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After more than eight years in development, the fan remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus is now available to download free of charge.
Dubbed AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake), the game’s release coincides with the 30th anniversary of the popular Nintendo franchise as the first Metroid game launched on August 6, 1986, for the Famicom Disk System in Japan. A year later, Metroid made its debut in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System followed by the launch of Metroid II: Return of Samus on the Game Boy in November 1991.
AM2R, as Ars Technica notes, includes a mix of updated mechanics, refreshed artwork, a new soundtrack, a map system, logbook, new areas to explore, new bosses to battle and more. Based on multiple first-hand accounts from those that have played the game, the level of polish here is on par with what you’d expect from a piece of work from Nintendo itself.
The team behind AM2R says this is not a definitive version, but just the first as there are lots of improvements and features planned for the near future.
One can only hope that Nintendo won’t take it the wrong way and issue a cease and desist letter to shut the project down (that’d be a real shame after close to a decade of work). That said, you’d probably better go ahead and download AM2R sooner rather than later… you know, just in case.
My personal favorite in the Metroid series is 1994’s Super Metroid for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. From the haunting soundtrack that still holds up today to the massive world for Samus to explore, everything about this game was superb.
Update: As feared, Nintendo's lawyers wasted little time in filing DMCA takedown requests with each service that was hosting AM2R. It would be easy for the gang behind the project to be bitter at Nintendo but they aren't. Instead, they urge fans to download the original Metroid II from the eShop to show Nintendo that there is still a market for 2D adventure platformers.


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Koch Media, Survios and MGM have announced their partnership and will arrive to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the release of Rocky.
Officially announced in a Nintendo Direct of the already distant month of August 2020, there was presented Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions, a game based on the mythical film saga of Rocky whose development had now been forgotten. The game reappears to let us know that Koch Media has teamed up with Survios and MGM to launch the physical edition of this boxing game, which will arrive this year in PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch y Steam.
Rocky’s first movie turns 45 in 2021We will get into the ring with legends like Adonis Creed and Rocky Balboa, with arcade battles that will try to recreate the well-known film saga. It will also feature local multiplayer to test ourselves with friends, embodying our favorite characters, and without having to climb stairs in Philadelphia.
“We are delighted to enter this new publishing partnership with Koch Media for our first traditional Big Rumble Boxing gaming experience: Creed Champions,” said Seth Gerson, CEO of Survios, of a title that will also feature. inspiration in the Creed saga, born as a continuation of the Rocky universe.
Although there is still no release date for Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions, the game will be one of the products to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the first Rocky movie later this year. So many years later, the series continues to generate content and revenue, in addition to three Academy Awards and ten nominations throughout history.

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Islanders will have more time to recycle their goods from next week.
The La Collette recycling centre will now be opening at 9:00 on a Mondays rather than 10:00.
Growth, Housing and Environment – the Government department with responsibility for waste disposal in the island – says it has changed the opening times based on customer feedback.
The change will take effect from tomorrow (Monday 4 November). From then, the Household Reuse and Recycling Centre and Household Green Waste Reception will be open 9:00 to 19:00 on Mondays; 09:00 to 16:00 on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; and 9:00 to 17:00 on Saturday and Sunday. The sites are closed on Wednesday.
Pictured: The recycling centre have adjusted their opening hours after customer feedback.
Emma Richardson-Calladine, Recycling Manager, said: “We are listening to the feedback we’re receiving and will continue to review our site opening times so that customers find it easy to reuse and recycle.
“We hope that by opening our household recycling sites at La Collette at 9:00 on Monday, it will ensure our opening times are consistent and more accessible for our customers.
La Collette is now able to accept metal recycling, following the opening of the purpose-built metal recycling centre last month and the closure of the old scrapyard at Bellozanne.
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Boohoo.com is looking to hire its first ecommerce director as its pre-tax profit soared in its first six months as a listed business.
The fashion etailer is in “early conversations” with candidates for the role.
Joint chief executive Carol Kane told Retail Week: “As we expand we have to have someone to look after our shops. Ecommerce is our business, this is our store.”
Meanwhile, the retailer said that recent changes to its prices in Australia had helped it overcome the negative impact of the exchange rate changes that had hit sales.
In the first half, sales outside of the UK and Europe, which includes Australia, dropped 11%. However, Kane said dropping prices in the second quarter had returned the retailer back to growth in Australia.
Kane also said that its sales were unaffected by the warm weather that had blighted rivals as it launches its autumn range later than the high street. She said that it did not launch its autumn range until late September. “Retailers do it [early] because tradition says so. We wouldn’t sell a lot of coats if we launched at the beginning of September,” she said.
Boohoo.com reported pre-tax profit up 23% to £4.5m in the six months to August 31, 2014.
Adjusted EBITDA was up 63% to £6.8m. Sales were up 31% to £67.2m.
In the UK, its largest market, sales grew by 47%. In the rest of Europe, sales grew by 43%, supported by the launch of new foreign websites in Spain and Germany.
Kane said Boohoo.com was not planning any further international launches in the near future but would continue to grow its existing markets. It is ramping up marketing overseas to stimulate growth.
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SPECS Show Announces Future Retail Leaders Program
Retail executives are invited to introduce their rising stars to the industry’s leading store development and facilities event — SPECS, which will be held March 13-16, 2011, at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. Qualified senior executives and their future leaders will receive FREE registration to this year’s show.
Future retail leaders will be exposed to the best the industry has to offer through a combination of 35 educational sessions, peer-to-peer networking, access to top suppliers and more! Show your support to the development of your up-and-coming executive talent by registering both yourself and your rising stars for FREE today! Their participation at SPECS will benefit your company for years to come.
To register, go to www.specsshow.com/register-now.
Claire’s names head of North American division
CHICAGO – Claire’s Stores has announced the appointment of Jay Friedman as president of the North American division, reporting to Gene Kahn, CEO, effective immediately.
In his position, Friedman will lead both the Claire’s and Icing businesses and will have direct oversight of buying, planning and allocation, supply chain, stores and overall operations of approximately 2,000 stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Friedman joins Claire’s from Jones Apparel Group, Inc. where he was most recently president, and CEO of Jones Retail Corp., Nine West Group.
Rite Aid gets fit with BL Body
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid on Tuesday announced its partnership with BL Body, a collection of shape wear exclusively available in Rite Aid stores, on a sweepstakes with a first prize trip for two to the location of the reality program “The Biggest Loser.”
Rite Aid is taking sweepstake entries through Jan. 22 for the $4,000-grand prize. Second prize is a year’s membership for two to the Biggest Loser Club online weight loss program, a $479 value.
The sweepstakes is being promoted with in-store radio and a national radio tour featuring Ashley Johnston, the runner-up to season 9 who set a show all-time record for most weight loss by a woman. Johnston also is a spokeswoman for the BL Body collection of shape wear inspired by the show.
Rite Aid already has an established weight loss heritage in the California market through its retail-clinic partnership with weight-loss clinic Lindora.
The chain provides a 12-page informational guide in stores or online at Riteaid.com packed with weight loss tips, techniques and topics including how to fight childhood obesity, the importance of counting calories instead of just carbohydrates or fat, and how to exercise on a budget. Rite Aid customers can also access the Rite Weight program at Riteaid.com/riteweightplan. That program, created by Lindora, aims to help patients lose up to 10% of their body weight in 10 weeks with free online seminars, weight tracking tools and daily support e-mails.


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Online shopping soaring as COVID-19 continues
With stores moving themselves online, staying inside for the winter season could have a new meaning this time around due to rising COVID-19 cases.
At the start of the pandemic, people around the world were told to stay inside their homes and leave only if the matter is essential.
According to a Statistics Canada report published in July of this year, there was a 99.3 per cent increase in the online sales of retailers.
During the period of February to May 2020, total retail sales fell 17.9 per cent and physical locations of retail businesses, including home furnishing stores, went down 69.6 per cent, hobby and sporting stores losing 79.0 per cent, and clothing stores at a loss of 84.2 per cent.
Omar Youssouf, a senior analyst at Statistics Canada, along with his team, invokes data from the Monthly Retail Trade survey and explained that compared to a year-over-year basis, retail e-commerce figures have been on the rise in recent months.
“The COVID-19 pandemic led many Canadian retailers to start or expand their e-commerce platforms in response to physical distancing measures and/or brick and mortar store closures,” Youssouf said.
Today cases of COVID-19 in Ontario have risen to 615 and citizens are starting to be more cautious of where they frequent once more, something done at the beginning of the pandemic.
Theresa Stirpe, owner and chef of FreshFoodie in Vaughan, noticed a boom in her e-commerce sales when the pandemic hit.
She explains because of COVID-19, her online revenue rose from twenty per cent to eighty percent.
Stirpe also explains, although she had an e-commerce store in place where customers can get their meals delivered, the boom in business came at a time when the world couldn’t leave their homes.
“I knew that having a retail physical location would be great, but I knew… I’d never be able to reach a full market without having an online presence,” she said.
However, Lou Joubran, manager of Speedy Electric Ltd. in Mississauga, is sticking to his tried and true business model for his HVAC and air conditioning repair company.
Joubran works solo and without a website, basing his work on referrals and feels content with where he is in the business.
“I didn’t set up a website because I don’t advertise. I strictly base my business on word of mouth [as] I’m just in a comfortable place wherever [business] comes in,” he said.
With the rise in COVID-19 cases, each business can be unique in its choice on shifting all merchandise online, but remaining optimistic and planning with accordance continues to be the way until a change comes.


