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Jobs family have not paid off a fee designer.
Venus, ships super sophisticated and minimalist late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, was confiscated because the ship designers claim the Jobs family have not paid off a fee.
Philippe Starck, designer of the [...]
AMD re-introduce the newest graphics cards in the Radeon HD 7000 series.
The product this time called the Radeon HD 7790 is for gamers middle class because the price is cheap, which is about $130,99 US dollars.
Although cheap, the graphics card is claimed [...]
Computer’s security applications are competing to produce the best protection applications. One of them Kaspersky Lab, which has launched the latest version of its flagship product, Kaspersky PURE Total Security 3.0, on Wednesday (03/13).
BlackBerry, the big names who are drowning and trying to get up. Research In Motion (RIM) is ready with a new platform that can be trusted to restore the glory of the BlackBerry.
BlackBerry 10 to be slid January 30, 2013 could be the answer. Just how [...]
Google Drive Users get 5GB for free rations from Google.
Google announced on Tuesday (11/27), will integrate Google Drive into Gmail. The move will create a Google e-mail service users can send files of up to 10 GB.
Requirement Gmail users also must [...]
Facing the war in the “second front”
The Israeli government on Sunday (11/18), admits millions have been subjected to attacks in cyberspace since the country launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run Palestinian territory last [...]
Engaged in “patent war” in 10 countries in the last year.
Although Samsung continues to marginalize the competition to win the market of smartphones and tablets in the world, Apple is apparently still dependent on the South Korean technology [...]
Raise money for children with cleft lip.
Today many people are using Google Maps to find directions to a mall, offices, and other locations in the city, a man wearing this app to walk 5.000 miles or 8046.7 kilometers.
Armed with the Google Maps application [...]
Sony finally officially announced their latest generation console, the PlayStation 4, at an event in New York, USA, some time ago.
Here are some things You gamers need to know about the PS4.
PS4 using the x86 AMD 8-core CPU and GPU with [...]
Moscow – Thousands of Russian citizens were mobilized to clean up the damage caused by the meteor hit near the Ural mountains failed to find the space rock fragments. Failing that later sparked a conversation about the conspiracy theories about [...]
Body size approximately 20% thinner than the Macbook 15-inch retina display.
In the occasion of the launch iPad mini products, Apple also introduced two new products Macbook Pro measures 13 inches equipped with Retina Display.
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Netflix release data saver feature
Netflix are expecting to launch a new data saver feature for mobile apps sometime in the next few months. The feature will give users more control over their data usage when streaming on mobiles, giving them the option to stream more video on a small data plan or increase the quality if they have a larger data plan.
Anne Squeo from Netflix explains “We believe restrictive data caps are bad for consumers and the Internet in general, creating a dilemma for those who increasingly rely on their mobile devices for entertainment, work and more. So in an effort to protect our members from overage charges when they exceed mobile data caps, our default bitrate for viewing over mobile networks has been capped globally at 600 kilobits per second. It’s about striking a balance that ensures a good streaming experience while avoiding unplanned fines from mobile providers,”
ITV hub to use Yospace
ITV will begin working with Yospace, welcoming Dynamic Advertisement Insertion across live channels on the ITV hub.
Initially launched for ITV's coverage of the RBS 6 Nations Rugby Tournament, the system allows ads to be replaced in a way that keeps the consistent viewability of ITV's live channels when watched online. Set to feature across a number of live events, it will be accessible to over 11 million registered users.
Paul Kanareck, ITV’s Director of Online, said: “Yospace is the recognised expert in server-side ad insertion and this partnership highlights our commitment to live channels, with live streaming already accounting for over 30 per cent of the ITV Hub’s total online streaming.”
785 UHD channels via satellite
According to NSR's UltraHD via Satellite, 3rd Edition report, 2016 will see a huge roll-out of Ultra HD channels via satellite, The report forecasts over 785 Ultra HD channels by 2025, where satellite capacity required to carry the new channels will increase annual leasing revenues to $280 million.
The report explains, that by next year almost all regions worldwide will have Ultra HD channels available, and even developing regions will see content by the end of the decade. This coincides with the plunging costs of 4K TV sets and increasing demand for new content.
“Given the exponential increases we’ve seen on 4K TV shipments, introducing Ultra HD channels and packages is a key strategy to retain and grow pay TV subscriber bases in an increasingly competitive environment. Additionally, this is a vital competitive response to OTT platforms’ ever-expanding online content catalogues,” explained Alan Crisp, NSR Analyst and report author. “While in the short term DTH, Cable TV and IPTV platforms will offer Ultra HD for ‘free’ with existing premium channel bundles, longer term Ultra HD will achieve higher revenue streams generated by increasing ARPUs and subscriber levels.”
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Ever since Rockstar Games confirmed that it's working on Grand Theft Auto VI earlier this year, we've received a boatload of information from different sources.
For example, a recent Bloomberg report claimed that GTA 6 will have a female lead and that Rockstar has been working on the upcoming installment since 2014. It also added that Rockstar will expand on GTA 6 once the game is out, which stands in contrast to what it has done with Grand Theft Auto 5.
A short while later, a different report emerged that claimed that Rockstar scaled down its ambition for GTA 6. Instead of having just one city and two protagonists, GTA VI was going to have four protagonists with three cities as its setting.
Now, Tez2 reports that Rockstar has a robust post-launch content roadmap for GTA 6. They claim that Rockstar will have at least one single-player DLC ready for GTA 6 way before the game even comes out.
Here's an excerpt of what Tez2 wrote on GTAForums:
The first wave of "new cities and missions" we will receive as DLC will definitely be planned out before VI releases. And Rockstar will be able to allocate resources towards whatever new title they will work on after VI release. As for the new cities, I think for the most part we will receive instanced new cities or islands. Like Cayo Perico or North Yankon style. That way, Rockstar can introduce a new heist for the new GTA Online mode with each new DLC. If we are lucky, we could receive a fully fledged new city from time to time.
Everything we've heard about GTA 6 implies that Rockstar still hasn't finalized its plans for the game. All the rumors could have been true at some point. The good news is that Rockstar's recent hiring push and the statement about Red Dead Online all but confirm its intensified focus on GTA 6.
If nothing else, pouring more resources towards GTA 6's development guarantees we'll hear more about the game sooner rather than later.
In other news, Take-Two Interactive had high praise for GTA 6, saying that the game will "set creative benchmarks" for the entire industry. In the same earnings report, Take-Two re-revealed its expanded slate of upcoming games until 2025. Finally, John Marston's voice actor just revealed that he is up for a Red Dead Redemption remaster or remake.


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The Uroboros can have an unpredictable range of risks and side effects. But what makes it one of the most dangerous viruses around?
Perhaps the most anticipated game Blizzard is developing right now is Diablo IV. It’s been almost two years since Diablo 4 was announced, which makes us even hungrier for a sequel. Those who attended BlizzCon 2019 had a chance on a playable demo. But this year’s BlizzConline gave a ton of new info about the upcoming action-RPG, and what it means for the franchise. While the BlizzConline was a low-key one, mainly because of the pandemic, the amount of revealed information about the game is more than enough in offering a clearer picture about what we can expect with Diablo 4.
The Audeze Penrose has almost everything you’ll want in a high-end gaming headset. Its top-notch magnetic drivers deliver rich sound quality that’s far more superior to other recent models. It’s feature-packed too, with a USB-C port and Bluetooth 5.0 audio connection, to name a few. As a gaming headset, it’s made with competitiveness in mind – all of these for something that’s $299.


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Decorative paints achieved a revenue increase of six percent in the second quarter, mainly due to favorable price/mix effects and positive currency effects. EBITDA was down eight percent, reflecting weaker European market conditions. Restructuring continues in mature markets, particularly in Europe.
In performance coatings, revenue increased 12 percent, supported by margin management, acquisitions and currency effects. EBITDA was up 25 percent compared with the previous year, further supported by improvements in operational efficiency. Volume declined, although there was significant variability between individual activities.
AkzoNobel continued to see inflation in the overall raw materials portfolio, although less than last year. The main driver of input cost inflation is TiO2. In the second quarter, the company saw an increase in supply from China and a reduction in global demand. However, in total, the company continues to expect an increased average cost for the year.
“The overall performance in our second quarter results is solid given the increasingly difficult economic environment,” said CEO Ton Büchner. “In my first few months as CEO, I have spent a great deal of time with our customers, employees and shareholders, and have also visited many of our factories around the world. My initial observations are that we have solid businesses and many strong market positions. The opportunity remains to increase return on capital, cash generation and margins, which is why the immediate priority for me and the leadership team is performance improvement.”


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Monday August 26, 2019
Welcome to Bakersfield Observed. Our mission is to celebrate life in Kern County by focusing on newsmakers and events and the local characters who make this community such a special place. Send news items to firstname.lastname@example.org.
* ... HOMELESS: I am turning over the airwaves this week to local business owners who have suffered at the hands of our homeless crisis, and there are a lot of them. All week on The Richard
* ... VISUAL POLLUTION: And here is something you don't want to witness.
* ... HEMP: Here is some rich irony: despite the fact that the city and county have banned the retail sales of marijuana, Kern County has emerged as the top hemp producing county in California. That's right, John Cox of The Californian reported that we have 33 different groups planning to grow hemp on 76 different sites in Kern, covering an astonishing almost 7,000 acres. So how do we justify this while banning retail sales? The county has an open arms policy toward growing commercial hemp, leveraging our deep knowledge of agriculture, water and distribution to make Kern County an ideal place to grow hemp for multiple purposes, including the manufacturing of CBD oil.
* ... CSUB: It was "move in" day at CSUB over the weekend as hundreds of students settled into their dorms for the start of the semester on Monday. CSUB president Lynette Zelezny and men's basketball coach Rod Barnes were there to lend a helping hand, as well as dozens of upper classmen ambassadors who welcoming the incoming freshmen and returning students. CSUB expects a record enrollment this year topping 12,000 students.
* ... WHEN JIMI CAME TO TOWN: Here are some pictures to feast your eyes on. Jimi Hendrix appearing at the Civic Auditorium on Oct. 26, 1968. Photos by Ron Raffaelli.
* ... MEMORIES: Some more pictures from our past thanks to the Kern County of Old Facebook page. Do you recognize the Garces Circle?


