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80+ Photos of Taylor at the Kid’s Choice Awards! - After winning Favourite Buttkicker at the US Kid’s Choice Awards, Taylor get’s totally slimmed! Check out all the photos HERE
Lionsgate U.K. Uses Taylor Lautner to Help Fuel ‘Hunger Games’
Savvy distributor gave away copies of Suzanne Collins’ first novel to the first 20,000 moviegoers watching “Abduction.”
LONDON – To help chalk up this year’s biggest British box office opener to date with £4.85 million ($7.69 million), Lionsgate’s awareness campaign for Hunger Games used the star power of Taylor Lautner, of Twilight franchise fame. OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS Huge ‘Hunger Games’ Weekend Box Office Haul Has Analysts Bullish on Lionsgate
Hunger Games — the big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult novel starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth – was little known on U.K. shores 12 months ago but despite unseasonable warm barbecue weather for March, still managed to open with more than twice the box office of the first Twilight film here.
Lionsgate U.K. co-founder and chief executive Zygi Kamasa told The Hollywood Reporter that a big part of the U.K. release strategy began with the source novel and worked closely with the book’s publisher Scholastic here to do just that.
While Lionsgate was rolling out the Lautner-starrer Abduction in September last year, the savvy distributor gave the first 20,000 theatergoers a copy of Colllins’ book.
“In the U.S. there really wasn’t a need to build awareness for the book in the same way as we had to here,” Kamasa said.
“We [Lionsgate U.K.] spent a lot of time working with Scholastic [the book’s publisher] to get teenagers to read the book,” Kamasa said. “For example we (also) partnered with Samsung and produced a mini-booklet on Hunger Games with pictures from the set of Lawrence and Hutcherson, Hemsworth and we printed the first two chapters of the book and dished out 500,000 copies to people buying Samsung TVs,” Kamasa said.
He said the partners also made it clear where customers could go online to download the book, helping it to become one of the biggest-selling books on the internet this year.
A recent study published by the Film Distributors’ Association will likely see Kamasa and his team’s efforts to bolster source material scratch Collins’ back. According to the FDA, movies are now a huge driver of book sales, citing Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse and David Nicholl’s One Day as examples. First published in 1982 in the U.K., Morpurgo’s sold more copies in the U.K. in the two weeks after Steven Spielberg’s big-screen version hit theaters than it did in the first 25 years of its publishing life.
And of the close to a million copies sold in paperback last year of Nicholl’s book, a third of them were the ‘tie-in’ edition with the movie art on the cover, only published in the second half of 2011. Source
Taylor Lautner to Attend Kids Choice Awards this Saturday!
New Behind the Scenes Video from Abduction!
New Abduction Behind the Scenes Images with Taylor and Lily!
New Behind the Scenes Images of Taylor and Lily Collins from Abduction.
Lily Collins Talks About Taylor to ‘Seventeen’ — “He’s a talented actor and a gentleman,” she tells the mag. “Taylor is very humble. He has so many fans and he never forgets that. He really appreciates the support that he’s gotten through the years, and he gives it right back – to me, that makes a good leading man.”
19 Photos of Taylor at El Hormiguero (Spanish) During Abduction Promo!
Vote for Taylor in Kids Choice Awards 2012! You can vote HERE. I’m not sure, but you can vote just once per day so put this site in your bookmarks and vote tomorrow and day after and after.. You know what to do! If he wins, he will be attending this show!

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Apple has finally scored a victory over Samsung in one of its lawsuits against the Galaxy Nexus phone from Samsung. The decision, according to which U.S. sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus would be blocked, was given by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. Preliminary injunction was also given to Apple against the US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1. Both these devices, which have been accused of infringing the copyrights of Apple, run Google Android OS. This would certainly be a blow for Samsung since it happens to be the second Samsung product banned in one week.
Apple has claimed that Galaxy Nexus phone caused it irreparable harm due to long-term market-share loss as well as losses of downstream sales. After the injunction was granted to Apple in the court room, the lawyer representing Samsung, John Quinn, looked rather annoyed while there was smile on the face of Apple lawyer, Mike Jacobs.
According to the official stance of Apple on the matter, put forward by an Apple spokesman, “It’s no coincidence that Samsung’s latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging.” He further said that this kind of clear copying is certainly against the law and ethics and is unacceptable. He stressed that Apple would take all measures to protect its intellectual property and ideas and would not let anyone unjustly use them. Samsung, on the other hand, has not responded on the matter as yet but this is certainly a huge blow for Samsung. However, it might not affect Galaxy Nexus very much since the next version of the device would be launched soon and Samsung would certainly bring about required changes in that version.
Google, responding to this decision, said that it was disappointed with the decision and expects that correct result would reach as more evidence comes to light.
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung started ever since Samsung launched its Galaxy Tab in the market more than a year ago. After that, the dispute arose on several other devices and both tech giants sued each other in several countries. The legal battle is still going on in several countries including Britain, France and Australia.


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Tonawanda News — TOWN OF TONAWANDA — Officials are offering $108,000 to settle with the state Department of Taxation and Finance after discovering sales taxes had never been paid on the Youth, Parks and Recreation department’s sales since they began in the 1950s.
“We knew we made a mistake here,” Town Attorney John J. Flynn said.
The town is requesting a three-year look-back period from the state with help from the law firm of Phillips Lytle, LLP for negotiation purposes.
“The recreation department added up their revenues from the previous three years, 2009, 2010 and 2011,” Flynn said. “That’s how they came up with the figure.”
The $108,000 is mainly comprised of sales at the town’s two hockey arenas, but also includes crafts sold at playgrounds, golf cart rentals, the auctioning off of vehicles and resale items at the Aquatic and Fitness Center.
Flynn said the town is applying for the state’s Voluntary Disclosure Program and are waiting to hear back from state officials.
According to the department of taxation and finance website and spokesperson Cary Ziter, the program allows a taxpayer to report and pay the taxes they owe without penalty.
Ziter also said any government entity is responsible for filing sales tax on items that are “not unique to government” — things like concession stad sales and golf cart rentals.
“A town concession stand sells a hot dog just like Ted’s,” Ziter said. “That’s a taxable item because it’s not unique to government.”
In comparison, the town doesn’t have to file taxes on the cost for providing a birth certificate, because the action is solely a government responsibility.
In respect to the taxable items, Flynn seemed optimistic about the town’s prospects with the state.
“The state regularly accepts people into the program,” Flynn said. “We are very hopeful that we will be.”


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Shopify goes all in on React Native for mobile development 3 years after Airbnb dropped it like 3rd-grade French
Commerce platform should have a better time, right?
Shopify, a commerce platform that claims over a million businesses as customers, is going "full steam ahead" in shifting all its mobile development to React Native.
In a detailed post, Shopify engineering veep Farhan Thawar explained why the team is changing from its present policy of native mobile development to use a cross-platform framework and React Native in particular.
He sees this as an "early technology bet" that parallels other choices the company has made, such as Ruby on Rails for its web application and Google Cloud for its IT infrastructure.
In November 2018, Shopify acquired the online marketplace Tictail, whose developers already used React Native. This, along with improvements in the framework, motivated Shopify to follow suit. The team analysed other options including Google's Flutter and continuing with native development. However, Thawar said that Shopify native apps will not necessarily be rewritten – "that's a decision each app team makes independently" – and that it will continue to use native code for custom platform-specific components and contributing back to the project. In addition, there will be instances where native development is preferred, such as for intensive processing or low-end hardware.
One project that did get rewritten is an order-tracking application called Arrive. Originally there was no Android version, only iOS. The rewrite shares 95 per cent code between Android and iOS, is more stable on iOS than the old native version, and "the team felt that they were twice as productive than using native development," claimed Thawar.
In 2016, Airbnb "took a big bet on React Native", said Gabriel Peal, who was a senior software engineer there at the time. It did not work out, and in 2018 Peal announced that "we will be sunsetting React Native".
This was three years ago and React Native is more mature today. In addition, some of Airbnb's issues were organisational rather than technical. Peal said that the opinions of team members about React Native were polarised. TypeScript is well supported in React Native, overcoming the type safety issue. The experience at Airbnb is no reason to presume that it will work out badly at Shopify, though it does illustrate that using a cross-platform framework always has costs as well as benefits.