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Homeopathic Dissolvable Strip Firm Shut Down By FTC Will Relaunch After Settling
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
"It's pretty agonizing now. Our plan is to settle with them as fast as possible and move forward," says Jason Cardiff of Redwood Scientific Technologies in Upland, Calif. FTC alleges firm made unsubstantiated claims for dissolvable film strips for smoking cessation, weight loss and sexual performance; billed customers for unauthorized sales; made "abusive telemarketing through robocalls"; and stated false earnings claims to attract multilevel marketing distributors.
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NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has exempted cellphones, smartwatches, smart cameras, servers and point-of-sale, or PoS, machines from mandatory testing and certification, which will reduce the burden of compliance as well as the time required for imports. for the companies concerned.
“The exemptions on these widely used products will reduce the compliance burden and allow industry to deploy their products more quickly,” the Department of Communications said in a statement on Saturday.
The decision was made after consultations with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), following representations from industries and industry associations regarding the overlapping jurisdictions of the two departments.
MeitY carries out compulsory registration of specified goods such as laptops, wireless keyboards, point of sale terminals and other electronic equipment under the Electronics and Information Technology Order 2012. information (compulsory registration requirement).
The DoT has specified mandatory testing and certification of telecommunications equipment, also known as MTCTE, under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Rules 2017 issued on September 5, 2017, for equipment that can be used for telecommunications.
Trade associations had pointed out that these overlaps prevented the rapid launch of new products and resulted in higher compliance costs for the industry.
“With the increasing convergence of technology, regulatory overlap has been noted regarding certain products such as smart watch, smart camera, etc. The DoT, in consultation with MeitY, has reviewed the issue and has now decided to exempt the MTCTE diet products,” the ministry said.
With this, companies will only have to obtain the mandatory registration with MeitY. The Department of Telecommunications will issue a notification in due course to put the change into effect.
The Ministry of Communications added that the initiative is in line with the government’s vision of having a clear and simplified regulatory regime.
“This regulatory reform will improve the ease of doing business for electronics manufacturing companies and help build India into a trillion-dollar digital economy,” the ministry added.


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EA has officially unveiled the next installment in its long-running official FIA Formula One World Championship game, EA SPORTS F1 23, and announced it will be released on June 16.
Developed from F1 22, F1 23 will be available on PC — via Epic, Steam, and the EA App — as well as PlayStation 4/5 and Xbox One/Series consoles. However EA has been working to refine several aspects of last season’s title, as well as bringing in new and returning features.
Headlining that will be the return of F1 2021’s Braking Point story mode, which we had been expecting after comments from EA around its absence from F1 22 that this was on a “two-year cadence”.
The story will see the return of the hero and villain of the last entry — Aiden Jackson and Devon Butler respectively — as they now drive together for a new team on the grid: Konnersport Racing.
A new introduction for F1 23 is “F1 World”, which appears to replace “F1 Life”. According to EA this combines several different game modes — including time trial and grand prix — and takes cues from the real Formula One calendar to create a new experience that helps introduce players to the sport.
F1 World will also have a new progression system which will see players unlock cosmetic items and vehicle upgrades, while a new safety system will see players evaluated in both online and offline modes. This will also function as a matchmaking criterion, to “pair like-minded drivers more efficiently”.
While the real-world cars remain largely the same as the previous year’s, EA has been working on upgrading the rather numb vehicle handling of F1 22. There’s promised changes across the board in terms of car physics, based on feedback from the real-world F1 teams, to deliver more “predictable” handling and more authentic throttle control.
Controller users are set to see a change too, with a new “Precision Drive” system to improve the experience on game pads.
Naturally F1 23 will include the entire 2023 season grid and race calendar at launch, which brings Qatar’s Lusail circuit and the new-for-2023 Las Vegas Strip Circuit that will host its debut race this November.
In addition there’s three “legacy” circuits available, with Autodromo Internacional do Algarve (Portimao) in Portugal, Circuit Paul Ricard in France, and the Shanghai International Circuit in China all included despite not hosting races this year. However there’s no word on “classic “legacy” F1 cars at present.
The races will have an additional new dimension with the debut of red flags. These session-neutralising signals, shown whenever it’s no longer safe for cars to circulate even behind the safety car, will add a tactical element as the confusion reigns — even in Race Control — before a restart.
Players will also be able to take part in new, 35% race distance events which bridge the gap between the shortest and longer race options — and are pretty close to the real-world Sprint Race distance.
F1 23 will launch in two versions. A Standard Edition will be available either digitally or as a physical game, alongside a digital only F1 23 Champions Edition with the EA Sports-sponsored defending champion Max Verstappen on the cover.
The Champions Edition includes dual entitlement for console players, a Max Verstappen race wear pack, special Braking Point 2 and My Team icons, an XP boost, an “F1 World Bumper Pack” (the contents of which are unclear at the moment), 18,000 PitCoin, and three days’ early access. Players who pre-order this version before May 31 will also receive special “Las Vegas content”, with Standard Edition pre-orders gaining 5,000 PitCoin and an “F1 World Starter Pack”.


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Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall.
Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.
Passionate about apps and the developer ecosystem, Oliver is always keen to try out the hottest new things to hit the App Store — and some that haven't made it there yet, too.
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The vaccination programme needs to be completed by next month as most sectors in non-essential services are dying to reopen
by LYDIA NATHAN / pic by MUHD AMIN NAHARUL
THE RM100 million allocation announced by the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry (Medac) for 1,400 first to close, last to open (FCLO) entrepreneurs is insufficient.
SME Association of Malaysia national VP CS Chin said the amount, however, was not the main concern, rather rolling out the vaccination programme as efficiently as possible for non-essential services was.
He said sectors like sports and gyms, wellness centres, health and beauty, post-natal and retail were among the worst hit and from the various lockdowns and Movement Control Orders, many have closed down for good.
“If possible, the vaccination programme needs to be completed by August this year as most sectors in non-essential services are dying to get back in operations.
“The longer it takes, the worse it will be,” he said to The Malaysian Reserve (TMR) recently.
According to Chin, even with the current lockdown, the number of infections has not gone down but instead has been climbing higher every day.
“Despite most blaming factories for the spread, facts and data provided by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers said it is not the case. Information from the Health DG noted that of the total cases, close to 70% were sporadic while 30% came from clusters, of which 62% are workplace clusters.
“Factories only account for 30% of these workplace clusters. This works out to be around only 6% of the total number of cases that can be attributed to factories,” he said.
In regards to Medac Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar stating he will speak to the FCLO sectors to identify issues, Chin said this should have been done from day one.
“If you look at all the past incentives or aids provided, nothing much benefitted the FCLO sectors. The main costs of operation are rental and labour, with no help from landlords and insufficient assistant on wages provided to them.
“The government should provide targeted assistance with more cash support to be provided to these hard-hit sectors, rather than the same across all companies,” Chin said.
He said the budget allocated could help some SMEs get their staff vaccinated quickly, including foreign workers, which has been a main concern.
“The association is drafting a proposal to Medac, seeking their support to facilitate and provide affordable vaccinations from the private sector for all SMEs including manufacturing, services, retailers, traders, food hawkers and the like,” Chin said.
Meanwhile, Malaysia University of Science and Technology professor Dr Geoffrey Williams said the RM100 million allocation for the FCLO sectors was considered a useless project.
He said this has been seen far too often in the stimulus packages, and is poorly designed, underfunded and pays no attention at all to the needs of micro enterprises.
“According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia, there were 693,690 micro enterprises in 2019, before the crisis. So, this allocation is worth RM144 each.
“This shows how useless it is. There are 809,126 alone in the service sector, or 89.2% of the total,” he told TMR.
Williams said these sectors have been devastated and closed even in the lightest versions of the lockdowns.
“Medac surveyed micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and found 90% are at risk of closure due to the lockdowns and 54% said they only have three to six months left. What will this programme do for them?”
“Micro enterprises want customers like all other businesses, they do not want handouts. As long as the lockdown is in place, their businesses are crippled,” Williams said.
He opined that most MSMEs and particularly micro enterprises are not transmission risks as they are too small.
“The idea of essential and non-essential sectors is meaningless in economic terms and clearly has not been defined by economic analysis.”