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A moment of glory at DOMOTEX: And the Parkett Star 2023 winners are…
At DOMOTEX 2023, the world's leading trade fair for carpets and flooring, Parkett Magazin will present the prestigious "Parkett Star" industry award for the twelfth time. The winners are selected!19 Dec 2022
Since 2012, the Parkett Magazin, Europe's major trade magazine for wood, cork, laminate and design flooring published by Hamburg-based SN-Verlag, recognizes the best in the industry with the Parkett Star . The prestigious award is a pro-parquet initiative involving trade, commerce and industry alike. An independent jury consisting of representatives from the industry and trade collaborations selected the Parkett Star 2023 winners. Applications from all over Germany and Austria were submitted to Parkett Magazin.
Winners are innovative and committed
The companies and personalities awarded with the Parkett Star are known within the industry as extraordinary examples of innovative ideas and concepts as well as their considerate business practices. "This year's winners are also outstanding for their great commitment to successful parquet marketing," reveals Claudia Weidt, Editor-in-Chief of Parkett Magazin.
Fifteen awards in eleven categories will be awarded to excellent retailers and craftsmen as well as to a prominent figure from the parquet industry – including a special prize and an honorary prize. The award categories include the best parquet presentations in trade and crafts, the best start-ups, succession regulations and creative digital marketing.
Award ceremony on the first day of the trade fair
All Parkett Star winners will remain a secret until the award ceremony at DOMOTEX. The ceremony takes place at DOMOTEX ON STAGE on the first day of the fair, 12 January 2023, at 5 p.m. in hall 23, booth A80. Sonia Wedell-Castellano, Global Director of DOMOTEX events worldwide, is delighted to be back after 3 years "to honor the parquet industry in a fitting manner in collaboration with Parquet Magazine at DOMOTEX."
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Nivea and the Metro(sexuals)
In the Netherlands Nivea has recently launched an online competition featuring an advergame where the action takes place in the metro.
Since the campaign it’s targeted at Dutch metrosexuals looks like the brand has decided to play on words… and the result it’s a straightforward, very simple, but apparently quite successful concept.
As I said, the game it’s extremely simple. You’re on board of a subway car and you have to push the brake at the right time, in order to stop the train exactly at the station. Seems to be easy, but it’s very hard (as you can see I stopped just in front of a landing field…).
Registration it’s mandatory to participate (but just name/surname/email), and if you want to play more than once you have to invite a friend to play as well. Brandactivation reports the game has been played 30.000 times on its very first day online (I’m quite impressed).


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BEIJING — A year after their China sales were battered by protests in a territorial dispute, Japan’s big automakers are finding it tough to bounce back in the Chinese market. In particular, they are struggling where demand for cars is rising fastest — in provinces where anti-Japan sentiment historically runs deepest, a legacy of Japanese occupation around World War II.
In relatively more Japan-friendly parts of southern China like Guangdong, Toyota Motor, Nissan Motor and Honda Motor are returning to sales levels near those seen before a diplomatic row last September over a group of rocky, uninhabited islets in the sea between China and Japan.
A tougher challenge for the Japanese brands are the coastal and northeastern provinces like Shandong, which overtook Guangdong as China’s biggest car market in 2009, Zhejiang and Jiangsu — part of a large swathe of the country that Japan invaded and occupied during the late 1930s.
Over the past decade, Japanese automakers set up a strong base in Guangdong, investing heavily in factories that now form an assembly cluster fed by Japanese parts suppliers in the area. According to R.L. Polk & Company, an industry consultant, Japanese cars had 41 percent of the market in Guangdong in 2011, though that share has dipped a few percentage points since the dispute last year.
But northern and eastern provinces are now eclipsing Guangdong in car demand. Polk said Guangdong had been overtaken by Shandong and Jiangsu, and its ranking as third was under threat from Zhejiang and Hebei, which also were occupied by Japan more than 70 years ago.
“It’s a smoldering brush fire today but could turn into a big five-alarm fire if Japanese automakers don’t deal with it,” said Yale Zhang, head of Automotive Foresight, a consultant based in Shanghai. “As demand in mega-markets like Beijing slows significantly, Toyota and other Japanese brands need to penetrate even deeper into the Chinese market.”
Protests erupted across China a year ago after Japan nationalized some of the disputed islets, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, by buying them from a private owner. As passions ran high, thousands of Japanese-branded cars were vandalized, and dealerships were attacked by mobs in Qingdao, a major city in Shandong, as well as in other cities.
In a widely reported incident in mid-September last year, a 51-year-old Chinese man with his family drove his Toyota Corolla past an anti-Japanese demonstration in Xian in Shaanxi Province. The car was surrounded by protesters and the man was so badly beaten that he was partly paralyzed, and his car destroyed.
Sales of Japanese-branded cars plunged by more than half in September and October from year-earlier levels and remained weak well into the first half of this year.
Though sales of Japanese cars are picking up in the south and southeast, sales executives said recovery was frustratingly slow farther north in Jiangsu, Anhui and Shaanxi. A Nissan sales executive based in Guangzhou said the attack on the driver in Xian had been especially damaging, as it had scared Chinese buyers away from Japanese cars. “Recovery in Shaanxi is the slowest for us,” the executive said, asking not to be named because business was still sensitive to the issue.
“We also have to deal with negative campaigns by dealers representing Western brands,” he said, referring to some local dealers who tell customers it is unpatriotic or unsafe to own a Japanese car in China.
Song Fangjie, a 28-year-old construction supervisor from Jinan, Shandong’s provincial capital, said he liked Japanese cars’ fuel economy, but had chosen a Volkswagen for its safety. “If Japanese carmakers offer better service, I might think about buying one,” he said, though he recounted how a friend had been refused service at a gasoline station because he was driving a Japanese car.
At Toyota, some executives question whether it is wise to pour resources into competition in these hostile markets.
“I think we’re much better off focusing on more friendly southern China at this point,” said one senior Toyota sales and marketing executive, though he added that the company had yet to decide on its approach. He stressed that dealer location was not a factor in allocating new vehicles and providing marketing support, but he said South China would be a better testing ground for new marketing programs, like maker-certified used cars and vehicle-leasing.
Takanori Yokoi, a spokesman for Toyota based in Beijing, said the company was focusing on the tougher, faster-growth provinces, rather than avoiding them. He noted the opening of a Toyota China branch this year in Nanjing, Jiangsu’s capital and the site of a massacre under Japanese occupation in 1937. Toyota has also opened a technical center in Changshu, east of Nanjing.
Yang Liaoliao, a 25-year-old bank accountant from Qingdao, the home of Tsingtao beer in eastern Shandong, said she had chosen a German car. “I read reports and saw experiments online saying that Japanese carmakers save materials to make their cars lighter, so they’re maybe not as safe.”
“Unlike people in big cities like Shanghai or Beijing, we’re more influenced by traditional Confucian culture, which makes us more conservative,” she said. “When it comes to buying expensive items like cars, anti-Japanese sentiment won’t play a big role.”
Toshiaki Mikoshiba, president of Honda’s joint venture in China with Guangzhou Automobile Group Company, acknowledged the importance of the emerging provinces, but said his firm was not taking specific steps to take on the challenge.
“Our cars are based on Honda’s technology, but are made and sold by Chinese people here in China,” he said at a news conference in Shanghai last week. “We’ve planted our roots in China. We would like the people to understand our steady efforts.”
Nissan is pushing aggressively into “tough” provinces like Shandong and Jiangsu with its “100 Cities” project — an initiative it began in 2011 to raise its presence in about 130 smaller cities across China. Nissan estimates about a fifth of the revenue from those cities comes from Shandong and neighboring Hebei.
As part of the program, Nissan takes an auto show to rural cities on a big trailer, offering customers who have no Nissan dealer nearby a chance to learn about its vehicles and technologies and to test drive new models. About 3,000 such road shows are planned a year.
Late last year, the company also began allowing prospective buyers to drive Nissan rental cars — many of its dealers operate rental businesses — for as long as two days for free, if they eventually chose to buy a Nissan model.
Nissan also said it would offer compensation of as much as 200,000 renminbi, or $32,700, to cover any injuries to people in Nissan cars resulting from anti-Japanese sentiment, as well as repair or replacement of any of its cars damaged in protests. Nissan has stepped up those efforts this year as it has sought to regain footholds in China, the executive said, noting that demand for Nissan cars in Shandong, for example, is at 95 percent of pre-crisis volumes.
“Shandong and those other provinces are tough markets, but we have objectives and can’t turn away from it,” the executive said, referring to Nissan’s midterm plan to sell two million vehicles a year in China by 2016, up from 1.18 million last year. “We can’t keep relying on South China.”
Kazunori Takada reported from Shanghai.


