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Before we look forward, let’s look back to the end of 2022 and see the trends that were forming and how they will affect our world in 2023.
From a hardware perspective, it was an unexciting year. Both Apple and Samsung refreshed their flagship smartphones, but most reviewers rated the changes as incremental upgrades. Mark Zuckerberg, with his eyes on changing the way people work, introduced a $1,500 virtual-reality headset. But, with only a two-hour battery, most users will strap the new headset on for gaming.
From the online world, we saw huge changes at Twitter after Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy the company. In the last few months, he has gutted the staff, suspended accounts for some journalists and reinstated several questionable users. All of this had driven Twitter users to seek alternative sites. Another social media company, TikTok, has been banned on government-issued devices at both the federal level and in several states.
Finally, in November, OpenAI introduced a chatbot called ChatGPT. In the first month of its availability, the online AI tool registered more than one million users. Given that is can produce seemingly intelligent responses to questions posed by users. Unfortunately, it can produce totally incorrect responses and couch those responses in wording that appears authoritative.
This is just a taste of what's in store for us in the upcoming year. Together with the same trends that have persisted over the past few years, like developments in electric cars and the metaverse, we can anticipate many intriguing innovations in A.I.-powered, language-processing technology. Social media might even have a resurgence.
Here are the tech developments that will invade our lives in 2023.
1.New Embedded AI Assistants. Early adopters who were astounded by ChatGPT's verbal proficiency were equally astounded by how inaccurate it can be, especially with basic mathematics. Despite their flaws, it is reasonable to expect that software developers, led by Microsoft, will embed AI technology within familiar apps like Word, Excel, Google Sheets, Craft and others. It's important to note that many of the tasks these new AI modules will tackle will be summaries with a particular interest point in mind.
Here’s an example. You’re writing a research paper on warfare and you have come across a 100-page essay on World War II. Imagine asking the AI tool to read the full document and highlight the key points regarding a certain facet of the war.
Yoav Shoham, a professor emeritus at Stanford University who contributes to the AI Index, an annual assessment on the development of artificial intelligence, said: "If you want to supplement your writing with a historical fact, you won't need to go and search the web and locate it. With just the click of a button, it'll be there."
2. Virtual reality, a.k.a. the metaverse. Tech firms have been advertising virtual reality headgear for gaming for most of the last decade, including the Quest 2, HTC Vive, and Sony PlayStation VR. Tech companies are making grand claims that these headsets will eventually transform our lives similarly to what smartphones have done so now that technology has advanced to become more potent and wireless.
One person who envisions the metaverse as a place where we may work, collaborate, and create is Mark Zuckerberg of Meta. The business thought the technology could be used as a multitasking tool for employees juggling meetings while skimming through emails and other duties when it unveiled the Quest Pro headgear this year. It remains to be seen whether Meta can realize its vision for the metaverse, given that the device's initial reception was unfavorable.
The VR drumbeat will continue in 2023. It is widely believed that Apple will unveil its first headgear, despite having previously stated that it would never use the term "metaverse." Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has provided hints about the device even though the business has released no information about it. Cook has expressed his excitement about employing augmented reality to use digital data in the real world.
“You’ll wonder how you lived your life without augmented reality, just like today you wonder: How did people like me grow up without the internet?” Mr. Cook said in September to students in Naples.
Yet, he continued, the technology will not suddenly become significant. The first version of Apple's headgear will probably be used for gaming, just like many others before it, as wireless headsets continue to be large and only used inside.
In other words, 2023 will probably still not be the year that these headsets become widely used, according to Carolina Milanesi, a consumer tech analyst for the research firm Creative Strategies. However, there will be plenty of talk about the metaverse and virtual, augmented, and mixed goggles.
“From a consumer perspective, it’s still very uncertain what you’re spending your thousand bucks on when you’re buying a headset,” she said. “Do I have to do a meeting with V.R.? With or without legs, it’s not a necessity.”
3.Electric Vehicles Beyond Tesla. Last year, Tesla continued to dominate the market for electric vehicles (EVs), but 2023 might mark a turning point for the sector. Since Mr. Musk's takeover of Twitter, Tesla's shares have fallen precipitously this year, and its reputation has suffered. The market's competitiveness is also escalating as EV manufacturers, including Ford Motor, Kia, General Motors, Audi, and Rivian, increase their output of electric vehicles.
Tesla also declared in November that it would allow other electric vehicles to use its charging port design. That would make it possible for owners of other makes of vehicles to refuel at Tesla's charging stations, which are much more numerous than other kinds of chargers.
Also, sales of gas-powered cars will be prohibited in both California and New York by 2035. All of this creates the ideal conditions for the electric car market to grow significantly beyond just one brand in 2023.
4.New Social Media Choices. Most of 2022 saw Twitter in disarray, and 2023 is expected to be no different. Last month, in reaction to the criticism, Mr. Musk conducted a Twitter "poll" asking his fans if they thought he should step down as the company's CEO. Ten million users, or a majority, chose yes, but Mr. Musk said he wouldn't leave until someone "foolish enough to do the job" was found.
TikTok is still in trouble after its Chinese parent firm, ByteDance, revealed that an internal probe had revealed that staff members had improperly collected user data from American users, including that of two journalists. The information puts pressure on the Biden administration to think about imposing even stricter limitations on the app in the US.
Whatever happens to Twitter and TikTok, it's certain that social media is undergoing a significant change. A social network called Mastodon, which resembles Twitter in appearance, has attracted many journalists, techies, and influencers. Yet many younger people have already switched to more recent apps like BeReal, where pals can keep in touch by simultaneously taking and sharing selfies.
Which new social networking app will be a huge deal in 2023 is a mystery. Mastodon has lost about 30% of the million users they gained because of changes at Twitter. Yet, one thing is for certain: Those who are offended by Twitter are looking for a friendly environment where they can hang around.


