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It has been confirmed that the mysterious silhouette that recently appeared as part of Kojima Productions’ upcoming game, with the message “who am I?” corresponds to the actress Elle Fanningas had already been rumoured.
It was discovered via a QR code at the PAX Australia event, which led to a website linked to Kojima Productions. The untitled project is listed simply as “A Hideo Kojima Game”. Upon discovering the QR code, it was noted that it is seized by a tinyurl which suggests that it might point to a new URL in the future.
Kojima Productions has been dropping a number of hints about the possible lead in Hideo Kojima’s next project, which is speculated to be a horror game titled Overdose. But it could also be Death Stranding 2 or any other title, so the mystery is far from solved. The last clue we met? A cryptic poster with the silhouette of a woman’s face and the question: “Where am I?”.
The poster was revealed at PAX Australia on Friday morning Australian time. Afterwards, Kojima himself published a simple message yesterday: “The answer to ‘WHO’ in the TGS will be in the next ‘WHERE'”.
Elle Fanning has appeared in works like The Nightingale and Super 8.
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Kojima, of course, is well known for his marketing stunts. Metal Gear Solid fans will remember the mystery that surrounded Metal Gear Solid V, which was originally presented as an original action game developed by a Swedish company known as Moby Dick Studio, called The Phantom Pain. There was also PT, which has remained in the collective memory until today.
These announcements aren’t as dramatic as Kojima’s previous revelations, but they do show that he’s still up to his old tricks.
For now, we know that Hideo Kojima is working with Xbox to make “the game I’ve always wanted to make.” Kojima is also rumored to be involved in some way in the rumored Silent Hill revival, which has yet to materialize. Be that as it may, Kojima seems to be preparing for some sort of reveal. We will have to remain without all the answers for a while longer.
Norman Reedus also recently commented that he was working on Death Stranding 2, although the sequel has not been officially confirmed.


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Savant celebrates tremendous growth
What started in a broom closet for Savant Group has now spread to the corners of the world as the Midland-based company has seen phenomenal growth of its influence in the world of oil lubricants.
“We’re serving the automotive and industrial lubricant industry with laboratory testing services, innovative laboratory instrumentation and data of automotive engine oils collected globally,” said Gordon Cox, Savant vice president of marketing and sales.
That reach continues to grow as Savant celebrated with a groundbreaking Friday for an additional 11,000-square-foot expansion, which will house a technical training facility. The new facility will allow the Savant Group educational staff to offer technical seminars for customers and distributors around the world.
“In this past year, we’ve seen 30 percent growth in revenues,” said (Gordon’s wife) Rebecca, Savant president. “Looking over the last five years, it’s consistently been 20 and 30 percent growth every year. We’re flat out running out of space. This year, we’ve hired 23 new employees. We’re at 57 employees and we’re still hiring.”
However, it wasn’t that way in 1969, when Rebecca’s father, Ted Selby, began a consulting business after having worked at General Motors and The Dow Chemical Co.
“Ted is in his 80s and still very active in the business, but Gordon and I have taken over running of the businesses,” said Rebecca. “(Selby) really enjoyed working in the cornerstone of the oil industry, the OEMs and the chemical companies. He was enjoying consulting how they should make their equipment and lubricants.”
However, Ted soon recognized the fledging company needed to expand.
“He quickly realized that it is difficult to consult on technical matters if you don’t have a lab in your back pocket,” said Rebecca. “So, he started a laboratory piece by piece. Our very first lab was a little broom closet. Now, the lab has grown to be one of the premier labs for our type of testing and our little niche of the industry.”
The present building, at 4800 James Savage Road, was built in 1988 and 1995 saw the facility expand from 10,000 to 16,000 square feet.
“We’re also renovating 3,000 of warehouse space to turn it into more productive space,” said Rebecca of the upcoming expansion. “That will give us 27,000 square feet. The $3 million expansion is to be all done with local suppliers.”
As its name implies, Savant Group is actually four individually incorporated companies: Three core companies, Savant Labs, Tannas and Institute of Materials (IOM), were founded by Selby, while the fourth company, King Refrigeration, was purchased.
Tannas got its start in 1981.
“We said, ‘Let’s start a company that has the engineers and the capability to take an idea and make it into a product: testing equipment that can be sold all over the world,’” said Rebecca. “With Tannas we were able to meet the industry needs and troubleshoot new ideas and take those ideas and make them into something others can buy and do themselves.”
As needs kept expanding the company kept pace.
“If we can always be on the cutting edge of figuring out the problem that everybody is having and if we can find a solution first,” said Rebecca. “Then everybody is coming to us because we’ll get a reputation as problem solvers and we’ll also be able to give people what they need.”
One of those needs was an objective set of data regarding oils.
“As we worked in the industry, the thing we realized was that everybody had a vested interest in the game: How they wanted oils and specifications to evolve,” said Rebecca. “So many times we would find that the information that was available to people always had a bias to it, flavored to whatever that company wanted to accomplish.”
So, in 1984 IOM was birthed.
“The industry never quite had a good resource to go to. We thought, ‘We can be that resource,’” said Rebecca. “We have no reason to paint a picture one way or the other. We’ll just go out and collect oils from all over the world, right off the store shelves, run a whole battery of tests on them so anybody can tell what’s in that oil.”
Even with sales in more than 50 countries, more than 95 percent of Savant’s revenues comes from outside the region and more than 50 percent from outside the U.S., the company has chosen to dig its roots deeper into the area.
“Everybody says, ‘Why are you in Midland if none of your customers are here?’” said Rebecca. “It’s a great town. It’s a little hotbed of technical activities. The town really understands how important it is to support businesses that are technically minded. They are not afraid of our types of business. But, at the same time, it’s very small and easy to work within. To have a small town like this, but is still globally minded, has been really good for our business.”
To contact Savant, call (989) 496-2301 or visit savantgroup.com

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A new Oppo smartphone coded Oppo PDYM20 has been spotted in the Geekbench website with some key specs revealed. The Oppo PDYM20 is the same device which was spotted in one of the online stores of China. We expect that the smartphone might be the Oppo A72 5G.
The Geekbench listing reveals that Oppo PDYM20 will come with 8GB RAM and motherboard – oppo6853. The smartphone will run on Android 10 will have a base frequency of 2.0GHz. The smartphone seems to have a Mediatek processor as the MediaTek’s MT6853 chip refers to the MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC.
According to China Telecom, Oppo PDYM20 will feature a 6.5″ 90Hz display along with a 8MP front camera house in a punch-hole cut at the top left corner of the display. Around the back there is a triple rear camera setup of 16MP, 8MP, and 2MP units. The PDYM20 is expected to have three memory configurations – 4GB/128GB, 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB. It will be powered by a battery of around 4,000mAh and will support 18W fast charging via USB Type C.


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One of the leading imaging company, Canon has announced that on 26h August, they have produced 120 millionth EF-series interchangeable lens for EOS cameras—an EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM telephoto zoom lens. This is the big achievement of Canon since they bagn manufacturing interchangeable lens in 1987.
According to Canon, EF lenses have gained support from a wide range of users and production has since expanded to a total of four manufacturing bases.
EF lens production passed the 10-million-unit mark in 1995 and crossed the 50-million-unit threshold in 2009. In April 2014, the company celebrated its first-in-the-world achievement of having manufactured 100 million EF lenses, and now, setting a new world record for the most interchangeable lenses produced, Canon manufactured its 120-millionth EF lens in August 2016. What’s more, Canon’s interchangeable-lens digital cameras (digital SLR and compact-system cameras), which utilize EF lenses, have maintained the No. 1 share of the global market for 13 consecutive years since 2003, as stated by the company in its press statement.
Canon’s proprietary EF lenses, launched in March 1987 along with the EOS SLR camera system, have continued to evolve since their introduction, leading the industry through the incorporation of a wide range of innovative technologies, including such world’s firsts as the Ultrasonic Motor (USM), Image Stabilizer (IS) technology, a multilayered diffractive optical (DO) element, and Subwavelength Structure Coating (SWC) anti-reflection technology. The Company’s extensive EF lens-series lineup currently comprises a total of 97 models, including EF Cinema Lenses for digital cinematography, adds the statement of the company.
Canon is poised to refine it EF lens lineup while striving to cater to the varying needs of photographers—from first-time users to advanced amateurs and professionals.


