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The convoluted legal battle between Apple and chipmaker Qualcomm may be coming to an end. The companies said Tuesday that they're dismissing all litigation against each other. Apple will pay Qualcomm an undisclosed sum as part of the settlement, which includes a six-year licensing agreement between the two.
The settlement also covers suits brought by Apple's manufacturing partners, which wanted Qualcomm to repay $9 billion—a number that reportedly could have been tripled under antitrust law—that they say the chipmaker overcharged them for patent royalties.
The announcement came while Qualcomm's lawyer was delivering his opening remarks in a trial of numerous claims and counterclaims that started Tuesday morning in San Diego, according to CNET. Qualcomm told investors last year that Apple would stop using its wireless chips, switching instead to chips made by competitors like Intel.
One potential catalyst for the settlement emerged a few hours later: Intel said it won't make wireless modems capable of connecting to the coming generation of 5G networks. Earlier this year, Intel had said it would have sample 5G modems ready in 2019, and officially launch the products next year. With Intel no longer an option, that would explain why Apple needed to work out a new deal with Qualcomm. There are few 5G-capable networks operating yet, but Huawei, Samsung, and other smartphone makers have announced 5G-capable phones based on Qualcomm's wireless chips.
The dispute between Apple and Qualcomm involved the unusual way Qualcomm licenses its technology to other companies. Qualcomm generally charges handset makers like Apple and Huawei around 5 percent of the total price of a phone for the right to use its technology, up to about $20 per device, according to a legal brief filed by Qualcomm. In other words, if you pay $300 for a phone that uses Qualcomm technology, $15 of that might go to the company, even if there are no chips made by Qualcomm in the device. If you paid $1,000, Qualcomm would get $20. Those licensing fees come on top of what a manufacturer would pay for Qualcomm’s chips. Apple referred to this as double-dipping and argued that Qualcomm only got away with it because it effectively holds a monopoly on high-end wireless chip technologies.
Though terms of the agreement were not disclosed, investors viewed it as good news for Qualcomm. Its shares rose 23 percent. Apple shares were little changed.
It's not necessarily the end of the legal woes that have pitted Qualcomm against regulators around the world in recent years. The company is still awaiting a decision in an antitrust suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission alleging the company uses its dominant position in the wireless chip market to overcharge customers to use its technology.
During the FTC trial, Qualcomm said it doesn't factor the value of its intellectual property into its chip prices. In other words, Qualcomm claims that it essentially sells the chips at a discount and then makes up for it with the patent licensing fee. It's an odd arrangement, but it's one that Qualcomm has had in place for decades, long before it became a major player in the semiconductor industry.


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Roseville Police Department detectives investigating the compromise of hundreds of credit card numbers have isolated the problem to one Roseville restaurant, Paul Martin's American Bistro. Detectives also believe the problem was isolated to computer systems at the restaurant's site, and did not involve the external financial services network or any third-party data processing service.
It appears that unknown cyber-criminals, who could be operating from anywhere in the world, were able to access the restaurant's credit card processing system and steal credit card numbers, which were then sold to other criminals and used to make fraudulent purchases.
Paul Martin's is cooperating fully with the investigation. They have brought in computer security specialists to examine their system to confirm they have found the only breach, and to put processes in place to prevent further problems. The restaurant is open for business, and will be using alternate methods to process credit card transactions until the cyber-security team has completed their work.
"The management and staff of Paul Martin's American Bistro thank the Roseville Police Department, Secret Service and others involved in helping identify and solve the source of the data breach", stated Ben Magana, Operating Partner of the Roseville restaurant. "We are doing everything in our power to ensure that our systems are safe, secure and locked down."

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Marketers are starting to unveil their marketing approaches for the planet Cup, that will happen from late November to mid-December in Qatar this season.
The location and timing of the tournament, which happens every four years and serves as a rare chance for marketers to attain global live sports audiences, may change how some marketers treat it this year, in accordance with marketers and agency execs.
Some say the timing, that was shifted because of Qatars climate, will bolster advertisers fascination with the games as you can find typically more ad dollars spent in the fourth quarter compared to the summer once the World Cup is generally played.
Others say that shift complicates things as marketers could be more centered on performance marketing efforts because the have to hit sales goals through the fourth quarter, especially this season having an uncertain economic environment, is a lot higher than through the summer. Simultaneously, there is also holiday marketing efforts to spotlight.
In those days of year, many brands aren’t attempting to drive global awareness but be further down the [purchase] funnel, said Nick Meyer, director of social media marketing strategy at Campbell Ewald, when asked concerning the timing shift. Meyer added that despite problems with timing or the on-going economic uncertainty for most brands the planet Cup isn’t something you pass over. Theres no other time, no other media moment that lasts per month and gets a billion views worldwide.
With regards to the current financial state, marketers and agency execs say that its unlikely for brands to pull back on spending for the function now to control those issues. Thats because most of the marquee marketers and long-time partners for FIFA that are planning big World Cup campaigns likely budgeted for them a long time before the existing economic environment.
Specialty stuff like the planet Cup that happen every four years, dont just start selling per month or two in advance, said Jon Lefferts EVP of integrated investment at UM, adding that Fox and Telemundo, the networks airing the planet Cup, have already been selling this for more than per year now. Theyre well before where theyve experienced days gone by.
And the global audience tied with live sports has likely are more attractive for a few marketers, particularly when the previous few years global sports havent had exactly the same normalcy or pull.
THE PLANET Cup may be the ultimate global moment, also it already brings people together in a manner that most sports can only dream of, said Brendan Shaughnessy, cultural strategy director at sparks & honey. As the last two Olympics couldnt bring any sense of a needed normalcy, I anticipate brands and marketers will attempt to increase footballs presence as an instant that brings collective calmness and certainty through its diverse fanbases and seek to inspire and elevate a fresh wave of fandom rituals and traditions on the largest stage.
However, some marketers and agency execs say the labor and human rights issues reported with many calling the reportedly harsh environment for the construction of the stadium exploitative could have some brands think about being connected with this years event.
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Loyal 9 Cocktails first national campaign banks on comedy. Why?
Underpinning everything is this plan of comedy that is quite definitely infused in to the DNA of the brand. That is clearly a bit reflective of the RTD [ready to drink] category, that is very much a fresh space, nonetheless it has a large amount of lightness infused to it. We see comedy as that perfect space that helps us keep things in keeping with the category, but additionally showcase the realness of the brand.
Loyal 9 Cocktails just launched last spring, rendering it a fresh brand. Whats next for online marketing strategy?
Among the reasons for having this category is its very seasonal. Particularly as a brandname like Loyal Being Lemonade. You want to be synergistic. You want to be synonymous because the drink of the summertime. Beyond this work, that have been likely to continue in to the fall, were now having conversations of how exactly we extend this work into next summer. As a fresh brand, its about learning on the way, learning fast, failing faster and optimizing.
Any kind of media channels that Loyal 9 is likely to double down on next year?
We dont have traditional TV in the mix. Well certainly double down on digital. That’s where the learning must enter into play inside our current media mix. Historically weve had tremendous success on social. I’d be challenged to imagine that people dont go a great deal larger in the digital world. What it boils down to is do we make a great deal larger bets potentially later on. Kimeko McCoy
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Increasingly, influencers and content creators have become a line item in marketing budgets because the creator economy is growing exponentially. For instance, Aerie clothing brand is spending the majority of its marketing dollars on paid social and influencers. Over fifty percent of marketers who leverage content creators and influencers within their marketing strategy achieve this in hopes to improve engagement and reach new audiences, in accordance with Sprout Socials new creator economy report. More findings from the report below:
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My free-market digestive tract hates this kind of tyrannical regulation that keeps me alive and healthy. I demand my poo food!
Twenty years ago, a change was made to how we did food poisoning testing. That change prevented over a quarter of a million cases each year, and it may also suggest how we could stop more cases in the future.
TLDR: bagged lettuce comes from a number of different farms, and because it has multiple sources, each possibly with bacteria on it, increasing the risk of contamination. That’s versus lettuce sourced from a single farm.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned using an actual thermometer here. People are notoriously bad at estimating temperatures and most foods need to be reheated to at least 74° C/165° F. Your finger will hurt long before you get to that point.
You’re feeling queasy, your forehead is clammy, and all that tea you’ve been mainlining is doing nothing at all to perk you back up. What happens next is why it’s so hard to know if you had food poisoning or just a brush with the flu.
There’s a reason we pasteurize milk… When I was a kid, we had goats for a while. Going to goats milk was easy, but it took a while when transitioning back to [cow, pasteurized] milk. I remember the flavour being a little bitter.
The worst food poisoning I ever had was a few days after returning from a weekend vacation with friends. When I finally dragged myself out of the bathroom, an email was waiting for me: “Is everybody else feeling okay? I know our dinner together was a few days ago so I’m sure it’s not that, but I just wanted to check.”
All you can do is prepare for the worst 24-72 hours of your life, with the added bonus of feeling like shit (though thankfully things stop involuntarily coming out of you) for about a week while your body recovers from the trauma.
Chickens sold in Britain are still being contaminated with high levels of the potentially deadly food poisoning bug campylobacter due to poor practice within the poultry industry, public health officials have warned. Supermarkets have also continued to allow chickens to be sold to consumers even though they have tested positive for high levels of the bacteria.
Officials at Public Health England claim that without sufficient legislation the industry will resist implementing measures that could help to reduce the contamination of chickens for fear it will drive up the cost of meat. Their warnings come as the Food Standards Agency is preparing to publish a survey assessing the campylobacter levels on chicken being sold at leading UK supermarkets. Preliminary results showed that the bacteria could be found on the meat 59% of fresh chicken products on sale.