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SiliconCore announces Common Cathode LED licensing agreements
LED display technology manufacturer, SiliconCore Technology, has announced a number of licensing agreements with select LED display manufacturers, allowing access to the use of SiliconCore’s patended Common Cathode technology.
The Common Cathode process was patented in 2011, followed by the development of the first range of LED displays using the technology for ultra-high resolution and lower power consumption.
Eric Li, CEO of SiliconCore said “We focused our research and development on inefficiencies in designs of LED displays, and Common Cathode technology was the result. With the trend towards higher resolution LED displays of competitive performance specifications, and the added pressure to produce more efficient larger displays, managing the power, heat and brightness of displays based on the Common Anode technology was fast becoming an insurmountable challenge.”
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With keto-friendly recipes sweeping social media, some followers of low-carb eating are hoping for a nod of approval in the upcoming US.
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Cord cutters are real and will, in the end, use the Internet to kill cable bundles, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference.
"Young people are pretty smart. They're not going to pay for something they don't need to," Seidenberg said. "Over-the-top is going to be a pretty big issue for cable."
Seidenberg's comments were the polar opposite of those offered by Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) CFO Michael Angelakis who, during an earlier session at the same conference, dismissed cord cutters' influence and suggested that cable packages like TV Everywhere would tie consumers to service providers.
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TOKYO—Nationalist politicians and activists are wielding new clout in Japan, straining the country's ties with China and South Korea, and creating headaches for policy makers in Tokyo.
Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine—a place strongly associated with the country's imperialist past—on Wednesday, the first such visits since the Democratic Party of Japan took power three years ago. The visits further inflamed a dispute with South Korea; South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who upset Japanese officials with his visit to an islet contested by the two nations, said in a speech Wednesday that Japan must resolve issues from the World War II era before the two countries can develop better relations.
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Gamesdog.co.uk, our sister gaming site is reporting that EA's boxing game, Fight Night could be making its way on to the console from Nintendo to challenge Nintendo's Wii Boxing title.
In an interview with boxing website doghouseboxing.com, Fight Night producer Michael Blank revealed that EA is currently discussing bringing the hit boxing franchise to the Wii.
"We're talking about it right now. We're contemplating and we definitely feel there are some exciting things we can do with the Fight Night franchise and the Wii", said Blank.
He also notes that Wii Boxing is a "very simple experience" and Fight Night is very much a simulation of the sport.
"...we need to take those Wii controls and tailor it to what the Fight Night consumer might want to experience. We are looking at it right now and I am sure you will something some time in the future on the Wii", concludes Blank.
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A UK tech start-up has raised £2.2m in funding for an app to bring the livestock production process into the digital era.
The Breedr app is designed to make it easier to predict livestock production, including the date of peak profit for each animal to reach a desired specification.
The funding was raised in a seed round led by London-based Local Global. It will be used to transform the meat supply chain using smart contracts, blockchain technology, and machine learning. It includes a grant of £236k from Innovate UK.
“We are bridging the gap between farmers, processors, retailers and consumers, using big data, machine learning and machine vision,” said Ian Wheal, co-founder and CEO of Breedr.
“The aim is to reduce uncertainty and improve productivity of the whole livestock market.
“The beef, sheep and pig producers we are working with have a wealth of data about their animals and see our app as a way to directly add value.
“Today they might choose to see which animals are closest to the specification requested by their customers, but as more information is included they will be able to benchmark against other farmers in their group.”
Gary Spence, a beef farmer from Northern Ireland who has been using Breedr on trial, estimates improved profit margins by up to £120 per cow.
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Popular dating apps as OkCupid and Grindr share personal data of users, such as their sexuality and location, with about 100 other organizations, a Norwegian consumer group stated on Tuesday, as it filed a complaint about a breach of privacy policies.
The Norwegian Consumer Council discovered that 10 popular Android apps that gather sensitive data about sexual preferences, drug use, and health passed some of the data to marketing and advertising companies without clearly informing users. “These practices are out of hand what about a breach of European data protection legislation,” stated Finn Myrstad, director of digital policy, Norwegian Consumer Council.
It is impossible for users to handle this because the terms and conditions are very long and are impossible to understand, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Tech companies came less than improved scrutiny above data privacy, fuelled by 2018’s Cambridge Analytica scandal where tens of millions of Facebook profiles had been harvested without having their users’ consent.
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), heavily restricts companies’ potential to process and share private data with no users’ consent, with hefty fines for companies that break the rules.
The Norwegian Consumer Council filed a complaint against the U.S. based gay dating app Grindr on Tuesday and businesses getting data from it with Norway’s information authority, that stated it was looking at regardless of whether they’d broken GDPR rules.
As the data protection landscape continues to change, commitment to user privacy continues to be steadfast,” the company said in a declaration.
The council’s study discovered that the app, which is used by millions worldwide, shares information with a big selection of third parties concerned in profiling and advertising, some of which reserve the best to successfully pass it on to others.
“Sharing location information for people that are gay might be unsafe in some extreme circumstances,” Norway’s data safety commissioner Bjorn Erik Thon, said in a declaration.
There are still some that don’t wish to be open about their orientation, and there are lots of nations in the world in which being gay carries great risks.
The study even found that OkCupid shares data from users’ personal profiles associated with sexuality, political views and drug use with analytics firm, and the dating app Tinder shares location and age with advertising firms.
The Match Group, that owns Tinder and OkCupid, said in a statement that it used third-party providers to help its services but just shared data deemed important to run its platforms, in line with the appropriate laws.
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Dapper Labs is teaming up with NBA star Kevin Durant and his longtime sports manager Rich Kleiman on a collaboration with Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shots.
Vancouver, Canada-based Dapper Labs will partner with Durant and Kleiman’s companies — The Boardroom and Thirty Five Ventures — on nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, which can authenticate one-of-a-kind digital items.
The deal comes shortly after Dapper Labs raised $250 million and cut deals to create digital collectible NFTs with the LaLiga soccer league, and it is a new twist on the successful strategy where the company combines a popular brand with NFTs.
NFTs use the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain to authenticate items. Using NFTs, Dapper Labs was able to sell NBA Top Shot moments to fans as rare collectibles. In the past year, the company and fans have sold more than $780 million worth of the NBA Top Shot moments in the marketplace.
That has made Dapper Labs, which has come a long way since it launched CryptoKitties in November 2017, a leader in the booming NFT collectibles market. Others are getting in on the action too, as SoftBank invested $680 million in the 30-person firm Sorare, which makes an NFT-based fantasy soccer game.
The two-year Durant and Kleiman partnership will span sponsorship and activations across the sports business media network and will include a creative development role for Kevin Durant and Thirty Five Ventures. Durant, who is NBA Top Shot’s tip-off athlete, will curate and create NBA Top Shot Moments, video content, and more.
In addition to the relationship with Boardroom, Top Shot will also roll out a number of collectible experiences for fans. The company will release Dwyane Wade’s first Run It Back Moments from the 05-06 NBA Season plus a Rare Run it Back Drop. Top Shot will also be making Legendary Moments available for fans to take anywhere they want on blockchain chain starting in November.
And the company will also partner with The Milwaukee Bucks to reward 39 of Top Shot’s most avid Bucks Moment Collectors with a trip to the 75th NBA Tip-Off Game in Milwaukee. The company will also be sending avid WNBA collectors to the WNBA Finals.
Durant said in a statement, “Top Shot is the future for basketball fans – bringing them closer to players and building community across the sport in new and innovative ways. At Boardroom, we’ve also been at the forefront of the NFT space, and I’m excited to partner in advancing NFT’s further into the mainstream, creating and curating exclusive Moments and content with Top Shot.”
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This year on September 10-13, the 10th anniversary for the SAP for Utilities conference was held in Huntington Beach, CA. As a SAP partner, Avertra was a gold sponsor at the conference. Not only were their sunny skies and a beautiful beach, this conference gave utility companies the opportunity to learn about the most innovative technologies to optimize business processes.
What were companies looking for?
Smart technology that is simple to use that will enhance their SAP environment. Back office, customer facing, field service, customer service… all applications need to be simple to use. Utilities have deep roots and their processes have been slow to change so simplistic systems will best help their employees adapt to the changes. Luckily, simplistic technological solutions are surrounding the utility industry right now and a lot of them were at this conference.
To enhance the utility companies SAP environment, the vendors at the conference were showcasing services, innovative technologies, applications and other products that can be customized to suit the utility’s needs. These customized products can optimize efficiency for the utility during any step of their business process and each utility company was there looking for a specific technological solution to solve their process needs. Fortunately, Avertra has an amazing product suite fit for the entire new construction to cash cycle that is able to integrate with SAP, or any current ERP or CIS that the utility may have. Our team of technology and utility experts demonstrated our products (the MiUtility Product Suite as pictured below) and SAP services capabilities to multiple utility companies during the conference. At Avertra simplicity, synergy, and innovation are threaded into everything that we do. We are always working to make processes more efficient and right now we are working on incorporating machine learning, IoT, and bots, all while keeping the look and feel of the application simple.
Utility Professionals gathered at our booth to watch product demos
What were some noticeable trends?
This year some noticeable trends at the conference were; procurement solutions, mobile device management applications, IoT, the cloud and customer journey mapping. Four different utility companies spoke about their implementation of SAP Ariba this year, all satisfied with their shift to cloud procurement solution implementations or their track to implementation. SAP Ariba Procurement is helping utility companies to consolidate their internal and external catalog system. Next, mobile device management applications are being implemented for renewable utilities and non-renewables. Mobilizing your workforce has shown to increase efficiency and employees have shown easy adaptation to the new technology. With the cloud companies can do so much more with less, they are recognizing this and making the shift. IoT has pushed an era to be hyper-connected and SAP is at the forefront of creating IoT business solutions for the utility industry. Lastly, numerous presentations were focused on ways to improve the experience of a customer by taking a step into their shoes and looking at the entire customer journey from starting service all the way to ending service. We saw that utilities are starting to think outside the box and are looking at new emerging technologies (such as MiUtility) that can be leveraged along with their current SAP environment to ultimately create a new sense of customer delightfulness without having to upgrade their current systems and go through lengthy and costly implementations. In today’s market, customers are demanding faster responses and up to date notifications now more than ever and it is vital for utilities to always stay focused on the customer journey.
Looking over this next year…
The rapid advancement in battery and storage technologies, as well as machine learning, are topics to be watching this year as both are developing at an accelerated rate. Also, SAP is developing SAP Asset Intelligence Network which will be “a central hub that serves first as a global register of the equipment in an extended ecosystem”. It is important for utility companies to stay proactive during this time of innovational technological change in order to stay relevant and profitable.
Overall, the SAP for Utilities Conference was a success. As a team we learned what companies are looking for, trends in the industry, where we should be heading, and better ways we can serve the industry. We are already looking forward to our return to the conference as a gold sponsor in 2018.


