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Forget ancient whispers of Atlantis or hushed speculation on Kate Middleton’s latest haircut, there’s a hot new rumor in town: Apple will launch a brand-new, high-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro imminently.
What will it look like? How fast will it be? And most importantly, how deep a hole will it burn in your wallet? All questions born on the tongues of tech gossips the world over.
We’ve rounded up the rumors to take away the guesswork, giving you all the info you need right here. Make sure you check back regularly, as we’ll be updating this page as more rumors and leaks come to light.
Price and release date
At its September 10 iPhone 11 launch event, rumors had speculated we might also see the launch of the new MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. The event came and gone without a mention of the Mac.
That doesn’t mean, however, the 16-inch MacBook Pro is completely out of the loop. A report from analysts IHS Markit pinned the date on September, but others have suggested it might launch at an event in October.
This is affirmed by a IHS Markit report from August 2019 that stated the 16-inch MacBook Pro would actually enter production in September, with no actual launch date mentioned. The report further claimed that the 15-inch MacBook Pro would cease production in November 2019, with the 16-inch version set to replace it. With all that said, an October Mac event seems the most likely.
But what about the price? Well, unsurprisingly the new 16-inch MacBook Pro is likely to be expensive. Apple has only just updated its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models; if it came out with a brand new 16-inch model so soon afterwards, it would tick a whole lot of people off who just shelled out on a model released earlier this year.
With that in mind, the 16-inch MacBook Pro will have to be positioned as something special, something altogether different from this year’s updated models. And if that’s the case, it’ll likely come with a load of bells and whistles that push the price up into ultra-premium territory.
A new keyboard
One of the biggest complaints and points of controversy about the current crop of MacBook Pros is the keyboard. The butterfly-switch keyboard has been present in every MacBook since 2016, but recent reports say that’s finally going to change. The new design is being referred to as a “scissor-switch” mechanism, a more common low-profile keyboard technology. According to the report, Apple’s switches use a “glass fiber” material to support the keys.
This new keyboard technology was initially reported to start appearing in MacBooks starting in 2020, but now it looks like it will be coming to the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro as well. This change in keyboards would mark a serious correction to the mistakes made in the previous generation from a technological standpoint.
That doesn’t, though, mean it’ll look or feel all that different. Apple could keep the feel of it relatively similar, and not even mention the difference when it’s announced. Given the amount of trouble Apple has had with the keyboard thus far, we wouldn’t be surprised if the company would rather downplay the changes that will be made.
A larger, higher-resolution display
The most solid information we have on this new MacBook Pro is its display, with well-connected analyst Ming Chi-Kuo predicting Apple will launch an “all-new” MacBook Pro with a display ranging between 16 and 16.5 inches in size. That would make it Apple’s largest MacBook display since the company stopped selling its 17-inch model.
The latest display rumor comes from analysts IHS Markit. They claimed to have obtained further details on this display, stating it’ll be a TFT-LCD panel made by LG Display.
If that’s true, it dampens hopes of Apple fitting its 16-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED display, which would feel like a given if Apple’s rumored laptop is its attempt to go all-out.
But then, Apple has never been one to rush in head-first with relatively new technology. Apple’s mantra is to be best, not to be first. If it doesn’t feel it can equip the 16-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED display that would absolutely blow you away this year, then it won’t do it until it’s totally ready.
We don’t know much about the design of the 16-inch MacBook Pro outside of one major change: The screen bezels.
The word on the street is that this laptop will have even thinner bezels than current Mac laptops, giving you more screen real estate without Apple having to expand the device’s physical footprint by a huge amount. That rumor was recently bolstered when reputable reporters Mark Gurman and Debby Wu joined the fray, also alleging the 16-inch MacBook Pro will come with slimmed-down bezels to give you more screen space.
Don’t expect too much to change elsewhere, though. The tech press has been almost silent on other design changes, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens in the coming weeks and months.
One thing we’re guessing won’t change is the keyboard. Since making its debut in 2016, the Butterfly keyboard that Apple puts in its MacBooks has undergone a fresh revision every year in an attempt to make it quieter and, supposedly, to reduce its failure rate (although this last point has never been officially confirmed by Apple). According to a teardown by iFixit, 2019 was no different, with the Butterfly keyboard getting a new under-key membrane and mechanism material. If Apple has updated its keyboard once this year, there’s no way it’ll do it again just a few months later.
We suspect Apple introduced the Butterfly keyboard to make the MacBook Pro even thinner on the one hand, and to free up internal space due to its more space-efficient mechanism on the other. That’s the same reason Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack in its iPhones — in such tightly designed devices, internal space is at a premium.
With that in mind, we can’t see Apple backtracking on the Butterfly keyboard in its 16-inch MacBook Pro and replacing it with a new design that brings back the larger key travel that some people have been clamoring for. The only way Apple would give its 16-inch device a new keyboard is if it has an all-new low-travel design, and as we previously outlined, that seems impossible this year.
9th-gen Intel processors are most likely
With the rumor mill’s attention focused mainly on the 16-inch MacBook Pro’s display, very little has been written about its potential performance. Still, if it really is going to be Apple’s top-of-the-line laptop, then its performance will have to be truly impressive.
A report from IHS Markit in August 2019 pinned the processors down as being the same 9th-gen Intel Coffee Lake-H Refresh chips as those Apple loaded into the MacBook Pro when it refreshed the line in May 2019. That seems plausible, especially if the 16-inch MacBook Pro comes out in 2019, as numerous reports have suggested. These chips range all the way up to the eight-core, Core i9, which is the most powerful mobile processor available.
Elsewhere, there’s a possibility the 16-inch MacBook Pro will sport AMD’s new Navi graphics chips. Apple has always supported AMD graphics rather than Nvidia, and the MacBook Pros have often included the latest Radeon Pro graphics options. We reported back in January that eagle-eyed sleuths had spotted references to Navi in beta code for MacOS Mojave 14.2. If AMD has these 7nm mobile cards ready to go, the new MacBook Pro would be a great place to debut them.
- MacBook Pro 2019: Everything we know so far about Apple’s next laptops
- Apple October 2019 event: 16-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and more
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- Is an iPhone 11 Pro coming? Here’s what to expect from the Apple Event today
- 16-inch MacBook Pro to feature ultrathin bezels, more screen space, report says


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It is amazing what an up-beat trading statement can do. Transport related shares have been stuck in the doldrums for a while, but all it took was for UK Mail to say it saw its highest ever daily volumes across its parcels and mail divisions in March, and it is jolly hockey sticks all round UK Mail is the success story of the past seven days. Year-on-year volumes are up 11%; parcel volumes are up; mail volumes are up and […]
UK Mail’s forced move to new premises has had a disastrous short-term impact on the business with full-year profit now expected to be half that achieved last year, the company warned today.
UK Mail Group has been given the green light to develop its new hub in Coventry, following its agreement with the DfT earlier this month.
Last week, Dart Group revealed a near to 13% pre-tax profit rise for its transport operation, Fowler Welch. Off the back of this, which saw profit climb from £3.9m to £4.4m for the year ended 31 March 2013 at Fowler Welch, its group share price has continued to move northwards, today leaping to £2.40, up from £2.14 last week.

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It’s hard to go anywhere in an urban environment these days without running into public Wi-Fi hotspots. There are so many, in fact, that Cablevision believes it can offer a purely Wi-Fi based mobile phone service.
The Internet and cable TV provider will offer an all Wi-Fi talk, text, and data service starting in February, according to GiagaOm. The new service, called Freewheel, will be available to Cablevision subscribers for $10 a month and non-Cablevision customers can sign-up for $30 per month.
This won’t be like other Wi-Fi focused competitors such as FreedomPop and Republic Wireless. Those services currently route calls and texts via Wi-Fi when possible but fallback on Sprint’s wireless network when Wi-Fi is not available.
Freewheel will reportedly not do this. If you’re somewhere without a Wi-Fi connection, no service will be available. FreedomPop recently announced a similar Wi-Fi only service for $5 per month. The company also plans to sell a Wi-Fi only phone later in 2015.
Freewheel will be available nationwide, but GigaOm says Cablevision will focus its marketing efforts on the company’s primary markets: New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Why this matters: Offering a Wi-Fi-only mobile service is a bold move even with the proliferation of hotspots. But Cablevision apparently believes it’s got what it takes. The company has more than one million access points on its home turf that are freely available to Cablevision Internet subscribers. Like Comcast, Cablevision also uses subscribers’ home routers as a public hotspot by adding a separate connection point on the same router. Cablevision subscribers can also get nationwide free Wi-Fi at another 300,000 hotspots via the Cable WiFi group—a network of hotspots nationwide provided by Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, and TimeWarner Cable.
When it launches, the phone choices for Freewheel will be limited to one phone: the Moto G. Freewheel will sell the budget smartphone for $100, which is a little bit cheaper than the current unlocked asking price of $180.
The handset will come with apps that automatically authenticate with Cablevision hotspots, GigaOm reports. We reviewed the 2014 iteration of the Moto G last fall and called it the best smartphone you can get under $200.
While Freewheel may not offer a cellular fallback plan, it may be possible for smart shoppers to create their own. Presumably, Freewheel’s Moto G will still have all the components necessary to connect to a mobile network.
If the device also comes unlocked, which may not be the case, you could sign-up for pay-as-you-go mobile service as a fallback. It’s not clear if Freewheel hardware will allow you to do that, but that option would encourage more people to take a chance on a Wi-Fi only service—even in places where Wi-Fi is plentiful like New York City.


