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A Tesla Semi prototype in white color has been spotted again in California, but this time with some interesting art painted on its trailer and the cabin exterior.
The painting shows a cowboy riding a horse as it gallops with its head down — a superb piece of art that resonates with the culture of the wild west — especially Texas.
According to Tesla owners and enthusiasts who attended the Giga Texas Cyber Rodeo event back in April, this Tesla Semi cowboy painting was made especially for this event. Interestingly, Tesla has kept it months after the event — probably because it looks dashing.
Tesla Semi spotted near Colfax, CA with custom paint job from Cyber Rodeo event. ?
— Sawyer Merritt ?? (@SawyerMerritt) July 22, 2022
Video of a Tesla Semi spotted accelerating on California Interstate 80 highway. Credits: u/brookhouser via Reddit.
This specific Tesla Semi prototype was traveling on the Interstate 80 highway westbound near the City of Colfax, California. Tesla Semi truck prototypes frequently travel between Giga Nevada and Fremont for testing and calibration purposes as we saw last year at the Tesla Fremont factory test track.
Since the first time Tesla Semi was unveiled back in November 2017, the automaker has tried multiple colors on it. Initially, it was 2 prototypes, one was black and the other was silver. Later on, Tesla tried the red color, then white, and white is the most prevalent as of now but has been painted for the first time like the Giga Berlin graffiti art.
Tesla also showed 4 Tesla Semi trucks in white color at the 1st Megacharger station at its Giga Nevada factory in one of the company’s press photos (below).
Because of its extra large battery pack, a Tesla Semi class-8 truck needs much more power to charge the battery compared to a normal Tesla electric vehicle, so the automaker invented the Megacharger stations.
Someone asked on Twitter how these trucks charge when they’re on long trips, and we replied to them in detail (read the tweet below).
A Megacharging network at Trucking Stops across North America and Europe is underway.
In the meantime, they charge at Supercharger stations with an adapter using 2-4 stalls
— ? Tesla Oracle (@TeslaOracle_com) July 24, 2022
Towards the end of 2021, Tesla announced that the automaker had started limited production of the Tesla Semi at Gigafactory Nevada. But we still have to see an official update of the trucks being delivered to a customer. Pepsi was the first in line in many (check the order tracker page).
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CEO Jim Jannard on the conference call with analysts following the companys release of second quarter results as he read weather-related newspaper headline after newspaper headline from around the country.
It was even more painful to have the COO say that the two didnt coordinate their comments for the call, as he too cited weather woes-and a lack of sun-for declining sales of sunglasses in the U.S.
The analysts obviously remembered the weather patterns of the last six months, but nonetheless shrugged off the reminders as at least one downgraded the stock, pushing shares of OO down 10.7% for the week to close at $10.88 on Friday.
Still, COO Link Newcomb said the results were in line with company expectations as total revenues slipped 0.9%, aided by stronger company-owned retail stores and benefits of the weaker dollar on International sales.
Total U.S. sales in Q2 decreased 10.5% to $76.8 million, while the 13.0% growth in International sales of $67.0 million, contained a 11.6% upside coming from exchange rate. The benefit helped the company post “record second quarter international sales”.
Sunglass unit shipments fell 9.1% worldwide, partially offset by a 1.6% increase in the average sunglass selling price resulting from the positive exchange rate effect and increased sales from company-owned retail store operations.
Sales to the specialty accounts and other domestic sales in Q2 excluding Sunglass Hut totaled $46.4 million, a decline of 13.0% from Q2 2002. Sales to Sunglass Hut in the U.S. decreased 29% to $16.8 million for the quarter, while global sales to Sunglass Hut decreased 24.7% to $20.1 million.
Sunglass Hut parent Luxottica Group issued a press release Thursday to clarify the numbers issued by Oakley as sell-in numbers only. Luxottica said that retail sales of Oakley products in the second quarter were flat to the year-ago period.
Sales of non-sunglass categories grew 13.2%, to $36.7 million, and accounted for 23.2% of total Q2 gross sales. The increase came primarily from apparel growth while watch sales declined. Footwear re-orders did not materialize for Q2 after a strong first quarter futures business. The company had planned on the non-sunglass categories to represent 30% of sales.
The shift in sales is both a positive and a curse, as gross margins were impacted by lower high margin sunglass sales as a percentage of total sales.
Management said the increase in inventories at quarter-end reflected higher sunglass inventories established in anticipation of a “more robust summer selling season” and the increase in company-owned retail store sales.
The backlog picture was helped by “significantly higher” footwear and apparel, which were up 37%, but offset by a “substantial decline” in sunglasses, down $9.0 million from the year-ago period. Goggles were also up significantly. Management did say the bulk of last years Q2 backlog was from unshipped sunglasses, not new futures.
Retail trends appeared to improve in late June and early July and the company said they remain enthusiastic about the potential of the “strong line-up of new products”.
Oakley now expects full year sales growth of approximately 10%, compared with the 15% prior guidance. Sales growth from the newer product categories is expected to be in the mid-20% range for the year. The company’s retail store operations are still expected to represent approximately 10% of 2003 net sales.
Cost reductions are expected to provide earnings at the high end of OOs previous full year earnings guidance 55 to 60 cents per diluted share.
>>> One would have to ask, it they dont coordinate for investor calls
>>> Like Nike, this brand was built on the basis of performance and technology, but now seems to suffer from the consumers shift to simpler, less complicated products…

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Kochi: The sales tax department is planning a massive drive against jewellers in the wake of attempts by gold ornament makers and traders to evade tax while buying the yellow metal from New Delhi. The drive is expected to include raids at gold-making centres in central Kerala and strict vigil at Nedumbassery airport where the gold arrives from New Delhi.
Sundar K., sales tax deputy commissioner who took charge at the Cochin unit on Monday, said the operations of jewellers would be examined thoroughly. “We will stop all attempts to evade tax. A special drive is being planned. But the modus operandi of the dealers and traders has to be studied before that,” he said.
There has been a huge flow of gold ornaments through the Kochi airport which is being brought without paying tax. The intelligence wing of the sales tax department had seized 2.645 kg of gold ornaments from Nedumbassery airport last week which were brought in after evading tax. The ornaments, worth `74 lakh, were being taken to an ornament-making centre in Thrissur.
According to sales tax sleuths, only those people with a corresponding licence are authorized to buy and trade in gold, but by paying the tax. Last week’s incident saw a licence-less culprit bringing the consignment from New Delhi.
He had also failed to declare the gold purchase. The gold was being transported in a luxury car to Thrissur. The sales tax officers who were present at the airport got suspicious of the movement of the man who had received the gold and raided the car....