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All parties should put such speculation to rest, says Fernandez
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THE European Union (EU) does not want a trade war with Malaysia, despite the economic bloc members’ plan to block the use of palm oil-based biofuel, which could impoverish more than 600,000 smallholders.
Malaysia’s oil palm smallholders, estimated to be about 650,000, are already struggling with low commodity prices, overproduction and heightened objection to palm oil over environmental concerns.
Malaysia and Indonesia, which produce 85% of the world’s palm oil, have threatened retaliatory actions including shunning products from Europe and imposing tariff on imports from the world’s largest economic bloc.
Ambassador and head of EU delegation to Malaysia Maria Castillo Fernandez said the EU has no intention of engaging in a trade war with Malaysia.
She said both Malaysia and the EU are not interested in starting a tariff war and all parties should put such speculation to rest.
“There is no trade war and neither Malaysia nor the EU has an interest in starting one. So, let’s not speculate further,” she said in an email reply to The Malaysian Reserve.
Concerns over the European countries’ stand on palm oil as not being a green fuel rise a few notches as restrictions on the use of the commodity as a biofuel are set to be passed by European Commission next month.
The proposed EU Delegated Act, slated to be tabled before the European Parliament in May 2019, supplements the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) II to restrict and ban palm oil biofuel by 2030. The Delegated Act classify palm oil as a “high risk” oil.
The EU is Malaysia’s second biggest market for palm oil after India, buying about 1.9 million tonnes of the commodity, which is used in everything from soap, to shampoo, to chocolate bars.
The whole bloc buys about 7.5 million tonnes of palm oil annually, with about three million tonnes used as a component of the greener fuel.
Fernandez emphasises that the EU has never, and will never, place an absolute ban on palm oil imports. She said that was never the objective of the Delegated Act.
She said the RED is not aimed at import restrictions, but at promoting sustainable renewable energy (RE) and reducing the carbon footprint of the transport sector.
She said the Delegated Act sets out the criteria on how EU member states can calculate if they meet the RE targets. “The criteria and underlying data will be reviewed regularly,” said Fernandez.
Four major local crude palm oil producers — the Federal Land Development Authority, Felcra Bhd, Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority and the National Association of Smallholders Malaysia, representing 3.2 million smallholders — handed a petition to Fernandez last week, demanding the EU to cancel the proposed ban.
The four organisations raised questions on why palm oil was considered as “high risk”, while other oils were labelled as low risk.
“It is mind-boggling that less competitive and less efficient oilseeds such as rapeseed, sunflower, canola and soybean oil are classified as low risk,” according to the petition.
Malaysia and Indonesia see the move by the EU member states as trade protectionism as palm oil is a direct competitor to rapeseed, sunflower, canola and soybean oil.
Figures showed that palm oil produces about four to 10 times more yield than other oilseeds for every hectare.
The various smallholder groups are demanding that the EU repeal the Delegated Act and instead strengthen the economic and trading tie between Malaysia and Europe. A decision over the proposed Delegated Act is expected to be concluded next month.
Malaysia and the EU have enjoyed warm economic ties, but the continuous campaign against palm oil has posed a threat to trade growth. The Malaysia-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations have also reached an impasse.
Last year, Malaysia’s trade with the EU grew 4.8% to RM183.4 billion, according to Malaysia External Trade Development Corp.
Malaysia’s exports to the EU climbed 3.5% to RM98.6 billion with Germany, Spain, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland as Malaysia’s leading European markets.
Manufactured goods accounted for 90.8% of Malaysia’s total exports to the region, among which major items include chemicals and chemical products, rubber products, iron and steel products, machinery, equipment and parts, transport equipment, as well as petroleum products.
Imports from the EU expanded by 6.5% to RM84.77 billion last year, with major import items such as electrical and electronic products, transport equipment, machinery, equipment and parts.


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Ford has decided on the timing of the debut of the new BroncoJune 5, 2020
The revival of the Ford Bronco, which was announced back in 2017, was supposed to happen this spring, but a coronavirus infection intervened in the plans: it was expected that the SUV would be presented at an auto show in New York, but it was noted in connection with the pandemic.
Until now, there was no information about the new dates for the demonstration, but now on Thursday, June 4, the company updated its own web portal, and on the page dedicated to the new product, it was noted that the world debut will take place in July of this year.
Coronavirus delayed both the premiere and the release of the new Bronco. However, in mid-May, the manufacturer confirmed that the start of deliveries to auto dealers in the United States is still scheduled for next year.
As the debut on the Internet approaches, rumors of an SUV increase. There is also talk of a 7-speed manual transmission, an infotainment complex from the new F-150 and the “charged” Bronco Raptor, which will receive a 450-horsepower V6 engine.
- Nikola startup continues to sue Tesla
- Range Rover Velar has been updated
- Volkswagen e-Golf participates in sustainable Uber project
- Fantastic Mercedes Vision AVTR concept hits the road
- Honda released photos of Honda Odyssey


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1. New kinds of apps are on the way
Progressive web apps—websites that have app-like features such as push notifications—may begin to replace the traditional mobile app, according to Matt Olsen, senior manager of digital marketing for Firehouse Subs, and Bill Long, chief financial officer for Snooze, an A.M. Eatery. Although operators have been slow to implement the technology, both say that dwindling storage space on users’ phones and “consumer app fatigue” may make the alternative platform appealing for consumers.
2. Authenticity remains important
When shooting video for its social media channels, 30-unit casual-dining chain Taco Mac goes for the simplistic. Rather than have a full video crew on-site, the chain enlists an employee to film video on a smartphone. Senior Director of Marketing Emily Beesley says the less-polished approach has struck a chord with consumers, who appreciate the authenticity.
3. Apps should do more than mobile ordering
Brands only using their apps for mobile ordering are missing out, says Jim Steinberg, director of enterprise partnerships for LoyaltyPlant, a mobile marketing platform. “App users are far more valuable than web users,” he says. “The brand is in [the consumer’s] hand.” Steinberg says operators should think bigger than just mobile ordering and incentivize consumers to keep coming back to their app by outfitting it with features such as loyalty and referral programs, targeted marketing campaigns and geofencing mechanics.
4. Menu suggestions get hyper-personal
Ordering will get even more personal going forward, according to Brian Frank, general partner at FTW Ventures. As technology develops, Frank says that operators will be able to suggest orders to customers based on their personal attributes, such as their health and vital stats. “A fit teenager is going to eat differently than a 40-year-old couch potato,” he says.


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LILONGWE, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Malawi government has announced a ban on importing and transporting all cloven hooved animals and all meat products from South Africa due to an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).
According to a statement signed by Secretary for Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Gray Nyandule Phiri and released Friday, the government has also banned importing and transporting the same from other countries known to have been affected by the disease.
All the country's boarders have been keeping off the banned animals or their meat products since the ban took effect on Jan. 24.
The statement said the measures are in line with the country's Control and Animal Diseases Act and the World Animal Health Organisation guidelines.
"The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development is in regular consultation with veterinary authorities within the region and shall continue to update the public and specific stakeholders on any changes in the status from time to time," the statement said.
Malawi had banned meat products from South Africa in March 2018 in the wake of listeria infection that was associated with meat from one of the suppliers there.
FMD is spread through many ways including introducing infected herd into uninfected ones, via contaminated pens, buildings or transport facilities, contaminated clothing, footwear or equipment, virus infected meat or other contaminated animal products.