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Lupita Aguila, Program Coordinator, USLEAP
This week, flower workers from two distinct plantations in Colombia went on strike after their companies failed to pay their wages and benefits. On May 6, 2009, workers from Camino Real and Degaflores had no other choice than to declare an official work stoppage when both companies did not meet an April 30 payment agreement of backwages from the month before. According to UNTRAFLORES, a Colombian organization of flower worker unions, workers had no other choice than to go on strike.
In fact, violations like wage theft are very common within
the Colombian flower sector. With Mother's
Day ahead flower workers are forced to 12-16 hours of tedious labor,
exposed to high levels of pesticide intoxication, and repressed their right to
freedom of association. Over 60% of the
cut-flowers sold in the U.S.
are from Colombia. As part of a national tour sponsored by the
U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP),
the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF),
and Jobs with Justice South Florida (JwJ), Amanda
Camacho, a flower worker from Colombia and member of UNTRAFLORES, will be
speaking on National Public Radio's Worldview on Friday,
May 8, 2009 at 12PM (CST) to discuss the ongoing issues and struggles in
the flower industry.
"I am here to raise awareness among U.S. consumers and tell the true story behind the beautiful flowers that you buy your mother on Mother's Day," stated Amanda. In conjunction with the tour, USLEAP has also produced a new Toolkit and booklet titled Gendered Injustice as part of its Economic Justice for Flower Workers Campaign. The toolkit and booklet provide tips on how to take action in support of flower workers, who are mostly women, in Colombia.
UNTRAFLORES is calling on support from U.S. consumers for the workers from Camino Real and Degaflores. As of late Thursday, the strike at Camino Real and Degaflores ended after companies paid workers their backwages, but they have yet to pay social security benefits that by law these companies are obliged to pay. Workers have conceded to another agreement with the company after it has agreed to pay benefits at a later meeting.
The plantation Camino Real is associated to the Colombian association of flower exporters, ASOCOLFLORES. ASOCOLFLORES has been one of the entities at the forefront of the lobbying efforts for the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. They recently began a campaign within the U.S. marketing their flowers as environmentally and socially responsible. Though advances in technology have made it possible for plantations to reduce the use of pesticides, the worker rights issues that have arose in the last days at Camino Real and Degaflores highlight the need for an in-depth evaluation of the certification processes.


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US aircraft giant Boeing and German sports car maker Porsche have announced they are teaming up to "explore the premium urban air mobility market and the extension of urban traffic into airspace," through "a fully electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle".
Translation: They want to develop an electric vehicle that can fly.
The announcement did not include any details about the amount of money or other resources the two companies plan to invest in the effort, or a target date or price range.
Porsche's parent company, Volkswagen A, is the world's largest automaker.
It has announced a major push into the development of electric vehicles, setting a target of building 22 million electric cars across its brands over the next 10 years.
"We are combining the strengths of two leading global companies to address a potential key market segment of the future," says Detlev von Platen, a member of the Porsche board in charge of sales and marketing.
"In the longer term, this could mean moving into the third dimension of travel."
Boeing's revenue topped US$100 billion (A$147 billion) for the first time in 2018, although its sales will be sharply lower this year due to the grounding of its best selling commercial jet, the 737 Max, following two fatal accidents that killed 346 people.
It has already shown a prototype of a self-driving electric powered flying car earlier this year.
"Porsche and Boeing together bring precision engineering, style and innovation to accelerate urban air mobility worldwide," said Steve Nordlund, general manager of Boeing NeXt, a unit of the company working on next generation vehicles and aircraft.


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News by Luke Jones on Monday September 07, 2015.
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HTC needs some buzz and it needs a hit device. The ailing company is losing money month on month as sales have collapsed, even for the fantastic (if a little stale) One M9 flagship. The Taiwanese giant will roll the dice again with the HTC Aero, a smartphone with reported flagship quality that will hopefully usher in a new dawn of success for the company.It now seems that HTC will launch the Aero on September 29 according to an invite released by the company today with the title "The World Best Meets the Best". That could mean two device launching at the same time, but the other handset is thought to just be another variant of the One M9.
The new flagship is due to launch in October and according to former @evleaks whistle-blower Evan Blass the device will be called the HTC Aero. That is likely to be a codename, but either way it seems as though HTC is throwing everything at Aero, including a spectacular new design that our own sources say is beautiful. Spec wise HTC will go with the latest and greatest hardware expected to be available by Q4 this year, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Quad HD display, and a significantly better camera that we have seen from HTC before.
Luke Jones is the Managing Editor at MobileBurn.com and is the person you need to speak to about the content on the site. Luke studied creative writing at degree level before carving out a reputation as a freelance tech writer. He settled here at MobileBurn, where he reviews devices and contributes to the news, as well as overseeing the site's content and direction.


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Two leading Indian drug firms once again face quality in manufacturing issues with the U.S. FDA, leading in this case to voluntary recalls even as both face extensive remedial actions to bring plants back into the good graces of the regulator.
India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Wockhardt each recalled products voluntarily in the past month, the Economic Times reports.
In the case of Sun, multiple lots of antidepressant drug bupropion hydrochloride extended-release tablets were pulled after the U.S. FDA said they "failed dissolution specification," while Wockhardt yanked lisinopril tablets linked to good manufacturing practice violations, the Economic Times said.
In June, Wockhardt was on its third voluntary recall in as many months with 85,000 cartons of over-the-counter heartburn treatment famotidine tablets pulled, which followed statements from the company in April of problems with more than a dozen drugs manufactured at its two facilities in Aurangabad, India--Chikalthana and Waluj.
In August, reporting first quarter earnings, Sun said it has a plan for triage on four Ranbaxy manufacturing plants banned by the U.S. FDA in the past 5 years. And that may mean one unit may not make it, the Economic Times reported earlier. Sun bough Ranbaxy earlier this year.
The plan now is to get the plants in Mohali, Dewas and Toansa back online in an orderly fashion, placing a priority on Mohali, and leaving the plant in Paonta Sahib to take down its former lead role to the U.S. market and keep producing for other markets, including the World Health Organization as well as Europe and Australia, the Economic Times said earlier.
In addition to the Ranbaxy unit, a plant owned by Sun at Halol also has to clear U.S. FDA regulatory hurdles.
In the recall for Sun, the FDA labelled it a Class-III classification--or "'a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences," the Economic Times said, adding that as many as 35,235 bottles were subject to recall.
For Wockhardt, the recall of the hypertension drug comes after a class-II classification from the FDA, the Economic Times said, adding that was for "past market complaints" on manufacturing violations.
- here's the story from the Economic Times


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Yes...Amazing news...the Exynos powered phones are receiving and going to receive the latest update...
The official changelog for this update mentions that the new camera features include Live focus, Live focus video, Night mode for the front camera, AR Doodle (front cam only) and Super steady video mode.
Some of you may recall that Live focus has already been present on the Galaxy S10. That’s true, this update merely brings the new Glitz Live focuseffect from the Galaxy Note 10. Live focus video, on the other hand, is a new addition for both the front and rear cameras.
Isn't it amazing....Kudos to Samsung 👏👏
in new generation phones. also they removed lot of hardware feature in new generation phones like the iris scanner and the heart rate sensor now tell me how could Samsung be amazing with this .


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She said the perimeter would be set until police had either caught the suspect, or felt that he was no longer in the area.
Pyatt-Barrett said that the store did make use of surveillance cameras, and they do have videos from several other businesses that they hope will aid in identifying the suspect.
“We do have a couple of potential witnesses, and we hope they will be able to provide more information,” she said.
It was not exactly the way the store wanted to celebrate it’s one-year anniversary, and a posting on their Facebook page notified customers that they would be closing for the day shortly after the robbery occurred.
“Thank God that no one was hurt. I can't express how grateful I am for that,” said the posting on the store’s Facebook page. “Money is money — it comes and it goes. These folks who work here and make art for here and who shop here, I love. I'm so thankful that everyone is ok.
“Thanks to the authorities for getting to the shop so very quickly and taking the time to thoroughly investigate.”
Anyone with more information is urged to contact the BPD at 852-1109.