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Details Emerge on Mercedes-AMG’s Hypercar Powertrain
Mercedes-AMG is the latest automaker to have a hypercar in the works and the brand has shared some fresh details on its upcoming Project One.
Essentially a race car for the street, AMG boss Tobias Moers showed a drivetrain mockup to a number of gathered media at the recent 24-hour endurance race at the Nurburgring, revealing the car’s F1-inspired powertrain.
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The ‘On a roll’ phrase would be an understatement for Benelli, given the current scenario. It legit feels like everyone at Benelli’s headquarters have taken something which have made them hyperactive. The Italian brand, now owned by a Chinese company unveiled a hoard of new motorcycles at the CIMA. And now, images of a presentation have leaked online which reveal that Benelli is developing as much as 10 engines which it will swap in its upcoming motorcycles. The engines displace between 250cc-1200cc and will be equipped across its portfolio.
Benelli’s parent company, QJ Motor recently joined hands with MV Agusta and will take care of the latter’s distribution in China. The symbiotic relationship will then further evolve where Benelli will carry out engine research.
The presentation has revealed that Benelli is currently working on a host of single-cylinder engines which will displace 250cc, 380cc, and 530cc. The engines will be air-cooled to keep the costs in check and are primarily being developed for price-sensitive markets. The word on the streets is that Benelli has already started working on the Imperiale 530 and it will derive power from a newly developed single-cylinder 530cc engine.
Currently, Benelli has three parallel-twin units which displace 300cc, 500cc and 750cc. Now the presentation suggests that Benelli is working on new 400cc, 700cc, and 900cc parallel-twin engines. No further details have been revealed from the company’s end but it is safe to assume that the upcoming TRK 800 ADV and a Leoncino Cross based on the existing model will come equipped with one of the aforementioned parallel-twin motors.
Benelli has been renowned for its triple-cylinder engines which were swapped in the Tornado Tre and TNT 899. The TNT 899 was once sold in India as well and garnered praises for its manic engine and extraterrestrial looks. This engine platform was laid to rest when Qianjiang acquired Benelli but is now expected to make a comeback in the form of TNT899i. The revival of the TNT 899 with a new heart will surely mean a lot of trouble for other middleweight streetfighter naked motorcycles. Benelli is expected to use an updated 900cc triple-cylinder engine in the TNT899i. For the uninitiated, it has already revealed its much larger 1,209cc engine which we have seen in the Benelli 1200GT tourer.
Benelli currently has just one 4-cylinder engine in its portfolio which is seen on the updated TNT600i and its faired cousin, the 600RR. The presentation also revealed new four-cylinder engines – a 650cc unit and a 1,000cc unit. It is worth noting that Benelli recently previewed a new engine. The unit was a four-cylinder, DOHC design and appeared to be liquid-cooled. But wait, there’s more! The casings, barrel, and layout of the engine looked to be identical to that of the older generation MV Agusta Brutale 1000.
Now that their relationship is official, it is safe to assume that the 1,000cc unit which Benelli will utilize in its future models will be based on the MV Agusta Brutale’s engine. Benelli has been absent from the litre-class game ever since it pulled the plugs on the TNT and Tre-K 1130 triples. Benelli might be looking for a way to enter the litre-class and this engine might prove to be just the right ticket!


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SAIC invests in Momenta’s new funding round
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- China’s biggest automaker SAIC Motor participated in the new financing round of Chinese leading autonomous driving startup Momenta after it became the startup’s biggest institutional investor in March, the automaker announced on Wednesday without disclosing the amount of the investment.
Both parties will further deepen their strategic cooperation in core technologies of intelligent driving, jointly develop full-stack intelligent driving algorithm and accelerate the application L4 autonomous driving in China, the automaker added in a statement.
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The startup will accelerate its IPO plan and have the intent to set up a joint venture with BYD to promote the implementation of autonomous driving technologies, the outlet reported citing sources close to the matter.
In March this year, Momenta said it had raised $500 million for its Series C funding, which was led by SAIC Motor, Toyota, Bosch, Temasek and YunFeng Capital. Other investors include Mercedes-Benz, GGV Capital, ShunWei Capital, Tencent and Cathay Capital. After the round, SAIC became the largest shareholder of Momenta.
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According to the Shanghai-based auto giant, the first model under “IM”, the smart BEV brand jointly developed by SAIC, Shanghai Pudong New Area and Alibaba Group, will adopt the technical solution from Momenta. The model will go on sale in 2022.
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We broke the news yesterday that MyCash, a service that is seeking to help people track their expenses, has been announced as the winner of the Nokia “Create 4 Millions – West Africa” contest. MyCash was one of the several applications submitted by local developers to both the local and global contest.
Nokia West Africa launched a local version of the global contest in June 2011 to find outstanding local apps Nokia and the competition ran for about 4 months. After series of review by the jury, Nokia West Africa has just announced the winner. According to the information made available to us yesterday, Friday, 03 February 2012, West African developers were one of the most active in participating in the competition.
The competition jury has thus selected the following TOP3 winners:
MyCash by teXs, will receive a prize of 5000 USD and all the 3 finalist will be sponsored to go to Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona! Nokia hopes to give global exposure to these developers by taking them to world largest mobile conference. We believe that this will definitely open doors of opportunities for them to grow their businesses! We believe that this will also encourage other developers to roll out apps that solve immediate human needs.
What is MyCash?
MyCash was one of the 9 startups launched in May 2011 at Garage48 event in Lagos, Nigeria. The application was also pitched to investors at Mobile Monday’s Pitch Monday in July 2011. MyCash is an avenue for you to keep track of how much is going out of your pocket at a granular level. The application lets you find information concerning purchases of goods that you already made. It also enables you to get direct and factual information without too much speculation concerning a purchase you intend making. If you use a Series 40 device and will like to try the app out, click here.
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Mobile 360 – Latin America
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Rapid digital transformation in Latin America is ushering in an era of disruption, innovation, and competition. The number of IoT connections is set to triple between 2017 and 2025, reaching 1.3 Billion, and smart phone penetration is set to reach 78% by 2025, according to the Mobile Economy Report – Latin America and the Caribbean 2018. Successful businesses are embracing the latest technology trends to add value to their organisations and stay ahead of the competition.
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DOOM developer id Software wants to make the best looking game at 1080p and 60 frames-per-second.
At QuakeCon 2015 over the weekend, DOOM was shown to attendees and Bethesda announced the multiplayer alpha. Naturally, technical questions about the game started pouring in.
Gamespot was among those asking executive producer Marty Stratton about the studio’s priorities when it comes to making a DOOM game.
“When you’re developing, you make thousands of decisions that have an impact on performance or visual fidelity,” said Stratton. “We’ve always been at the forefront of saying we want our games to run as fast as possible at the highest resolution possible.
“So for us, that goal is 1080p and 60 FPS. Along with that goal, the mantra of our technology team is that we want to be the best-looking game out there at 60 FPS and 1080p. So you draw that line in the sand.”
Stratton added that these technicalities mean something to the “feel” of the game. The frame-rate in particular is part of the game’s fluidity. “If you do your best to give [consumers] a very consistent experience and a very high-quality experience, which for us is a fast, fluid 60 FPS, I think that’s the most important thing.
“It’s when you cut corners and you end up with a game that doesn’t feel that good, and it’s slow, and it’s just a hodgepodge of a lack of focus throughout, that’s when things start going awry. I think we’ll hit all of our goals.”
We’re expecting DOOM in 2016 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.


