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Ripple hasn’t been a favorite on publications online. The media is somewhat negative about XRP and its activities. As one can expect, most of these publications and articles about XRP have caused fear, uncertainty, and doubts among Ripple investors. If you take a look at cryptos such as Bitcoin, there are lots of positive news about it, and probably this is one reason why the price of Bitcoin is breaking away from other cryptocurrencies at the moment. At the time of writing, the value of XRP is at $0.46145, went up by 1.31% in the last 24 hours.
Most of the media news are being influenced by the ‘whales’ to talk down on XRP. Current media news constantly talk about what will happen to Ripple (XRP) if it is declared as security – will it survive? Will its price dip further? These are some of the news articles you would find trending about Ripple XRP today. These media publications have installed fear and doubts in the mind of Ripple investors. It is necessary to know that in the last 24 hours, XRP’s price went in green; still, it is unlikely that the price of XRP will keep going up dramatically. We will have to wait.
Ripple will not be declared as a security. The company has been working with different regulatory bodies right from the start, declaring that Ripple and XRP are not alike; and that if Ripple ceases to exist, XRP will still remain. Ripple is closely working with the SEC, trying to finalize and clarify things so as not to be declared as a security.
The current media publications still weigh down XRP and the whales are waiting for that big moment to gather as much XRP as possible before SEC’s announcement on Ripple not being a security. With that in mind, now is the right time to buy and invest on Ripple before SEC’s announcement.
Cross-border payments will be powered by Ripple (XRP) in mass very soon
Ripple recently filled two new transaction trademarks. Both trademarks work on the same design, and they both run on Ripple’s network. It is however likely that any application that runs using Ripple knit such as OnePay will show the trademark. This new feat by Ripple is a big one and it shows the company’s commitment towards facilitating cross-border transactions.
This also shows us a glimpse into the future that anytime we perform a cross-border transaction or make use of our payment application, there may be a pop-up that the transaction was powered by XRP or Ripple. Ripple and XRP will be powering the majority of financial transactions in the future. The recent Ripple trademark is seen as a software that provides an electronic financial platform to facilitate financial transactions over a computer network.
Finally, Ripple is a futuristic platform, and as an investor, don’t cloud your judgments as a result of the negative media publications about Ripple – there are big players manipulating it. You need to know that great things are about to happen, and this is the right time to buy and invest in Ripple (XRP).
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XNO Token of Xeno NFT Hub listed on Bithumb Korea Exchange
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 25th January, 2021, // ChainWire //
Xeno Holdings Limited (xno.live ), a blockchain solutions company based in Hong Kong, has announced the listing of its ecosystem utility token XNO on the ‘Bithumb Korea’ cryptocurrency exchange on January 21st 2021.
Xeno NFT Hub (market.xno.live ), developed by Xeno Holdings, enables easy minting of digital items into NFTs while also providing a marketplace where anyone can securely trade NFTs.
The Xeno NFT Hub project team includes former members of the technology project Yosemite X based in San Francisco and professionals such as Gabby Dizon who is a games industry expert and NFT space influencer based in Southeast Asia.
NFT(Non-Fungible Token) technology has recently gained huge focus in the blockchain arena and beyond, making waves in the online gaming sector, the art world, and the digital copyrights industry in recent years. The strongest feature of NFTs is that “NFTs are unique digital assets that cannot be replaced or forged”. Unlike fungible tokens such as Bitcoin or Ether, NFTs are not interchangeable for other tokens of the same type but instead each NFT has a unique value and specific information that cannot be replaced. This fact makes NFTs the perfect solution to record and prove ownership of digital and real-world items like works of art, game items, limited-edition collectibles, and more.
NFTs are already being actively traded in markets globally. For…
Should Crypto Projects Devote Resources to Community Growth and Marketing?
2020 has been an incredible year for crypto as investors have generated windfall profits and crypto projects have seen their businesses gain the spotlight they’ve been looking for. While Bitcoin has received most of the attention after major institutional investors announced they were accumulating the increasingly scarce asset, many altcoins have also seen their fair share of glory. When looking at all the big winners of the past year, the first project that probably comes to mind is Chainlink, having appreciated by more than 550% YTD and now valued at over $4.5 billion. But, the actual biggest winner of the year is HEX with a YTD return of over 5,000%.
I mention both of the above projects as they have each taken slightly different paths to achieve greatness. Chainlink has devoted resources toward building a fundamentally sound business with many strategic partnerships while HEX has spent vast sums of money on marketing and promotion. Both approaches are valid, but one thing is certain, it is absolutely imperative for crypto projects to let the crypto community know what makes them special. Of course, one of the reasons that makes crypto so valuable is the powerful blockchain technology that most projects are utilizing.
Cryptocurrency vs. Blockchain Technology
It’s important to make a distinction between blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Although they are often used interchangeably, they are different. Blockchain technology and crypto were both created after the 2008 financial crisis, but cryptocurrency…
XENO starts VIP NFT trading service and collaborates with contemporary artist Hiro Yamagata
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 24th December, 2020, // ChainWire //
The XENO NFT Hub (https://xno.live) will provide a crypto-powered digital items and collectables trading platform allowing users to create, buy, and sell NFTs. Additionally it will support auction based listings, governance and voting mechanisms, trade history tracking, user rating and other advanced features.
As a first step towards its fully comprehensive service, XENO NFT Hub launched a recent VIP service to select users and early adopters in December 2020 with plans for a full Public Beta to open in June 2021.
“NFTs are extremely flexible in their usage, from digital event tickets to artwork, and while NFTs have a very wide spectrum of uses and categories XENO will initially focus its partnership efforts and its own item curation on three primary areas: gaming, sports & entertainment, and collectibles.”, said XENO NFT Hub president Anthony Di Franco.
He also added “This does not mean we will prohibit other types of NFTs from our ecosystem However, it simply means that XENO’s efforts as a company will be targeted into these verticals initially as a cohesive business approach.”
Development and Procurement Lead, Gabby Dizon explained, “Despite our initial focus, we found ourselves with a unique opportunity to host some of the works of Mr. Hiro Yamagata. We are collaborating with Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata to enshrine some of his artwork into NFTs.”
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Ford to chop F-150 pickup truck manufacturing resulting from chip scarcity
2021 Ford F-150 Restricted
DETROIT — Ford Motor is as soon as once more chopping manufacturing of its extremely worthwhile F-150 pickup truck and two different autos subsequent week because of the ongoing international scarcity of semiconductor chips.
The automaker on Thursday confirmed its Oakville Meeting Plant in Canada and Kansas Metropolis Meeting Plant in Missouri can be down the week of Aug. 30. Oakville builds the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers. Kansas Metropolis assembles the F-150.
Ford additionally will reduce two of three shifts subsequent week at its Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan, which produces the F-150.
“Our groups proceed benefiting from our out there semiconductor allocation, discovering distinctive options to offer as many high-quality autos as attainable to our sellers and clients,” the corporate stated in an announcement.
The Kansas Metropolis plant was already down this week because of the chip scarcity.
The components scarcity has brought about rolling shutdowns of automotive meeting vegetation globally all through this yr. Ford has been hit notably onerous by the shortage of chips, shedding about 50% of its deliberate manufacturing within the second quarter.
The origin of the scarcity dates to early final yr when Covid brought about rolling shutdowns of auto meeting vegetation. Because the services closed, the wafer and chip suppliers diverted the components to different sectors equivalent to shopper electronics, which weren’t anticipated to be as damage by stay-at-home orders.
The issue is anticipated to value the worldwide automotive business $110 billion in income in 2021, in response to consulting agency AlixPartners.