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Google and Walmart are joining forces to better compete with Amazon in the e-commerce market.
Amazon has long dominated the e-commerce market, and has recently been setting its sights on brick-and-mortar retailing as well. Its acquisition of Whole Foods has incited panic among physical retailers in the grocery industry largely due to the fact that no other single company in the retail or grocery industry can yet compete on Amazon’s level—however, a partnership between these major companies may just stand a chance.
The partnership will make Walmart’s products available through Google Express, Google’s online retail platform. Google Express has already partnered with companies like Costco and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Adding Walmart to its list of partners will boost Google Express’s product offerings and give them access to a much wider customer base. The partnership will also give Walmart a significant advantage: access to voice ordering. Customers will be able to use Google’s voice-activated personal assistant on phones and other devices to order products. Google Express was first launched in 2013, but wasn’t available across the entirety of the United States until last year.
Voice-controlled ordering isn’t the norm yet, but there’s a good chance that some day it could be. Its popularity is growing rapidly, especially with Amazon users who have access to Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa and compatible Amazon Echo speakers. Google’s voice ordering will compete with Alexa’s voice ordering functionalities, something that Walmart would likely not be able to do on its own as a primarily brick-and-mortar retail chain. Walmart will reportedly also allow its customers to link their accounts with Google Express, simplifying ordering and ensuring they can re-order their favourite products and brands with ease. While Google relies on third-party services to fulfill orders from many of its retailers, Walmart has said that it will stock and fulfill Google Express orders itself, something that is sure to appeal to consumers. Said Walmart’s Marc Lore, head of the company’s e-commerce division, “We are trying to help customers shop in ways that they may have never imagined.”
Additionally, incentives such as free shipping, easy re-ordering, and reduced membership fees will likely entice consumers to use Google Express services. While this partnership isn’t starting out with the same reach, inventory, and delivery capabilities as Amazon does, it will still be challenging the giant’s dominance in the market (though to what extent still remains to be seen).
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by Eulana Weekes
St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): The tourist season is in full swing, and stakeholders at Port Zante, St. Kitts, are pleased with the return of visitors to the island, despite a few drawbacks.
Owner of Noble Jewellers, Mark Wani, told WINN FM that business is a bit slow, but he is optimistic that there will be improvement around the Christmas season into the New Year.
“Ship schedule is okay, but people don’t have the spending power yet. Possibly maybe 15 to 20 days, it’s generally going to be better,” said Wani.
An anonymous employee from another jewellery store said it was good to see Port Zante bustling with activity again. However, getting tourists to do business at the store was also very difficult. He said, however, that most tourists appear to be attracted to the businesses that sell souvenirs.
Meanwhile, a tour guide told WINN FM despite multiple ships docking at the port, bringing hundreds of tourists, there are times when it is very difficult to get a tour job. He stated, “It’s minutes to 11 already, and I [have been] down here since early this morning and ain’t get any business yet.” However, the tour guide mentioned that the situation had improved significantly compared to the last tourist season when minimal ships travelled to St. Kitts due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. He recalled cases where several weeks passed without some tour guides getting a single tour opportunity.
Additional feedback was solicited from other tour guides, but they all indicated that they were trying to attract some business whilst they had the privilege to do so.
The overall atmosphere at Port Zante was quite busy, and from WINN FM’s vantage point, the tourists appeared to be more interested in souvenir shopping and beach tours.
Three ships docked at Port Zante on Tuesday, December QA q06, 2022, while another vessel went to Nevis. Four ships, however, are scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, December 07, 2022, and five on Thursday, December 8, 2022.


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When Infiniti signage first appeared on the Red Bull RB7 Formula 1 car in 2011, it was so small and subtle that it looked more like graffiti than the launch of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar marketing campaign.
The timing also seemed odd, considering that Toyota, Honda, BMW, and even Renault — Infiniti’s parent company — had recently ended exorbitantly expensive forays into F1 team ownership that produced little more than ego gratification and public embarrassment. But Infiniti has enjoyed the last laugh.
“Infiniti haven’t made the investment that Toyota or Honda did,” says Red Bull Racing’s team principal Christian Horner. “But they’ve been involved in four world championships [two constructors’ titles and two drivers’ titles] in 2011 and 2012, so their investment has been extremely cost effective.”
The relationship has been so fruitful, in fact, that Infiniti raised the ante for 2013. This year’s F1 team is officially known as Infiniti Red Bull Racing, and Infiniti signage now graces the premium sponsorship space on the side pods of the RB9. (Renault continues to supply the team’s engines, as it has since 2007.)
Neither Infiniti nor Red Bull would disclose how much money is involved. But Christian Sylt, a British journalist who focuses on the business of F1 and publishes the annual Formula Money guide, estimates that Infiniti provided about $40 million in 2011. Although that number is surely much higher today, it’s still a fraction of the $400 million a year that Toyota reportedly spent winning a grand total of zero F1 races as a team owner from 2002 to 2009.
Besides being the pinnacle of motorsports, Formula 1 is often billed as the world’s most popular sport — except in the United States, where it occupies an immeasurably tiny niche. But North America has long been Infiniti’s largest market by far, and the rapprochement with Red Bull is all about extending the brand’s reach to Europe, Asia, and Australia.
“There are markets where brand awareness is one or two percent, and people think we make loudspeakers or ice cream,” says Andreas Sigl, global director of Infiniti Formula One. “We want to grow worldwide, so we need a global platform that works everywhere. And we’re seeing — especially in places where Infiniti hadn’t been on the map — that we’re getting both name awareness and an understanding of our attributes of being a challenger brand and a premium brand.”
The knock on motorsports sponsorship is that it costs a fortune, but the metric traditionally used to evaluate return on investment — brand exposure via television coverage — is no longer valid in a world dominated by the Internet and social media. “The 200-miles-per-hour billboard is a completely outmoded rationalization of why you would go racing,” says Mark Coughlin, Motorsports executive vice president at Octagon, which negotiates high-dollar sports and entertainment sponsorships.
Sigl agrees, which is why he says the technical partnership between Infiniti (through Nissan and Renault) and Red Bull is critical. There’s already been considerable cross-pollination between Red Bull Racing’s F1 headquarters in Milton Keynes, England, and the Nissan Technical Centre in nearby Cranfield. Also, last year Infiniti sold a limited-edition, $155,000 FX Vettel Edition sport-utility vehicle developed with world champion Sebastian Vettel’s input. Are there more collaborations in store? “All I can say,” Sigl says, “is that there’s a lot of interest on both sides.”
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TODAY VENEZUELA NEWS – The Venezuelan Confederation of Industries (Conindustria) claimed to have taken part in dialogue meetings with relevant authorities since 2014. However, they stressed that their “proposals have not been implemented because they conflict with a centralized and controlled model.”
In an official communiqué, Conindustria highlighted that they have voiced the need for a change in public policies aimed at increasing stock, production and distribution levels.
In the confederation’s view, “factors that hit production capacity derive from wrong public policies hindering investment, access to raw materials, packaging materials, and spare parts for maintenance of the industrial park.”
Conindustria has deemed it necessary “to increase production of food and medicines to meet Venezuelans’ demand, as well as to raise the number of plastic, glass and metal containers, inks, glues, spare parts for machinery and vehicles; fabric and clothing products; cement and rebars to build both houses and factories.”


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Merge 104.8 | 18 December 2019
Superman’s very first cape has sold for more than $193,000 along with a collection of other rare Hollywood memorabilia. This was the cape worn by Christopher Reeve in the first “Superman” movie from 1978. Dan Akroyd’s jumpsuit from Ghostbusters II also sold at the auction for $32,000.
Frozen 2 has become the third Disney animated movie ever to make $1 Billion at the worldwide box office. It remained at the top of the box office for a couple of weeks breaking the record set by the first Frozen movie. It was also revealed that Disney have made a record setting $10 billion this year even before the release of the new Star Wars movie.
If you are getting seven to eight hours of sleep each night you are cutting your risk of having a heart attack and stroke – even if you’re genetically at-risk. New research shows that if you don’t get enough sleep you are 2.5 times more likely to be struck down with heart disease.


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Dutch fashion retailer The Sting has confirmed it will open its first UK shop in the famous Tower Records store on London’s Regent Street.
The Sting, which has more than 75 stores in the Netherlands and has recently expanded into Germany and Belgium, will open the store next spring.
The retailer sells more than 25 specialist brands sold in a shop-within-a-shop format.
The Regent Street store, owned by Crown Estates and previously occupied by collapsed entertainment retailer Zavvi, covers 33,875 sq ft across three floors and a mezzanine. The shop has direct basement access from Piccadilly Circus Underground station.
The store has remained vacant since Zavvi fell into administration in December.
The Sting’s founder Herman Franzen said: “We believe this unique location – the only one that we are selecting in London - is a perfect fit for showcasing our international fashion brand and we are excited about the opportunity.”
Harper Dennis Hobbs acted for The Sting, while Cushman & Wakefield and Nash Bond acted for Standard Life Investments, which owns the long leasehold.