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Ever since a group of Starbucks workers in western New York moved to unionize last year, the world’s largest coffee chain has been locked in a fierce legal battle with the upstart union, Starbucks Workers United. But as more baristas across the country unite, a clear winner has already emerged in this potentially historic labor struggle.
That would be Littler Mendelson, the law firm handling Starbucks’ litigation at the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that referees private-sector union elections.
The company’s lawyers have been busy trying to slow the fast-spreading union campaign that’s stunned the labor world. In a matter of months, Starbucks workers have filed petitions for union elections at more than 50 stores in at least 19 states. Starbucks has been using the same legal argument to stop these elections from moving forward at the NLRB, even though the board rejected it the first time Starbucks tried it.
A review of NLRB filings shows at least 30 Littler lawyers have worked on these Starbucks cases so far, suggesting the coffee chain is running up a big tab on its as-yet unsuccessful effort to halt elections. That number may have grown during the writing of this article, since Starbucks Workers United just filed new petitions this week that haven’t had NLRB hearings yet.
It’s standard practice for an employer facing a union campaign to retain a firm specializing in “union avoidance.” Many companies will dig as deep in their pockets as necessary if it means staying union-free. What’s unique about the Starbucks situation is that the company is scrambling to stamp out organizing fires coast to coast all at once.
To outsiders, the legal strategy seems designed to buy whatever time the company can get, regardless of whether the arguments might succeed.
“To them, it’s not going to matter how many rulings they lose on exactly the same question. They will do it every time,” said Jennifer Sherer, who works on collective bargaining issues at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank. “To many of us it looks pointless … but it is fully legal. For any employer with the kind of resources that Starbucks has available, time is their favorite weapon.”
The Starbucks union, which is an affiliate of Workers United, has already won two of the three elections held in the Buffalo, New York, area.
Starbucks argued that those elections should have been grouped into a much larger one encompassing all the Starbucks stores in the area, and has continued to make the same case in other regions as more workers have tried to unionize. Enlarging the potential bargaining unit could dilute each union’s support and force it to do more organizing at other shops, to Starbucks’ benefit.
But NLRB officials have been greenlighting individual store elections because of longstanding rules that presume single-site unions are appropriate.
“The company’s lawyers are just going to continue to raise the same dead legal issue until somebody puts a stop to it.”
Starbucks challenged a regional NLRB official in New York’s decision to allow the Buffalo stores to vote in individual elections last year. But the NLRB’s board in Washington, D.C., shot down that effort in December. The company has pursued the same argument to stop other union elections elsewhere, even though it’s highly unlikely the board will act any differently.
Ian Hayes, a Buffalo-based labor attorney who’s been coordinating Starbucks Worker United’s legal work, described the company’s mounting challenges as something close to carbon copies: “The same facts with different proper nouns.”
“The company is making identical arguments, and the union is forced to do the same in response,” he said. “The company’s lawyers are just going to continue to raise the same dead legal issue until somebody puts a stop to it. They are not going to stop doing that out of a sense of shame, or out of the knowledge that they’re going to lose and they’re wasting everyone’s time and money.”
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in a letter to employees in December that it was fighting single-store elections because “we feel strongly that all partners in Buffalo should have a voice.”
A Starbucks spokesperson told HuffPost this week that the company was continuing to make the same argument elsewhere in the country not as a stall tactic but as a matter of consistency and principle.
The Benefits of Stalling
Slowing down a union campaign through NLRB proceedings gives an employer more time to ramp up their anti-union campaign on the ground. When workers in Buffalo began organizing last year, Starbucks flooded the area with outside managers and executives who met with workers to discourage unionization. Delaying a vote, by weeks or even days, would allow a company to hold more captive-audience meetings and send more text messages to workers.
Stalling can also change the composition of the voter pool over time, especially in a high-turnover industry like food service. Unions typically file for elections after they’ve determined they have a strong majority of support among current workers. Employers can increase their chances of defeating the effort by watering down the pro-union contingent.
Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America, said companies will try to bog a campaign down in legal proceedings while hiring more employees likely to vote against the union.
Even in cases where a union wins an election, employers can use turnover to galvanize a decertification campaign, where workers eventually vote to purge the union from the workplace. (In a memoir, Starbucks co-founder Howard Schultz reveled in the decertification of an early union at Starbucks worksites in Seattle in the late 1980s.)
“They will use their control of the hiring process to try to change the outcome,” said Cohen, who is now the board chair of Our Revolution, the progressive group aligned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “You get a bunch of people in a store that were hired basically to be pro-management, if not explicitly anti-union.”
The very prospect of delay can shape crucial decisions in a campaign.
When Amazon was facing a union drive at an Alabama warehouse beginning in late 2020, the retail giant sought to dramatically increase the size of the bargaining unit through the NLRB. The union acquiesced rather than fight the company, knowing the legal proceedings could slow down the campaign for months. (Workers voted against unionizing by a large margin, though Amazon was ultimately found to have broken the law. A re-run election starts this month.)
“For any employer with the kind of resources that Starbucks has available, time is their favorite weapon.”
Hayes and his team are trying to keep the cases moving. This week he filed a motion asking an NLRB official to prevent Starbucks from introducing evidence to rehash the single-store election issue. “While the Company and the Union have litigated the appropriate unit issue over the past several months, Starbucks has had the opportunity to wreak havoc in its petitioning stores,” he wrote.
Wilma Liebman, a former chair of the NLRB’s board, said she couldn’t recall a perfectly analogous situation to what’s going on with Starbucks. She said if Starbucks continues to challenge the elections, the agency’s regional directors could demand to know what differentiates each case from the last one. If Starbucks can’t convincingly say, the director could declin to hold a hearing. And if Starbucks appeals that decision to the board, the board could quickly deny review.
“It would seem to be a waste of resources for the board to keep holding hearings, if the same thing is going to be litigated time after time,” Liebman said.
The rapid pace of organizing has required the union to retain more outside attorneys to handle the growing number of union petitions at the board, especially with Starbucks determined to fight them. Workers United, which is part of the Service Employees International Union, has used a smaller stable of lawyers than Starbucks so far, with 16 different attorneys listed on the cases. Most of them come from union-side law firms based in the areas where workers have petitioned for elections.
Hayes said the legal response from Starbucks has been “more extreme” than he anticipated.
“In that way it’s kind of a manifestation of class warfare,” he said. “Of course the company can outspend the union in legal fees, even if they know the lawyers are basically wasting their time. Wasting time is the exact purpose.”


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Hotels: Scan here for perks, postcards - and porn?
Those square-shaped, jigsaw-puzzle-like QR codes have been popping up almost everywhere in hotels this year, from key card packets to cocktail napkins to bedroom pillows. And sometimes, you never know what you'll find once you scan a code.
Pornographic images: The most novel — and eyebrow-raising — use of QR codes this year came from Dutch fashion designer Antoine Peters, who decorated a hotel room in The Netherlands from top to bottom with a patchwork of mundane-looking QR codes. But instead of leading to boiler plate information about the Hotel Modez in Arnhem, Peters' codes when scanned called up sexy images. The QR codes cover the room's quilted bedding, wallpaper, pillows and draperies. "Scanning the codes guides you into the world of pornography, pin-ups and other piquancies," Peters told Hotel Check-In recently via e-mail.
Of course, Peters' artistic use of QR codes at Hotel Modez is the exception.
The vast majority of QR codes in hotels are being used to market something, whether a product for sale, a form of entertainment or a surprise perk that might drive customer loyalty.
Surprise freebies at the hotel bar. In a move that could boost loyalty, the Four Seasons Austin for the last six months has been giving bar customers cocktail napkins with red-and-white QR codes, publicist Kerri Holden says. The code directs most customers to the hotel's Facebook page, but every now and then, a customer will find that they've unlocked a surprise freebie such as an appetizer or a glass of wine, she says.
Activities for teenaged hotel guests. Over the summer, the Four Seasons Scottsdale started using QR codes in its Club 27 teen center, says hotel publicist Kim Cole. When teens check in, they receive a personalized welcome card embedded with a QR code that invites them to the club to begin a scavenger hunt. They'll find clues in more QR codes. At the end, they receive a certificate for a free smoothie and appetizer. At the Four Seasons Boston in September, the hotel rolled out QR code cards that let them customize their amenity. Once they scan the code, they get to pick a beverage, snack or prize that will be delivered to their room. The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, also uses QR codes to provide young guests with a scavenger hunt, says Ritz-Carlton spokeswoman Parool Shah.
A way to buy sunscreen in your room. In June, Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., recently began offering guests a mini-bar-like cabinet in guestrooms that's stocked with high-end beach and bath products, such as suntan lotion and makeup. The items are available for purchase and can be ordered in alternate colors and sizes, via QR codes. So far, guests have been using the codes mainly to order a different version of the product that's then delivered to their room, says Gregory Day, the hotel's general manager. As a result, he says, sales have increased and Shutters has expanded the program into more guest rooms.
Send a postcard to friends. Hyatt Hotels this month began using a QR code on its drink coasters to promote a new entertainment-type app developed with large vendor Mondavi (which produces Hyatt's boutique wine label called Canvas). So today, expect to see codes on coasters in the restaurants, bars and lounges of Hyatt, Hyatt Place and Hyatt House locations in the U.S. and Caribbean. Once scanned, the code will lead smartphone users to a website, where the free app can be downloaded. You can use the app — Canvas Art of Living —to instantly send a digital postcard via e-mail, text and Facebook.
Self-guided art tours. When the James Hotel opened in New York about two years ago, it included QR codes next to all of its pieces of art so that art loving guests could take a self-guided art tour. The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua resort in Maui, Hawaii, launched a similar program for its art collection earlier this year.
Requests to write a TripAdvisor review. Social media expert Shashi Bellamkonda gives a thumbs up to the Courtyard by Marriott he recently stayed at in Jacksonville for having the guts to include a QR code for TripAdvisor on its key card packet. Just the fact that it was there " shows the confidence the hotel has in their services," he tells me via e-mail.
The future of QR codes?
Whether we'll see more hotels deploy QR codes more broadly remains to be seen.
Locations of Marriott's Ritz-Carlton luxury chain in Maui, Beijing, Hong Kong and Amelia Island, Fla., believe the QR codes they've launched throughout 2012 have been "highly successful due to the engagement by guests during and following their stays," Shah says. So for now, they're here to stay.
The New York-based operator of James Hotels — Denihan Hospitality — however, doesn't plan to roll out QR codes elsewhere in its hotels in Chicago, New York and Miami, brand marketing executive Lisa Zandee tells Hotel Check-In. Why? They don't immediately lead to increased revenue, she says.
Social media expert Lin Humphrey doubts hotels will embrace them more broadly, at least for now, for logistical reasons.
"QR codes really won't take off until the smartphone manufacturers make them standard in the OS within the camera," he writes on my Facebook page, adding that this would prevent the need to open another app to scan the codes. "Until it's standard, it's a novelty that signals innovation."
Hotels face another potential obstacle to make QR codes customer friendly. If the hotel doesn't have a mobile-friendly page on the other end of the QR code, it could lead to a disastrous experience for customers, Humphrey says.
Even social media enthusiasts like Bellamkonda sometimes just look at the codes, instead of scanning them.
"Even though I liked (the Courtyard hotel's QR code), I didn't use (it) because I use TripAdvisor regularly and will review the hotel after I leave," he says.
Readers: Have you scanned a QR code in a hotel lately? Tell us about your experience.