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Retrevo shows third of iPhone users confused on 4G
The confusion for iPhone owners may have stemmed from the naming scheme. Many likely think they own an "iPhone 4G" simply because of the last digit, the studiers estimated. BlackBerry owners didn't have that justification, making their beliefs all the more unusual.
Apple didn't necessarily have to worry about users holding off. About 40 percent of iPhone owners would buy one regardless, and 21 percent more would at least consider it. Eight percent of Android users said they would jump ship for an iPhone even without 4G, and 23 percent of BlackBerry owners would do the same. Roughly 12 percent of Android users and 18 percent of their BlackBerry counterparts were at least open to the idea of switching.
Many are hesitant to adopt 4G; 30 percent believe the plans are too expensive, and 22 percent don't think it's worth the expense. Another 19 percent don't know enough to make a decision, Retrevo said.
Some of the problems of expectations surrounding 4G may come from carrier redefinitions of the term. Sprint had a tentative legitimacy in calling a network 4G with its switch to WiMAX, but T-Mobile quickly complicated matters when it called its HSPA+ 3G network "4G" and began naming all its devices in that direction. AT&T felt compelled to follow suit, and Verizon is so far considered the closest to having a genuine 4G network with its LTE.
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So are we really surprised to hear issues with bottled water? Well, we should be shocked the E.coli contamination in Pennsylvania was actually found before people got sick! Due to lack of regulation on bottled water, many “less than perfect” batches are sold to millions every day. Of course the company is saying that the lab that tested the water made an error while testing. Just to clarify, E.coli bacteria lives in human and animal waste, and is fatal to babies, and the elderly. Labs are pretty much guarenteed to be E.coli free. Meanwhile in public municipality world, the city of Portland dumped 38 million gallons of treated drinking water because some dumb high school kid thought it would be funny to pee in it. Many think this was wasteful, but if it didn’t happen, I wouldn’t be able to use it as an example. Do you think a bottled water company, who doesn’t need to answer to any government authority, would waste product like that? Definitely not.
Now for a superhero public WTP story with all the makings of a triumphant midwest legend: In 2006 Fiji took a swing at Cleveland tap water saying “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. Well Cleveland did some testing, and it found that the bottled water contained 6.3 micrograms of arsenic per liter; the city’s tap water was arsenic free. Fiji apologized, and it was a “W” for water utility directors, and those in Cleveland where “W’s” are rare (it’s Lebron Jame’s fault, right?). Seriously…do we need more reasons to not drink bottled water? Let’s list them anyway:
First, the quality is not better:
- In the United States, 24 percent of bottled water sold is either Pepsi’s Aquafina (13 percent of the market) or Coke’s Dasani (11 percent of the market). Both brands are bottled, purified municipal water3.
- If you don’t like the taste of your tap water, try a filtered water pitcher like Brita.
- In the U.S., public water is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which requires multiple daily tests for bacteria and makes results available to the public. The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates bottled water, only requires weekly testing and does not share its findings with the EPA or the public7.
Do we need more reasons?? Well here you go:
- Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year1. And that’s not even including the oil used for transportation.
- The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes for a year2.
- In 2006, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38.3
- Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles – more than $1 billion worth of plastic – are wasted each year3.
- The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about $.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.
- Antimony, which is found in PET plastic bottles, in small doses can cause dizziness and depression; in larger doses it can cause nausea, vomiting and death.8
Save Money and The Environment:
- One water pitcher filter can effectively replace as much as 300 standard 16.9-ounce bottles. So you can get great-tasting water without so much waste.
- The average water pitcher filters 240 gallons of water a year for about 19 cents a day4. Put in perspective, to get the same amount of water from bottled water would require 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles a year5 – at an average cost of a dollar a bottle, that’s $4.98 a day6.
- For about $10 each, you can purchase a 16-ounce or 32-ounce Nalgene bottle, saving you hundreds of dollars a year on bottled water.
- Tip: Get a water bottle!!! One Nalgene bottle can last for decades (literally I’ve had the same one for 15 years), making it easy to stop buying bottled water when you’re out
- Pacific Institute. “Fact Sheet: Bottled Water and Energy – Getting to 17 Million Barrels.” December 2007.
- “Not Disposable Anymore.” P.O.V.’s Borders. 2004. PBS.
- Fishman, Charles. “Message in a Bottle.” Fast Company Magazine July 2007: 110.
- This cost assumes the purchase of a $25 pitcher (one filter included), plus 5 replacement filters at $9 each, for a total yearly cost of $70, or $0.19 cents a day.
- Each filter produces 40 gallons of water and the average owner uses 6 filters in a year, to produce 240 gallons, or 30,720 ounces, of fresh-filtered water. 30,720 ounces is equivalent to the water found in 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles.
- Purchasing 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles at the cost of $1 each costs $1,818. Over the course of a year, that’s $4.98 a day.
- Burros, Marian. “Fighting the Tide, a Few Restaurants Tilt to Tap Water.” The New York Times [New York City, NY] 30 May 2007: Section F, Page 1.
- Shotyk, William. “Toxic risk in bottled water?” Royal Society of Chemistry. September 2006.
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Frédéric Granotier, founder and president of Lucibel, contacted the designer about a possible collaboration.
Pepper and Luxbae have also made debuts.
The athletics apparel brands sued dozens of websites over what they alleged are counterfeit sales of Yeezy and other footwear.
Editor in chief Richard Dennen doesn’t see age — just fabulous-ness — and has put the 55-year-old Cindy Crawford on the cover of the September issue in a Chanel miniskirt.
Several designers have opened outposts in the Hamptons, which is busier than usual this summer.
Shoe sales from the second quarter show a recovery that, at times, exceeds numbers set before the pandemic in 2019.
Several athletes and performers made an impression on Olympics viewers for their sartorial choices.
The range, called Guess Effect, will be launching August 1.
The Savannah College of Art and Design is showing creations by the late Space Age designer at its location in Lacoste.
Sales in the year to March 30, 2020 dipped 2.9 percent due to COVID-related store closures, and a lack of international tourists.
The brand’s watch and jewelry collections will be developed, manufactured and distributed by Swiss company WorldTime Watches & Jewelry.
The NFTs will live on Team GB’s new NFT storefront and the first item to be auctioned is a digitized painting by Ben Mosley.
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Electronics and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Friday held a high-level meeting with tech industry captains including Rishad Premji of Wipro, Rajan Anandan of Google, Vanitha Narayanan of IBM, Kavin Bharti Mittal of Hike and many others to discuss on how to create a road map for the $1-trillion digital economy.
“We will be shortly laying out a new electronics policy to boost electronics manufacturing. There is a need to look inwards for software in Indian markets therefore we’ll go with a new software policy and we are also going to have a framework for a data security and data protection policy,” said Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union minister for electronics and information technology.
Prasad said IT, e-commerce, communications, electronics manufacturing, Internet of Things, start-ups and cyber security will be among the key drivers for achieving the $1 trillion digital economy target.
After a brainstorming session that lasted for over two hours and was meant to work out a road map for the $1-trillion digital economy, Prasad said some participants spoke about the need for developing startup clusters – which will be like special innovation zones where startups can work together.
Premji said the conversation around job losses was a bit exaggerated. On the impact of protectionism in the US, he said there has been no change in US policies yet.
The government will also consider the potential of low-cost cyber security products and will also explore the intersection of Digital India and Startup India, especially in the areas of healthcare, agriculture and education as pointed out by the industry.
Prasad said the government will further try to address the industry’s issues by looking at a framework for setting up a dispute resolution mechanism.