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The company had reported a net profit of Rs 174 crore in the same period of the last financial year.
During period under review, Sales increased by 14% to Rs 4,965 crore, as against Rs 4,347 crore in the year-ago period, Apollo Tyres said in a statement.
“Our performance across geographies have been robust in the past quarter, and we continue to be extremely positive on the demand environment,” Apollo Tyres Chairman Onkar Kanwar said.
Given the company’s planned investments in capacity, R&D, brand and distribution, along with cost optimisation programme, it is extremely well placed to leverage demand recovery across segments and geographies, he added.
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Apple Excites App Makers—and Nobody Else—at Developers Conferenceby
The biggest cheers during the keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday came during the introduction of a new programming language for mobile apps. So the world is still waiting for a tantalizing peep about, say, the iWatch and the future of Apple TV.
The biggest news for the kind of person who might scratch his head over the excitement about Swift, a coding language that is “objective-c without the c,” were updates to Apple’s operating systems for Mac and iOS devices. Here are the highlights from the first day:
• OS X Yosemite: Apple’s two operating systems have been increasingly moving toward one another, and the new version of OS X software used in Macs now takes a few big steps in that direction. Through a series of features called Continuity, Macs can now make and receive phone calls through an iPhone. The company had already extended iMessage, so now Mac users will also be able to send and receive SMS messages.
• Extending Airdrop: Apple has also extended a feature called Airdrop that allows people to send documents between devices that run iOS to include Macs. Devices that are in close proximity will actually prompt people to pick up things they’ve started on another device. All these features have the same goal: to turn Macs into increasingly effective accessories for iPhones.
• iOS 8: Apple’s mobile devices got their big facelift last year. Many of the biggest changes in iOS are related to messaging—a logical choice given the runaway popularity of competing messaging apps, such as WhatsApp. In the new version of the software, Apple has added predictive typing features that anticipate what you might say to turn all your conversations into easy multiple-choice questions. Say someone texts, “Do you want to grab dinner or see a movie?” The phone pops up two fields to choose between “dinner” and “a movie.” It also adds other bells and whistles, so you can remove yourself from a group chat or add audio or video to iMessage conversations.
• HealthKit: Apple made official what had leaked in recent weeks: Siri can now recognize songs. An app called HealthKit serves as a sort of clearinghouse for health and fitness data; this allows someone to monitor her weight through a smart scale, then share that information with her Nike Fuel app. A partnership with the Mayo Clinic will also allow that information to be shared with doctors.
• HomeKit: Apple also announced a feature called HomeKit to standardize the way connected home appliances work. “We thought we could bring some rationality to this space,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. Apple sets a common protocol for the devices and allows iOS users to group devices together, so they can give a single command to control more than one device.
This is an event at which Apple tries to entice developers to make new apps—hence the cheers for Swift. It was the time to take a few swipes at other companies that want to win the attentions of developers.
Apple’s normally staid chief executive, Tim Cook, repeatedly poked at shortcomings of Android and Windows. Half of all Macs are running the latest version of OS X, he claimed, while only 14 percent of Windows machines are running Windows 8. The numbers on mobile are even more striking: Cook says that 89 percent of Apple’s mobile devices are running the latest version of iOS compared with only 9 percent of Android machines. “That means that these customers are not getting great new features, they’re not able to use your great new apps, and they’re not getting the security updates they need to stay safe,” he said.


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Notably, the agency said only 15 percent of the 10,187 samples tested were free from any detectable pesticide residues. That's a marked difference from 2014, when the USDA found that more than 41 percent of samples were "clean" or showed no detectable pesticide residues. Prior years also showed roughly 40-50 percent of samples as free of detectable residues, according to USDA data. The USDA said it is not "statistically valid" to compare one year to others, however, because the mix of food sampled changes each year. Still the data shows that 2015 was similar to the years prior in that fresh and processed fruits and vegetables made up the bulk of the foods tested.


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Australia’s IT industry is one of the worst business sectors when it comes to employing women, particularly at executive management level, with just 14% of women in the top positions.
Demand for executives in the ICT sector declined slightly in March compared to February as national demand across all industry sectors fell by 2%, with executive search firm EL Consult cautioning that Australia’s economy faces some “mild headwinds”.
The IT sector has been falling by the wayside in the executive demand stakes over recent times, with demand for execs falling in December and now January.
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- Morgan Vetter and Brandon Nozaki Miller are planning on riding 1,000 miles in less than 24 hours on their electric motorcycle.
- They are running an official SaddleSore 1000 event, to get an Iron Butt certification.
- They will be riding an Energica EsseEsse9, mostly because the bike offers DC fast charging.
I love what these guys are doing to break the myth that electric isn’t good for long distances. Every month there are more charging stations, faster charging systems, and better equipment. Well done gents.


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It's a themed virtual pinball table off of the surprise hit game Ms. Splosion Man from earlier this summer and it's a DLC add-on for the free XBLA game Pinball FX 2.
My family loves pinball, maybe I should pick this title up. That looks like a pretty awesome table.
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Japanese maker touts bigger lineup, efficiency to compete with top-ranked Trane
Daikin ranked second in U.S. sales of residential and commercial air conditioning systems in 2021 with a roughly 17% share.
OSAKA — Daikin Industries will begin U.S. sales as soon as this year of lower-priced, energy-efficient home air conditioners, as the Japanese manufacturer aims to become the top A/C supplier on American soil by fiscal 2025.
The units, which will be sold under the Goodman brand, contain inverters that adjust the motor speed to save electricity. Daikin says they will use roughly 30% less energy than models without inverters and cost about 20% less than the higher-end units with more features, such as smartphone controls.


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Our industry has a wide array of opportunities for the newly graduated therapist. It also presents a wealth of opportunity for seasoned therapists who may have been hit hard in the past years of economic uncertainty. Recently, I read a survey from the Day Spa Association sharing that 2013 and 2014 have shown some significant increases. It claims the Spa Industry is indeed in growth mode.


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Visa Europe has confirmed the launch of its V.me service in the UK (as well as Spain and France) this autumn.
The digital wallet payment system to rival Google Wallet will be available through Visa's member banks, initially via a web browser on your PC, tablet or phone. Consumers will be able to link multiple cards to their V.me wallet, not just Visa cards, and these can then be used for online or NFC payments.
Visa has also announced WorldPay as a key development partner in bringing the new service to the UK, with further partners to be revealed shortly.
Mariano Dima, Executive VP of Product and Marketing Solutions at Visa Europe, commented: "V.me sits at the heart of Visa's future of payments. For the first time, consumers and retailers will have a streamlined online checkout experience through an acceptance mark that offers industry-leading security and, when a Visa card is used in a V.me wallet, the same protection and rights that come with any Visa card transaction."
"Our intention is that V.me will ultimately be able to incorporate any or all of our new payment technologies, allowing our members to deliver the best possible payments experience whether face-to-face, online or in a mobile environment. This comprehensive service suite, delivered under the V.me umbrella, will offer an easy way to benefit from the scale, security and reliability of Visa."
As we noted in a report late last year, the V.me name has been employed to differentiate the service and give it a separate identity to Visa.