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The Year in Fashion: Sad farewells and exciting arrivals
There was a lot of movement in the fashion world in 2015 and not all of it was forward. For every crowning achievement, there is a Miley Cyrus.
Deal Diva Stephanie Hayes already gave us her view on the trends that could keep going or stay in 2015. We cosign all of that, and then some.
Now, let's take a look back at some of the biggest fashion news of the year from Tampa Bay to Paris. Hopefully, there's a lesson to be learned from all this.
Red carpet domination of Lupita N'yongo
Bursting onto the world fashion stage in your 30s is no easy feat, but Academy Award-winning actress Lupita N'yongo has managed to slay every appearance on the red carpet from January to December. In the ultimate show of force (pun intended), N'yongo killed her co-stars in red capetry on the press tour for Star Wars: The Force Awakens though her lovely visage never appears in the film. (Her character was CGI.) Take that, you Disney princesses!
Kimberly Hendrix loses battle with cancer
Local designer and fashion week supporter Kimberly Hendrix died in March after battling cancer, leaving behind two children and countless fans who will miss her exuberant style.
Tampa Bay Fashion Week goes on show-less
For the first time in years, Tampa Bay Fashion Week went on without a finale runway show. The alternative, a trunk show at Tampa's International Plaza Mall, was met with mixed reactions.
Donna Karan retires
After 31 years atop the American fashion industry, Donna Karan retired in June causing her line to be suspended indefinitely. Fans of DKNY, her company's off-shoot, can still look forward to new designs since ownership brought on Public School designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne to take over the brand.
Rihanna wins Met Gala
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Lanvin ousts Alber Elbaz
In a year full of break-ups, this had to be the least expected. Alber Elbaz, widely regarded as the savior of the French fashion house, Lanvin, was unceremoniously dumped this Fall. He hasn't announced a new gig yet, but it seems likely he'll be back in 2016.
Naked is the new back: sheer gowns had a renaissance
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The white and gold dress broke the internet
People lost their minds this February trying to suss out if a dress in a picture was white and gold or black blue. Yep, that really happened folks.
The triumphant return of Lady Gaga
In February, entertainment types were talking about the demise of Lady GaGa, musician/fashion savant, but by October they were eating those words. Gaga pivoted a successful role on American Horror Story: Hotel into a fashion reboot, taking on the red carpets of the world with grand dame style and pop star carriage. It was to die.
H&M X Balmain
The next big fashion collaboration for the fast fashion retailer just happened to feature the Kardashian-clan go to, Balmain. The line met mixed reviews but still managed to sell like hotcakes.
Gender neutral is the new black
Designers from Gucci to Ellen DeGeneres hopped on the gender fluid train straight to flower print tuxedos and structured pink moto-jackets. It was all very let the children be free -- if you've got $200 to do that sort of thing.
And those are our big takeaways from the year in fashion. Let us know what you think defined 2015 in the comments.


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Twitch, the gaming-centric streaming community, introduced new video tools for its creators yesterday.
Twitch Video Producer makes pre-recorded videos as easy to create as Twitch’s live streams. The update also seems to be designed to discourage creators from uploading low-quality videos.
Twitch product manager Justin Oh posted the Video Producer announcement on the company’s blog:
“Video Producer is a set of tools that enables creators to bring the exciting community experiences Twitch is known for to produced videos.”
Related: Twitch Affiliate versus Twitch Partner – What’s the Difference?
One of the most important aspects of Video Producer is the mandatory Premiere feature. Premieres are essentially landing pages for newly uploaded videos. The new landing pages allow creators to chat with their audience and send out invitations.
“We want every new video to get an exciting debut,” Oh explained, “which is why setting up a Premiere is a part of the new video publishing flow.”
Built-in Quality Controls
In addition to helping creators build hype for new videos, the new Premiere feature also prevents creators from spamming Twitch with low-quality content.
Twitch has set their newly retooled system up so that Premieres and Live streams cannot happen at the same time.
According to Twitch’s announcement, all new videos must be Premiered. In other words, there’s no way to upload a video to Twitch without setting up a Premiere landing page for it first.
Another limitation: Twitch creators can’t start a live stream while a Premiere is running. Likewise, a scheduled Premiere will fail if creators are live streaming when it debuts. Failed Premieres have to be rescheduled to appear on Twitch.
Twitch apparently hopes the Video Producer tools will act as a quality filter to improve content across the board. Better, more engaging content means more money for Twitch, more money for its creators and a better experience for Twitch viewers.
Chris Casper is a former tech industry product manager who escaped from California for New Mexico. Now he writes about science and tech while searching for the perfect green chile sauce.