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Consumer confidence drops following floods
Consumer confidence has fallen dramatically this month in the wake of the flood crisis in Queensland, new research shows.
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment fell 5.7 per cent from 111.0 last month to 104.6 in January.
It means that consumer confidence is now down 12.9 per cent on a year ago and is eight per cent below its average level in 2010.
Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans said that while the survey was a difficult one to interpret given events in Queensland, the index still fell by 3.2 per cent when the state's results are excluded.
"The 'ex Queensland' index points to a significant fall in confidence across the country," he noted.
"Despite these other states not being directly affected by the floods in their major cities it is likely that perceptions of the implications of the floods for the national economy and their own financial positions have been adversely affected."
Consumers concerned by their current financial position could opt to compare debit cards and other money products in search of the best options. According to Mr Evans, the flood disaster is likely to delay the next official interest rate increase until the second half of 2011.
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Islamabad: An impressive inaugural ceremony of “Lifestyle Pakistan” Exhibition took place today at New Delhi.
The inauguration of the exhibition was jointly made by Mr. Anand Sharma, Commerce Minister of India, Mr. Zafar Mahmood, Secretary Commerce, Government of Pakistan, Dr. Rahul Khullar, Secretary Commerce, Government of India, Mr. Nisar Khoro, Speaker Provincial Assembly of Sindh, Mr. Tariq Puri, Chief Executive Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) and Mr. Shahid Malik, High Commissioner of Pakistan to India.
Lifestyle Pakistan Exhibition is taking place in New Delhi from April 12-15, 2012. The exposition “Lifestyle Pakistan” is showcasing over 100 top brands and designers from Pakistan in various categories like fashion textile, home textile, designer furniture, leather goods, marble ornaments, food products etc
“Lifestyle Pakistan” is a collaborative exhibition of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) and Indian Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO).
The exhibition will not only give a boost to the bilateral trade relations between the two countries but also give the Indian and International visitors an opportunity to experience the widest variety of Pakistani products.
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Jeanette Bessinger has been shopping on Black Friday for eight years. This year, she arrived earlier than ever -- at 6 a.m.
"We have two blankets, chairs, sandwiches and snacks," she said. "We didn't even have Thanksgiving food."
But it was worth it: Bessinger snagged the number one spot in line in front of the Target in Northern New Jersey, pretty much guaranteeing that she'll be able to get the deals she wants.
"The price of the two TVs we're getting, is what one TV alone would be worth," she said.
Starting Black Friday, two U.S. malls will track guests' movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones.
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Fannie Mae sells $3.0 bln bills at higher rates
Feb 27 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. home funding source, said on Wednesday it sold $3.0 billion of benchmark bills at higher interest rates compared with last week's sale of similar maturities.
Fannie Mae said it sold $1.5 billion of three-month bills due May 29, 2013 at a 0.135 percent stop-out rate, or lowest accepted rate, up from the 0.130 percent rate for last week's sale of $1.5 billion of three-month bills.
The agency also sold $1.5 billion of six-month bills due Aug. 28, 2013 at a 0.150 percent rate, also up from the 0.147 percent rate for $1.5 billion six-month bills sold Feb. 20.
The three-month bills were priced at 99.966 with a money market yield of 0.135 percent. The six-month bills were priced at 99.924 with a money market yield of 0.150 percent.
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There was a time when giving cars alphanumeric names made sense. In the 1980s and '90s, for example, German car brands -- BMW and Mercedes in particular -- were the masters of alphanumeric naming because their designations were logical. A 528i was a with a 2.8-liter engine that was fuel-injected. A Mercedes S500 was an S-Class with a 5.0-liter V8.
These days, though, things have really gone off the proverbial rails, with everyone deciding somehow that actual names are lame and that a meaningless collection of numbers and letters is edgy and chic. Among the holdouts from this trend were the Korean sister brands of Hyundai and Kia, and if a report published Tuesday by MotorAuthority is to be believed, even that last bastion of sanity may be eroding.
Specifically, Kia has been on a roll with filing paperwork for new car models names -- K4, K5, K6, K7 and K9 (I know, I know, but maybe that doesn't translate well). In a recent announcement for the K5, the brand alluded to a GT version that would feature a higher-performance drivetrain aimed at US buyers. Nowhere in this announcement did Kia call it the Optima K5, just K5.
"Such a name change for the US still being considered by Global Branding Committee," said a Kia representative, in a statement. "As you can imagine, Optima has strong and positive equity as transformative car for Kia in US."
To be totally fair, Kia often sells cars that we get in the US under different names in other parts of the world. The K900 that we get here is the K9 in Korea, for example, and as MotorAuthority's Aaron Cole points out, Kia has a track record of snagging rights to model names and then never using them.
So Kia, please, from the bottom of our tiny, jaded automotive journalist hearts, don't go down this road. Your cars are good and deserve real names. Even, and it's got a history of not bailing on something until the trend is well and truly dead (see: the "Personal Luxury Car" and tail fins). Stop this madness.
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GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services expects increased innovation to drive research, development towards the creation of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions that substitute imports and assist the country to reduce imports bill.
To curb de-industrialisation in the country, the government introduced a number of developmental programs towards the attainment of Vision 2030, and among them is the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).
Speaking at the 2nd Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) 2020 Hackathon in Bulawayo, the ICT minister, Dr Jenfan Muswere, said the government has embraced research and development as key instruments in keeping the country abreast with ICT technological advancements.
“My ministry is encouraging focused research so that we are able to develop our own ICT solutions and substitute imports and, in the process, reduce our import bill thereby reserving the much-needed foreign currency for things that we cannot produce.
“The scale and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require innovation if the 2030 agenda is to be achieved.
“Indeed, to achieve these ambitious goals, new modalities for development are required, including bringing innovation into the foreground of development projects,” he said.
Dr Muswere said that the ICT sector has already crafted a Strategic Plan for the period 2021-2023, which is hinged on four core values namely -transparency, professionalism, creativity and teamwork.
“Creativity is, therefore, at the centre of our aspirations at the Ministry as we persistently encourage and recognise innovation and inventiveness as key enablers for the digital economy.
“POTRAZ is seized with a facilitative role that encourages innovation and uptake of new technologies and this event resonates very well with that mandate. It is for this reason that my Ministry fully supports initiatives by POTRAZ to encourage innovativeness in the ICT sector,” he added.
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Tanzania puts EABL on notice over Serengeti Breweries deal
By Moses Michira | July 2nd 2015
NAIROBI: Beer maker East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) could be forced to cut its stake in Serengeti Breweries, leading to what could be a second-time unlucky run in Tanzania.
The Fair Competition Commission (FCC) of Tanzania has told EABL that it was cancelling an earlier approval to acquire a controlling stake in Serengeti, where it owns 51 per cent. Four years ago, a disagreement pushed EABL to buy back a 20 per cent stake of its biggest subsidiary, Kenya Breweries Ltd, then owned by Tanzania Breweries Ltd.
"The commission has issued a notice of an intention to revoke its own decision with respect to the merger. It was observed that, based on the rationale of the approval, the performance of Serengeti Breweries Ltd was not as per expectations of the commission," reads a statement issued by the commission.
The agency, equivalent of the Competition Authority of Kenya, accuses EABL of contravening the terms of the approval that was granted in 2010. Among the conditions set in the approval was that the acquisition would help Serengeti move its brands faster and gain market share – a reality that may not have been achieved.
East African Breweries acquired the stake in Serengeti after selling a stake it held in Tanzania Breweries, which is owned by its global rival and beverage manufacturer SABMiller. But it is SABMiller that has gained from the termination of the agreement between the two brewers, with analysts pointing out that Serengeti's market share has actually suffered.
The regional brewer has confirmed receiving FCC's notice in April, and went ahead to respond to the questions raised by the Tanzanian authority. The Group Corporate Relations Director Julie Adell-Owino said the firm was hopeful that the notice would be withdrawn after an upcoming formal hearing.
"EABL wishes to inform the public, its shareholders, customers and all other stakeholders of SBL, that EABL vigorously disputes the intended revocation and awaits a date for the formal hearing with the FCC," she said.
It is unclear what options would be available to EABL should the outcome of the hearing be unfavourable. But the latest turn of events came even after EABL said it had 'provided the FCC with a full response to the statements made in the notice', implying that there might not be much left to discuss.
Meanwhile, EABL has announced the resignation of Andy Fennell as a director of the company, to be replaced with John O'Keeffe. It also appointed Jane Karuku as the new managing director of KBL to replace Joe Muganda who resigned to take up a similar position at the Nation Media Group.
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Mojang is working on a major new update for Minecraft players on iOS devices, promising a restructuring of the code to pave the way for “significantly bigger worlds.”
Daniel Kaplan writes on the official Mojang site, “We thought it would be good to give you a quick update on the status of Pocket Edition.”
He reveals that Mojang is hard at work “restructuring a lot of code to allow significantly bigger worlds in future updates.” It isn’t clear if Minecraft – Pocket Edition 0.9.0 will be the first update to bring this new ability.
According to the Minecraft – Pocket Edition wiki for “upcoming features,” version 0.9.0 will enable “New World Options.” Players will be able to select the world size, generate caves, and more.
The changelog also states that Minecraft – Pocket Edition 0.9.0 “uses old terrain generation to maintain compatibility for older devices.”
“We’re also updating the AI, inventory, and a bunch of other things. Unfortunately we don’t have a release date yet, but so far, everything is going according to plan,” adds Kaplan.
The Mojang post includes a photo of an upcoming animal (displayed above), and some details regarding the beta testing phase of Pocket Realms. Access to the service will be paused on March 1.
“The Realms team is currently focused on the upcoming release of PC Realms,” Kaplan adds. “Once that’s done, we’ll be in a better place to work on Pocket Realms and make it as good as it possibly can be, which will be later this year.”
Mojang isn’t sure how long the service will be out, but it promises to keep the customer base informed at all times.
Kaplan concludes, saying, “A big thanks to everyone who’s helped test out the service so far. Your current worlds will be saved, and you’ll be able to continue from where you left off once Pocket Realms is back online.”


