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NEO: The World Ends With You will release July 27, 2021
A new trailer has also landed alongside the release date reveal.
We've known since its reveal in November that NEO: The World Ends With You would be landing sometime in Q3 2021, but now we can put an official date on it. Square Enix has just revealed that this follow to the 2007 hit Nintendo DS game will release July 27, 2021 on PC (via Epic Games Store), PS4, and Switch.
The game will also be receiving a physical release and this includes several in-game goodies for those who purchase within the first month (until August 26). You can view these below:
"Mutation" (Badge) - Effect: Gradually restores Team HP while holding the button.


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China saw fast growth in entrepreneurship in the first half of this year with increasing registration of companies and self-employed entrepreneurs, which will eventually play a bigger role in boosting employment in the second quarter.
In the first half of 2017, a total of 5.809 million self-employed entrepreneurs have been registered, up 14.8%, according to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Thursday.
A total of 2.911 million new companies were registered in H1, up 11.1% from the same period a year ago.
Each day, 49,000 new companies or self-employed entrepreneurs are registered on average.
According to official data, the new companies played a bigger role in boosting China's employment in the second quarter, contributing 11.2% from the first quarter.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in June praised China for having achieved better-than-expected results in its efforts to drive mass entrepreneurship and innovation at the Summer Davos held in northeast China's coastal city Dalian.
He said mass entrepreneurship and innovation are an effective way to realize inclusive growth as the process engages and benefits the people extensively.

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Heatmine – Micro Case Study
Heatmine has developed a technology that recycles thermal energy created by cryptocurrency miners. These processors create enough excess heat that heats all types of devices related to water heating (radiators, boilers, etc). Heatmine offers cheaper heating for homes, greenhouses, schools and swimming pools, often reducing costs by over 50%.
Heatmine is a young Canadian startup that is planning to start selling their Heatmine units in early 2019. The main goal of this PR campaign was to create general awareness, to establish credibility in the heating and energy business field, and to generate leads of companies and individuals in Canada that want to start using the Heatmine system as soon as it is available.
The target audience for Heatmine can be mainly found in four different sectors: Blockchain, Green-tech, Energy, and Canada.
To start the PR campaign, we decided to write and distribute a press release about the project on distribution channels that are relevant to the desired sectors.
With the press release being distributed, the next step for achieving general awareness was to reach out to journalists and established media connections that might be interested in covering the story.
– Outline of the milestones completed in 60 days
PolyGrowth distributed the following Press Release:
“Heatmine announces new heating unit powered by cryptocurrency miners”
PolyGrowth achieved press coverage on several reputable and relevant publications, that are read by tens of thousands of people.
Stories on top-tier publications:
Stories on regular publications:
- Several companies in Quebec (Canada), have reached out to Heatmine to use their heating systems for factories and warehouses. Some of them have even already proceeded with running a test trial. In the words of Bill Auger, CEO of Meta Auger, “The savings we have made with Heatmine to heat our metal warehouses will allow us to expand and reinvest in our company.”
- Heatmine is now a recognized name in the green energy sector and the management has been invited as keynote speakers to multiple industry conferences.


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Honor Magic 2, the brand’s new flagship smartphone was recently unveiled, the new smartphone boasts an intelligent Magic Slide feature, which gives users a real full view display and instantly activates the world of AI with one sliding motion. The device will also be the first Honor smartphone powered by the Kirin 980 processor.
“The launch of Honor Magic two years ago introduced the concept of the AI smartphone to consumers”, noted George Zhao, President of Honor. “The first-generation Honor Magic was an era-defining smartphone that transformed the industry. In addition to AI-features that make the phone truly smart, Honor Magic’s ground-breaking all-curved panel design and powerful 40W charging support have reshaped smartphone design and become a benchmark for all smartphones. The developments of these futuristic flagship devices are closely followed by the smartphone and AI industry, and now the Honor Magic 2 has arrived.”
With intense competition across global markets, many smartphone brands are striving to enhance the user experience by offering a full view display. However, most, if not all, phones with this new feature have sacrificed user friendliness and the photography experience. The designs focus solely on screen layout and presentation improvements, failing to bring true value to users.
In contrast, the intelligent Magic Slide feature of the Honor Magic 2 is designed to achieve full view display without compromising other practical functions. The hidden-from-view front camera enables a nearly 100% screen-to-body ratio, overcoming the challenge of incorporating a camera in a notchless design. It delivers a superior visual experience with great convenience and practicality to redefine the value of a full-screen smartphone.
In the first half of 2018, Honor recorded a remarkable 150% increase year-on-year in international sales volume outside of China. Following the recent launch of Honor 10 and Honor Play, the Honor Magic 2 will continue to propel Honor forward in its goal to become a top-five smartphone brand within three years.