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DEMAND for Sony camcorders with the so-called NightShot feature has shot up
after a men’s magazine in Japan reported that the camera can see through
people’s clothing if it is used in daylight.
The camera records images in the dark, for example wildlife or street scenes,
by emitting invisible infrared light, which reflects off the subject. The image
sensor in the camera then converts the infrared into a visible image.
Infrared, which is a natural component of daylight, would spoil normal
shooting, so NightShot filters it out during the day. A “night vision” switch
moves the filter out of the way for filming in the dark. But according to the
men’s magazine, if this night vision switch is left on in daylight, the camera
can see through clothes to pick up infrared from underwear and flesh.
When the discovery made front-page news in Japan, an embarrassed Sony said it
had halted production and would change the design. In the meantime, shops are
laughing as they sell off their stocks of camcorders featuring NightShot to
people who would never have bought one otherwise.
But be warned if you are thinking of doing the same. Strictly in the cause of
science, Feedback joined a bunch of engineers who had obtained one of the
cameras and were pointing it at some obliging female volunteers in and around a
TV studio. For most of the time, the pictures showed no more underwear than was
visible to the naked eye. It seems at least some of the effect may be in the
eyes of the beholders at that men’s magazine.
WALLACE SAMFORD, formerly the world’s most notorious spammer, has suddenly
got himself into the good books of some of his erstwhile enemies. He has started
a website at http://www.sanfordwallace.com that is totally unrelated to
Among other things, Sanford puts out music on the site under the name of DJ
Spammy. Even “spamkillers” such as Cabal Agent No 1 (people who make it their
life’s quest to discomfit spammers tend to have pseudonyms like this) have given
the site their seal of approval.
“Looks like he really is into the music thing,” Agent No 1 tells fellow
spamkillers in a recent posting on the Net. “The music isn’t half bad either, if
you’re into techno or house music.”
THANK YOU Dieter Britz for telling us about a friend who visited the
mountains of Brunei. She was interested to discover that there were two guided
tours per day—one in the morning and one in the afternoon—to Sunset
Point, a noted beauty spot.
The tour organisers publish a wise disclaimer, though: “No sunset viewing on
the morning tour.”
SINCE WE reported on the “salt’n’vinegar flavoured salt” being marketed by
Saxa (18 July), several readers have written in to tell us about a similar
product in New Zealand.
It seems that a few years back the New Zealand government passed a retail law
which prevented supermarkets from selling “ordinary” milk, in an attempt to
protect local corner shops and home-delivery services. The big stores, however,
were allowed to continue selling “flavoured milk”, presumably on the grounds
that this was considered to be a confectionery rather than a food.
The supermarkets hit back in the simplest possible way by producing and
selling “milk-flavoured milk”—ordinary milk with milk powder added. This
was so similar to “pure” milk that people happily bought it as such. A few
months later the government was obliged to repeal the law.
A POT of Yoplait yoghurt can kill animals, says the San Jose Mercury
News. The Californian newspaper reports that the Animal Protection
Institute claims thousands of skunks die each year when they get trapped in
discarded Yoplait containers while attempting to lick the remains of the yoghurt
out of them.
Protesters have caused such a stink over this that Yoplait has designed a
new, more skunk-safe container. So if the next pot of yoghurt you buy is
labelled “skunk-friendly”, you will know why.
AS A peer review journal, Nature is usually the first to report the
research that appears in its pages. Just occasionally, however, the magazine
Thus a “news” item in the journal at the beginning of August reported that it
rains more often at weekends than on weekdays. But this wasn’t news to Feedback,
who enjoys dipping into the humour magazine The Annals of Improbable
In the March/April issue of that journal, David Schultz of the National
Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, reported the same phenomenon. Will
Nature reprimand its referees for failing to notice prior
BOOTS, the great British store, is nothing if not frank about the
pharmaceuticals it sells. The notes accompanying its Hayfever Relief Nasal Spray
openly confess: “As with most medicines, this nasal spray can sometimes cause
side effects. These are minor, such as sneezing.”
MEANWHILE, Brian Beckett’s doctor recently prescribed him some Proctosedyl
ointment, which has been developed by Roussel Laboratories to treat “pain,
irritation and itching” of the skin.
“What about side effects?” asked a leaflet that came with the ointment. It
went on to warn that “some patients may suffer from itching and pain”.


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Twitter Reacts With Hilarious Memes After Netflix Slashed Its Prices By 60 Percent
Paying for streaming services can burn a hole in our pockets - especially with the infinite number of streaming platforms we have available today. However, it might be time to celebrate because you might save up on some money since Netflix has apparently gotten cheaper.
According to reports, Netflix has reduced the price of its mobile plan to Rs 149 from Rs 199 for the first time since it started offering its services in 2016.
The prices said: pic.twitter.com/RHxAirGQZ1— Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) December 14, 2021
Now, the basic plan will be available at Rs 199 per month instead of Rs 499 and the standard plan will cost Rs 499 instead of Rs 649. Along with that, the price of the premium plan was also reduced to Rs 649 per month from Rs 749.
This news has come to light after Amazon Prime plans got more expensive. As soon as this information was revealed, "Netflix India" began trending on Twitter with memes about the price slash.
#NetflixIndia took it seriously 😅@NetflixIndia #netflix pic.twitter.com/9WBy8VjFEN— Dhawal Odedra (@Dhawal_Odedra) December 14, 2021
Netflix: We've slashed our subscription prices!— InnovKraft (@InnovKraft) December 14, 2021
That friend who uses our Netflix account for free: #netflixindia #netflixandchill pic.twitter.com/2A9SO2cogg
Never thought I would see this day! Netflix slashed their prices!! Crazyy🤯#netflix #netflixindia pic.twitter.com/aXQ4OK0i4L— Shash-Wat The Tech! (@shashwatthetech) December 14, 2021
#netflixindia has released its new pricing tier. There's a lot to learn about pricing from the way the tiers are designed.— Harshala Chavan 🐿 (@harshalachavan7) December 14, 2021
I see good use of decoy tiers and device usage psychology.
Here's what I observed 👇 pic.twitter.com/qtmIqMaMHU
#netflixindia where is go back to previous plan option?! pic.twitter.com/muZ7P3IWQ0— Gangadhar A Y (@GangadharAY1) December 15, 2021
Yearly plan vs Monthly plan— Man of simple taste (@direction_less_) December 14, 2021
Full HD vs 480p#NetflixIndia still has a lot to learn about Indian market. https://t.co/eLYPK146Qw
Netflix has reduced the price of its streaming plans in India.— Insight Hub (@InsightHubIn) December 14, 2021
Starting From Today
Mobile - ₹149/mo
Basic - ₹199/mo
Standard - ₹ 499/mo
Premium - ₹649/mo #Netflix #netflixindia pic.twitter.com/PycivPP3w5
#netflixindia— vishal 🐼 (@Er_vishalverma) December 14, 2021
You guys are paying to watch netflix ? pic.twitter.com/WrRmAkE7QE
#HappyNewPrices#netflixindia— Michael Boya (@BabuReadyBabuu) December 14, 2021
Expectation Reality pic.twitter.com/9KlwtFtzH7
Netflix India Reduces Prices of its Plan In India at a Time Where Every other Brands are Increasing their Prices !— Techno Ruhez (@AmreliaRuhez) December 14, 2021
Amazon Be Like : pic.twitter.com/aMO8jRqQtX
Netflix lowers its subscription price in India by 60%.— V!vek (@Vivek_0203) December 15, 2021
After Subscribing 149 Rs plan...
Me to my rich friends:#netflixdown pic.twitter.com/ggj6SaepVl
According to analysts, “Netflix going for a larger target audience and making their service more affordable will be a negative for broadcaster-OTT apps as competition intensifies and this may also keep a check on their ARPUs (average revenue per user) as they may be unable to raise prices significantly,” said Karan Taurani, senior vice-president at Elara Capital.
“Disney+ Hotstar is almost on par with Netflix now with this new plan," he added.
Experts have come to the conclusion that Netflix has 214 million paid subscribers globally, of which 30 million are in Asia. Last year, Netflix reported a sharp increase in the number of paid users, however, subscriptions had started to slow down this year. This may have been the reason behind the reduced pricing.
According to an expert, “Netflix’s price change will lead to a sharp increase in content cost. We expect the content cost to move up almost 30 per cent annually over the next two years as existing apps spend more and more new OTT apps emerge."
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The company plans to achieve a gross manufacturing value of USD 25 million in FY2024.
Electronics design expert Virtual Forest has been awarded a USD 4 million grant from GITA (Global Innovation and Technology Alliance) which is part of the India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund (I4F) to develop ASIL-certified EV motor controllers for 3W light electric vehicles e-rickshaws for the global market.
India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund (I4F) is a cooperation platform between the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Government of India, and the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and set up with the aim to promote, facilitate and support joint industrial R&D projects between companies from India and Israel.
Omer Basith, CEO & Co-founder, of Virtual Forest sharing further information said we have been awarded the maximum applicable grant amount, which is a real testimonial of our technical and project capability.
"It is our endeavor to work towards Indian self-reliance in the EV domain by creating a local design and manufacturing base for critical subsystem components like EV motor controllers. This will strengthen the national participation in critical climate action priorities like decarbonization and the increased adoption of green technology”, Basith further added.
Virtual Forest plans to achieve a gross manufacturing value of USD 25 million in FY2024. The company is supplying energy-efficient motor controllers to some of the large Indian OEM manufacturers.
Ola clocks 2 lakh unit sales in FY23; consolidates market share to over 30%
Ola Electric concludes FY23 securing the top spot with 2 lakh vehicles sold during the financial year.
ExxonMobil investing around Rs 900 crore to build lubricant manufacturing plant in India
The new plant is expected to produce 159,000 kiloliters of finished lubricants per year to help meet demand growth in In...
Spinny launches IPL campaign Go Far
The films will be released during the IPL 2023, scheduled to take place from today to 28 May 2023. The campaign is about...