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COLUMBUS -- Nascar driver and team owner Michael Waltrip will be donating $100,000 of food and clothing Thursday to the Lifecare Alliance Thursday at the Sports Pavillon & Automotive Research Center. Fans are invited to for autographs and pictures at 12:45.
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BTIG Research began coverage on shares of International Money Express (NASDAQ:IMXI) in a research note published on Wednesday, MarketBeat Ratings reports. The firm issued a buy rating and a $16.00 price target on the stock.
A number of other research firms have also recently issued reports on IMXI. Zacks Investment Research upgraded International Money Express from a sell rating to a buy rating and set a $11.00 price objective for the company in a report on Wednesday, August 29th. JMP Securities initiated coverage on International Money Express in a report on Monday, July 30th. They set an outperform rating for the company.
IMXI opened at $10.56 on Wednesday. International Money Express has a 52-week low of $9.06 and a 52-week high of $11.99.
International Money Express, Inc operates as a processor of money transfer services. The company offers wire transfer, money order, and cash checking services. It uses a proprietary financial technology that enables consumers to send money from the United States to 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Mexico and Guatemala.
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Much to the dismay of its chief competitor, SAP AG, Oracle last week reported that total software revenues were up 29% to $2.7 billion during the last quarter, with database and middleware license revenues up 15% and new applications license revenues up a whopping 80%.
Some believe that the much-ballyhooed earnings are simply the natural result of Oracle's picking up the customer bases of more than 20 companies during a three-year acquisition tear. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said the successful quarter resulted from his company's stealing customers away from SAP.
Others, like Stamford, Conn.-based analyst firm Gartner Inc., say there's still not enough information to tell for sure.
"I've seen some Wall Street analysts that peg most of the revenue at the acquisition angle, and I've seen others that are just generally pleased with the numbers and haven't really focused in on that," said Gene Phifer, Gartner's lead Oracle analyst. "We're trying to get our arms around that very question right now."
Phifer said the chief driver of the increase in license revenues is unclear, though "it appears that a lot of the growth may be acquisition-related, and therefore there may not be sustainability in the numbers."
Gartner won't know for sure whether that is true until it looks closely at emerging Wall Street analyses and interviews Oracle on newly public information. After that, Phifer said, the analyst firm will go public with its official stance on the matter.
"If the growth is through acquisition, then you can't sustain it unless you keep on acquiring companies," Phifer said. "You've got to be able to grow organically to really have sustainable growth."
Gartner will focus its attention on Oracle's net new customers last quarter to differentiate how much of the growth is attributable to acquisitions and how much to organic growth.
"It could be existing customers [of Oracle and its newly acquired companies] that are buying additional things with new licenses, new upgrades, etc.," Phifer said. "We're trying to find out how many net new customers are in these numbers because that wasn't evident in the press release."
Laura DiDio, a senior analyst with Boston, Mass.-based Yankee Group, said that sustainability is certainly an important issue, but it doesn't really matter whether Oracle's growth is organic or not. A successful acquisition strategy can also lead to sustainable growth, she said.
"At the end of the day, what Wall Street cares about is how the numbers are coming in," DiDio said. "You are either going to grow organically or you grow by acquisition. The trick to [the latter] is you have to make the right decisions, and you have to focus on acquiring companies that are going to be a good fit."


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Local authorities warn against scams involving home rentals, pets
Deputies with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office are warning the public about a recent rise in scams involving home rentals and pet adoptions.
Although the scams involve different types of purchases, both require a similar process of asking for money or deposits upfront. The scammers also frequently request additional payments during later dates to cover shipping or other fees, authorities said. The money is often falsely promised to be refunded once the purchase is completed.
In order to help the public avoid falling victim to these scams, authorities are offering several tips to recognize when an online home rental or pet adoption may be a scam.
One common red flag is if the person you are in communication with will only be contacted through email or text message, authorities said. Scams will also often involve sending money via an application such as Cash App, Venmo or Zelle to a recipient email address that is different than the one in contact about the purchase.
A third common sign of a scam is a sense of urgency with the purchase, such as whether the rental or pet must be acquired quickly and that money should be sent before someone else claims the deal.
For those in the market for a new pet or home rental, authorities also offer several tips to ensure their purchases are not scams.
For pet adoptions, deputies recommend asking to videocall or FaceTime with the pet to make sure it is real. Authorities also recommend doing reverse image searches of photos attached to potential scam listings to check and see whether the picture was taken from the Internet.
For home rentals, authorities recommend contacting a separate property realtor to confirm the property is available for rent. If the person in contact about the rental claims to be with a rental agency, contact the agency to confirm their employment.
Finally, authorities would like to remind the public that if a purchase seems too good to be true, it likely is, and by taking steps to ensure a good deal is real, members of the public can avoid falling for scams.
Jeremy Childs is a breaking news and public safety reporter covering the night shift for the Ventura County Star. He can be reached by calling 805-437-0208 or emailing email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter @Jeremy_Childs.


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Fast food restaurant company Subway has reportedly stopped using tomatoes in its salads and sandwiches across some of its outlets in India citing poor quality amid a surge in price, Reuters has reported.
The price of tomatoes in the country recently rose by nearly 400%. The Indian Government attributed the increase to a lean production season as monsoon rains disrupted transport and distribution.
A sign was displayed at a Subway outlet in the Delhi airport terminal saying, “Temporary Unavailability of Tomatoes” and the restaurant could not get enough supply that passed its quality checks.
The sign said: “Hence for the time being we are forced to serve you products without tomatoes. We are working to get the tomato supplies back.”
The details of how many outlets have stopped serving tomatoes have not been revealed. However, according to the report, two outlets in India’s capital city Delhi, one in Uttar Pradesh and one in the southern city of Chennai have stopped the usage of tomatoes.
Everstone Group’s Culinary Brands, the master franchisee for some 200 of India’s 800 Subway stores, refused to offer any comment over the Reuters report.
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Earlier this month, McDonald’s India also reportedly removed tomatoes from its burgers and wraps at some of its restaurants in the country following the surge in tomatoes’ price and quality concerns.
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Post Brexit, when the United Kingdom finally left the European Union at the end of December 2020, there were many problems for businesses working across the area. The EU-UK Free Trade Agreement is not the panacea that businesses were led to believe it would be. Although the agreement avoids duty costs, VAT still applies. Similarly, the complicated issues with rules of origin now in place coupled with increased paperwork and border checks are making it near-impossible for some brands to operate.
The fashion industry, which works extremely closely with its European neighbors, has been hit hard. A large proportion of fashion brands – particularly in the sustainable space – manufacture and source materials in Europe and 80 per cent of UK clothing exports are currently sent to the EU. Considering the complicated supply chain for many fashion goods (for example, multiple parts and materials sourced from different countries), the change in rules demanding declaration of origin is also proving problematic.
Customers in Europe who have ordered goods from the UK (and vice versa) are increasingly seeing expensive clearance orders being served when parcels arrive at the door. Customers frequently reject these steep fees and the goods are then returned to the sender. While this back and forath creates unnecessary additional emissions, the returned items often end up being wasted.