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Turkey’s new generation technology company Cerebrum Tech introduced the Cereverse ecosystem. In Cereverse, which provides experience in many fields from economy to health, from education to entertainment, users contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with their actions in the digital world. Cerebrum Tech Founder and Chairman of the Board Dr. R. Erdem Erkul said, “Although we take a lot from the world, we give back much less in return. One of our most important responsibilities is to provide better living conditions for future generations with developing technology while protecting nature. With the Cereverse ecosystem, we aim to produce the most value while providing the best experience in many areas.”.
Producing technologies that shape the future, Cerebrum Tech continues to be a pioneer with effective and sustainable solutions in digital transformation. Cerebrum Tech introduced the Cereverse ecosystem, which makes it possible to support needs in many fields from economy to health, from education to entertainment with production in the digital world. The Cereverse ecosystem leverages blockchain, web 3.0, NFT and metaverse technologies to provide the best experience for users and generate the highest value.
Contribution to the UN Sustainability Goals
CereCity, the 3D digital smart city that was created to make the world a more livable and sustainable place, is not just a place where people socialize, explore, have fun, celebrate and work in harmony. At the same time, it is a place for people where they contribute to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals with the activities they carry out, their production, the events they participate in and the tasks they complete. All actions and activities in Cerecity are designed and constructed to support productivity and contribute to the real world. This digital smart city has everything… CereCity, which has many activity areas such as an education institute, science laboratory, shopping center, art gallery, movie theater and sports complex, aims to slow down the consumption of resources in our physical world while offering people digital accessibility in different areas. With the production areas in CereCity, various activities can be carried out from manufacturing and retail to agriculture and animal husbandry, forestry to mining. In these production areas, people have the opportunity to learn and practice how to produce more efficiently and in a more environmentally friendly way in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Cerebrum Tech Business Development Director and Cereverse Project Leader Mustafa Furkan Örs said, “The idea and world of metaverse existed only with the concept of games and socialization in previous years. However, this trend has now started to turn into a form where people can interact and produce in those ecosystems. With the Cereverse ecosystem, we aim to contribute to our physical world with the activities and tasks we will perform in the digital world, thus transforming the current consumption economy into a more sustainable consumption and more efficient production.’’.
Building a new ecosystem with digital assets and DAOs
Tokens and NFTs, which are digital asset units, will be used for transactions on Cereverse. These assets will provide users with digital ownership, collectability, transfer of value, accessibility and interoperability. Cereverse users will be able to temporarily or permanently own a variety of digital assets such as avatars, items and supplies, tickets, collectibles and keys. The NFT Marketplace application, where these assets will be traded, will allow the use of traditional and new generation payment methods at the same time to make users feel more comfortable.
The DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization, will be responsible for the management of the Cereverse ecosystem. By listening to the wishes, needs and concerns of the community, it will ensure the continuous improvement and development of the ecosystem, as well as ensure its management in a transparent and impartial manner in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals in order to use the income obtained from the ecosystem with the goal of a more livable and sustainable world.
“We give back to the world what we take from the world”
Cerebrum Tech Founder and Chairman of the Board Dr. R. Erdem Erkul said, “Our world has limited resources with humanity’s current carbon footprint dwindling faster than ever before. As a society, although we take a lot from the world to live, socialize, have fun, work, produce and consume, we give back much less in return. One of our most important responsibilities is to provide better living conditions for future generations with developing technology while protecting nature. The Cereverse ecosystem also aims to establish a positive and sustainable link between technology and the environment by making use of emerging concepts such as blockchain, web 3.0, metaverse, NFT and DAO.”.
“Metaverse will make a revolutionary impact”
Erkul said that with Web 3.0, personalized products can be produced for everyone, and a new virtual world has begun where every user is also a content producer. He stated that a new digital world is being built that provides the combination of the real and virtual worlds, allowing people to communicate and even move through different devices. Erkul added, “The metaverse, which allows us to experience both the real and virtual worlds at the same time, will have a revolutionary effect due to the innovations it contains. In this way, our physical and digital presence will become more integrated, in fact, the time we currently spend on screens will become more enjoyable, lively and productive.”.
Sharing Gartner’s predictions about the metaverse, Erkul said that by 2026, 25 percent of all people are expected to spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse in some areas such as work, shopping, education or entertainment/culture.
Metaverse will shape production and education
- Thanks to digital-based experience in many different sectors such as fashion houses, clothing companies and furniture manufacturers, personalized shopping opportunities will emerge in the metaverse, while production efficiency will increase and waste will decrease thanks to direct customer-oriented design.
- Implementing hybrid and remote working models in the metaworld will become much easier and more fun. With the increase in socialization and effective communication in the virtual world, teamwork will bring more productive results.
- Metaverse will become the most important instrument that will enable equality in education. Thanks to applied education opportunities, learning in the metaverse will be supported by virtual experiences, thus content accessibility and quality will increase. Application based lectures such as experiments and laboratories will become more enjoyable and productive with virtual reality tools. Experiments can be carried out in a much safer environment.
- In Metaverse, apart from supporting educational institutions, natural disaster drills and occupational safety trainings will be held in a much faster and safer environment. Applications and simulations that will reduce the risk of loss of life and property will be created by professionals and made available to everyone.
- Thanks to the remote support solutions to be used by healthcare professionals and candidates, the new era with the motto of “accessible healthcare services for everyone” will begin for people all over the world with the disappearance of physical borders. Students and healthcare professionals will have the opportunity to experience a closest way of reality in the digital environments of the metaverse for the subjects they cannot work on cases, cadavers and surgical operations.
Turkey’s new generation technology company, Cerebrum Tech, which offers effective and sustainable solutions for digital transformation, was founded in 2021. Cerebrum Tech with its expert staff; develops applications at global standards in the fields of smart cities, metaverse, sustainability and cyber security, as well as robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, data security and consultancy. Its operating sectors include smart cities, education, health, industry, automotive and defense industries. While Cerebrum Tech advances with the vision of being a reliable and leading technology company, it continues its activities in offices located in Silicon Valley, Istanbul, Seoul, Ankara, London and the Netherlands. It aims to be an international technology hub that believes in the potential of young people.


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End is nigh for Claims Direct
PERSONAL injury specialist Claims Direct is nearing the end of the road after falling into receivership.
Some 140 jobs are now in the balance as the Telford-based company withdrew a request for an administration order at the High Court. In a statement to the City, Claims Direct said its request had been opposed by Abbey National's finance house First National Bank, one of its creditors.
Control of the business will now pass to Deloitte & Touche, administrative receivers appointed by First National.
Claims Direct chief executive Ronnie Henderson said: 'It became clear that the continuance of the petition for an administration order would lead to a prolonged legal wrangle, which I believe would be damaging for all concerned'.
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Dar es Salaam — The government has granted permission to for use of Tanzania’s principal port of Dar es Salaam to ship cashew nuts that are exported outside the country.
Earlier this year the government announced all cashew nuts will be exported through the Mtwara port, stating that Dar port Dar Port was congested.
Announcing the decision yesterday, Agriculture deputy minister Mr Hussein Bashe said the access of empty containers and severe increase of freight charges were among the challenges facing the Mtwara Port for exporting cashews produced in Mtwara, Lindi and Ruvuma regions.
He said traders are charged between $120 and $190 for transporting one tonne of the produce at the Mtwara Port which is about $100 more when compared to $74 charged to a similar consignment at the Dar es Salaam Port.
“The shortage of containers is a global issue caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and the shift in global supply chain making it more expensive to transport cargo using the Mtwara Port,” he said.
“Following these challenges, President Samia has instructed the use of both (Mtwara and Dar es Salaam) ports in order to give traders choices of export ports and reduce costs of transportation.”
Mr Bashe who doubles as Nzega Urban MP said the decision also aims at meeting the global market window, saying Tanzania cashew season ends in the early months of the following year before buyers turn to other markets including Ivory Coast.
According to him, there will be enough flexibility, noting that the Cashewnut Board of Tanzania (CBT) is there for provision of export permits to ensure all the 47,000 tonnes of cashews are immediately exported.
“This year cashew prices haven’t fallen, it is at the average of $1.3; $1.4 and $1.6 per Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) price. Following the President’s decision, the ministry believes that buyers will resume the market as well as start offering competitive and just prices,” he said.
He said the government wasn’t planning to make any intervention in the cashew competitive market, noting, however that the belief was that fairness would prevail during auctions after the sone of the challenges have been addressed.
Mr Bashe said earlier, the government reduced wharfage charges from one percent to 0.5 percent; providing containers storage containers from 14 days to 60 days that was extended to the whole season by the Tanzania Ports Authourity (TPA) in order to attract business at the Mtwara Port.
Handling charges and costs charged to ship owners have also been reduced by over 33 percent.


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5 February, 2016. 11:05
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT
Media icon and hedonistic functional alcoholic, Karl Stefanovic, has revealed his newest business venture on breakfast television this morning: The Logie Smugglers.
In what can only be described as a blatant conflict of interest and a shameless promotion of his own brand, the Today Show Co-Host debuted his new line of male swimmers on-air shortly before selling out all sizes between XL – 4XL.
“It’s always great to give back to my fans,” says the career journalist.
“I can’t think of a better way to say thank you than by putting my face all over their crotch,”
The new line of male “banana hammocks” – made in partnership with iconic swimwear label, Budgy Smuggler – spells Karl Stefanovic’s third entrepreneurial side-project, outside of breakfast television.
“After my personalised dating app (Karl’s Matchmaker) failed, I was a bit rattled by the business world – that whole thing went pear-shaped around the same time as my pub in Punchbowl closed its doors. My mates and I drank that place dry, the fact that we didn’t have a kitchen in the thing didn’t help,”
“But the Logie Smugglers, mate. They are a big hit. This is my cash cow!”
Mr Stefanovic, who once worked as a cadet journalist at The Advocate, says the fact that the dick stickers are Australian-made should be enough for anyone. Let alone the fact that they “are plastered with his handsome mug”.
“Budgy Smuggler is an all-Australian brand, and I’m an all-Australian man. I look forward to seeing these things being eaten up by ‘dadbods’ right across our nation’s beaches!”
Karl joins a long list of high-profile men who claim allegiance to the dick-sticker style of male swimwear, namely Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama who have both been pictured in the iconic Australian brand over the last year.


