won through an award, in the “futures” section of the 100% Design festival at Earls Court with eight ranges of furniture and lighting for seven UK and continental manufacturers — astounding for one so young.
Now Hubert works for major global brands, has moved into a new north London studio and employs 10 people. And his super thin, ultra-light table was chosen for the annual Designs of the Year show at the Design Museum this year.


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When Cristina Mata makes a presentation on diabetes and osteoporosis, people listen. It's not just the slide images that capture attention. It's her own image, too.
The Fort Lauderdale physician sought an image consultant when she realized her out-of-date fashion style was bogging down her speeches. She wanted to look professional, but interesting, as well.
"I would be wearing the same type of boring thing," says Mata. But that changed when she hired Coral Springs consultant Clare Spiegel, who sifted through Mata's closet salvaging the good, stashing the hopeless, and hunting the mall for missing items that would complete the doctor's new wardrobe.
"I wanted a little edge," says Mata, who just purchased a pair of fuchsia sandals after years of wearing only black, white and navy. She's gone from "lumpy and frumpy" to fitted with a flair.
Image consultants are answering the calls of a growing number of businessmen and businesswomen, like Mata, who are seeking to bring their physical images up to par with their professional ones.
Businesspeople are turning to image consultants to clarify what's in and what's out in the ever-evolving workplace runway where fashion freedom can lead to frenzy. Men who have never matched khakis with dress shoes are seeking help. Women torn between floral print and straight skirts want guidance.
"People are realizing that first impressions still make a difference even if we've become a more casual world," said Elaine Stoltz, Fort Worth, Texas-based image consultant and international president of the Association of Image Consultants International. Stoltz estimates that there are about 20,000 image consultants in the United States, with membership in the association growing by 100 members a year. Florida has 22 members, according to Fort Lauderdale image consultant Gina McGee, who is establishing a state chapter of the international association.
Companies nationwide hire Coral Springs consultant Spiegel to put on fashion shows using their employees to demonstrate what's acceptable in the workplace. Consultants give a host of advice to clueless clients. Dress up casual outfits by adding jackets. Avoid flashy colors that draw attention away from the person wearing them. Sleeve lengths too long or too short are tacky.
What a woman wears can affect her status in the workplace, says Washington, D.C.-based image consultant Angie Michael, co-author of the 1999 book Business Casual Made Easy.
She tells women to avoid tight and revealing garments. Even sleeveless shirts aren't appropriate in many workplaces. "I still don't recommend it for one simple reason: The more skin you show, the less power you have," Michael says.
Image counseling is becoming more popular as the workplace becomes more competitive, consultants say. And in today's fast-paced, computerized world, people have fewer opportunities for interpersonal interaction, experts say, so people need to maximize the opportunities they have.
"We don't have time to build relationships," Stoltz said. "Therefore, we make our opinions based on who we see on the outside."
Younger businesspeople seek consulting because they were never taught how to dress or how to handle themselves in social situations, consultants say.
"They're getting out of college very well educated, but don't know the culture and society that a lot of companies expect," Stoltz says.
Most of the businesspeople turning to consultants are women. But more and more men are following suit, Stoltz says. Five percent of her 500 clients are men.
"Eleven years ago, I don't think I had one," she said. "Really, just in the last year, men are going into stores and seeing all these colored shirts and all these ties and they're getting scared. They say, `I thought I could do it, but there's just too many choices now.'"
Simple things such as choosing shoes can be hard for men, while women fret about makeup, say the image engineers. And many Americans are simply clueless when it comes to dining etiquette. Table settings baffle some. "It's the biggest chess game in the world, making sure you don't take someone else's plate," says Solomon. Many can't tell a salad fork from a dinner fork. And others fail to avoid foods that "slip, flip, drip or squirt," she says.
Image isn't just a tool to impress the boss. Consultants say customers care what business representatives look like.
"Customers want to see a smile and they want to see a professional person. Professional in their minds is all about dress and grooming," Solomon said.
Miami business owner Marsha Sims said image consulting has helped her make better first impressions with clients.
"Before, I did such a good job and that's how I stayed in business. But I hoped they never noticed what I wore," said Sims, 47, who runs a professional organizing service called Sort-It-Out Inc. "Certainly what you wear isn't going to make you do your job better, but it's going to make people perceive you as more professional."
The price for consulting is still steep for the average businessperson. Some charge $100 an hour, others $1,000 a day.
But as more consultants crop up, experts predict the cost for services will go down. More people will have access to image education, adding the third dimension to corporate ladder climbing.
Lisa Falkenberg can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or 954-356-4208.

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Facebook looks to expand web presence with 'like' button(Read article summary)
Facebook is reportedly close to introducing a 'like' button, which would let users flag third-party content. That would put Facebook head-to-head with popular sites such as Digg.
That's the report today from the New York Times, which says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could make an official announcement as soon as Wednesday. If the news is accurate, it would represent a new phase for Facebook, which has sought in recent months to move from social networking site to major Internet hub.
Already, users on the site can "share" content, by cutting and pasting a link or video or photograph onto their profile page. That content is then visible to all the user's friends. What Facebook now has in mind appears to be closer to the Digg model: a user would be able to give a virtual thumbs up to a news item, a music review, or blog – or any other kind of third-party content – without actually logging onto the official Facebook site.


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Entertainment 5.0: Montreal’s Zú harnesses 5G to push boundaries of innovation
(Above) Guillaume Thérien, general manager of Zú: The cutting-edge tech centre in downtown Montreal seeks to harness Quebec’s creative genius and transform the city into a global entrepreneurial powerhouse. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY Zú
Nestled among seven historic buildings in Montreal’s city centre is a high-tech laboratory that’s teeming with ideas and futuristic projects from young entrepreneurs determined to revolutionize the entertainment industry through 5G.
Zú is the brainchild of Montreal mogul, Guy Laliberté, whose business success includes co-founding the groundbreaking global sensation, Cirque du Soleil and more recently, founding Lune Rouge. Laliberté’s newest project, in partnership with TELUS, is intended to give business-minded creators the space, mentorship, and funding access they need to take creative startups to the next level
and push the limits of creativity.
The vision is working: In less than a year, Zú has become one of the world’s largest collaborative 5G spaces dedicated to innovation in support of creative industries -- from gaming and animation to reality-bending augmented and virtual experiences, and beyond. Already it is home to more than a hundred artists, engineers and dreamers, all of whom are busy developing tomorrow’s digital trends -- immersive 360-degree virtual performances, gaming that plunges players right into the action, and motion-control wearables that allow users to see, hear, and even feel their way in a virtual world.
“We want to transform creative genius into entrepreneurial power.”
The 5G TELUS Lab is a big part of the excitement around Zú. With a virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (XR) studio to produce immersive content, as well as editing rooms and multifunctional workstations equipped with software and tools to create 3D animation, modelling, simulation, design, architecture, and engineering projects, the lab encourages exploration of TELUS’ newly launched 5G network and the vast creative possibilities it unleashes.
A Zú resident tests out specially-made immersive goggles that bring to life an alternate reality at the TELUS 5G Lab. The bracelets allow users to track movement both virtually and in real time. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY Zú.
Having already invested nearly $200 billion to enhance the coverage, speed, and reliability of its world-leading networks across Canada, TELUS has committed an additional $40 billion over the next three years to support the roll out of 5G nationally. With peak speeds reaching up to 1.7 Gbps, increased reliability and near-zero lag time, the next-generation 5G network brings Canadians into a new age of connectedness, and sets the foundation for transformative innovation such as Smart Cities, autonomous vehicles, virtual healthcare, immersive education, agriculture technology, and next-level entertainment.
The lab has already attracted a number of out-of-the-box startups that share an enthusiasm for pushing what’s possible. Madefire is among the startups that recently made the move to Quebec from California’s Silicon Valley. Ready access to a powerful 5G network was a big reason behind the decision.
With a digital library of over 35,000 stories from big publishers like Marvel, DC, and Disney as well as a number of original authors, Madefire CEO and co-founder Ben Wolstenholme dreams of bringing comics and graphic novels into the 21st century. The company is developing a new kind of reader experience featuring augmented-reality animation that allows users anywhere in the world to collaboratively create their own fantasy worlds in stories and images.
“It’s a bold objective,” he says. But it requires the speed, data capacity, and reliability of 5G to handle the image quality and scope of the experiences.
“What we’re mainly excited about is the opportunity to work on the resolution of our images, texts and animations to provide greater immersion when moving into space (VR/AR/MR) and shared narrative experiences.”
Quebec-based startup UNLTD was recently commissioned to create a virtual-reality experience inviting viewers to immerse themselves in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s iconic Bed-In for Peace
Zú’s tech offerings and mentorship support are also proving irresistible to Canadian innovators.
UNLTD, for instance, uses mixed reality (XR) to create interactive marketing and educational content that blends real and virtual worlds. Using high-quality graphics, possible with 5G, the resulting experience enables users to exist in a digital environment where physical and digital objects interact in real time.
Among those experimenting with the more off-the-wall ideas, OVA is working on StellarX, an immersive content creation tool that harnesses VR and AR to give users the power to create their own collaborative immersive experiences.
For Harold Dumur, founder and CEO of OVA, privileged access to the TELUS 5G network through Zú is a significant benefit to his business concept. In particular, it allows for the development of a program that’s adapted to a rapidly approaching new reality in which ultra-fast data transfer speeds will be a crucial factor in widespread adoption of augmented and virtual reality.
“It’s the manifestation of a dream in a physical space, where all of these cutting-edge technologies converge: augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence,” he says. “None of this would be possible without 5G.”
It’s this kind of positive feedback that let’s the team behind Zú know they are on the right track.
And Zú is just getting started.
“The talent in Quebec is off the charts. This space gives us a leg up for developing and commercializing ideas,” says Therien. “If you want to be the first to do something, you need to collaborate. We’d love to see the next Netflix or Twitch emerge from here.”