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Pop rock icons Matchbox Twenty have announced a new tour including a stop at Ruoff Music Center in August.
According to concert promoter Live Nation, the multi-platinum hit-makers have announced 50-date summer tour, starting on July 17 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and wrapping up in September at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Singer Rob Thomas said, “I’m proud to be a part of the greatest pop rock band in the world and I can’t wait to play with them again. Stepping on stage with Matchbox and sharing those songs with the fans feels as natural as breathing to me at this point.”
The appropriately titled “Matchbox Twenty 2020” tour will feature special guest The Wallflowers, and is landing at Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville on Saturday, August 22 as part of the Coors Light Concert Series.
Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, January 17 starting at 12 p.m. (noon) at LiveNation.com.
Live Nation said Matchbox Twenty fanclub members can purchase tickets starting Tuesday, January 14 at 10 a.m. For more information, go to MatchboxTwenty.com.
Citi is the official presale credit card of the tour, and Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Wednesday, January 15 at 10 a.m. through Thursday, January 16 at 10 p.m. For more complete details, visit CitiEntertainment.com.
According to Live Nation, “Matchbox Twenty 2020” is the band’s first tour since 2017, when they reunited to mark the 20th anniversary of their RIAA Diamond-certified debut album Yourself or Someone Like You.
The band is also reportedly working with VNUE’s DiscLive to offer fans limited-edition “instant” collectible CD sets and digital downloads from each show of the tour.
Live Nation said fans can pre-order the CD sets via Ticketmaster for a $5 discount when they purchase their tickets, and VIP ticket buyers will receive a download card free with their purchase of every VIP package.
Fans can also pre-order through DiscLive’s website and can have CDs shipped or pick them up at the show.


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Reaching with news from Barbie under embargo until 12pm ET / 9am PT on October 30, 2023. This year, Barbie turned the world pink stemming from the successful theatrical debut this summer. And until recently, Ken has always been… just Ken, but through The Barbie Movie, fans identified with and celebrated Ryan Gosling’s performance of Ken’s self-discovery. His Kensformation built demand, as fans were eager to emulate the now iconic on-screen moment.
As such, perfectly molded and deserving of admiration and success, the latest addition to the line of Barbie The Movie products is the Kenough Doll, sculpted in the likeness of Ryan Gosling.
Sporting the hoodie that became the must-have, real-life apparel item of the season, the Kenough Doll signifies that Ryan Gosling’s Ken was more than enough in Barbie Land – he was, in fact, “Kenough.”
Viewers cemented this notion following the movie – exemplified via the record-breaking Kenough hoodie launch (most successful Mattel Creations drop to-date), 200% uptick in searches for “Ken” baby names, “I’m Just Ken” amassing over 83M+ streams (and counting) as fans around the world supported the on-screen Kensformation.
The doll celebrates Kenergy, while signifying that we are all Kenough.
The Kenough Doll will be a made-to-order product available to purchase on Mattel Creations starting 10/30 at 9am PT with a ship date in 2024.


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The decision was made after American watchdogs, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who have been focusing on exchanges like Binance, Kraken, and Coinbase, increased their inspection.
The first derivatives contract offered by the Gemini Foundation will be a perpetual contract for Bitcoin (BTC) valued in Gemini dollars (GUSD), with an ETH/GUSD perpetual contract following soon after. The website will let eligible users trade spot and derivative items in 30 nations, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, and South Korea. Customers can use their crypto assets to control risk, produce returns, get long or short exposure to the market, and acquire directional exposure.
The Gemini Foundation seeks to offer a safe, dependable, and affordable platform for trading derivatives. With its sophisticated trading tools and user-friendly interface, the location will serve both seasoned traders and those who are new to the bitcoin industry. The maximum permitted leverage on the platform is 100x, whereas the default is 20x.
GUSD, the currency used for all funding donations, will also serve as the foundation for the platform’s pricing structure. Gemini Foundation has stated ambitions to expand its derivatives offering in the upcoming months, despite the exchange still being in its early stages.
Gemini made the choice to create a crypto derivatives platform outside of the US at a time when US regulators are tightening their control over the sector. Concerns over the risks associated with cryptocurrencies are growing, and the SEC has started looking into the activities of numerous exchanges. Gemini may create a platform that is not available in the United States in order to avoid any legal issues.
Gemini is one of the most well-known exchanges in the nation, making the launch of a platform outside of the US significant for the company. Although the feasibility of the platform has not yet been shown, it is clear that businesses are seeking for ways to adapt as the bitcoin industry changes quickly. Gemini made the decision to construct a platform outside of the US in an effort to capitalize on this innovation and grow internationally.
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Flash Memory Summit The world is producing such a rapidly surging amount of data that the storage industry – both solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard-disk drives (HDDs) – will be hard-pressed to keep up with demand, says one storage-industry insider.
"You can take that as a crisis; we see it as an opportunity," HDD manufacturer Seagate's SVP in charge of SSDs, Gary Gentry, told his keynote audience at the Flash Memory Summit on Tuesday in Santa Clara, California.
The global capacity needed to store data in 2020, Gentry said, will total around six zettabytes. For those of you who haven't been keeping score on the growth in capacity definitions, in decimal terms a zettabyte is a thousand exabytes, which is a thousand petabytes, which is a thousand terabytes.
That's not just a lot of personal cat videos, it's also Hollywood* and Bollywood feature films, medical and sensor data, massive amounts of business-focused big data, rapidly proliferating security cameras, automotive and aviation intelligence, and of course all that data that the NSA is slurping on a daily basis.
All types of digital storage taken together will have difficulty keeping up with that demand, Gentry said. "That's not just about flash and it's not just about hard drives – you could even throw tape drives into that. Any kind of product you can imagine is going to be needed to stay up with that demand."
And if the industry remains on its current investment path, they're not going to make it. "Based on the investment in the industry that we've looked into with experts in the flash industry and the hard-drive industry," Gentry said, "by 2020 we think the alignment, even with aggressive investment in fab capacity and hard-drive output will be somewhere approaching three zettabytes."
From Gentry's point of view, the pace of investment will almost certainly increase, but it'll need to be an industry-wide effort. "It's going to take all companies and all industries investing heavily to stay up with that big data that's in front of us," he said.
Of course, Seagate manufactures HDDs, and sources its SSD chips from Samsung and Toshiba, which Gentry said together account for about 75 per cent of the NAND-wafer output for the entire flash-memory industry. It's to his company's benefit that there will continue to be rising demand for HDDs.
"The future's not really about flash versus HDD. We hear that every day and I'm sure you do too," Genrty told his audience of flash-industry conference attendees. "The future's really about flash and HDD."
Speaking of Hollywood feature films, Gentry said that his sources tell him that during the production of The Hobbit, the crew created between six and 12 terabytes of data every day during filming.


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Nikon India announced the opening of its Nikon D-SLR Zone & Nikon COOLPIX Zone at Borivali and Chembur respectively in Mumbai.
With an aim to grow closer to its customers’ base, the company adopted the shop-in-shop retail concept in February 2009 to enable easy access to its products and services. Nikon’s shop-in-shop zones
are an attempt to provide customers with an interactive and informative shopping experience.
Both the zones were inaugurated by Mr. Hiroshi Takashina, Managing Director – Nikon India. Other senior members from the Nikon India headquarters were also present to grace the occasion. Speaking on the occasion Mr. Takashina, Managing Director, Nikon India said, “The launch of Nikon’s D-SLR Zone in Borivali & COOLPIX Zone in Chembur is a major step towards strengthening our brand and massively promoting photography in India. We are certain that this initiative of Nikon will be received well by consumers in Mumbai.”