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Thursday, 12 May 2016
At NVIDIA's launch event for its new Pascal-based GPUs this past weekend, game developer id Software also had the chance to showcase the new GeForce GTX 1080 running the upcoming Doom reboot. Here's a teaser of the performance you can expect when the card is paired with the upcoming Vulkan API.
A joyriding 18-year-old took her father's Tesla Model S for a spin and ended up sending it flying off the road and into a field. But thanks to the car's safety features, everyone survived.
It took the trio a long time, but they finally have a name for their new show on Amazon Prime which will air later this year in fall.
You can now include a surfboard in the list of Samsung's smart devices!
What phone did billionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark (also known as Iron Man) use in the movie Captain America: Civil War? You'll be very surprised.
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Windows 7 users running certain ASUS motherboards have found that a particular Windows 7 update is rendering their systems entirely useless. Here's what you can do to make sure it doesn't happen to you.
Tim Bajarin from TIME believes that the Apple Watch is created with the sole purpose of improving the overall health of customers.
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
It looks like Apple Music is not the behemoth that it once looked like it could be. According to Spotify VP Jonathan Forster, Spotify has been adding users more quickly since Apple Music launched last June.
The default setting lets users watch up to three hours of Netflix videos for every GB of mobile data.
After leaked images of Motorola's new Moto X phones appeared yesterday, new details have surfaced suggesting that the phones will have modular designs, with the backplates able to swapped out for modules with various capabilities.


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38-year-old Jose Luis Alderete is being punished for his ingenuity—and perversion. Alderete allegedly taped a cell phone to his shoe, then used it to take upskirt videos of women at Los Angeles area stores. His plot was thwarted when one of the women's husbands noticed he that Alderete was capturing footage of his wife at a Target in Fontana. He chased Alderete down and tackled him in a parking lot, where Aldertete was later arrested.
Police soon discovered that Alerete had additional footage of women at other stores in the area.


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- Amazon has announced the Advantage – Just for Prime program in India.
- This program is exclusive to Amazon Prime members, and it offers benefits on smartphone purchases.
- You get six months free screen replacement and extended No Cost EMI tenure.
Amazon has announced that its annual Prime Day event in India will be held on July 26th and 27th. During this mega shopping festival, the e-commerce website offers great discounts on a wide range of products. Well, with the Prime Day event just around the corner, the e-commerce website has announced a new program in India for Prime members, named Advantage — Just for Prime. This unique program offers huge benefits to smartphone buyers in the country. Let us have a look at the Advantage — Just for Prime programme in detail.
Amazon Advantage — Just for Prime program benefits
The Advantage — Just for Prime programme, as the name suggests, is exclusive to Amazon Prime members. It extends the benefits of the Prime membership by offering additional discounts on smartphone purchases to members. Here are all the benefits that you can expect to avail:
1. Six months free screen replacement
Let’s start with the most exciting benefit of the Advantage — Just for Prime program, the free screen replacement offer. The new program from Amazon offers free screen replacement for six months on select smartphones. So, if the screen of your phone breaks within six months of purchasing the device, you can get it repaired for free. You won’t have to pay a single penny. Here is how much money you can save with this offer:
Let us take a smartphone that costs Rs 14,999, for example. The average cost for replacing its screen will be around Rs 6,000. Similarly, if you take a mid-range smartphone that costs Rs 24,999, its estimated screen replacement cost is Rs 10,000. And if you consider a high-end smartphone that costs Rs 54,999, the cost for replacing its screen will set you back by Rs 19,000. With the new Amazon programme, the screen replacement is completely free. As you can see, you will save anywhere from Rs 6,000 to Rs 19,000 on the screen replacement under the Advantage – Just for Prime program.
2. Extended no-cost EMI tenure
You already get the no-cost EMI option on many smartphones on Amazon India. Now, the Advantage — Just for Prime programme extends the EMI tenure by up to six months. So, if a smartphone is being offered with up to 12 months of no-cost EMIs, the EMI tenure will be increased to 18 months. The extended EMI tenure varies depending upon the model of the phone.
With the extended no-cost EMI tenure, you can save a significant amount of money that you would have to rather pay on the EMI interests. Moreover, with the extended EMI tenure, the upfront cost for purchasing a smartphone will reduce significantly. This makes it easier for buyers to choose a smartphone of their desire. It is worth mentioning that the extended no-cost EMI offer is valid only on HDFC Bank credit and debit cards.
Savings of up to Rs 25,016 with Advantage — Just for Prime
If you combine the six-month free screen replacement and the extended No Cost EMI tenure offers, your total potential cost savings could range anywhere from Rs 6,653 to Rs 25,016. That is a significant amount of saving. The best thing about it is that you don’t have to pay a single penny for all these benefits if you are already an Amazon Prime member. I’m sure that the Advantage — Just for Prime program will attract a lot of customers to Prime.
Smartphones covered under Advantage — Just for Prime
At this point, you might be asking, which smartphones are covered under Amazon Advantage — Just for Prime. Well, a total of 15 smartphones are covered under this offer at the moment, from Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, and iQOO. Below is a list of smartphones covered under Advantage — Just for Prime program. We have also listed the benefits you will get with these smartphones under Amazon’s new program.
- Samsung Galaxy M31s, Samsung Galaxy M51, Redmi Note 10s, Redmi Note 10 Pro Max, OPPO F17, iQOO Z3 5G — 9 months of no-cost EMIs + 6-month free screen replacement
- OPPO F19 and F19 Pro, Vivo Y51A and Y73, iQOO 7 and 7 Legend — 12 months of no-cost EMIs + 6 months free screen replacement
- Mi 11X, Mi 11X Pro, OPPO F19 Pro+ — 18 months of no-cost EMIs + 6 months of free screen replacement
50 percent cashback on Amazon Prime membership too
The annual membership of Amazon Prime costs Rs 999, whereas, a three-month member costs Rs 329. That isn’t a lot of money when you consider that it offers benefits such as free and fast delivery, access to Prime Video and Prime Music, and, of course, the Advantage — Just for Prime program that could save you up to Rs 25,016.
However, Amazon wants to make this deal even sweeter for the youth. The e-commerce website is offering a 50 percent cashback on the cost of the Amazon Prime membership (valid for both plans) if your age is between 18 years and 24 years. So, you will be paying just Rs 499 (yearly membership) for benefits that are worth upwards of Rs 20,000!


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Spain’s largest airline Vueling has signed an agreement with BitPay to allow customers to pay for flights with crypto. The airline will accept cryptocurrency payments for individuals through the Atlanta-based BitPay. This will come into effect in 2023.
A global payment network owned by the world’s airlines, the Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP), will provide the technology. BitPay partnered with the network in September 2021 in an effort to allow air, rail, and agency payments in Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc. It recently added Shiba Inu. Ticket prices will be listed in Euros and users will have the option of one of 100 crypto wallets.
Jesus Monzo, Vueling’s Manager of Distribution Strategy and Alliances, said the airline through the agreement affirms its position as a digital airline. BitPay’s vice president of marketing highlighted that Vueling recognizes and understands the potential of cryptocurrencies to transform the airline industry. It makes payments faster, more secure, and less expensive on a global scale.
Vueling, a member of the International Consolidated Airlines Group, is the first low-cost European airline to embrace digital assets. It should be noted that Air Baltic was the first airline to accept crypto for payments through BitPay in 2014. Then earlier this year, Emirates announced plans to accept payments for flight tickets in Bitcoin. Newegg, an e-commerce company, and Kessler groups also partnered with BitPay in 2021.
Many merchants, including Virgin Galactic, began accepting cryptocurrency for payments between 2013 and 2015. Companies turned to BitPay as a payments processor – passing on liquidity and exchange risks. New York-based Magnum Real Estate in 2021, also turned to BitPay to process payments for a three-store retail space on Manhattan’s East Side. The crypto payment enabler would receive the payment in Bitcoin and convert it to US dollars for deposit into the real estate company’s account.


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Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak has been seriously upgraded.
The company is already one of the flagship timepieces of Swiss watchmakers and will launch two new versions made of precious metals: platinum and rose gold. The “super-large” versions of these designs have extremely thin varieties and limited editions, only 70 pieces in 950 platinum and 30 pieces in 18K rose gold are produced. Even more rare is that only Tokyo retailer Yoshida offers many such scarce numbers.
Audemars Piguet fake has a 39mm, 8.1mm thick case, so decided to abandon its normal face, and instead chose a black and agate dial with 11 bright-cut white diamonds as hour markers – This situation is becoming less and less in high-end watches. The interval time is also marked by Royal Oak hands with luminous coating. Both versions are powered by a proprietary self-winding 2121 movement, with a 40-hour power reserve and a water resistance of up to 50 meters.
The watchmaker recently adopted a strategy different from the traditional one before the official press release. Taking a page out of the streetwear manual, it chose instaafd to put the latest products directly on its website. This is how these two models are released. For serious collectors (or collectors who want to join them), it can represent a brand new and definitely not-so-formal way to learn about the latest products.
Designed by Gerald Genta and released in 1972, fake Royal Oak was a last-minute effort to maintain its practicality, as the quartz watch had the potential to disrupt the entire industry in the early 70s. Its octagonal profile (inspired by deep-sea diving helmets) was a fundamental change at the time, and it was the first stainless steel timepiece sold as a luxury watch, thus pushing the boundaries further.