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FM calls "historic" launch Sunday in Niamey of African Continental Free Trade Area
The FM was tasked by President Béji Caïd Essebsi with leading the Tunisian delegation to works of the 12th Extraordinary African Union Summit on AfCFTA.
This is a move towards achieving "peace ansd prosperity in Africa," the minister said. Tunisia is intent on underpinning continental efforts to implement the free trade zone designed to increase trade and draw investments.
The Tunis-based African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) will undoubtedly play a key role in developing the free trade area.
Mr. Jhinaoui had a series of talks, on the fringes of the summit, with heads of African delegations and senior AU officials.
Tunisia, which signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement in March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, started the process of its ratification.
The coming into force of the agreement, Tunisia's membership of the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and its observer status with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will help strengthen the legal framework of its relations with African countries.
The African Continental Free Trade Area is a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people.
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COVID-19 Has Pork Industry in Dire Straits
Americans consume about 7.5 billion pounds of meat per month. That’s almost 23 pounds of pork, beef and poultry for each person. But National Pork Board CEO Bill Even says COVID-19 is having ramifications on getting that protein through the supply chain.
“We’ve got about one-third of U.S. monthly meat demand sitting in cold storage inventory now able and ready to go into the retail supply chain. But, the fundamental problem we’re seeing with plant slowdowns and some temporary closures that we’ve seen in Iowa and South Dakota, is, on the pork side, that these plants are going to cause supply chain disruption. Our logistics chain has been screwed up now for a month, and these things are just going to continue to add to it.”
National Pork Producers Council president Howard “A.V.” Roth says the pork industry needs some help.
“COVID-19 has had a sudden and devastating impact on U.S. hog farmers. We are in crisis and need immediate government intervention to sustain a farm sector that’s essential to the nation’s food supply.”
As pork processing plants have slowed production or shut down entirely, hogs are backing up on farms across the country. Labor shortages on U.S. pork farms are only making the problem worse. Roth says things are getting so backed up that farmers may have to start euthanizing their hogs.
“Absent immediate and significant government intervention, sadly, it’s true that euthanizing is a question that’s going to come up on farms. As a pork producer, we care about our animals. The last thing we would ever want to do is euthanize one, and we are going to do everything in our power to make sure that we don’t do that, so that you can have pork on your plate tonight.”
Michael Formica is Assistant Vice President of Domestic Affairs and Counsel at NPPC. He says one thing that may help is the Environmental Protection Agency is temporarily allowing farmers to have more than the permitted number of animals on their farms.
“All of these farms are permitted for a certain number of animals. If they exceed certain thresholds, they’re required to go through new permitting. We reached out to EPA and requested a waiver of these thresholds during the time that we’re facing the emergency, and thankfully, EPA granted that a couple of weeks ago, so that is a tool that’s available.”
Roth says the NPPC has a list of things it needs from the government to bring some stability back to the industry.
“Over $1 billion in pork purchases by USDA to clear out a backed-up meat supply, supplementing food bank programs facing increased demand due to rising unemployment. These purchases should accommodate pork products packaged for restaurants and other segments of the foodservice market. Direct payments to producers without eligibility restrictions. We also hope to see China remove retaliatory tariffs on U.S. pork. Removal of punitive tariffs would get us back on a level playing field with international competitors.”
Pork Checkoff’s Even said every effort is being taken to address this current logistical issue.
“We’ve got the slack in the chain to handle this and consumers need to know that there’s no shortage of meat in the country and that food and meat is perfectly safe to consume and eat and handle. But, these ongoing issues with plant slowdowns are really going to start to compound the ripple effect here in the U.S. And, we’re working very closely with all of our producers and our producer board, talking with the packing industry, as well as many other folks, to make sure that we are offering solutions, the best we can, to these problems.”


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According to a Thomson Reuters Survey of 30 retailers, sales increased by 0.6% at stores that were open more than a year. It's the first monthly sales increase in more than a year and one marketing expert calls it a signaling that the bottom is near in terms of retail stagnation. Others say it's still does not mean consumers are ready to support a recovery to the economy.


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“Juice is such a life changer,” says holistic health counselor Susan Cabana.
A diet trend for some and a weight loss aid for others, juicing has become a passion and purpose for Cabana, who now builds her lifestyle and livelihood around it.
On June 9, the vivacious 45-year-old entrepreneur opened her shop, Nourish Your Soul, in West Medford, Mass. The business features fresh juices, smoothies and cleanses, and emerged in the wake of what Cabana refers to as “life challenges.”
In November 2004, her husband, Christopher, died unexpectedly at the age of 37. Cabana was suddenly a widow and single mother of three girls, then aged 5, 3 and 1. Less than five years later, in February 2009, she was laid off from her long-term financial job at Putnam Investments. “I was in a dark place for a while,” Cabana recalls. “It was like losing Chris all over again.”
She eventually began to make positive changes for herself and her family. Cabana, a longtime resident of Winchester, Mass., started to run more regularly, practice yoga daily and make healthier food choices. “I kind of woke up and decided to live,” she says. “Chris would want me to.”
While working in finance, convenience influenced many of her decisions. Relying on “whatever got me through the day” meals often consisted of quick, easy and processed foods. Those habits changed after she lost her job and examined her life more closely.
With the help of yoga, Cabana took more time for introspection. She eventually saw the layoff as an opportunity to take her life in a different direction. “I never thought it would happen, but it was truly a gift,” she says. “I’m not sure I would have been able to leave something so stable.”
Cabana enrolled in Natalia Rose’s Intensive Teacher Training program as well as the holistic Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. She also completed the Prana teacher-training program and became a certified yoga instructor.
Since going into business for herself, she has not looked back. As a holistic consultant, Cabana has attracted several clients, many of whom joined friends and family as juicing experimenters. “My clients often made excuses about why they wouldn’t juice,” Cabana says. “But they told me that if I made the juice, they would drink it.”
Less than four months old, Nourish Your Soul has already attracted regular customers and local press, including a nod from Stuff Magazine’s Top 100 list in July. Relying on word-of-mouth advertising thus far, Cabana has not promoted the business in more traditional ways. “There is no need to advertise just yet!” she says with a chuckle.
The next step for Nourish Your Soul is to add more edible treats to the liquid menu. Cabana also hopes to expand to more locations and add a delivery service in the near future. “I want to provide a healthy alternative to what is out there,” she says. “The standard American diet is lacking on so many levels.”
A believer in balance, Cabana says that deprivation is not sustainable. One to indulge on occasion—especially in dark chocolate—she views juicing as a lifestyle, not a diet. “Yoga is about combining the mind, body and soul,” says the holistic health consultant. “Juice does the same thing.”
Still juicing everyday, Cabana also recommends her favorite elixirs to loved ones. “My kids all love something different,” she says of her daughters, now 13, 11 and 9. Her 20-month-old son, George, from a recent relationship that was short-lived, regularly drinks a version of her green lemonade. “The sippy-cup age is a good time to start incorporating juice into the diet,” Cabana explains. “It isn’t too taxing because there is no fiber to digest.”
Her mother has also integrated fresh juice into her diet after battling two bouts of cancer. According to Cabana, the nutrients have helped boost her mother’s immune system. “Juicing has helped with the healing process,” she says. “And sharing it with others helps me heal, too.”
Nourish Your Soul’s juice and smoothie produce comes from Russo’s market in Watertown, Mass. Cabana opts for local and organic ingredients when she can, emphasizing the need for large quantities.
Focusing more on seasonal options, she introduced Watermelon Mint juice in the summer and plans to add a carrot and root vegetable-based juice/soup for autumn. To view the entire Nourish Your Soul menu, visit nourishyoursoul.com.