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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced that it will be studying the impact of bisphenol-A on the environment and adding it to its list of chemicals of concern. BPA is a chemical used in a variety of consumer and industrial products. Some food and drink packaging, such as water and infant bottles, contains BPA. In January the U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s (FDA) said it had some concerns about the potential human health impacts of BPA and it would study the potential effects and ways to reduce exposure to BPA in food packaging. Now the EPA says releases of BPA to the environment exceed one million pounds per year. Its study of the environmental impacts of BPA includes:
- Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ Adding BPA to the chemical concern list on the basis of potential environmental effects
- Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ Requiring information on concentrations of BPA in surface water, ground water, and drinking water to determine if BPA may be present at levels of potential concern.
- Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ Requiring manufacturers to provide test data to assist the agency in evaluating its possible impacts, including long-term effects on growth, reproduction and development in aquatic organisms and wildlife.
- Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ Using EPAÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Design for the Environment (DfE) program to look for ways to reduce unnecessary exposures, including assessing substitutes, while additional studies continue.
- Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ And, continuing to evaluate the potential disproportionate impact on children and other sub-populations through exposure from non-food packaging uses.
A New York Times article says the EPA action indicates the government is looking to reduce the use of BPA in food packaging, plastic bottles and other sources of exposure. The NYT page includes a list of resources from around the Web about BPA. Washington recently became the fifth state to limit the use of BPA in plastic products intended for children and sports bottles, joining Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Bills to ban BPA are also pending in a number of other states. Federal legislation to ban BPA in all food and beverage containers was introduced last year.


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According to Google, "All supported Pixel devices running Android 13 will receive these software updates starting today. The rollout will continue over the next week in phases depending on carrier and device. Pixel 6a devices will receive the update later this month."
The update will fix issues on the Pixel 4, 4 XL, 4a, 4a 5G, 5, 5a, 5a 5G, Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, and one of the issues is a biggie: the update will fix the battery drain that's plagued many handsets, which has been blamed on launcher activities happening in the background when they shouldn’t. And it'll solve another issue that's prevented some Pixel phones from charging properly.
More Pixels, more problems
The charging bug first emerged back in August, with some Pixel users reporting that the wireless charging on their phones had suddenly stopped working. Some users did find ways around it, for example by hard rebooting the device and pairing the phone to the Pixel Stand again, but nobody found a solution that worked reliably and permanently. So the Android update is particularly good news for those users as it appears to have found a proper fix.
The other issues in the patch are comparatively minor. There's a fingerprint recognition bug, now squashed, that enabled some users to unlock the phone with an unregistered fingerprint. And the update also makes some minor tweaks to the user interfaces and fixes an occasional Bluetooth issue that prevented some accessories from connecting to Pixel phones.
All of these issues are Pixel-specific, but the September Android update also includes a further 51 fixes that apply to Android phones generally. Those users should get the update before the end of this month.


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Okay, you may have seen many stories about AirTag-related stalking or tracking so far, as multiple accounts on situations like this have been appearing online. Apple’s item tracker, the AirTag, has built-in anti-stalking features that other item trackers didn’t have, and yet, a report now suggests those anti-stalking features might not be working in a lot of cases, reports AppleInsider.
New report suggests AirTag is not as good at preventing stalking as it would seem
Motherboard has actually analyzed 150 police reports filed in the recent eight months regarding AirTags. According to the results shared, less than half of these reports were about robbery or theft, and the rest was harassment or stalking of women using an Apple AirTag. In 50 of the cases analyzed, the women called the police because they had received anti-tracking notifications on their iPhones.Additionally, in the majority of cases, the women who were victims of this found AirTags hidden in their vehicles or heard the AirTags beeping. In most cases, the stalker or abuser was someone the victim knew, for example, a former partner or an ex-boyfriend.
But, wait. Location-based tracking is not a new thing, and it didn’t start with AirTags. Domestic violence community educator Mary Beth Becker-Lauth stated in the report that this type of stalking, using someone’s location, is “as old as GPS technology itself.”
The report also underlines that the fact we are seeing a lot of AirTag stalking accounts doesn’t mean that stalking incidents are rising because of AirTags, but more like AirTags are helping identify such incidents. Pretty much, meaning Apple’s anti-stalking protections are doing their job.
Electronic Frontier Foundation cybersecurity director Eva Galperin stated that the possibility of the AirTag to alert the victim is solid evidence of stalking, which victims don’t often have.
But the report isn’t all good for Apple, as you can see from the title of this article. The thing is, according to the report’s suggestion, Apple’s anti-stalking protections aren’t always working. AirTags have made stalking easier, as they use the AirTag network that pings nearby Apple devices (and they are a lot in case you didn’t know) in order to track. The report states that although location-based tracking existed for a long time, Apple made it cheaper and easier.
Recently, in response to similar concerns, Apple has announced some new features that the AirTag is going to get for improved stalking prevention, and generally to try to eliminate or at least minimize the cases in which AirTags are being misused.
One of the features announced is a warning that will advise you when you are setting up AirTags, that the AirTag is linked to your Apple ID, and that stalking is a crime. Hopefully, this might prevent some people who are thinking of using it maliciously from doing so.
Another significant part of the new anti-stalking features that the AirTag is going to get is a new tone sequence that should make the item tracker easier to find, as well as changes to the alert that indicates you are being tracked in order for it to alert you sooner.
Additionally, with a subsequent update that should come later this year, if you have an iPhone 11, iPhone 12, or iPhone 13 model, you will be able to detect and locate unwanted AirTags with Precision Finding.
On top of that, Apple stated that it will work with law enforcement in order to stop AirTag misuse when such happened.
According to Becker-Lauth though, the issue is not just on Apple to resolve. She indicates that in order to fully address the situation, tracker manufacturers, public safety organizations and others should collaborate to find a solution.