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Allkeyshop TV News 23 October (Recap)
ESRB Posts Rating of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger for Switch
The ESRB has published a rating for Call of Juarez: Gunslinger for the Nintendo Switch. This could mean that the 2013 western game could be coming to the handheld sometime in the future. On top of this, Techland has reportedly begun sending out viral marketing to some media outlets. It includes information that an official reveal is scheduled on October 24th.
Battlefield 5: War in the Pacific Update to be Revealed Soon
DICE is set to reveal Battlefield 5’s War in the Pacific update on October 23rd, according to the most recent tweet from the Battlefield Twitter handle. In Chapter 5, players will be welcoming three new maps which includes Iwo Jima. It will also add two new factions: the United States and Japan. Players can also expect seven new weapons and gadgets, plus new vehicles, including a boat. The full reveal will be streamed via the official Battlefield 5 YouTube channel.
Pathologic 2 Marble Nest DLC Coming Next Week
Developer Ice-Pick Lodge has announced The Marble Nest, Pathologic 2’s new DLC. The Marble Nest is free for players who own the base game, and it brings a single-day, standalone story. Players will play as Dr. Daniil Dankovsky for a day, and he is out there to try to save the town “alongside the Haruspex, and uncover a different perspective on the events—and Death itself.” This standalone expansion is also available as a separate purchase.
Fortnite Has Mythic Gold Fish That Kills in One Hit
Fortnite Chapter 2 arrived last week, and one of its additions is fishing. Players can reel in weapons and items from bodies of water in the map, and it turns out the rumored Mythic Goldfish is one of them. Dataminers have previously discovered the Mythic Goldfish in the game’s files, and now it looks like it is indeed included in Chapter 2. On Reddit, a player named BlakeBenbow posted footage of how it killed him in one hit. His post reads, “I was eliminated by a mythic goldfish! I thought it wasn’t in the game yet!”
Hitman 2 Welcomes Halloween with Themed Escalation Contract
IO Interactive has revealed what Agent 47 is up to this Halloween. Over on Twitter, the company revealed Hitman 2’s Halloween event which comes with a Halloween-themed Escalation Contract. It kicks off October 22nd, and “promises to challenge all of your expectations,” the tweet says. This mission, according to the announcement, is permanent, and will also reward players with two unique rewards — if they are brave enough to complete it.
Steam’s Remote Play Together Now in Beta
Steam’s Remote Play Together feature, which allows players to play local multiplayer games online, is now in beta. The feature works for any game that supports local co-op, local multiplayer, or shared/split-screen functionality. It can support up to four players, but Valve also said it could support more “in ideal conditions”. To take part in the beta, interested participants should join Steam’s beta branch and download its latest build.
Skateboarding Game Session Xbox Release Delayed
Crea-ture Studios announced that the console version of its skateboarding game, Session, won’t be launching on the Xbox One on its supposed release date. The title was originally scheduled to launch this month on Xbox One, however, the developer “still need[s] more time to port Session to Xbox One” so they decided to delay the release to late November or early December this year. Session launched on Steam Early Access in September.
American Truck Simulator: Utah Coming to Steam in November
American Truck Simulator is heading to Utah with its new DLC. American Truck Simulator: Utah is set to launch in November. The Utah map spans Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona through the Dam Bridge to Salina. The expansion’s trailer showcases the vast landscapes the map offers, including beautiful historic towns, well-known landmarks, and some of the famous red rocks the state is known for.
Prison Architect Psych Ward DLC Coming to PC
Psych Ward, Prison Architect’s previously-console-exclusive DLC is finally heading to PC. The expansion will be launching November 21st in the form of Psych Ward: Warden’s Edition. This expansion will have players manage criminally insane inmates — these prisoners enter the facility with the trait already in effect. It also introduces Psychiatrists to handle problem inmates. This expansion also brings new inmate behaviors, plus new customization items such as padded floors and walls.
MLB The Show 20 Cover Athlete Revealed
SIE San Diego has unveiled its cover athlete for MLB The Show 20. For this upcoming game, the Chicago Cubs’ Javier “El Mago” Baez has been chosen as the cover star. Baez is decked with a .290 batting average in 2018, with 34 home runs and 111 RBIs. Also revealed is the game’s release date, which is March 17, 2020. Players who decide to pre-purchase their copy, or any of the special editions, will receive bonuses such as Team Avatars, Stubs, and a lot more.
The Witcher 3 Switch Makes it to UK Top 10
The Witcher 3 debuted on the Nintendo Switch last week, and the UK Sales Chart shows it made the top 10 games for week ending October 19th, as it lands on the fourth spot. FIFA 20 still remains the best-selling game for the said period, followed by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint also made it to the top, sitting at number 3. The chart reflects in-store physical sales only.
Skull Trooper Skin Returns to Fortnite’s Item Shop
The Skull Trooper skin is back in the Fortnite Item Shop as part of its Halloween festivities. Also back is the Skull Ranger skin. Aside from these, a new pickaxe, back bling, and glider are also available to complete the spooky look. These skins only come once a year to the game. Also available this Halloween is the Ghoul Trooper skin.
Borderlands 3’s Bloody Harvest Event Kicks Off October 24th
Gearbox has finally revealed the launch date of Borderlands 3’s Halloween event, Bloody Harvest. The event kicks off October 24th, and is free for players who own the base game. Bloody Harvest adds Haunted enemies that appear in various locations, and they are equipped with a new “Terror” debuff that affects the character’s vision, gun handling, accuracy, and spread. Defeating them will reward players with the limited-time currency, Heckotplasm which they can trade-in for access to the Bloody Harvest map.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse Revealed at PDXCON
Developer Cyanide and publisher Bigben Interactive have revealed the first trailer for the upcoming action RPG Werewolf: The Apocalypse during the recently concluded PDXCON 2019. The trailer showcases the protagonist Cahal, showing how he shapeshifts when rage takes over him. Werewolf: The Apocalypse is about Cahal’s fight for his endangered tribe’s survival, amid the threat of the corporations that are out to destroy the environment. The game is set to release next year for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Pantheon Gets 100% Ban Rate at League of Legends World Championships
Pantheon has a 100% ban rate at the League of Legends World Championships, according to the World’s latest stats. As of this report, Pantheon has been banned in all 50 games of the proper World Championships that have been played so far. Pantheon is a powerful champion who deals huge damage in a short time early on in the game. Whether Pantheon remains to be 100% banned during the Worlds is yet to be seen.
Darksiders Genesis Coming to PC in December
THQ Nordic has announced that Darksiders Genesis is coming to PC on December 5th. The action-adventure game will have players tear through hordes of demons and angels, equipped with melee and ranged weapons. Genesis also gives players a glimpse at the world of Darksiders before the events of the original game. It will also introduce players to the new horseman, Strife.
New Mech Shooter Uragun Announced for PC
Kool2Play has announced its upcoming mech top-down shooter, Uragun. The game is slated to launch for PC in 2020. Uragun puts players in a powerful mech unit that is tasked to take down swarms of smart AI bots. The game features locations from real-life cities, such as New York, London, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing and Warsaw. The game promises at least 10 hours of gameplay that includes missions in different locations which will challenge players to deploy different strategies as they progress.
The Protagonist: EX-1 Delayed to 2020
3Mind Games announced that its turn-based, tactical RPG, The Protagonist: EX-1 has been delayed to 2020. It will be available for PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One. The Protagonist: EX-1 is set in Terran, where its first contact with an alien species has gone wrong. An elite team led by ANGEL has been assembled to neutralize the alien threat, and players will have to think about their decisions as every choice affects the course of the game.
Escape from Tarkov Beta v0.12 Patch Coming Soon
Escape from Tarkov will be receiving its 0.12 patch. The new update migrates the game into the new version of Unity which allowed the developers to do “serious work to optimize the network and server components,” as well as remove bugs and implement new improvements for the game’s graphics. The update also adds a hideout for the player to upgrade and “restore the basic characteristics of his character.” A release date for the update is yet to be announced.
Asphalt 9: Legends Sells a Million Units on Switch
The fun arcade racing game Asphalt 9: Legends was able to sell more than one million units on the Nintendo Switch in just seven days of its launch on the platform. This amazing milestone had been announced by Gameloft’s VP Strategic Partnerships’ Guilherme Lachaut. He further adds that bringing the game to the Switch had been a community request for a long time. Asphalt 9: Legends offers online multiplayer modes that offers real-time racing with up to 8 players.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III Out Now
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 is now available in North America and Europe for the PlayStation 4 as proudly announced by NIS America. The game will also be available in Australia and New Zealand by October 29th. Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 offers the New Class 7 where players can explore newly annexed lands, also an immersive story can be experienced developed across three titles of the game, and a more honed combat system can be expected.
The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets Coming November 14
Fast Travel Games has announced its award-winning VR game The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets is launching on November 14th. The game will be playable for Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, Valve Index & Windows Mixed Reality. The game will have players solve the mystery of the stolen pets as they explore a miniature world which has been handcrafted especially for VR. Each world is unique, and full of interactions and puzzles.


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Mitsubishi will officially debut its new Pajero Sport seven-seating SUV at the Moscow Auto Salon in August, 2008.
Mitsubishi will soon start selling its long-awaited Galant Fortis Ralliart 4WD sedan.
Mitsubishi will use the upcoming motor show in Paris to officially unveil its 2009 Lancer Sportback performance hatch.
Mitsubishi has failed to unveil its new 2008 Lancer Evo X at the 2007 IAA motor show in Frankfurt. However, the Japanese brand has thrown a bone to thousands of enthusiasts of street racing by revealing a certain amount of information regarding the next-generation sports car. Right after the jump, you will see a set of press photos and some technical specs of the Evo X. So far, it looks quite promising.
Colonel Colt made men equal; Mitsubishi tries to make Colt-owners more equal than other men. Well, at least this is how the Japanese car manufacturer seemingly tries to make the things look like shamelessly pitching their 2007 Mitsubishi Colt Black Hawk limited edition hatches as sports cars.


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GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday stated it was remembering the popular heartburn medication Zantac in all markets as a “precaution”, days after the United States Food and Drug Administration discovered “inappropriate” levels of probable cancer-causing pollutant in the drug.
Zantac, likewise offered generically as ranitidine, is the current drug in which cancer-causing impurities have been found. Regulators have actually been recalling some high blood pressure and heart failure medications considering that in 2015.
Britain’s medicines watchdog stated GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was recalling 4 prescription-only Zantac medications: a syrup, an injection and tablets of 150 and 300 milligram (mg) does.
Non-prescription 75 mg dosage Zantac items are produced by a different company and are not affected by the recall, it included.
“GSK notified the MHRA of our decision to suspend the release, distribution and supply of all dosage kinds of Zantac products,” a business spokesman confirmed to Reuters.
“GSK is continuing with investigations into the potential source of the NDMA,” he said, including that the examinations include continued engagement with its suppliers and with external laboratories to carry out tests on ended up product batches of Zantac.
The Medicines and Health care items Regulatory Firm (MHRA) stated healthcare professionals were informed on Monday to “stop supplying the items right away, quarantine all remaining stock and return it to their provider”.
“We are advising that clients ought to not to stop taking their medication, and do not need to see their medical professional until their next routine consultation but ought to seek their doctor’s suggestions if they have any concerns,” the MHRA said.
United States and European health regulators said last month they were examining the security of ranitidine, after online drug store Valisure flagged the impurities.
The FDA stated Valisure’s higher-temperature testing approach produced extremely high levels of NDMA from the ranitidine drugs.
NDMA had previously been discovered in some blood pressure medicines from a class of drugs referred to as angiotensin II receptor blockers, or ARBs.
After inspecting the over-the-counter substance abuse a low-heat method of screening, the FDA stated it discovered much lower levels of NDMA than was found with a greater temperature level test used by Valisure.
The US regulator has actually asked ranitidine makers to perform their own testing to evaluate levels of the pollutant and to send samples of their products for screening by the agency.
Swiss drugmaker Novartis stopped global circulation of its ranitidine drugs last month.
Recently, Walmart Inc signed up with drug store chains CVS Health Corp, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc and Rite Aid Corp in suspending the sale of over the counter heartburn drugs including ranitidine.
Canada’s health authorities have actually asked makers of the drugs to stop circulation as they gather more details. Last month, regulators in Hong Kong pulled 4 products, while in Ireland 13 products containing ranitidine were recalled.
The impurity was believed to have been introduced by modifications in the manufacturing procedure.
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A new report suggests AR will be eventually worth four times as much as VR. Together, virtual reality and augmented reality are expected to generate about $150 billion in revenue by the year 2020. Read Full Story
Although VR gear such as Oculus Rift gets all the press, tech that layers virtual over real will score.
Japanese electronics manufacturer Murata, in conjunction with the city of Sabae, showed its "Cool Design Smart Glass" concept eyewear at CEATEC 2015. The smart augmented reality (AR) glasses incorporate what Murata claims is the world's...Show More Summary
SAN FRANCISCO — You can feel the gaming industry swelling with excitement for virtual and augmented reality, but one of the top technology companies isn’t expecting massive triple-A experiences for early head-mounted devices. Epic chief executive officer Tim Sweeney has a lot of thoughts about the future of games and beyond when it comes to […]
Heads up, augmented reality game makers: Qualcomm is selling off its Vuforia AR business to American tech company PTC for a cool $65 million....
There's a renewed excitement around Augmented Reality (AR), driven largely by Microsoft's HoloLens headset. Not everyone is so enthused, though, most notably Qualcomm, which is selling its AR business to the Internet of Things (IoT) company PTC for an undisclosed sum. Show More Summary
Qualcomm today said it has agreed to sell its Vuforia business to a company called PTC. Vuforia was hatched five years ago as an augmented reality platform, giving mobile applications the ability to "see" and merge interactions between the physical and digital worlds. Show More Summary
This week, Microsoft announced new hardware, Twitter finally got a permanent CEO, and Facebook confirmed it is working on augmented reality. Here in the TechCrunch studio, we talked about India’s massive mobile market with Mohit Aron on Bullish, and our video team took a trip to the DogVacay HQ on TC Cribs. These are the biggest stories of the week. Show More Summary
Disney Research has developed a fascinating augmented reality coloring book app that turns coloring book drawings into 3D objects on screen that also manage to retain the original artwork’s texture. Disney Research also supplied an informative PDF document, available to download online, that goes into more detail on how their incredible app works. Augmented reality […]
There’s a reason why the PolyEyes 2.0, an augmented reality project by the Interactive Architecture Lab, looks like a helmet of an alien invader. Read more...
Ahead of its world debut at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month, Mitsubishi has revealed renderings of its latest concept car, the eX Concept. See also: Semi truck smashes world record with astonishing 166-foot jump The "active, pulsating design," as Mitsubishi puts it, while visually intriguing, isn't the highlight of the car. Show More Summary
This is a video demonstration of Disney's new augmented reality system that allows a child to see a 3D version of the character they're coloring as they're coloring it. Obviously, I would have drawn a penis on that elephant IMMEDIATELY. Show More Summary
Microsoft had a spectacular demo of its HoloLens augmented reality headset during its press event earlier this week, and now it wants to show developers how they can make apps for HoloLens. The company will be offering a series of developer demo events across the US starting next week and running throughout October and November.
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Amazon Studios is pretty psyched about Creative Control, an independent science fiction film about augmented reality glasses that debuted earlier this year at SXSW. So psyched that they are going to release the […]
Sony has purchased Softkinetic, a company known for making depth sensors for virtual and augmented reality technology.
Where is gaming technology going? We’ve had tantalizing glimpses of the future with demos of augmented reality, virtual reality, user-generated content, esports, and the coolest new mobile devices. At the high end, gaming PCs using Intel’s Skylake processors, and dedicated graphics chips can power multiple screens and even motion simulators. For gamers, we only know […]
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[CEATEC 2015] How do you travel back in time? The answer is pretty simple – you don’t, and cannot. Well, thanks to the wonders of modern technology and augmented reality, Kinki Nippon Tourist (KNT) has decided to bring tourism to a whole new level – calling it “smart tourism”. Show More Summary