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PewDiePie, the biggest YouTube channel with some 93 million viewers, is to start live streaming exclusively on a purportedly blockchain based platform called DLive.
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (pictured above), better known as PewDiePie, made the announcement on his YouTube channel this Tuesday, citing Dlive as sponsor of the video.
We could not establish how much Dlive paid Kjellberg for the video, but he says in his new channel that he will “support creators by donating up to $50,000 to a max of 100 creators,” with streaming on Dlive to start on April 14th.
This announcement was made just three days after Kjellberg addressed a petition calling to ban him from YouTube, with it signed at the time by some 70,000 individuals.
In that video he largely admits most of the “charges” against him, including using the N word twice while streaming, for which he apologized. As well as paying individuals on Fiverr to hold a very anti-semetic placard, which he said was to show that people will do anything on that platform.
He said “f*** racists” and “f*** white nationalists,” unequivocally maintaining he is neither. He said he and his subscribers had donated to build a well in India, in addition to a number of other donations.
The 30 year old provided context in some instances to show certain racist remarks were not meant, yet on some other instances excused it by blaming some artificial intelligence software which just so happened to superimpose Leslie Jones’ face on Harambe.
Finally, a number of times he said that was in the past and apologized for it, but even recent videos have some beyond edgy racially charged comments that in many ways somewhat subtly effectively scapegoat muslims.
For those unfamiliar with PewDiePie, he can be described as a gamer – livestreaming himself playing games – mixed with perhaps a more guarded 4chan persona.
The 4chan jokes however started becoming a bit real, especially with the mosque shooting recently, raising the question of whether a certain element of the internet has gone a bit too far and whether it isn’t time to be a bit more mindful of social and cultural cohesions especially for such hugely popular 30 year olds addressing an audience of largely teenagers.
Perhaps as a backup PewDiePie is now starting to use Dlive, but this platform looks a bit peculiar.
It claims to be running on a blockchain, a blockchain no one has heard of: Lino. It’s whitepaper is effectively the abstract with just a bit more words as it hardly provides much detail.
They claim to be using a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT) consensus system. What that means exactly is not explained at all, but the system will have only 22 validators, with 7 such validators currently being run by Lino.
Very interestingly, the Lino blockchain has not actually launched. Yukai Tu of the Lino core team said in reply to questions about the whitepaper being so sparse in detail:
“Since we are still on testnet everything is under testing and we may release that once we have done the testing.”
So the blockchain hasn’t launched, yet Dlive says: “At DLive, we are changing the whole game by putting platform ownership in the hands of the users through blockchain technology.”
We couldn’t quite establish whether they’re running on the testnet, but this project was previously on the Steem Blockchain. During that time, apparently the Steem blockchain stopped working for some reason, while Dlive kept functioning as if nothing with suggestions the videos and everything runs on their own servers rather than on any blockchain.
That would explain why the site appears to be quite fast and very usable, unlike proper services that use actual decentralized and blockchain tech which tend to be a bit like dial-up or very early broadband internet in speed.
To top it up, the Lino token is an ERC20 token running on top of ethereum’s blockchain. Apparently they had an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) but now the token has been delisted with it not showing on CoinMarketCap.
This ERC20 token is used on the platform to pay creators and viewers with it unclear where the money is meant to come from to make such payments.
Users obviously can donate directly, but this appears to be basically YouTube, just with a token. So if Dlive wanted to, they could presumably ban anyone they like, just like YouTube.
Finally PewDiePie clearly states in the video that it was sponsored by Dlive. A representative of Dlive says:
“It’s the first deal PewDiePie signed with any livestreaming platform and he will go live weekly. So it’s the biggest and exclusive. Beyond that, I am afraid we can not disclose anything from the terms.”
Whether exclusive means he’s leaving YouTube, is not clear. That would be quite a big step, with Kjellberg not stating so and not asking his subscribers to go to Dlive. Instead he kind of just gave an advert of the platform and blockchain tech in general.
So this might be just a marketing gimmick with a tinge of having a backup just in case YouTube does go ahead and de-platform. Probably making his choice of Dlive more based on however much they paid him rather than an impartial consideration of YouTube alternatives.


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DHL Express is to discontinue its loss-making US domestic services on 30th January 2009 and focus entirely on its international offering.
The company will also be restructuring the US business in a bid to reduce operating costs by more than 80 per cent, helping it to meet its financial targets.
The company has said 71 per cent of all international shipments to and from major metropolitan areas will benefit for improved transit times and a further 25 per cent will see no change.
International shipments into the US will continue to be delivered to all ZIP codes currently delivered to and outbound international shipments will continue to be picked up with no planned changes to service levels.
As a result, DHL Express will close all of its US ground hubs, reduce the number of stations from 412 to 103 and retain 3,000 to 4,000 US-based employees who are tailored to the needs of DHL’s international express customers.
These measures will allow DHL Express’ US business to reduce its operating costs from the current $5.4 billion (4.2 billion euros) to less than $1 billion (770 million euros), a reduction of over 80 per cent.
John Mullen, global CEO of DHL Express, said: “Since our announcement on 28th May, we have been diligently implementing our stated restructuring plan and we are ahead of meeting all key components of the plan. However, given the current background of unprecedented uncertainty and risk in the global economy we feel that it is critical and prudent to take additional measures to combat what we believe will be an extremely challenging 2009, and to do this ahead of time.
“This is the right move for our US Express operations given the current economic climate and for the long run. When we looked for efficiencies in the US Express market, we decided to focus on what we do best as a company, and that’s international shipping.”


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This is the ’18 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, caught testing in Northern Michigan.
Land Rover is already making changes to the Range Rover Sport—an SUV that’s barely two years old and many would consider to be up-to-date.
Porsche is readying a loud, brutal super-powerful variant of its current 911 and will give the car the facelift looks the tamer versions received earlier on.
’17 Camaro ZL1: This version of the Camaro should be able to make the most of its lighter and smaller platform in both coupe and convertible versions.
F-350 Single-Cab Dually: Like the new four-door Super Duty trucks, the F-350 gets styling more in line with the F-150 that was shown nearly two years ago.
911 GT3: Here are a few images that highlight the GT3's makeover.
’18 Audi Q5: Audi is working on a new generation of the Q5, likely to hit the market in 2017 with a new chassis, new look and new engines.
These are the first shots of what is believed to be the Ford F-150 Hybrid, which may now be a PHEV.
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An upcoming round of revisions appears to include moderate styling updates to the existing car.
’17 F-150 Diesel
Ford is preparing to introduce a turbodiesel to the F-150 line.
This is the ’17 GMC Sierra Denali HD 3500 caught testing in the Rockies.
This is the ’17 Chevy Camaro ZL1, caught while track testing in Milford, Michigan.
Is RAM going to be the next brand that uses the Hellcat engine?
This is the Chevy Silverado HD, featuring the latest Duramax diesel engine, caught cold weather testing in Michigan.


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State agency must designate Ultra Health’s outstanding and future stores per judge’s order
BERNALILLO, N.M., Oct. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Chief Judge Louis P. McDonald of the Thirteenth Judicial District has ordered the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) to properly designate Ultra Health’s outstanding and future locations after the licensed provider filed a Writ of Mandamus in August.
Ultra Health, New Mexico’s #1 Cannabis Company, has been awaiting designation for several locations, including those in Albuquerque’s North Valley, Los Lunas, Española, Farmington, Deming, Las Cruces, Sunland Park, and Roswell for several months.
The judge ruled the issuance of amendments for new dispensary locations to a licensed producer is a ministerial function in which NMDOH does not have discretion.
The judge’s order requires NMDOH to execute its ministerial duty in:
- Designating Ultra Health’s Los Lunas and Española stores immediately;
- Issuing license amendments to Ultra Health in response to “any and all past/future applications for additional distribution locations that meet the statutory criteria;” and
- Processing future license amendments submitted by Ultra Health in a timely and legally compliant manner.
“Once again, NMDOH has attempted to give themselves authority which has not been lawfully granted by the Legislature,” said Duke Rodriguez, CEO and President of Ultra Health®. “We are pleased with the judge’s decision and look forward to serving even more New Mexicans by providing safe, affordable, and convenient medication to the many deserving communities.”
Ultra Health currently operates 9 dispensaries and plans to have 20 fully operational cannabis dispensaries serving 14 counties by Spring of 2019.
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Ninety three per cent of UK businesses lack confidence in passing their next software licensing audits, says K3 Managed Services.
There is a 50 per cent chance that a business will be subject to an on-the-spot software audit at any time throughout the year. Figures from software giant Adobe show that over one in four pieces of software in the UK is illegal and over the past two years, the cost in fines levied against UK businesses for using unlicensed software has doubled to more than £2 million.
In its free IT guide, K3 Managed Services, one of the leading UK suppliers of Microsoft-based business solutions for the supply chain, highlights that a significant number of businesses don’t pay enough attention to scheduling regular software audits.
More than 30 per cent of IT spend goes on software and companies confused about software licensing are often paying twice for licenses they have already bought or for software that has been installed but never used. In fact, more than 40 per cent of UK businesses are wasting thousands of pounds every year through software over-licensing.
As the IT landscape continually shifts and the economic outlook remains uncertain, businesses need their software to be flexible enough to expand or downsize quickly to suit the needs of their business.
A recent study by technology and business research firm, Forrester, suggests that businesses are already transitioning to more flexible licensing solutions. Today, 30 per cent of the software licensing budget is spent on flexible models compared to just 20 per cent four years ago. Flexible models include subscription servers, risk sharing and even dynamic pricing, which involves a fluid costing scheme between the buyer and seller, with suppliers adapting their fees to suit a company’s budget.
Jason Price, Head of Sales at K3 Managed Services said: “Software copyright law is highly stringent. Businesses need to be aware of how they manage their software licenses better to ensure full compliance and to confirm they have no unlicensed software. K3 Managed Services provides the support needed to avoid the risk of large fines and a damaged reputation, which can be far more costly in the longer term than paying attention to when an audit is due.”
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Chinese salt ban renders Chitral hotel foods tasteless!
Chitral: Upon the direction of the provincial govt, the district administration has not only banned but has started confiscating Chinese salt a.k.a Ajino moto, from the shops in the bazars. It’s immediate effect was seen on Thursday when a person who is fond of and regular eater of Kabuli palao from the bazar restaurants said he noticed that the pulao was tasting pheeka (bland). This shows how much is our food dependent on artificial and harmful flavorings and we cannot cook tasty food without these chemicals. The general health of the population is also poor mainly because of eating substandard food. The irony of the matter is so intense that people cannot digest pure ghee but are Ok with synthetic cooking oils. .. CN report, 22 Feb 2018