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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Pima County rejected a proposed ordinance to raise the age to purchase and use tobacco products for the time being.
The ordinance would raise the age to use and purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
After listening to two hours of debate, most in favor of the ordinance, the board took to heart the concerns of the business community that the proposed sanctions against violators were too punitive.
A smoke shop with multiple violations could see their business license to sell tobacco products suspended for six months or more.
“Most retailers that sell tobacco products, that represents 30 percent of their sales,” said Circle K Regional Operations Manager, Carlos Estrada. “A business that loses 30 percent of their sales, most of my stores will not survive.”
Also of concern is that store clerks and minors who buy tobacco products were not be fined or cited. The penalties would fall on the owners or management.
Dr. Francisco Garcia said he worked with dozens of stakeholders who advised the County Health Department on the penalties.
He says the idea was not to be too punitive but in the end admitted not everyone would be happy not matter what standards they used.
"There are always folks who will object to this," he said. "We will not meet everybody's needs."
However, Dr. Garcia said he will go back to meet with the stakeholders again to try to work out a compromise the board may be able to pass.
The board voted to come back at it’s Sept. 17 meeting to address the issue again.
The county’s decision threw into question a city ordinance to do the same; raise the age to 21.
The city's ordinance contained no enforcement mechanisms. All enforcement would be handled by the Pima County Health Department.
Without any enforcement on the part of the county, the city postponed revisiting the issue for 45 days.
Recent studies show nearly 68 percent of the respondents favor raising the smoking age to 21.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. — If enough chargers were available along U.S. roads, a single-digit order for the Freightliner eCascadia electric Class 8 tractor could have multiplied to hundreds.
"We've had people say, 'Hey, we love the five that we took delivery of, and if we had a way to charge them, we would take 200 more,' " John O'Leary, CEO of Daimler Truck North America, which owns Freightliner, told Automotive News at the ACT Expo here. ACT stands for Advanced Clean Transportation.
Freightliner is one of many trucking companies confronting a lack of charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure as they integrate green trucks into their fleets.
The pandemic-era supply chain tangles have loosened, skeptical freight owners have growing confidence in the technology, and manufacturing plants are operating at full speed. But the big truck manufacturers displaying their vehicles at the expo articulated a frustrating bottleneck: Customers want to install chargers in their depots and lots, but the wait for electrical service for charger installation is in some cases multiple years. That can discourage potential vehicle buyers.
The process of getting power to depots and other sites for commercial fleets differs by state, but usually it requires site inspection, design, permitting and construction. O'Leary also described a two- to three-year back order for the switch gear required for utilities to extend power.
Components shortages are a lingering effect of COVID-19 supply chain issues but also the result of mergers and acquisitions in the sector, said Jackie Piero, U.S. head of policy at Mobility House, a company that has created software and hardware used to limit energy use for electric vehicle chargers, a way of getting around grid constraints.
There's "been industrial consolidation that just resulted in a little more rigid supply chain system, and now we're having a huge rise in demand, and we're just not necessarily ready to meet it," said Piero.


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It’s a new week and that means another Warframe giveaway here at PlayStation LifeStyle. Last week it was a couple hundred codes, but this week we have 2000 PS4 codes of the Affinity Booster to giveaway, courtesy of developer Digital Extremes.
This is a perfect time to jump back into Warframe, as the latest update, Sands of Inaros, just released last week. To claim a code, simply click on the widget below and presto!! Just make sure you get to it before they are all gone!


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Earlier this year in May, Google announced its highly anticipated Google Pixel 3a and Google Pixel 3A and became a very successful device for the brand. According to Google’s CEO, the Pixel 3A boosted the sales of the company by a high margin, This year’s Google Pixel 4 and 4XL was criticized by a lot of tech experts as Google decided to ditch the fingerprint scanner, not including an ultra-wide angled lens also took an major hit for people, the Motion-Sense technology that google claimed would change the way we use our smartphone was also a kind of a Gimmick, and finally similar to the Pixel 3a Google has planned to launch a new lite variant of the Pixel 4 namely the Google Pixel 4a, keep reading this article for more information.
The rear panel of the renders of the upcoming Pixel 4a shows off a much-demanded fingerprint scanner, a single rear camera setup with an LED Flash, the obvious Google branding, a matte plastic back panel similar to the one seen on the Google Pixel 3a. The side of the renders show off an Orange Coloured Power Button, Volume Rockers and nothing else on the left half, whereas the top of the phone shows the return of the 3.5mm headphone jack which is good news for people who love Pixel smartphones but miss the 3.5mm headphone jack
The rear camera is expected to be a 12MP Primary Sensor, as seen on the Google Pixel 4, the SIM tray is not visible in these renders, the bottom contains the USB-C port and the speaker grills. Going by the rumors, the Pixel 4a will have a 5.7-5.8inch FHD+ OLED display on the front with bezels minimized from the previous generations, instead of going with the huge bezels, these renders show off an punch-hole display similar to the one on the Galaxy S10e.
The Pixel 4a is expected to have dimensions of 151.3 x 70.1mm x 8.2mm and will weigh around 147 grams making this a small, compact and light phone to hold up in hand, while also making one-handed usage easier. The Google Pixel 4a may feature the newly launched Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G Chipset and will sport a small battery as Pixel tradition moves on, the battery size is reported to be around 3,200mah.
Google may announce its new Google Pixel 4a and 4a XL at the Google I/O Developer Conference 2020 which will be held in the Q1 of 2020 next year along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. We will have to wait to see what Google has in stores for us.


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In battling the Humane Society of the United States effort to place a measure on the November ballot that would ban battery cages in California, some of the state’s producers are opening their doors to reporters to show that caged birds are likely to be cleaner and healthier than their average cage-free counterparts, according to an article in McClatchy Newspapers.
Some animal welfare experts agree. “When you give a hen some of these behavioral freedoms, you increase health risks,” says University of California-Davis professor Joy Mench, who has worked with both the Humane Society and mainstream egg producers to craft welfare standards for cage and cage-free hens. She says that Europe’s experience in adopting cage-free production has yielded thousands of pages of studies comparing caged versus cage-free systems. Two key findings:
- Cage-free hens die at more than twice the rate of caged hens, due to more exposure to manure, and to each other.
- Cage-free birds suffer high rates of broken bones, as high as 67 percent in one survey. Mench says that most modern laying hens suffer from osteoporosis, and are easily injured from a shift of caged to cage-free production.
The article says that it’s unclear how much the cage-free initiative would drive up prices for consumers because it would still allow California grocers to sell low-priced conventional eggs produced in other states. In 2006, 29 percent of the 8.2 billion eggs sold in California came from other states.
Several egg producers interviewed for the article said there are both good and bad examples of caged and cage-free production. But even long-time cage-free producers do not support the Humane Society’s initiative. Mike Sencer, executive vice president of Fullerton-based Hidden Villa Farms, began raising some of his checks cage-free and organic in the early 1990s, and is now one the country’s leading suppliers.“There are consumers that want cage-free, and some want the caged, and I see pros and cons of both,” he says.


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Informational Picket at Wild Oats
Norwood, Ohio, 23 September 2004 – Workers at the Norwood Wild Oats store are currently mourning the loss of their Fellow Worker and union organizer, Tom Kappas. [Ed. note: he’s not dead, just fired.]
Kappas and about a dozen others have joined the Industrial Workers of the World because of its appreciation of worker control. They are campaigning to create better working conditions at their store and if possible across the retail and grocery industry.
Kappas was recently fired for what many (over 30 workers have signed the petition requesting Kappas’ reinstatement) think is a trumped-up charge: discounting nineteen cents worth of produce from the spoilage cooler.
Therefore, since Wild Oats continues to ignore the union’s protest, the IWW will bring its protest to Wild Oats.
Assemble at the corner of Edwards Road and Madison Avenue in front of the BP.
Date: Saturday, September 25th 11 AM–6 PM (it’s strongly encouraged to attend from 2-3 PM).
Signs will be supplied but homemade signs should be brought as well.