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Here’s a telling example about just how hard it is to find Sony’s PS4 these days — the company has already sold off all of its January stock in Australia, meaning that Sony fans down under are going to have to wait until February at the earliest to get their hands on a new console.
“If you haven’t pre-ordered, it is very unlikely (you’ll see a console before Christmas) unless retailers have had cancellations,” Sony’s Michael Ephraim told news.com.au.
“If you pre-ordered before Christmas, give the person you’re giving the gift to an IOU and you will be able to get them a console in February.”
The shortage comes not only from generally overwhelming demand, but also from the fact that Sony launched the new console in a huge number of markets at the same time, something console launches in the past have shied away from. It puts a tremendous pressure on the manufacturing process, especially because we know that the company probably didn’t start mass production until at least after the announcement, at which point it still didn’t have a finalized form factor.
The PS4 is experiencing similar shortages in other markets — I’ve made a point of examining retail stores wherever I go, and I have yet to see a box in the wild. Sony sold 2.1 million units within its launch window, making it the biggest console launch in history.
The PS4 supply shortage is sure to give Microsoft at least a moderate bump for the Xbox One during the holidays — those aren’t exactly easy to find, but I have seen some around both on the internet and in physical stores. Bulk big box stores like Costco and Sam’s Club seem to be good bets. The products are similar enough that I expect we’ll see plenty of customer crossover, particular as we get closer to Christmas Eve.
For anyone pulling their hair out over another month of waiting for the next generation: don’t worry, there’s very little to play on it anyway. Every new game that gets released for the PS4 reduces your theoretical risk of buying Knack, so be thankful.


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God of War 3 is one of the games this generation that goes beyond others. It's a crown jewel of the Playstation 3 in that for a sequel, it took what made the two games before it great and multiplied it by 100. This game would not have been possible on the PS2. It takes the PS3's power and doesn't just make the graphics better; it uses it to enhance all aspects of the game. It’s the way it seamlessly integrates cut scenes into the gameplay to literally make the gamer feel like they are in the game. That claim has been made many times in the past, but it’s not until now the full effects are felt.
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Microsoft is planning on unveiling their next Xbox at E3 2012 next June, according to BGR website. They site a source within Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division that knows of such a plan, but gave no additional information on an actual launch date. The system has also reportedly also been in development since 2006.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
With Nintendo’s next console pegged for the second half of next year, Sony is all but forced to put the wheels in motion for their next Playstation. Sony has stated over and over that they plan on Playstation 3 having a 10 years life cycle. Part of that statement will probably be true. Both of their last two systems ended up pumping out games for 10 years, overlapping the next system in the Playstation brand. Yet many of Sony’s statements over the last few years made it sound that Playstation 3 was going to have the company’s sole focus outside of their handheld brand. Numbers don’t lie and Sony is well aware of their 3rd place status. Despite having the most powerful and robust architecture, mainstream gamers went for Nintendo’s Wii and the hardcore crowd bought Microsoft’s offering. Being first to the marketplace with the Xbox 360 paid off big for Microsoft and you can be sure Sony took notice.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Here at Tru Next Gen Gaming it is our mission to highlight the games that are the crown jewels of each console generation. Anyone who owned an Atari, Intellivision, Commodore 64 or a NES as their first video game system has seen the drastic changes this young industry has gone through in its short 30 years. At times it's hard to believe how much video games have evolved. For the younger generation who grew up with PS2 or even PS3/Xbox 360, this can be a history lesson and a course in appreciation of an art form. For the rest of us, it’s a trip down memory lane and indicator of how far we've come. When we were first time gamers playing those old systems, could our virgin minds and eyes ever thought we would be playing games like God of War 3, Gears of War 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Uncharted 2, Fallout, Final Fantasy XIII, Mass Effect and the last three releases by Rockstar?
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
"During the roundtable discussions there were such arguments about should we make it capable of being a standalone system or should we make it work only with the [base console] system," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said to Gamasutra. It appears now that Nintendo has abandoned those plans according to their E3 press conference.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
With Nintendo light on specific Wii U horsepower specs at E3 and showcasing only a limiting number of demos, the world is still in the dark of the system's true power.


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Anyone can become sick. More than 500 illnesses and 71 hospitalizations reported as Salmonella outbreak in Canada grows Canadian health officials warning residents
The Public Health Agency of Canada has a stern message for Canadians who have onions at home as a serious salmonella outbreak continues to grow.
"Look for a label showing where the onion was grown. It may be printed on the package or on a sticker," states the latest update from the Agency. "If the packaging or sticker shows that it is from Thomson International Inc., don't eat it. Throw it away and wash your hands. If it isn't labeled, don't eat it. Throw it away and wash your hands."
This warning comes as 'illnesses continue to be reported' in the country.
The most recent update from the Agency reveals 49 additional illnesses being reported from the salmonella outbreak linked to red, white, yellow, and sweet yellow onions from Thomson International Inc. of Bakersfield, California.
That brings the total Canadian case count to 506 as of Sept. 14, with 71 individuals being hospitalized. Fourteen of the salmonella cases have been in Ontario.
Two people have died, but Salmonella did not contribute to the cause of death for either individual, the Agency said.
Individuals who became ill are between 1 and 100 years of age and the majority of cases (54%) are female, the Agency said.
"Anyone can become sick with a Salmonella infection, but children aged 5 years and under, older adults, pregnant women or people with weakened immune systems are at higher risk for contracting serious illness," according to the alert.
The Agency is telling Canadians to "take note" of what's happening due to the severity of salmonella poisoning.
"Do not eat, use, sell or serve any red, white, yellow, and sweet yellow onions from Thomson International Inc., of Bakersfield, California, USA, or any products made with these onions," the new warning states. "This advice applies to all individuals across Canada, as well as retailers, distributors, manufacturers and food service establishments such as hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, hospitals and nursing homes."
Individuals are asked to check their homes for red, white, yellow, and sweet varieties, including whole, sliced, or chopped onions, and any prepared foods that contain onions as an ingredient, such as premade salads, sandwiches, wraps, salsas, dips or guacamole.
If you have onions at home, the Agency said, look for a label showing where the onion was grown. It may be printed on the package or on a sticker.
If the packaging or sticker shows that it is from Thomson International Inc., "don't eat it. Throw it away and wash your hands," the Agency says.
If it isn't labeled, don't eat it, and if you don't know whether the onion found in a premade salad, sandwich, wrap, salsa, dip or guacamole contains onions from Thomson International Inc., don't eat it, according to the Agency.
"Wash and sanitize any surfaces that may have come in contact with onions or their packaging, such as countertops, fridge drawers, pantry shelves, knives, and cutting boards," the warning states.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it is conducting a "food safety investigation" and has issued multiple food recall warnings for raw imported onions and certain products that contain or were made using these onions.
There is no evidence to suggest that onions grown in Canada are associated with this outbreak, the Public Health Agency said, adding "Onions imported from the United States are under investigation."


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Clarifies the company’s not in danger, but its glory days may be over
Following yesterday’s angry protests from Nintendo fans, industry analyst Michael “Fishy Sunday” Pachter took to NeoGAF to clarify his statements.There was uproar when Pachter said the Wii U was a mistake Nintendo may never recover from, so he attempted to calm nerves by saying yet more things that will probably infuriate Wii U enthusiasts.
“My comment about the Wii U being a ‘mistake’ from which the company ‘may not recover’ was intended to say that if Wii U sales don’t materially improve, Nintendo is unlikely to be profitable,” he said. “They have around ¥1 trillion (around $11 billion) in cash, so they aren’t in danger of going out of business for decades. However, if they aren’t profitable, they aren’t doing a good job for shareholders.
“Nintendo is ensured high sales of its proprietary software, but it makes the most money on its royalty business, collecting fees from third parties for the privilege of letting them put out games on Nintendo platforms. Publishing (software) revenues peaked at ¥675 billion in FY:09, and are on track to come in around ¥235 billion this year; my call is that if hardware sales don’t materially improve above current combined levels, software sales are unlikely to materially grow. If software sales don’t materially improve, losses or break even will become the norm. Nintendo will not ‘recover’ to its formal highly profitable glory.”
This sensual bullet of a man believes the Wii U will be far less capable of seducing third parties than the Wii was, especially with its slow early performance. The inability to make cash off these publishers will hit Nintendo’s wallet almost as hard as that time Pachter punched the Sun out of orbit.
“The poor sales of the Wii U in January are likely to impact third party publisher plans to support the console,” he explained. “Notice that GTAV is not on the Wii U; that wasn’t a typo, they don’t see enough promise in sales to cause them to spend extra development dollars on a Wii U version.
“I have spoken to several publishers who are skeptical, and I think that the Wii U will see a lower level of third party support than the Wii did, unless sales materially improve. If I’m wrong, I’ll admit it, but without third party titles, Nintendo will not generate its customary levels of royalties, and losses or break even could become the norm.”
Not even the 3DS is safe from Pachter’s otherworldly eyes, the analyst pointing out that, despite strong sales, not even Nintendo’s plucky handheld is raking in the kind of dubloons required.
“Many of you point out that the 3DS is selling better than the DS at a similar point. That’s true, but the DS was always profitable, and the 3DS is not. Also, the DS saw sales go from 8.8 million units in its first four quarters to 18.0 million its next four, to 20.2 million in its third full year; I’m pretty confident that the 3DS will not get to 20 million units, but even if it did, it would generate little profit from hardware.
“Keep in mind that the DS redesign to a lite version boosted sales, and there was little competition for 12 year-old and older from smart phones and tablets. Now, parents who can afford it are opting for Kindles, iPads, and smart phones for their teenagers, and the more casual of those are perfectly happy playing Angry Birds and putting their DS or 3DS into a drawer.”
Pachter concludes by saying Nintendo likely can’t cut the Wii U price, but with it not selling right now at the current price, it can’t shift the software it needs to be profitable. He also added he wasn’t trolling, but somehow I doubt that assurance will be enough for some people. For those people, he had another message:
“To the 5% of you who ARE assholes, bring it on ;-)”