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Kohl's reports November/December total and SSS up 6.9% over last year
Kohl's Corporation reported that its total and comparable sales for November and December 2017 combined increased 6.9% over the same period last year. Kevin Mansell, Kohl's chairman, CEO and president, said, "We are very pleased with our Holiday period sales, which were consistently strong through November and December. All lines of business and all regions reported positive comp sales. As expected, growth in digital demand accelerated significantly in the Holiday period from the year-to-date trend. In addition, we experienced positive sales in our stores driven by stronger traffic. I'd like to thank every Kohl's associate across the organization for their commitment to delivering an outstanding Holiday experience for our customers."


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Between Rounds Bakery Sandwich Café will soon be opening its second Vernon location at 229 Talcottville Road – less than an mile from its store at 243 Vernon Circle.
The new store, expected to open in November, will be inside the Citgo gas station, and will have a drive-through window.
Between Rounds co-founder and franchisee Jerry Puiia said the location on the southbound side of route 83 makes perfect sense, especially for commuters heading toward I-84 in the morning.
"If you look at the traffic that comes down Rt. 83, Talcottville Road, there's a lot of it," he said. "You have a Starbucks with a drive-through, a McDonald's with a drive-through, and a Dunkin Donuts with a drive-through. The unit that we're putting in will be the first one you would come to. Our thought process is that we probably have a lot of customers who would come to us in the morning, but don't have time."
Between Rounds features fresh-ground and brewed gourmet coffee, signature breakfast and lunch sandwiches, fresh bagels, and other fresh baked goods.
The new Vernon franchise will be owned and operated by Adam Wayne, a native of New York. Wayne is a familiar face in the franchise community, having previously co-owned and operated four Edible Arrangements franchises in the Connecticut area for 12 years. After a partnership dissolution, Wayne became the sole owner of the Edible Arrangements franchise located in Manchester Parkade Shopping Center.
A Blimpie sub shop had been originally planned for that location, but never materialized. That leaves some of the restaurant infrastructure intact and more easily adaptable for Between Rounds.
"All of the equipment was in there for a drive-through operation. It was kind of a no-brainer," Puiia said. "I think Adam is going to go in there and do very well, without a lot of up-front expense."
Between Rounds has been in business for more than two decades and is the brainchild of Jerry and Joe Puiia, who are Staten Island, New York natives. The Puiia hallmark is manufacturing and selling their own bagels, which set them apart from other cafés. Between Rounds locations include corporate headquarters in South Windsor, Vernon Circle Shopping Center in Vernon, the Plaza at Buckland Hills in Manchester, and the independently owned Tolland store - adjacent to a Citgo Express Gas Station.
Wanting to diversify, and having been a longtime Between Rounds customer and fan, Wayne began to consider a Between Rounds franchise offering. He had been working with Global Franchise Exchange, the same business broker as the Puiia brothers, so an introduction was made. Wayne said the decision to open a Between Rounds franchise was an easy one.
"I am a self-taught business owner, but my background in social work enables me to really understand what motivates people, which is key in this industry," explained Wayne. "There are plenty of franchise opportunities out there, but I am truly impressed with Jerry and Joe Puiia, their concept and the high quality of Between Rounds products. I'm very excited about the new store and ready to grow it."
"Adam is a seasoned, successful franchise owner and great fit for our organization. We're thrilled about our new drive-through, which we feel will do very well in this particular area," said Jerry Puiia.
Between Rounds recently added the Tolland location, and Puiia said there are several other stores in the works in the area, including possible new Between Rounds Cafés in Farmington, Newington, Middlebury, Southington, and other towns.
"This concept of putting the Between Rounds kiosks in convenience stores is coming at a time when the gas stations are looking for more traffic in their stores," Puiia said, adding that the Between Rounds' brand has seen some (perhaps overdue) popularity, because of the quality of its products.
"The biggest thing I hear is that our bagels are fresh, and they taste good," he said. "People like the product mix. The breakfast sandwiches offer a lot of value for the money. I think we're in the right place at the right time."


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- The Morning Coffee – 22 September 2014
- First Impressions: The Pocketbook 640 Ultra is a Prime Candidate for Worst eReader of 2014
- Kindle Voyage Back-Ordered, Now Ships on 21 November
- Pocketboook InkPad 840 Delayed Until the End of September (At Least)
Posted: 21 Sep 2014 08:04 PM PDT
The reading list is short this morning, and it leans heavily towards responses to Authors United.
Posted: 21 Sep 2014 02:34 PM PDT
When the Pocketbook Ultra leaked earlier this year I was thrilled to see a device maker exploring the idea of combining an ereader with an E-ink screen with a camera which could convert images to text. Finally, I thought, there was a ereader which could not only add notes to a file but create them from scratch – just like a tablet or smartphone.
Alas, the actual device does not come even close to meeting the expectations engendered by its price tag, nor is it capable of fulfilling all of the features listed on the product page. I’ve only had mine out of the box for a couple days now, and I deeply regret spending so much on a device that can do so little.
So what’s wrong with it?
To start, there’s the screen and frontlight. If you look at the product page you’ll see that the Pocketbook Ultra has a Carta E-ink screen with a capacitive touchscreen and frontlight.
That sounds nice, but what the product page won’t tell you is that the screen is noticeably more gray than the Carta E-ink screen on the 2013 Kindle Paperwhite. And to give you an idea of just how bad this screen is, I can also tell you that it is grayer than the 6.8″ Pearl E-ink screen on my Kobo Aura HD.
I’m not sure it’s visible in the image, but it is obvious to the naked eye. What’s more, I am not the only one to think so. I was warned about the screen, among other issues, by Chalid of AlleseBook.de. (He helped me buy it after trying to talk me out of the purchase.)
It truly is bad, and that’s not the only issue. The frontlight is also a fail. it’s noticeably dimmer and fuzzier than the frontlight on either the KPW2 or the Aura HD. The consistency of the light is also noticeably uneven when compared to the white frontlights on the older ereaders.
Folks, I paid $240 for this device, and it has a screen which comes in a distant second to the screen on a $120 ereader released last year. This is simply not acceptable.
And then there is the software. I can’t cover all of the issues without turning this into a multi-thousand word post, so I will merely discuss the single biggest deficiency.
The Pocketbook Ultra’s most vaunted feature, its ability to take an image of text and convert it to actual text, simply does not work. Oh, it has a 5MP camera with flash, and it can take a passable image. But it cannot actually convert that image to a text file.
Here is are a couple images I took with the Pocketbook Ultra. They’re not great but if you zoom in they are legible. (If I had used the Flash they would have been somewhat more legible, but the reflection of the Flash would have been caught in the image.)
And here is the what I got out when I converted similar images to text:
I swear to Cthulhu that is what the Ultra gave me when I was done.
Folks, I am only beginning my review of the Pocketbook Ultra, and I can tell you that the hardware design, screen quality, and software features all disappoint, leading this blogger to nominate the Pocketbook Ultra 640 for the title of Worst New ebook reader of the year.
I strongly urge you to buy something else. This ereader might be priced higher than its premium-priced competitors, but it does not even come close to matching their quality or abilities.
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Posted: 21 Sep 2014 09:37 AM PDT
When I first reported the launch of the Kindle Voyage last week I said that the $199 price tag was more than I was willing to pay for a 6″ ebook reader, sight unseen, but now it would seem I am in the minority.
A quick check of the Kindle Voyage page on Amazon this morning has revealed that several of the Kindle Voyage models have been delayed as late as the second week of December. While the 3G+ads model is still scheduled to ship in October, the other three options have been pushed back at least a month (there’s also a quota of two per customer).
It’s only been 4 days since Amazon since Amazon launched this ereader, which was originally scheduled to ship on 21 October. But thanks to either short supply or high demand, Amazon has pushed back the ship date on new orders of the $199 Wifi+ads model to 21 November, and they have also bumped the ship date for the ad-free models (both 3G and Wifi) all the way back to 7 December.
Amazon says at 7.6 mm thick, the new Voyage is their thinnest ereader yet. It sports a 300dpi screen, page turn buttons, and 4GB internal storage.
It’s not clear just how many Kindle Voyages Amazon has sold, but we do know that the new tablets aren’t similarly blessed with a demand that exceeds supply. Both the new 6″ and 7″ Kindle Fire HD tablets are still scheduled to ship either on 2 October (black) or 16 October Citron, Magenta,White, or Cobalt). And of coursethe updated Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is still scheduled to ship on 21 October.
Similarly, the new basic Kindle is still on for 2 October. That model is more of a revived Kindle Touch (minus the audio) than a new edition of the old basic Kindle, and with its launch Amazon reduced their development costs considerably. Now they can maintain one version of the Kindle OS, and customize it for 3 screen resolutions, instead of supporting different versions of the OS which ran on disticly different hardware.
So did you order a Kindle Voyage?
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Posted: 20 Sep 2014 10:52 PM PDT
Pocketbook’s new 8″ ebook reader was expected to ship earlier this week in Europe, but sadly it has experienced another delay. AlleseBook.de reported that the InkPad, which was scheduled to ship out on Monday, has been delayed for at least a couple weeks.
The InkPad has drawn a lot of attention since it was announced earlier this year. With an 8″ E-ink display and a screen resolution of 1,600 x 1,200, the InkPad sports a screen that is larger than and nearly as sharp as the screen on the T68 Lynx or the Aura HD.
Alas, early reports tell us that it’s not nearly as well built as either of those ereaders. Initially released in Russia in August, was the subject of a lot of criticism from early buyers. There were numerous complaints on its build quality, screen, software, and well, pretty much everything except the cardboard box.
Several owners noted that the shell literally fell apart, and that the screen looked looked grayer and had worse contrast than Vizplex, E-ink’s second gen screen tech (which was initially released in 2008).
The vast number of unhappy customers in Russia led Pocketbook to delay the European launch until mid-September, and now it has been delayed yet again.
And that includes my review unit, darnit. I pre-ordered my unit earlier this month from Pocketbook’s official website in France, hoping that it would be shipped this week. Clearly that was too optimistic.
At this point we still don’t know for sure when the InkPad will ship or if it will be up to snuff. And that’s a shame, because the 8″ ereader category has been a ghost town for several years now. A couple 8″ ereader models were released in 2012, but they weren’t on the market all that long. And while Bookeen has been planning to release an 8″ model called the Ocean, they had originally intended to release it last year (and it’s still not out).
Until I know more about the actual status of the InkPad, here is a hands on video which teases us with visions of a device which I may never get to put my hands on:
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Vivo has launched a new mid-range smartphone in China, dubbed Vivo Z5x. It comes with features like a 6.53-inch hole-punch display, Snapdragon 710 processor, 5,000mAh battery and more. The device will be made available in three colour options Aurora, Extreme Night Black and Phantom Black.
The device is priced at CNY 1,398 (approximately Rs. 14,400) for the 4GB RAM/64GB storage variant, CNY 1,498 (approximately Rs. 15,400) for the 6GB RAM/64GB storage variant, CNY 1,698 (approximately Rs. 17,400) for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage variant and CNY 1,998 (approximately Rs. 20,400) for the 8GB RAM/128GB storage variant.
The company has not divulged any details as to when it will be launching the device in the other markets including India.
Vivo Z5x sports a 6.53-inch full HD+ hole-punch display with a 2340x1080 pixels resolution and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor paired with an Adreno 616 GPU.
The device comes with 4GB/6GB/8GB of RAM along with 64GB/128GB of internal storage expandable up to 256GB via a microSD card. It runs Google's Android 9.0 Pie operating system with the company's own FunTouch 9 skin on top and is backed by a 5,000mAh battery.
Vivi Z5x sports a triple camera setup on the back consisting of a 16-megapixel primary sensor paired with n 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. On the front, we get a see a 16-megapixel sensor for taking selfies.