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Elon Musk questions the existence of Twitter
04/10/2022 10:48 am
As Elon Musk sat on Twitter’s board of directors, the Tesla boss criticized the passivity of some celebrities on the platform. He also begs the question: “Is Twitter dying?”
After joining Twitter, Tesla’s founder Elon Musk created a stir again with a provocative tweet. “Is Twitter Dying?” Tweeted by Musk, who recently became Twitter’s largest shareholder and sits on the company’s board of directors. To justify this, he mentioned users like pop singer Justin Bieber, who has many followers but rarely tweets.
Musk added the number of Twitter users with the most followers to his tweet. Former US President Barack Obama ranks first with 131 million followers, followed by pop stars like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Rihanna. “Most of these ‘top’ accounts rarely tweet and post very little content,” Musk said. Pop singer Taylor Swift hasn’t posted anything on Twitter for three months, the founder of electric car maker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX wrote. Justin Bieber tweets only once a year.
It was announced last Monday that Musk has bought about 73.5 million shares from Twitter. With a shareholding of 9.2 percent, the world’s richest person is the largest shareholder of Twitter. On Tuesday, Twitter announced that Musk would also join the company’s board of directors.
Musk, himself a fan of the online service with more than 80 million followers, has long been known as a critic of Twitter. The multi-billionaire has repeatedly accused the company of restricting freedom of expression. That’s why analysts expected Musk to take an active role in the company soon after buying Twitter shares.
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A Motorola spokesman told MacCentral yesterday that Motorola is preparing to ship its next-generation G4 processor (Apollo) in early 2002.
Apollo is manufactured using Motorola's SOI (silicon on insulator) technology. Motorola's current crop of G4s are manufactured using a copper-fabrication process. SOI offers a 20 to 30 per cent performance gain when compared to that process, MacCentral claims. SOI-produced processors run cooler while consuming less energy - so higher clock speeds, or MHz speeds, are possible.
Chip pundits claim Apple's G5 processor is unlikely to be imminent when such a highly specified G4 chip is set to become available so soon.
Motorola's David Bearden, senior member of technical staff at Motorola's Design Center, told the Microprocessor Forum last year: "Apollo is set to run at GHz+ speeds."
The conclusion supports comments made to Macworld UK last week. Paul Clark, Motorola's European marketing communications manager, wanted to minimize speculation of a G5 Mac. He claimed the potential of the G4 architecture has exceeded expectations. "There's a great deal of headroom left in the chip, which still has enormous stability," he said.
Apple will end the speculation one way or the other at the Macworld Expo, San Francisco, 2002. The event runs from January 7-11, with a keynote speech on Tuesday, January 8.


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On Friday , CNBC reported that the front-runner appears to be Amazon, who acquired exclusivity for the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package as part of the league’s new round of TV deals.
DirecTV owns the Sunday Ticket rights through the end of next season, but given the company’s sale and general upheaval, a possible renewal seems slim. Per CNBC, the rights fee for Sunday Ticket is expected to land somewhere in the range of $2 billion to $2.5 billion per season. DirecTV is currently paying $1.5 billion per season as part of an eight-year deal.
Amazon already has exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football starting in 2022. The company has been streaming Thursday Night Football games on its Prime Video platform for the past few seasons, but it was doing so in conjunction with a traditional broadcaster, like Fox. The new deal marks the first time a streaming platform will be the sole home for Thursday games without a traditional TV partner (though games will still air on local TV in teams’ home markets).
The NFL is expected to ask between $2 billion and $2.5 billion a year for the Sunday Ticket package, according to CNBC. Previous reports have suggested that Disney and Apple had expressed interest in Sunday Ticket. The NFL reportedly wants to finish up discussions before this season ends in February.
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Would you pay for news
Fred Wilson asked this great question on AVC.com yesterday and sparked a really interesting discussion about whether and what people would pay for. I’m reposting my comment here with some edits…
1. Would you pay for news…. right now?
The NYT paywall went up on 17 March 2011. Over the next 5 years >50% of publishers started charging for online access. As a result willingness-to-pay for news has grown. And will continue to. But it takes time to change views on a content-set that has been free for 20 years. Music was freely available just 10 years ago. Yet today more than 25m people pay for Spotify. These shifts don’t happen overnight but that doesn’t mean they won’t happen.
2. Fragmentation <> decreased concentration
Ubiquity and fragmentation are often cited as reasons for not paying for news online. Yes, you can get your news from social media, apps, or ‘pundits’ who rewrite events, but original research and reporting is produced by a shrinking number of journalists. As they go out of business that ubiquity goes with them. i.e., There’ll be nothing to rewrite / republish / redistribute. This is not unlike the CDO bubble where the derivative market imploded when the primary market disappeared. In the case of CDOs, primary demand evaporated. In the case of news it’s supply that is at risk.
3. News fundamentals are strong
This might sound odd but bear with me. As readers we have less free time, more information to absorb, more partisan voices to filter out, and layered issues to unravel. This is the fundamental need for news. And as complexity grows this need is getting stronger. Angry US voters support Trump because no one is listening to them. Beguiled UK voters supported Brexit on the back of false promises. Climate change is debated as if it’s a matter of opinion. Everywhere you look, the need for transparency is growing. On fundamental principles our need for news is growing every day.
4. Product need <> business model
So if demand is growing then why are publishers struggling? Put simply, the prognosis for ad-funded news is terminal — FB and GOOG capture 85%+ share, ads are being blocked, programmatic-buying is driving down prices, viewability is becoming an issue, ad tech is slowing site performance, users want opt-in privacy regulation, audiences / sales are getting fragmented through 3rd party distribution, ad CTRs continue to fall…. the list goes on.
But what happens when demand for a product is strong but the business model is not? A new business model emerges. This is why messaging (via Whatsapp) is growing, despite the death of SMS as a telco business. It’s why online photography is growing, despite the decline in camera sales. And it’s why the number of Uber rides is growing, despite the drop in use of taxis.
This is the change that news needs to go through as well, because publisher reliance on reader revenue WILL continue to increase. For example, most publishers still offer RSS feeds to drive distribution. But there is no longer a business model here that makes sense, and the headlines / thumbnails they give away are increasingly (and sadly) all that busy readers want. So over time these free RSS feeds will decrease in number. The same is true for third-party distribution via FB Instant Articles, Apple News, etc. all of which have failed to deliver a better outcome / future for publishers.
Studies in online music and TV have validated the intuitive idea that reducing free access contributes to the uptake of paid alternatives. In fact a similar question 10 years ago might have been “would you pay for music”? The responses would have been similar to those for news today. And the responses going forward from news publishers will be similar to those of other content owners who more successfully sell their products online today.
5. Price and UX
iTunes shifted the perceived price of a song from FREE to 99 cents. Two things about this shift were interesting. First, the per-song price was so much lower than the reference price ($15 / CD) that it had massive appeal for readers. Second, the universality of a common price for all songs trained users to just click on the button and conduct transactions on impulse — the bedrock of micropayment solutions.
In addition, iTunes also provided two critical UX solutions — the ability to quickly get to ANY song, and the ability to create digital ‘mixed tapes’ i.e., playlists. Their solution to both these problems was far better than free alternatives.
Like iTunes, news needs a low uniform price for its shift away from FREE. In our view, this price is 10 cents per article. This is more than what publishers can earn through ads, and yet is low compared to digital subscriptions or newspaper prices.
And like iTunes, paid news also needs to provide a better experience than free alternatives. Our approach to this question has been to source content from trusted sources, to filter the content and serve up the highest-quality stories, and to present these stories through a streamlined UX which makes reading faster, easier, and more pleasurable.
This last piece of the puzzle is where you come in. We need help and feedback — lots of it — to identify and solve the unmet needs of free news. If you’re reading this, you obviously care about the problem of viability in news. Please help us by signing up for inkl’s freemium service, and telling us what you see as the differences (existing or desired) that will convince you and others like you to pay for news.
And please share or ‘heart’ this article so that more people get to read it.