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Ed Newton-Rex, Stability AI’s vice president of audio technology, explained that although the company is known for its work with images, this is its first foray into music and audio production. The technology is powered by Harmonai, Stability AI’s music production research studio. Stable Audio works directly with raw audio samples to deliver high-quality output and is trained on over 800,000 licensed music tracks from AudioSparks.
The Stable Audio model has approximately 1.2 billion parameters, similar to the original Stable Diffusion model for rendering. The service offers both free and Pro plans; the latter offers longer routes for a $12 monthly fee.
I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.


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Archive for "Marvel's Iron Man VR" Tag
"The last thing we want players to do is to think about the hardware," says Camouflaj founder Ryan Payton.
Because you literally get to fly around like Iron Man.
The bundle will be sold for a price of $349.99.
A demo for the PSVR game might be released to the public soon.
Sony promises more news in the "coming weeks."
This is following the removal of both games from the PlayStation Store.
We might be able to get some hands-on time with the VR-exclusive title soon.
Nothing too unusual for the armored superhero.
Other major upcoming releases like DOOM Eternal, Marvel's Iron Man VR, Persona 5 Royal, and more will also be ...
Developer Camouflaj needs more time to "deliver on our vision" and meet "high expectations."


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(Bloomberg) -- Briggs & Stratton Corp., the century-old maker of engines for lawn mowers and garden equipment, filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell its assets to a private equity firm specializing in manufacturers.
KPS Capital Partners, whose portfolio includes TaylorMade golf clubs and Life Fitness gym equipment, has agreed to serve as the lead bidder in a court-supervised auction with a $550 million offer and is contributing to a bankruptcy loan that will keep Briggs & Stratton operating, according to a statement. KPS said it has already negotiated a new contract with the United Steelworkers of America.
The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Missouri listed more than $1 billion each of assets and liabilities. The company has been pressured by falling sales and unfavorable weather conditions in key markets, as well as other factors including the 2018 bankruptcy of Sears Holdings Corp. The company also cited pressures from the Covid-19 pandemic, which “have made reorganization the difficult but necessary and appropriate path forward to secure our business.”
“KPS intends to grow the new Briggs & Stratton aggressively through strategic acquisitions,” said Michael Psaros, co-founder and co-managing partner of KPS, in a statement. “The new Briggs & Stratton will be conservatively capitalized and not encumbered by its predecessor’s significant liabilities.”
The offer by KPS would need court approval and could still be topped by a rival bidder. Trading in Briggs & Stratton’s stock was halted while the news was disseminated.
Briggs & Stratton said in a statement that it lined up $677.5 million of debtor-in-possession financing that will help fund operations during the court reorganization. KPS said it’s contributing $265 million of that sum.
Banks including Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp., BMO Harris Bank and PNC Business Credit will provide exit financing for a new company created through the acquisition of Briggs & Stratton’s assets, according to a spokesman for KPS.
Briggs & Stratton, based in the Milwaukee area, began as an informal partnership in 1908 and grew alongside American suburbs, with its engines powering brands such as Craftsman, Toro and Snapper. It had 5,200 employees at the end of last year.
KPS, based in New York, runs the KPS Special Situations Funds with more than $11.4 billion of assets. The firm said its portfolio companies run 150 manufacturing facilities in 26 countries with about 23,000 employees.