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Bad news for fans and enthusiasts of Maserati sports cars! Soon the Bologna-based manufacturer of exclusive luxury vehicles will have no new sports cars in its product lineup as Maserati is moving to focus on other vehicles. This was recently revealed by Giulio Pastore, managing director of Maserati’s European division, to the CAR Magazine.
Maserati’s GranTurismo and GranCabrio are still being produced at the carmaker’s production facilities at its Viale Ciro Menotti headquarters in Modena, Italy. However, that won’t be for long. Production of the GranTurismo and GranCabrio twins is bound to end sometime in 2017. This news would have been easier to take had there been replacement models for the GranTurismo and GranCabrio in 2018, but sadly, there aren’t.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that Maserati won’t be producing sports cars anymore. Pastore quipped that a new era of sports cars was on the drawing board, since Maserati can’t do without them. He indicated that a standalone coupe and convertible were being planned. Maserati’s next sports cars replacing the GranTurismo and GranCabrio are still expected to arrive in 2019, although it’s most likely to turn up in 2020.Read the entire article No new sports cars from Maserati until 2020!
It wasn’t too long ago when Maserati took the wraps off what appears to be the most gorgeous concept coupe ever made. The Alfieri coupe premiered at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show and since then, many enthusiasts have anticipated what Maserati is actually bringing to the table. Initial reports claimed that we’re about to see the Alfieri on the road this 2016. The year is about to end and so far, we don’t see it coming. There were reports that say 2018 is the year of its arrival, but apparently it has once again been postponed.
According to Maserati’s initial announcement, the Alfieri’s production model will be available in either 4-wheel or rear-wheel drive systems as well as in convertible and coupe body frames. That probably got true car fans even more excited. The Alfieri is one excellent concept as it carries with it a charm that easily electrifies the crowd. As much as we’re hoping the fabulous GT coupe to be a production model real soon, there will be a wait of at least a few years more. Considering our assumptions are correct, Maserati plans on selling this in showrooms by the year 2020. That’s equivalent to 3-4 more years of sitting and waiting.
Maserati Europe’s managing director Giulio Pastore spoke with Autocar recently to explain the postponement of Alfieri’s much anticipated release. Pastore openly explained how they are planning to introduce the new GranCabrio and GranTurismo first before introducing the Alfieri to the market. Whatever the case may be, postponing the release of Alfieri brings together the brand’s well-known beautiful 2-seater GT cars. It serves more like a prelude that something bigger is in the offing.Read the entire article Maserati Alfieri production delayed, may be set for 2020 or 2021 launch
Alfa Romeo has just rolled out the 4C but this model isn’t enough to take on rivals such as the Jaguar F-Type or the Porsche 911. As a result, the Italian company owned by Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles is working on a more potent model rumored to be called 6C.
What’s more interesting is that the upcoming vehicle will be based on the Maserati Alfieri Concept that was unveiled earlier this year at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show.
Maserati already announced in its 5-year business plan that it will produce the Alfieri Concept and will be introduced in 2016. The Alfa Romeo 6C will follow in 2017 featuring the well-known shield-shaped front grille and stylish LED headlights.Read the entire article Alfa Romeo planning 6C Coupe, will be based on Maserati Alfieri
Back in March, at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, Maserati introduced the Alfieri Concept, a vehicle that celebrated company’s 100th anniversary and said much about the design DNA of future Maseratis. Due to the positive feedback, the Italian manufacturer owned by Fiat decided to build the Alfieri Concept and officially announced in its 5-year business plan the production version will arrive in 2016.
During an interview with the global design for parent company, Fiat, Lorenzo Ramaciotti told PistonHeads that the final version of the vehicle will look just like the concept car. “It will be impossible to see the difference”, Ramaciotti said.
We already know that the Maserati Alfieri will be offered exclusively with a V6 engine. The entry-level version will deliver 350 hp, but don’t worry, because Maserati will also offer a version delivering 450 hp, while the most powerful version will offer 520 hp.Read the entire article 2016 Maserati Alfieri will be identical to the concept version
If the production version of the Alfieri Concept was just a rumor, today it became official as Maserati has just announced its 5-year business plan. If the Alfieri Coupe will arrive in 2016, the Maserati Alfieri Cabrio will make its debut in 2017, while the new Granturismo will be introduced in 2018.
The RWD versions of the Maserati Alfieri Coupe and Cabrio models will be powered by a V6 engine rated at 410 hp, but a more powerful V8 engine rated at 450 hp or 520 hp will be available on AWD versions of the models.
In 2015, Maserati will finally introduce its Levante SUV, which will receive a V6 petrol engine that generates 350 hp, as well as a more powerful version that delivers 425 hp, A V8-powered Levante will get more than 560 hp. Still, Maserati will be offer with diesel engines that will deliver 250 hp, 275 hp and 340 hp.Read the entire article Maserati shows its 5-year business plan, Alfieri gets green light for production
Maserati might hike output as well as include the Alfieri sports car to its product lineup after advance sales at the marque nearly tripled over the figure in 2013, people privy with the matter told Bloomberg News. Maserati chief executive Harald Wester told Bloomberg in an interview that the brand is receiving 3,500 orders monthly, which would amount to 42,000 unit sales this year.
Maserati sold 15,400 vehicles in 2013. Maserati posted a 331-percent surge in sales in the United States in the first quarter of 2014 to 2,368 units. Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is due to unveil next month a new business plan for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which may entail a commitment to proceed with a high-end sports car based on the Alferi Concept unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show in March, sources said.
Automotive News Europe reported in March that Maserati could start output of the Alfieri sports coupe within two years, after the rollout of the Levante SUV in 2015. Maserati aims the Alfieri to rival the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Jaguar F-Type. According to sources, Fiat mulls adding a third shift at Maserati’s Grugliasco site after around 50 workers spent some nights putting finishing touches on Maserati Ghibli and Quattroporte.Read the entire article Maserati might build the Alfieri coupe as global sales almost tripled in 2013
Maserati made quite a buzz with the Alfieri Concept at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show and it appears that things are going to be very interesting for the Italian company owned by Fiat-Chrysler. According to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne the Alfieri platforms and engines are already available and technically, the production could start in 24-48 months!
"The only thing I can tell you is that it's a beautiful machine," added Marchionne. The official press release said that the Alfieri Concept was designed to show us the upcoming Maseratis.
We also expect the next Granturismo to take lots of styling cues from it. But still, Fiat design chief Lorenzo Ramaciotti wanted to underline what Marchionne said. "We stuck close to reality with this concept," said Ramaciotti. "It's 85 to 90 percent feasible (that we will build it). There's a lead time of 24 months."Read the entire article Maserati could begin production of the Alfieri coupe within two years
For the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, Maserati announced that it will unveil a new concept car that will outline the upcoming cars of the next 100 years. Today, the new concept showed up on the Web ahead of its official debut! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Maserati Alfieri Concept.
The new silver coupe shows aggressive design lines and the front end is dominated by the big grille featuring the well-known Maserati logo. Meanwhile, the rear end features large fenders, LED taillights as well as a two-pipe exhaust system.
As expected, the new Maserati Alfieri Concept previews the next Granturismo and we expect a production version of the Alfieri to be RWD and powered by a V6 as well as a more potent V8 engine. Rivals for this car are the Porsche 911, Jaguar F-Type but also the brand new Corvette Stingray.Read the entire article Maserati Alfieri Concept leaked ahead of 2014 Geneva Motor Show
Earlier today we showed you the first images but now the Maserati Alfieri Concept became official at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. The new 2+2 concept car celebrates company’s centenary and says much about the design DNA of future Maseratis.
The new concept car bears the name of Alfieri a.k.a. the most prominent of the Maserati brothers but also the engineering genius who founded “Officine Alfieri Maserati” in Bologna a century ago. Alfieri Concept is a reminder that Maserati has a remarkable racing heritage and a unique tradition in exotic GT cars.
The new concept car is an Italian style 2+2 like the 1957 3500 GT, the 1959 5000 GT and the 1969 Indy and could preview a new Granturismo. Another inspiration for the new Maserati Concept was the Maserati A6 GCS-53 designed by Pininfarina in 1954. For those who don’t know, the A6 GCS-53 was an iconic piece of automotive technology and featured a diminutive cabin positioned almost over the rear wheels, a seemingly endless bonnet and long, sinuous wings stretching nearly to the rear wheels.Read the entire article 2014 Geneva: Maserati Alfieri Concept is the best centenary present [Live Photos]
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Corus enters event business
The media co is launching the new division with CMT Music Fest this July.
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation unlocks new demo of donors
The charity has integrated its latest campaign into a videogame, with virtual purchases counting as real-world donations.
Where’s the hockey content on YouTube?
CDS (now Studio71) is aiming to fill a void with the launch of a new hockey vertical, starting with videos from star player Bobby Ryan.
Sony consolidates media accounts
The company is giving 90% of its media business to two agency groups following a review.
ICYMI: Virool’s new addition, Let’s Talk sees Twitter surge
In case you missed it: Virool launches new optimization engine, GoPro renews its hockey partnership and Twitter Canada hires a Moments lead.
Cieslok invests in back-end support
The OOH company’s president on markets he hopes to tap to give advertisers a juicier national package in 2016.
Brees names new client lead
Sana Ali takes over as VP at the agency, where she is currently in charge of client management.
Shaw Media greenlights new Canadian drama for Global
The drama is executive produced by Rookie Blue creator Tassie Cameron.
Nearly half of English Canadians watch Netflix: MTM
That figure is up from 21% in 2012, according to a sneak peek of the research org’s fall report.
ScanChat looks to virtually boost the printed page
A new app that debuted on Dragons’ Den allows publishers to add content to pages that can be accessed when users scan them.