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Look past the internet’s highfliers and go with companies helping to move data.
Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, social media, and streaming video and audio, global Internet traffic has taken flight. Online traffic is expected to triple by 2018, driven largely by the projected 11-fold increase in the data coursing through mobile devices.
Alas, the valuations for many of the stocks on the leading edge of this revolution—such as Facebook and Netflix—are soaring too (see the chart). At the same time, other high-profile players, like Twitter and Pandora Media, aren’t even profitable yet, which doesn’t exactly give you a margin of safety for investing in tech’s next leap forward.
While the new kids on the tech block may be too rich for value-minded investors, that’s not the case for many of the sector’s older, more established names—companies that were once viewed as cutting edge but have been overlooked for years now. In fact, many of these stocks trade well below their 2000 peaks and are only slightly above where they were before the financial crisis.
“We see opportunity in large legacy technology companies,” says Jamie Doyle, a manager at Causeway Capital, which manages more than $30 billion in value portfolios. “Sure, they’ve slowed down from their early days,” Doyle says, “but they are still growing at rates other sectors are envious of.”
But which parts of old tech should you be focusing on?
1) Start With the Toll Takers
The rise of social and streaming media doesn’t benefit just content providers like YouTube, owned by Google, and Facebook’s Instagram. “The unstoppable digitization of everything creates a demand for the companies that provide the physical infrastructure to transmit, store, and manage all that data,” notes Jun Zhu, a senior analyst at the Leuthold Group.
Zhu singles out Internet service providers and infrastructure com- panies as the most compelling old-school plays on new tech. They include telecoms like Verizon VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. VZ -0.06% and AT&T AT&T INC. T -0.43% that are the “toll takers” on the Internet highway, running the systems that move and manage data.
ISPs don’t merely collect sub- scription fees from users; they also negotiate interconnect fees from content distributors like Netflix and Apple to ensure fast speeds. As demand grows, ISPs gain leverage to assess bigger tolls.
While telecoms are traditionally slow growers, profits are picking up. Verizon’s earnings, for instance, are expected to grow 8% annually over the next five years, vs. just 3% over the past five, according to Zacks.com.
2) Seek Other Equipment Makers
If the explosion of online traffic benefits Internet service providers, it stands to reason that equipment manufacturers that sell to those ISPs ought to profit too.
While Cisco Systems CISCO SYSTEMS INC. CSCO 0.14% is only one-fourth as big in stock market value as it was in the late 1990s, it remains the dominant manufacturer of routers and switches used by cable and telecom firms globally. The IT giant enjoys a 50% share of a business with profit margins of around 60%, according to Morningstar. Thanks in part to that business, Cisco’s earnings are expected to grow more than 10% annually for the next three to five years—20% faster than the broad market.
Meanwhile, every time you tweet, stream a high-definition movie, or update your Facebook page, there’s a good chance you’re doing so on a smartphone. Qualcomm QUALCOMM INC. QCOM -0.59% is well positioned to benefit from that trend.
In addition to making mobile chips, Qualcomm owns the patents on the technology behind most 3G and 4G networks that smartphones are on, notes Eric Vermulm, senior portfolio manager at Stack Financial Management. The royalties the company receives generate two-thirds of its profits. And Qualcomm’s earnings are expected to grow 15% annually.
3) Or Just Buy a Fund
An added benefit of old tech is that it pays you to wait for long-term trends to develop. Verizon and AT&T have long been among the market’s biggest yielders. And they’re among the top five holdings of Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF TECHNOLOGY SELECT SECTOR SPDR ETF XLK -0.21% . Morningstar estimates that the portfolio’s current dividend payouts equate to a nearly 3% annualized yield.
Another plus: The ETF holds tech’s biggest stocks. And as Vermulm notes, “at this late stage, large-cap blue chips with solid balance sheets are the sorts of companies we want to own.”
Apple TV scored a big get today with the arrival of ABC News on the set-top box. The new app will function as a kind of online network, delivering ABC News content to Apple TV users 24 hours a day. The video coverage will be a mixture of live news updates, original programming and edited clips from TV properties such as Good Morning America. In nine major markets such as New York and Chicago, news reports from the local ABC affiliate will also be available. In total the new channel will have about eight hours of live programming each day, according to Mashable. Unlike many online apps from TV networks, this one won’t require users to prove that they have a cable subscription in order to use it.
In addition to the new ABC app, Apple TV also added AOL On today, a video network by the Internet company that features mostly short-form web video. PBS also added a kids’ network, PBS Kids, and cricket broadcaster Willow TV also added an app. Yahoo’s Flickr app also got a redesign to make it more appealing for the big screen.
Apple TV has sold more than 20 million units since it first launched in 2007, beating out competitors such as Roku and Amazon’s new Fire TV set-top box. Rumors persist that Apple will eventually launch a streaming or pay-TV service that competes more directly with cable.
Delayed by a week, Aereo's TV-streaming service is finally available for Google Chromecast players.
Aereo, the Internet television streaming upstart currently embroiled in a historic Supreme Court showdown with broadcast companies, is finally available for Google Chromecast. Its arrival on Google’s streaming media dongle Thursday comes one week after its intended debut.
Aereo wrote on Twitter last week that it was delaying Chromecast support until June 4 “to work out a few kinks.” Make that June 5 then: the Aereo app is live now on the Google Play store. The move adds another significant Aereo player to a lineup that includes browsers for Windows PCs, Linux PCs and Macs, iOS devices, Apple TV and Roku set-top boxes.
If you have a Chromecast dongle, you live in an Aereo coverage area and you’re willing to pay the company’s monthly subscription fee ($8 for 20 hours of DVR space, $12 for 60 hours and the option to record two shows at once), you can connect online to Aereo’s local antenna bank to receive and record live broadcast TV. There’s no additional subscription fee — Aereo handles all storage of recordings on its end and you don’t need to have an existing cable subscription to view the antennae-captured shows.
The catch — and this is why signing up today isn’t risk-free — is that Aereo is smack in the midst of a momentous Supreme Court battle, squaring off with indignant broadcast companies for its right to exist. Since Aereo streams over-the-air content it intercepts via antennas — each the size of a dime and leased to one user — it claims it’s doing nothing you couldn’t yourself, and thus it owes broadcast companies nothing.
The broadcast companies (naturally) disagree. They claim Aereo is in violation of federal copyright law. At issue is whether Aereo’s service qualifies as a public or private performance: if SCOTUS deems it public, Aereo’s in trouble, whereas if it’s deemed a series of private transmissions, the company may be able to continue unperturbed.
A ruling is expected any day now.
Using Netflix will not always involve scrolling through endless lists of movies served up by genre or because you watched one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last summer. A Netflix executive says in the future, the streaming service may not throw hundreds of choices at people all at once.
During a keynote speech during an Internet Week event in New York, Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt said Netflix was going to focus on developing more personal recommendations to help alleviate the paradox of choice users feel when trying to sift through thousands of movies and TV shows. “You won’t see a grid and you won’t see a sea of titles,” Hunt said. The company could automatically serve users three or four viewing options based on their tastes. Still, Hunt said it was “somewhat unrealistic” to believe Netflix would ever deliver a completely linear, algorithm-driven experience, the way Pandora does with music.
Netflix has already been experimenting with more efficient recommendations. The company last year introduced Max, a recommendation assistant that serves users up a single movie after they answer a few questions about their mood. Netflix is also working to improve its recommendation algorithm to better tease out what emotional elements people like about certain shows instead of just offering suggestions based on genre or actor.
At TIME, we’re still hoping Netflix heeds our suggestion and allows for user-generated playlists of its content, so people can mix and match television episodes the same way they assemble mixtapes. Such a feature could yield lists that are actually useful.
Last month, I wrote that iOS was still the dominant mobile platform when it came to important apps. Actually, I did more than that: In my headline, I said that the smartphone app wars were over, and iOS had won. Some folks agreed with me, but plenty of others said I was being extreme.
Since I posted that piece, I’ve talked to lots of companies with apps, at home in San Francisco and at SXSW Interactive. Even more than usual, my brain has been attuned to obsess about their prioritization of iOS and Android. One of the companies I’ve chatted with lately — Cyberlink — has released Android versions of some of its multimedia apps, with the iOS editions following along a bit later. Another, PPLConnect, is Android-only for now, but it’s doing things with phone numbers and text messages that I don’t believe iOS permits.
In a few cases, iOS and Android apps shipped at the same time. But in every other instance, iOS came first.
This morning, United Airlines announced a cool-sounding system for streaming movies and TV shows for free on what it calls “your personal device.” But if that personal device happens to run Android, it’s a second-class citizen:
1. Download the latest United app from the iTunes® App Store if you’ll be using a mobile device. Laptops do not require the app. (Android™ and other mobile devices are not fully supported at this time.)
2. Charge your device fully.
Once you’re onboard, you’ll see two types of media. Some programs require a browser plug-in on your laptop or the latest United App on your Apple® iOS. This can be downloaded at any time during your flight without purchase of United Wi-Fi. Other programs can be watched through the United Portal on your browser with no plug-in or app required.
Again, I’m not claiming that the app situation on Android is terrible. It’s very solid overall, and (I really don’t need to mention this) radically better than that of any mobile operating system that isn’t iOS. Stuff such as United’s new offering generally arrives on Android sooner or later, and there are whole categories of apps — such as alternative keyboards — that are Android-only.
Much of the time, I’m an Android user myself, so I’m happy when something is available for Google’s operating system and sorry when it isn’t. But despite the fact that iOS’s market share is much smaller than that of Android, and has been for years, Apple devices are still nearly always first in line when a major company or hot startup has to decide where to allocate its development resources. That’s a dynamic that pundits keep telling us makes no sense — but it’s happening, and it’s an enormous competitive advantage for Apple. Sounds like a victory to me.