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Another load of Nvidia GPU rumors have just surfaced. We’ve had a lot of leaks about the RTX 3090 Ti (GA102-350) for a while now, so that’s likely to happen in the new year – although nothing is certain until Nvidia actually announces it. This is joined by recent rumors of a 16GB spin of the RTX 3050 (GA107-350) and RTX 3050 Ti (GA106-150) as well as the RTX 3070 Ti (GA104-401) and a 12GB version of the RTX 3080. GA102-220).
That’s a lot of new GPUs. are likely to be. One explanation is that these are chips that Nvidia has produced for its own verification but has no intention of actually manufacturing in quantity. Or just rumour.
We’ve seen some supporting evidence for the former with the original rumors of an RTX 3080 Ti (GA102-250) set to take on the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT with 20GB of VRAM and what is essentially a cutdown RTX 3090. What was eventually released under that name was a very different beast—the 12GB RTX 3080 Ti uses a GA102-225 GPU instead.
Some of these ‘rumours’ are just people filling gaps in Nvidia’s 30-series lineup. The RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti are obvious candidates here, simply because Nvidia currently has nothing below the RTX 3060 in its 30-series stack on desktops. Surely such GPUs will appear at some point? If only that then Nvidia makes more use of the chips it produces.
The fact that the RTX 3050 exists in mobile form has made it a likely candidate for desktop for some time. generally reliable hardware leaker, kopite, has sparked renewed interest in such GPUs with some recent tweets.
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A possible complication here is that there have been rumors that the RTX 2060 could make a comeback. It will likely be battling at, or near the same price point, making it unlikely that both will exist at the same time. Of course, the reissue of such a card raises as many questions as it answers.
Then there are the rumors about different memory configurations of the existing cards—a 16GB RTX 3070 Ti and a 12GB RTX 3080. Again these may be exploring different memory configurations for Nvidia with no specific intention to make them ready for the mass market. having said that, new Rumors on Videocardz It is suggested that the board’s participants have been asked to be prepared for such a release.
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VRAM on graphics cards can be a controversial issue, simply because it is often used by marketing teams to make cards look better than they actually are. For its latest RDNA 2 cards, AMD has offered more VRAM than Nvidia at similar price points, but unless games actually make reasonable use of more memory, there’s no real benefit to show for it. Not there.
What is potentially more beneficial is the jump in memory bandwidth on offer. By increasing the VRAM of the RTX 3080 to 12 GB, Nvidia will have to use the 384-bit memory bus as opposed to the 320-bit bus found in the original version. That’s more bandwidth and potentially better performance, although memory speed apparently plays a part here as well.
All these rumors point to a January 2022 release date, so we’ll probably have to wait until what Nvidia actually has planned. Right now, it appears that there are five new GPUs on the way – from the powerful RTX 3090 Ti to the lower RTX 3050, there’s room for the return of the RTX 2060 as well. Oh, and maybe some RTX 30-series Super cards? Oh boy


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Q&A: Food Inflation Stokes Food Insecurity
Q: Are you concerned about food insecurity in 2022 and beyond?
A: During the COVID-19 pandemic, more Americans experienced food insecurity as unemployment and empty store shelves produced uncertainty around kitchen tables in households across the country. Moms and Dads struggled to put food on the table and worried about sending their kids to bed hungry. According to the USDA, more than 38 million people in the United States lived in food-insecure households in 2020. As COVID-19 spread across the country, Congress boosted spending for food pantries and nutrition assistance programs to help Americans who lost their jobs feed their families. I worked to expand flexibilities in the USDA summer food service program to maximize its utility during the summer months when kids aren’t in the school building. When I visited food banks in Pocahontas and Waterloo, I saw neighbor helping neighbor to help hungry families in times of need. Today, more Americans are turning to local food banks to feed their families as inflation outpaces their wages.
Food insecurity looms large on the horizon and could impact even more people due to soaring fuel and food prices and war-torn Ukraine. The international food price index that tracks prices of globally traded food commodities reached its highest point this spring since recording began in 1990. Since last June, the producer price index here in the U.S. increased 11.3 percent. Prices paid by American consumers spiked 9.1 percent, the fastest clip since Nov. 1981. The primary inflationary culprit is rising energy costs. Families are getting hammered from one week to the next at the gas pump and the grocery store. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the prices of cereal, bread and chicken rose 14.2 percent, 10.8 percent and 17.3 percent on an annual basis. The rising fuel costs, particularly diesel, adds to higher food prices on the shelves. Surging input costs for farmers to grow the food, particularly fertilizer and diesel fuel, contribute to higher prices to get the food from farm to fork. Truckers are paying more than double to fill up their tanks and deliver food to stores and restaurants around the country.
Q: What are you doing to help lower costs and alleviate tight supplies?
A: I’m leading the charge to help lower costs at the grocery store. The Big Four Packers control more than 85 percent of the market and use anti-competitive tactics to box-out smaller producers. That means independent farmers in Iowa are forced to sell livestock at dirt cheap prices, and consumers pay through the nose for beef at restaurants and grocery stores. This is happening as the Big Four packers reap record profits. Sysco, the largest food distributor in the U.S., recently filed a lawsuit against these packers alleging price fixing. They claim these packers intentionally reduced the number of slaughtered cattle to inflate beef prices that families are forced to pay. We must maintain a cash market for cattle producers and increase competition. My two bipartisan bills that sailed through the Senate Agriculture Committee would do just that.
In July, I joined farm state lawmakers and urged the Biden administration to waive import duties on fertilizer from Morocco and Trinidad and Tobago. They export phosphate fertilizer subject to import tariffs and that’s compounding inflationary prices on key ingredients to get crops in the ground. The rising cost of fertilizer is compelling farmers to apply less than recommended soil nutrient rates. That will impact productivity, lead some growers to switch to alternative crops and disrupt a reliable supply of protein staples and increase food insecurity in America and around the world. A competitive price for fertilizer is critical to food security, national security and national defense. What’s more, the import duties exacerbate the fragility of the global food supply due to Russia’s unprovoked invasion. Ukraine is a key exporter of farm commodities and often referred to as the breadbasket of Europe and a primary supplier of grain throughout the Middle East and Africa. The war zone in Ukraine has disrupted the growing season and as the war ravages on, its ports are under siege and sea lanes are blocked by Russia. Rising food and fuel prices combined with the ongoing war in Ukraine have the potential to create a perfect storm of social unrest, food riots and famine in the developing world.
Here in Iowa, food banks and mobile food pantries are experiencing rising need as food costs continue to climb. Food Bank of Iowa serves 55 of our 99 counties and partners with volunteers and community businesses to fill local pantries and serve hungry neighbors. It reported serving its highest number of individuals in its 40-year history in May. Pantries supplied by the River Bend Food Bank report feeling the pinch as donations dwindle with less food on store shelves available to donate. As the cost of fresh fruit, meat and eggs continues to climb, cash donations aren’t stretching as far to buy food and local pantries are challenged to help keep families with children, seniors and veterans hunger-free in their communities. In Washington, I’ll keep fighting inflation so wages aren’t guzzled up at the pump and grocery store. I’m also fighting tax increases so Iowans can keep more of their hard-earned money to make ends meet. Iowans looking for more information on local food pantries may call 211, or visit https://www.iowafba.org/partner-food-banks.