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Twitter is the worlds best news source.
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Twitter handily beat Facebook and Google+ during the Super Bowl in social media mentions, according to an informal analysis by Marketing Land.
During the Super Bowl, brands are fighting almost as hard as the players to out-perform the competition. They use whatever marketing tricks they can to score points, including mentioning social networks and other sites where fans could connect with the brand during or after the game.


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Hey, Tesla — Audi and Porsche want some of your market share in electric cars.
Seeing Tesla's success with electric cars, the two popular auto manufacturers unveiled their own electric models at a Frankfurt auto show on Monday (September 14), according to a Reuters report.
Both vehicles will be available for purchase around 2018, but Reuters points out that they're being introduced in Frankfurt now, to perhaps steal some of the spotlight from Tesla and its Model X, which is set to begin deliveries on September 29.
Although Audi and Porsche might have snatched some of Tesla's limelight, they might be helping the latter brand in boosting the overall credibility of electric cars around the world, especially in the United States. The rationale is if Audi and Porsche are joining the space, then Tesla must be doing a whole lot right.
"It will certainly sharpen the public focus on electric vehicles and raise overall awareness," Commerzbank analyst Sascha Gommel told Reuters. "Consumers are also set to gain from growing offerings of electric cars, especially in the performance segment."
Each of Audi and Porsche's planned electric cars will boast 500 km of range, but they'll still be hard-pressed to top Tesla's benchmarks in the market.
"The largest challenge set forth by Tesla against all entrants into the pure electric market is that the benchmarks have already been set, and the bar is rather high," Ivan Drury, senior manager at Edmunds, told Reuters. "The fascination with Tesla is not that they were the first to introduce an all-electric vehicle, it stems more from the first electric vehicle without compromise to styling, performance metrics and range."
Perhaps areas where Audi and Porsche could outdo Tesla lie in handle and total driving performance — where the former two manufacturers have long enjoyed success and have built solid reputations.


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Nobody expects the white hats of the IT world to be able to eliminate cyber crime entirely. But, according to McAfee Labs' Threats Report for the fourth quarter of 2013, the good guys are having a tough time even making life difficult for the bad guys.
According to the report, what was most notable during the quarter was not the stream of headlines about massive credit card data breaches affecting retailers like Target, Neiman Marcus, White Lodging, Harbor Freight Tools, Easton-Bell Sports and Michaels Stores. Instead it was, "how well the malware industry served its customers," who don't need much technical expertise to launch their attacks."
The Target malware was a customized version of BlackPOS, which McAfee described as, "far from 'advanced.' The BlackPOS malware family is an 'off-the-shelf' exploit kit for sale that can easily be modified and redistributed with little programming skill or knowledge of malware functionality," the report said.
In short, all the attackers needed was criminal intent and a safe place to work, which is provided by the so-called "Dark Web." As Security Week put it, "cybercriminals are settling into a comfortable place in the 'Dark Web' where they test, refine and distribute malware for online thievery."
Vincent Weafer, senior vice president for McAfee Labs, said in a statement that the attacks "represent a coming of age for both Cybercrime-as-a-Service and the 'Dark Web' overall," which allows criminals to operate as easily as any other legitimate online business.
Indeed, experts agree that there is little hope that law enforcement can disrupt criminals on the Dark Web in any major way. Even the highly publicized shutdown last October of the online narcotics black market Silk Road came after it had been operating for two and a half years. And that was, by the FBI's own admission, because the alleged administrator of Silk Road, Ross William Ulbricht, made a "simple mistake."
The bust didn't do much to curb the market either. A month later, Silk Road 2.0 made its debut, with a similar line of illegal products.
In an interview last December, IDTheftSecurity CEO Robert Siciliano said the Dark Web is, "exponentially larger than what everyday consumers have access to. The tools to search and navigate via Tor (The Onion Router) are getting better every day."
Raj Samani, EMEA CTO at McAfee agreed, saying that a combination of better tools and better service means that it no longer takes special skills to get into the business. The attacks, "are enabled through cybercrime-as-a-service. In other words the ability to outsource products, tools and services to enable a cyberattack means the number of persons capable of conducting an attack is increasing," he said.
Ironically, Tor was "originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ... for the primary purpose of protecting government communications," according to the Tor Project website.
It is favored by privacy advocates, who point to a number of its legitimate uses: Journalists can communicate anonymously with whistleblowers and dissidents; employees of non-governmental organizations (NGO) can connect to their home website from foreign countries without alerting that government of their activities; corporations use it to protect their sensitive information from competitors and it is generally seen as a way to protect domestic online civil liberties from government surveillance.
But, as has been widely reported -- increasingly in mainstream media as well as the IT trade press -- it is a haven for criminals.
While Tor, "piggybacks over the same Internet as everybody else, it has its own little secret handshakes and requires end-to-end encryption to each site," said Kevin McAleavey, a malware expert and cofounder of the KNOS Project.
He said there have been a few attempts to index Tor sites, "but by and large they change with the wind direction. The really dodgy ones probably change their onion URLs multiple times per day."
McAleavey noted that Tor has been around for more than a decade (the first version was announced in 2002), but the scale of the criminal activity has spiked. "The only thing that's changed since 2006 -- even the malware has barely changed -- is that there's big money in hitting big places, so the kids are better financed now," he said. "The criminals are willing to pay far bigger rewards for zero-day attacks than the software companies. It's free enterprise -- pure supply and demand financing."
Still, while the McAfee report described the illicit activities on the Dark Web as "healthy and growing," enterprises are not entirely defenseless. Mario de Boer, research director, Security and Risk Management Strategies at Gartner for Technical Professionals, offered three recommendations.
Enterprises should not, "overspend on new technologies without understanding their efficacy and before optimizing their current security controls. Next, assess risks that are not addressed by your current technology stack. Then, balance additional protection with deeper monitoring capabilities and incident response," he said.
Samani said organizations have to move beyond the traditional approaches to capturing malware. "There are multiple ways that organizations can defend themselves -- whitelisting, sandboxing, etc.," he said. "So the innovation within the security industry is equally healthy and growing."
McAleavey said the notion that the Dark Web is, "some immutable, impenetrable wall of doom ... is nonsense. Tor connections are suspicious to authorities simply because of the ports used and the encryption standing out like a lighthouse in the middle of the Pacific," he said.
But he agrees it is, far more difficult to track down criminals using it, "because of the randomness, anonymity and most of all, the encryption."
To do that, he said, requires HUMINT (Human Intelligence). "It's just a matter of wasting a lot of time hanging out where the criminals or the Lulzboat people and 'carders' (people buying and selling credit card information) do."
Beyond that, he said an enterprise's anti-virus (AV) software should be able to monitor all attempts at incoming and outgoing connections. "If it ain't on the list of known and safe, then don't let it communicate. How hard a concept is that?"
But he and others agree that it may get worse before it gets better, and that the high-profile breaches at the end of last year may indeed just be the "tip of the iceberg."
"As long as consumers are able to pay by merely showing a sequence of numbers, and as long as that information is aggregated in POS terminals or, even better, in online transaction systems, these will be attacked," de Boer said.
"As long as security is a fight between convenience and lockdown, then it's not going to get any better," McAleavey added. "Especially now with all those abandoned XP machines out there or older. And same goes for those stuck with old versions of OSX that can't be upgraded because the hardware is obsolete."