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Travel companies are already trying to get Americans to leave the country, before Donald Trump even takes office.
Airlines, hotels, travel sites and other industry players offered discounts on vacations and flights after Trump won the U.S. presidential election Tuesday night.
Most notably, the budget provider Spirit Airlines emailed customers to promote 75 percent discounts on flights to Canada.
The offer came early Wednesday, as many Americans were still processing the news and the popular vote was still being tallied.
Booking.com told its Twitter followers to "detox from the election" and book any trip on its site (no discount included).
Plenty of smaller hotels and cruise companies also tried to capitalize on Americans' desire to take a vacation.
Florida's Tween Waters Inn, however, might have overestimated Americans' desire to visit the state after its close election results.
The deals could persuade Americans who fantasize about escaping to Canada or, um, Florida. The travel site Cheapflights.com claimed that searches for one-way flights to Canada were up 133 percent the day after election day compared to searches in the same period over the last four weeks.


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With 2011 now behind us, the magazine industry can be relieved it survived relatively unscathed. Yes, there have been job losses and restructuring, but there have been very few mainstream closures and some titles are going great. However, there is a definite feeling that the sector is at a fork in the road. The BBC magazines are in new hands, Future has lost its high-profile figurehead in Stevie Spring, apps are springing up left, right and centre, and new names (or rather old names, in Mark Frith) are being brought in to shake things up.
What happens in 2012 will depend on whether the industry manages to ride the waves caused by these changes and then makes some good decisions about the crucial issues it faces in the immediate future.
The past couple of years have seen a real step change in the way the public receive magazines and what they want from publications. There is less of a demand for Heat-style celebrity gossip by women and men no longer want the salacious, tits-and-bums content of the 90s and early 00s. As a result, last year saw men's magazines in serious decline. The likes of Nuts and Zoo continue to struggle, while traditionally more upmarket titles such as Esquire are becoming more mainstream in search of new readers, mainly by sticking a lot more flesh on the cover. It's something of a surprise that we got to the end of 2011 without many casualties in the magazine market and I can't believe there won't be more closures in 2012; there are certainly some very hard times ahead.
The strong and buoyant frees such as ShortList, Stylist and Sport prove people still love magazines and that they can reach a new audience - in this case, the younger commuters at whom the titles are aimed. That this crucial audience will still reach for magazine content is hugely important and eschews the naysayers' claims that the press is doomed. Titles still need to fight for their place in people's hearts and hands, via whatever platform they can.
To that end, tablets provide a new approach for magazines to really embrace their brand identity. People don't read magazines online and it's unrealistic to expect people to read them on their mobile phones, as you simply don't have the same experience. But no magazine should be without an app: tablets make great quality editorial content that is interactive, engaging and, just like their old-fashioned printed sister, portable.
Magazine apps must be paid for. The industry wasted the opportunity when it gave away magazine content for free on the web; it can't afford not to monetise it now. To get ownership of strong positioning on, say, the Vogue app, in the way some luxury and prestige clients have first refusal in print, will be imperative to clients as tablet uptake increases.
If magazines are to flourish in 2012, they need to be strong and stand firm by their brands. The public are spending a fortune on monthlies and publishers need to realise people are choosing magazines because of the edited choice that magazine brands stand for: they should live and die by it. It doesn't matter what platform they read it on, they just want a consistent voice. If editorial messages are inconsistent across platforms, people will think it's not for them, lose interest and then you've lost them on any platform. Strong, consistent brands are what people want. In five years, I'm sure there will be a different platform again; but whatever that is, it should be about your brand being there and doing it right.
Instead of being streamlined, editorial teams are key in building brands and need to be supported. While once journalists were employed to write for the magazine and nothing more, today they are writing the print edition, the iPad version, Tweeting, keeping a blog and so on - it's never-ending and inevitably results in a reduction in editorial quality, which risks alienating readers.
What needs to happen is for publishers to do some serious work on their agency marketing, rather than being inward-facing. Cost-saving is a necessary evil across all businesses at the moment, but it is crucial that this is not to the detriment of the overall product representation. There has been a lot of change in the past 12 months, with the likes of Hearst and Hachette merging and IPC having a complete restructure. The trouble now, though, is that there is less investment in the industry's future, evident by the lack of resources available to actually sell the magazines into media agencies.
The new generation of graduates and planners struggle to understand or differentiate between many magazine brands and know what each magazine stands for. Magazine publishers are reducing their staff and running costs, the result of which is fewer magazine brand champions. We need these ambassadors to make us passionate about their magazines and give us a reason to buy space and in turn sell their brands to our clients (especially since the demise of the Professional Publishers Association marketing department), promoting the industry both internally to strategists and to clients. Even though the PPA is now being reformed, we are way off receiving the day-to-day support we need.
Advertising needs to be more accountable and magazines need to stand up against other media and fight for their place on schedules. Magazines aren't dying - on average, 30 million magazines were sold every month in the latter half of 2011. People will always read them, be they on paper, tablet or tomorrow's format, in the same way a child will always pick up a book because it is such an engaging activity. But in 2012, the focus needs to be on getting the voice and the positioning consistent across every platform.
The British public love magazines, and that isn't even close to disappearing. We love them for their fantastic content and the wonderful experience they regularly provide their readers. The industry now needs to be brave during these troubled financial times and embrace essential and urgent change. If it does that this year, it will ultimately emerge stronger and retain its readers' loyalty. Yes, there will be some casualties along the way, but I believe those that survive will make for a stronger UK magazine sector moving forward.
Vanessa Doyle is the press director at Initiative.


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Resident Evil: Degeneration CGI Sequel?deth_banger
While Milla Jovovich is kicking ass at the box office with the recently released Resident Evil Afterlife 3D. Capcom have announced that they will producing a follow up to the CGI movie Resident Evil: Degeneration.
I have only just recently watched Degeneration and I must say WOW! That was awesome! It had everything I wanted from a Resident Evil movie, as it followed the games and tied in with my favorite Resident Evil game ever Resident Evil 2.
The upcoming sequel will be titled Resident Evil: Damnation and it will continue to follow Leon S. Kennedy and is said to be released in Japan in 2012, so it's still a fair way away but it will feature full stereoscopic 3D support. Do any of you guys know what that means? I am lost in all this technology, I'm only just getting to know what HD actually stands for. :D
Any thoughts, which do you prefer the CG movies or the live action? Maybe you just love Resident Evil and anything will do?


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Goom Radio Gets $16M In Funding
April 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM (PT)
GOOM RADIO (goomradio.com), a newly founded NEW YORK-based online radio company, has secured approximately $16 million (12.2 million Euros) in funding from WELLINGTON PARTNERS VENTURE CAPITAL, ELAIA PARTNERS and PARTECH INTERNATIONAL in its Series A round. The company plans to launch its U.S. service later this year.
"We see something fundamentally disruptive in GOOM RADIO; the company is evolving one of the few remaining mediums that hasn’t been over-hauled by the web. Printed news, television, music and movies have been transformed by the web and now it is radio’s turn," said WELLINGTON PARTNERS General Partner ERIC ARCHAMBEAU. "This combined with the stellar executive team put together by ROB WILLIAMS, and a promising business model make the timing right for the evolution of the radio industry online."
GOOM RADIO U.S. was launched in MARCH 2009 and operates from the historic former CLEAR CHANNEL Z100 studios in JERSEY CITY. The company is led by WILLIAMS, former Pres./Market Manager for CLEAR CHANNEL/NEW YORK, and Chief Sales Officer DREW HILLES, who led DMARC BROADCASTING through an acquisition by GOOGLE, where he served as a director for four years.
"GOOM RADIO has set out to change the way radio is perceived by creating a unique alternative to what is currently available in the world of radio both online and off," said WILLIAMS. "Receiving the support of WELLINGTON PARTNERS, PARTECH and ELAIA, all of which have strong experience in this space, validates our belief that there is tremendous potential for this offering."
GOOM RADIO CEO ROB WILLIAMS spoke to ALL ACCESS about the funding: "We're very happy about the money and our three partners, WELLINGTON PARTNERS VENTURE CAPITAL, ELAIA PARTNERS and PARTECH INTERNATIONAL. We work very closely with them for all phases of this operation.
"Yes, GOOM RADIO is an advertiser-supported strategy that we are developing. We have had a successful launch in FRANCE (OCTOBER 2008) and we are looking at launch in GERMANY in the SPRING of this year, and here in JULY.
"We currently have six full-time programmers, headed by TIM HERBSTER, and once fully staffed there will be around 50 of us, both full and part-time in programming, sales, marketing and support. We are starting to aggressively interview and hire. For programming, send the resumes to TIM at email@example.com, and for all other posts, send the resumes to Chief Sales Officer DREW HILLES at firstname.lastname@example.org."