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As many as 128 million Apple iCloud users were unable to properly access the service last night due to a series of outages.
According to Apple's system status site, around 40 percent of iCloud users suffered service degradation that included slower than normal response times.
iCloud Backup was also affected, stopping users from backing up and restoring their data to the cloud for an hour overnight.
The outages started yesterday evening after 8pm AEST and continued until the small hours of the morning.
Apart from Backup, the iCloud Drive, Keychain, Mail and Account and Sign In services toppled over. iWork for iCloud beta, Back to my Mac, Documents, Photos, Find my iPhone, and iMovie Theatre were also affected by the outages.
Apple has not published details on what caused the outages.
The company's cloud services have seen several large-scale service disruptions over the last couple of years, the most recent being in March, when iTunes and App Store ceased operating worldwide, due to an internal Domain Name System (DNS) resolution issue.


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Co-owner of board game cafe The Ludoquist Nick Smith ‘hasn’t really slept’ since receiving a quadrupled energy bill. Image: Nick Smith
Households across the country are preparing for another devastating rise in energy bills this autumn but pubs, cafes, restaurants and other small businesses are already feeling the impact.
With no price cap for businesses, energy-intensive hospitality companies have seen bills quadruple. In one case the Big Issue has heard of, a business was forced to close completely after its gas bill rocketed 10-fold.
Costs for SMEs have reportedly nearly doubled in the three months to June, and research from small business insurance provider Simply Business found half have been forced to raise their prices.
With everything including the cost of ingredients rising, one in five businesses intend to raise prices by 6 to 10 per cent, and for almost one in 10 business owners prices may need to go up by as much as 20 per cent.
Two in five are also holding off opening new or additional premises in the next six months according to the research, and half said they are unlikely to hire any additional employees.
Nick Smith, co-owner of The Lundquist board game cafe bar in south London is facing energy bills hiked from £1,000, to a staggering £4,000. That’s an extra £36,000 year.
“We’re open late at night when it’s cold, we have lots of lights, we have freezers, ovens,” he explained. “No one’s going to come to a cold cafe.”
Smith described receiving the newly quoted bill, saying: “My stomach fell out and I haven’t really slept since.”
It would be a “very difficult decision to make” but Smith admits he may need to lay staff off to cope or close up earlier. The majority of the cafe’s staff are in their 20s or 30s and rely on it as their sole income.
The quadrupled energy bills will start arriving in January, so they’re hoping for a bumper Christmas to cover some costs, but as Smith says: “Unfortunately that will be at a time when customers will be seeing big bills themselves.”
Households will see bills rocket again when the energy price cap rises in October by a startling 70 percent, having already increased by a massive 54 per cent in April. The cap, set by regulator Ofgem, puts a limit on the maximum price energy companies can charge for electricity or gas.
But with no cap for businesses, sky-high bills are already forcing them to close.
“It’s an exceedingly sad Sunday as we prepare to lock the doors for the final time tonight. We’re one of the first local businesses in Aberdeen to be forced to close, we won’t be the last something needs to be done!” wrote employee Natalie Hood on Twitter.
The small, family run business had been serving locals since 1982.
The energy price cap was originally introduced because the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found some homes were being charged excessive prices. It wasn’t introduced for businesses because the CMA did not find evidence of this happening in the business sector at the time, the government has said.
Kate Nicholls CEO UK Hospitality said not having a price cap “will see many facing soaring bills eliminating profits and viability in hospitality”. She called for “urgent action” to help manage the crisis, saying: “We are not going to get a grip of cost of living until we tackle cost of doing business.”
The tax is expected to raise about £5billion in its first year which will be used to to help households struggling with soaring energy bills. But for Smith, financial relief has been “very much focused on the consumer,” with businesses largely neglected from the government’s cost of living strategy.
Labour has proposed a “£1bn fund to help energy intensive industries with the higher cost of energy”, as well as giving small and medium businesses a discount on their business rates bill.
Comparing support that was provided for small businesses during the pandemic with the scale of the intervention now needed to save struggling businesses, Smith at the boardgame cafe said: “A one off payment of a few grand… isn’t going to do it, because that’s just one month.”
“The government needs to do something dramatic,” he continued. “I’m not entirely sure that the politicians have a full comprehensive understanding of the scale of the disaster that’s gonna hit the economy next year.”
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HOUSTON – It is Spring, the time of year sports fans have baseball on the brain. But the coronavirus has benched all of Major League Baseball this year. That means Astros fans and season tickets holders are hanging on to tickets for game dates that have already passed, wondering when they will get their money back.
Games postponed, not canceled
When KPRC 2 reached out to the Astros to find out when customers can expect refunds, the vice president of communications Gene Dias, emailed this response:
“MLB has not canceled any part of the 2020 regular season schedule at this time. Officially, games have been postponed and not cancelled. Once a determination is made by the league on the schedule, fans who have purchased their tickets directly from the Astros will have the option to receive either a credit - or a refund for games that are not played. If games are ultimately canceled and a credit for future game is not selected, tickets that have been directly purchased from the Astros will receive full refunds including fees.”
This is the same tact many concert and event ticket sellers have taken, even rescheduling concerts as far as two years in the future, and not allowing refunds to customers who can’t commit that far in advance.
If it were not canceled, this year would have been Jaime Zamora’s 22nd consecutive Astros’ opening day.
“I’m sorry that I’ll miss it this year, but obviously these circumstances that we can’t control,” he told KPRC 2.
Zamora said he’s willing to wait and let the Astros hold on to his money, even if it means it will just go towards the price of next year’s season tickets.
Fans like Donald Yee are not as understanding. He wants his money back until the MLB decides if and when teams will play this year.
“The Astros ticket prices aren't cheap, you do the math, and that's more than ten thousand dollars that the club is holding onto,” Yee said. “And for some season ticket holders, it's even more than that.”
What about individual tickets?
Dias said fans should reach out to email@example.com for specific requests, and a ticket representative will connect with you.
If you had a ticket to an Astros Spring Training game that was canceled, click here to find out how to get a refund.