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Indiscretions have stated hat Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015 will start on the 26th of August.
As everybody knows this fashion show is celebrating the 15th year of it’s fabulous existence. The event will be hosted in the beautiful oPalladium Hotel in Mumbai.
Organisers of the event are as always, Lakmé, the Cosmetic label, and IMG Reliance.
Lakme Fashion Week will last five days this summer and we will see the best Indian fashion designers and the most talented young designers of today showcasing at the event.
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As Shiba Inu ($SHIB) popularity has soared, its price has surged (roughly 44.25 million percent in the year-to-date period).
This has resulted in the quick adoption of $SHIB as a payment method by merchants worldwide.
What Is Shiba Inu ($SHIB)?
When South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Korbit announced on November 23 that it would list $SHIB:
„SHIB is a Dogecoin-inspired project.
Ryoshi, an anonymous developer, coined the motto „Experiment in decentralized government“ in August.
Although it claims to be a Dogecoin competitor in the same way that it benchmarked Dogecoin, there are a few key distinctions, the most notable being that it is a meme currency with a pet dog as its mascot.
To begin, because ShibaInu is an ERC-20 token based on Ethereum, it can be readily incorporated into the Ethereum ecosystem and used in a variety of ways.
ShibaSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX), has been created, along with a ShibaInu incubator that fosters artists and an NFT collection that can be purchased using ShibaInu tokens.
Second, unlike Dogecoin, which functions on its own mainnet after forking from Litecoin, ShibaInu leverages the Ethereum network’s security.
Third, Uniswap’s liquidity pool was used to distribute ShibaInu evenly.
As a result, Etherscan verifies that token holders enjoy a high degree of decentralization.
$SHIB in Venezuela
On June 16, $SHIB Informer published a story detailing how businesses in this South American country — which has been experiencing hyperinflation since 2016 — first adopted $SHIB.
„The business owners who started this are also $SHIB holders, so they contacted the Venezuelan SHIB community to figure out how to make this work,“ a member of the $SHIB group in Venezuela explained.
The report said, „At the time of this article’s publication, at least 15 locations are accepting $SHIB.“
They sell fast food, liquor, hardware, electronics, office supplies, and a variety of other items in those locations.“
Alejandro Yañez, proprietor of the Choripan Food Truck and arguably Venezuela’s first business owner to accept $SHIB as payment, told $SHIB Informer: „We don’t fear the new; we dread the static, because life pushes you every day.“
You may either move forward or wait till the end of your life to decide, which is why we choose to support $SHIB and its ecosystem.
We view it as a community effort run by the community for the community.
On June 4, we completed the first of many transactions that we expect to conduct in our country.
Today’s sale was straightforward, but we were nevertheless ecstatic to be doing something new for the first time, and we are certain that this was a wise move.
It was not only a’sale.‘
It was a method for us to demonstrate our belief that something awaits us in the moon.“
On October 11, Shytoshi Kusama, the Shiba Inu project’s pseudonymous lead, tweeted about how much he is enjoying the adoption of $SHIB in Venezuela after a Venezuelan $SHIB HODLer informed him about another new business (dubbed „El Bunker“) that had recently begun accepting $SHIB as payment.
The same source announced on November 24 that there was a special “Shiba Zone” being built in Venezuela, where every merchant accepts $SHIB.
Several days later, we had more details about the Shiba one, namely that it will consist of more than 10 businesses and it will be located in the Bolívar State.
Then, on December 10, the Shiba Inu community found out that there were now 100 businesses in Venezuela accepting $SHIB and the 100th one is “Hotel la Estación Tucacas” in the island Morrocoy.


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The Paris haute couture season got off to a controversial start with Daniel Roseberry’s Schiaparelli’s show on Monday. The collection, inspired by Dante’s Inferno, a work about seeking enlightenment, featured several spectacular animal heads sewn onto garments. They were a representation of Dante's journey to find his way to heaven when he is stopped by three beasts: a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf.
Front row editors took to Instagram to hail the genius of Mr Roseberry’s creativity, which model Irina Shayk wearing a one sleeve gown with an oversized lion appearing to be mid-roar, boldly displayed across her chest and shoulder. A near identical lion’s head gown was worn by reality star and beauty entrepreneur Kylie Jenner, who sat in the audience. The New York Times Tweeted Ms Jenner had arrived ‘with a friend.’
Naomi Campbell wore a black faux fur coat with a wolf protruding from its shoulder. Such was the canny realism of these animals that on first sight the craftsmanship was painstakingly of another level. Mr Roseberry detailed the process on his Instagram account, how a base of hand-sculpted foam, wool and silk faux fur was painted so life-like, celebrating the glory of the natural world.
A celebration of the natural world fell flat
Diet Prada, the perennial Instagram account known for its cancel culture moda operandi, commented on the collection’s incredible taxidermy-level of quality, posting a selection of ‘best’ looks.
What subsequently ensued, however, was a social media uproar, pardon the pun, with users responding in a way that presumably neither fashion account, nor brand, predicted: “We have to stop showing animals as luxury products,” said one user. Another wrote “you don’t celebrate the glory of the nature world by wearing it like a tacky trophy.” The surrealism fell flat for others, who said a lot of species have been ‘stamped out’ by humans, finding such representation in fashion unnecessary.
As thousands of comments began to flood Schiaparelli’s Instagram, the majority of Instagram accounts questioned the concept of glorifying dead animals, with fashion followers quick to explain the surrealist dna of the Schiaparelli brand, arguing every fake fur coat or accessory would then be a target.
Hail back to 2018, when Gucci presented a show with models carrying life-like replicas of their heads, eery life-like figures recalled cephalophores, martyred saints who carry their own heads. It was controversial but certainly did not receive the same backlash as Roseberry’s animal heads.
Haute couture is a celebration of craftsmanship and for a Maison to succeed it needs to dazzle clients to spend tens of thousands of euros on its designs. While the heads may have been a shocking choice of symbolism, they iterate the house’s incredible techniques and talent, and unintentionally overshadowed the rest of the collection, which had moments of superb craft, like a cream pearl-embroidered cropped jacket or a column gown that featured a front panel bathed in paillettes.
Will Schiaparelli’s paying customers be put off by a social media storm? Probably not.