Kirkland & Ellis is legal counsel for KPS. Briggs & Stratton previously hired Houlihan Lokey Inc. to advise it on strategic options including refinancing its debt, selling assets, and cutting costs.
The case is Briggs & Stratton Corporation, 20-43597, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis).
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Yahoo | Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January.
Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia this week mean that brighter LED bulbs will likely go on sale next year, but after a government ban takes effect.
The new bulbs will also be expensive — about $50 each — so the development may not prevent consumers from hoarding traditional bulbs.
The technology in traditional "incandescent" bulbs is more than a century old. Such bulbs waste most of the electricity that feeds them, turning it into heat. The 100-watt bulb, in particular, produces so much heat that it's used in Hasbro's Easy-Bake Oven.
To encourage energy efficiency, Congress passed a law in 2007 mandating that bulbs producing 100 watts worth of light meet certain efficiency goals, starting in 2012. Conventional light bulbs don't meet those goals, so the law will prohibit making or importing them. The same rule will start apply to remaining bulbs 40 watts and above in 2014. Since January, California has already banned stores from restocking 100-watt incandescent bulbs.
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Sulzer has signed an agreement with circular technology company Fuenix Ecogy to acquire a strategic stake in its plastic upcycling business, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The partnership will drive the development, commercialization and adoption of advanced, fully integrated solutions for plastic waste processing.
The move will allow Sulzer to offer complete recycling lines based on Fuenix’s Ecogy technology and Sulzer’s own proven separation and purification solutions. Sulzer Chemtech is an established licensor of reaction and separation technologies aimed at driving the chemical recycling of materials.
Fuenix Ecogy technology converts sorted end-of-life mixed plastic waste into high-value hydrocarbons with virgin-like properties. The solution offers high recovery and conversion rates, enabling a high degree of circularity in the plastic value chain.
With this strategic investment, Sulzer is sharing its leading technical expertise to support the scale up and commercialization of a cutting-edge pyrolysis technology. The agreement also expands Sulzer Chemtech’s technology licensing portfolio for polymer processing, in line with its overarching mission to help industry adopt more sustainable practices.
As the exclusive licensor of the technology, Sulzer Chemtech will be able to offer complete as well as partial recycling lines based on Fuenix’s Ecogy pyrolysis technology and its own proven separation and purification solutions. At the same time, Sulzer Chemtech will continue to offer its separation and purification know-how and solutions to other plastic recycling technologies.
Sirt Mellema, CEO of Fuenix Ecogy, said, “We are extremely happy about this new partnership with Sulzer, as it will be key to help us scale our technology and promote its global adoption, so that we can help create a circular economy for plastic waste. Sulzer Chemtech’s expertise will allow us to grow our business together and enable a positive change in the industry."
Sulzer’s Executive Chairwoman Suzanne Thoma, said, “I am proud of this latest investment to grow our already extensive range of sustainable technologies. With the acquisition of a stake in Fuenix Ecogy we are enhancing our scope and portfolio in creating fully circular, zero-waste plastic value chains."
We remind, Sulzer has signed an agreement with circular technology company Fuenix Ecogy to acquire a strategic stake in its plastic upcycling business. The partnership will drive the development, commercialization and adoption of advanced, fully integrated solutions for plastic waste processing.