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Of late, nations across the world have been testing the Central Bank Digital Currency [CBDC] waters in full spree. In May 2020, only 35 countries were considering a CBDC. However, by mid of this year, 105 countries—representing over 95% of the global GDP—were exploring a digital money backed by the central banks. In fact, among the G20 countries, 19 were reportedly analyzing a CBDC.
The visual illustration depicting the status as of November 30, 2022, has been attached below. Notably, most countries are currently either in the Research, Proof of Concept, or Pilot Testing stage.
CBDCs: A Threat To Cryptos?
CBDCs, on their part, are quite essential for financial inclusion. A recent Central Bank of Bahamas research paper from Q3 2022 affirmed that there was a “positive correlation” between a CBDC and financial inclusion.
With the digital inclination swiftly rising, people around the world have been reducing their dependence on cash. In such a scenario, having e-versions of currencies would likely turn out to be handy. Parallelly, the minimal volatility factor will also play a key role in helping foster adoption.
Nevertheless, there are concerns that crypto’s “mode of payment” could be threatened going forward. Elucidating on the same via a textual commentary to Watcher Guru, Anastasia Kor—the CMO and Board Member of crypto firm Choise.com—said,
“For authoritarian governments like that of China, the advent of CBDC can be the demise of cryptocurrencies, but in most cases, experts are proposing a future where crypto and CBDCs can co-exist.”
She opined that “many users” will prefer the “confidence and freedom” that comes along with the decentralized nature of privately issued digital currencies over the centralized nature of central back-backed e-currencies.
In fact, prominent Indian Blockchain Expert Pushpendra Singh also stressed the centralized and decentralized aspects. While talking to Watcher Guru, he said that he did not think CBDCs posed any threat, as such, to the crypto ecosystem.
Are All The Birds Flocking Together?
The Bahamas, as such, is considered to be a global leader in CBDC development, following the launch of its CBDC—Sand Dollar—in October 2020. In fact, it was the first country in the region to launch a central bank-backed digital currency.
This summer, Jamaica became the latest country to launch a CBDC—the JAM-DEX. Parallelly, the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) also went on to legalize the Central Bank Digital Currency, making it akin to cash.
With its first CBDC trial series launched in April 2020, China is also fairly ahead in the race. As of January 2022, a reported 261 million users had set up digital wallets for the e-CNY, with more than $13 billion worth of transactions executed. The country also rolled out the digital currency for visiting foreign athletes during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Testing the real-life use cases and the usage of CBDCs for settlements has also been going on at a swift pace. France and its neighboring country—Luxembourg—recently participated in a trial in the tokenized financial markets. The two nations used an experimental CBDC to settle a bond worth 100 million Euros [$104 million]. The General Director of the French central bank affirmed that a well-designed CBDC could play a “critical role” in the development of a safe tokenized financial asset space in Europe.
The Bank of Japan, on its part, is planning to launch its Digital Yen CBDC pilot in early 2023. As such, the central bank’s plan is to experiment with the digital pilot for two years and discuss whether to move forward with the issuance in 2026.
Parallelly, Singapore has collaborated with French and Swiss Central banks for its CBDC Project. As reported recently, the MAS has embarked on its journey to explore the prospects of CBDC for cross-border transactions. The country’s national bank went on to label the said project Ubin+.
Also Read: India’s Central Bank to Start Retail CBDC Pilot on December 1
State of Affairs in India
India is one of the latest countries to join the trial and testing bandwagon. In fact, the said Asian country just launched the first pilot for its retail digital Rupee (ex-R) on December 1.
Evidently, a host of other prominent countries are way ahead in the CBDC race. Opining on whether or not India was at a positional disadvantage, Kor told Watcher Guru,
“This CBDC trial by the Reserve Bank of India is right on time as the development team has learned from other central banks from around the world that have conducted their own trials.”
In fact, Singh was also on the same page and opined that India could strategically learn from the pros and cons of the models and designs of other countries.
Singh further highlighted that the Unified Payments Interface or UPI was “very popular” in India. He opined that going forward, CBDCs could eclipse the said payment mode. However, Singh went on to warn that adoption would take time. Elaborating on the same, he said,
“A CBDC could fundamentally change the structure of the Indian financial system. CBDC can replace UPI and reduce transaction cost, but adoption will take time.“
Commenting on similar lines, Kon added,
“The Reserve Bank of India has always been thoughtful and undoubtedly, the future—as will be visible in how the Digital Rupee uplift the local economy—will justify the reasons why the trials were delayed up to this point.“
Selected merchants, as such, have already started offering customers to pay for their goods and services via the CBDC. In fact, in a recent interview with the Economic Times, the owner of the shop shortlisted for testing the CBDC opined that funds would remain “safe” in the digital wallet because of the Reserve Bank of India’s involvement.
Keeping the progress made so far in mind, the ongoing research and pilot testing phases being conducted by different countries around the world would likely be followed by back-to-back launches going forward. Countries currently in the pre-launch stage can look back and take inspiration from the torch-bearers. Nevertheless, only time can ascertain whether all the different kinds of monetary variants will be able to thrive together or not.


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Pre-Dummied Products Give Advertisers Tangible Feel for What They are Buying
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By Sean Ireland
Special to the eBulletin
Newspaper advertising sales have always been about making the proper pitch – clearly showing the potential benefits that the right message delivered in the right way can have for a business.
Though variations on that theme have been developed over the years, it still boils down to demonstrating how your products can deliver a valuable audience of potential customers to a business with worthy products and services to sell.
So knowing this is the formula, why do newspaper sales representatives still go out to make their presentations empty-handed?
A growing number of newspapers have been finding increasing sales success simply by showing potential advertisers the product the newspaper is producing as well as where those advertisers can place their ads in that product. It’s not only a way to give a customer a tangible feel for what they are buying into, but also a method to create urgency to make the buying decision.
Of course, demonstrating content and placement in the general-circulation newspaper is usually impossible, but for the increasing number of newspapers that are jumping into the world of niche products – magazines and special sections – presenting pre-dummied products during the sales pitch is turning out to be a key tool to ramping up sales in a difficult economic environment.


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The Woodland Park city council will take on an issue that has been all the buzz in Colorado since the November 2012 election.
An ordinance that would amend Woodland Park’s municipal code and “prohibit the operation of marijuana cultivation facilities and sales, marijuana product manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities, retail marijuana stores and marijuana membership clubs” within city limits is on the agenda for Thursday night’s 7 p.m. meeting. If approved, there would also be a ban on the sale of marijuana grown for personal use.
State voters passed Amendment 64 in November with 55 percent of voters giving their approval. In Teller County, 51.77 percent voted “yes.”
Gov. John Hickenlooper later gave the amendment his signature and made it legal to possess and sell pot in the state. It is now legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and grow up to six pot plants, the amendment says.
Local municipalities were given the ability to opt out of the directives while ossession and sale of marijuana — a schedule-1 controlled substance — is still a violation of federal law.
Also on the agenda
The Woodland Park council will also discuss an application by Jay Baker, president of Teller County Waste to rezone 1.83 acres on South West Street to open a free recycling center.
The Pikes Peak Courier View reported on May 29 that Baker’s facility could be open by early July “if all goes well with the bureaucratic hoops.”
According to the Courier View article, the recycling center would be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays.


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League of Legends: Wild Rift has generated 2.9 million installs as its open beta launched across the Americas.
According to Sensor Tower stats, Riot's mobile MOBA - already live in other countries - experienced a 66-times increase in downloads from March 28th.
The game proved to be most popular in Brazil as it accounted for 32 per cent of all downloads. Meanwhile, Mexico and the US sat at second and third.
Moreover, the game generated $285,000 in player spending on March 29th, up 142 per cent from the previous day.
Wild Rift was most lucrative in the US, with the country generating $154,000, or 24 per cent of the total revenue. South Korea and Canada came in at second and third respectively.
Riot Games' mobile MOBA was confirmed to be coming to the Americas earlier this month.
However, Wild Rift's open beta had already launched across Asia, coming to countries such as Japan, Singapore and South Korea in October 2020.
By December 2020, League of Legends: Wild Rift made an appearance in Europe, Oceania, Taiwan and Vietnam.


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Following the example of many other states around the US, Arizona is one of the latest states to have legalized sports betting. However, unlike many other states where sports betting was already legal in retail outlets, Arizona had an outright ban on the whole operation.
But now, both retail and online sports betting has been allowed to operate as of September 9th, 2021. The process, however, began many years earlier as lawmakers have pushed persistently to bring sports betting to the masses.
When Did The Process Begin?
It was way back in April 2021, that Governor Doug Ducey first signed the legal operation of sports betting businesses into law. The Arizona Senate held a vote for House Bill 2772, which was voted on and passed with a 23-6 margin. However, it wasn’t a simple affair.
In order to get support for the Bill, Ducey had to negotiate with Arizona tribes. This is because gambling had previously been allowed on Native American land, but their contracts didn’t include the legal operation of sports betting. Therefore, new contracts were drawn up to allow these sites to include sports betting alongside their casino operations.
Once terms there had been agreed upon, registration was then opened for other sports betting businesses on August 28th, ahead of the official launch the following month.
Which Sportsbooks Are Legal in Arizona?
Initially, it was BetMGM, Caesars, DraftKings, and FanDuel who managed to launch their apps first, thanks to the fact they already operate in a number of states across the US. Nonetheless, since the initial launch date, many others have joined and there are now 18 sportsbooks operating online with more available including retail locations.
Here is a full list of all online sportsbooks, and physical locations they are based (if they have one), as well as the dates that they launched:
|Sportsbook||Physical Venue||Launch Date|
|Barstool Sportsbook||Phoenix Raceway||Sept. 9, 2021|
|BetMGM Sportsbook AZ||State Farm Stadium / Gila River Casinos||Sept. 9, 2021|
|Caesars Sportsbook AZ||Chase Field||Sept. 9, 2021|
|DraftKings Sportsbook AZ||TPC Scottsdale||Sept. 9, 2021|
|FanDuel Sportsbook AZ||Footprint Center||Sept. 9, 2021|
|Unibet Sportsbook AZ||Paradise Casino||Sept. 9, 2021|
|WynnBet AZ||Apache Gold Casino / Apache Sky Casino||Sept. 9, 2021|
|TwinSpires Sportsbook||Mazatazl Hotel and Casino||Sept. 16, 2021|
|BetRivers Arizona||Footprint Center||Oct. 22, 2021|
|SuperBook Sports||Spirit Mountain Casino||Dec. 17, 2021|
|Fubo Sportsbook||Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino and Resort||Dec. 20, 2021|
|SaharaBets||N/a||Jan. 12, 2022|
|Betfred Sports Arizona||We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort||Jan. 18, 2022|
|Hard Rock Sportsbook||N/a||Jan. 27, 2022|
|Golden Nugget Arizona||N/a||Feb. 3, 2022|
|Desert Diamond Digital||Desert Diamond Casinos||Feb. 13, 2022|
|Betway||N/a||Feb. 21, 2022|
|Bally Bet||Footprint Center||Feb. 2022|
What Other Activities Are Legal?
In addition to retail and online sports betting being legalized, the legislation also allowed for the legalization of daily fantasy sports too. This will have been music to the ears of the likes of DraftKings and FanDuel who both operated fantasy sports sites, long before they launched their sports betting operations. As yet, though, few have tried to challenge these two giants of the fantasy sports industry, with businesses focusing on the sports betting market.