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Consumer Reports just came up with their ranking of the most and least reliable car makers and the news is not good for the American brands—— six American brands rank dead last in Consumer Reports' survey including Chrysler which is at the bottom of the list.
At the other end of the lost Toyota's Scion division ranked #1 on the list.
On the positive note Ford is moving up the rankings with several models that scored exceptionally well.
"Leading the way for Ford were the 4-cylinder versions of the Fusion
and its sibling, the Mercury Milan, which were judged to be more
reliable than two old standbys, the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. The
Lincoln MKZ, a luxury version of the Fusion, also bests the Lexus ES
and the Acura TL.
In fact, 90 percent of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles in the
survey were found to have average or better-than-average predicted
reliability. But all was not perfect in Blue Oval-land. The
all-wheel-drive versions of the Lincoln MKS, MKX and MKZ all scored
below average in reliability. And all-wheel-drive versions of the Ford
Edge and Fusion were not as reliable as their front-wheel-drive
versions either," according to the New York Times.
The complete list of Consumer Reports car brands is below ranked from most to least reliable:
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DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, expects strong business growth in 2021 as the world economy continues to recover from the pandemic-induced slowdown.
“Our business was remarkable and fantastic in 2021,” Shahab Al Jassmi, commercial director of ports and terminals at DP World, said on Tuesday. “We have been doing very good in terms of breakbulk and container and we have been growing better than 2020.”
During the third quarter, DP World reported a 8.1 per cent increase in gross container shipping volumes in all regions in which it operates. The Dubai-based ports company handled 19.8 million 20-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, across its global portfolio of container terminals in the third quarter of 2021, up from 18.2 million TEUs in the same quarter a year ago. The company has yet to announce its full 2021 results.
Some of the challenges of 2021, including congestion at the ports as well as the shortage of equipment and higher freight rates, are expected to continue this year, Mr Al Jassmi said.
This will create “an interruption to supply chain and this interruption coming up with a huge cost with delays”.
DP World tried to maintain and retain services “at the same acceptable level without adding any cost to our customers”, he said.
The pandemic highlighted significant challenges in the logistics sector, with many cargo owners struggling to find containers to move their goods to keep pace with demand and overcome labour disruptions. The acute supply chain bottlenecks worsened during the holiday season in December, when the surge in demand met severe delivery delays.
DP World is also bullish about new opportunities in the region arising from the development of the renewable energy sector, with new projects in the pipeline.
The renewable energy projects taking place in the region will create “a big business demand growth for breakbulk and general cargo. The opportunities will continue in the region,” Mr Al Jassmi said.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and other countries are building renewable energy projects to help them become carbon neutral in the next three to four decades.
The UAE, the Arab world’s second-largest economy, plans to invest $160 billion over the next three decades to hasten renewable energy development.
Abu Dhabi Ports’ $1.1bn expansion programme at Khalifa Port will help the company to boost the cargo handling capacity at the port to 25 million tonnes annually by 2024 and container capacity to 11 million TEUs.
“The Dh2.2bn South quay expansion project has greatly expanded Khalifa Port’s deep water capacity and multipurpose capabilities. Simultaneously, ongoing developments at Khalifa Port logistics will cater to several market sectors, bulk, breakbulk, oil and gas and improve our capability to handle any type of cargo,” Julian Skyrme, director of commercial ports at Abu Dhabi Ports Group, said.
The Dh200 million expansion of Mugharraq port in Al Dhafra has “seen a successful completion of quay wall, deepening of berth, improvements of overall yard capacity and more importantly, upgrading of Ro-Ro ramps to be able to offer end to end solutions to the offshore oil and gas sector”, he said.
“In addition, our continued Dh1bn investment in Fujairah port’s infrastructure through Fujairah terminals will have a major impact towards increasing capacity in the eastern seaboard,” Mr Skyrme said.
“As the only multipurpose port on the country’s eastern seaboard, it will link east, west shipping routes and tap into the business growth opportunities on the emerging trade routes between Red Sea, East Africa, as well as the Indian subcontinent and beyond.”
The officials made the comments while announcing details about the next week’s Breakbulk Middle East 2022 event, which will be held at Dubai World Trade Centre. More than 100 exhibitors are expected to take part in the event.
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Delicious food and beverages at incredible value. (Check.) A new way to pay with your Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, build in extra savings and get every purchase when you need it. (Check.) Grocery shopping just got easier at the Bullseye.
Target has accepted SNAP payment in our stores nationwide for years. And now, guests have the additional option to pay for SNAP-eligible grocery items on Target.com. Mobile payment options for digital orders on the Target app will also roll out soon.
“At Target, we aim to make our guests’ shopping easier by providing accessibility across all payment types,” says Gemma Kubat, Target’s president of financial and retail services. “Guests can now get their grocery shopping done on Target.com using SNAP benefits, sign up for additional perks and savings, and make trips extra convenient using our free, fast and contactless same-day services.”
Faster, easier savings
Adding to the ease, this new payment option makes it possible to get SNAP-eligible grocery items via our fast, contactless same-day services Order Pickup, Drive Up and Same Day Delivery with Shipt — no minimum fee or subscription required. And regardless of how you choose to pay, you’ll get additional savings by signing up free for Target Circle and shopping deals via the Target Weekly Ad.
“Food and beverage is an incredibly important part of our guests’ lives, especially as we head into the holiday season,” says Rick Gomez, Target’s chief food and beverage officer. “I’m proud that we’re adding new digital payment options for grocery shopping so we can make the entire Target experience more accessible to all families.”
Here’s how to place an order
It’s simple. First, create or sign into your Target.com account on a web browser so you can start an online order. Then:
- Add an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) account number as a new card under “Payments.”
- Build a cart with SNAP-eligible items and check out.
- Select EBT as the payment method and enter your PIN number to confirm the order.


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Silk membranes can be used for flexible e-book readers, light-emitting diode displays, and radio-frequency identification tools, according to researchers at the National Tsing Hua University. A team has developed technology that turns liquid silk into membranes that work as insulators for flexible thin-film transistors, which is a component of bendable electronics.
The membranes also have the potential to improve the speed and performance of the transistors in a device.
"We didn't know at first that it would be the best material, but after a few months of tests we realized it was quite viable," says National Tsing Hua University professor Hwang Jenn-Chang.
The soft material would cost about three cents per device.
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By Jessi Towell
Collegiate Staff Writer
It’s that time again. And by ‘that time,’ I mean the time of year when the various stores in shopping malls begin interviewing and hiring for seasonal positions. For a retail interview, etiquette for dress appears to be remotely straightforward—professional and sophisticated.
But how does Grand Rapids Community College define professional and sophisticated fashion?
Margie Erlandson, adjunct instructor teaching fashion design here at GRCC, is certainly no stranger to the concept of professional clothing.
“You want to walk the midline and you want to dress more conservatively,” said Erlandson of what to wear to any job interview. For women, Erlandson says to avoid “low-cut tops, skirts that are too short, and anything that shows a bare midriff.” Guys and girls alike should stay away from “casual clothes, such as blue jeans and T-shirts,” said Erlandson. On the subject of expressing oneself through fashion choices at a job interview, Erlandson said it is essential to “be who you are, but sometimes we have to put part of ourselves aside to attain the position that we desire.”
“We should never read a book for its cover, but in this case we have to,” said Erlandson, referring to the careful eye an employer has on their potential employees’ first fashion impressions. “The company has an image that they need to promote.”
“For girls? UGG boots and cleavage: definitely avoid showing those off,” said GRCC student Jamie Coffin of what shouldn’t be worn to a job interview. Coffin, after working at stores like Forever 21, Baker’s, and Wet Seal over the course of nearly four years, feels it’s important to keep away from the overtly casual in any job interview.
“It’s all about your first impression,” said Coffin, “Looking sloppy for an interview might reflect that you’ll be sloppy in the workplace as well, to put it simply.”
Looking put-together should be the goal that those interviewing keep in mind while picking out an outfit. A blazer gives a classically professional quality and never goes out of style. For both men and women, a structured suit jacket or blazer will always read as sophisticated, especially when paired with slacks and a sensible pair of clean, comfortable dress shoes.
It is helpful to look into the style of dress that everyone already in the company appears to have, especially in a retail position. If it is a clothing or accessories store, research what style of clothing or accessories this company tends to sell. Erlandson believes the key to understanding the style of dress for an interview with a specific company comes from the research you do about the company outside of the interview.
“For example, if you are going to an interview for Gap, wear a pair of good dress pants and maybe a top that comes from the Gap,” said Erlandson..
“Neutral [black, brown, beige, grey, or white in color] jackets layered over a vibrantly colored shirt look fashionable and polished at the same time,” said Coffin, regarding popular fashion choices for anyone, no matter their gender.
“Men might want to wear a clean pair of khaki pants and maybe a sweater to the interview,” said Erlandson.
With those items, hopeful job-seekers will attract the right amount of hiring managers’ attention with their outfit for all of the right reasons.
So this holiday season, as you part the throng of frenzied mall patrons while bustling to your next interview, I genuinely hope you all look great doing it.