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Back in August, a number of fans made their complaints known after an oversized window that featured prominently in one of the promotional images for the Kit was missing from the paid content.
At the time, the team responded by saying the promo was supposed to be a "cinematic visual" before stating that it will be added to the Kit in a future patch.
During this week's Inside Maxis live stream, the game's concept artist SimGuruSalo gave Simmers an update, revealing that window will come at the end of next month.
And despite the team previously saying the window would be coming to all owners of the Industrial Loft Kit, he shared that this item is being added to the base game, which is a nice little surprise.
"The window that we featured in the Industrial Loft Kit marketing image will be available to everyone in the base game at the end of November," SimGuruSalo said.
"We wanted to say thank you for your patience, and we can't wait to see what you create with this new window."
Since the Industrial Loft Kit's release, we've had two new Kits – Fashion Street and Incheon Arrivals, which are based on Mumbai's fashion scene and iconic Seoul airport fashion respectively.
Two further Kits are coming shortly, although they have yet to be unveiled.
In the same Inside Maxis stream, SimGuruSalo and SimGuruRusski revealed that a hairstyle previously released as part of the Toddler Stuff Pack will be rolled out to all players as part of an upcoming base game update.
Addressing why some content from paid packs are being added to the base game, SimGuruRusski said: "We have heard feedback that there are hairs currently gated behind DLC or a pack that offers more representation that's not included in the base game.
"We love creating packs that offer cohesive and immersive themes and experiences, but we're also committed to ensuring access to our full catalogue of character elements that are for representation purposes, so to speak.
"We want to make sure that everybody has a chance to represent themselves in-game."
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DIGITAL MAGICS to launch “Magic mind”
THE FIRST STARTUP ACCELERATOR DEDICATED TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH AIMS TO BE THE LEADING EUROPEAN PROGRAM DESIGNED TO DRIVE INNOVATION THROUGH AI SOLUTIONS. FBK and AIXIA will be technical partners in the initiative
Digital Magics S.p.A., the leading business incubator in supporting startups in the digital and tech sector -with its services for the empowerment and acceleration of projects from conception to IPO-, on the strength of its experience and established role as a builder of advanced business ecosystems, is further expanding the scope of its activity as an anticipator of tech trends and partner for innovation by creating MAGIC MIND.
MAGIC MIND is the first three-year acceleration program aimed at the most advanced frontier of technology innovation: artificial intelligence.
MAGIC MIND aims to be the leading European AI accelerator intended to drive the development of AI solutions in numerous sectors including: healtcare, transportation, cybersecurity, and marketing.
“We are ready to bet and invest”- said Gabriele Ronchini, co-founder and CEO of DIGITAL MAGICS S.p.A.- “on the most promising startups in the field of Artificial Intelligence together with our partners, the excellence in the innovation ecosystem, who, like us, have accepted the challenges of the market with enthusiasm.Artificial intelligence is the strategic horizon not only for product and process innovation, it is first and foremost the ecosystem in which business, services, human activity as a whole will develop and organize. A market that in Italy is worth 380 million euros and has doubled in two years: the numbers are on our side and confirm that this is the right time to invest in AI. As a Digital Magics group, we flank and support talent in the development and growth of companies with very high technological potential.”
In the vision of Digital Magics S.p.A., which has always worked to transform the ideas of the future into the business of the present, MAGIC MIND will be a continental benchmark for the application of AI through the creation of a full-cycle platform to promote a diverse network of cutting-edge companies capable of bringing, as leaders and innovation drivers, new products and services to the global market.
“We have taken up the challenges of the Artificial Intelligence market, together with the companies in our area, and launched Magic Mind,” said Maria Imbesi, Program Director for MAGIC MIND, “an acceleration program that aims to create value for the entire ecosystem. Our vision is to create the European benchmark for the sector. In the field of Artificial Intelligence, the competence of companies can be fundamental to bring startups’s ideas to the market. To create a platform that strengthens Italy’s position in the artificial intelligence market aimed at fostering innovation and realizing a diversified network of cutting-edge companies with enormous potential for growth and the ability to transform the current scenario, bringing deep technical expertise, thanks also to highly qualified teams, that will enable them to propose new products and services to global markets. Our experience, working closely with startups, has enabled us to understand their needs, and one of them is precisely discussion with companies, which are the first users of their models. Therefore, together with our partners we aim to seek not the perfect solution but the one that is most suitable for the market and consumers.”
The MAGIC MIND Program targets startups that have highly innovative projects, focused on AI as a driver for development, in the areas of enterprise software (robotic process automation, intelligent document management, predictive and optimization systems, quality control), healtcare (diagnosis, treatment, clinical research and pharmaceutical training), marketing (content generation, data analytics), cybersecurity (user behavior analysis, threat detection, risk analysis, identity verification, access management) of logistics and transportation (autonomous driving, warehouse automation, smart roads and logistics hubs, demand forecasting).
MAGIC MIND can also count on a series of partners of international importance that will also make it possible to implement the projects that will be selected and support the entire acceleration process. Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo will be an ecosystem partner. Corporate partners will be: IBM, Exprivia, Bricoman, Dentons, SCAI Group, Angelini Ventures, IC Infocamere.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence will be technical partners in the initiative.
MAGIC MIND will offer six pillars on which selected startups can grow their project into an advanced business: up to 90,000 euros of initial investment in a combination of cash and services, more than 20 locations in the heart of Milan, pathways to market access through roundtables with program partners, more than ten additional partner-sponsored services, up to 120,000 euros of funding for graduates selected by the program, end2end support on business products, investments.
The preliminary phase of MAGIC MIND will kick offon October 4, 2022 with the opening of the call. Bootcamps will take place from October 17, 2022 to January 19, 2023, during which selected startups will have the chance to explain their projects in detail. On February 8, 2023, the pitch day and the start of the acceleration program for projects will be held, which will close on May 24, 2023.
DIGITAL MAGICS S.p.A. listed on Euronext Growth Milan (symbol: DM), is a business incubator that supports startups in the digital and tech world with services for the enhancement and acceleration of business. Digital Magics, Talent Garden and Tamburi Investment Partners have created the biggest national innovation hub for MADE IN ITALY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, offering support to innovative start-ups for creating successful projects, from conception to IPO. Digital Magics has always been a partner of top companies with its Open Innovation services, creating a synergistic bridge between companies and digital start-ups. Incubation and acceleration services by Digital Magics are active on Talent Garden coworking campuses throughout Italy. Complementary to services are investment activities, which over the years have produced a portfolio of over 90 investments in start-ups, scale-ups and digital spin-offs with high growth rates.
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As to the latest Global Living Report of CBRE, Hong Kong is synonymous with high property prices around US$1,416psf, following by London US$1,025psf and New York US$842psf. The report brings a snapshot of the property markets in 31 world’s major cities. The global crisis of 2007/8 affected us all and yet some markets have bounced back even stronger. As the world’s population expands and the overall international economy continues to recover, it will be interesting to see how things pan out, around our ever-changing globe.
Some findings on the Asia-Pacific markets:
Hong Kong property has the highest price at US$1,416psf. Although the government introduced a series of measures to cool the market, prices still increased by 13.5% in 2014, and by 7.2% in the first five months of this year.
The luxury market in Bangkok is performing particularly well with off-plan condominium prices up 30% over the year.
In Beijing, despite the ongoing house purchase restrictions, sales volumes have reportedly increased by 25.6% over the quarter.
The rental market in Mumbai is strong, but rents fell slightly and now stand at US$1,496 per month.
Housing market in Singapore was increasing by on average 8% per annum, at US$889,200 per unit.
Housing prices in Sydney increased by 12.9% and are 38% higher than the national average.
Japan real estate market was seriously affected by the global financial crisis, but the market begin to rebound with average prices at US$412,466 per unit.


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M&I Materials has opened South Africa’s first ester transformer fluid manufacturing plant, to provide a reliable, local supply of electricity grid components to support the country’s plans for electrification.
M&I Materials is a family-owned manufacturing company based in the UK with offices in China, India, the United Arab Emirates, the US and South Africa.
The plant will produce M&I’s MIDEL brand of fire safe and biodegradable ester dielectric fluids for electricity transformers.
MIDEL is a fire and environmentally safe alternative to the traditional transformer coolant, mineral oil, which is flammable, toxic and nonbiodegradable.
MIDEL has already been selected by a South African transformer manufacturer to supply the fluid for 6 000 transformers operated by South African State-owned power utility Eskom.
M&I opened an office in South Africa in 2017 and entered into a manufacturing agreement with ISEGEN South Africa to manufacture the MIDEL natural ester fluids which are made from local soybean or rapeseed crops.
The M&I Materials plant at ISEGEN will be used exclusively for the manufacture of MIDEL fluids.
The M&I Materials investment will create local employment opportunities through the use of locally grown raw materials used in manufacturing MIDEL fluids.
The plant is expected to improve fire safety and sustainability for over 6 000 transformers on South Africa’s electricity grid from the outset and futureproofs supply of this integral component.
This demonstrates the company’s commitment to Africa’s electrification and provides technical expertise to utilities and transformer manufacturers across the region.


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Whenever severe winter weather approaches, grocery store aisles are always clear of eggs, bread and milk.
But why is that the case?
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The CDC recommends bread as a no-cook food to stock ahead of a storm, but not perishables like milk and eggs. A power outage means those foods may not last until the storm passes.
The Atlantic reported that buying perishables may be a matter of psychology.
Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely said it's a matter of seeing others doing something and feeling the need to join in. "If we go somewhere and we see other people buying those particular things, all of a sudden (we're) even more interested in those (things)," he said.
"It's like saying, 'The storm will be over soon and I won't be stuck in this situation for long,'" clinical psychologist Judy Rosenburg told HowStuffWorks.
So it may be fine to get bread, milk and eggs as long as you have enough non-perishable foods as well.
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Today, we are offering subscribers the chance to join the fight with your very own Green Lantern Power Battery and ring from DC Collectibles! Accompanied by a copy of Green Lantern: Earth One: Volume 1 by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Bechko, and Jordan Boyd, you’ll have everything you need to protect sector 2814!
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Bonus Level Entertainment’s Fox n Forests releases today on Switch, PS4, PC, Mac and Linux, with an Xbox One release to follow in the upcoming weeks. Steam users can jump into the action at 9 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. CEST. Check out the launch trailer.
FOX n FORESTS, the retro action platformer from Developer Bonus Level Entertainment releases on the Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux on May 17th, 2018. Check out some Fungus Forest gameplay to whet the appetite.