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If Harry Potter-like photos aren't your thing, here's how to turn off Live Photos.
Whether you're getting notifications from Ghostery with its newest feature, or you want to turn them off before they start, this how-to guide can help.
Not a fan of the sounds coming from Swarm with every check-in or mayorship earned? Here's how to turn them off.
EULA reveals Microsoft's plans to clamp down on PC piracy.
Technically Incorrect: In Spain, they have a strange new gagging law that's being used in even stranger ways.
You can share your Wi-Fi password with Outlook, Skype, and Facebook contacts in Windows 10. CNET's Dan Graziano shows how to disable this feature.
With looming lawsuits and the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled people ask whether Uber can do more to ensure they're not refused rides from drivers.
Want to avoid seeing pop-ups for each notification on your Android Lollipop device? With this app, you can return to the original notification delivery style.
Twenty-five years after President Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, AT&T called on developers to use existing technology to create solutions for people with disabilities.
Tired of seeing the Windows 10 icon in your system tray? Try these quick fixes.


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Bulgaria’s Tourism Ministry said on October 22 that the number of Chinese tourists visiting the country increased by 43 per cent in 2017.
By the end of 2018, a Bulgarian Tourism Information Centre will be opened in Beijing.
The figures were announced at a Bulgarian-Chinese cultural and tourist forum in Sofia, a day after the Bulgarian capital city hosted the 16+1 meeting of local leaders from Central and Eastern Europe and China.
Bulgaria is committed to stepping up dialogue with China on tourism and expanding joint initiatives, the Tourism Ministry said.
Bulgaria will host the Second Intergovernmental Congress of World Civilisations and Historical Routes in November 2018.
The Tourism Ministry said that in 2017, more than 8.9 million tourists visited Bulgaria, earning the country revenue of more than 6.6 billion leva.
From January to August 2018, revenue from international tourism in Bulgaria amounted to more than 2.8 billion euro, an increase of 7.2 per cent compared with January-August 2017, the ministry said, citing data from central Bulgarian National Bank.
On October 19, the Tourism Ministry said that Bulgaria had been overtaking the number of nights spent by foreigners in hotels and similar accommodation in the Netherlands, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg and many other destinations in June-July 2018.
Among EU countries, in June and July 2018, Bulgaria ranked 10th in terms of nights spent by foreigners in hotels.
In terms of the growth in tourist numbers, Bulgaria was ahead of destinations like Cyprus and Malta, the Tourism Ministry in Sofia said.
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Electronics retailer Maplin is the second UK chain to fall into administration today, following the earlier announcement of Toys R Us failing.
Talks with potential buyers for Maplin collapsed this morning, BBC News reported.
The company has 217 UK stores and more than 2500 staff - all of whom are now at risk. It's not known if any of the chain will survive.
For now, shops will remain open through the administration period.
Maplin was founded in 1976.


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Budget 2023: What just got cheaper and expensive; check FM's tech announcements
Budget 2023: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has just presented the Budget in Parliament and here is what is set to get cheaper and expensive in the tech world.
It is the fifth consecutive year Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the annual budget in Lok Sabha. The Budget 2023 is very important as it is the last full budget of the current government before next year's parliamentary elections. As the world deals with the economic downturn, which has seen multiple tech companies resorting to mass layoffs, this year's budget was sure to be aligned on pragmatic lines. However, like each year, some things have become more expensive while others have become cheaper. But how did that impact your gadgets such as smartphones? Find out.
Budget 2023: What has become cheaper
Finance Minister Sitharaman announced that the custom duty on the import of certain smartphone parts such as camera lenses, lithium-ion batteries will be lowered. This was done in light of India's mobile manufacturing unit from 5.8 crore units in 2014 to more than 31 crore units in 2022.
Camera lenses will get a 2.5 percent concession on custom duty and lithium-ion batteries will continue to get the concessional duties for another year. This can result in cheaper smartphones in the coming year as cost of production goes down.
Additionally, smart televisions are also likely to get cheaper as the finance minister announced in her speech that customs duty on parts of open cells of TV panels will also be brought down to 2.5 percent.
The lowered custom duty on lithium-ion batteries can also result in cheaper prices for some laptops.
Luckily, no additional taxes on personal gadgets were announced during the budget session, which means smartphones, laptops, smartwatches and other tech products are not likely to get more expensive this year.
Another interesting benefit is that the government has also proposed to set up a national digital library for children and adolescents. The idea is to help all those children who suffered academic losses during the pandemic.


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Following months of negotiation Spain's Peralada Group, owner of Castillo Perelada in Empordà and Cims de Porrera in Priorat, has purchased the Chivite Group, including the Bodegas Gran Feudo (DO Navarra) and Viña Salceda (DOCa Rioja).
The move has allowed Peralada to re-enforce its position in Rioja, where it already owns Fin de Siglo, and has helped launch its presence in Navarre, Ribera del Duero and Rueda.
This is not the first acquisition made by the company this financial year, having previously purchased the organic Cava Privat and Oliver Conti (DO Empordà).
'The Chivite family’s quality wine making tradition, spanning more than three centuries, has afforded the brand significant reach at an international level, fitting perfectly with our vision of the wine business,' said Javier Suqué, chairman of the Peralada Group.
'We are committed to learning and integrating the historic values of Chivite and, consequently, Peralada is counting on Julián Chivite, one of the most renowned people in the Spanish wine sector, to continue on as chairman and to help lead this new project.'
The consolidated turnover of the group will now surpass €60m due to the acquisition, and is set to establish more firmly the family company’s presence in nearly 100 markets worldwide. But Peralada isn't stopping there, a new winery in Empordà, Catalonia, is currently under construction. The new sustainable winery is set to have the capacity for 2.8m kg of grapes, and is due to be built by 2019.


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According to Zacks, “Energous Corporation is a developer of a disruptive wire-free charging technology. It solutions enables wireless charging or powering of electronic devices at distance. The wireless charging solution, it is developing employs three dimensional (3D) pocketforming. Energous Corporation is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. “
Several other equities analysts have also recently weighed in on WATT. ValuEngine cut shares of Energous from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 2nd. BidaskClub raised shares of Energous from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 20th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the stock. Energous currently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average price target of $22.00.
NASDAQ:WATT opened at $5.21 on Friday. Energous has a 1-year low of $4.41 and a 1-year high of $21.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $160.64 million, a P/E ratio of -2.62 and a beta of 1.97.
Energous (NASDAQ:WATT) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 27th. The industrial products company reported ($0.48) earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of ($0.48). Energous had a negative net margin of 9,871.85% and a negative return on equity of 164.83%. On average, research analysts anticipate that Energous will post -1.24 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In other Energous news, insider Brian J. Sereda sold 3,400 shares of Energous stock in a transaction on Monday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $7.51, for a total transaction of $25,534.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 117,199 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $880,164.49. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, insider Brian J. Sereda sold 3,792 shares of Energous stock in a transaction on Wednesday, January 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $7.40, for a total transaction of $28,060.80. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 124,391 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $920,493.40. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 26,006 shares of company stock valued at $179,734. Company insiders own 6.80% of the company’s stock.
A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in WATT. Wells Fargo & Company MN boosted its position in Energous by 43.2% during the third quarter. Wells Fargo & Company MN now owns 40,774 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $413,000 after purchasing an additional 12,299 shares during the period. Virtu Financial LLC bought a new position in Energous during the third quarter worth $301,000. Jane Street Group LLC bought a new position in Energous during the third quarter worth $184,000. Morgan Stanley boosted its position in Energous by 40.1% during the third quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 198,013 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $2,004,000 after purchasing an additional 56,647 shares during the period. Finally, Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in Energous by 7.6% during the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 993,462 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $10,054,000 after purchasing an additional 70,325 shares during the period. 27.34% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Energous Company Profile
Energous Corporation develops wire-free charging solutions. The company develops WattUp wireless power technology that consists of semiconductor chipsets, software controls, hardware designs, and antennas that enables radio frequency based wire-free charging for electronic devices. It has a collaboration with vivo Global to explore integrating WattUp into smartphone designs that charge wirelessly over-the-air.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales broke records and Singles’ Day – the biggest online shopping day of the year in China – took off like a rocket, becoming the biggest online sale on the planet. And it’s not over yet. Green Monday on December 11 used to be the last day people could order gifts and have them delivered before Christmas Day. Nowadays it’s yet another excuse for an online bargain frenzy. Last year saw sales of some US$1.6bn. Then there’s Free Shipping Day on December 15 where merchants guarantee delivery by Christmas Eve with no shipping costs. As one of the main reasons for cart abandonment, waving shipping fees is a great incentive for shoppers to buy.
It’s not all over in December either. In January e-tailers get a second bite of the cherry as consumers send back returns, start redeeming gift vouchers or visit actual stores to return unwanted Christmas gifts. All in all, it’s a great opportunity for more sales whether in store or online. What can e-tailers learn from this year-end bonanza of online consumption? And how can they make their products stand out from the crown when consumers are being bombarded with bargains every which way they turn? Several important online trends are emerging that e-tailers should be taking on board:
More and more people made their cyber sale purchases on their mobile phones this year. Of the nearly 1.5 billion payments processed through AliPay this Singles’ Day, 90% were conducted via mobile. A report from Research and Markets showed global m-commerce will account for more than 50% of all online retail sales by 2021. E-tailers who aren’t optimizing their sites for mobile are going to lose out.
It’s all very well telling them a sale is coming – what consumers really want to know is what they’re going to get on the day. Singles’ Day pre-orders generated a billion dollars’ worth of sales in the first two minutes – reaching US$10bn in just over an hour. Alibaba set up pre-Singles’ Day 'See Now Buy Now' fashion shows, used interactive apps to download coupons, raffle tickets and gift certificates to create heightened interest before the sales began. E-tailers that start ‘bigging-up’ their bargains early will have shoppers waiting to push the buy button on the day.
AI was out in force on Singles’ Day this year with the FashionAI advisor, an in store touchscreen, giving people clothing and style suggestions as they tried on outfits. Chatbots are also becoming more and more popular. They can answer consumer questions fast and efficiently, greatly improving a shopper’s online shopping experience. Voice search is also growing with the increasing use of ‘assistants’ such as Siri or the Amazon Echo, and e-tailers need to make sure their stores are ready for voice recognition technologies.
Alibaba boss Jack Ma christened the integration of online-offline logistics and data across a single value chain 'New Retail' in the run up to Singles’ Day. In the West its more commonly known as omnichannel. What’s important is that it’s everywhere and customers like it. Shoppers are distinguishing less and less between online and offline, and that’s what omnichannel is all about. But it can be a nightmare for e-tailers to put in action, especially SME’s. Getting the combination of people, process and technology right is tricky. Outsourcing aspects of it, especially fulfillment, is one solution.
There’s still a way to go before these technologies really hit the mainstream, but companies like Alibaba are leading the way. On Singles’ Day Chinese consumers who visited specific locations could play an AR game similar to Pokémon Go and earn shopping coupons. It also introduced VR and AR technology like product displays, magic mirrors, cloud shelves, and cashier-less purchasing. It’s early days but e-tailers should be on the lookout for opportunities to make use of VR and AR to boost their customers’ shopping experience.
A report by ValueWalk showed that companies that have embraced social media are now generating roughly US$2.4m every minute through e-commerce. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter together are helping generate more than US$40k in revenue every 60 seconds. By 2018, an estimated 2.5 billion people will be social media users. It’s almost too easy not to take advantage of. All you need to do is create good, regular copy and use the easy-to-use tools to promote your products. So, get posting! There’s a whole year to go until the next cyber sales get started. Time enough to take on board the learnings from 2017 and make 2018 the sale of the century for your online brand.