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Inflation in June increased 3.7 percent, the INDEC national statistics bureau announced today, the highest monthly recorded figure of the last two years.
June's figure – which was led by increases in transport (5.9 percent), food and non-alcoholic beverages (5.2 percent) and healthcare (4.3 percent) – means that prices have risen 16 percent in the first half of the year alone, with annual inflation over the last 12 months reaching 29.5 percent, one of the world's highest registered rates.
Consumer prices had reached 2.1 percent in the previous month, and 26.3 percent in the 12 months through May.
Last December, the government set a 15-percent target for the whole of 2018, though officials were forced to lower expectations following the impact of the peso’s fierce devaluation in the second quarter, which saw it drop by 30 percent. That prompted the government to seek a US$50-billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
INDEC's latest data means the government's original target has now been surpassed in the first six months of the year alone.
Private consultancy firms have predicted that annual inflation will come in at around 30 percent and forecast lower rates of growth.
Core inflation last month stood at 4.1 percent, also the highest recorded since 2016.


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University of Exeter researchers have developed a mobile phone application that uses geographic data to map landscapes and help humanitarian rescue workers in disaster-struck regions.
The app enables a standard smartphone to be converted into a self-contained remote sensing device. It uses conventional sensors already in existing smartphones to generate ready-to-use spatial data when the device is suspended from lightweight aerial platforms such as drones or kites. The app gathers the data and enables the smartphone to operate autonomously, so once airborne it can capture images. In addition, the app can be "live-coded," which means it is not fixed in its functionality, so the user can program it to behave as desired and capture images according to specific criteria.
"We found that the best results were obtained when the phone was attached to a stable single-line kite or to a gliding drone so as to limit the vibrations, but there will undoubtedly be a wide range of ways of capturing high-quality data using this app and we are really keen to learn about the ways it is being used," says FoAM Kernow director Dave Griffiths, who collaborated on the research.
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Catch a Glimpse of the Wrangler EV in DC
Date 2008/12/3 14:41:06 | Topic: Wrangler
|As part of the big three's effort to convince lawmakers that a bailout is necessary, Chrylser will have their 3 EVs on ground of the U.S. Capitol. |
Word is that after the pasting the big three CEOs took a couple of weeks ago about flying on private jets from Detroit to DC for the initial meetings, they've all decided to make the trip in their hybrid or electric vehicles (cough-publicity-stunt-cough).
Examiner has the details on exactly when and where you can see the vehicles:
On Thursday and Friday December 4th and 5th from 11am to 12 noon, Chrysler will showcase the Company's progress in advanced electric vehicle technology on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol with three ENVI vehicle concepts, one for each of its brands -- Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep(R).
On Thursday, the electric vehicles will be positioned on the North Side of the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill for display during the Senate Hearing. Lou Rhodes will be available for Q&A.
On Friday, the electric vehicles will be positioned in Garfield Circle at the base of Capitol Hill for display during the House Hearing. ENVI electric vehicle dvision Presidnet Lou Rhodes will be available during this session for Q&A.