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Tik Tok Hits A Billion Active Users
TikTok has reached over a billion active users, an impressive milestone for an app that only launched four years ago.
Like many online platform, usage of Tik Tok accelerated during the pandemic, with over 300 million users joining since July, 2020, the last time the company reported its user stats.
The app, created by Chinese group ByteDance, is so popular among Chinese kids that the government has limited daily use on the platform to 40 minutes a day for under 14s.
Despite this rapid rise, Tik Tok only started monetising its platform’s traffic last year with advertising, and this August, launched an online marketplace to allow users to sell products directly to its audience.


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HomeAway shares soar on strong earnings
Austin-based HomeAway Inc. saw its stock soar Thursday after posting second-quarter revenue that beat analysts’ expectations.
Shares of the company, which operates the world’s leading network of online vacation rentals, rose as much as 8.73 percent to $35.50 in after-hours trading.
For the second quarter ended June 30, HomeAway reported revenue of $114.3 million, up 31.9 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Analysts expected revenue of $110.36 million for the quarter.
The company posted net income of $3.4 million, or 4 cents a share. That compares with net income of $5.5 million, or 6 cents a share, for the same quarter in 2013.
HomeAway reported adjusted earnings of 15 cents a share for the quarter, in-line with Capital IQ consensus estimate of 15 cents, according to Briefing.com.
“We’ve had another great quarter, once again delivering results above our expectations,” HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples said in a written statement. “We also achieved a significant milestone, reaching one million live listings on our global network of sites.”
Going forward, Sharples said “with much of our platform and product investment behind us, the next few years will mark a renewed focus on marketing as we strive to make HomeAway one of the most recognized and respected travel brands in the world.”
Earnings were released after markets closed. Before the announcement, HomeAway shares closed at $32.65, down $1.23, or 3.63 percent.
Founded in 2005, HomeAway’s websites have more than 890,000 paid listings in more than 190 companies. The company has more than 1,400 employees worldwide, including more than 700 in Austin.
In recent months, the company has made a push into the Asia-Pacific region. In December, it paid $198 million in cash for the Stayz Group, which operates the leading Australia-based vacation rental website.
In November, HomeAway bought an ownership stake in New Zealand vacation rental website Bookabach for an undisclosed price. Prior to that, it purchased Singapore-based travelmob.com and formed a partnership with Webo.com, a leading travel search engine in the Asia Pacific.