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Aug 6, 2014 Web traffic to Android is higher than iOS for the first time in history.
May 1, 2014 Giving away the Android operating system has almost been too successful for Google.
Apr 11, 2014 A "kill switch" on smart phones would prevent thefts and possibly save billions of dollars.
Feb 14, 2014 You like Bob Marley, because: a) You’re a pot-smoking liberal. B) You’re a libertarian. C) You had a great time in Jamaica during college
Jan 1, 2014 There are rumors the two companies will make an announcement at CES next week.
Sep 4, 2013 Hardly anyone cares what Google calls its operating system’s iterations, but the tech giant still had to license the brand-name candy bar.
Aug 2, 2013 Motorola says what makes the phone different is so-called contextual computing, a tech buzz phrase which means the phone can tell when its in your hand versus in your car.
Jul 15, 2013 Add Radiohead's Thom Yorke to the list of high profile musicians protesting the amount of pay artists get from Spotify.
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Jun 28, 2013 Google is reportedly developing a game console and a wristwatch. The reason for all the hardware is all about the software.
Jun 24, 2013 A group of German researchers has found a security problem in Apple's Internet hotspots for mobile devices. Turns out, they can be easily hacked.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Dow Jones & Co. filed suit on Tuesday in the District Court for the Southern District of New York to stop the theft of its content by Briefing.com, News Corp. NWS, +0.31% said in a statement. Dow Jones claims Briefing.com systematically misappropriated headlines and articles from Dow Jones Newswires. "Briefing.com has been brazenly taking a free ride on the reputation of our publications and on the investment Dow Jones makes in quality, real-time journalism," said Mark Jackson, general counsel for Dow Jones. News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.
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An eye-catching display in Stratford has caught the eye of the world's largest international conference and trade show dedicated to digital signage and interactive technology.
The towering Christie MicroTiles wall in the atrium of the University of Waterloo Stratford campus has been named as a finalist for the 2013 Apex Awards, handed out each year by the Digital Signage Expo (DSE).
The awards, which will be presented in Las Vegas next month, recognize innovation in the development and deployment of technology in the so-called digital out-of-home (DOOH) industry.
The Stratford campus multimedia wall incorporates 150 bright, sharp, interconnected digital displays (five units wide by 30 high), and is the tallest of its kind in the world.
It's up against digital installations in Saint Louis University and the Florida Hospital- Wesley Chapel for the Apex award in the education and healthcare category.
Dave Muscat, senior director of sales for Christie Digital Systems Canada, said the company was excited to see the Stratford wall recognized as a nominee.
“In the end, the real winners are the next generation of digital media graduates and leading researchers who have access to technologies that are rapidly evolving in today’s business economy,” said Muscat, who helped cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Stratford campus last October. “The shaping and positioning of the global digital economy begins where students create and develop firsthand and where researchers generate and drive ideas forward.”
The MicroTiles wall was installed through a partnership of Westbury National Show Systems and rpVisual Solutions.
The 2013 Apex awards will be presented in 10 different categories at the opening of the Digital Signage Expo Feb. 27 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Merger Could Create Europe’s Fourth-Biggest Listed Property Company
A merger of two companies, including one created by private equity giant Lone Star, has been proposed, and if it goes ahead it would create the fourth-largest listed company in Europe.
German-listed TLG said it bought a stake in Aroundtown Properties in a deal that valued Aroundtown at around €10.2B (£9.3B). The deal would create a company with around €25.5B of assets, putting it behind only Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Vonovia and Deutsche Wohnen, Bloomberg said. Note that there isn’t a UK property company with anywhere near that amount of assets.
TLG owns offices, shops and hotels in Germany, while Aroundtown owns assets across the Continent, with a focus on Germany and the Netherlands. Bloomberg said the deal would bring together Aroundtown’s dealmaking expertise with TLG’s development specialism.
TLG was created by Lone Star. It bought a portfolio of 800 assets from the German government for €1.1B. It floated the company for €1.3B two years later, retaining a 40% stake. As the share price has risen it has gradually sold off its holding.


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Thu, 08/15/2019 | Manufacturer/OEM
J.D. Power 2019 Thailand Customer Service Index (CSI) Study
Satisfaction is higher among after-sales service customers in Thailand when elements that reinforce a good experience are executed well, according to the J.D. Power 2019 Thailand Customer Service Index (CSI) Study, released today.
Wed, 08/14/2019 | Retail
2019 Smart Thermostat Satisfaction Report
COSTA MESA, Calif.: 14 Aug 2019 — Overall satisfaction for smart thermostats has increased for the third consecutive year, as more customers are finding their thermostats to be easy to install and use, according to the J.D.
Wed, 08/14/2019 | Automotive Finance
2019 U.S. Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study
COSTA MESA, Calif.: 14 Aug.
2019 Mexico Customer Service Index—Long-Term Study
As vehicles age and warranties end—typically in the 4- to 7-year age window—most owners significantly cut down on dealership visits and begin to visit non-dealer facilities for service, according to the inaugural J.D. Power 2019 Mexico Customer Service Index—Long-Term (CSI-LT) Study.
2019 China Initial Quality Study (IQS)
New-vehicle quality in China has improved significantly with a 10% decrease in problems from 2018, according to the J.D. Power 2019 China Initial Quality Study (IQS),SM released today. Of the 67 brands included in the study, 52 improved.


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Over the past few years, multiple innovations have helped reshape the payment space. But, says David John, CEO of Loyalize, one crucial area has been left behind.
While consumer payment processes have consistently been made more frictionless, customer loyalty has not received the same level of attention. For example, a customer can walk into a supermarket and pay with their phone, but they’re still required to rummage around for their plastic loyalty card. John says: “This clumsy and inconvenient process detracts from all the innovation that’s going into payments and creates disparity in digital advancement.”
Recognising this, John decided to set up a company that would bridge the gap between payments and loyalty, offering a seamless experience. “Existing programmes weren’t providing enough value for customers,” he explains. “There just wasn’t enough variety, and engagement was low.”
But the journey wasn’t quite that simple. In 2016, John created a customer facing app that enabled users to connect their payment cards to earn points across a whole network of retailers. However, a couple of years later, John made the strategic decision to pivot the business to a B2B model.
This was on the advice of a former Visa exec who felt the technology was right, but that it was being delivered down the wrong channel. John recalls: “It was the first time someone sat me down and told me that my strategy had limited chances of success, but that if we could deliver our technology to market in a different way, we might have something.”
Such a pivot will be a risk for any start-up due to the time and costs involved, but as John explains: “It was absolutely the right thing to do. We rebranded for a completely fresh start.” Today, John maintains the experience has put Loyalize in a stronger position. “We had to go through that learning to understand the pain points for retailers and what customers really want,” he says.
In January 2019, Loyalize emerged as a white label platform that combines payments and loyalty into a single transaction – and the idea proved a hit. “Retailers want to maintain control of how they communicate with customers rather than sending them to a third-party app or website,” explains John. Loyalize’s platform gives retailers a way to retain that level of control while enabling them to easily add features to improve the customer experience.
“Loyalty is much more than just rewarding consumers,” says John. “It’s a way for retailers to communicate with customers in a non-invasive manner while gathering valuable data to improve their offering.”
The loyalty space is shifting from stamps and points to emotion and experience, particularly due to the impact of COVID-19. Now, consumers are not just shopping online because it’s faster or easier, but because they have real concerns about entering shops and using physical cards. “In times like these, retailers need to engage with customers in a totally different way,” says John.
Making such a shift is no mean feat for retailers, but Loyalize aims to make it happen “overnight” through a single line of code, with minimal effort and cost.
“In the past 12-18 months, interest in loyalty has grown significantly,” says John. “Retailers can only drop their prices so much to get people in the door before it becomes unsustainable. The way to retain and increase business is by adding value rather than just offering a good price.” For this reason, many retailers have approached Loyalize because loyalty is the only part of their business untouched by innovation.
Partnering with a retailer on such a huge undertaking, it’s important for John and his team to be empathetic of their problems and goals. “We need to understand their pain points and how can we help,” he says. “It’s not just an improved customer experience – that’s the end goal – but we need to spend time understanding what they want out of their loyalty programme and consider how our platform can help them – whether it’s cost savings, reducing transaction time or getting access to more valuable data insights.”
As the loyalty sector kicks into high gear, Loyalize finds itself in a strong position, having all the technology in place – and, of course – having learned a lot about the needs of clients and their customers in the process. John says: “We can get up and running in a short space of time. Technologically the platform is ready to go.”
Currently, Loyalize is in the middle of a pre-seed round which will help it launch the platform with one or two key partners. Thereafter, it will expand its team and look to raise further investment as it scales.
Of international expansion, John says: “Our focus is on the UK at the moment but there are lots of opportunities in Europe and especially the US.” He adds that in the first week shops opened after lockdown, multiple retailers approached Loyalize asking for help because they recognised they needed to change.
From pivoting the business to embracing the surge in interest and challenges that have come from COVID-19, both John and Loyalize have been put through their paces. As retailers shift to omnichannel experiences to make customers feel more valued, Loyalize will only become busier – and as John points out, the biggest lesson he’s learned as a founder is that there are never enough hours in the day.


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Google has scrubbed plans to fully integrate its Chrome web browser with Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system.
The news follows an announcement by the Mozilla Foundation that Firefox 3.6, the next version of the open source browser, would integrate with Windows 7 features such as taskbar thumbnail previews and Jump Lists.
However, according to reports in The Register, Google's internal issue tracking system indicates that work on the features has been pushed back to version 5 of the browser. Chrome is currently on the 3.0 release, while version 4 is currently in development.
Despite the scaled back ambitions, work seems to be progressing on Google's Chrome OS. An early developer build of the operating system has been leaked onto Google's website. Stay tuned for more details.
Google first announced its entry into the operating system space back in July. At that time, Google stated that Chrome OS would not be available to consumers until sometime in 2010. However, various Chinese sources have today claimed that devices running the upcoming open-source OS could be seen as early as next month.
According to Shanzi.com, Chinese hardware manufacturer Lemote may ship its line of budget netbooks with preview builds of Google's Chrome OS. These Chome OS-based netbooks could hit the market in late October. Chinese manufacturers, as Liliputing speculates, may be more willing to try new, untested technology, whereas western manufacturers may be more hesitant to take new tech on board without performing rigorous testing first.