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In the chase to alpha the world’s aboriginal active business afterwards animal drivers, anybody is block Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo.
The Google affinity has austere the way to exhausted its abutting rivals, General Motors Co. and a brace of added players, by at atomic a year to acquaint driverless cars to the public.A accord accomplished in January to buy bags of added Chrysler Pacifica minivans, which get kitted out with sensors that can see hundreds of yards in any direction, puts Waymo’s advance into abrupt relief.
GM diplomacy to alpha a ride-hailing account with its Chevrolet Bolt—the one with no council caster or pedals, the ultimate ambition in free technology—late abutting year, bold the U.S. government has protocols in abode by then. Best of the others aggravating break the aftermost actual self-driving puzzles are added cautious, targeting 2020 or later.
The alley to freedom is continued and awfully complicated. It can additionally be dangerous: Two high-profile efforts, from Uber Technologies Inc. and Tesla Inc., were circuitous in contempo crashes that acquired the afterlife of a banal (in the aboriginal accepted case of a actuality dead by a self-driving vehicle) and a disciplinarian application an abetment diplomacy accustomed as a forerunner to autonomy. One of Waymo’s free vans was circuitous in a blow aloof aftermost week. But the perceived stakes are so enormous, with the affiance of carriage businesses defective little in activity costs, that abounding players are antagonism to adept the technology and put it to work.
Without drivers, operating margins could be … added than alert what carmakers accomplish appropriate now
In the abutting three years, about all of these contenders will be able appearance off cars able of abyssal burghal streets at accidental speeds forth durably anchored routes. Best of the companies now architecture free cartage can already handle basal active at low speeds. This can accord an consequence of adequation and sameness. Yet admitting actuality in its infancy, free active has leaders starting to emerge.
“Waymo has developed a astounding arrangement and is avant-garde of the pack,” said Brian Collie, arch of Boston Consulting Group’s U.S. automotive practice, who singled out the top two. “But that’s actual altered from actuality able to accomplish an free vehicle. You accept to attending at GM. In Europe, Daimler is arch the pack.”
The accomplishment band isn’t aloof extensive Akin 4 on the five-step calibration of free driving. That’s the alpha at which a car can drive on pre-mapped routes and handle annihilation on its planned advance afterwards the action of a driver. Abandoned Waymo has activated Akin 4 cartage on cartage who aren’t its employees—and those bodies volunteered to be analysis subjects. No one has yet approved at Akin 5, area the car is so absolute that there’s no council wheel.
The victors will additionally charge to avant-garde businesses about the technology. Commitment and auto casework able of breeding huge profits is the end bold for all.
Goldman Sachs Accumulation Inc. predicts that robo-taxis will advice the ride-hailing and -sharing business abound from $5 billion in acquirement today to $285 billion by 2030. There are admirable hopes for this business. Afterwards drivers, operating margins could be in the 20 percent range, added than alert what carmakers accomplish appropriate now. If that affectionate of advance and accumulation appear to pass—very big ifs—it would be about three times what GM makes in a year. And that doesn’t activate to calculation the money to be fabricated in delivery.
Why does it amount who gets there first? To accomplish a driverless business assignment takes a big agile to authorize account in above markets, as able-bodied as a cast name that becomes as alike with accepting a ride as Uber is today. Observers apprehend the acreage to narrow.
For now, investors are throwing money at accessible winners
“There won’t be a ton of companies accomplishing this,” Collie said. “There will be a baddest few. Actuality there aboriginal establishes customer trust. Cast amount matters.”
For now, investors are throwing money at accessible winners. Tesla’s appraisal soared in 2016 afterwards an analyst from Morgan Stanley, additionally its advance underwriter, speculated that the company’s electric cars would spawn a self-driving fleet. GM shares are up 20 percent aback a June 2017 advertisement that a bulb to body driverless cartage was up and running. Zoox Inc. has already aloft $360 million, a huge sum for a startup with no revenue.
Of course, the era aback best bodies canal their driver’s licenses and await on self-driving taxis charcoal far off. The technology costs added than the cars, and with few players absolutely testing the cars for the public, boundless acceptance is years away. Alike Waymo is still in the pilot stage.
The best advancing forecasts accept the majority of bodies active their own cars for at atomic the abutting decade. Chris Urmson, architect of Aurora Innovation INC. and one of the antecedents of the field, counts as one of the optimists. “I can see these on the alley in absolute numbers in bristles to 10 years,” he said. That agency alike today’s laggards accept time to bolt up.
After interviewing admiral and technology experts and reviewing appear plans, Bloomberg has taken a snapshot of the chase to advance the self-driving car. Our estimated time of freedom is based on Akin 4, the prerequisite for ablution businesses with self-driving tech.
The Bright LeadersWaymo has run self-driving cars over 5 actor alley afar in 25 cities and done billions of afar in computer simulation, which it uses to amend its self-driving software on a account basis. The Google-launched aggregation has a agile of Chrysler Pacifica minivans that can cross burghal streets in San Francisco and ability abounding acceleration on highways.
A pilot diplomacy of driverless vans will activate bartering account afterwards this year, acrimonious up advantageous cartage in Phoenix and aberration out from there. Waymo Arch Controlling John Krafcik afresh appear a accord to add 20,000 Jaguar I-Pace SUVs to the agile and signaled that an in-the-works accord with Honda Motor Co. could focus on commitment and logistics.
The aggregation additionally has by far the everyman amount of disengagement—times aback an architect needs to grab the caster because the bot couldn’t handle it—among all companies testing cars in California, a hub of free analysis that additionally requires abundant disclosures. It additionally appear beneath accidents while testing in California aftermost year: Waymo had three collisions over added than 350,000 miles, while GM had 22 over 132,000 miles.
GM’s Chevy Bolt can cross the active streets of San Francisco at speeds up to 25 afar per hour. The Detroit automaker is so assured that it diplomacy to run a ride-hailing pilot abutting year in a car with no council caster or pedals, article abandoned Waymo has done in alley testing.
After Waymo, a scattering of above players accept approved agnate active capabilities. It’s adamantine to say anyone has an edge. One advantage for GM: There’s a branch arctic of Detroit that can crank out self-driving Bolts. That will advice GM get accomplishment appropriate and lower costs afterwards relying on partners. Appropriate now, an free adaptation of the car costs about $200,000 to build, compared to a sticker amount of $35,000 for an electric Bolt for animal drivers.
Where GM lags Waymo is speed. GM doesn’t analysis faster than 25 afar per hour, deeming that the safest top speed. Kyle Vogt, architect and arch controlling of GM’s Cruise Automation unit, said his diplomacy will anon be application new Lidar developed by Strobe, which the automaker acquired aftermost year. Lidar sends out laser beams to map the alley avant-garde and adviser the car, and Strobe’s adaptation is smaller, cheaper and can see further avant-garde than GM’s absolute equipment. That will accredit faster driving.
The new accessories will additionally cut costs. Lidar abandoned on the accepted address of free Bolts costs about $30,000 a car, Vogt said in November. Aback GM starts application Strobe, Vogt said, the amount will bead to “hundreds of dollars.”
GM diplomacy to absorb $1 billion of its $8 billion anniversary basic amount account to advance self-driving cars and advancement services. That money will acquiesce GM the advantage of developing its own ride-hailing business. GM has not absitively whether to run its ride-share pilot, slated for backward 2019, on its own or to accompany armament with an accustomed player. It’s account acquainted that the automaker already has a pale in Lyft Inc.
There’s a big admonition with GM: It leads all companies that analysis in California aback it comes to fender benders. Aftermost year, Cruise had 22 of the 27 accidents in the accompaniment involving driverless cars, and it accomplished bristles of the seven incidents appear this year. The accidents accept mostly been accessory and not the accountability of GM’s car. In an interview, GM Admiral Dan Ammann attributed the college adventure amount to the greater cardinal of afar catholic in San Francisco’s active streets.
Staying CloseMercedes-Benz started diplomacy an adaptive cruise-control arrangement in the backward 1990s on its flagship S-class sedan. The arrangement could faculty aback the car was address bottomward too bound on someone’s rear bonanza up ahead.
Today, Mercedes models with Able Drive get afterpiece to absolute self-driving because the arrangement can advice beacon bright of pedestrians and abstain added accidents. It’s one acumen why Navigant Research, which studies auto technology, ranked ancestor aggregation Daimler third abaft Waymo and GM.
Those systems advice today’s drivers. For the cars of tomorrow, Daimler works carefully with Robert Bosch Gmbh and will be application a arrangement from Silicon Valley able accretion aggregation Nvidia Corp. The analysis cars can drive at Akin 4 freedom or alike Akin 5, which agency the car doesn’t charge a council caster or pedals to operate.
The aggregation has been testing V-Class vans about the anchorage of Boeblingen, abreast Stuttgart, area Mercedes-Benz has a analysis center. The automatic vans run through agilely arduous situations such as morning traffic. The technology is already at Akin 5, Daimler’s arch of development, Ola Kaellenius, said in an interview, although a contempo address by Bloomberg New Energy Finance put the ambition date for the aggregation afterwards 2020.
Before those systems are on the road, Kaellenius said Mercedes will action Akin 3 freedom as an advantage in the cars it sells by 2021. This agency that the car can handle best active while bidding the disciplinarian to booty over in assertive situations that the computer can’t handle.
Fully self-driving cars will be on the alley at the aforementioned time, he said, but would be acclimated for ride administration services, because they would be too big-ticket for retail barter to buy. “The analytic business case there is a advancement service, a robo-taxi blazon of thing,” Kaellenius said. “You amortize the amount through the extenuative on the driver.”
No one would accept absurd a decade ago that a evidence of broke GM genitalia assemblage Delphi would be a amateur in the self-driving revolution. But Aptiv Plc, the above Delphi Automotive that breach out its powertrain business, has emerged as a amateur to be watched, said Grayson Brulte, co-founder of Brulte & Co., a consulting close that specializes in free strategy.
Aptiv has invested heavily in self-driving technology, diplomacy software maker Ottomatika forth with stakes in Lidar makers Innoviz, Leddertech and Quanergy Systems. Its bigger accord was diplomacy NuTonomy, which has been active tests of driverless cars in Boston and Singapore at burghal speeds. The aggregation additionally ran a robo-taxi audience in Las Vegas during CES.
The aggregation has been testing ride-hailing casework in Singapore aback 2016 and will accept them operational in 2021, according to Navigant. Aptiv has been alive with Audi AG and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG cars to advance its technology.
The aforementioned day in backward November that GM showed off its self-driving Bolt in San Francisco, Zoox Inc. had its own car active through the city’s ambagious streets and abundant traffic. Zoox has about 250 engineers alive to advance it. Its self-driving Toyota Highlander SUVs run on the aforementioned active streets that GM uses to analysis the Bolt. But Zoox’s car can additionally drive at artery speeds, said Bert Kaufman, arch of accumulated and authoritative diplomacy for Zoox.
The aggregation diplomacy to accept its car accessible for cartage in 2020, Kaufman said, and again will assignment on accepting cartage in the car anon after.
The claiming for Zoox is accepting added allotment to body its car. The aggregation has aloft added than $280 actor but needs an added banknote to accomplishment its car, Kaufman said. It can amount $1 billion for car companies to accomplishment a new model. Accustomed carmakers accept their own vehicles, and Waymo has partnerships with manufacturers.