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PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PRO) Director Timothy V. Williams sold 2,406 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, April 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $43.72, for a total value of $105,190.32. Following the transaction, the director now owns 116,198 shares in the company, valued at $5,080,176.56. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink.
Shares of PRO stock traded down $0.33 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $42.65. 169,387 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 288,312. PROS Holdings, Inc. has a 52-week low of $24.55 and a 52-week high of $51.83. The company has a quick ratio of 2.54, a current ratio of 2.54 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.66. The company has a market cap of $1.89 billion, a PE ratio of -24.17 and a beta of 1.92. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $44.72 and a 200 day moving average of $43.50.
PROS (NYSE:PRO) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 4th. The software maker reported ($0.14) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.29) by $0.15. The company had revenue of $60.86 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $59.34 million. PROS had a negative return on equity of 38.36% and a negative net margin of 29.53%. Equities analysts predict that PROS Holdings, Inc. will post -1.21 EPS for the current year.
Several brokerages have weighed in on PRO. Zacks Investment Research raised PROS from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, April 3rd. Morgan Stanley lowered their price target on PROS from $38.00 to $35.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 5th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. The stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $43.33.
PROS Holdings, Inc provides solutions that optimize the processes of selling and shopping in the digital economy worldwide. The company offers PROS Smart CPQ, a tool for sales teams and partners to respond to customer quotes; and PROS Opportunity Detection that increases sales effectiveness and productivity by uncovering sales opportunities in existing accounts for sales teams.
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Americans now consume more bacon than the nation’s 60,000 pig farmers can comfortably produce: Frozen pork-belly reserves are at a six-decade low, according to USDA data, and consumers last year managed to buy 14 percent more bacon than they did in 2013 — a year in which demand was so high, prices rose to an “all-time record.” This obsession is once again causing the price to skyrocket, so keep this in mind the next time you’re about to purchase more bacon salt and another family-size jar of Baconnaise to enjoy with your latest bacon-of-the-month-club order. This year’s prices are in fact 80 percent higher than last year’s. Per The Wall Street Journal:
Pig farmers are struggling to keep up with demand. The national hog herd rose to a seasonal record of 71.7 million head in early June, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, up 3% from a year earlier.
But it hasn’t been enough to satiate bacon demand. Stocks of pork bellies in commercial freezers fell to 31.6 million pounds in May, down 59% from a year earlier and the lowest figure for the month since the USDA began keeping track in the 1950s.
“Voracious demand” has left wholesalers “in a squeeze,” the Journal adds. An analyst tells the paper that supermarkets and other retailers have “turned hand-to-mouth, buying only what they need, waiting for production to increase and prices to decline,” while a livestock trader observes that “[e]verybody and their mother” now has a bacon sandwich — like the new Triple Thick Brown Sugar Bacon at Arby’s, a sandwich with nearly a one-inch-thick mound of bacon piled on it. Fast-food atrocities and higher prices aren’t the worst of it, either: Some particularly slick restaurants and retailers have apparently started using extra-thin bacon slices, but charging consumers the same price.


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DaimlerChrysler eyes China?
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The head of German car giant DaimlerChrysler AG was quoted on Saturday as saying he was close to securing a deal to build Mercedes cars in China, but a target for Chrysler to break even would be tough.
Chief Executive Juergen Schrempp told news magazine Der Spiegel he would sign an agreement with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Company in China in coming days to produce luxury Mercedes cars as well as trucks.
But, in a transcript of an interview to be published on Monday, he also said Daimler's troublesome U.S. Chrysler unit still faced some tough challenges.
"We are still aiming to be lightly positive at Chrysler this year," he said. "But due to significant risks concerning a possibly more difficult competitive environment in the United States, this will be a tough bit of work."
Few analysts expect Chrysler to break even this year as it struggles in a fierce price war between the U.S. carmakers.
Schrempp also reiterated that the company planned to make an operating profit of about five billion euros ($5.4 billion) this year.
The company cut its profit guidance for the year in June from a previous target of beating the 5.8 billion euros profit it made in 2002.
On the China deal, Shrempp confirmed that DaimlerChrysler planned to build around 25,000 of its C and E class Mercedes cars per year in the medium term. Foreign auto makers need to have local joint venture partners in order to build cars in China.
A spokesman for the company said Schrempp was on his way to China.
Foreign carmakers are pouring into China, the world's fastest growing car market as demand stagnates elsewhere, although some observers warn this may result in overcapacity.
In an interview with the local paper for DaimlerChrysler's Stuttgart headquarters, Mercedes chief Juergen Hubbert earlier said he expected no growth in unit sales next year.
He also said for the year to August, sales of Mercedes, Smart and Maybach cars had shrunk two percent, but gave no exact figures.
"We are planning for unit sales next year at around the level of this year,"
Huebbert told the Stuttgarter Zeitung. "This is linked to the generation change
that is due for our smallest car, the A class, and our off-roader, the
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In the UK, the government is considering implementing changes to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, and Apple is sounding the alarm. The proposed amendments are seen as a serious threat to data security and information privacy. This has prompted concerns from civil liberty groups around the world, with Apple at the forefront of opposition.
So, what’s the problem?
The issue with these proposed changes is that they will not only weaken the security infrastructure in the UK but also put Apple in a position where it may have to delay or even stop delivering necessary security updates. There is a real concern here not just about the potential impact on Apple, but also on user privacy and security.
Snooper’s charter is hacker’s heaven
The requirement for UK authorities to review every tech security update before release poses an immediate problem. This will delay the distribution of crucial security patches, making the UK a prime target for hackers. This law could potentially create a hacker’s playground in the UK, leaving users vulnerable and exposed to risks.
Putting users at risk
Apple first raised concerns back in July 2023, warning that these proposals would stifle innovation and commerce. Among the unsettling provisions is the Home Office’s power to block security and privacy updates without public notification, and the requirement for tech firms to seek approval from the Home Office before launching updates.
A draconian overreach that should be opposed
The proposed changes are not just a threat to the security and privacy of UK citizens but also to people around the world. If passed, this legislation could damage the digital economy and set a dangerous precedent for other repressive governments to follow suit. The implications are far-reaching and call for opposition from tech firms and the public.
– Apple has raised concerns about proposed changes to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, warning that it is a severe threat to data security and information privacy.
– The requirement for UK authorities to review tech security updates could delay the distribution of crucial security patches, making the UK an attractive target for hackers.
– The proposed changes could have far-reaching implications, posing a threat to digital security and privacy not just in the UK, but globally.
As of now, the proposed changes to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 are being hotly debated. The severity of its implications has raised significant concerns, with Apple and civil liberty groups warning of the potential harm it could cause. It is essential to closely monitor the developments and ensure that user privacy and security remain a top priority.
Frequently asked questions
Q: Why is Apple opposed to the proposed changes to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016?
A: Apple has raised concerns that the proposals could weaken the security infrastructure in the UK, delay or prevent the delivery of essential security updates, and make the nation a target for hackers.
Q: What are the potential consequences of the proposed changes?
A: If passed, the proposed changes could not only impact the security and privacy of UK citizens but also pose a broader threat to digital security and privacy around the world.
Q: How are civil liberty groups responding to the proposed changes?
A: Civil liberty groups have expressed condemnation of the proposed amendments, echoing concerns raised by Apple about the potential harm to data security and information privacy.