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Great Falls Tribune: ‘Montanans should be able to choose for themselves’: Tester backs bill to restore food label law
For almost two decades, U.S. ranchers and feedlot owners have been pressing Congress to enforce Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) standards on beef and pork raised and processed in the United States. Early on that effort met with success; whether it was raised and slaughtered in the U.S, or simply shipped here from another country, processed, and arbitrarily labeled “USA.”
Federal legislation mandating American consumers be accurately informed about where their steaks and bacon comes from was first passed by Congress in 2005.
Those COOL requirements were quickly faced with legal challenges from within the World Trade Organization (WTO). Mexico and Canada threatened to impose more than $1 billion in tariffs against the United States unless labeling was removed. As a result of this pressure, in 2015 President Barack Obama signed a bill removing COOL requirements for beef and pork. In turn, USDA Secretary Vilsack issued a statement that the COOL rule would no longer be enforced for those commodities.
The beef industry, nationally and in Washington, has been divided over whether to bring the labels back ever since.
In the six years that have followed since the repeal of COOL, Montana ranchers have weathered increasingly miniscule profit margins while the big four multinational meatpacking corporations, JBS, Cargill, Tyson and National Beef, have raked in record profits.
“There is a crisis in rural American,” said Justin Tupper, vice-president of the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association at a Senate Ag Committee meeting last June. “We are losing our producers at an alarming rate, all the while watching big corporate feeders and packers making record profits with the threat of vertical integration hanging over our heads.
“Most of the ranchers who are selling their calves at weaning time are seeing those calves sell for less than $1,000 a head,” he continued. “That amounts to a less than 1% return on investment; an incredibly risky business. For those who sell all the way to fat cattle; a finished steer is worth somewhere around $1,600 today. Packers could buy that steer and sell it for beef alone, not counting by-products, for over $2,800 a head for a gross profit margin of over 80%.”
On Friday, Montana Sen. Jon Tester announced his support of a bipartisan Senate bill to reintroduce country-of-origin labeling regulations within the next few years.
“Because of a short-sighted change in 2015 the U.S. can no longer require country-of-origin labeling on beef products,” Tester said while speaking at the Montana Farmers Union office in Great Falls.
In Washington:Cattle ranchers sue to return country-of-origin labeling
“This puts American ranchers who adhere to the strictest safety standards and protocols in the world … on an even playing field, and would ensure that beef raised in the United States is labeled ‘Product of the USA.’ ” Tester said. “It tasks the United States trade representative to work with the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliant way to reinstate Country of Origin Labeling. If after a year the United States trade representative is unable to find a workable solution then mandatory Country of Origin Labeling will automatically be reinstated.”
Tester appeared with local beef industry representatives including Montana Farmers Union President Walt Schweitzer.
“These corporate monopolies have the best Congress money can buy,” Schweitzer said of the packing corporations influence in Congress. “The same four corporate monopolies that process 84% of the pork and beef in the United States are the same four corporate monopolies that process the same amount of beef and pork in Canada and Mexico. They also process most of the beef in Brazil, Australia – every major exporting country in the world. And they don’t want you to know the difference. (They) can make more money if they can mislead the consumers into buying foreign beef with a phony USA product label on it.”
Tester has long supported the reintroduction of COOL. He said he fully anticipates corporate packing interests will forcefully oppose the newly composed Senate bill on the grounds that it will impose unreasonably expensive demands upon packers to track and label the inflow of meat from multinational sources.
“The big packers will tell you that can’t keep the meat separated, but they can,” Tester said. “They just don’t want to because they’re getting a big advantage in the marketplace with a USDA seal. They’re going to tell us how this isn’t going to work and it’s going to be the end of the world, but the bottom line for me is … our cow/calf operators are going broke. If we don’t do something, our food supply chain is going to change and it ain’t going to change for the better.”
Country-of-origin labeling is just one component of a larger menu of reforms U.S. beef producers are demanding of Congress. Groups like R-CALF and the Montana Stockgrowers Association are also pushing for legislation demanding greater transparency in how market cattle prices are set, and stronger enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act which regulates trade practices within the meatpacking industry.
“Giving the United States’ Department of Agriculture subpoena authority to enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act; I think that will bring a lot of folks to town and make them understand that they can’t continue to consolidate and have no competition in the marketplace,” Tester said of the broader goal. “Make them have honest capitalism where competition is the driver. I think you’ll see more people get into the field … processing, butchering … if they’re able to employ more direct marketing and move the ball forward.
“Montanans should be able to choose for themselves whether they buy foreign beef from overseas or to buy beef they know was raised and processed right here in the good old USA,” Tester concluded.


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On Thursday, Amazon announced the release of its updated smart glasses Echo Frames starting on December 10. Now everyone will be able to buy it.
The new product from Amazon for $ 250 will go on sale just before the holiday weeks, which is a good time to start the release.
Analysts and market experts will closely monitor sales and customer reviews of Echo Frames, as previous attempts by other companies to release smart glasses that would become popular and used by the public failed.
Amazon announced Echo Frames and other novelties on September 25, 2019. Since then, sales have been limited and Amazon has been collecting reviews on gadgets to improve and update the device.
The company positions Echo Frames smart glasses as a convenient device for talking, receiving messages, listening to music, news or podcasts, as well as managing reminders.
As examples of successful use of Echo Frames, Amazon cited feedback from parents who used smart glasses during the pandemic to receive important messages while their hands were free to work or cook and communicate with their children.
“Echo Frames is a find for both my privacy and my productivity. I can hear my reminders, emails and text messages, and schedule updates, all without having to constantly look at my phone, plus my messages appear unnoticed. ” – wrote the owner of Echo Frames Francine C.
Amazon also cited the example of the positive use of Echo Frames by a healthcare professional who wanted to stay in touch while screening patients with COVID-19 while remaining in personal protective equipment.
Owners of Echo Frames with disabilities also said that the glasses have improved their quality of life.
Echo Frames lenses are transparent, but buyers can replace them with their choice of color or corrective vision by contacting LensCrafters or others. The frames of the updated Echo Frames are presented in three colors: black (Classic Black), as well as with the addition of blue (Horizon Blue) and “tortoise” Modern Tortoise.
Amazon reported that customers who purchased the original Echo Frames could replace it with an updated one for just $ 70. The company also said it was abandoning the idea of releasing the Echo Loop smart ring, but customers who purchased the product would continue to receive updates for it.
Shares of Zoom and other companies, which rose amid the pandemic and lockdown, fell in trading on Monday. The reason was the announcement of two biotechnology companies about the successful testing of a promising vaccine, writes CNBC. Shares of the Zoom video conferencing service fell 17.4% by the end of the trading day. Amazon and […]
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On Tuesday, the world’s largest manufacturer of jeans and casual wear, Levi Strauss, announced better than expected results of its 3rd financial quarter, which ended on August 23. The company reported the profits of $ 27 million, after the loss of $ 364 million in the second quarter, when Levi was forced to cut 15% […]Next
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Louis Vuitton tasked with designing the LoL Worlds Trophy’s travel case and digital merchandise
The world’s most valuable luxury brand Louis Vuitton (LV) has just announced a multilayer partnership with Riot Games that includes design work for Riot’s League of Legends World Championship physical and digital merchandise. In a new surprising move for the competitive esports scene a company of Louis Vuitton’s caliber will design products for the League of Legends World Championship 2019 similarly to the work they have done for the FIFA World Cup since 2010.
The agreement includes design work for the World Championship 2019 trophy bespoke travel case. Additionally, famed designer and creative director of the house of Louis Vuitton, Nicolas Ghesquière will design the Championship Skins and Capsule Collection for the digital content available to League of Legends players.
While the partnership was announced just today, the press release did not include details or hints about what the designs look like or which League of Legends champions will be featured. What is known now is that the agreement is not a one-time deal and Riot and LV aim to continue the collaboration throughout 2020 and beyond.
The Eiffel Tower will be the host of an exhibition for the bespoke case and summoners cup in the days leading up to the Worlds finals on November 10th at the AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France.
Louis Vuitton joins global powerhouse partners Mastercard and Dell in supporting League of Legends, the biggest esport on the planet. Naz Aletaha Riot’s Head of Global Esports partnerships stated:
“We are honored to have Louis Vuitton as an official partner with designs to impact the look, feel, and prestige of our most prominent League of Legends event, this is a historic partnership that speaks to the impact Riot Games and League of Legends has had on the industry over the past nine esports seasons. We welcome the LV brand to our sport and we are eager to share the entire scope of the partnership in the months ahead, in particular on November 10 when the Summoner’s Cup is awarded in Paris.”
The League of Legends World Championship begins in on October 2nd with a play-in stage in Berlin before the roadshow moves to Madrid and eventually Paris, France for the Worlds 2019 Finals. The Group Draw for the Championship will be held later today. Read our LoL World 2019 preview.