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A shopper bags his produce choices at the Saraga International Market, one of the businesses that has opened in the International Marketplace area on the Northwestside.
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The long-lamented Lafayette Square area on the Northwestside is being bolstered by something it hasn't seen in a while: new construction, new businesses and a renewed feeling of hope.
Much of that optimism is centered on a commercial district that is betting in an ambitious strategy to market itself as a destination for international delicacies.
Earlier this year, the commercial district changed its name to the International Marketplace to better promote the growing number of ethnic businesses that have moved there. It's now a place where more than 70 different languages are spoken and ...


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Does coffee dehydrate you?
We’re on a roll with questions from readers. Here’s a new one:
Dear Dr. Prescott: One thing I’m interested in is the effect of consuming coffee and other caffeinated drinks. Does such drinking make the kidneys to kick it up a notch or two and cause a greater need for additional water?
— Lawrence Herndon, Oklahoma City
Dr. Prescott Prescribes
Doctors and scientists long believed that caffeinated beverages were diuretics, compounds that increase urine output. But more recent studies have found that caffeine only has this effect in large doses.
Specifically, they determined that drinks with up to 550 milligrams of caffeine produced no more urine than caffeine-free fluids. Only above 575 milligrams did caffeine-laced drinks prove diuretic.
So, you’ll see no effect from an eight-ounce cup of coffee, which typically contains about 100 milligrams of caffeine. Even a Starbucks venti blonde roast, with 475 milligrams of caffeine, will not send you to the restroom any faster than 20 ounces of water.
So long as they stay under 550 milligrams, drinks containing caffeine are like water and contribute to the body’s daily hydration needs.
As far as the specific interaction between coffee and the kidneys is concerned, an observational study published last year of more than 8,000 Koreans found that those who consumed more than two cups of coffee a day had a lower risk of kidney disease than nondrinkers.
Similarly, coffee seems to be protective against kidney stones. (Another caffeinated drink, tea, also appears to guard against stones, though sodas — both caffeinated and not — increase the risk of stone formation.)
While nary a month goes by without some new research study about coffee and caffeine, there’s scant evidence that normal consumption poses any health risks. Neither seems to increase the chance of cancer or heart attacks, and regular coffee drinkers appear to have a lower rate of cardiovascular disease.
As with so many things, so long as you enjoy coffee and other caffeinated beverages in moderation, drink up!
Prescott, a physician and medical researcher, is president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Cohen is a marathoner and OMRF’s senior vice president and general counsel.


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Siblings return to Missoula to purchase local business
By Martin Kidston/Missoula Current
A pair of siblings who left Polson to go their separate ways, one to Arizona and the other to Michigan, have reunited in Missoula as the new owners of Fuel Montana Media.
Patrick Owen and Becky Colman purchased the established media company in November and are feeling their way though their new endeavor, one that sells pump-top television advertising at nearly two-dozen gas stations across Montana.
“We knew we wanted to move back,” said Colman. “We both looked at jobs here and we talked a lot about it and decided we wanted to open a business together and work at a business together.”
Before doing so, Colman – a former college softball player – had been living Arizona where she worked on corporate partnerships for the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball club. Owen, a former University of Michigan wrestler, was working as a managing consultant.
Intent on returning to Montana, the two started researching business opportunities in Missoula. While they considered purchasing a franchise opportunity, they wanted whatever they did to be locally focused.
As it turned out, David Bell was looking to sell Fuel Montana Media.
“We didn't actually purchase the company until November,” Colman said. “We looked at a few franchise opportunities. But one big thing we wanted to do was something more local. We liked that it was locally owned.”
Owen described his new business as outdoor digital advertising. The concept is simple – take advantage of motorists waiting for their vehicle to fill with gasoline. While they wait, the pump-top television screens display local weather and sports – they have a partnership with the local CBS station – interspersed with commercial advertising.
Monetizing the pump-top displays places them in competition with more traditional television, radio and print advertising options. They typically sell 15-second spots. Customers must provide a finished ad, they said.
“We want to be in the mix as people are making advertising and marketing decisions and considering their options,” said Owen. “That captive outdoor audience is something that might be appealing. Right now, we're spreading the word and meeting with ad agencies so we're top of mind when they're meeting with their clients and setting up their plan.”
The business isn't a dramatic change in course from their former occupations. Both worked in the business world before taking the plunge as entrepreneurs. Owen attributed his former consulting job for giving him the courage to purchase his own business.
“When I was doing the consulting work, doing the research and meeting with the stakeholders, I started to get more confidence,” he said. “I feel more confident I could own a business and run a business. I think (Colman) had some of that too. We both felt, if we were going to move back, we were going to work for ourselves.”
The company includes 170 monitors displayed at 23 Montana gas stations, including Noon's in Missoula and Casey's Corner in Bozeman. They expect to bring two other gas stations online in the coming months.
While they don't plan to add any employees just yet, they do have business plans for the future. Among them, Owen said, they look to expand the placement of the monitors to venues beyond gas stations.
“Our year one stuff, right now, is to maintain what we have and keep the quality, and be sure we're able to handle the maintenance on the machines,” said Owen. “We're working on building the sales part before we look at expanding. We're learning all the technology.”
Contact reporter Martin Kidston at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Lexus RX is one of the most popular crossovers on the market, and now is ready to become even more popular, addressing to a wider audience. Lexus will introduce a bigger RX.
The all-new 2018 RX 350L, now featuring three rows, will make its world premiere at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. The hybrid model, the RX 450hL, will also be announced. The RX that paved the way for the luxury crossover segment 20 years ago will retain its design while also providing more flexibility for passengers.
The RX 350L will be revealed at the Lexus Press Conference taking place on November 29, 2017 in the South Hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center.


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What you might want to know
- A number of telephone manufacturers have confirmed what flagships will include the brand new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset.
- The Moto Edge X40 and OnePlus 11 have been confirmed together with the brand new Samsung Galaxy S23.
- Qualcomm’s new chip leaps ahead in efficiency with a sophisticated AI engine, 200MP photo-capturing functionality, and Wi-Fi 7.
The Qualcomm Summit 2022 involves an finish, and we’re starting to obtain affirmation of OEMs creating flagships with the brand new SoC.
As identified by Android Authority, a number of telephone manufacturers have begun confirming the usage of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. A number of of those OEMs have been talked about throughout Qualcomm’s Summit 2022, however we’re now seeing simply the place these corporations wish to set the chip.
Starting the spherical of confirmations is Motorola which has said its upcoming Moto Edge X40 will sport the model new SoC from Qualcomm. The telephone was lately leaked in a certification submitting, with specs pointing to a 50MP triple digicam setup. Given the Edge X30 was the primary machine to launch with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, it is potential Motorola may comply with swimsuit this 12 months.
The following batch comes from two Chinese language OEMs, OnePlus and Xiaomi. OnePlus has lately confirmed that its new 11 mannequin flagship telephone will make the most of the brand new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and presumably 11 Professional, too. The upcoming Xiaomi 13 collection has additionally been confirmed to characteristic the brand new chipset, as effectively, following leaked designs that resemble OnePlus telephones and the iPhone.
Each of those telephones appear to be eyeing an end-of-2022 launch date for his or her new flagship telephones. Nevertheless, even when they do hit a December date, the telephones will probably solely be out there in China earlier than changing into world someday in 2023.
Oppo has additionally confirmed its new Discover X collection telephone will characteristic Qualcomm’s newest chip alongside the upcoming IQOO 11 and the Crimson Magic 8 Professional, the brand new successor to the Crimson Magic 7 Professional.
Lastly, Samsung followers ought to know by now that the Korean OEMs upcoming Galaxy S23 collection is greater than more likely to include the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 launched on the primary day of the Summit 2022 occasion in Hawaii. It was revealed with developments within the chip’s AI engine, together with its 200MP photo-capturing functionality and its improve from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.
The brand new SoC ought to outperform the beforehand launched Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 for most of the next-gen flagships which can be prepping for a 2023 launch.
There are additionally a number of extra industrial manufacturers that Qualcomm has talked about will characteristic the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 cell platform to a point. Whereas not all of them have come out and confirmed what telephones will make the most of the chip prior to now couple of days, we must always count on to see that info at any time when it’s out there.