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DETROIT (AP) _ General Motors Corp. said Wednesday it has cut
scheduled overtime at six plants that make large sport utility
vehicles and pickups, citing fuel prices and competition in the
On Monday, the largest U.S. automaker eliminated previously scheduled overtime at plants in Fort Wayne; Arlington, Texas; Janesville, Wis.; Flint, Mich.; Silao, Mexico; and Oshawa, Ontario, GM spokesman Tom Wickham said. The change will be in effect for the rest of the year.
"Reducing overtime production enables us to reduce pressure for
excessive incentive spending, helping us keep brand and product
residual values as high as we can," Wickham said.
GM's SUV and truck sales were down 9 percent in the first seven
months of the year as housing starts slowed and competitors ramped
up incentives. Earlier this summer, Toyota Motor Corp. was offering
incentives of just more than $5,000 per vehicle on its new
full-size Tundra pickups, according to the auto research site
Edmunds.com. GM responded by raising incentive spending in July.
Wickham said GM isn't revising its production forecast at this
time but could announce changes when monthly sales results are
released Sept. 4. GM plans to produce 1.075 million vehicles in the
third quarter, including 697,500 trucks. That's an increase of 2.2
percent over the third quarter of 2006.
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In an exciting bit of shoe news, Sarah Jessica Parker’s line is finally hitting stores. Though SJP Collection is set to be exclusively available at Nordstrom and nordstrom.com, from Feb. 28 to March 2, Carrie Bradshaw fangirls can flock to her NYC pop-up shop and get their fashion fix. Even better? SJP herself will be on hand to greet shoppers and help them shop the shoe line.
We caught up with SJP at her pop-up shop preview Wednesday morning, and when asked to pick her favorite pair (perhaps the cherry-red grosgrain pumps, or the flower-encrusted “Etta” T-straps?), she offered up a very Carrie response: “I covet all of them in some way because they allow you to feel differently, or make something look different in your closet, or stand differently than you did yesterday, or get someplace faster,” she says. “I think that’s the beauty of this particular accessory.”
In Season 4 of “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw tells her Vogue editor, “Men I may not know. But shoes — shoes! — I know.” The proof’s in the pairs that are quietly stacked in ballet pink boxes at 372 Broadway, priced between $195-$500. Shoe-in.
Located at 372 Broadway, the pop-up shop will be open Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. SJP will be on hand on Friday at 10 a.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. (Dress your best, ladies — this is SJP!)


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Weatherproof, Motion-Activated, and Easy to Use Digital Camera Will Change how Many Enjoy and Learn About Wildlife
The popularity of birdwatching and backyard bird feeding has exploded in recent years, but hectic work schedules limit how much time birdwatchers can spend enjoying their hobby. Technology is solving that problem while helping bird enthusiasts get a closer look than was previously possible.
The recently introduced Wingscapes BirdCam is a motion-activated, weatherproof camera that takes digital photos and videos of birds. Images can be viewed on a TV or downloaded to any computer, where they can be emailed, printed, or posted to the web.


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Northwest Airlines cut its summer ticket prices up to 40 percent Sunday, and the other major airlines scrambled Monday to match the lower fares.
Northwest offers four flights a day out of Norfolk International Airport to its hub in Detroit. It does not fly out of Newport News/Williamsburg International.
But USAir, American and United, which serve both the Newport News and Norfolk airports, dropped their fares to meet the competition. Northwest's new fares are good for travel between May 18 and Sept. 12 in all states except Alaska; and in Canada; Cancun, Mexico; and the Caribbean, excluding San Juan, Puerto Rico. The nonrefundable tickets went on sale Monday and must be bought by midnight April 27. They also must be bought at least 30 days before you travel, and most destinations require a Saturday night stay.
Other airlines, including USAir and American, expanded the offer, allowing travelers to buy cheaper tickets for travel starting May 3. Those airlines also reduced the advance purchase requirement to 14 days from 30.
The summer sale offer allows fliers to travel over holiday weekends, including the Fourth of July and Labor Day.
Northwest fares from Norfolk to:
San Francisco $389 $674
Orlando $186 $310
Seattle $398 $643
Detroit $235 $335
Minneapolis $329 $470
Los Angeles $386 $643


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Rolls-Royce is willing to indulge the whims of any client with enough money. That includes painting a Ghost sedan in a decidedly non-standard color.
The automaker recently unveiled a pink Ghost for an Internet personality, known primarily by her Instagram handle @ChampagneRose. The car is finished in a bespoke shade of pink called, appropriately, Champagne Rose, and was developed specifically for the buyer. It will be reserved for her exclusive use, according to a Rolls-Royce.
The car's creation shows how much time Rolls is willing to dedicate to bespoke build requests. The customer spent four days sampling Rolls' vehicle lineup, then composed a "mood board" of hundreds of color swatches that was sent to Rolls' bespoke department. That was eventually narrowed down to 30 paint samples, from which the final color was selected.
The exterior is matched by pink leather upholstery, which took six months to develop, including testing to ensure the pink hue wouldn't fade in the sun. The interior also features pink wool carpets and piano black trim.
Rolls-Royce Ghost in Champagne Rose
The divider between the rear seats has a painted rose motif that required several days of prototyping, while the final design required 14 hours to complete, according to Rolls. The rose is repeated on the Ghost's built-in picnic tables, each requiring 5,500 individual stitches and over 30 hours of work. Finally, the rose design was incorporated into the Starlight Headliner, which features 1,132 fiber-optic lighting elements that simulate a night sky.
This isn't the first pink Ghost. In 2013 Rolls painted a previous-generation Ghost pink as part of a program to foster support for breast cancer care. In 2017, car collector Michael Fux also commissioned a Rolls-Royce Dawn in his signature fuchsia.