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SAN FRANCISCO — One in four dealerships using Drive Motors’ online retailing platform made more than 50% of their December online sales during the final seven days of the month. That’s up 5% from the 2016 holiday season, leading the startup’s CEO and founder, Aaron Krane, to conclude that online car buying is beginning to make strides in the automotive retail business.
December was a big month for makers of digital retailing platforms, marking the first time their dealer partners were able to participate in online sales during a holiday season. What makes Krane’s findings noteworthy is most dealerships were closed during two of those final seven days, Christmas and New Year’s days.
“As we saw last year, the final seven days of the year were a critical time for dealers in 2017,” said Krane, who predicted prior to the holidays that dealers actively using his firm’s platform would make more than 50% of their online sales in the final week of December. “In fact, several dealers raced all the way to the finish line, making over 75% of their December online sales in the final seven days of 2017.”
That wasn’t the only prediction Krane offered heading into the 2017 holiday season. He predicted that his dealers’ daily average order count would spike by more than 50% on the days between Christmas and New Year’s. He also expected Drive Motors dealers to experience a 10% to 20% decrease in online traffic and order volume on Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve Day vs. the 22% dip experienced during the 2016 holiday season.
Not only did the firm’s dealer partners experience a smaller dip in online orders and traffic, they sold almost three times as many cars online on Christmas Day than they did on Christmas Day 2016. As for Christmas Eve, Drive Motors clients sold twice as many cars online than they did on the same day last year.
“Surprisingly, car orders on Christmas Day itself nearly tripled year over year,” Krane said. “Not only are people shopping more during the holidays, they’re also buying.”
The top five days for online car orders, in descending order, were Dec. 19, 28, 13, 26, and 29. Compared to the December 2017 daily average, those five days registered combined average growth of 48%.
“As this technology evolves, customers are becoming more aware that they can purchase their next car online from their local dealerships,” Krane said. “And as predicted, our dealership partners saw an even smaller dip in online orders on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 2017 than in 2016.”


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I’m a big fan of the online payment processor PayPal. Even after having my account hijacked and thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment shipped to somewhere in the Philippines, I continue to use the service. It’s fast, easy, and cheap. Reasons thousands upon thousands have also relied upon the payment processor to handle everything from eBay payments to reimbursing Frank for lunch this afternoon.
However, many of eBay’s top executives used their keynote speeches during the recent eBay Live! conference to announce new PayPal security initiatives, including a service for eBay sellers that will alert them to potentially risky buyers. PayPal has, admittedly, done a vigilant job of trying to prevent online theft and identity theft. One of my favorite new features is PayPal’s new Security Key. The key is similar to corporate products from companies like RSA but is targeted at helping consumers prevent fraud. The key generates a unique six-digit security code about every 30 seconds. You enter that code when you log in to your PayPal or eBay account with your regular user name and password. Then the code expires â€“ so no one else can use it.
Feeling comfortable within the digital world, but not content to simply help you pay for your winning bids, PayPal has begun to spread its wings. With an admirable 143 million user accounts, PayPal still pales in comparison to the likes of Visa or Mastercard who have over than a billion accounts. So, to compete among the “big boys,” PayPal is becoming more like a bank.
For the past year, PayPal has tested a virtual debit card enabling users to make purchases with PayPal on Web sites that do not offer it as a payment option. The service, which PayPal plans to launch broadly before the holiday shopping season, provides a one-time MasterCard number for a given purchase. The money is then debited from the user’s PayPal account.
Also like a bank, PayPal has long doled out interest on balances left in PayPal accounts. The rate, often more than 4%, is typically higher than that offered by brick-and-mortar banks. It also offers actual plastic credit cards, through a partnership with GE Consumer Finance (GE), for which it gives buyers 1% back on transactions. In addition, PayPal allows users to wire money through eBay’s Skype online phone service. There also are plans to give users the ability to view receipts for past transactions online, says Thompson.
So the question is, how much do you trust PayPal? Do you trust it enough to use it as your main banking account? Or have the security issues of the past tainted its image so much that it will never become the great online bank it wants to be?


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Site weakness could have let outsiders change a user's address and potentially hijack their account.
The problems were repaired before they became publicly known, Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman, said on Monday. "It is an extremely remote possibility that it would have affected any of Netflix's 5.2 million members," he said.
Design flaws in the Netflix Web site were the cause of the relatively new type of weakness in Web applications, known as hostile linking or Cross Site Request Forgery, said Dave Ferguson, the security researcher who discovered the issues and reported them to Netflix. Ferguson publicly disclosed the flaw on Monday on a popular security mailing list. This type of flaw probably exists in many other complicated Web sites, he said. Ferguson publicly disclosed the flaw on Monday on a popular security mailing list.
"This type of attack is only suitable for a certain type of Web site. It just happens to be that Netflix is the perfect example," he said. "One key thing is when the majority of users keep themselves logged in. I don't do this for many sites, but Netflix is one of them."
An attacker could have taken advantage of the weaknesses by crafting a Web site that includes some simple HTML code, Ferguson said. A Netflix user would have to be tricked into visiting the nefarious Web site for the attack to succeed, he said.
Only those Netflix customers who use the "remember me" option on the DVD rental site would be affected. The popular feature automatically logs users in on their next visit. It sets up a type of trust between the user's PC and the Netflix Web site that could be exploited by third-party sites, Ferguson said.
While boosting rentals of the "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie by adding the title to Netflix subscribers' queues is quite innocent, changing the shipping address could be serious. "When you talk about changing the shipping address on the account, you talk about somebody being able to steal DVDs," Ferguson said.
Also, in some cases it would be possible to take over a user's account by changing their login credentials, Ferguson said. This would be possible only if the intended victim were tricked into clicking on the malicious link or visit the malicious Web site shortly after entering their login information on the Netflix Web site, Ferguson said.
"Netflix is audited all the time for security," Swasey said. "There was some level of exposure, although not serious." At no point was customer data such as credit card numbers at risk, he stressed.
"As the Internet matures, companies such as Netflix have created a whole new way of doing commerce," Swasey said. "With that comes a lot of new exploration, and any type of innovation is up for corrections and adjustments."


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As previously reported, the new X1 will be front-drive based, and will likely share much of its chassis with the next-generation Mini Countryman. All-wheel drive will be optional. Engine choices could include BMW’s two-liter turbo four, making at least 200 horsepower, or, in some markets, the 1.5-liter turbocharged inline-three already slated for the upcoming 1 Series GT and Mini Cooper. Don’t expect the 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-six to return due to new drivetrain layout. In Motor Trend's 2014 SUV of the year test the BMW X1 was found to have limited interior room, but the crossover’s platform change may help fix that issue in the next-gen model.
The switch from rear- to front-wheel drive could lower the BMW X1′s MSRP to better compete with other front-drive compact luxury crossovers like the upcoming Mercedes-Benz GLA. BMW enthusiasts may lament the inclusion of a front-drive car in the lineup, but the automaker is simply catering to customers who aren’t concerned about drivetrain layouts. In 2010, for example, BMW discovered that 80 per cent of 1 series owners thought their vehicle was front-drive. The survey likely helped BMW’s decision to include front-drive vehicles in its lineup, which, along with the next-gen X1, will soon include the 1 Series GT.––Paul DucheneBack to News


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The Panama Canal announced that it expects to receive approximately 235 cruise ships through the Panamax and Neopanamax Locks during the upcoming 2017-2018 cruise season. Beginning in October, this will be the first full cruise season to welcome vessels through the Expanded Canal.
"In addition to the existing locks, cruise lines now have the option to include the Expanded Canal as part of their itineraries," said the Panama Canal's international trade specialist Albano Aguilar. "This will open up additional scheduling and repositioning opportunities for the industry and its larger cruise vessels, and provide new and unique experiences for their passengers."
Disney Cruise Line's Disney Wonder transiting the Auga Clara Locks in April 2017 In April 2017, Disney Cruise Line's Disney Wonder became the first cruise ship to ever transit the Expanded Canal. This season it will transit again along with the Caribbean Princess, Carnival Freedom, Carnival Splendor and Norwegian Bliss. Together, the five ships will make a total of 20 transits, and 11 new cruise ships will transit either the Canal's Panamax or Neopanamax Locks for the first time from the following lines: Princess Cruise, Norwegian Cruise, Carnival Cruises, Silversea Cruises, Viking Ocean Cruises, Lindblad Special Expedition and CMA CGM, with each ship making multiple transits.
Perhaps the most visible sign of the Expanded Canal's impact on the cruise segment this season will be the Norwegian Bliss, when it makes its repositioning transit through the waterway en route to the U.S. West Coast to begin its cruise season in Alaska. Currently under construction, the ship will hold up to 4,200 passengers once complete, and will become the largest capacity cruise vessel to ever transit the Canal.
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The Panama Canal's 2017-2018 cruise season begins October 2, 2017 with the partial transit of Princess Cruise Line's Island Princess on a roundtrip voyage to and from Los Angeles with stops along the West Coast of North and Central America.
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'Gold' will be available from November 20
Jay-Z will release his own fragrance this month (November 20).
‘Gold’ – the rappers first venture into the perfume market – will be wrapped in a box that looks like a gold brick, Women’s Wear Daily reports.
The scent is described as “the brightness of Sicilian Bergamot and ginger warmed with Cardamom,” with ”masculine vetiver and teak wood mingle[d] with the spice of pink pepper” middle tones and a “rich amber and sensual myrrh…smoothed with bourbon vanilla” base.
The fragrance is part of Jay Z’s charity Christmas collection with New York department store Barneys, which has been criticised after the store became embroiled in a race row with two black shoppers who claim they were profiled and detained after buying luxury items. Jay Z responded to the comments in a blog, saying he was waiting to hear the facts of the case before pulling out of the charity venture.
‘Gold’ will be available there from November 20 before being rolled out to other shops, including a Macys window display which will reportedly feature “an image of Jay Z, morphing into gold neck chain”. Prices start at around £24.