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Viewing environmentally-aware 3D movies featuring blue aliens, or more relate-able 3D content, just got more portable. HP made a big announcement today with an update on their recently launched Envy 17 laptop: The Envy 17 3D – a 17.3″, 1080p laptop with active shutter glasses.
Some awe-inspiring action scenes can’t make up for terrible writing, acting, pacing, and depth-less 3D conversion.
Clash Of The Titans may be heavily marketed as the next 3D blockbuster, but it’s a pale sham compared to real 3D movies.
the world’s first consumer-targeted 3D stereoscopic camera is a beauty of engineering and usability with strengths that ultimately outweigh its significant flaws.
James Cameron’s Avatar features an unoriginal narrative lacking any subtlety, but the precision execution of the story progression and utilization of state-of-the-art movie-making techniques, create an instant classic not only for its skill, but for the broad acceptance of its audience of what’s essentially an animated movie for adults.


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First-party data, automation, and artificial intelligence will be top of mind for future-forward auto marketers in 2024.
Welcome to the latest Digital Innovations Awesome List (DIAL). We know that keeping up with the trade pubs and latest trends can be tough and time consuming. So we went ahead and compiled this list of articles, reports, and other bits of awesomeness you may have missed, but should definitely read. Go ahead and check out this week’s list. And if you have any questions feel free to email us at email@example.com.
Attention advertisers: Snapchat is preparing to sell ten second ads for two cents per view. This could be a perfect and affordable way for advertisers to target Millennials.
Is Shazam for TV commercials the QR code for traditional TV? Will it come with an equally imminent death as well or does it pose a scalable opportunity that capitalizes on second-screen behaviors? Get Digiday’s opinion on ‘Shazamming’ and find out whether it will catch on for TV.
After seven years, and 33 presentations alone this year, the NewFronts is finally a fixture for advertisers. Here are five things you need to know about NewFronts and how it is no longer a secondary event to TV Upfronts.
Nielsen took its first leap into measuring connected TV/OTT with the device that has the largest U.S. footprint in the space, Roku. This is a huge indication that video streaming providers mean business for digital advertisers.
While there are certainly pros and cons of autoplay video ads, Facebook’s use of the format has pushed it to the front of the pack of other social platforms, with many following suit.
Here are four takeaways from the National Association of Broadcasters’ show that recently took place in Las Vegas. One of the biggest themes seen throughout the show was the future of TV and how streaming services are becoming an ever-greater player in the TV space.
YouTube’s NewFront Brandcast presentation featured a keynote from John Green telling brands that they will “become increasingly irrelevant to young viewers if they don’t get in the participatory YouTube frame of mind.”
Video in print versions of Esquire and Popular Mechanics “is obviously expensive,” but is also an innovative new approach to video. The one question we are dying to have answered is how does the agency measure viewability?
People keep saying that mobile video ads are on the rise, but just how much and how quickly? Video is now responsible for 55% of revenue for publishers! So guess you could say it’s a pretty big deal.
Want to keep your clients up-to-date on the sexiest and latest in mobile ad unit perspectives? You’ll probably want to share some details about 3D mobile ads. Popular 3D executions are created for Facebook, Instagram and sophisticated mobile rich media providers.
While we’re no stranger to the fact that the population as a whole is using smartphones and tablets more consistently, it looks like mobile junkies are getting younger and younger. Toddlers as young (or younger) than two are up-to-speed on how to use mobile devices and are doing so even before they can walk or talk. #babysfirstselfie?
Initially excluded from most viewability conversations, the continued massive growth of the mobile category has digital regulators honing-in on setting standards. The MRC (Media Ratings Council) recently released interim guidance on mobile viewability and even added a new category to the mix.
Check out the most viewed digital trend publication in the world – the Society of Digital Agency (SoDA) Report. Included in the report are some awesome themes about technology development and the utilization of data that continues to resonate with clients and brands.
Have a great week and be sure to tune-in next time for more digital innovations awesomeness.


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Late last year we were lucky enough to have one our pictures featured on the front cover of the Water Well Journal which is a very popular industry magazine published by the National Groundwater Association in the USA.
This time we’ve gone one step further and collaborated with them to produce an in depth feature that compares the UK and US groundwater industries and how they have changed over the last 50 or so years.
Working closely with their editorial team the article has been split into 2 parts, part 1 takes the views of someone who has been involved in the industry for a long time, which in our case is one of our Director’s, Chris Dodds. The same questions were then posed to Tom Downey, CEO of Downey Drilling from Lexington, Nebraska and from that an interview style article was produced titled “On both Sides of the Pond”.
The article looks at how the industry as a whole has developed as well as comparing the issues faced in the UK & US and the similarities and differences faced in the day to day running of a groundwater business.
Questions posed included things such as ‘What do you think has made the biggest impact in the water well drilling industry in the last 20 years? Is it a new innovation, technology, rule, etc.?’ and ‘How big an impact have government rules and regulations been on the industry in your time as a driller?’
Anyone involved in the water industry or environment sector as a whole will no doubt find Chris’s view on deregulation particularly interesting and there’s also an interesting perspective on how legislation affects groundwater professionals in the USA too.
Part 2 which will be released in July’s edition asks a similar set of questions to professionals who have been in the industry a shorter amount of time, this section was answered by Director Jonathan Dalton and we’ll be posting more on that once the next edition of the magazine has been published so stay tuned.
View The Feature
If you are interested in reading the magazine feature you can view it online: http://waterwelljournal.org/ click on the magazine and an online version will come up that you can scroll through, the article starts on Page 25. You can download a PDF copy here. And we have also embedded a copy below:
Finally we’d like to pay thanks to the Water Well Journal for putting together such an interesting feature and a special thanks to Thad Plumley, Director of Information at the National Ground Water Association for making the collaboration happen.


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Government sets out draft agenda for a 21st century tax system
The next steps in an ambitious plan to create a modernised digital tax system fit for the 21st century was unveiled by the government today (Tue 21 July)
As part of the Treasury’s long-term tax digitisation plan - designed to boost national productivity, make it easier for businesses and people to pay tax and reduce avoidable errors and fraud - HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme will be gradually extended.
At present, businesses above the VAT threshold of £85,000 are covered by the system, which requires them to keep digital records and provide VAT returns through software. Since it was introduced in 2019 more than 1.4 million businesses have joined the programme, submitting over 6 million returns.
From April 2022, the programme will be extended to all VAT registered businesses with turnover below the VAT threshold (£85,000), and from April 2023, it will apply to taxpayers who file income tax self-assessment tax returns for business or property income over £10,000 annually.
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jesse Norman, said:
"We are setting out our next steps on Making Tax Digital today, as we bring the UK’s tax system into the 21st century.
"Making Tax Digital will make it easier for businesses to keep on top of their tax affairs. But it also has huge potential to improve the productivity of our economy, and its resilience in times of crisis."
Making Tax Digital changes will affect the way that taxes are reported, not the level of tax that is collected. It will help to minimise avoidable mistakes – which cost the exchequer £8.5 billion in 2018-19.
The long lead-in time will allow businesses, landlords and agents time to plan. It also gives software providers enough notice to bring a range of new products to market, including free software for businesses with the simplest tax affairs.
Over 30% of smaller VAT-registered businesses, who are not yet required to use Making Tax Digital, have chosen to do so voluntarily because of the wider benefits the digital tools offer, including fewer errors and increased productivity.
Other countries have already done this - Denmark introduced a digital system back in 2014, and digital reporting is now well-established and has reduced the amount of time businesses spend on their tax affairs.
The extension is part of a number of announcements which deliver on government commitments and give taxpayers clarity over the future direction of travel. As part of this, the government is today also publishing draft legislation for the next Finance Bill, a regular annual publication.


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NEW YORK – New York’s Attorney General is suing the electronic cigarette company JUUL Labs for allegedly pushing deceptive and misleading marketing of its e-cigarettes.
AG Letitia James says the marketing has contributed to the ongoing youth vaping epidemic in New York State.
The lawsuit, filed in New York County Supreme Court, alleges that JUUL took a page from big tobacco’s playbook by engaging in deceptive business practices when marketing and advertising its products, and illegally sold its products to minors through its website and in third-party retail stores throughout the state, causing large numbers of New York youth to become addicted to nicotine.
The suit also alleges that JUUL’s advertising campaign misled consumers by failing to warn that they contained nicotine, and by misrepresenting its products as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes.
“There can be no doubt that JUUL’s aggressive advertising has significantly contributed to the public health crisis that has left youth in New York and across the country addicted to its products,” said Attorney General James. “By glamorizing vaping, while at the same time downplaying the nicotine found in vaping products, JUUL is putting countless New Yorkers at risk. I am prepared to use every legal tool in our arsenal to protect the health and safety of our youth.”
James says the damage done by the company’s ads since its launch has already been felt by millions of youth across the country.
As of November 13, 2019, New York State law was changed, making it illegal to sell nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, to consumers who are under 21-year-old.
Previously, the law applied to consumers younger than age 18. Despite this prohibition, JUUL violated the law by selling its products to New Yorkers under the age of 18, the AG alleged.