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French retailer Carrefour is rolling out its 'Livraison Express' service to Lyon. The service is already available in Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine.
The online delivery service was launched in 2016.
With 'Livraison Express', customers can have around 3,000 everyday products delivered to them within the hour and can select a 30-minute delivery slot.
Carrefour says the service offers a wide selection of fresh produce (more than 50 types of fruit and vegetables available), grocery products and a few everyday non-food products.
Customers can purchase their items 24/7 online and the retailer is working on a dedicated 'Livraison Express' app with the option of tracking their deliveries in real time.
The delivery service operates between 9 am and 10 pm Monday to Saturday and is carried out by French start-up Stuart - a delivery service that specialises in deliveries by bicycle and cargo bike. Delivery costs €4.90.
By offering short half-hour delivery slots for its express delivery service, Carrefour aims to meet the needs of city-dwellers who they say really appreciate being able to choose when they can expect their shopping.
This service is offered in Paris, Neuilly, Levallois, Malakoff, Vanves and Bagnolet and will be extended to Lyon in May 2017.
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Another week, another jersey misfire. Last week, it was the Minnesota Vikings’ Everson Griffen who had to take the field in a misspelled jersey. This time around, Jacksonville somehow transposed an ‘A’ in the name of Prince Amukamara in advance of Sunday’s game against Chicago. Granted, this is only his third game of the year, but still … this is one of those names that’s spelled exactly like you say it.
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Boston, MA-June 26, 2015
This week Congress finally passed several bills impacting the trade community after much debate and political maneuvering over the past few months. As these items await the President’s signature, we highlight some of the changes. Please speak with an OCEANAIR representative to learn more about the new legislation.
On June 23, 2015, the Senate passed legislation to reinstate Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) after House approval last week. The TPA provides congressional objectives for trade agreement negotiations and includes provisions to expedite congressional consideration of legislation implementing those agreements. For the next six years, TPA will cover the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and any other trade agreement negotiated.
Between June 24 and 25, the Senate and House passed the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015. This legislation retroactively reinstates and extends the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program through December 31, 2017; renews the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); and enhances trade benefits for Haiti with the HOPE and HELP acts. As a result of the bill’s passage, importers can now obtain refunds of duties paid since July 31, 2013 on goods otherwise eligible for GSP treatment. The bill also includes duty preferences granted to products imported under the AGOA, as well as, the HOPE and HELP acts with an extension through Sept. 30, 2025.
The legislation also grants the Department of Commerce more discretion in arriving at antidumping and countervailing margins against imported goods. Additional changes to antidumping and countervailing duty laws simplify the process for a petitioning domestic industry to prove injury. Some more changes are still on the horizon over the next several weeks as members of both chambers of Congress plan to conference to merge different versions of the trade enforcement and facilitation bill. These items will still require approval by each chamber before being sent to the President.


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Una Mullally: Dublin offices will become the new ghost estates but the capital has a chance to start again
It was so obvious to anyone living in or near the city centre that it was not going to end well
The Sorting Office development on the corner of Cardiff Lane and Hanover Street East in which Google was going to lease office space.
Not so long ago, Fianna Fáil presided over a housing crash. In the coming months and years, Fine Gael will find its contemporary legacy as the party that presided over an office and commercial property crash.
Offices will become the new ghost estates, hotels will go on sale at knockdown prices, owners of luxury student accommodation will scramble to find new uses for their buildings, and the closure of chain stores, already deemed “the retail apocalypse”, now has a pandemic as an overwhelming catalyst. It’s almost not even worth mentioning the obvious silliness of co-living developments, as they are not the kind of housing people want, need, or will gravitate towards.


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Online car dealer Cazoo has started consulting workers at a vehicle preparation centre in Lincolnshire over the possibility of its closure.
The business is considering closing the site in Long Bennington, near Grantham, where 300 people work.
A Cazoo spokesperson told Lincolnshire Live: “We have not made any decisions at this point however last week we announced that we will be starting a consultation process with the team at Long Bennington.”
Last week the business announced that it was planning to close a number of its vehicle preparation sites and customer centre facilities, with the loss of jobs, after warning of an expected drop in sales for the year. Nationally more than 3,000 UK staff are being consulted, with the process to run until March 4.
It said it expected to sell 40,000-50,000 vehicles this year, compared to 65,000 in 2022.
Following strong 2022 sales of £1.245 billion, founder and chief executive Alex Chesterman OBE said: “Our new 2023 plan, which includes more modest top line ambitions, ensures that we continue to improve our unit economics, reduces our fixed costs and conserves cash as we make continued progress towards our goal of reaching profitability, without the need to raise further funding over the next 18-24 months.”
As part of the changes Cazoo is reported to be looking at closing 15 of its customer centres across the UK, with centres in Bristol, Birmingham, Chertsey, Lakeside, Manchester, Northampton and Wembley likely to remain open.
According to the Car Dealer website three preparation centres – at Portbury, Cold Meece and Bedford – are set to remain open, with sites in Westbury, Long Bennington, Livingston and Gloucester, earmarked for closure.
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National takes action to handle payday financing problems
The federal government will be able to work closely with the Office of Fair Trading, Advertising criteria Authority, Committees of Advertising Practice, and sector to be sure marketing will not entice customers into taking right out pay day loans that aren’t suitable for them
Payday lenders could face brand new constraints as to how they market and a laws of practise under fresh systems established now
Payday loan providers could face brand new restrictions about how they market and a new laws of practise, under new plans launched now by Consumer Minister Jo Swinson and financial assistant into Treasury Sajid Javid.
Furthermore, Sajid Javid and Jo Swinson have also established an appointment now confirming the federal government’s goal to maneuver legislation of credit rating for the latest Investment Conduct expert (FCA) from April 2014, and given additional specifics of how brand-new routine is guaranteed to work.
The us government is actually dedicated to difficult activity to tackle these problems. Work of fair-trading’s (OFT) administration motion will minimize payday loan providers using those in financial problem. In April 2014, the audience is offering obligations to regulate this business with the FCA, that will have significantly more rigorous abilities to weed out rogue loan providers paydayloanadvance.net/payday-loans-tn/maynardville/.
The federal government also desires to read hard actions to clampdown on the advertising of payday lending, and will start quick work on this.
With the enforcement action and unprecedented variations into legislation of credit revealed now, the federal government try delivering an obvious information to loan providers that if they don’t adhere to the rules, actions is going to be used
The government was launching a basically brand-new method to regulating consumer credit, that may make certain that irresponsible enterprises and bad exercise could have room for the consumer credit industry. Consumers can have greater confidence that the new FCA will intervene early and decisively in their interests a€“ thanks to its more focused remit, objectives and powers.
An independent research report from the University of Bristol was also published today by government on the impact of a cap on the total cost of credit in the high cost credit market. Separately, the Office of Fair Trading have published today their final report on payday sector compliance. Both reports clearly show there is significant evidence of consumer detriment in the high cost credit markets.
Working together with regulators, the government is announcing immediate, short term and longer term action to tackle problems in the payday market head on, including:
- the OFT now, and the FCA from April 2014, will clamp upon irresponsible ways and in some cases blatant non-compliance by lenders
- the OFT is going to be putting 50 loan providers on observe, requiring they fix the challenges within 12 months or face outcomes
- the OFT is actually consulting on a provisional decision to mention the payday lending market to your competition Commission
- government will work with all the OFT, the marketing specifications expert and market to carry around brand new restrictions on marketing tougher codes of exercise quickly
- the FCA could have stronger latest abilities to limit the proper execution and material of marketing and advertising, and has now devoted to make use of these capabilities promptly with regards to takes fee the following year
- the FSA have actually devoted to start thinking about whether there are gaps in rules of payday credit that have to be addressed by the FCA from April 2014
- government entities try phoning in strong conditions for all the sector to improve compliance with payday credit rules; and also to consider whether independent spying can be put positioned
- to handle the developing problem of individuals taking right out multiple financing in one time, federal government will call on industry to make sure that they improves the way it companies and files data


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Irish retail sales volumes rose 2.6 per cent month-on-month in November, with bumper trading around “Black Friday” pushing annual sales growth to a 16-month high of 6.8 per cent.
Retail sales have grown strongly recently but had been slightly subdued for much of last year due to a fall in new car sales as some motorists imported cars from Britain due to the sharp fall in the value of sterling against the euro.
Excluding car sales, the index was 7.6 per cent higher year-on-year, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said. While Irish retailers reported their busiest Black Friday period yet. Retail Excellence, the industry body, said this came at the expense of Christmas, which it expected to be on a par with last year.


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Saturday night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Shelton did what he does best: Stadium-sized, heartland buffet country in support of his last album Based On A True Story.
The boys are back in town. The Canucks veterans and prospects took to the ice in Whistler for the start of training camp on Friday. See photos from the first weekend here.
Apple unveiled a new, thinner, lighter tablet called the "iPad Air" and a high-resolution iPad Mini on Tuesday. Analysts say the will help Apple regain the role of the dominant tablet maker.