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April 30, 2018Leading indicators suggest the economy was on firm footing in the first quarter. It was likely buoyed by robust consumption growth reflecting solid gains in households’ purchasing power, and a solid showing of the industrial sector. Retail sales in the quarter recorded their best performance since 2016, and consumer confidence remained elevated. Moreover, the average PMI reading from January to March was at the highest level on record, signaling robust expansion of industrial activity despite subdued output growth in February. Notably, recent data showed Denmark's tight labor market kept adding jobs at a strong pace in the quarter, boding well for wage growth going forward. However, seasonally-adjusted merchandise exports fell for the third consecutive month in February amid timid demand from Europe. Moreover, the current protracted wage sector dispute in the public sector threatens to disrupt the economic momentum if no agreement is reached before the new 8 May deadline, and it was likely the cause of a dip in consumer confidence in April.
Denmark Economic GrowthRobust household consumption, buoyed by higher wage growth as well as prolonged low interest rates and inflation, should buttress the expansion this year, while high global growth should support industrial activity and the external sector. However, elevated household debt will keep weighing on spending, and the tight labor market risks leading to shortages of skilled workers in the medium-term. Met the why particular panelists expect GDP to expand 1.8% in 2018, unchanged from last month’s estimate. For 2019, the panel projects growth of 1.9%.
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Consumer prices rose 0.7% compared to the previous month in February, contrasting January’s 0.3% decline.


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During a recent interview with Famitsu, Game Director Kazunori Kanoi, Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, and Team Director Yasuhiro Ampo provided fans with a raft of new Resident Evil 2 info that, among other things, revealed the presence of a mysterious new unlockable.
Capcom is remaining tight lipped as to what exactly this unlockable actually is at the moment, but, having promised to bring the game to this year’s TGS (which runs from the 20-23rd of September), we might not have to wait too long to find out.
Resident Evil 2 Info – Puzzles, Speedruns, and a Familiar Face
What we do know, however, is that this new unlockable is much bigger than the Tofu and Fourth Survivor Modes announced previously, according to Kanoi and co. And that it will vastly increase the game’s replay value. Curiouser and curiouser.
Capcom was, thankfully, a bit more forthcoming on other points raised during the interview. Confirming that 2019’s Resident Evil 2: has avoided randomised design factors in an effort to make the game as speedrunner-friendly as possible; accommodates those brave enough to attempt an all-knife run; has integrated puzzles into the game world in a more realistic and logical manner; and has moved away from Resi 7’s naturalistic presentation in an effort to give the upcoming remake a more stylised, almost Hollywood aesthetic.
While, for those of you keen to see more of Claire Redfield, the interview also included a new screenshot depicting the young heroine and one of the game’s grotesque Lickers locked in combat.
Capcom Applying the Finishing Touches
Lastly, Capcom confirmed the bulk of the game has been completed. The team now in the process of applying the finishing touches before Resident Evil 2 releases on the 25th of January.
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Gas bill price chop: The 10 best energy deals now cost households less than £1,000 a year thanks to increased competition
Gas bills: Extra Energy offers the cheapest deal
The 10 best gas and electricity deals now cost average households less than £1,000 a year.
Competition between the Big Six suppliers and newcomers mean deals have plummeted in price.
It is the first time since bills soared in late 2012 that so many fixed deals have been on offer for under £1,000.
Small supplier Extra Energy offers the cheapest deal.
Its Fresh Fixed Price March 2016 v2 tariff costs the average household using 13,500 kWh of gas and 3,200 kWh of electricity a year £950, according to Gocompare. There is a £25 per fuel exit fee.
For £20 a year more you can fix for an extra month with Npower. Its Fixed Energy Online April 2016 is £963 a year and there is no exit cost.
The average Big Six deal for customers paying on receipt of bill is £1,265.
This means if you have never changed fuel suppliers you could save hundreds of pounds by switching to any of the 10 top deals.
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China’s draft E-commerce Law (电子商务法草案) was submitted to the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee for a third reading this week.
China boasts the world’s largest e-commerce market, with online retail sales growing 32.2% year on year in 2017 to reach RMB 7.18 trillion yuan (USD $1.12 trillion). Yet despite the explosive growth of this industry, China has to-date implemented little to no regulation in this area.
The draft E-commerce Law is focused on the obligations and liabilities of e-commerce operators (e.g., Alibaba, JD), and aimed at not only protecting consumer rights, but also controlling sales channels. For many WebJD readers the most pertinent control mechanism in the new law relates to Cross-border E-commerce (Chapter Five), which requires all cross-border e-commerce to flow through designated processing centers, thereby precluding foreign retail brands from making direct sales to Chinese consumers. Online sales can only be conducted through domestic Chinese entities that have obtained the requisite commercial ICP (ICP备案) license.
The first official draft E-commerce Law was released in December 2016 by the NPC for public comments, in accordance with the standard lawmaking process in China.
The NPC published a second draft E-commerce Law in November 2017 for public comments. One significant change in the second draft was that it removed the first draft’s requirements to collect user’s personal information — the second draft only specified that e-commerce operators must comply with relevant laws and regulations when/if collecting and using users’ personal information of users.
This week the NPC reviewed a third draft E-commerce law at a four-day bimonthly session, however the NPC will not vote on the E-commerce Law at the end of the session. Accordingly, the NPC is expected to return for a fourth (and final) review of the draft E-commerce Law later in 2018.


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Macy’s, Inc. has announced that Pam Quintiliano will join the company as head of investor relations, effective September 12, 2022. Quintiliano will report to Adrian Mitchell, chief financial officer of Macy’s.
In this role, the company said in a statement, Quintiliano will be responsible for leading the company’s active investor relations program, effectively communicating the company’s strategy to all classes of investors, with a goal of building and maintaining strong relationships with the investment community.
“Pam brings a wealth of experience to this role, with a deep understanding of the retail industry and financial community, including more than two decades as both a sell- and buy-side analyst,” said Adrian Mitchell.
Quintiliano will succeed Mike McGuire, who previously announced his intent to retire after more than three years at Macy’s, Inc. and more than a 20-year career in investor relations. The company added that McGuire will stay on through the end of September to help with the transition.
Quintiliano joins Macy’s from Abercrombie & Fitch Co., where she most recently served as the group vice president of investor relations. Prior to Abercrombie, Quintiliano has more than 20 years of experience as an equity research analyst with a specialised focus on retail and manufacturing.
Quintiliano holds a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College.


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The new app is heading to Apple devices in December.
Apple has announced the upcoming launch of its new TV app for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. In addition, the company has also revealed a new Siri feature for Apple TV that lets users access live news and sporting events across their apps.
"Using apps on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad has become the primary way for so many of us to watch television," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. "The TV app shows you what to watch next and easily discover TV shows and movies from many apps in a single place."
With the new TV app for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad, customers will be able to find and play TV shows and movies from multiple apps on their devices -- all through one unified experience.
Here's a rundown of key features per the press release:
- Watch Now: Watch Now is where viewers will see their collection of available shows and movies from iTunes and apps. From Watch Now, viewers can then go to Up Next or Recommended to choose what to watch.
- Up Next: Users can enjoy the shows and movies they are currently watching, including recent iTunes rentals and purchases — all presented in the order they are most likely to watch first. For example, when viewers finish an episode, the next one will automatically appear at the start of the Up Next queue, as will any new episodes as they become available. At any time, users can simply ask Siri to continue watching a show and immediately pick up where they left off.
- Recommended: Viewers can explore a great selection of curated and trending shows and movies, including collections handpicked by Apple’s curators, and dedicated categories and genres such as kids, sci-fi and comedy.
- Library: Viewers can access their entire collection of iTunes movies and TV shows that they have rented or purchased on iTunes.
- Store: If users are looking for something new, they can check out the Store to discover great new content across video services that they have not yet downloaded or are not yet subscribed to, along with the latest releases on iTunes.
Beyond the new TV app, Apple also announced a new Siri feature for the Apple TV. As part of the upgrade, Siri is now aware of live sporting events and news across apps. This allows users to simply say things like "Watch CBS News," "Watch the Stanford game," or "Which games are on right now?" to access specific content and info. Likewise, Siri can also offer various details and live scores on sports games.
Finally, Apple is also adding a single sign-on feature for pay-TV apps on the Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. With single sign-on, subscribers to DIRECTV, DISH Network, and more will be able to sign in once on their Apple device to enjoy immediate access to numerous apps that are part of their pay-TV subscription.
The new TV app and single sign-on feature for Apple TV (4th generation), iPhone, and iPad will be available as part of a free software update in December. Meanwhile, the Siri live tune-in feature is available starting today.
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Steinhoff accounting scandal threatens to entangle former Asda boss Andy Bond
An accounting scandal at international retail giant Steinhoff threatens to entangle former Asda boss Andy Bond.
Steinhoff, based in South Africa, has discovered a possible £5bn-plus hole in its finances.
Investigators are looking at deals in which Steinhoff is suspected of hiding losses through deals with offshore companies.
One of the businesses under scrutiny is Southern View Finance UK, where Bond sat on the board for two years to June 2016.
The company provided on-the-spot loans to customers of more than 2,000 South African shops.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Bond, now heading a clutch of Steinhoff businesses including Poundland. He declined to comment on Southern View.
Meanwhile, holders of bonds in New Look, owned by Brait, an investment vehicle of leading