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It will be the first electric car from the brand to be built on local soil.
The Genesis Electrified GV70 isn't far off now, and is a great blend of the GV70's evocative design with a powerful electric powertrain. The crossover took to the stage at the Auto Guangzhou in China to show off its dual-motor-powered system that generates a modest 365 horsepower figure. Energy is sourced from an 87.2-kWh battery with 350-kW charging capacity.
Things have been silent regarding exactly when a market introduction for the USA would take place but there was word that local production would begin by sometime this year. Thanks to a new report by The Korean Car Blog that sources information from Hyundai insiders, we now have a clearer idea of when the EV SUV will begin its production run.
It is understood that Hyundai conducted a meeting with employees only at its Asan plant in South Korea where everything from the Sonata to the Palisade is put together. Here, an announcement was made that the Genesis Electrified GV70 would be produced at the brand's Alabama plant before this year comes to an end, serving as further confirmation of the news we first heard in November last year. The company is expecting to add more electric models thereafter.
Hyundai is making this decision because it has noticed how rapidly the electric car market has grown in the U.S. This momentum is unlikely to falter as the cost of gas continually rises. Furthermore, the brand wants to take full advantage of President Biden's pro-locally produced EV policy that includes conclusive subsidies.
The existing GV70 range that is produced at the Alabama plant has also been seeing some impressive success in the new car market despite the ongoing supply chain crisis. This performance has contributed to the South Korean group's decision to implement a local production run for its new EV.
Regarding the decision to add the Electrified GV70 to its U.S. production plant, an unnamed industry official said, "The local production of the GV70 EV is a strategy movement to speed up the conversion to electric vehicles and at the same time solidify its position as a premium brand in the U.S market."
Based on the new production timeline, we expect deliveries of the Electrified GV70 to begin early next year.


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Nvidia's acquisition of Arm has failed.
The two companies agreed to terminate the deal due to growing regulator pressure, which included deep investigations by governments in the UK, EU, and China, as well as the FTC suing to stop the purchase.
Unlike Nvidia, which designs and sells its chips, Arm licenses out its designs to other chip companies, including Apple, Qualcomm, and Amazon. This approach means Arm earns significantly less per chip sold, but equally means it ends up in a lot more products.
Hundreds of billions of Arm-designed chips have been shipped in the past 30 years.
“Arm has a bright future, and we’ll continue to support them as a proud licensee for decades to come,” said Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia.
“Arm is at the center of the important dynamics in computing. Though we won’t be one company, we will partner closely with Arm. The significant investments that Masa has made have positioned Arm to expand the reach of the Arm CPU beyond client computing to supercomputing, cloud, AI, and robotics. I expect Arm to be the most important CPU architecture of the next decade.”
The acquisition was first announced in September 2020 for a price tag of $40 billion in cash and Nvidia shares, a valuation that surged to nearly $60bn with the GPU maker's improving market share.
Regulators and critics claimed that the acquisition would harm competition, particularly in the data center server sector.
“Arm is becoming a center of innovation not only in the mobile phone revolution, but also in cloud computing, automotive, the Internet of Things and the metaverse, and has entered its second growth phase,” said Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank Group, Arm's owner.
“We will take this opportunity and start preparing to take Arm public, and to make even further progress.”
The company plans to list on the stock exchange within the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. To prepare Arm for the IPO, the company replaced its CEO.
Simon Segars is out, with Arm IP Products Group head Rene Haas taking over. Prior to his nine years at Arm, Haas spent seven years at Nvidia.
“It is an honor to lead the world’s most influential technology company at a time when Arm’s market opportunity has never been greater,” Haas said.
As part of the terms of the acquisition, SoftBank will retain the $1.25bn prepaid by Nvidia.


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|Beta (3Y Monthly)||0.91|
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Daniel Li of Geely Automobile Holdings says the "direct impact" of the U.S.-China trade war on the company has not been "huge."
Toliver Ma of Guotai Junan International says the quality and sustainability of Geely Automobile's earnings is "quite assured."
Sentiment toward Chinese equities has been undermined after last week’s Politburo meeting fueled concern the government will dial back economic support measures. Large-scale stimulus helped fuel the world’s biggest stock market rally in China this year, after economic worries plagued the nation’s shares in 2018. The declines in equities came even after People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor Liu Guoqiang said the central bank hasn’t changed its prudent monetary policy stance and has no intention to either tighten or loosen policy.
The big shareholder groups in Geely Automobile Holdings Limited (HKG:175) have power over the company. Insiders often own a large chunk of younger, smaller, companies while huge companies tend to have institutions as shareholders...
April 17 (Reuters) - Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd : * ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP COMPANY LIMITED BUYS 55.03 MILLION SHARES IN GEELY AUTOMOBILE HOLDINGS LTD AT HK$17.62 EACH ON APRIL 12 - HKEX FILING ...
LIUZHOU, China/BEIJING (Reuters) - By many measures, General Motors' China brand Baojun has been an exceptional success story, growing at breakneck speed by selling low-cost no-frills vehicles in smaller cities and rural areas. The move is aimed at ensuring Baojun has offerings in the 100,000 yuan to 150,000 yuan ($15,000-$22,300) range that holds the most potential for the brand, said Mike Devereux, executive vice president at SGMW, GM's venture with Chinese partners SAIC Motor Corp and Guangxi Automobile Group. By comparison the most expensive model under Baojun's old badge is priced from 85,800 yuan to 117,800 yuan.
Volvo Cars has started producing its XC40 compact crossover SUV in China to bump up capacity and cater for growing demand, the Swedish carmaker said on Friday. As the cost impact of Washington's trade war with Beijing spreads, Volvo has been shuffling manufacturing facilities for its models. The dispute has been squeezing capacity at Volvo's Ghent plant, the only site where the XC40 - the 2018 European Car of the Year - is currently produced.
Geely, China's highest profile car maker with investments in Volvo and Daimler, launched a premium all-electric car brand "Geometry" on Thursday as it pushes ahead with its plans to boost production of new energy vehicles. The move comes as automakers race to develop vehicles powered by means other than petrol to meet an expected rise in demand as the world's top car market enforces official production quotas designed to reduce smog. Geometry will take overseas orders but will mainly focus on the Chinese market and will launch more than 10 pure electric models in multiple segments by 2025, Geely said in a statement on Thursday.
JAC Motors said on Thursday it had not held talks with Volkswagen AG, after Reuters reported that the German auto giant was interested in taking a stake in its Chinese electric vehicle joint venture partner. "The company and Volkswagen have not conducted formal business discussions on the matters mentioned in the news reports nor does it have any plans for an equity acquisition," JAC said in a stock exchange statement. Reuters reported on Wednesday that Volkswagen was exploring the purchase of a large stake in JAC and had hired Goldman Sachs to advise on the plan.
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April 1 (Reuters) - Chengdu Haoneng Technology Co Ltd : * SAYS IT EXPECTS OPERATING REVENUE TO INCREASE BY 468 MILLION YUAN ($69.75 million)AFTER UNIT BECOMES A SUPPLIER OF GEELY AUTOMOBILE PARTS' UNIT ...
"Geely posted healthy unit sales growth in 2018 that led to meaningful gain in its overall market share, as a result of improvements in its product breadth and strength," says Gerwin Ho, a Moody's Vice President and Senior Credit Officer. Geely's unit sales, including those from its 50%-owned Lynk & Co joint venture, grew 20% year-on-year to 1,500,838 units in 2018. Geely's unit sales growth rate in 2018 outperformed the 3% decline registered by China's auto industry over the same period, resulting in a further expansion of its market share, and positioning it as the third largest passenger vehicle brand and the seventh largest auto maker by unit sales in China.
BERLIN (AP) — German automaker Daimler and China's Geely, its largest single shareholder, said Thursday that they are setting up a joint venture to develop and operate Daimler's Smart compact car brand worldwide as an all-electric car.
FRANKFURT/BEIJING (Reuters) - Daimler will build its next generation of Smart electric cars in China through a joint venture with Geely, as a way to increase economies of scale in a market segment that is struggling to turn a profit. China's Geely built a stake of almost 10 percent in Daimler last year, saying it wanted to forge an alliance to develop electric and self-driving cars to better compete against new competitors such as Uber and Google. Daimler said on Thursday it would build the next generation of Smart-branded city cars at a purpose-built factory in China, and planned to share its expertise in manufacturing, engineering and design with Geely.
The German luxury-car maker and Geely, owned by billionaire Li Shufu, will build a new China factory to assemble electric cars and start worldwide sales in 2022, according to a joint statement. Mercedes-Benz designers will style future Smart vehicles and Geely will engineer them.
Both Daimler and Geely declined a Reuters request for comment. Last year, Geely built up an almost 10 percent stake in Daimler in a $9 billion (£6.8 billion) bet by its chairman and became the biggest shareholder in Daimler.
Both Daimler and Geely declined a Reuters request for comment. Last year, Geely built up an almost 10 percent stake in Daimler in a $9 billion bet by its chairman and became the biggest shareholder in Daimler.
March 26 (Reuters) - * DAIMLER IS NEARING A DEAL TO SELL A 50 PER CENT STAKE IN ITS SMALL-CAR BRAND TO CHINA'S GEELY - FT, CITING SOURCES Source text: https://on.ft.com/2Wpx0Dj Further company coverage:...