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The initial public offering for Chinese online tour booking website Tuniu may not carry the heft of the impending Alibaba IPO juggernaut (rumored at $130 billion and counting), but it is a sign of investors’ continuing demand for public offerings from Chinese tech companies.
The Beijing-based tour site has selected Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley to run the offering process for its expected $100 million IPO, according to several sources with knowledge of the company’s plans.
In the clearest public sign of the company’s intentions, one of its investors, Gobi Partners, announced that Conor Yang, the architect behind the public offering of both AirMedia Group and Dangdang.com, had been hired as Tuniu’s chief financial officer earlier this year.
Tuniu has raised over $60 million in venture funding from investors including DCM, Gobi Partners, Sequoia Capital, Highland Capital Partners, and the Tokyo-based Internet services company, Rakuten Inc.
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Although many businesses are still heavily focused on Millennials, 2015 is a good time to look ahead. Generally agreed on as anyone born after 1990, Gen Z is the largest generational group in the U.S. And they're vastly different from any other group. “If marketers thought they threw out the playbook with Millennials, they need to know that Gen Zers aren't even playing on the same field," reports Ruth Bernstein in Ad Age.
Rebels With a Cause
This next generation wants to make a difference in the world – and will appreciate businesses that do the same. Compared to 39 percent of Millennials, 60 percent of Gen Zers say they want to make an impact, according to a study by New York-based marketing agency Sparks & Honey. About a quarter of Gen Zers are currently volunteering and social entrepreneurship is a popular career choice.
Gen Z customers will appreciate websites and blogs that are transparent and socially conscious. What's more, they'll gravitate towards brands that can demonstrate that their own underlying practices are sustainable, too.
Forging Their Own Paths
Gen Zers are resourceful, entrepreneurial, and ready to work hard for their success. In fact, about 75 % of high school students want to start their own businesses someday, reports Sparks & Honey.
Look to Gen Zers as consumers who are partners and not as a target audience, advises Jeff Fromm, president marketing consultancy of FutureCast, in an interview with the International Business Times. “You're not going to be marketing to them, you're going to be co-creating with them," he says.
Trailblazers and Realists
Gen Z is the generation least likely to believe in the "American Dream," reports Ad Age. They look for messaging that's realistic, not idealistic, and don't respond to traditional ideas of beauty. Gen Z is also unconventional and willing to take risks. And they respect independence, innovation, and self-direction.
Websites and blogs that empower Gen Z consumers to create their own styles and make things their own will do well with these rebellious thinkers. As Dan Schawbel, the founder of Millennial Branding shared in Business Insider: "While millennials seek mentors, Generation Z is more about helping themselves."
Gen Z is more mobile than any other generation. They're the first generation of digital natives who have never known a world without computers and mobile phones and they use at least five screens daily, according to the Sparks & Honey report.
To catch their attention, businesses must act like digital natives as well, by providing seamless digital and mobile experiences across multiple screens, and engaging with Gen Z in two-way conversations instead of one-sided marketing. Gen Z is also used to rapid-fire banter and commentary, so it's better for sites and blogs to communicate in shorter bursts of “snackable content," reports Sparks & Honey.
There's no time like the present to start connecting with the socially responsible values and entrepreneurial spirit of Gen Z consumers across digital platforms. Gen Zers may be young, but they're a powerful generation – and they're growing up fast.


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Melbourne-based Southern Cross Computer Systems (SCCS) has seen a majority stake of its business acquired by a private consortium led by John Hanna and Matt McGuire.
As a result, Hanna will take on the managing director position while McGuire will take the role as COO.
Mark Kalmus and Chris Palmer will continue as executive directors and minority shareholders. The pair initially bought SCCS in 2007 from its founders Joan and Andy Hegedus.
SCCS was established in 1981 and has about 102 staff on its books. The company provides a range of information and communication technology services such as IT procurement, IT roll-out and operational support services.
The business maintains more than 196 customers across a range of industries and the acquisition aims to strengthen its current set of capabilities stretching across consulting, planning, designing and implementation, through to cloud and managed services.
“We believe that our combined experience, pedigree and shared vision to extend SCCS’ existing business into one of Australia’s leading end-to-end IT and managed services providers, makes this the perfect marriage for our customers,” Hanna said in a statement.
“With our deep partner network, we will continue to deliver solutions we are renowned for, while building new customer-centric offerings to help our customers solve their business challenges.”
Prior to taking part in SCCS, Hanna held senior roles at IBM and was the director of cloud and managed services at Interactive.
McGuire’s 27-year career boasts a number of leadership roles with companies such as Ajilon, IBM, CSC and AAPT.Earlier this year, WA-based Stott Hoare, purchased SCCS’ Perth business. At the time, Stott Hoare managing director, Jim Loader, said both companies had strong brands, businesses and certifications in products from VMware, Lenovo, IBM, HP, Pure Storage, Cisco, Dell and Microsoft.


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Television networks agreed to pay billions of dollars to the National Football League and producers of the top-rated show ER amid a scramble for programming to fill the airwaves. ABC and its ESPN cable unit paid $9.2 billion for the rights to Monday night and Sunday night NFL football games for the next eight years. Fox renewed its ownership of NFL games for $4.4 billion, and CBS got back into football with a $4 billion bid for NFL games. NBC, ousted from its package by CBS, then turned around and agreed to pay Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. studio $13 million an episode for ER.
RAID ON CHASE
Equitable Cos. named Michael Hegarty, a former vice chairman of Chase Manhattan Corp., as president of its life insurance subsidiary. Mr. Hegarty, 53, will become president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. next week. He will also serve as the chief operating officer for Equitable and its life insurance subsidiary starting next month. At the same time, Equitable elected Edward D. Miller chairman of Equitable Life, replacing Joseph J. Melone, 66, who is retiring. Mr. Miller himself was recruited from Chase recently.
INSURANCE COSTS CUT
Hartford Financial Services Inc. will cut premiums on its automobile insurance policies in New York and Connecticut as claims and other costs decline. Premiums paid by New York customers will fall 4% on average, and those paid by Connecticut drivers will drop 2.9%.
Saks Holdings Inc. named Jeanne B. Daniel, 41, to the post of executive vice president of merchandising. Ms. Daniel, who has spent the last 12 years at Tiffany & Co., fills a hole in the Saks management team created last year when chief merchant Rose Marie Bravo abruptly left the company.
Revlon Inc. promoted William Fox, its chief financial officer, to president of strategic corporate development worldwide and chief executive of Revlon Technologies. Frank Gehrmann will assume Mr. Fox's position as chief financial officer of Revlon Inc. and was also named executive vice president of Revlon Inc. He will continue to serve as chief financial officer of Revlon's operating group, and Mr. Fox will still serve as senior executive vice president of Revlon Inc.
BUYING A REIT
Kimco Realty Corp. agreed to buy Price REIT Inc. for $835 million, the latest move by one of the country's largest shopping center owners to boost earnings in the
face of a sluggish retail environment. The purchase will increase Kimco's holdings by about 25%, to 367 shopping centers with more than 50 million square feet of space. It also expands Kimco's holdings to fast-growing areas of California, Washington and Arizona from mainly Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
A BIG LOSS
United Auto Group Inc. expects to report a fourth-quarter loss of $1.22 to $1.41 per share as it
sells poorly performing car dealerships and restructures its corporate operations. United Auto named Samuel X. DiFeo, head of the company's DiFeo dealerships in the New York area, to the previously vacant post of president and chief operating officer.
J. Crew Group Inc., recently acquired by Texas Pacific Group, cut about 10% of its workforce, or about 100 employees, as part of a restructuring because of problems meeting profit expectations. The retail and catalog company said it's restructuring to increase its "efficiency and accountability while reinforcing the brand," and a memo stated that each business unit will be given its own budget. The company expects to have total revenue of $830 million for fiscal 1997, which is a small increase from the year earlier.
Advance Publications Inc.'s Conde Nast Publications Inc. unit is acquiring Women's Sports + Fitness. Though the terms weren't disclosed, people involved estimate the purchase price at about $5 million. Women's Sports + Fitness, founded by Billie Jean King 25 years ago, has a circulation of 218,000 and is affiliated with the Women's Sports Foundation.
Granite Broadcasting Corp. will sell two Michigan television stations to Freedom Communications Inc. for $170 million in cash. The proceeds of the sale will go toward Granite's planned purchase of KOFY-TV in San Francisco. In October, Manhattan-based Granite agreed to buy Pacific FM Inc., the owner of KOFY-FM, for $173.8 million.
GreenPoint Financial Corp. plans to buy back 2.1 million, or 5%, of its outstanding shares over an unspecified period of time. Manhattan-based GreenPoint will pay $138.9 million for the stock, based on its closing price yesterday. The thrift, which completed a $200 million repurchase in June, said it bought back 5.7 million shares last year at an average price of $62 a share.
SFX'S LATEST DEAL
SFX Broadcasting Inc. is acquiring the business and operations of Westbury Music Fair through an entertainment subsidiary. Purchasing the 3,000-seat theatrical facility is part of SFX's move to transform itself into an entertainment company. The company previously announced it is selling its radio business to an affiliate of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst. Before the merger is complete, SFX will spin off its entertainment division into a separate publicly held company.