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One thing to sit up for: Libra may lastly launch in 2021 after an extended than anticipated wait, however will probably be a considerably totally different model of the unique dream of a digital composite coin. Fb has the dimensions to make it work, however that may depend upon how briskly it could actually get approvals from regulators internationally, who’re at present busy navigating the highway to financial restoration.
Based on a Monetary Occasions report, Fb’s controversial Libra cryptocurrency might launch as early as January 2021, though it will not be practically as spectacular as initially deliberate, and continues to be pending approval in some areas.
The digital token was introduced in 2019 and initially acquired appreciable backing from a number of monetary family names comparable to Visa and Mastercard, which fashioned the Libra affiliation to collaborate on the worldwide effort. Nonetheless, the mission rapidly caught the eye of the US Senate Banking Committee, which was eager on getting extra particulars on the bold initiative, given Fb’s poor observe report in defending shopper privateness on its platform.
It did not take lengthy earlier than these issues had been confirmed considerably true as fraudulent adverts for the unreleased cryptocurrency began flooding Fb and the corporate was rapidly overwhelmed in making an attempt to take away them in a well timed method. Then, one after the other, excessive profile Libra backers like PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay signaled their retreat from the mission for worry of attracting unwarranted consideration from antitrust our bodies, that are nonetheless investigating Fb’s each transfer.
Because of this the Libra Affiliation has pivoted in direction of making a number of “stablecoins” pegged to the value of worldwide currencies, which ought to assist in launching it sooner.
As a result of fierce regulatory pushbacks in some areas just like the EU, it is doubtless that Libra will merely launch as a single coin backed by the US greenback, and progressively transfer to include extra tokens based mostly on different currencies. Apart from that, you’ll use Libra tokens on a standalone app referred to as Novi (previously Calibra), in addition to WhatsApp and Messenger.
The tip purpose stays the creation of a singular, artificial coin that’s backed by a number of currencies, however that may take a number of convincing for regulators all over the world who’re involved that it might threaten the soundness of the worldwide monetary system.
For customers all over the world who’re concerned about Libra, a token backed by the US greenback might show rather a lot much less engaging, particularly if meaning they will be hit by extra prices. That stated, cryptocurrencies have solely change into extra related because of the pandemic, and corporations comparable to Binance have launched dollar-backed stablecoins of their very own which have seen optimistic reception thus far.
Solely time will inform if Fb can lastly crack the components and enter the crypto market with Libra.


text: In a surprise move, Fortune Brands, the parent company of Beam Wine Estates, announced early Monday that it has sold off all its California wineries to Constellation Brands.\r\n\r\nA purchase price of $885 million was officially announced. The former Beam wineries include Clos du Bois, Geyser Peak, Wild Horse, Buena Vista Carneros, Atlas Peak and Gary Farrell.\r\n\r\nJust a few months ago, when Beam sold William Hill Winery and Canyon Road Winery to E. & J. Gallo, Beam's PR director, Mary Burnham, implied the company was no longer in selling mode.\r\n\r\n"We made a decision [to] focus on the [California] brands that enhance our longterm success: Atlas Peak and Buena Vista."\r\n\r\nThe change of heart, Burnham now says, is because "Fortune and Beam decided to focus the company's resources on the higher return premium spirits business, rather than the wine business." That, despite the fact that Beam's California portfolio has experienced double-digit\u00a0growth in the first three quarters of 2007, according to Burnham.\r\n\r\nWhy did Fortune change its mind? "Fortune had to ask, are we better off having those brands or the money?" says Vic Motto, CEO of Global Wine Partners, an international wine investment bank. With competition such as Constellation, Gallo, Diageo and The Wine Group, Fortune decided Beam had no chance of becoming a major player in American wine.\r\n\r\nConstellation's vice president for corporate communications, Mike Martin, says the New York-based company bought the wineries "because they're an excellent fit with the existing Constellation brands portfolio. Look at Clos du Bois. They're the #1 superpremium winery in the U.S. from a value and revenue standpoint."\r\n\r\nConstellation's share of the U.S. wine market will rise from 19% to 20% with the latest acquisitions, Martin says. Constellation is the country's biggest in terms of revenue dollars, he adds, while Gallo remains the largest in terms of case volume.\r\n\r\nThe deal is expected to be finalized by the end of December.


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Now bookable: DER Touristik releases more than half of its Thailand inventory for immediate booking.
Due to the corona crisis, all leisure travel by Germans has come to a standstill. While it is uncertain when people can go on holidays again this year, leading tour operators in Germany are already taking bookings for summer 2021.
DER Touristik has now enabled reservations for winter 2020/21 and for summer 2021. The second-largest German tour operator group is accepting bookings for a number of hotels, round trips and other travel services of its brands Dertour, ITS, Jahn Reisen, Meiers Weltreisen, ADAC Reisen and Travelix.
Majority of long-haul offers already bookable
With diverse early booking discounts DER Touristik is trying to stimulate demand for a lot of accommodation, e.g. 130 hotels in Germany and more than 100 hotels in Austria and Switzerland. Among medium- and long-haul destinations, 95% of all hotels in Mauritius and Seychelles are already bookable until October, 2021. The majority of hotel inventory in Thailand and in the Caribbean – two major long-haul destinations for Germans – is available as well as many offers in Egypt, Tunisia, and the Canary and Balearic islands.
Market leader TUI shot forward
Due to the corona crisis, the move to stimulate bookings for next year's summer season comes about three months earlier than usual. Market leader TUI even announced its booking start for summer 2021 two weeks ago. Booking options are possible for 100 group brand hotels and a further 10,000 hotels in major destinations such as Spain, Greece and Egypt but also in short- and long-haul countries.
With all bookings cancelled until end of April and an uncertain summer season lying ahead, a number of smaller and specialized tour operators is also putting its focus on 2021. For instance, Gebeco Reisen has just activated almost its entire programme for 2021 with more than 150 different study and adventure trips worldwide.


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Mobile network operator Econet Wireless has announced new voice, data and SMS tariffs with effect from 7 September.
The MNO customers will now be paying ZWL$1,26 per megabyte.
Econet tariff increase is linked to Postal Telecommunications Regulatory Authority regulatory tariffs gazetted to enable mobile players to meet operational costs.
The tariff increase in data follows the recent 60% hike data bundles.
Econet announced the tariff increase on Friday to is customers.
“ Dear Customer,Please note of the following tariffs as per regulatory approval, effective Monday 7, September 2020 ,Voice, Data , SMS Bundle Voice – ZWL$0.1070 per second, Data – ZWL$1.2656 per MB and SMS – ZWL$1.6491 per SMS.”
POTRAZ regulation on tariff currently pegs ZWL$1,29 per MB.


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'Refill revolution': Couple sets up milk float shop to tackle plastic waste
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A Muswell Hill couple is selling eco-friendly food on a 1970s milk float to encourage people to pack it in with plastic.
The People’s Pantry was set up last month as a mobile zero-waste shop delivering plastic-free products to people’s doors, while also offering household refills.
Its founders, Lisa Jones and Stephen Thomas, are on a mission to play their part in tackling climate change around Muswell Hill, Crouch End and the local Haringey community.
The husband and wife duo, a journalist and an IT consultant, launched their green scheme after spotting a crumbling milk float for sale on eBay during the coronavirus lockdown.
The battery-powered van nicknamed Ernie, which can reach a top speed of 18mph, delivers more than 130 sustainably sourced products including healthy foods, with customers placing orders online.
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Lisa told the Ham&High: “We have been genuinely thrilled to see that our street visits with Ernie the milk float have become everything we hoped they would be – a sociable event, with neighbours chatting and hanging out while leisurely refilling their containers.
“We call it ‘slow shopping’ – a return to the way we used to shop, in fact which, ironically, we are convinced is the future.”
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All items from the van are sourced in bulk from independents including seeds, nuts, oils, pastas and pulses.
Local producers are used to reduce mileage, such as Fireheart and London Honey which are both based in N10.
The owners say they’re aiming to bring back the style of portable van shops of the mid-20th century to “give neighbours a focus to socialise around”.
“Garden glut giveaways” are sometimes handed to residents including herbs, fruits or jars of organic sourdough starter – and the milk float now hosts a book exchange too.
Calling on locals to “do our bit” to tackle the “climate emergency”, Lisa continued: “We all have great power as consumers to effect change by choosing what and how we buy.
“The People’s Pantry is all about encouraging an alternative approach through convenience and simplicity... and the fun factor.”
Lisa and Stephen have lived in Muswell Hill for more than 20 years, and their four children went to school locally.
Plastic Oceans, a non-profit, estimates 380 million tonnes of plastic is produced every year.
For more information on the People’s Pantry visit https://thepeoplespantry.biz/