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Vendors rush to call everything AI even if it isn't, or doesn't help
So says Gartner, which reckons marketers have brainwashed themselves and us with AI hype
Many enterprise software vendors “are focused on the goal of simply building and marketing an AI-based product rather than identifying use cases and the business value to customers.”
So says Gartner analyst Jim Hare in a July 6th piece of research titled “How Enterprise Software Providers Should (and Should Not) Exploit the AI Disruption”.
“Nearly every technology provider is now claiming to be an AI company,” Hare writes, having counted more than 1,000 vendors who claim to either sell AI or bake it into their products. “This ultrahype of the AI label has led to a hysteria of 'rebranding' from companies desperate to keep up. Similar to the go-go days of the late 1990s, when every enterprise was an 'ebusiness' company, many vendors are entering the AI market by simply adding 'AI' to their sales and marketing materials.”
“Similar to greenwashing, in which companies exaggerate the environmental-friendliness of their operational practices for business benefit, many technology vendors are now 'AI washing' by applying the AI label too indiscriminately.”
That's not helpful, Hare argues, because AI-washing often contains nothing more than “empty promises”.
“Some vendors are promoting AI brands as if they are superheroes (such as Einstein, Holmes, Leonardo and Watson) that can save the world,” he says. “While it is creative brand marketing, it misdirects buyers and increases confusion as to what is real and what is just marketing.”
He also says plenty of AI isn't, as follows:
Most vendors are overselling the AI capabilities of their products with shiny, bold marketing when their technology provides strictly rule-based machine learning and analytics (rather than anything remotely self-learning). We are heading toward a point of dilution where AI is likely to become just another marketing term used for any software app displaying even the most rudimentary intelligence.
Ouch. And double ouch for VendorLand because Hare says users are already seeing through the hype and just not buying AI while they wait for the hype to die down. He also warns that those who do buy AI now are at risk of becoming disillusioned by products that over-promise, under-deliver and leave buyers wary of buying any more AI any time soon.
Hare therefore urges marketers to tone it down, drop the term AI from their web pages and hop off the hype-train if they want to be differentiated or have a serious discussion about how their wares use machine learning.
He remains a believer in AI, however, as his document predicts it will be pervasive by 2020 and that it can work well when used to improve the performance of existing systems, rather than as a big-bang upgrade.
But he also warns that even when taking that path of least resistance, organisations will struggle to adopt AI because few have the skilled people to sift through the masses of supposedly artificially-intelligence products on offer, never mind keep them running once installed. ®


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Elon Musk Reveals Forecast to ‘Take Over the World’
Not satisfied with just losing gobs of money on each car that Tesla builds, CEO Elon Musk just revealed his “Master Plan” to “try to take over the world” — a plan that seemed so farfetched, the stock crashed by 3.5 percent
The grandiosity of Musk’s latest pronouncements sounds like an episode from Steven Spielberg’s Pinky and the Brain, about two genetically enhanced laboratory mice that reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research center. With Brain as an egotistical genius and Pinky is happy-go-lucky incompetent, each shows featured the “Brain” scheming to “try to take over the world,” which ultimately fails due to the impossibility of Brain’s plan.
Unveiling what Elon Musk calls “Master Plan, Part Deux” to “guide the company into the next decade,” he promised to extend its electric vehicle range to “cover the major forms of terrestrial transport,” by merging energy and transportation with 7 key elements:Tesla solar — Musk defended Tesla’s $2.86 billion bid for Musk’s near-insolvent SolarCity Corp, which Wall Street analysts deride as a risky financial move, because “that just works.” He did not comment on the fact that Tesla’s supposed 5-million-square-foot “Gigafactory” only measurers 800,000 square feet so far;Tesla Semi — Jerome Guillen, who joined Tesla from Daimler in 2010 and oversaw the Tesla’s Model S sedan project, is developing “Tesla Semi,” which will build heavy freight trucks to haul cargo in 2017;Self-driving mini buses — Urban public transportation vehicles in 2017;Model Y— Moving to a 6-car line-up that includes a Model 3 pick-up truck frame;Factory as a Product — Tesla marketing its proprietary factory “physics” as intellectual property that can increase manufacturing efficiency by 500-100 percent through “the machine that makes the machine;”Autopilot and Self-Driving cars — Despite NHTSA and SEC Investigations regarding a Tesla Autopilot fatality, Musk claims that with 3 billion worldwide miles of autopilot experience, Tesla is half ay to a self-driving car that would be 10 times safer than a human operator;Tesla Mobility — Beating Uber in the ride-sharing business by allowing Tesla vehicle owners to turn their cars into self-driving taxis when they are not being used.
Analysts are skeptical about Tesla’s ability to add even more products to its lineup, given its history of product delays and cash burn. Tesla has bid $2.86 billion to buy SolarCity even as the electric-car maker has more long-term debt — $2.5 billion — than its $1.4 billion in cash and equivalents.
Like the Brain, Elon Musk may be a genius — or he may just be a good promoter who has received $4.9 billion in government subsidies.
Michelle Krebs, an analyst for Autotrader.com Inc. commented to Bloomberg after reviewing the “Master Plan”: “As is typical, Elon Musk has laid out a grandiose plan for the future with no time frames and few specifics, and no mention of how and when Tesla will be profitable.”