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LEHIGHTON, PA, USA – (October 16, 2012) – TPEI (Technical Process and Engineering, Inc.), a leading manufacturer of continuous mixer and single screw extruders for the plastics and rubber industry, has made a major capital investment in equipment by adding a new 5-axis CNC machining center to help produce rotors for its continuous mixers.
“The addition of this new large-capacity equipment gives us the ability to increase productivity and accuracy as well as develop and manufacture new rotor geometries,” said Harold Schafer, CEO at TPEI. The purchase of the new equipment reflects the increasing demand from current and potential customers for new rotors. “The addition of this new machine, which went on line in July, means that we have a center solely dedicated to manufacturing rotors,” said Schafer. “While the primary concentration will be standard style #15 and #7 rotors ranging in size from 1in (2.54cm) to 9in (22.86cm) diameter, the new equipment also gives us the capacity to manufacture up to 12in (30.48cm) diameters upon request.”
Standard turnaround (if not in stock) is 14-16 weeks, depending on material type and coatings. Materials include a variety of base metals ranging from alloy steels to tool steel plus a variety of chrome and carbide coatings. “By decreasing manufacturing time, we can maintain an inventory of “ready-to-ship” rotors,” said Schafer. “This is key to servicing our customers in the time frames they demand.”For over 30 years, TPEI has been in the forefront of innovation in the design and manufacture of state-of-the-art compounding equipment and replacement parts. It operates in a 22,000ft2 (2044m2) facility in Lehighton, Pennsylvania and has 20 employees. For more information, please contact TPEI at 570-386-4777, or visit www.tpei.com.


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But now another crisis has emerged: Ciber, the third-party company hired to roll out the PeopleSoft system, went bankrupt in April of this year, only to have its assets scooped up by HTC, a Michigan company — and HTC then cancelled its contract with the school system and sued for $13 million, claiming the failed rollout was due to "internal dysfunction" on the colleges' part.
Crouse says that this sort of mutual animosity is not uncommon. "You get into cases where the client is unhappy with the work the implementation firm has done and so they sue them. You also get into issues of the client’s not happy so they stop paying the bills. Then you have the third parties that sometimes get involved from a vendor reseller perspective. You can see either side being the plaintiff or the defendant, based on who got mad first."
The rollout is meanwhile stuck in limbo.
3. Woolworth's Australia: The death of institutional memory
The Australian outpost of the venerable department store chain, affectionately known as "Woolies," also ran into data-related problems as it transitioned from a system built 30 years ago in-house to SAP. One of the biggest crises that arose was that profit-and-loss reports tailored for individual stores, which managers were accustomed to receiving every week, couldn't be generated for nearly 18 months.
The problem lay in the change in data collection procedures, but the root cause was a failure of the business to fully understand its own processes. The day-to-day business procedures weren't properly documented, and as senior staff left the company over the too-long six-year transition process, all that institutional knowledge was lost — and wasn't able to be baked into the new rollout.
"I often see companies that don’t take the people who really know business processes and dedicate them to the ERP rollout," says Crouse. "They make it a part-time job, or they hire new people to tell the system guys what to build. None of that works. You have to really dedicate the people who know the process that you’re trying to get right, full-time. And it’s a common theme that, when you don’t dedicate those people, you get into trouble."
4. Target Canada: Garbage in, garbage out
Many companies rolling out ERP systems hit snags when it comes to importing data from legacy systems into their shiny new infrastructure. When Target was launching in Canada in 2013, though, they assumed they would avoid this problem: there would be no data to convert, just new information to input into their SAP system.
But upon launch, the company's supply chain collapsed, and investigators quickly tracked the fault down to this supposedly fresh data, which was riddled with errors— items were tagged with incorrect dimensions, prices, manufacturers, you name it. Turns out thousands of entries were put into the system by hand by entry-level employees with no experience to help them recognize when they had been given incorrect information from manufacturers, working on crushingly tight deadlines. An investigation found that only about 30 percent of the data in the system was actually correct.
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One of the businesses that witnessed the most dramatic transformation in the coronavirus pandemic is the Grocery business. And now, with people preferring online shopping over traditional shopping, the trend of digital business transformation is on the rise.
WHAT HAS CHANGED NOW?
You can’t deny the fact the COVID-19 has flipped the world upside-down. No one predicted that the whole world would be lockdown and people have to shut themselves in their houses. Businesses have to find new ways to reach out to customers and have to cop up with the urgent demand for essentials and other items. Well, consumers adjusted to at-home activities like cooking, exercising, online shopping, etc…
The consumer’s behavioral shift also brought changes in shopping habits, which gave rise to digital grocery shopping habits. According to Statista reports, during the COVID-19 outbreak in the USA, the share of online grocery shoppers increased by up to 37% in the fourth week of March, which was 11% in the first week of March. In other words, the coronavirus pandemic tripled the numbers of online grocery shoppers.
Not only in the USA, but the pandemic fractured shopping habits of people worldwide; pushing them to try new ways to buy food, essential items, etc. Due to this, businesses have to look for new ways to meet consumers’ demands.
TRANSFORMING GROCERY BUSINESS
Following are some reasons that every grocery business owners should know to understand why digitalization is a key ingredient to win over quickly changing market:
TAKING BUSINESS ONLINE
The grocery shopping trend is still on the rise. Retailers have started to move from brick-n-mortar stores to other selling forms. Because of the ongoing online shopping trends, even the small business owners are slowly innovating their store practices. Well, one of the easiest ways to tackle the changes occurring due to coronavirus is by offering a from-home shopping experience by taking the business online.
Not only it’ll be convenient for your existing consumers, but it will also enable you to expand your customer base. With the LOGIC Aaptak app, you can enable online grocery shopping at your store. It also allows your store to be discovered by the app users who never visit your store often. It will help your grocery store business on many levels, including sending bills to consumers, easy record-keeping, easy integration with ERP software, flexible payment processing, etc…
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION
The whole world is affected by the pandemic, which has put a lot of strain on businesses worldwide. But for grocery businesses, it’s a great opportunity to innovate and integrate digital solutions into store operations. With LOGIC cloud-based ERP solutions for grocery stores, you get better relationship management capabilities. You can reach your customer any time, provide regular consumers with best deals, coupon codes, send customized SMS, etc.
As a retailer, you get the ability to understand your target customer shopping habits. With cloud-based ERP software, you can access the reports and data from anywhere and anytime. Use that data to take the necessary steps to increase the sales rate and get better ROI.
The global lockdown might have ended, but the future is still uncertain. People have adapted to new shopping habits, and this percentage is increasing day-by-day. As a grocery retailer, you should adapt to digital business trends if you want to survive in the post-COVID-19 era. LOGIC ERP cloud-based business software for grocery store owners provides the best-in-the-industry solution to upscale the business. Contact us to know more.


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The National Economic and Development Authority warns that the projected shortages in fish, pork and vegetable supply must be addressed to keep prices stable especially amid the wet season and La Niña threatening food production by year end.
Citing estimates of the Department of Agriculture as of mid-July, Neda said pork supply would end 2021 with a 199,344 metric ton deficit, or 45 days’ worth of stock, despite a 175.9 percent year-on-year jump in imports during the first half.
The government slashed tariffs and increased quotas on pork to ramp up importation amid the local African swine fever outbreak but Neda warned government to remain vigilant amid reports of new ASF cases in other countries like Germany.
Besides a possible pork shortage, Neda said “lowland vegetable production and fisheries supply are also expected to undershoot at 1,267,804 MT and 133,135 MT, or only at 80% and 96 percent sufficiency level, respectively,” citing DA and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources reports last month.
Even as headline inflation returned to within-target 4 percent last month, food prices rose 5.1 percent year-on-year due to more expensive vegetables and faster fish price hikes caused by low supply. Rising fuel prices also jacked up delivery costs of these products.
The DA is planning to fast track the issuance of the certificate of necessity to import to cover the domestic demand gap for fish during the closed fishing season starting October. It is also counting on the availability of highland vegetables to offset the deficit in its lowland counterparts and ease price pressures on food products. Because of importation, rice stock is also expected to surpass demand by end-2021.
We wish the government the best of luck as it works to ensure the availability of food products and ease potential price pressures for the rest of the year, especially as parts of the country remain under stricter lockdown measures due to the surge in COVID-19 cases as the already struggling Filipino people will be unable to bear it if the added burdens of food shortages and higher inflation rates will be added to their growing list of problems.*