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Shoppers can work up an appetite this time of year. But Los Vecinos Restaurante in Swartz Creek is hoping to keep area residents from going home hungry.
The restaurant on Morrish Road south of Miller Road is running a $5 burrito special for area shoppers throughout the holiday season.
"We're trying to get people from the mall," said manager Scott Lentine.
Los Vecinos Restaurante on Morrish Road is running a $5 burrito special for shoppers. The restaurant also has extended its hours. Details: (810) 635-2010.
- Monday-Wednesday: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
- Thursday-Sunday: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
"We have great food, great people and great service at a fast pace," Lentine said.
The restaurant, which currently employs 12 people, is known for its fajitas and Tapopo salad.
Owners Greg and Laura Baker of Swartz Creek boast that the restaurant offers authentic Mexican cuisine.
"We're family friendly and have good customer service," he said. "That's one of the most important things that sets us apart from others."
Lentine said the restaurant also offers catering and delivery, making it a popular option for local office holiday parties.


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Follow @TWI_Ltd – now going live on TWItter!
TWI is pleased to announce to its Industrial Members, industry contacts and to the public at large that it is now live on TWItter! Following the TWI page @TWI_Ltd will allow individuals to keep right up to date with hot topics of news and events from the company, to catch exciting developments in materials engineering and joining technologies and see snapshots of knowledge retweeted from relevant industry sectors across the globe.
TWI Chief Executive Christoph Wiesner comments:
'I am delighted to announce our launch on TWItter. Aside from the welcome and obvious pun on words, our TWItter presence is a further boost to the success of our online business networking channels, with TWI technical experts at first hand to answer industry queries. Our online presence brings us closer to our customers, and our customers closer to us.' Why not join us and follow @TWI_Ltd now.
TWI is now on Facebook
There is now a new Facebook page for TWI where regular news and updates will be posted alongside a history of the company with photos and stories. 'Like' the page and you will be part of this community!
TWI is pleased to announce the launch of its YouTube channel
Our expertise is featured in films on subjects such as Friction Stir Welding, Non-Destructive Testing, Plastics Joining and Long Range Ultrasonic Testing. Go to www.youtube.com/user/twiltd TWI's YouTube channel, where you can subscribe to keep updated with new films that are added.


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ExcelVite has announced that it has obtained certification from the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil Supply Chain Certification Standard (MSPO SCCS) after an extensive audit by the Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia.
ExcelVite (Chemor, Perak, Malaysia) has announced that it has obtained certification from the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil Supply Chain Certification Standard (MSPO SCCS) after an extensive audit by the Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia. MSPO SCCS is mandatory for all palm oil processing facilities, and the Malaysian government has imposed an implementation deadline of January 1, 2020.
In addition to the mandated standard, ExcelVite has demonstrated its commitment to sustainable palm oil by signing an official memorandum of understanding with WWF-Malaysia to assist oil palm smallholders involved in the supply chain to achieve Certified Sustainable Palm Oil certification. Palm fruit produced by these certified smallholders will eventually be used in the production of ExcelVite’s products.
“I am delighted that we achieved another milestone in our sustainability initiative by being MSPO SCCS-certified. Our incoming feedstocks are certified sustainable from these plantations and smallholders. These are the groups that we need to pay attention to and assist when it comes to sustainability,” said WH Leong, CEO of ExcelVite, in a press release. “I am really proud that the team is able to accomplish these achievements. With this MSPO SCCS certification, our customers can be further assured that ExcelVite can deliver palm phytonutrients products in a sustainable manner and supporting these smallholders.”
“The market has a negative perception on oil palm. The fact is that the palm oil itself and the small holders are innocent and caught in between,” added Bryan See, business development manager of ExcelVite, in a press release. “People with certain agenda are behind this issue. My hope is that this MSPO SCCS certification and our sustainability initiative will bring forth the realization that not all oil palm or palm phytonutrient is created equal.”


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Report: Anti-aging skin care sales soar
CHICAGO Women’s quest for youthful looking skin catapulted anti-aging sales in 2008 to more than $1.6 billion, surpassing — for the first time — facial cleansers, according to recent research by Mintel.
The market for anti-aging skin care has grown rapidly over the past couple of years, per Mintel. U.S. sales rose 13% from 2006 to 2008, outpacing general facial skin care sales, which grew less than 11%. Mintel expects the market to remain robust over the next five years, growing some 20% through 2013.
“Anti-aging won’t fall to the recession,” stated Kat Fay, senior beauty and personal care product analyst at Mintel. “Looking young is extremely important to many women, especially Baby Boomers, and it’s not an issue they’re willing to compromise on because of tightened budgets. Many women see anti-aging skin care as a reasonably priced investment in their appearance and well-being.”
Nature’s Gate launches new lotion
NEW YORK Nature’s Gate is launching for 2010 its new Glow Lotion, which moisturizes skin while gradually adding a hint of color for a natural looking glow.
The formula features dihydroxyacetone, a natural ingredient derived from sugar cane that won’t wash away with soap, water or sweat. The lotions are enriched with an exclusive blend of seven natural moisture boosters including sodium hyaluronate and vegetable glycerin. To protect the skin from signs of aging, the formula is infused with vitamin E and apricot kernel oil.
The Glow Lotion, available in light and medium shades, has a suggested retail price of $12.99 each. It is slated to hit stores in May.
Botanical actives consumption on the rise in personal care segment
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. Consumers’ desire for performance coupled with natural ingredients is boosting botanical actives consumption in the personal care segment, according to recent research by consulting and research firm Kline & Company.
According to the report, dubbed “Specialty Actives and Active Delivery Systems for Personal Care 2008: U.S. and Europe,” botanicals consumption is growing at 8%, outstripping growth of other specialty actives with average growth of 5.4%.
The market for specialty actives and delivery systems in North America and Europe is about $840 million, according to Kline, with specialty actives in the Europe market accounting for the lions’ share of the markets. Botanical actives are growing in share within the specialty actives segment in both the European and U.S. markets. “Labeled” actives are showing quick growth, at up to 20% a year.
“Today’s consumer wants not only natural products, but also performance,” stated Nikola Matic, senior analyst, chemicals and material industry at Kline. “These two requirements were regarded as contradictory a few years ago, but highly substantiated botanical products developed recently brought new solutions to formulators.”
In addition, as the populations within the United States and Europe age the anti-aging segment will see a boost in botanical consumption, Kline stated. In order to compete, botanical suppliers with existing formulations are promoting their products as more effective at lower levels when compared with, for example, vitamins, making the botanical actives comparable in price on a cost-performance basis.