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We’re talking about the genuine article here. Beef, Chicken, and Fish cultivated in a lab to replicate the REAL thing, minus the cruelty to animals and damage to the planet.
Disruption is closer than you might think….
In 1931 Winston Churchill published an article in popular mechanics entitled ‘Fifty Years Hence’. One of his predictions stated ‘’we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”. While Churchill’s timeframe was incorrect, the main theme is starting to become a reality.
What is it?
Cell-cultured meat, also known as lab-grown meat, is genuine animal meat that is produced by cultivating animal cells directly. This method of production eliminates the need to raise farm animals for food. Cultivated meat is composed of the same cell types as animal tissue, arranged in the same or similar structure. By doing this, it resembles the nutritional and sensory characteristics of conventional meats.
A recent report by RethinkX – a think tank that analyses and forecasts technology-driven disruption, predicts the collapse of the cattle industry by as early as 2030, stating that animal meat will be replaced by cheaper, higher-quality food made in a laboratory.
The price of cultivating meat is a significant factor in this prediction. In the early 2000’s it cost a million dollars to produce a kilogram of cell-cultured meat. Today, it’s only $100 per kilogram. By 2025, the report projects that these proteins will be at cost parity of producing traditional animal proteins and five times cheaper by 2030.
Lab-grown meat means there is no harm done to any animals and a lot less waste. Traditionally farmed meats may use only 25-30% of the animal, whereas lab-grown meats, can focus purely on parts that consumers want to eat e.g. cultivating just the steak or chicken breast.
Better for the environment
A report by CE Delpht, makes some really bold but exciting predictions for the environment. The report suggests that cultivated meat could decrease greenhouse gas emissions by up to 92%, reduce pollution by up to 93%, use 95% less land, and decrease water usage by up to 78%.
Reduced foodborne illnesses
Antibiotics are not expected to be used in the commercial production of cell-cultured meats. This should result in fewer foodborne illnesses due to the lack of exposure risk from pathogens.
Avoiding biotech monopolies
Patents are already popping up for lab-grown meats and investment is largely coming from private sources. To avoid only a handful of big corporations dominating the industry, advocates in the space agree that it is crucial that more public funding is made available to make the sector more democratic and transparent.
Companies putting out poor-quality meats to get to market quicker
As businesses seek to rapidly scale, there is concern that this will come at the expense of product quality. Didier Troubia, a pioneer in the field of cell-cultured meat, believes that “we need to develop the right products and platforms to meet consumer expectations.” Troubia acknowledges that there are risks of companies cutting corners in terms of quality, nutritional value, and safety to get to scale quickly.
Despite Troubia’s concerns, The industry appears to acknowledge that strict regulations and government funding will be critical to maintaining high and consistent standards.
Consumer perception research shows that taste, price, and convenience are the three most important factors for getting people interested in making the switch to lab-grown meat. Further studies show up to 80% of customers in the US and the UK are willing to taste meat produced in a lab, with those numbers falling to 58% in Germany and 46% in France.
Seren Kell – Science and Technology manager at the Good Food Institute says ‘So far people haven’t been presented with two options. People eat meat not because of how it’s made, they eat meat despite how it’s made’. Further, Kell believes that if people had the option of choosing traditionally farmed vs cell-cultured meat in the supermarkets, the adoption statistics would be a lot higher.
3 players with traction
Aleph Farms (Beef) https://www.aleph-farms.com/
Based in Israel, Aleph Farms (AF) are a trailblazer in the industry. AF cultivated the first beef steak in 2018, grew meat in space in 2019, and produced the first ribeye steak in 2021. Leonardo DeCaprio is an investor and on the board.
Wild Type Foods (Fish) https://www.wildtypefoods.com/
Founded by a Cardiologist and Diplomat who were inspired by breakthroughs in stem cell research, they produce Salmon in closed, animal-free systems designed to keep fish in the water and out of farms.
Good Meat (Chicken) https://goodmeat.co/
The first company in the world to sell cultivated meat. Their first product – Good meat cultivated chicken, was approved for sale in Singapore and is currently available at select restaurants.
5 Interesting Insights
1. Cultivated meat companies raised $1.38B in 2021 which equates to 71% of the all-time total investment.
2. A total of 107 cultivated meat and seafood industry startups have been announced to launch by end of 2021, up 24% from 2020.
3. 25 countries have at least one cultivated meat company.
4. Meat and fish industry heavyweights, like Tyson Foods, JBS and Maruha Nichiro are all investing in cultivated proteins.
5. Research into cultivated meat is heating up. Scientific publications focused on cultivated meat are rising exponentially each year.
The Good Food Institute. 2022. Cultivated meat | State of the Industry Report | GFI. [online] Available at: <https://gfi.org/resource/cultivated-meat-eggs-and-dairy-state-of-the-industry-report/> [Accessed 25 September 2022].
CE Delft – EN. 2022. LCA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenarios – CE Delft – EN. [online] Available at: <https://cedelft.eu/publications/rapport-lca-of-cultivated-meat-future-projections-for-different-scenarios/> [Accessed 25 September 2022].
RethinkX. 2022. New Report: Major disruption in food and agriculture in next decade — RethinkX. [online] Available at: <https://www.rethinkx.com/press-release/2019/9/16/new-report-major-disruption-in-food-and-agriculture-in-next-decade> [Accessed 25 September 2022].
The Good Food Institute. 2022. The science of cultivated meat | GFI. [online] Available at: <https://gfi.org/science/the-science-of-cultivated-meat/> [Accessed 25 September 2022].