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Irvine Community Council and members of the Lidl Action Group met on Monday night with Lidl representatives to discuss North Ayrshire Council's rejection of an Irvine store.
Lidl say the refusal for the store at Crompton Way, near the Stanecastle Roundabout, was not unexpected and they are now focusing on winning the appeal.
Ross Jackson, Lidl’s senior acquisitions consultant, said: “We got a refusal from the council last week and it wasn’t anything we weren’t expecting.
“They have been quite clear, all the way through the process, that they were going to refuse it.
“They noted the potential Lidl building was not in keeping with the residential character of the site; but there is a factory across the road and the site itself used to be a factory.
“Residents we spoke with during the consultation process were happy for us to build a store in the area and at no point did NAC say they were unhappy with the design of the building or discuss ‘climate change’ during the process.
“Our next port of call is to appeal to the local review body, which is the same councillors who refused the call in.
“I think it will be an uphill battle, but we are eager for Stanecastle and for Irvine but the site the council are proposing isn’t right for us as a
The council’s planning team noted in their refusal to build the store at Crompton Way would ‘undermine the town centre first policies’.
Ross added: “We have been through all of the alternative sites they have suggested and although [NAC] have stepped back a wee bit from the Montgomerie Park site, they are now focusing on the town centre; the Ayrshire Metal site, the Forum and the Rivergate.
“The Ayrshire Metal site is really poorly connected, its contaminated, it has flooding issues – we had discounted that because it was under offer from a residential developer and that offer has now fallen through due to the flooding issues on the site.
“They have suggested we wait for a unit to become available inside the Rivergate Shopping Centre. Firstly, there is not a unit available at the moment and Lidl have already had a footprint in the town centre before – we know it didn’t work for us.
“We have considered the town centre, but our catchment for this store isn’t town centre; it is going to have a ‘low affect’ on the town centre and our studies have proven that.”
The Lidl team went on to argue the transport grounds for refusal.
They said: “One of the other issues is cutting down on transport and our argument to that is being at Crompton Way cuts down on transport as people don’t have to travel into the congested town centre.
The Lidl team have vowed they’ll walk if North Ayrshire Council do not allow the Stanecastle site – costing around 40 jobs to the town.
Ross said: “For us, it’s Stanecastle or nothing. The council may think they are ‘calling our bluff’ and we’ll go to Montgomerie Park afterwards but we won’t.
“We are here to win it on appeal and I’m eager for the town to support us through this and get this across to local councillors.”
The next meeting in support of Lidl will be held in Irvine Park Bowling Club on Monday, March 2, at 6pm.
An invite has been extended to every Irvine councillor along with all members of the public.
North Ayrshire Council were asked for a comment following Monday’s meeting but simply referred us to the decision notice which is online at https://bit.ly/2Hw2zpK
WHAT THE PUBLIC THINK
“It’s crazy that the council don’t want to bring jobs to the town, the majority of folk want the shop there.
“Crompton way is a reasonable enough place to build a Lidl; they never stopped any of the bigger supermarkets being built outside the town.
The council have the final decision, not the planners.”
“None of the reasons to reject the store made any clear sense.
“I walk my dog around that area and it’s gone from being a horrendous industrial estate run down by the council and industry. Now, after building new houses they are knocking down areas to build more houses; why wouldn’t a Lidl benefit the people?”
“The people of Montgomerie Park don’t want the Lidl store. We want a Lidl store and the people want to see it built near Stanecastle roundabout; it would be better.
“It’s fair to say we don’t know why Crompton Way can’t get the store, the planning team’s reasons don’t make sense.”
“I’d like to see a Lidl in the town, it’s handy for the people on that side of the town; and it’s good to have competition.
“The council’s planning team say it’s only town centre they want retail in but then suggest they want Lidl to go to Montgomerie Park – which is outside the town.
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Saab saw its sales fly away again in July 2005 to record-ever levels, as the Swedish premium brand continued on its seemingly-unstoppable growth curve! A monthly sales total of over 2,000 units translated into a year-on-year growth of 40 per cent for Saab Great Britain in July, in a month when overall new car sales in the UK declined by 6.6 per cent compared to the previous year. For the first seven months of this year, Saab has achieved a 41% sales growth when compared to 2004, selling more than 16,000 units.
Jonathan Nash, Managing Director of Saab Great Britain remarks: "The fact that our growth so far in 2005 has come from every single model across the Saab range is particularly encouraging. With the impending arrival of the important new 9-3 SportWagon and the 2.8 V6 9-3 Aero models, which will be the fastest road-going Saabs ever built, we are confident that 2005 will be a year to remember for Saab in the UK!"Published 5 August 2005


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Two groups studying the cannabis economy say legalizing recreational marijuana in California will provide a $1.6 billion boost in revenues from expanded retail marijuana sales.
The projections on Californias Proposition 64 legalization measure in November come from two firms with a vested interest in expanding the marijuana business. The market study was completed by New Frontier Data, a Washington, D.C., firm conducting cannabis market research and the ArcView Group, an Oakland organization specializing in attracting investment for marijuana businesses and legalization causes.
Earlier this year, New Frontier and ArcView Market Research collaborated on a report, The State of Legal Marijuana Markets, that valued at $2.7 billion Californias existing medical marijuana market of retail cannabis dispensaries, marijuana, food processing kitchens, laboratories and other businesses in 2015. By comparison, the state Board of Equalization in 2010 estimated marijuana dispensary revenues at up to $1.3 billion based on estimated state sales taxes.
Now the cannabis research firms 2016 California Legal Cannabis Market State Profile says legalizing marijuana for adult social use would grow Californias marijuana market by 18.5 percent a year once dispensaries are fully operational selling marijuana products to both medical and non-medical users, likely in 2018. The cannabis industry research firms say the California market then would grow to $6.46 billion by 2020.
The report, on sale for $249, and its executive summary, free for download, offer other interesting conclusions about the state of marijuana in the Golden State.
The report suggests that California will require 1,500 to 2,200 acres of cultivation to satisfy marijuana consumer demand. At the same time, it says the market is likely already over-saturated with pot produced for the current medical marijuana market as well as illicit sales in the black market in the state and beyond. The research underscores the likelihood that the out-of-state black market for California pot will continue to thrive in ensuing years even if voters pass Proposition 64.
Citing national drug survey data, the report also says marijuana use in California is highest in San Francisco and far Northern California counties, with the rate of personal pot use jumping in Mendocino, Lake, Colusa, Butte, Plumas and Lassen counties. Sacramento Bee research, tracking federal estimates for annual marijuana use, found that high weed use also occurred in counties encircling the capital city.
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More than 5m British households have been overcharged by gas suppliers such as E.ON and British Gas to the tune of £454m, according to a new survey.
They are owed an average of £89 because many companies have not reduced their direct debit charges after cutting tariffs this year, claims comparison site moneysupermarket.com. More than four million of the affected households have not asked for their cash back, resulting in £363m being unclaimed.
Almost 2m other households were in debt to their suppliers by an average of £151 – a total of £280m – the survey found. But that means that overall, suppliers owe British consumers £174m.
Scott Byrom, utilities manager at moneysupermarket.com, said: "In 2008 we saw gas giants holding £225m of their customers' cash 'on float' and while it is encouraging to see this has decreased by more than £50m this year, there is still cause for concern. This year bill payers have welcomed price cuts on online energy tariffs across the board; however it's unsurprising customers are still finding themselves in credit with their gas supplier, as direct debit arrangements may not have been updated to reflect these price changes."
Trade group the Energy Retail Association said that it was normal for consumers to be in credit towards the end of the summer, when they had used less energy.
It said: "This research is misleading as it doesn't reflect the fact that people use different amounts of energy at different times of the year. So it is common for customers to be in credit towards the end of the summer, when they have used less energy, and then to owe their energy company money during the winter months when they have the heating on and use more energy.
"People like being able to choose how they pay and a regular direct debit payment keeps bills relatively stable over the course of the year and helps people to budget. Customers can of course at any time request a refund or pay off any money they owe."