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What’s more, human behavior works for hours on Wetsap, too, and it allows Pike News to distribute quickly. A particularly striking example, from July 2018, was in India, where a woman in Lynch was murdered for false rumors circulating in Wetsap. India is Wattsap’s biggest market, and the authorities have pressured the company to deal with the Pike News. WhatsApp limited the number of people you could send messages to, and also marked messages that were passed from user to user.WhatsApp is expected to change in the coming years, and Facebook plans to make major changes to it that will add many uses to it, including the ability to transfer payments. WhatsApp may be an essential part of Facebook’s move out of the social networking domain and become a super app. Of course, with this comes concerns about information privacy, in an app that has become such an integral part of our lives. It will be interesting to see how this will affect the brand in the years to come. Microsoft33 in the overall rankingWent out in the public interestLast December, there was a protest against women violence in Israel. Microsoft has initiated a video in which women appeared in senior positions in the industry and abroad in which they addressed the issue. Among other things, in the video Erna Berry, the former chief scientist who also held senior positions in the high-tech industry, said that she had suffered domestic violence incidents. Microsoft’s initiative came several months after it was one of the first companies to announce that it would give its employees NIS 60,000 in funding for the surrogacy process, as part of the LGBT protest in those days.These two moves are part of a change Microsoft has undergone in Israel, under Assaf Rappaport’s management, and worldwide, since Satya Nadella has been named CEO.
You don’t have to be very old to remember the criticism Microsoft suffered in the 1990s and early 2000s, because of its aggressiveness in the browser market. In those days, Microsoft was considered the most evil player around. Today, being the world’s largest market capitalization company, the sentiment towards it is quite different.While Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon are criticizing their conduct and excessive power, Microsoft remains almost uncontrolled. Microsoft is trying to show that it no longer only cares about the bottom line, but the community it operates in and its customers. That is, not only do most people use the Windows operating system, they do not take advantage of it for gathering and using information, such as selling advertising. Crisis pursuing crisisOne of the best symptoms of Facebook’s events over the past two years is how employees perceive the company – a survey last October and its findings in the Wall Street Journal found that 50% of employees said they believe Facebook makes the world a good place More, compared to 69% a year earlier. 70% of employees said they take pride in working on Facebook, compared to 87% in the survey ahead.It’s hard to be surprised – Facebook is in one of the most difficult periods of its history, a crisis-ridden crisis, and the company is criticizing privacy issues, the impact of social networking on politics, its inability to deal with Pike News and troubled videos and more. Visitors include former senior executives at the company, including one of the company’s founders Chris Hughes, founders of Wetsap and others. Did it reduce Facebook usage? probably not. Although the company has difficulty growing in Western countries, it is also related to the large number of users of the company in these countries.
On Facebook, they realize that the discourse against them is negative, and they have even changed tactics – they have stopped resisting regulation, but are urged not to dismantle the company.About a month ago, Facebook introduced the initiative to launch a new digital currency it has developed, Libra. The coin, which works in conjunction with dozens of the world’s leading entities such as Uber, Spotify and MasterCard, will begin operating next year. This has raised concerns among many in the world about Facebook’s entry into the sensitive payment world, but on the other hand – for PR or not – Facebook has formulated a joint venture in which it tried to meet the expected criticisms. That is why a coalition of companies was also organized around the retail. The retailers are preparing for entry into Israel.For many years the Israeli public is waiting for an international giant to enter the relatively small Israeli market and bring in a new line, either in the form of competitive prices or in the form of a consumer and service experience. To date, giants such as Walmart, Cusco or Carrefour have refrained from entering the small and local market in character, but now Amazon seems to be changing that reality in a matter of weeks.About three months ago, Amazon, the online trading giant Jeff Bezos founded, took its first step toward entering retail operations in Israel, approaching local sellers and urging them to sell merchandise through a dedicated platform. Since then, she has been in frantic meetings and training for players in all areas aimed at increasing the supply on her site ahead of the expected launch, alongside collaborations with the big banks.Amazon’s tactics in Israel rely on two complementary principles: one – to operate as quietly as possible and under the radar, just not to annoy anyone. The second is to schedule the moves and embroider them so that the local regulators are not set up.Amazon’s trading activity in Israel may not have a local face yet, but its people collect retail, journalistic and political information all the time. In the meantime, they are doing it from Berlin, with a local Israeli team running away and expected to soon conduct operations from here.
How powerful is Amazon? As of this writing, it trades at $ 993 billion, and operates in addition to the retail trade arena through physical stores such as the organic supermarket chain it has acquired – Hall Foods, or stores itself, such as Amazon Go. In addition, it has revenue from third-party seller sales made through its website, cloud services and paid subscriptions to its membership club – Amazon Prime.Amazon’s uniqueness is in its customer perception and the high standards it sets in terms of service level, which also forces its competitors to align accordingly. For example, the company recently announced that it has been shortening its shipping range to paying subscribers from two days to just one day, and has been trailing retailers around the world. In Israel, too, its effect on competitors seems likely to be dramatic.In Israel so far, regulators seem to embrace the online giant’s entry as an available solution to the cost of living problems, but in other countries regulators are already following its moves. My peak54 in the overall rankingApple first switched to selling smartphonesIn recent years, there has been a change in the global smartphone industry, which is also gaining prominence in Israel – Chinese devices have improved significantly and the fact that they are cheap compared to Apple and Samsung’s leading devices has sometimes made them more profitable in terms of cost-effectiveness, depending of course on each consumer’s priorities (though Samsung and Samsung Pulling out cheaper devices than before).This trend is leading Chinese to challenge Apple and Samsung in terms of device sales, and last year Highlights first overtook Apple in device sales. It also seems that when consumers pay a price that seems reasonable and lucrative to them, they are ready to absorb imperfect devices. Contrary to, for example, devices that cost NIS 4,000 or more, whose consumers are far less patient with malfunctions – and Apple and Samsung did not necessarily meet those expectations. However, it is impossible to ignore the fact that Samsung’s brand has also been strengthened, and even took first place in technology.
This process was also reflected in the entry of brand indexes, after missing the list last year. This probably also contributed to the opening of a second store in Israel, in Kryon, as well as the sale of the company’s products in other areas – for example, a vacuum cleaner (“Dyson for the poor”), and a scooter that gained momentum before the cooperative scooters began operating. Aggressive salesmen and confused customersAbout 90% of the customers who come to me come in hysteria and the feeling that their entire world is being ruined, to me it is actually amusing. Because marketing a business is a simple matter if you know your goals and objectives and you have an action plan that will actually form your future roadmap. Even if your destination looks big and far in the beginning.If we break it down into small stages and goals, then the big goal will soon become small stages in the process of making it easier to achieve them, with every few small goals being another landmark on the way to achieving the desired goal.What is the source of customer hysteria?The source of the hysteria stems from the flood of information that washes customers. Starting with media layout, organic SEO, Google-sponsored promotion, an unprecedented promise that will lead them to the first page of Google in the opening quintet and it’s all less than seventy. And if possible, they will conquer the first result in Google if they increase the budget in a few hundred shekels. One company offers promotion and advertising for a certain amount and another company offers four times, so in the end they will probably succeed in driving the customer crazy.In this post we will cover advertising on one of the largest media channels that exist on the network today and is advertising on Facebook. Facebook’s advertising system has the best segmentation capabilities in the online advertising industry and the best monitoring capabilities.Facebook currently has 3.2 million active users in the country, making it the largest source of traffic on the Israeli Internet. If you want to run an online campaign, spend your budget where there’s a lot of traffic, and quality traffic.
For example, a site of photo galleries with 300,000 active users a month (photographers portal for that matter) would not help me promote my photography store if 99% of its traffic is due to people looking at the nude photo category on the site and thus ending their interest.In such a situation, a campaign that we want to run on the same site will be very costly and ineffective because we will pay for huge visibility without any segmentation of the target audience. The effectiveness we generate from that campaign will certainly be less than the simple reason that the target audience is irrelevant to us.Everything you wanted to know about Facebook marketing and didn’t dare askOn Facebook it is very easy to manage a marketing move and measure it by return on investment (ROI).There are more aggressive Facebook activity moves that include a dedicated Facebook page design, a business profile strip, a page wall panorama, regular breaking news, promotions, apps, games, and the like. To sum up, this is really a very expensive wedding, which starts at about NIS 15,000 for the first three months.And if these are physical engagement campaigns, which is also beyond virtual engagement (for example, Frigg’s campaign with smiles), the investment can also reach several hundred thousand in the first three months!Frigg’s Facebook campaignAnd of course, after we already have a page with likes and comments and articles on the web, we have to keep updating it all the time because we may not have done the campaign for free. So now we also have to commit to the friends who made us like and update them regularly. God forbid that Facebook see that the page has stopped updating, and lower the ratings it gives to our posts.This kind of campaign does not necessarily guarantee us that all the members of the page that made us like it will get the statuses we wrote on the wall, it will not happen unless Facebook does not let that happen naturally according to its criteria for success.
This type of marketing procedure is relevant to a company that wants to brand itself, to answer its customers through the Facebook page. But creating a conversion for sales or leaving details can come much later. This is why the main purpose of the strategy is to establish a “customer service / news channel” of the advertising company.It is very possible that only with the updating of the page’s status, the people listed on the page will be exposed to their brand name and character. If they someday consider purchasing one or the other product, the company will sell them and belong because the brand exposure time was long.Many big companies like: Frigate, Barn, Coca, etc. will run such “aggressive” campaigns on Facebook, not because they really believe in Facebook – these are because they want to overwhelmingly announce “We are here and we are here to stay.”Facebook marketing focuses on conversions for companies and small businesses If we concentrate on targeted marketing and we want a targeted audience and a targeted marketing budget for instant revenue, Facebook Ads Advertising is the perfect system for us. It is very effective because it has a system with the highest segmentation capabilities, which can help us reach a segmented audience Because of this, Facebook immediately becomes a marketing channel with which we can reach a potential audience. Or in other words – the tool that will provide us with effective measurement and segmentation of our target audience that will lead to more accurate marketing moves