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Tesla Is Now Charging $250 For Its Yoke Steering Wheel
When Tesla first launched the current Model S it sold it with the new yoke steering wheel. It has since offered a round steering wheel as an option, before switching to making that the default and allowing people to choose the yoke at now extra cost. Now, that’s all changed.
Electrek reports that a change overnight means that while the yoke option is still there it is no longer free. Instead, Tesla has started to charge a $250 premium for an option that is arguably worse than the free version.
The yoke doesn’t have any stalks which means that all of the usual stalk controls are now handled by touch controls on the face of the wheel or via the big screen in the dashboard.
Electrek also points to the steering ratio being problematic for yike drivers as well.
As for the former, we thought that the automaker wouldn’t risk bringing the controversial yoke steering wheel to market without a nonlinear steering curve enabled by a steer-by-wire system – especially knowing that Tesla has been developing a steer-by-wire system.
However, as Tesla started deliveries of the new Model S Plaid last year, we were surprised to see that the wheel had a normal 14.0:1 steering ratio, and it is proving to be impractical at lower speeds.
Now, it’ll be very interesting to see how many people choose to go the way of the yoke, especially considering the fact that they will have to pay an extra $250 to get it. Still, with Tesla prices falling as they are they might still be paying less than they would have recently.


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Most of the world is well aware by now that 3D printing is about far more than printing out your favorite Star Wars figures and key chains bearing the logos of your favorite sports teams. From building rockets to human tissue, this technology is very serious business—and it continues to make so many impacts around the world that we simply aren’t surprised anymore as one new innovation after another is presented. There is still plenty of room for fun though, and we have seen this demonstrated repeatedly in the world of food and cooking.
In using 3D printing with cooking, those coming up with new concoctions can experiment affordably and quickly—along with personalizing a multitude of different items from popsicles to chocolate to gluten-free recipes, and far more. The research and development continues around the world. Now, in China, a research team has discovered that lemon juice gel may be a very suitable ingredient for 3D printing; in fact, it may be used as a building block for high-tech recipes. Coupled with potato starch, the team found that the mixture allowed for ‘suitable 3D printing of designed objects.’ The lemon juice gel behaves almost like fudge would, allowing for the same texture and enticing chewiness consumers see in food products.
The Jiangnan University team explained their findings in a recently published paper, ‘Investigation on lemon juice gel as food material for 3D printing and optimization of printing parameters,’ authored by Fanli Yang, Min Zhang, Bhesh Bhandari, and Yaping Liu. While 3D printed properties of food were part of the research, the team was also very concerned with a more technical angle: nozzles. They examined 3D printing nozzles for food using the lemon and potato starch base, testing nozzles in terms of their height, width, rate of extrusion, movement, speed, and more.
“After a lot of experiments in this study, it is considered that the nozzle height is suitable to be same with that of the nozzle diameter, which could not be regarded as a key factor that affects print quality. Under the condition of the same nozzle diameter and nozzle height, the essential reason for the effect on the printing is likely to be the mismatched extrusion rate and printing speed,” state the researchers in their paper.
“In an ideal printing process, the extruded material has the same diameter as the nozzle considering there is no shrinking/swelling or expansion, and nozzle height should be as small as possible to ensure that the material can be attached to the previous layer and to avoid the inaccuracy caused by the delayed deposition. Therefore, the nozzle height should be equal to the nozzle diameter as well as the single layer height.”
The team measured rheological properties, performed a texture profile analysis, and then experimented with 3D printing. The team found that the rate of extrusion and the speed of the nozzle had an effect on 3D printing; for example, high extrusion led to wavy lines, while low extrusion rates led to discontinuous lines that could cause collapse. Ultimately, their goal was to 3D print with a smooth texture.
“The nozzle diameter (1 mm), the extruded rate (24 mm3/s) and the nozzle movement speed (30 mm/s) were the optimal parameters to provide well printed lines and to obtain exquisite products. What’s more, as a gel product, the success of lemon gel in 3D printing provides some guidance for other gel and starch products in 3D printing,” concluded the researchers.
Discuss in the 3D Printed Food forum at 3DPB.com.
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BERLIN — When it comes to clean cars, Europe is heading for a two-speed market.
The pandemic has led to a collapse in sales of diesel and gasoline cars, but electric vehicles have popped — something that's especially evident in the wealthier western half of the Continent. Now, the European Commission is trying to figure out a way to make sure the rich don't leave the poor in the dust on clean mobility.
One idea discussed by Commission officials could see the EU match any national e-car purchase premium programs as part of the coronavirus rescue effort, according to an EU official and a representative from the car industry. As capitals prepare to submit plans to access the €750 billion EU recovery fund, that could encourage those with low e-car penetration rates to set up stimulus programs.
“The car industry will benefit from the ambitious recovery instrument of €750 billion ... while remaining eligible for financial aid under several programs within [the] revised Multiannual Financial Framework proposal,” a Commission official said on condition of anonymity, referring to the bloc’s seven-year budget program.
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In the first half of the year, car sales plunged by 38 percent, according to ACEA, the European car lobby. But electric cars are bucking the trend, accounting for 8 percent of sales in the first six months of 2020 — double last year's rate.
The problem is that those sales are heavily skewed. In the first three months of this year, 98 percent of all battery electric vehicle sales across Europe were in the richer 14 EU countries, plus non-bloc members such as the U.K. and Norway.
The growth in electric car sales is not because the coronavirus has made car buyers greener. Rather, it's that government coronavirus rescue programs in big countries including Germany and France have included special provisions to make electric car sales especially attractive — part of countries' efforts to get behind the EU's Green Deal project, which aims to make the bloc climate-neutral by 2050.
E-market shares hit 26 percent in Sweden and 9 percent in both Germany and France in June. By contrast, Italy and Spain saw clean car shares of just 3 percent, and Poland a paltry 1 percent, according to figures compiled by the International Council on Clean Transportation.
“The south remains a problem,” said a car industry executive. “No buying power, high unemployment, no growth.”
Shrinking the EV gap
The industry wants the Commission to help countries do a better job of designing national incentive programs — something that might help shrink the gap between the west and the rest.
“The problem often lies not in the absence of support schemes, but in their bad design,” said Julia Poliscanova with Transport & Environment, an NGO. “Poland is a good example, where most new cars just like in the rest of Europe are bought by companies, not individuals.”
Poland’s decision to exclude fleet sales from its electric car subsidy program is a drag on progress, she said. “The next big wave of sales will come from fleets."
ACEA said that 26 of the 27 EU countries have incentives in place to encourage people to buy e-cars.
“As long as plugins available in higher disposable income markets come with large subsidies attached — be it fiscal or purchase subsidies — we are going to be looking at a two-speed region,” said Matthias Schmidt, an analyst tracking the deployment of electric cars.
Carmakers have also concentrated their e-car sales efforts in the wealthier part of the Continent because that's where buyers have more cash, and charging infrastructure is more developed. Those sales will help them meet next year's EU-mandated CO2 limits for each carmaker's fleet.
But they're going to have to shift focus to other parts of the EU as CO2 checks in 2025 and 2030 will give more weight to sales in markets with a lower EV penetration, making it more attractive to sell electric cars in places like Poland and Romania.
Europe's undisputed leader in e-mobility is Norway, and it could serve as an example in other rich countries.
“If Norway can do it then anyone can do it, especially, mild, heavily populated countries like Belgium and the Netherlands,” Norway's 33-year-old climate and environment minister, Sveinung Rotevatn, told POLITICO in March.
The answer isn't just about subsidizing the purchase of e-cars, but also offering reductions in parking and tolling fees that make owning such a car even cheaper to run, Rotevatn said.
But Norway is one of the world's richest countries thanks to its oil and gas revenues; poorer countries would need to raise taxes to counteract losses from waiving road taxes on electric cars, as well as any fall in revenues from taxes on diesel and gasoline.
"Norway is a quite special case, for example due to the fact that taxes on vehicle purchase and ownership are significantly higher than in most other countries and that the country was willing to accept a shortfall in revenues when introducing a tax break for electric vehicles," said Peter Mock, a researcher at the International Council on Clean Transportation.
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Update: Netflix has provided the following points of clarification on the story -
"1. We can confirm Minecraft: Story Mode is a licensed 5-episode interactive narrative series coming to our service this fall. It's an extension of our other interactive stories we have on our service like Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout, Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale and Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile.
2. The Stranger Things project is being published by Telltale at a later date, not on the Netflix service. It's part of our marketing and title promotion efforts.
3. We don’t have any plans to get into gaming. There’s a broad spectrum of entertainment available today. Games have become increasingly cinematic, but we view this as interactive narrative storytelling on our service."
Well, just like the show, Things just keep getting Stranger around here.
Original story follows below...