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Tesco is planning another big change to the way it's Clubcard rewards scheme works.
MoneySavingExpert has revealed the supermarket will launch a new 'Faster Vouchers' scheme at the end of the month which will let Clubcard customers request vouchers whenever they want.
The change will mean that customers will no longer have to wait for their quarterly statement before redeeming points.
At the moment, customers have to wait for their quarterly statement to get the vouchers, but the new scheme, which is being rolled out on Tuesday, August 28 will allow customers to request vouchers either online or via the Clubcard app.
The 'Faster Vouchers' scheme will allow customers to request either online or via the Clubcard app that the total value of your points is turned into vouchers within 24 hours.
You'll then be able to download and print the vouchers or use them on your phone.
Tesco plans to contact customers to unveil the changes to its long-running loyalty scheme from Monday, August 13, but details have emerged in a document obtained by MoneySavingExpert which was apparently intended to brief staff internally.
A Tesco spokesperson refused to comment on the plans but MoneySavingExpert understands the key details in the document are correct.
Megan French, consumer expert at MoneySavingExpert, said: "There are still some questions over how the scheme will work - as this hasn't yet been officially announced, we don't have full details.
"But on the face of it this is a welcome change for Clubcard holders, and finally brings the Clubcard scheme up to date for users who would prefer not to have to wait months for their vouchers to arrive through the post."
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If you check google today for what’s going on with meat you’ll find an interesting trend. Everyone is suddenly saying meat is not “sustainable”; something straight out of UN’s Agenda 21 playbook. The New York Times has gone as far as claiming that it is racist to eat meat! There is a campaign by Bill Gates and the mockingbird press to end the consumption of meat in America. We will expose it here.
Bill Gates & “Impossible Meat”
Bill Gates has invested very large sums of money into the “meat alternative” industry in the past decade… But why would Gates want the world to stop eating meat? Regardless of what Snopes tells you, the estrogen inside “impossible meat” is horrible for men.
Mr. Gates has been promoting the consumption of “meat alternatives” for many years. Actually, since 2013, when he invested in “Beyond Meat” he started to constantly make appearances in media outlets talking about how bad eating meat is for the world. Human beings are supposed to eat meat. Without it, people develop creatine deficiency and it can actually impair the individual’s IQ. Yes, there have been scientific studies.
There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. –Dec 27, 2019https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/plant-based-burgers-will-make-men-grow-boobs-livestock-news-reports/
Recently farmers have been complaining that federal agents have been making them kill perfectly healthy livestock like cows and chickens and even dump truckloads of fresh milk because the FDA claimed there was an overload of supplies. In other words, they are creating a food shortage to keep costs high. Its always about the money.
Media blamed the coronavirus for “breaking up the supply chain” but the truth is that the rich bastards who run the supply chains allowed everything to fall apart to create a panic. There’s never been a shortage of toilet paper at the factories, yet the store managers never seem to know how to order enough supplies to keep their shelves stocked. Think about that for a moment.
“Nothing makes us prouder as a farmer than producing high-quality milk,” said Rexing, who owns New Generation Dairy in Owensville. “And when you can’t finish it and see it in consumers’ hands …”
In the COVID-19 era, there was nowhere else for that 30,000 gallons of milk to go but worked into his land.
The demand for milk and other dairy products was high, but the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the supply chain and created a host of problems that stood in the way of getting products from the farms to the stores.USA TODAY
Shelves Should Be Stocked
People who spend their lives managing stores and refilling their shelves use advanced software to manage their inventories and predict future demand based off of current sales. They should have no trouble restocking their shelves within a week or two at most. There has been no gas shortage stopping trucks from travel; no quarantine orders on a national scale to stop them either. In fact, social media has been full of posts about truckers being essential workers and how fast food restaurants have been accommodating with walk up orders for truckers being allowed during the COVID-19 outbreak.
So why are we being fed this lie about meat shortages? Why are they trying to get men to eat foods high in estrogen? You tell me.
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If you're looking into getting a new video game console this holiday season, here's one more criterion to take into consideration: energy consumption. The Electric Power Research Institute this week released a report comparing the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. After an hour of playing Madden NFL 11 on each, the EPRI had some pretty clear-cut results: the Wii uses less than one sixth the power consumed by the other two consoles; 13.7 watts, compared to 8.48 for the PlayStation and 87.9 for the Xbox.But the reason for the enormous difference is easy to find: the Xbox and PlayStation offer much higher quality graphics. And while energy consumption is unlikely to be a major factor in consumers' decisions regarding which console to purchase, Mark McGranaghan, vice president of Power Delivery & Utilization for EPRI, is glad that the information is out there:
Consumers have become increasingly aware of how much electricity their household electronics consume, whether in active use or when the hardware is in standby mode. While the overall trend is toward more efficient electronics, these tests clearly show that if you're a power-conscious consumer you may want to ask questions or check more closely.
And since 73% of American households have a gaming device, with the Xbox, Wii and PlayStation making up a major chunk of those, we're glad the information is out there, too.


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Despite having worked across the road from our breakfasting venue until just a couple of years ago, I’d managed to overlook it – and I try my very best to try everything worth eating in the city, when I can. It’s a tough job.
As the leading independent Property Consultancy in Northern Ireland, Osborne King is a natural fit to partner with Retail NI, as we share the same corporate ethos. We also have to pay property rates, and so, we are taking a keen interest in the on-going rates revaluation exercise which will significantly impact the rates we pay from April
So far 2019 has seen a large number of CVA’s including those involving Debenhams, Arcadia Group and Monsoon Accessorize. Aligned with this many retailers are struggling to increase footfall in High Street stores with an increasing number of shoppers choosing to shop on-line.
Osborne King has been shortlisted in the Commercial Estate Agency of the Year category in the 2019 Belfast Telegraph Property Awards in partnership with Electric Ireland.
I am sure we have all been at a social event and asked ‘what do you do?’. My response of ‘I am a Chartered Surveyor’ is regularly greeted by ‘Oh’ followed by a blank stare and instant regret that they asked.
In the first half of 2019 Osborne King raised £500 by holding coffee mornings and “Dress Down Fridays” for Community Rescue Service (CRS).


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What should it cost to feed a family for a week?
It’s possible to feed a family of four for €100 a week, but only if you have access to varied shops and a good culinary knowledge. ‘Food poverty’ isn’t just a question of price
Food poverty: ‘It is never just about cost. Access is a big issue too: access to food and access to shops and information’
Kim Greene, on right (with Natasha Shaw), who featured in an Irish Times story about low-income families and budget cuts. Photograph: Alan Betson
On September 30th, an article in this newspaper outlined the difficulty some families have feeding their families.
One woman who featured in the article – Kim Greene, a 31-year-old mother of four – said she fed her children chicken nuggets, hot dogs and burgers because money was so tight.
“Three chicken fillets cost €7.50 and they’re not even big,” she said. “It’s cheaper to buy a packet of 10 chocolate bars for €1 than give them some healthy snacks. Two punnets of strawberries for a fiver, who can afford that?”
After the story was published, social media treated Greene harshly. Some ridiculed her for spending €7.50 on chicken breasts when they could be bought for half that in some supermarkets.
Others wondered why anyone in such dire financial straits was even considering buying fresh strawberries for €5 when six apples can be found selling in discounters for less than €1.
The general tone of many of the responses was: “Stop moaning! It is easy to feed a family well for less than €100 once you put some effort into it.”
That is true – up to a point. On the same day that article appeared, a Pricewatch piece outlined how to feed a family well on less than €100 a week, by eschewing expensive brands, processed foods and convenience shops and doing a weekly shop, from a list, in a big discounter.
But neither story gives a full picture. Pricewatch is not in the same position as Kim Greene. Pricewatch owns a car and can drive to the cheapest supermarkets in search of better value. Pricewatch has time to plan meals ahead. Pricewatch can cook (reasonably) and Pricewatch has enough money to bring a child to the GP without having to eat into the weekly food budget.
Most people at risk of food poverty, people such as Kim Greene, don’t have these luxuries; they frequently inhabit a world of hand-to-mouth existence. They do not deserve to be criticised for shopping in convenience stores, or spending money on products of dubious nutritional merit.
“Sometimes people are not in the position to make the smart decisions and they know that,” says Barnados spokeswoman Irene Lawlor – the woman who put Greene in touch with this newspaper as part of its campaign calling on Michael Noonan to spare a thought for the State’s most vulnerable people as he put together his budget in recent weeks.
The Oliver angle
It is not only online critics who believe eating well on a low income is easy. At the end of August Jamie Oliver made headlines when he questioned what the poorest families in Britain were eating.
“The fascinating thing for me is that seven times out of 10, the poorest families in this country choose the most expensive way to hydrate and feed their families. The ready meals, the convenience foods,” he told the Radio Times in an interview being done to promote his new frugally focused television programme.
Oliver, went on to contrast the experience of poor families in Britain with those in Italy.
The British media quickly cast Oliver, who has an estimated wealth of more than €150 million, as a latter-day Marie Antoinette, out of tune with the poorest people in his community.
Just as the criticism of Greene was grossly unfair, so was some of the abuse heaped upon Oliver’s shoulders – not least because he has done more to highlight the problem of poor nutrition in socially disadvantaged areas in Britain than all his celebrity-chef counterparts combined.
He is right to say that good and cheap food can be prepared in minutes by almost anyone, but only if you have culinary knowledge. Many people in our society have been starved of that knowledge.
The straw poll
There is a great disconnect at play when it comes to food poverty. Last week Pricewatch asked Twitter how much money a family of four would need to eat well for a week. The responses ranged from €50 to a quite ridiculous €300. The vast majority of people said it could be comfortably done for less than €100 a week.
The Insolvency Service of Ireland suggests that two adults and two kids in primary school should be able to get their food for €608 a month, or about €150 a week. Living within such a budget should be relatively straightforward, but many people still need help to do so.
Healthy Food for All is an all-island charity seeking to address food poverty by promoting access, availability and affordability of healthy food for low-income groups. Its project co-ordinator, Sinéad Keenan, says sometimes too much focus is put on price.
“It is never just about cost. Access is a big issue too: access to food and access to shops and information. A lot of people we deal with are relying on local shops, which tend to have less varied stock and products with a much longer shelf life. Confidence, education and awareness are also key issues,” she says.
“For many parents there is also absolutely no margin for error. They have to give their children the food they will eat. If they don’t, the children go hungry and the money is wasted,” she says. “Often parents buy the calorie-dense but nutritionally poor options just to make sure that children are full.”
Healthy Food for All is running four pilot breakfast clubs in north Dublin, as well as dozens of community food initiatives, such as allotments, co-ops, supermarket tours, cookery classes and nutrition workshops.
“Food poverty is a huge issue and it is multi-dimensional . . . It is a huge problem but not one which is insurmountable.”
Wholesome advice: How to eat well for less
Caitriona Redmond writes the wholesomeireland.com food blog in which she outlines how we can live well on less. She says people should allow a minimum of €30 per adult and €20 per child for healthy food per week, although she accepts that goes up if a family eats a lot of meat.
“If you eat alternative proteins like beans or pulses and save meat for at most once a day, then it’s cheaper,” she says.
“We manage on €70 a week for fresh (and mostly) healthy food. I say mostly because I bake my own treats. Vegetarian families manage on far less.”
She believes that to eat well, good organisations and budgeting skills are essential – as essential, in fact, as an ability to cook.
“If we are not learning these skills in the home or at school then something has to change. To start I’d make home economics compulsory and relevant – it needs to include household budgeting, how to plan meals, how to cook simple, hearty food and how to be healthy. Eating badly isn’t limited to those who are on a low income and it’s important to note that.”
Wholesome Ireland’s tips to spend less
Reduce your portion sizes. If need be, invest in some smaller tea plates so you always clear your plate. Standard dinner plates are too big to be filled with food. Eat healthy but not excessive portions. This will ultimately save you money, as you will be eating less food on a consistent basis.
Eat less meat. Think “meat-free Monday” and “fresh fish Friday”.
Keep a good store cupboard. As my mother-in-law says, you’ll always have a meal in the house with a bag of spuds and a tray of eggs.
Plan ahead, figure out your meals for the week and use a shopping list.