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Rockchip’s RK3288 processor already powers a number of Android-based tablets and TV boxes.
The Rufus Cuff boasts a 3-inch display and is fully capable of running Android apps from the Google Store.
Samsung has confirmed the long-awaited expansion of its ARM-powered Chromebook lineup.
The UK-based Clousto recently began selling the Rikomagic MK902 LE, a small set-top box
powered by an ARM-based Rockchip quad-core processor (Cortex-A9) paired with 2GB of RAM and up to 16GB of storage.
The first phones running Ubuntu are scheduled to ship later this year.
Zotac recently debuted an unobtrusive orb-shaped PC designed to sit on a desk or TV stand.
Known as the ZBOX 01520, the device is powered by an Intel Core i3-4010U Haswell processor paired with Intel HD 4400 graphics.
It’s been quite a while since Samsung debuted its popular $250 Chromebook, leaving many Chrome OS fans wondering when the company will launch a follow-up.
The chip designers at ARM Holdings have turned the computing world upside down, shaken Intel to its core, pulled AMD into its orbit, and broadened its range beyond mobile into every nook and cranny of the digital world, from toys to servers. But where did this UK wonder company come from?
It started with the Korean Herald quoting an unnamed ARM official who, allegedly, “predicted that a 128-bit processor could hit the market in the next two years.” Now, it seems that ARM is adamant that it has no immediate plans for a 128-bit chip.
Samsung is working on an in-house optimised version of a 64-bit mobile processor and the tame Apple press is screaming that it is cheating.
Chinese chip maker Allwinner has published a roadmap detailing its upcoming ARM-based processors, including the dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 chip for entry-level tables and the A80 octa-core SoC for higher-end devices.
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Earlier this year, Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek announced it was working on designing an ARM Cortex-A15 chip with big.LITTLE technology. This week, MediaTek confirmed it had also licensed ARM's Cortex-A50 technology.
Hewlett Packard (HP) has debuted a new ARM-powered Chromebook.
Wizarm - currently seeking crowd-sourced funding on Indiegogo - is a set-top box packed with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 (Samsung Exynos 5) processor, 16GB of storage, 2GB of RAM and a large number of input/output options.
Earlier this year, AMD confirmed it would begin producing ARM-powered chips for servers in 2014. Recent reports indicate that the company will also start churning out ARM-based processors for tablets and other consumer devices by next year.
Ultra-low Power SAM D20 Ideal for Developing Next-Generation Smart, Connected Devices for the Internet of Things in Automation, Consumer, Metering, and Industrial ApplicationsSAO PAULO -- Aug. 28, 2013-- Atmel Corporation (ATML), a global leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced the company is shipping in production ...
Samsung has announced an updated eight-core Enynos 5 Octa processor for tablets that features a six-core Mali T-628 GPU. Samsung has been the first ARM vendor to ship consumer products using an eight-core processor that makes use of ARM's Big Little configuration. Now the firm ...
Following the news that IBM is seeking to claw back more market share with its Power chips by adopting an ARM-style attitude to licencing, ARM's CMO and EVP business development has told TechEye the adoption of this model serves as a validation to its approach.In an interview, Drew ...
The Omate TrueSmart smartwatch - which runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean - is powered by a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 SoC paired with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage.


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I have spent the last week trapped in an emotional prison and I can't take it anymore. I am absolutely fuming with anger after playing through Metroid Prime: Federation Force. It is a well-crafted game, and this is a big problem. Next Level Games have poured tons of resources into what is fundamentally an INSULT … Continue reading Federation Force is a good game, and that’s NOT okay
Mario used to be fun, about 50 years ago. Since then the franchise has slowly milked it's way into creative bankruptcy, and here we have New Super Mario Bros U - possibly the least effort Nintendo has ever put into a game. We should all just buy it because it's a Mario game right? It's … Continue reading New Super Mario Bros U – Ugly, Uninspired, Unfun
It's been obvious for a long time, but it's finally official. Nintendo's latest commercial aimed to boost sales of the struggling 3DS, says they've given up. Olympic medalist Gabrielle Douglas admits "I Am Not A Gamer" in a startling confession that reveals Nintendo's true focus. Feel the sting, Nintendo fans. Nintendo doesn't care about you, … Continue reading Nintendo: Not For Gamers
After turning the gaming world upside down with the Uncharted games, Naughty Dog is about to revolutionize gaming again in a whole new way. Game Director of The Last of Us, Bruce Straley (God), recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Siliconera about the most anticipated game of 2013. "Well, smoke bombs … Continue reading The Last Of Us – Videogames Growing Up
DING DING DING - that's the sound of Nintendo being knocked out of the hardware business. All-Star development team Cellius™ have released their first game after 5 years of development, Ridge Racer Vita. Sony's new handheld features amazing graphics and a home console experience in your hands. It's more than a controller with a screen. … Continue reading Ridge Racer Vita – Impressions
3DS has been a disappointment all over the world, and Samurai Warriors is the latest casualty of Nintendo's underwhelming system. Samurai Warriors Chronicles, the latest game in the series on 3DS, sold zero copies throughout Europe in the last week. This is unprecedented for such a new game, and demand for the franchise has taken … Continue reading 3DS a flop, stores pull games from shelves
I'm sure you've read nothing but positive impressions about the 3DS, but they are all lies. Nintendo 3DS is the biggest scam of all time, lies based on hype, fueled by lack of information and deception on Nintendo's part. All these websites have been tricked by Nintendo into thinking the 3DS is something it's not. … Continue reading 3DS Impressions – Unbiased
Nintendo are in a state of fear, the complete destruction of Nintendo DS last year at the hands of PSP has backed Nintendo into a corner. PSP was the highest selling system of 2010, and also had the highest selling Monster Hunter game. The overwhelming presence of iPhone and the looming danger of the mighty … Continue reading Nintendo 3DS? Does anyone care?
Wow, could there finally be a good Nintendo character? In a world full of non-gamers and kids, it's always a surprise to find something that caters to hardcore real people like me. When I look in the mirror, I see Funky Kong, except my muscles are a bit bigger. Mom calls it flab but what … Continue reading A Tribute To Funky Kong
It's hard to tell the difference between this game and a nightmare. It's got Pokemon, it's on DS, it involves lots of furious gimmicky scribbling, and after it's all done you wake up with a wet patch. It's a kiddie game, the characters in it all talk to you like you're stupid. Even they know … Continue reading Pokemon Ranger
Welcome to 1985. There's a new Mario game out, it involves running around and jumping through levels. Has this game changed in 2009? Yes. They've added New to the title. It's new alright, a new way to rip people off. The game takes a step backwards from the original Mario, Nintendo forgot how to use … Continue reading New Super Mario Bros. Wii
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Zero One: Here Comes the Gig Economy
Faced with a severe digital technology skills shortage and needing to inject speed and agility into their workforce, companies are turning to contractors. In so doing, they’re fueling the “gig economy,” says Mavenlink, a cloud provider of project management software.
Mavenlink teamed with research firm ResearchNow to survey 300 business executives about their contract workforce, also known as the gig economy. They found not only a thriving and growing gig economy, but also one that’s becoming more important in today’s digital businesses.
Eight out of 10 executives say skilled contractors are a competitive advantage that, primarily, makes their companies more agile. Nearly half of executives want contractors to fill management and senior roles, including inside the c-suite. More than 90 percent of business leaders plan to continue or expand their use of skilled contractors next year.
The new realities of the digital economy and the urgency to get ahead of disruption, of course, are what’s driving the need for speed and agility. Business strategy has outpaced business structure, says Mavenlink. Now companies need to stand up specialized groups quickly for newly green-lit projects – a modus operandi that fits the gig economy.
In terms of hiring speed, more than three out of four respondents in the Mavenlink survey said it’s easier to get approval to hire a contractor than a full-time employee.
Hard-to-find knowledge workers, particularly in tech, are the enablers of this brave new world of digital business. A Capgemini Consulting survey conducted a few years ago found that 77 percent of companies consider missing digital skills as the key hurdle to their digital transformation.
Where to find them? Look to the gig economy. That is, more and more knowledge workers are becoming contractors. They’re eyeing flexible lifestyle benefits and varying job experiences, instead of toiling in a full-time job for years at a single company.
“A decade ago, it was common to work at two to three companies during an entire career,” the Mavenlink study says. “Those graduating college today may work for five within the first decade after graduation.”
Case-in-point: Mavenlink’s study found that 63 percent of participants are willing to leave their current full-time positions for consistent contract work. Along these lines, an Accenture study predicts that 43 percent of the U.S. workforce – 60 million people – will be contingent by 2020.
But Mavenlink’s study suggests companies aren’t really ready to handle so many contractors. Seven out of 10 respondents said they need to make changes to better identify, select and manage contractors, yet many aren’t sure what changes are required. Thirty-four percent of respondents said they don’t have any policies for managing contractors.
“Organizations will need to quickly adopt best practices – processes, frameworks, guidelines, analytics and insights – to help manage this growth before it gets unruly,” the Mavenlink study says.