Netflix and Telltale Games have entered into a deal that will bring simple game experiences to the streaming service. Netflix has confirmed that a streamable version Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode that will offer an adapted version of the Telltale Games original.
Like the Telltale Games series, Minecraft: Story Mode on Netflix will be a five-part episodic adventure and would be available to stream later this year.
Separately, we've learned of a new Telltale Games project based on Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things - though no release window or additional details were provided.
Our initial impression was that Netflix's version of Minecraft: Story Mode would be delivered via video files and will accept commands via any remote equipped with directional and select buttons. That appears to be inaccurate and it will instead play similarly to titles like Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale and Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile, which let younger viewers choose how the story unfolds.
Telltale has mentioned wanting to work with the streaming service in the past on several occasions, and it appears that request has finally come to fruition.
How will it work?
When asked what a final product might look like, sources pointed to the Amazon Fire TV platform – an ecosystem in which you can find a number of Telltale Games series like Minecraft: Story Mode, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – and which only requires that viewers have a remote in hand.
That said, it now sounds even simpler than that. Depending on how much is cut out from the experience it might not end up looking different than some of the choose-your-own-experience titles Netflix already has on its service.
Sources say that playable demos of the experience have been in existence for at least the last year, and that an announcement of the partnership “could happen any day.”
Netflix might not be alone
The deal could potentially raise eyebrows with Telltale’s other content collaborators, notably HBO, a longtime partner of the developer for its Game of Thrones game. However, sources have confirmed that HBO was among the companies approached when the idea was conceived and turned Telltale down, saying they’d rather wait and see how the technology developed.
Back in December we reported on the possibility of Netflix offering branching path content, and had even pointed to Telltale’s The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones as perfect examples of limited interaction experiences that could fit with Netflix’s technology.
As for the yet-unannounced Telltale Stranger Things game, sources say the game should have been ready for launch in the autumn of 2017, but was pushed back to a later date. It’s likely that both the partnership and new game could be announced simultaneously.
Update #1: In a statement sent to TechRadar, Netflix says that the details we were provided on the Stranger Things game from our source weren't accurate and has agreed to provide additional details on the story:
While Minecraft: Story Mode will indeed be the first game from Telltale to launch on Netflix in an adapted form, it now appears as though Stranger Things will not be an interactive experience but rather a new Telltale series. (Full story here.)
Update #2: There appears to be a job listing on Netflix's website for a Manager of Interactive Licensing who will, among other things, "use games as a marketing tactic to capture demand and delight our member community (ex: Stranger Things: The Game)". This role will likely be pivotal in bringing more interactive experiences to the platform in the future, and potentially lead to more Netflix-branded game crossovers.
Matt Swider has contributed to this report.
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Nintendo had an impressive presentation during E3 2014. From showcasing the new open-world Zelda for the first time or highlighting its new toys-to-life initiative with Amiibo, there were plenty of interesting tidbits and game announcements to pull from the company’s Digital Event. One announcement that managed to stand out however, arrived in the form of a new property called Splatoon.
I was fortunate enough to be given some hands-on time with the new game during E3 2014 (be sure to check out our preview of Splatoon), but Nintendo also gave Game Rant the opportunity to interview project lead Tsubasa Sakaguchi and producer/manager Hisashi Nogami. We learned a lot about the game that was previously unknown, but one major revelation was that Splatoon — a game believed to be so heavily focused on the Wii U GamePad — will feature local multiplayer and a single player mode of sorts.
When asked if the main focus of Splatoon would remain on online multiplayer exclusively, Nogami assured us that the game would feature the standard dressings of a full retail title.
“First of all, our plan is to release this as a full retail packaged software in 2015… the first half of 2015. And because we’re releasing this as a full software title, we of course plan to include a single-player mode but then also a one-on-one multiplayer mode that can be played without connecting to the Internet.”
After learning that multiplayer will be an option for those looking for some good old fashioned couch co-op, I inquired about whether or not players will be able to face off against their friends on the same Wii U or take their buddies online via splitscreen. As it turns out, the developers will be taking local multiplayer in a completely different direction with Splatoon, courtesy of an exclusive one-on-one mode.
“What we can tell you about the one-on-one, at least, is that one player will be using the GamePad, one player will be using the Pro Controller. And we’re actually thinking of having that one-on-one mode be something kinda completely different from the four-on-four one where it’ll be, you know, kind of a lot more stalking and hiding in the ink. It’ll be much more like a quiet mode in a sense.”
“And, you know, we’ve progressed [in development] at least to that point, but in terms of what we’re going to do with the screens — whether we’re going to have one person on the TV and one person on the GamePad — we’re not sure yet.”
Since the GamePad is so intricately weaved into the competitive multiplayer via a map that’s displayed on the bottom screen, as well as the ability to instantly jump to a friendly player’s location by tapping the touchscreen, it would be difficult to bring those features to a Wii U Pro Controller. With that in mind, it makes sense that Nintendo has been working on a local local multiplayer mode that takes the gameplay in a very different direction.
The game won’t be arriving until the first half of 2015, so there are still a number of changes that can occur between now and then. As is to be expected, there’s a lot more information that’ll be coming from the 40 minute interview we held with the developers behind Splatoon. Stay tuned to Game Rant for more details.
Splatoon will be arriving exclusively on the Wii U in the first half of 2015.
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Curve Studios has announced it has delayed the PS3 and Vita versions of its point-and-click survival horror game, Lone Survivor, into September. According to designer Jasper Byrne, the team would “rather release an amazing game later than a good game early.” Upon release it will be known as Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut. Thanks, Joystiq.
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Broadcom today announced a renewal of its supply deal with Apple for another two years.
This comes after rival Qualcomm and Apple set aside their differences in terms of patent and royalty disputes, dropping all litigation and signing a six-year licensing agreement that resulted in a one-time multi-billion dollar payment from Apple to Qualcomm.
Broadcom’s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, discovered by AppleInsider, states that the company will be supplying “specified radio-frequency front end components and modules for Apple’s smartphones, tablets and watches,” adding that the Cupertino firm “intends, but is not required” to buy those parts.
From the filing:
Effective June 9, 2019, certain subsidiaries of Broadcom Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a statement of work with Apple Inc. (“Apple”) providing for a supply arrangement for two years of new programs (the “Agreement”). Pursuant to the Agreement:
the Company has agreed to supply Apple with specified, radio-frequency (“RF”) front end components and modules for Apple’s smartphones, tablets and watches, and to maintain and allocate to them sufficient manufacturing capacity and other resources to make these products;
Apple intends, but is not required, to source all of its requirements for such RF front end components and modules from the Company, provided that the Company is able to meet certain development, supply, and quality commitments.
The move indicates that Apple has no plans to replace Broadcom’s wireless solutions in iPhones anytime soon. Broadcom technology powers a wireless charging module in the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max series, according to iFixit’s teardown analysis of the handsets.
In the past, Broadcom supplied Apple with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules for early iPhones.
Broadcom’s scaled-back role as an Apple supplier is yet another proof of Apple’s desire to take full control of its semiconductor destiny. However, creating wireless chips from scratch, without infringing anyone’s patents, is easier said than done. The rumor-mill and analyst reports have been saying that Apple has more than a thousand wireless engineers working on in-house modems for its products.
But aside from the company’s custom-designed W-series wireless chips in AirPods and some Beats headphones, and the new H-series headphone chip in the new AirPods and Powerbeats Pro, an Apple-branded cellular modem is most likely still years away.


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Twitch and Moat by Oracle Data Cloud have announced a new analytics and measurement tool that extends Moat measurement to Twitch’s SureStream video ads.
SureStream is important in its own right, as it makes it possible for ads to reach users who use ad-blockers but also provides a personalized and non-disruptive ad experience – tailored to an audience’s interests and product preferences.
With Moat Measurement on SureStream brands can better measure the reach and success of their campaigns, by measuring a range of things like viewability, in-view time, invalid traffic (IVT), and attention metrics.
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Keri O’Neill of Fairfield was stocking up on groceries as she discussed the pending hurricane.
“We’ve moved everything from the ground floor to higher levels of our house because we’re in a flood area,” she said. “We’re worried about tidal surge.”
O’Neill, whose family also owns a house in Vermont, has lots of experience enduring severe storms.
“We lost power for a week last time, so I have to make sure we have enough dry foods to keep the kids happy.”
Pat Smith of Fairfield wasn’t too worried about the storm. “I really think it’s not going to happen,” she said. “It’s on TV all week and makes people nervous.”
She made a big purchase at Stop & Shop and said Walmart was out of batteries.
“I know it looks like I’m panic shopping, but I’m not that worried,” she said.
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