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Kituwah, LLC and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has announced details for the 200-acre development at exit 407 in Sevierville, TN. The previously unnamed project that was being referred to as Project 407 has now been named “The 407: Gateway to Adventure.” The first business that will be located in the development will be Buc-ee’s Family Travel Center.
Buc-ee’s, a Texas-based business, is known for its clean bathrooms, fresh BBQ, fast and friendly service, and providing a travel stop like none other. The Sevierville location will be the company’s first “Big Store” in the country. With over 74,000 square feet, more than 120 fueling positions, EV Charging Stations, and a car wash over 250 feet long, it will be the first store of its kind.
Kituwah CEO Mark Hubble said, “Our goal is to be the first stop on everyone’s Smoky Mountain adventure – and Buc-ee’s is the perfect partner to ensure we give our customers a great beginning and ending to their family vacation. This is a business about excellence in customer experience with a huge fan following.”
Stan Beard, Director of Real Estate for Buc-ee’s, said, “It is not a coincidence that we chose The 407 as our first big store location outside of Texas. We will be the proverbial ‘welcome sign’ at the front door of the exceptional travel experience that the Smoky Mountains, Sevierville, and Sevier County have to offer. You won’t forget your first visit to Buc-ee’s and it won’t be your last! We are thrilled to share our over-the-top customer experience and be a pivotal part of the Kituwah and EBCI vision for the Gateway to Adventure.”
We will continue to keep you updated on the progress over the next several months.


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Apple will soon introduce a new iPhone feature to help end texting while driving.
The feature is called "Do Not Disturb While Driving".
When the iPhone is connected to a car via cable or Bluetooth, or if the car’s moving, the phone will withhold any notifications for texts and other updates.
If someone texts you while driving, the phone will send that person a message saying you’re driving and can’t respond at the moment.
Plus, the iPhone screen will be locked to stop you from using many of the device’s apps.
Is it something you’d use while driving? Why or why not?
It’s today’s Feedback at 5:00.


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Could cleaning sprays, perfumes, and paints cause as much trouble for the atmosphere as the contents of your car’s fuel tank? A study released today by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that if we want to clean up the air we breathe, it’s time to start paying attention to common household products that release Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). The study found that as fuel-related emissions have gotten cleaner due to regulations like the clean air act, they’ve gone from making up 75 percent of human-caused VOC emissions down to 50. The remaining half, according to the research, is primarily caused by chemical products.
If it seems a little strange to equate the environmental impact of cars to that of spray bottles under your sink, know that the researchers were a bit surprised by the finding too. “That’s really the punchline of this paper,” says Brian McDonald, the study’s lead author. As car emissions have gotten progressively cleaner due to regulations like the Clean Air Act, household products have started to make up a greater proportion of VOCs.
VOCs are naturally produced by plants, but about 30 percent of the emissions come from industrial processes, says Atul Jain, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. “They are short-lived but highly reactive gases that impact ozone and methane,” he says. VOCs actually act as a sink for methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases—as VOCs cycle through different chemical reactions, they form hydroxyl radicals (OH−) that take methane out of the atmosphere. While reducing greenhouse gases is probably a good thing, there are some negative side effects. When VOCs react with sunlight and gases in the atmosphere, Jain explains, the compounds form tropospheric ozone (commonly known as smog) and particulate matter that makes its way into respiratory tracts.
Smog is bad for our health, and VOCs also cause problems indoors (where the average American spends most of their time). These compounds won’t form smog inside—sunlight is a key ingredient for that—but they can cause irritation in the eyes and lungs, or headaches and allergic reactions.
Data from the EPA’s National Emissions Inventory shows that since the 1990s, on-road vehicles saw the largest reduction in VOCs out of the other outdoor sources like industrial processes. But in the meantime, we’ve mostly ignored the chemicals and potential pollutants released when we use household items: scented sprays, paints, and cleaning products. The EPA database doesn’t even track emissions from such products.
That’s why the NOAA-led study, based out of the University of Colorado, Boulder, tried to trace specific sources of these compounds.
Calculating exactly which pollutants are released in what quantity with each spray was tricky, since a lot of the ingredients found in manufactured products are considered proprietary knowledge. Companies might not have to report that information publicly, instead using catch-all terms like fragrance. “If you look on the side of the container you have in your bathroom or kitchen, it uses that single word. But up to 2,000 compounds can fall under that category of fragrances,” says Jessica Gilman, one of the study authors. So the researchers had to scour the existing body of scientific literature on the amount of VOCs produced by each product, then estimated the output of different scenarios.
To see whether the proportion of atmospheric pollutants matched up with the estimated emissions from household products, the lab used high-tech, customized tools—better than the “off-the-shelf” versions that most regulatory agencies have used, says study author Jessica Gilman.
“The NOAA instrument can measure a much wider suite of volatile organic compounds, including many that contain oxygen atoms, like ethanol, acetone, and isopropanol, which were important for this study,” Gilman says. “We can measure at very low concentrations—less than a single part-per-trillion for some VOCs—with high accuracy and precision.”
This isn’t the first time we’ve faced bad news about our household products. Most ’80s consumers didn’t think of hairspray as an environmental disaster in a can, but then scientists discovered the chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol cans had ripped a hole in the ozone layer. That knowledge led to the Montreal Protocol, a world-wide agreement that drastically reduced the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere and prevented the complete destruction of the life-saving ozone layer.
“It’s all about control,” says Jain. “Rarely do you find home products using CFCs [now],” The new NOAA study, and the further public health and environmental research it leads to, might similarly help change the way we think about and use VOC-emitting products. Choosing water-based paints and using cleaning sprays sparingly could help reduce emissions. And indoor plants are a green way to filter the air you breathe.
But while reducing anthropogenic VOCs could be beneficial to human health, that’s not to say your bottle of perfume packs the same environmental punch as your fuel tank. Carbon dioxide is still released as a byproduct when you drive or burn fossil fuels, no matter how efficient your car is, and it’s a dangerous greenhouse gas in its own right. Reducing carbon emissions is vital to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
“Transportation is still important when it comes to thinking about air quality,” says McDonald. “All we’re saying is that the emissions from the use of these chemical products are potentially also important as well.”


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2020 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI AND JETTA GLI NAMED CAR AND DRIVER "10BEST"
Car and Driver magazine announced today that the 2020 Volkswagen Golf GTI and Jetta GLI have been named to the magazine’s prestigious “10Best” list for 2020. It is the 14th consecutive year that a Volkswagen Golf family model has been awarded the honor.
NEWSROOM : HOW PLAID BECAME PART OF VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI HISTORY
No car has a claim to fame on a day to celebrate all things plaid quite like the Volkswagen Golf GTI – thanks to one woman’s pioneering choices that over the past four decades have become a symbol of driving enthusiasts worldwide.
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF NAMED BEST HATCHBACK IN DIGITAL TRENDS' BEST CARS OF 2019
Digital Trends, a leading consumer technology publisher, has named the Volkswagen Golf the Best Hatchback in its Best Cars of 2019 roundup, praising its overall value and available technology throughout the Golf family lineup such as Adaptive Cruise Control and Volkswagen Digital Cockpit.


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Barbie’s new line of dolls intended to inspire all women to elevate their voices and get interested in community company immediately got political when Donald Trump Jr. obtained concerned … but the toy company’s shutting him down.
Shortly after the Barbie 2020 Marketing campaign Crew — made up of 4 varied dolls such as a applicant, a marketing campaign manager, a fundraiser and a voter — was unveiled to “expose women to public management roles and pique their curiosity in shaping the upcoming” … Don Jr. made use of it to consider a shot at Democrats.
Don tweeted … “‘Voter’ Barbie have to be a Democrat due to the fact she’s previously donning an ‘I Voted’ sticker and yet she’s obtained one more ballot in her hand.”
Not the most authentic joke, and in accordance to the makers of Barbie … it really is also inaccurate.
A Mattel spokesperson tells TMZ … “Barbie is not, and has by no means been, affiliated with a political celebration. Barbie has often encouraged girls to stand up for what they believe that in and exhibits them they can be just about anything.”
The Mattel rep adds … “This doll set highlights a assortment of leadership roles to pique their fascination in shaping the long term and increase their voices – from the podium to the polls. This set also delivers a device to permit families to have discussions all around important gatherings and cultural moments as a result of play.”
Of system, Don Jr.’s joke arrives as President Trump proceeds to press statements mail-in voting is fraudulent and will only benefit Democrats in the upcoming election.