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A Harvard biostatistician dropped the idea to use an Apple Watch in a research study due to the inconsistency of the smartwatch’s data. It was found that Apple Watch shows data after it’s analyzed and filtered through an algorithm, and the algorithm changes, frequently.
As reported by The Verge, researchers call algorithms of commercial devices ‘black boxes’ which are a consistent challenge. As companies update their software often to offer improvements but those changes are pushed without a warning which unfortunately changes the data collected from the same time period.
Unless researchers gain access to raw data on Apple Watch, the smartwatch is a reliable device to be used in studies
Aware of the ‘black boxes” impact, JP Onnela, associate professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and developer of the open-source data platform Beiwe tested Apple Watch’s data reliability before starting the study.
Onnela checked the heart rate data of a collaborator exported for his Apple Watch twice: September 5th, 2020, and April 15th, 2021. Theoretically, the data should have been identical, but it was found:
Rather than showing the raw data collected by a device, the products usually only let researchers export information after it has been analyzed and filtered through an algorithm of some kind.
Companies change their algorithms regularly and without warning, so the September 2020 export may have included data analyzed using a different algorithm than the April 2021 export. “What was surprising was how different they were. This is probably the cleanest example that I have seen of this phenomenon.”
Furthermore, Olivia Walch, a sleep researcher who works with wearable and app data at the University of Michigan said:
Constantly changing algorithms makes it almost prohibitively difficult to use commercial wearables for sleep research. Sleep studies are already expensive. “Are you going to be able to strap four FitBits on someone, each running a different version of the software, and then compare them? Probably not.”
Companies have incentives to change their algorithms to make their products better. “They’re not super incentivized to tell us how they’re changing things.”
Looking at the Apple Watch heart rate data, Onnela concludes that “it was enough to make his team back away from plans to use the devices in studies. He thinks commercial wearables should only be used if raw data is available, or, at minimum, if researchers are able to get a heads-up when an algorithm is going to change.”


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New and more affordable options for companies planning to implement new identification management protocol have become readily available in recent weeks. Oberthur Technologies, a leader in plastic ID card printer systems, announced the development of their latest product of February 26. Kyocera also announced the release of new printhead for plastic ID cards.
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By now, most Olympic viewers have seen the commercial featuring such notable celebrities from British Columbia as actor Michael J. Fox, actress Kim Cattrall and Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash promoting tourism to the province. Another marketing technique has been the use of customized neck lanyards emblazoned with the slogan "You Gotta Be Here."
Kyocera, a Japanese company, announced on February 17 that it has developed a new ID card printhead believed to be the fastest and most efficient currently on the market. The company plans to begin mass production of the units on March 1, 2010.
Volunteers at the ongoing Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia were thrilled to receive ID badges for a number of reasons. Not only do they receive a souvenir for their service, but the implementation of the plastic ID cards has made the event more secure, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


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KATHMANDU (REPUBLICA): Civil Mall has launched ´Dashain Tihar Malamal Festival´ offer in which customers can get various gift hampers through a lucky draw. According to Nishant Shrestha, head of marketing and communication at Civil Mall, customer buying goods worth Rs 1,000 and above can get a lucky coupon through which they get a chance to win various gift hampers.
Through the coupon customers can get a free drink instantly, win cash voucher, silver coins and home appliances every week, all paid trip to Dubai and Pulsar NS 200 bike in the lucky draw that opens soon after Dashain and win diamond necklace and new Tata Indica V2 car in a lucky draw conducted during Tihar.
“This is the biggest festival offer we are providing for our customers. There is a chance that a single customer can win weekly prize, Dashain prize as well as Tihar prize,” said Shrestha. The scheme started from September 22 and will be valid till November 13


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With security breaches occurring at an alarming rate and becoming ever more severe, companies are wrestling with the question of how much security is enough to protect their customers' privacy and their own legal positions. A carefully planned security strategy is essential for firms to ensure their critical data isn't compromised. When looking at the big picture of a company's infrastructure needs, it's clear that network solutions are key, but it is equally important for organizations to invest in other aspects of security.
When talking about employees committing intentional or unintentional security breaches, outbound email is a major security concern.
Think about how many communications come in and out through this medium. Unintended distribution of email happens often and can cause major damage to businesses of any size (think about the recent Starbucks fiasco http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=93).
Great article on this issue and email anti-theft software that can be used to stop it from the Seattle Times.


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A truth-detection system being funded by the EU could help distinguish fact from fiction online. Not that the Internet ever lies, of course.
Two Sin City casinos have begun allowing guests to use the virtual currency when paying for hotel stay, restaurants, and gift shops.
Chris Barrett, the same intrepid Google Glass explorer who recently filmed an arrest with his device, decides to probe the sensitivities of Glass action in a casino. The results are instructive.
Eyeglasses that would let users snap a photo or shoot a video with a slight head movement are being banned in gambling establishments across the U.S.
The estate of JRR Tolkien is suing the producers of The Hobbit for US$80 million for online slot machines that apparently breach contract.
Financial services company aims to provide a secure, insured banking service that will take the cryptocurrency mainstream.
Federal regulator finds the cryptocurrency qualifies as "money or something of value" but imposes restriction on its use.
Government agency cautions about the use of cryptocurrencies, saying they’re more likely to be used by “fraudsters to perpetrate fraudulent investment schemes.”
A Chinese mathematician believes there's a "conditioned response" in the playing patterns of the famous game.
Curious to see what happens if they create a Bitcoin economy, two MIT students raise $500,000 to distribute among their classmates.


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New enhancements to LTE network and year-round investments to ensure reliable coverage in emergency situations.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In the 25th anniversary year of Hurricane Hugo, Verizon Wireless has prepared its network and emergency response teams to serve Tennessee customers in the event of major storms this hurricane season. Year-round intensive investments and preparations ensure Verizon customers can rely on the nation's largest wireless network to keep them connected during severe weather and throughout the year.
The company recently announced the expansion of its newest technology – known as XLTE – to more Tennessee locations to boost 4G LTE network capacity and enhance high-speed services for customers. XLTE utilizes Verizon's AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) spectrum, which allows Verizon to deliver significantly increased capacity – at a minimum, doubling the capacity – over its high-speed 4G LTE network. This means more customers in high-traffic locations can access the company's most advanced technology at the same time during times of peak usage, a key feature of reliability during hurricane season.
"Verizon is committed to providing a superior network to all of our customers, and the start of hurricane season is a good time for everyone-even those living in areas not usually affected by hurricanes-to prepare for emergency events," said Jerry Fountain, Verizon Wireless Carolinas/Tennessee region president. "We have been readying our behind-the-scenes emergency response plans to keep our customers connected when unexpected emergencies arise."
Verizon Wireless' ongoing investments and preparations include several proactive initiatives:
These initiatives are part of a network investment exceeding $1.4 billion since 2003 to build and enhance its Tennessee wireless network, and Verizon consistently earns top rankings from independent consumer reporting and testing institutions for network quality and performance.
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According to recent reports from South Korea, LG Display will become a TV LCD panel supplier for its biggest rivals in the industry, Samsung Electronics. The two tech giants reached an agreement which will allow LG Display to supply Samsung with 40 and 60-inch LCD panels beginning with July, 2017. According to industry watchers, the two companies are expected to maintain their collaboration for a relatively long term, and LG Display should supply Samsung with 700,000 to 1 million LCD panels ever year.
LG Display will begin the manufacturing of 40 and 60-inch LCD panels for Samsung Electronics' TV business in its P7 and P8 facilities located in Paju, Gyeonggi Province. Production will begin next month, however, according to an unnamed official cited by Business Korea, the two conglomerates have been negotiated their contract and conditions for the past six months. This virtually means that Samsung Electronics began negotiating with LG Display not long after Sharp ended its LCD partnership with Samsung in December 2016. Sharp's TV panels accounted for 10 percent of Samsung Electronics' entire TV business, but their collaboration ended shortly after Sharp was acquired by Foxconn, and unsurprisingly the South Korean tech giant has been looking for a new supplier in order to fill the gap. Nevertheless, it's interesting to note that while LG Display is currently expected to ship anywhere between 700,000 and 1 million LCD TV panels to Samsung Electronics each year, Sharp used to supply the company with 4 to 5 million panels over the same 12-month period. With that being said, reports further indicate that Samsung Electronics will also increase the supply from two of its other LCD panel sources starting next month, including BOE in China and Taiwan's Innolux.
Although LG and Samsung are known competitors especially in the South Korean market, it's worth noting that LG Display is more focused on the manufacturing of large LCD and OLED panels, whereas Samsung's own Display branch is oriented more towards the production of mid-sized OLED displays. Having said that, market watchers now speculate that the two South Korean companies could benefit from their newfound collaboration by synergizing their production pipelines and "shield one another" in critical situations.