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Coke experiments with alcohol
A Coca-Cola executive has revealed the beverage giant is soon set to start dabbling in alcohol, something it has rarely done before.
In a published chat on the Coca-Cola website with Jorge Garduno, President of Coca-Cola’s Japan business, Garduno said that Coke intends to experiment with an alcoholic beverage in Japan in 2018
Until now, Coca-Cola has stuck to selling non-alcoholic beverages, except for briefly dipping its toe into the wine industry decades ago.
Coke’s new alcoholic beverage is Chu Hai, a Japanese drink, which traditionally is a mix of shochu (a Japanese spirit), mixed with carbonated water and lemon flavour. It is normally packaged in cans. In recent years, Japanese beverage producers have released Chu Hai drinks with different flavourings other than lemon, most of them other fruit flavours.
Garduno said it is the first time Coke has experimented in the low alcohol category but it is an example of how Coke continues to explore opportunities outside of its core, traditional business.
Australians and other parts of the world need not get too excited at the prospect of new alcoholic beverages from Coke however. Garduno explained that Japan’s beverage market is a unique one, with history of beverages gaining great traction in Japan but nowhere else in the world.
“While many markets are becoming more like Japan, I think the culture here is still very unique and special, so many products that are born here will stay here,” Garduno said.
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The program Four Leg Interns seeks that the brands are the temporary shelter of dogs, while they find a definitive home to adopt them.
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), approximately 7 out of 10 Mexican households have at least one pet, 85 percent of which dominate dogs, so there is no doubt of the interest that has the general population on these four-legged companion animals, giving input that these achieve their popularity quickly and become an attractive market, both for brands and for social networks.
The pet fanaticism has caused that even on platforms such as Instagram, they achieve that thousands of followers choose to follow their content and even some companies decide to integrate them into their ranks, as it was a few months ago when a Pemex gas station chose to integrate “Gasolin” into his security body, even managing to be sponsored by Pedigree.
However, despite having the affection of millions of people around the world, there is a reality that cannot go unnoticed, homeless dogs. According to the Mexican Association of Veterinary Physicians Specialists in Small Species (AMMVEPE), it is estimated that there are around 28 million domestic animals, of which 70 percent are found on the street, a figure that grows year by year. That is why various companies and programs are constantly showing their concern to try to eradicate this situation and, therefore, improving their image in the eyes of the consumer.
A new program has shown solidarity with dogs in street situation, giving them a new opportunity to integrate as “interns”In companies while they find a home.
The program bears the name of “Four Leg Interns”And invites companies that like to adopt dog interns where brands become temporary shelters and sponsors together with other foundations to take responsibility for the welfare of these canines, by making them part of the staff, while they find a stable home and definitive.
This program is just beginning, however, it already has the support of the agency Geometry Colombia, being the first client of the program, welcoming a stray dog into his work team.
Similarly, apart from welcoming the canines into the offices, the dogs would be in some way supporting the employees, since these would contribute to the general and mental well-being of the employees, in addition to combating stress and providing a more pleasant environment for them to accompany them during the work stay. In accordance with Four Leg Interns, All brands, regardless of their category, location or size, can join the initiative to demonstrate their altruism in the face of a problem of years.
The pets have demonstrated their relevance to consumers around the world, achieving that there are more and more brands in charge of providing products a little out of the ordinary, such as dog strollers, for example.
However, different alternatives are being taken to satisfy the needs of people to spend more time with their friends, as well as the CDMX shopping centers that are increasingly joining the initiative Pet Friendly, as are the Santa Fe Shopping Center, Galerías Insurgentes, Fórum Buenavista, Parque Vía Vallejo and Galerías Polanco.
In the same way, companies, brands, companies or projects that are in favor of the trend on the pet care, as well as those that promote adoption, will be well received by consumers, improving their perception of brands. How far can people’s love for pets go?


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Samsung has reportedly agreed not to sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until the lawsuit with Apple is resolved, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. As per the agreement reached by lawyers of both the parties, Samsung will withdraw advertising as well as sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1 until Samsung gets the official nod from the court. The agreement also says that if Apple loses the case, Apple will pay Samsung for the damages, however the extent of the damage wasn’t revealed.
As for now, Samsung has provided Apple with three units of Australian Galaxy Tab 10.1 whereas the judge will review the status of the case on Aug 29 to check if a trial is necessary.
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Mercedes-Benz has unveiled an experimental Connected Vehicles API for developers, the first for the Daimler-owned automaker. Through the API, developers can have access to telematics data, such as a vehicle's location, tire pressure and fuel levels, as well as a variety of vehicle data.
This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Cognitive Computing APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Hardware and Recognition. Highlights today include APIs from Deepomatic that can identify furniture and clothing in photographs. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.


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boatingindustryIn the November #1999 issue of #Boating Industry, former publisher Humphrey S. Tyler discussed how the boating industry needed to expand beyond its traditional white male buyer. Over 17 years later, this is still a conversation in the industry.
You can read more of Managing Editor Brianna Liestman's thoughts in her most recent blog by clicking the link in our bio. You can also listen to our webinar at 2 p.m. EST today to hear from marine businesses that have been successful selling to new markets. Learn more and register at boatingindustry.com/webinars. #vintagemagazine #editorial #1990s #letterfromtheeditor #newmarket #newmarkets #TBT #webinar #boatingindustry
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#UrbanOutfittersBeLike is totally cracking us up
Urban Outfitters has been the center of multiple controversies over the years. The trendy retailer has been called out in the past for a variety of offenses that have gone beyond the code of decency. But the latest UO sitch everyone’s all atwitter about is their penchant for selling everyday items for hilariously jacked up prices. Look, they’re really good at making objects like erasers and mugs seem super-special—can’t fault them for that. Can we?
The hashtag mobs on Twitter caught hold of the viral #UrbanOutfittersBeLike tag and are having a field day, mocking the copy Urban uses to market their products. The results are hilarious and on point.
According to CNNMoney, the trend kicked off last Thursday when user @wholeyattamoney posted a photo of a pair of ponytail holders being sold on Urban Outfitters’ website. You might know them best as a typical elementary school hair accessory, one that can probably be found at your local 99 cent store. Urban offers them for a hefty $8.
We perused the #UrbanOutfittersBeLike hashtag and had a total giggle-fit at some of these posts. Take a look at ten of our faves for a good laugh too. Note: these items are not sold at UO in reality, but you get the idea.
This Ridged Bobby Pin Hair Set for $14? That’s real.
You’ve got to hand it to Urban. They certainly have a way of making everyday items seem utterly original, if nothing else.
(Images via Twitter, Urban Outfitters)
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Electric container-transfer vehicles
In a first for New Zealand, CentrePort is using electric vehicles to move containers.
The seven new Gaussin truck and trailer units will lower our carbon emissions as well as our operating costs.
The French-made, 100 percent electric vehicles are used to move containers around the port, replacing the diesel trucks that used to do this job.
The vehicles are powered by rechargeable batteries that can operate for 10-12 hours. Batteries are also interchangeable so there’s no downtime while the vehicles are being charged.
In addition to reducing carbon emissions, the electric vehicles can move more containers per hour so have increased our operational efficiency.
We’ve invested in the new vehicles in partnership with the government’s green investment bank – New Zealand Green Investment Finance – as part of our carbon-reduction strategy. We expect the new units to reduce CentrePort’s carbon footprint by 8 percent, or 230 tonnes of CO2, each year.