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In October, Adidas cut business ties with rapper Kanye West (now known as Ye) after a nearly decade-long partnership, citing his recent antisemitic rants as the last straw. However, in a new report from Rolling Stone, more than two dozen Adidas and Yeezy employees detail patterns of intimidation, bullying, and sexual harassment doled out by Ye over the length of the business collaboration, with Adidas executive ignoring the blatant issues in their offices.
“There was no accountability,” says one former staffer. “Difficult moments happened, with executives in the room—VP level or higher—and nothing would be done. You’d still show up to work the next day.”
Some of the behavior described by the staffers includes regularly showing hardcore porn in meetings, with Ye stating he uses them for inspiration. There’s also reports Ye showed explicit content featuring Kim Kardashian to interviewees. The Yeezy founder also allegedly made repeated, sexually loaded comments, mostly to female staffers, as a way to assert dominance over Adidas employees.
In the letter, per Rolling Stone, the staffers write, “He has, in years past, exploded at women in the room with offensive remarks, and would resort to sexually disturbing references when providing design feedback. This type of response from a brand partner is one that Adidas employees should never be subjected to, nor should Adidas leadership ever tolerate.”
Ye apparently cultivated an environment which tolerated “mind games” and outright bullying. In one meeting, Ye allegedly made a woman staffer sit on the floor for an hours long meeting, telling her, “You don’t deserve to sit at this table.”
“No wonder why he didn’t want senior business managers in the room,” the open letter claims. “He wanted to continue to use his power to violate you in a quiet way and threaten your role and existence within the team.”
However, not all of this behavior played out behind closed doors, and there were often times executives and higher ups were the subject of Ye’s workplace provocations. The former mantra for the company has been described as “Kanye is Kanye,” and staffers were told that they could either deal with his over-sexualization and screaming tirades, or get out.
Even when Ye hit his “Jesus kick” starting in 2020, the verbal abuse and controlling behavior continued, as did Ye’s tendency to showcase explicit content in the workplace. One staffer alleges Ye would “scream, jump on a table, and throw books across a room.”
“He’s just obsessed with power, and he has all the power and money to make somebody cut their hair, to make somebody lose their weight,” a staffer says. “To the same person, he can go say things like, ‘You fat slut,’ and then this person will still have to be forced to stay because that’s how they make money. They have a lease to pay.”
The employees say Adidas leaders “turned their moral compass off,” and instead focused on the billions in profit the Yeezy collaboration brought in. The open letter, which has been sent to the Adidas board, calls for contracts with A-list partners to be reviewed, as well as a public apology to the Yeezy team for “Kanye’s terrorizing behavior.”
“As much as we all would love to solely blame Kanye,” the letter states, “the undeniable truth is that the Adidas executive team and the board have been huge enablers.”


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Daaammnnn, Apple! Back at it again with the case winning.
The U.S. Justice Department has dropped its suit against Apple for refusing to help it unlock an iPhone that belonged to a San Bernardino terrorist. With the help of an unidentified third party, the FBI managed to get the data stored by the phone without Apple’s cooperation.
The phone had been owned by Tashfeen Malik who, with his wife, carried out a mass murder that left 14 dead last December.
I’m glad Apple stood up to the government.


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This article is a rework of articles published by India Today and does not represent the views held by ITSHEMP, its creators, or employers. ITSHEMP is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied by the bloggers.Twitter becomes first major social media platform to allow cannabis ads
Twitter has become the first social media platform in the United States to allow advertising related to cannabis. Previously, the platform only permitted ads for cannabis-infused or hemp-derived CBD topical products. Unlike its rivals Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, Twitter has decided to permit cannabis ads, despite the restrictions imposed by US federal law. It is important to note that while medical marijuana is legal in certain states, federal regulations still classify cannabis as an illegal substance.
In a blog post, Twitter announced this policy update, emphasizing its role in empowering grassroots movements that often originate from a single tweet. Twitter acknowledges the recreational uses of marijuana, particularly in the beverage sector, including fast food, coffee, and liquor. The platform recognizes the lively and engaging conversations happening on Twitter around cannabis, where users share their experiences with cannabis use, whether for medicinal purposes, wellness, or recreation. Additionally, users recommend brands, products, and retail locations. These conversations reflect the current direction of the cannabis industry, including discussions on legislative and policy reform, business development, and community impact.
To advertise on Twitter, cannabis companies must possess the necessary licenses. The platform will now allow advertisers to promote brand preference and provide informational content related to CBD, THC, and cannabis-related products and services.
This recent update indicates Twitter’s pursuit of alternative revenue streams, following the withdrawal of several advertisers from the platform after Elon Musk’s formal takeover in late October 2022. Notably, Apple and Amazon, two of Twitter’s significant ad revenue clients, abruptly ceased advertising on the platform last year. Musk personally engaged with top executives to address this issue. However, Twitter’s revenue appears to be declining. According to a report by The Platformer last month, Twitter experienced a 40% year-over-year revenue decrease in Q4 2022. Specific figures are unclear as Twitter has become a private firm, but an estimation suggests the company generated approximately $942 million last quarter. Musk has taken measures to mitigate losses, such as reducing the workforce by half since November and closing several offices. Additionally, Twitter auctioned off surplus office supplies, including devices, office equipment, and kitchen items, to generate additional income.
Twitter is also exploring a Blue subscription service in various countries. This subscription provides users with a verified blue tick mark on their profiles. In India, the subscription costs Rs 900 per month for both Android and iOS users.
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Everything you need to know about RED Hydrogen One with Holographic Display
RED is a leading manufacturer of professional digital cameras and is on the top of the quality ladder. Earlier this year in July, RED announced that they are working on the world’s first phone with a holographic display. YES! With that announcement, we only got a picture. But now, we have a much better look at what RED has in store with their first phone, credits to MKBHD who got his hands on some prototypes.
The phone will have a 5.7-inch holographic display which means that it will be capable of creating virtual 3-dimensional image of an object. When not needed, the phone will view all traditional 2D content normally. According to MKBHD, the holographic display is nothing like anything he has ever seen before and ‘was at a loss of words’ .
The phone bears a pretty rugged look and bears a tri-panel design on its back. The top and bottom are made of Kevlar while the middle portion is made of metal. The back also sports a camera which RED claims will supersede mobile camera standards and will only be surpassed in terms of quality by RED Professional cameras. It also has a dedicated camera button to get started shooting without much ado.
The phone will have a 5.7-inch holographic display which means that it will be capable of creating virtual 3-dimensional image of an object.
The back bears some pretty good resemblance to the Moto Z2. Speaking about the Moto Z2, it will also support additional snap on Mods via the pins on the back. The phone has dual outlets on the front panel for speakers and will most likely be a stereo set-up. It has a USB Type-C port on the bottom and volume rocker and power button on the left and right side respectively. It currently has a 3.5mm headphone jack at the bottom, but they plan to move it to the top of the phone. The sides of the phone have a wavy shape which will definitely help in getting a good grip of the phone.
As of now, everything is either half-baked or confidential. RED hasn’t been able to make a unified prototype with the final look of the phone and a working display. But according to MKBHD, in the next 30-45 days RED will have a proper working prototype too.
The phone just doesn’t pack bleeding-edge specs, but it also possibly packs what the future of mobile industry will contain. The Hydrogen One costs $1195 for the aluminium one and $1595 for the titanium version. The phone is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2018.