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Rawalpindi: In recent news, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Chairman Tariq Mehmood Murtaza, launched a new one window centre which comes equipped with an online facility.
Read More: Raja Bazaar to be converted into tourist attraction by RDA
According to the details revealed, this is centre has been designed to facilitate map approvals, plot transfers and any other work related to the RDA. The concerned applicants will no longer need to visit various offices for their worries and will use this facility to submit their applications.
For the said office, a one-window corridor with pre-manufactured designs has been developed in RDA’s old structure at an expense of Rs. 4.5 million. This office will give data to individuals about their applications. At RDA’s new one window community, separate counters of power’s directorates have been set up to handle applications inside the specified time-frame.
Read More: RDA DG briefed on development plan for Rawalpindi District
The online office of this middle has been dispatched as a team with the Punjab Information and Technology Board (PITB). RDA Chairman tended to the debut service and said that these improvement steps have been taken to advance venture and produce work open doors in the division.
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The Steam Team is cleaning up in Austin.
As the locally owned cleaning and restoration company continues to expand -- it has grown by more than 100 percent over the past three years -- it is also preparing to open another location and a new administrative office.
The company has just finished remodeling a tract of land at 6830 City Park Rd. in West Austin for its new administrative offices.
The company is currently working on getting landscaping completed on the property. The 900-square-foot office will be staffed by about five administrative employees, and will likely open in late January or early February.
"It's an extremely visible location," says David Marquardt, president and CEO of The Steam Team. "More than 80,000 people drive by the site every day."
Marquardt says the company is also planning to open its second store location at 1306 Cesar Chavez St. in about four months' time. That 3,000-square-foot store will likely employ between five and 10 people, he says, and will provide customers with all the services the company offers.
The Steam Team was founded in Austin more than 20 years ago, and focuses on routine and catastrophe-related cleaning and restoration. In the last year, the company has expanded into construction and remodeling.
The Steam Team also now specializes in the care and cleaning of natural stones such as marble, terrazzo, saltillo, travertine and slate in addition to its carpet and upholstery cleaning services.


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From not only rolling out the September security update for Galaxy S6 Edge+ but for many other devices – Samsung has had a busy week. The South-Korean tech giant has not only brought its Galaxy devices up to Android 6.0 Marshmallow but is also bringing up their security level to the latest September 1 patch.The current OTA update which brings all the security patches released by Google last month is out for the international variant of Galaxy S6 Edge+. Expected to be similar to the September security update released for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge last week, this one also comes with a file size of around 160MB.The September security update for Galaxy S6 Edge+ is expected to brings a boatload of stability improvements and a dozen security improvements. While the international variants will be updated first, carried-tied devices will probably take some more time before the update becomes available for them.If you are among the Galaxy S6 Edge+ users who are eligible for the latest update, expect the OTA update notification to reach you soon. Moreover, you can manually check for the latest update by heading over to Settings->About phone->Software update->Check for updates.Are you among the Galaxy S6 Edge+ users expecting the latest September security patch to hit your device? Do let us know what other apparent changes that you can notice apart from the latest security level patches from Google.
What's my model number?
There are several ways to locate your model number:
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- On your device, go to Settings, then "About device" and scroll down to "Model number"
- Option 2
- Often times you can view the model number inside the device, by removing the battery
- Option 3
- Using Samsung's model/serial number location tool


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This is our first look at a brand-new, next-generation, mid-size convertible Mercedes – but it isn’t a C-Class. Auto Express understands this will be an all-new model intended as a catch-all car for the small and mid-size premium convertible market, and it’s being lined up to take on a new badge: Mercedes CLE, a nameplate the German brand has owned for a while, but recently renewed its trademark for.
Brand executives have spoken in the past of a need to reduce complexity in the Mercedes portfolio, reaching a high of almost 50 vehicles in 2020 and only due to expand further still, with the rollout of EQ-badged electric models.
Speaking earlier in the year, Mercedes research and development boss Marcus Schafer pointed to the brand’s convertible offerings as being “high density”, with the recently axed SLC, C-Class Cabriolet and E-Class Cabriolet all vying for space in a market that isn’t a big money maker.
However, Schafer admitted that from a branding perspective the coupé and cabriolet models are important; for a premium car company such as Mercedes, being in this space lays down an important marker.
“We want to focus on these models,” he explained. “They have their niche and their purpose. That’s why we are going to tailor exactly the right vehicle in this segment. There’s more to come on the coupé and cabriolet side in this mid-segment but it’s going to take a little bit more time before we can speak about it.”
Before the new CLE arrives in 2023, the brand will reinvent the full-size SL as a sportier and more purposeful offering using a new platform developed by AMG.
Similar treatment is being lined up for the CLE. Spied on camera, it will be an all-new model, redefining a cluttered and less profitable market space than before with a distinctive look of its own. Think of it as a similar job to that undertaken by BMW with the latest 4 Series, now distant in looks from its 3 Series saloon sibling.
Technical details are unknown at this stage, and an unveiling of the CLE is some way off – there’s still the new SL to come first, later in 2021. However, the CLE is likely to be based on the same MRA-2 platform as the new C-Class and S-Class, rather than the SL’s new AMG-designed architecture. The flexibility of MRA-2 means that four and six-cylinder power is possible, appealing to the CLE’s likely buyer.
The latest C-Class is a four-cylinder only affair and much of the CLE line-up will be too. The next C 63 model is anticipated to take on a new high-performance four-cylinder hybrid engine derived from the M139 2.0-litre turbo engine used in the A 45 superhatch. The larger S-Class, also on the MRA-2 platform, could lend a 3.0-litre turbocharged straight-six with 48-volt mild hybrid assistance, if Mercedes thinks a six-cylinder option will be necessary.
While the car spied here is a four-seat convertible, Auto Express expects there will also be a fixed-roof coupé version of the CLE, though the model line-up is likely to be capped at just two, with no plans for a new mid-size four-door coupé to sit between the CLA and the CLS.


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Evidently, Atari did bury its biggest mistake in the New Mexico desert.
Excavators have found copies of the 1982 Atari 2600 cartridge E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — a notorious flop blamed for console gaming's collapse a year later — in a dig at an Alamagordo, N.M. landfill on Saturday.
The highly publicized dig, which will be the subject of an upcoming documentary, appears to confirm the story that Atari dumped thousands of unsold E.T. cartridges at the site more than 30 years ago.
The image above is of materials recovered from the dig. Polygon's Matt Leone, on the scene, says at least one E.T. package has been found "complete with inserts. They say there are lots more games down there."
Zak Penn, the director of the forthcoming documentary, told Polygon: "I'm really psyched for the people who are here," referencing the crowd brought to the scene by the promotion and Xbox Live. "All these people showed up to see something, and obviously they're seeing something.
"If we had found absolutely nothing, that would have been the point [of the documentary]." Penn said. "What would have sucked is if we'd have dug up some stuff, and there's no E.T. games. I'm glad that didn't happen."
Atari, then the dominant maker of home consoles and video games, paid millions for the rights to make an adaptation of the 1982 blockbuster E.T. The resulting game is considered one of the worst of all time and, along with a similarly disappointing port of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, is blamed for home consoles' ice age from 1983 until the North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System.