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Canada is poised to move forward with two new policies– Canada’s National Ingredients Strategy and Ontario’s Class VI pricing program– that will significantly impact northeast dairy farms.
Canada is poised to move forward with two new policies– Canada’s National Ingredients Strategy and Ontario’s Class VI pricing program– that will significantly impact northeast dairy farms. Both are expected to go into effect this year.
O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative, Inc. Director of Dairy Ingredient Sales and Regulatory Affairs, Craig Alexander explains that through these policies, Canada is creating a special reduced class of pricing for certain dairy products. The pricing class is set to the lowest price identified in a worldwide survey. That price is well below Canada’s cost of production and the United States’ cost of selling the ingredients to processors there.
“This is in order to eliminate imports and dump their skim solids on the world market,” Alexander said. “They have also raised other prices for other domestic milk use that will encourage more production.”
According to a letter sent to several state governors, Canada is poised to expand the product scope of that program while instituting it nationally and in addition to disrupt skim milk powder markets around the world by using the new program to dump excess skim milk powder on global markets.
Once the policies go into effect, Cayuga Milk Ingredients (CMI) CEO, Kevin J. Ellis, says it is not going to be a pretty picture for dairy farmers in the Northeast. Ellis says that CMI will decrease its daily capacity by 400,000 pounds. Currently, the plant processes 2.3 million pounds per day. That will drop to 1.9 million pounds per day.
“We’ve been able to buy other’s surplus and increase the through put at our plant. But now, we’ll be limited to our dryer capacity,” Ellis said.
Alexander estimates that the Northeast will have an excess of 300 to 400 million pounds of milk annually once the new policies are enacted. This is bad news for a region that is already struggling with a higher supply than demand or ability to handle.
“The milk surplus is real,” Ellis said. “It’s a forgone conclusion that Canada is going to do this. Now it’s a matter of when and how fast these changes will take effect. It’ll likely lead to even more dumping at plants in the northeast.”
Dairy leaders in the northeast continue to urge state and federal officials to consider all the tools at their disposal to ensure Canada understands the seriousness of this issue and the value it derives on a daily basis for the numerous Canadian exports that come across the borders of northern U.S. states
“We hope for more concrete actions by states to show Canada that their exports and trade relationships will be damaged by moving forward,” Alexander said.
“With the Trump administration renegotiating the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canadian actions cannot be taken lightly,” Ellis concluded.
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In just five years, we have built a strong, sustainable business based on one of the most exciting technologies on the market today.
Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) April 23, 2015
Direct Selling News magazine, the leading publication for the direct selling industry, has ranked ASEA company No. 98 on the sixth annual DSN Global 100, an exclusive ranking of the top revenue-generating direct sales companies.
Trish Schwenkler says, “It's wonderful to be working with a top notch company like ASEA and breaking into the top 100 is validation of where we are headed. We (Trish and her husband/business partner Bob) know that the company's strategic plans will advance this strong showing in years to come. We are in this for the long term."
The 2015 list is featured in the June issue of Direct Selling News magazine and the list represents aggregate revenue of $82 billion from companies based in 14 countries.
“The DSN Global 100 ranking is more than a list of who’s who and what was accomplished in terms of revenue for the prior year,” said John Fleming, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Direct Selling News. “By doing the research and publishing such a list, we spotlight the contributions that the top direct selling companies are making in communities and economies around the world.”
The Global 100 ranking is based on net revenue before commissions are paid and without any value-added tax. In an effort to support transparency and verify authenticity, DSN requires each company to submit a Revenue Certification Form (RCF) signed by the CEO and CFO or designated agent.
Trish & Bob Schwenkler are Triple Diamond Independent Associates of ASEA, LLC and owners of OurGlobalHomeBusiness.
ASEA, LLC which launched in late 2010, manufactures the world’s first and only Redox Signaling supplement. These Redox Signaling Molecules in ASEA support the vital activity of cellular repair and replacement that are necessary for optimal cellular health.


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iPhone 3G gets dipped in gold
They've made gold MacBook Pros, and gold iMacs, and now Computer Choppers have turned their attention to blinging the iPhone 3G.
Apparently it's taken a while to plate on the gold because of "poor quality plastic Apple used for the iPhone 3G" (tut tut) but now the company is claiming to have delivered the first "iPhone 3G with 24K yellow gold housing and bezel".
Quips the team: "Some other companies were hyping it up like they had done it before the phone was even released but they don't have photos to back up the talk".
Custom options are going to be available but there's no price as yet, but we strongly suggest you start saving.


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MediaTek unveiled its flagship chip, the Dimensity 9000, a few days ago, and now there are many rumors about the release of the MediaTek Dimensity 7000 chip in 2022. It is heard. This information was published from a reliable Chinese informed source on the Weibo social network. Recently, a Chinese intelligence whistleblower who has a good track record of publishing company product information before unveiling announced in a post on his account that MediaTek intends to produce a new chip, most likely called the Dimensity 7000, with 5-nanometer lithography.
Another rumor has it that MediaTek's Dimensity 7000 chipset has entered the testing phase and will be based on the TSMC 5nm manufacturing process. It is also said that this chip uses the new ARM V9 architecture, which is also used in the Dimensity 9000 chip. It's too early to talk about clock speed and settings, but according to Digital Chat Station, MediaTek's Dimensity 7000 chip easily supports 75-watt fast charging speed.
MediaTek after the excellent performance of 2021 and the so-called capture of the market of mid-range chips and, as mentioned above, from Unveiled the 4-nanometer Dimensity 9000 chip for use in 2022 flagship phones. Dimensity 9000 chip is a new and flagship generation of 5G chips from MediaTek, which will be produced and manufactured using 4-nanometer lithography technology TSMC.
It can be said that this is the first time that new chips are produced by lithography technology. 4nm TSMC is introduced. The use of this technology is expected to make this chipset have better performance and energy efficiency than existing products. Utilizing Arm's new V9 architecture, we see the presence of a new combination of processing cores in this chip. In addition to a high-performance 3.55 GHz Cortex-X2 core, the chip is equipped with three 2.85 GHz Cortex-A710 cores as well as four high-performance 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510 cores.
For the GPU is the Arm Mali-G710 with ten processing cores. For this chip, a new SDK with Raytracing capability has been designed to provide graphic processing in the category of home systems. The Dimensity 9000 chip should be introduced as the first in other respects as well. The Dimensity 9000 is set to be equipped with Cortex-X2 cores for the first time at a speed of 3.5 GHz. This processor is also the first mobile chipset designed for smartphones to be equipped with Bluetooth version 5.3.
In addition to these features, the Dimensity 9000 chip is equipped with the fifth generation of MediaTek APUs for processor-based Artificial intelligence also has six separate cores. MediaTek has announced that this dedicated core for artificial intelligence has four times better performance and energy efficiency than its predecessor.
MediaTek explains that this chip is able to perform 16% better than Google Tensor's proprietary chip in the field of artificial intelligence. The manufacturer claims that this capacity of cache makes the chip 7% better and also consumes 25% more bandwidth than similar models with eight gigabytes of cache.
The chip is said to be It managed to score better in Geekbench than the flagship Android score, which is most likely the Snapdragon 888 chip. One of the most important aspects of a processor review is its image processing capabilities, which MediaTek Dimensity 9000 has outstanding performance, at least on paper. According to reports, the image processing engine used in this chip is from the 7th generation and is 18-bit, which can record images with a size of 320 megapixels.
Of course, if the smartphone that is produced from a sensor with this size Take advantage. This makes MediaTek's new chip the first processor capable of capturing images of this size. The chip is also capable of transmitting image data at a rate of 9 gigapixels per second, which is also a record in this regard.
According to information released by the manufacturer, the first smartphones equipped with a Dimensity 9000 processor They will be released in the first quarter of 2022.


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In the Big Apple
Online scalping's next territory: High-end restaurants?
NEW YORK--What if you could get that coveted table for two at one of the hottest restaurants in town...by paying $25 for the reservation?
New York's famed Restaurant Week is fast approaching, which means that black books and BlackBerrys are filling with reservations aplenty. But this year, a new start-up called Tablexchange.com might put a fork in the system. The New York-based company has a simple model: it's a marketplace for buying and selling reservations at chic, trendy restaurants. It's brand new, and it's already controversial.
Â Tablexchange is still small; with only a thousand registered users so far, it doesn't exactly have eBay-caliber activity levels, but it's starting to quietly take off. A table for two on Friday night at Little Owl, a tiny West Village restaurant where reservations seem to sell out in minutes, is on the books for $20, and seats at the chic Italian restaurant Babbo are going for $40.
ThereÂ Â are otherÂ Tablexchanges, which also offer reservation auctions in San Francisco and the Hamptons.
"Scalping," the practice of reselling tickets to hot sporting and music events, often at a shocking premium, has been going on for years and has only escalated with the conveniences offered by the Web. It's controversial, and in some areas there are laws and regulations against it.
"I think, realistically, reservations at some restaurants in New York are very scarce, and it's not surprising that some capitalist folks have found a way to take advantage of that," said Ben Leventhal of the popular local restaurant blog Eater. "I don't really see it being that different from scalping seats to the Yankees or the Knicks, frankly."
Tablexchange, which makes money by taking a commission from each sale as well as through advertising revenue, doesn't operate in an auction format, so you won't see people bidding into the triple figures. Additionally, buyers and sellers are restricted to reservations on coveted Friday and Saturday nights (as well as weekdays during Restaurant Week). This may help Tablexchange save face by looking less sleazy, but it also could mean that another, more brazen site could come along and fill that niche.
full article on Cnet
byÂ Caroline McCarthy


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DHAKA, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today urged the businessmen to keep the supply and prices of essential commodities stable ahead of EidUlAzha.
You (businessmen) could help the people by keeping the market stable ahead of Eid, he said at a review meeting on supply and prices of essential commodities with the businessmen at his ministry's conference room.
The minister said Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has been directed to strengthen its market monitoring and marketing system. TCB would sell onion, garlic and other essential commodities in open market sale.
Commerce Secretary Md Mofizul Islam said the production and supply system has been hampered due to flood and India withdrew 10 percent subsidy on onion which pushed the price of onion slightly up, but prices of other commodities remained stable.
He said businessmen have the responsibility to keep the market stable for the people.
The meeting advised trucks and trawlers carrying sacrificial animals to display the name of haat or destination to avoid hassle.
Representatives of trade bodies and government offices were present at the meeting.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)


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In my last post I was thrilled to announce that Elizabeth Macarthur had been longlisted for the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize.
Now I’m even more delighted to announce that Elizabeth Macarthur is now one of the three books on the shortlist. Wow! I mean – just – wow.
The other two titles on the shortlist are:
– The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History, by Meredith Lake and published by NewSouth Books
– Eggshell Skull, by Bri Lee and published by Allen & Unwin
What outstanding company Elizabeth is keeping these days!
The Book Prize is $3500 to an Australian citizen or permanent resident whose nonfiction book, published between 1 January and 31 December 2018, contributes most to Australian cultural and intellectual life. The winner will be announced on October 30.
You can read the media release here.