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The decline and fall of traditional media empires is one side of the ongoing turmoil within the industry, but the other side is the rise of disruptive new players, and two of the most prominent names in that category are BuzzFeed and Tumblr. The former has just closed a new round of financing that gives it an impressive war-chest with which to expand, and Tumblr also has a substantial cash hoard it has raised from its venture capital backers, as well as some traffic and user numbers that put it in the top tier of global content networks. While there are some obvious differences between the two, both clearly have their sights set on owning the social-sharing side of the content business — and that means not just traditional content but socially-driven advertising as well.
As my paidContent colleague Laura Owen has reported, Buzzfeed just raised a fourth round of financing — $19.3 million — from a group that was led by NEA and included previous backers such as Hearst and Lerer Ventures, and according to at least one report the site run by former Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti still hasn’t spent the $15.5 million it raised in its previous round of funding. That gives it a potential $34-million cash hoard to hire new writers, build out its network, expand internationally and possibly even acquire a smaller player. Peretti (who will be speaking at our paidContent Live media conference in New York on April 17) laid out some ambitious plans for the cash, saying:
“We have the senior management, board, and investors we need to build the next great media company: socially native, tech enabled, with massive scale.”
BuzzFeed wants to expand its reach, and so does Tumblr
BuzzFeed has already built what was once seen as a provider of light-hearted animated GIFs and other internet ephemera — much like the I Can Has Cheezburger empire — into a fairly substantial media entity with a staff of more than 70 and a series of news verticals that includes a political hub run by former Politico star and now BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. In just the past week, the network has launched a line of e-books with one about the Obama campaign and said it plans to open an office in the UK soon (although paidContent’s Jeff Roberts says in a recent post that the company still faces some questions when it comes to its expansion plans).
The site is also one of the biggest proponents of so-called “native” advertising, which involves helping advertisers and brands come up with content that fits the Buzzfeed profile of easily let me gshareable and potentially “viral” media. Peretti has said that the company has no interest in traditional banner or display advertising, because it believes that advertising has to become more like content in order to survive online — something that other publishers such as Lewis D’Vorkin of Forbes (who will also be at paidContent Live) have also staked their future on.
And that’s where a collision with Tumblr is most likely to occur: just like BuzzFeed, the blogging network has grown at a phenomenal rate over the past year or so — briefly entering the top 10 list of U.S. websites with over 200 million visitors per month and 18 billion pageviews — and it also has a fairly deep war-chest of cash that it has built up through a series of financing rounds. But just like BuzzFeed, the blog platform also has to find a way of generating enough revenue to justify its valuation, and native advertising is the most likely method of doing so, especially when Tumblr seems ideally suited to visual advertising.
“The opportunity that I see in Tumblr because we are such a media network, we are so much about content and attention and creativity, creative content. The opportunity I see is to allow marketers, advertisers to once again make awesome content and put it in the mix with other awesome content. That’s what those products are that we’ve rolled out and are starting to really scale up now.”
The two are more similar than they are different
One obvious difference between the two companies is that Tumblr hasn’t been hiring reporters like Ben Smith or building a stable of writers to pull together viral posts — unlike BuzzFeed, which creates most of its own content in-house, Tumblr is simply a platform for users to share and re-share content that they find elsewhere. However, the similarities are arguably more relevant than the differences: for example, much of what is shared on Tumblr comes from communities like Reddit and 4chan, and so does at least some of the content that BuzzFeed’s writers turn into posts.
And while Tumblr hasn’t hired political reporters away from other sites, it did experiment with producing its own content during the federal election campaign, when it “hired” some of the network’s bloggers to go to the political conventions and post Tumblr-style content related to them — in other words, humorous and/or share-worthy content, rather than typical political reporting. That’s the same target BuzzFeed is going after.
Tumblr has also been making more use of features such as Radar and Spotlight to highlight content from within the network, including ads and brand content. And it has two professional journalists — editor-in-chief Chris Mohney (who will also be at paidContent Live) and former Newsweek staffer Jessica Bennett — who edit and curate content from both inside and outside the network for its Storyboard feature.
So while Tumblr and BuzzFeed might seem very different, they are both well-funded and fast-growing web platforms who want to become major media entities, and who are intent on expanding their reach outside of their traditional user base — and on expanding their ties with advertisers as well, and using social advertising as a way to do that. Is there room for both to play in that market? Obviously there is, but they will likely be bumping into each other a lot more often.


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The prices of road fuels sold at service stations in France continued their plunge last week, in the wake of falling oil markets, according to official figures released on Tuesday.
The price of diesel, the best selling fuel, reached 1.2569 euros per liter, down 4.43 cents from the previous week, according to data from the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition.
Super unleaded petrol 95 sold for 1.3338 euros, down very significantly by 7.06 cents.
As for the SP95-E10, which contains up to 10% ethanol, it lost 6.39 cents, to 1.3194 euros.
Finally, the SP98 was sold 1.4106 euros, down 6.43 cents.
Several parameters to explain these decreases
The prices of fuel at the pump vary according to several parameters such as the price of a barrel of oil, the euro-dollar exchange rate, the level of stocks of petroleum products and demand, as well as taxes.
Oil prices have fallen sharply lately, with demand falling due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus and the inability of the major producing countries to agree to limit their production.


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Just one-third of business-to-business (B2B) companies report involving field sales representatives in messaging and tool creation.
The US was the top country, with more than 6.8 million small-business professionals. The UK and India were the next most popular countries, with 1.06 million and 1.01 million professionals.
BtoB Magazine found that more than half (56%) of US B2B marketers used content marketing to foster greater audience engagement.
Worldwide B2B technology marketers turning to content marketing for more brand-based goals, namely boosting thought leadership and brand awareness.
B2B marketers have an array of email marketing features at their disposable, but are not making use of all them to great degrees.
72.9% of companies said they expected their overall social media budget to increase over the next year.
Only 49% of companies it surveyed worldwide in January 2012 tracked and followed up on customer feedback on social media, while 28% did neither.
70% of Fortune 500 CEOs have no social media presence on the major social networking sites.
Apparel retailers in North America had the highest—and a near-perfect—delivery rate.
Digital ad spending will exceed £5.3 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach £6 billion in 2013, representing 14.2% and 10.9% year-over-year increases.


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Globaltruck to sell up to 3.8% of group shares acquired as part of buyback on market
MOSCOW. Feb 26 (Interfax) - Leading Russian FTL trucking company Globaltruck (Globaltruck Management PJSC , GTM) plans to sell up to 3.77% of its shares acquired as part of the buyback announced under the previous owner on the Moscow Exchange to motivate management, the company said in a statement.
The group's board made the relevant decision on February 22.
According to the Globaltruck statement, there are plans to sell up to 2,208,888 ordinary shares from February 26 to September 30, 2024. The actual number of securities sold and, accordingly, the amount of funds raised will depend on price trends and market conditions.
"The indicated stake in GTM was acquired as part of a buyback program carried out through the group's operating company, Globaltrak Logistics LLC. It was envisaged that it would be used as part of a long-term incentive program for GTM management. Due to the completion of the motivation program and the buyback program, it was decided to sell the securities on the Moscow Exchange," the company said in a statement.
The funds received from sale of shares will be used for the development of Globaltruck's business, including the expansion of the company's vehicle fleet.
"The sale of quasi-treasury shares will allow Globaltruck to continue implementing its development strategy in the logistics market without increasing its debt load. The proceeds from the sale of the shares will be used to overhaul the vehicle fleet: the company plans to increase its fleet of Chinese trucks to 300 units," the carrier said in the statement.
The terms of the exchange share sale program may be changed. It may be finalized upon reaching the limit number of securities sold.
Globaltruck announced the launch of a buyback of up to 5% of the group's shares in November 2019, when Globaltrans co-founder and board member Alexander Eliseev was the group's major shareholder. The buyback volume was announced at up to 386 million rubles. In May 2022, the carrier announced the expansion of the program to 7% of shares (4,092,348 shares) without increasing its volume. At the same time, as of February 2022, approximately 3.4% of the group's securities were acquired as part of the buyback.
In April 2023, the controlling stake in Globaltruck was acquired by the Monopoly group of logistics companies. The transaction amount exceeded 3.6 billion rubles.