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Will the English soon cut back on their glasses of claret? The United Kingdom Department of Health, led by Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies, released new guidelines on alcohol consumption today, in which the country's chief medical officers reject any suggested health benefits of wine or other alcoholic beverages. Drinking alcohol is unsafe at any level, they warn, arguing that even small amounts may increase the risk of cancer and other health problems. The guidelines also slash recommended drinking levels for men to no more than one drink per day.
The severe recommendations come as a shock to many, as England now has one of the strictest drinking guidelines in the world.
By comparison, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture issued their 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans a day earlier. The U.S. report maintained its mantra of moderation—one drink-equivalent per day for women and up to two for men. Within these parameters, alcohol "can help individuals achieve healthy eating patterns," the report read.
The U.S. report did revise its definition of what a typical alcoholic drink is, now classifying a "drink-equivalent" as 0.6 fluid ounces of pure alcohol. That's equal to 12 ounces of beer at 5 percent alcohol, 5 ounces of wine at 12 percent alcohol and 1.5 ounces of spirits at 40 percent alcohol.
Since alcohol levels (and how much people pour) varies, the U.S. guidelines give examples of how many "drink equivalents" various drinks contain. If you like large wineglasses and pour yourself 9 ounces of that 12 percent alcohol wine, you're having "1.8 drinks" according to the guidelines. If your wine clocks in at 15 percent alcohol, 5 ounces is equal to "1.3 drinks."
The U.K.'s version of the drink equivalent is the "alcohol unit," which is approximately 0.3 fluid ounces of pure alcohol. The old U.K. guidelines recommended 21 units per week for men and 14 for women. Now, the recommendation for both men and women is just 14 units per week. So using the example of a 5-ounce glass of wine at 15 percent alcohol, the U.K. guidelines limit consumption for men (and women) to just over six glasses per week, while the U.S. guidelines suggest no more than 11 for men and five and a half for women.
Why the considerable change in London? The previous U.K. guidelines were issued in 1995 and in recent years some health advocates there had called them outdated and confusing. One particular criticism was a guideline allowing up to 4 units per week for expectant mothers, a deviation from most international standards. Another was that new research had raised questions about links between wine and breast cancer and throat cancer.
In 2012, Davies commissioned a group of experts to research and update the guidelines. According to their report, the group reviewed "the evidence from 44 systematic reviews and meta-analyses" published since the 1995 guidelines came out. They concluded that, "stronger evidence has emerged that the risk of a range of cancers, especially breast cancer, increases directly in line with consumption of any amount of alcohol."
What about possible health benefits of wine? Davies and her team largely dismissed the extensive research into alcohol and red wine's potential to aid in the prevention of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic illnesses. "An old wives' tale," Davies told BBC Radio.
Responding specifically to the question of whether moderate alcohol consumption can help heart health, the U.K. review concluded that any protective cardiovascular effects from wine only help women over 55. They argued that confounding factors, such as that people who drink wine tend to live healthier lifestyles, may have been a factor behind studies showing a benefit and that those benefits come as long as consumption is low.
"The group therefore concluded that the evidence supporting protective effects today is now weaker than it was at the time of the 1995 report and that there are substantial uncertainties," the guidelines stated. "Taking this into account alongside all the known acute and chronic risks to health from drinking even at low levels, supports the conclusion of the group that there is no justification for recommending drinking on health grounds, nor for starting drinking for health reasons."
Dr. Roger Corder of Queen Mary University in London and author of The Red Wine Diet found that conclusion unjustified. "It has been my recommendation for many years that people should drink less and drink better (i.e quality)," Corder told Wine Spectator. "However, the chief medical officer’s report seems ill-informed and poorly thought through. The report doesn’t appear to have been peer reviewed by other experts in the field. There are a number of important failings in the recommendations that will inevitably lead to the guidelines being discredited."
Corder said the report chiefly cites one study to dismiss wine's cardio-protective benefits. "This study does not examine the influence of different types of alcohol, and certainly doesn’t consider red wine as a separate entity. The [population studied] is women-orientated and has a limited number of men from traditional red wine–drinking countries. Claims that red wine are not cardio-protective cannot be based on a population where red wine is not the main alcoholic drink."
Corder does think drinking rates are too high in the U.K. But he believes these guidelines lack credibility, which will only lead people to ignore them. That, he argues, makes this a lost opportunity.


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Epic Games launched its courtroom war against Apple in an extremely on-brand way: with CEO Tim Sweeney describing the metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash.
Sweeney called Fortnite ‘a phenomenon that transcends gaming’ The metaverse is Sweeney’s chosen metaphor for Fortnite, the battle royale game that Apple banned from its iOS App Store last year.
Epic sued in retaliation, and today, both companies delivered opening statements before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
Epic put Sweeney on the stand for hours of exhaustively detailed questions about — among other things — Epic’s Unreal Engine, gaming consoles, the App Store, and what players do on Fortnite’s party island.
Epic’s legal team was responsible for asking questions that set up Sweeney’s statements, resulting in queries both extremely tailored (“How would you define the metaverse?”) and comically general (“Are you familiar with something called a ‘console’?”).
” Apple countered by calling Epic’s suit “a fundamental assault on Apple’s secure and integrated ecosystem.
Epic and Apple frame Epic’s demands very differently.
Epic mostly stuck to discussing its most moderate request: that Apple let developers process in-app purchases through their own systems, bypassing Apple’s fee.
Apple highlighted the most extreme ask: that Apple let iPhone owners side-load third-party app stores like the Epic Games Store.
But he hammered on Epic’s willingness to deal with gaming companies like Sony, who lock down their consoles in ways that Apple compares to the iPhone.
Sony, for instance, requires Epic to pay if a user plays Fortnite mostly on PlayStation but spends lots of money on another platform like PC.
But Sweeney and its attorneys have drawn a much finer distinction involving its business model, saying that console makers typically sell their hardware at a loss, so they have an incentive to treat developers better.
Epic will grill them about Apple’s business practices and whether it’s delivering on its promise of a safe, secure experience for developers and iOS users.
But Sweeney neatly laid out a more personal vision of the conflict: Fortnite is Epic’s answer to the web, and Apple wants 30 cents of every virtual dollar that an iPhone user spends in it.


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By Andrew Asch | December 11, 2014
Carl Louisville, founder of the Guerilla Atelier boutique at the edge of downtown Los Angeles, mixes a Californian sense of refinement with an Arts District sense of adventure at his shop, and Dec. 10 was the atelier’s night for giving back with a photographic series called The Lost Warhols.
Parker & Barrow store with custom-made clothes opening in downtown Los Angeles.
Agenda Emerge is something like TED Talks for the streetwear, action sports and fashion crowds. At the upcoming Agenda Emerge, Shepard Fairey of Obey and Bob Hurley of Hurley will take the stage.
For months, shop-owners around the District La Brea compound in Los Angeles heard gossip that will.i.am, Grammy award winner and entrepreneur, was going to open a shop in the compound, which is located across the street from pioneering specialty store American Rag. The music star’s shop opened today.
Karl Kani, one of the heavyweights of urban fashion stepped back into the ring on Dec. 13.
The hard work is over for Coach, and Dec. 11 was the time to party.
Men’s fashion labels don’t come more mysterious than Los Vladimirovich. California Apparel News investigates.
The Gap Factory Store to Open Soon on Broadway.
After opening a bunch of emporiums in Southern California, Uniqlo planned to give away some holiday freebies around Dec. 13. Check it out.
After making her L.A. debut with a Style Fashion Week runway show in October, Kaye Morales returned to the Philippines to work on her self-named collection's fall/winter 2015 line called Samurai.
At The Grove, Diane von Furstenberg opens her newest shop.
Artist Rachel Tribble made some paintings inspired by meditation and peace, but the art was placed on something known to disrupt order on sidewalks all over the world; the skateboard.
Venice boutique In Heroes We Trust threw a party dubbed Theatre on Dec. 5, and in a case of a party living up to its name, it was visited by Venice-style agitprop; the Tree Man of Venice planted his feet at the party.
Huff,puff, huff! The Lululemon Athletica emporium on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade opened Dec. 4 on a sweaty note.
Delia’s, the teen retailer that pioneered the whole “magalog” category is soon to be no more.


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The Global Entrepreneurship Network is excited to partner with EcoKMC to launch its first Startup Huddle in China to support entrepreneurs in honing pitch skills and discovering solutions to their business challenges. Local founders, innovators, and business leaders in Suzhou will come together on January 15, 2020 to support two entrepreneurs in working through challenges and crowdsourcing solutions.
An experiential learning opportunity, Startup Huddle offers a unique program designed to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs. The Startup Huddle format is consistent in each location: on a given morning, one or two early-stage startup founders give a six-minute presentation of their companies to a diverse audience of peers, mentors, educators and advisers. Each presentation is followed by a 20-minute question and answer session.
Suzhou is a quasi-first-tier city in China where innovation is viewed as a significant tool for promoting economic development and industrial upgrading. EcoKMC, the first international incubator in Suzhou, is excited to leverage Startup Huddle in building and strengthening the local entrepreneurial ecosystem in Suzhou.
For the first huddle, the organizers have selected Zhu Zhu, founder of Suzhou Liuzhe Automotive Technology Co., Ltd., a technology company focused on the research and development of automotive products, specifically low-speed new energy vehicles, and Zheng Zhixiang, founder of Shanghai Doumengmeng Health Technology Co., Ltd., a technology service company focused on early childhood development.
“Startup Huddle is a program designed to help one entrepreneur at a time while strengthening our local ecosystem, and we are so excited to launch in Suzhou. We we will be joining a community of other Huddle organizers around the world in more than 50 cities. Furthermore, we will be the first organizer to launch Startup Huddle in mainland China," said Catherine Zhou, CEO of EcoKMC.
The culture surrounding Startup Huddle is that of a supportive, neutral space, welcoming entrepreneurs to be open and honest about their businesses and the challenges they face. Each event is organized by local entrepreneurs and community builders who volunteer their time to secure a venue, vet and select presenters and publicize the event.
As opposed to a traditional “pitch” environment, Startup Huddle was not created to be critical of entrepreneurs, but rather for the presenters to learn from shared experiences and find ways to support one another as a community.
Startup Huddle is an educational experience for both the audience and the presenters. Presenters are given resources and support to prepare for their presentation and surveyed after their presentation to see what they’ve learned.


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