Renault-Nissan Accord Chairman Carlos Ghosn brags that the aggregation has awash added cars with adaptive assurance than anyone. Nissan’s ProPilot arrangement stops the car if a agent avant-garde stops bound and it keeps the car in its lane.
That arrangement was developed on the way to a abounding free system, Ghosn said in an account beforehand this year. Appropriate now, Nissan is testing a fully-autonomous car in Palo Alto, California. Renault afresh showed off a long, sleek, brownish abstraction car alleged the Symbioz that can go 80 afar per hour in abounding self-drive mode.
The car still requires a disciplinarian to about-face on free mode, at which point the council caster retracts. With electric motors in avant-garde and aback and barometer a lane-hogging six anxiety in amplitude and 16 anxiety in length, Symbioz isn’t absolutely the car that will go on sale.
In March, Nissan activated an electric Leaf in a ride-hailing pilot in Yokohama, and Renault will do the aforementioned afterwards this year in burghal Paris and Rouen with the electric Renault Zoe.
While the alliance’s technology is impressive, Ghosn sounds cautious. The French-Japanese amassed diplomacy to analysis a self-driver on the alley about 2020. That car will be on highways acute abandoned casual disciplinarian intervention. By 2022, Renault-Nissan will accept absolutely free cars in the road, according to the Accord 2022 plan.
“We will all be advancing to bazaar with this by 2022,” Ghosn said. “You’ll see all of the carmakers with some akin of autonomy.”
Audi, the affluence cast endemic by Volkswagen AG, already has the best avant-garde free car for auction in the A8. The car’s Cartage Jam Pilot uses Lidar to see the alley and lets drivers go absolutely hands-free at speeds up to 37 afar per hour.
The company’s approaching assignment promises to be abundant added advanced. Audi, which is alive with Nvidia, is targeting a absolutely free car in 2020; the address from BNEF put the date to ability Akin 4 at 2021. The aggregation hasn’t said whether it will be activated in a account or by its own engineers.
Volkswagen additionally has an acceding with Aurora, the startup whose founders accept austere cred in the apple of self-driving software. Its abstruse leaders are Urmson, a architect of Google’s self-driving effort, Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla’s Autopilot program, and Drew Bagnell, aforetime a baton on Uber’s freedom team. The aggregation has kept mum as to how it will go to market.
Following the PackBMW has a agile of about 40 cars that can drive at Akin 4 autonomy. The cars are active about Munich and in California.
The maker of Ultimate Active Machines doesn’t see diplomacy the ultimate benumbed apparatus soon. The aggregation is testing absolutely self-driving cars that they accept developed with accomplice Intel Corp., which acquired sensor maker Mobileye, and with German genitalia maker Continental AG. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV afresh abutting the partnership, which diplomacy to accept self-driving technology in assembly cartage by 2021.
The self-driving BMWs aren’t accessible for the highways, BMW Arch Finance Officer Nicolas Peter said at a columnist blow in Detroit. “This technology requires, from our perspective, some added time to accept absolutely absolutely automatic cars on the road,” Peter said. There are currently about 1,000 bodies on the company’s analysis and development team.
No one can calculation Toyota Motor Corp. out. The aggregation started developing self-parking technology in 1999 and installed it in the Prius in Japan in 2003, enabling the car to esplanade with no ascribe from the driver.
Toyota kept mum about capabilities until CES in January, aback the aggregation showed off a boxlike shuttle abstraction alleged e-Palette. The Japanese automaker can accomplish the self-driving shuttle in three sizes and it will admission about at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 as a ride-hailing shuttle, said Gill Pratt, who runs Toyota Analysis Institute.
Still, Toyota’s bulletin was one of patience. Aback Toyota tests its self-driving car in 2020, it may not accept a driver—or it may still accept two bodies absorbed the avant-garde seats and the controls, Pratt said.
He thinks a lot of carmakers and tech companies are hyping the accurate accompaniment of self-driving vehicles. “We will get there,” Pratt said, “but I can’t acquaint you when.”
Ford Motor Co. has been advised a laggard, abnormally aback above CEO Mark Fields was accursed aftermost year, in allotment for not accepting a adamant eyes for freedom and approaching mobility. But it’s not fair to say Ford is flat-footed. The aggregation gets its technology from Argo AI, the bogus intelligence aggregation in Pittsburgh that Ford paid $1 billion to booty a cogent pale aftermost year. That advance brought in actual acceptable capabilities, said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst with Navigant Research.
The Argo aggregation has a able lineage. The startup is the abstraction of Bryan Salesky, who was administrator of accouterments development of what is now Waymo, and Peter Rander, who was engineering advance at the Uber Avant-garde Technologies Group. Salesky’s acquaintance dates aback to the alpha of self-driving cars: He was chief software architect on the acceptable aggregation in the 2007 free agent claiming adjourned by the Defense Avant-garde Analysis Projects Agency (Darpa).
Ford is now testing its third-generation Fusion auto with Argo’s technology. Alike with Argo, however, Ford got a backward start. Aback Ford bought the startup in February 2017, the aggregation had few advisers and Salesky spent a year staffing up.
The plan is to accept self-driving cars with Akin 4 adequacy in 2021, said Sherif Markaby, Ford’s carnality admiral of free cartage and electrification. The car will be purpose-built for freedom that has no council caster or pedals. While Ford is a brace of years abaft GM and Waymo, the aggregation is experimenting with Domino’s Pizza to bear pies and with Postmates to bear added cargo. Ford is additionally advancing a Michigan branch to accomplish free vehicles.
Volvo Cars AB has a ambition of eliminating all injuries to cartage in its cars by 2020. That looks unlikely, but the aggregation has 500 bodies developing its own self-driving technology. Appropriate now, its Pilot Assist gives a disciplinarian 15 abnormal with easily off the wheel, befitting the car in lane and managing the ambit to a agent ahead.
The aggregation is testing its technology with a few families in Gothenburg, Sweden. The tests will alpha with disciplinarian abetment technology and move up to added avant-garde systems over time.
The automaker, endemic by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is developing added free technology but won’t be accessible to go to bazaar until 2021, according to a address from Navigant. Volvo is additionally alive with Uber to advance free systems for the XC90 SUVs.
If you’re advancing from behind, ability as able-bodied acquisition a accomplice to conductor things along. Korea’s Hyundai Motors Co. will accept an avant-garde assurance arrangement on the alley this ages that allows drivers to booty their easily off the caster for 15 seconds.
The aggregation isn’t accessible to analysis absolutely self-driving cars, said Jinwoo Lee, carnality admiral of Hyundai’s Able Assurance Technology Centermost in Korea. To get there, Hyundai absitively to assignment with Aurora, the technology startup that is alive with VW, as able-bodied as with abounding accomplice Nvidia, maker of bogus intelligence accretion systems.
Hyundai diplomacy to analysis its free arrangement in a baby burghal in 2021. “We booty actual bourgeois steps,” Lee said in an interview. “We appetite to absolutely analysis it and validate it.” There are no accepted diplomacy to analysis free technology on accessible roads, and the aggregation said it doesn’t anticipate it will be accessible for bazaar until 2025.
Unusual Cases and Dark HorsesMost acceptable carmakers rushed to get a self-driving agent diplomacy already Waymo and Uber started alive on it.
Automakers feared that bargain self-driving auto casework would alter car affairs and that they would aloof accumulation the hardware, aloof as Foxconn Technology Co. makes the buzz for Apple Inc.—and Apple makes the absolute money diplomacy agreeable and services.
Enter Fiat Chrysler. The automaker food the minivans to Waymo and helps accommodate the technology, yet has little development of its own. The aggregation has started alive with Intel and BMW but will not try to authorize administration alone.
Ride-hailing behemothic Uber Technologies Inc. placed two huge bets on free vehicles, aboriginal hiring top advisers from Carnegie Robotics in 2015 and again accepting the self-driving trucking startup Otto in 2016. But the diplomacy has been mired in altercation afterwards a high-profile accusation and a again baleful collision.
Throughout 2015, Uber recruited top robotics aptitude from Carnegie Mellon as it congenital its Avant-garde Technologies Accumulation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That group, led today by above Carnegie Robotics co-founder Eric Meyhofer, has spearheaded Uber’s self-driving car program. In an accomplishment to ballista Uber to the avant-garde of the autonomous-vehicle accoutrements race, Uber acquired Otto Trucking in August 2016, diplomacy a aggregation abounding with above advisers of Alphabet’s self-driving car unit.
Less than a year later, Alphabet retaliated, filing a barter secrets accusation adjoin Uber. The accusation appear that Anthony Levandowski, who co-founded Otto afterwards alive on Google’s self-driving car, again headed Uber’s driverless-car development effort, had downloaded copies of assignment emails and acute files at Google. Levandowski, forth with Otto’s added three co-founders, accept all aback larboard Uber. The ride-hailing aggregation acclimatized the accusation this year for $245 actor in Uber equity, but not afore the accusation absent its leaders and placed a atramentous mark on its free program.
Then in March, bad angry to adverse aback a self-driving Uber addled and dead a banal in Tempe, Arizona. Uber bound abeyant all of its accessible autonomous-vehicle testing as it awaits the after-effects of that investigation.
If Tesla Arch Controlling Elon Musk can get the world’s best able rocket off the arena with his aggregation SpaceX, maybe he can additionally get cars to drive themselves. Tesla’s Archetypal S and X both accept Autopilot, which can canyon added cars and change lanes with no easily on the wheel. While it’s not a absolutely free system, it has accustomed Tesla a lot of abstracts about how its cars accomplish aback driver-assistance software is engaged. Tesla has been beneath blaze lately, afterwards addition actuality died in an blow while application Autopilot.
Where things get black is that Musk eschews the Lidar systems that best carmakers and tech companies are using. He says he wants to advance added avant-garde imaging to accord his cars a abundant bigger brace of eyes.
Musk wants to use cameras and advance image-recognition capabilities so cars can apprehend signs and absolutely see the alley ahead. He has said Tesla is demography the added difficult path, but if he can appear up with a bigger system, he will accept baffled accurate freedom afterwards the beefy and big-ticket accouterments that sits on top of battling self-driving cars.
“They’re activity to accept a accomplished agglomeration of big-ticket equipment, best of which makes the car expensive, animal and unnecessary,” Musk told analysts in February. “And I anticipate they will acquisition themselves at a aggressive disadvantage.”
Analysts from BNEF activity that Tesla will be able to acreage Akin 4 cars in 2020, although that calendar could be accountable to change now that the aggregation entered into a accessible argument with federal assurance board over the baleful blast involving Autopilot.
China’s better chase agent has been developing self-driving software for bristles years. Its Apollo software arrangement for free cartage is open-source, and the aggregation has arrive all takers to assignment calm to analysis cars and aggregate data. Baidu started testing the aboriginal adaptation of the software in backward 2017 on accessible anchorage and showed off adaptation 2.0 at CES in Las Vegas in January.
The Chinese government in March gave Baidu permission to analysis cars on 33 accessible anchorage in the suburbs of Beijing, authoritative it aboriginal on the anchorage in China. The company’s ambition is to analysis the arrangement in buses fabricated by Chinese architect King Continued afterwards this year and, by 2020, to accept free cartage able of Akin 3, acceptation the car controls itself at artery speeds and tells the disciplinarian to booty over in circuitous situations. Baidu’s antecedent self-driving cars will be developed with China’s Chery Automobile Co.
Baidu additionally has a 2021 ambition to aftermath Akin 4 free cars in affiliation with Chinese automaker BAIC Group.
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