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Teen Sentenced for Eglin, Sandia Hacking
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) _ An 18-year-old hacker who breached computers at Sandia National Laboratories and posted an anti-Israeli message on the Eglin Air Force Base Web site was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison.
Adil Yahya Zakaria Shakour also was ordered to pay $88,253 in restitution, and his computer use was restricted during the three years he will spend under supervised release after his prison term.
Shakour, a Pakistani national who lives in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty in March to computer and credit card fraud charges.
Shakour penetrated the Florida air base’s computer server repeatedly in April and May 2002, altering the Web page to denounce the Israeli advance into Palestine.
Damage to the air base computer system was estimated at $75,000, while more than $2,700 in damage was done to the Sandia Laboratories Web site in Livermore.
Shakour also hacked two other computer systems, including Mathews, N.C.-based Cheaptaxforms.com, where he obtained credit card information and bought more than $7,000 worth of items.


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New technology promises to take the anxiety out of this common road gripe but it could come at the expense of other road users.
Labor has revealed the cornerstone of its response to the banking royal commission — an “unprecedented” scheme to compensate customers.
A SUPER wide angle camera is set to be the winner for Samsung's 10th anniversary Galaxy S10 phone which was unveiled in San Francisco today.
Fashion & Beauty
Fashion blogger Nadia Fairfax described it as “almost like a Diamond ring, you want to show it off, to show that you have the latest one”.
It’s good-looking, well dressed, and loaded with personality. But there are reasons why you might be tempted to cheat on the Samsung Galaxy S10+.
In an unprecedented launch, Samsung has revealed five new flagship smartphones, including a handset that folds out to become a tablet.
A Queensland couple was promised a Michel’s Patisserie store could bring in $12,000 per week. In just over a year, the store was abandoned.
Australians are using tonnes of meth, cocaine, MDMA and heroin, costing them billions and the government has a sneaky way of finding out.
NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn will walk away from the top job with his pockets well and truly lined despite the bank’s shocking behaviour.
As $30 million goes up for grabs in tomorrow’s Powerball draw, lotto officials have revealed the most frequently drawn numbers in the past eight months.
If congestion busting technology is to become a reality, an expert says, we need to remove all human involvement in the transport network.
THE world’s biggest smartphone maker is about to unveil its latest tech, including a device that’s been a very long time in the making.
Fears are growing after a “sophisticated state actor” targeted Parliament ahead of the election, just as US entities were hit by Iran and China.
Coca-Cola Amatil says it’s confident for the future of the canned fruit and vegetable business despite its value being slashed.
AMP will lose up to $30 million a year if a bill is passed forcing the wealth management company to hand over 370,000 superannuation accounts.
MICHAEL Jordan has always been Nike’s best investment, but it wasn’t until a recent business deal that the NBA legend joined the billionaire’s club.
TESLA has new competition popping up everywhere and now the company founded by the world’s richest man is joining the fight.
Mark MacLeod lost tens of thousands of dollars thanks to one simple mistake made by his boss. Now he’s had the ultimate payback.
It’s the national day of our favourite sweet treat and one Aussie town is celebrating in style.
A series of apps promise to make it much easier to let your partner know you’re in the mood — but there’s a big problem.


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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will introduce the European-spec version of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV 100% electric vehicle at the 2010 Paris Motor Show ("Mondial de L' Automobile 2010") to be held at Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles in Paris, France from Thursday 30th September to Sunday 17th October (open to the general public from Saturday 2nd October 2010).
A total of 12 vehicles (7 on press days) will be displayed at its stand in Hall 3 including:
- The recently introduced Mitsubishi ASX (RVR in Japan) compact crossover equipped with MMC's all-new
- "low impact" 4N13 diesel engine
- The Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback (Galant Fortis Sportback in Japan) now featuring the same 150 ps DiD engine
- The new Mitsubishi Outlander 2.2 DiD mid-size crossover, whose 177 ps unit is a further derivative (4N14) of this same family of innovative diesel powerplants.
Concerning the European-spec Mitsubishi i-MiEV, MMC plans to successively roll it out from December of this year in 14 countries including France, the United Kingdom, Germany and further expand the European rollout from fiscal year 2011.
The price of the European-spec Mitsubishi i-MiEV will differ by country but will be set to around €33,000 - €35,000 (or equivalent) so that the final cost to the customer after government incentives (where applicable) remains under €30,000 (or equivalent) in a majority of the countries it is to be sold in.Published 31 August 2010


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Inflation is chasing the investors and policy makers at a speedy rate. CPI increased by 7% in December, 2021, the highest since June, 1982.
Enriching consumer experience in LA, Amazon’s Style store is transforming the ways of buying outfits through suggested algorithms.
The annual inflation rate in the US hit 6.2%, recording a highest in decades. Due to an unstable inflation, consumer prices increased by 0.9 percent in October and June, 2021.
The McPlant Burger is coming to nearly 600 McDonald’s outlets in the Bay Area and Dallas-Forth Worth starting February 14.


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Following in the footsteps of bigger business intelligence vendors, the niche players focusing on Web analytics are trying to reinvent themselves and bring customers the ability to analyze a variety of data sources.
Analytics vendors of all ilk have been working over the last year to broaden their horizons and connect with as many data sources as possible in an effort to give customers a more complete view of their enterprise operations.
On Monday, Web analytics vendor WebTrends Corp. announced that it is reorganizing its product line to incorporate more types of analytics and is delivering the first product in the new lineup.
The company now offers two product categories: Web analytics and VRM (visitor relationship management). San Jose, Calif.-based NetIQ completed its acquisition of WebTrends in late March.
"We're looking to reinvigorate the WebTrends brand," said Colleen Carey, WebTrends director of product management.
The first deliverable, available immediately, will be the WebTrends Reporting Center, which is aimed at the mid-market and large enterprises and provides Web-based reports.
WebTrends sees the new product, along with two important add-ons -- one for collecting and aggregating data, the other for connecting to BroadVision, Vignette and Macromedia programs -- as a means to move up in the enterprise, according to Carey.
On the VRM front, Carey said that the company is looking to include both Web site data and offline customer information for enterprises.
"All of our products are on the path toward VRM," Carey added.
Accrue Software Inc., in Fremont, Calif., aligned with IBM Corp., in Armonk, N.Y., to enable its analytics to work with Big Blue's DB2 database, thereby extending Accrue's reach to a broader range of data sources.
NetGenesis Corp. last week announced Version 5.5 of its platform, which company officials said reaches out to more data types in order to provide more comprehensive insight to customer behavior.
"The goal is to help customers improve their Web initiative in a multi-channel environment," said Ann Estabrook, Cambridge, Mass.-based NetGenesis' vice president of corporate strategy and marketing. "We look at other touch points so customers aren't looking at the Web in isolation."
Meanwhile, traditional analytics vendor, also are extending the reach of their products only toward Web site and customer-related data, including Cognos Inc., Informatica Corp., Information Builders Inc., Crystal Decisions Inc., Hyperion Solutions Corp., MicroStrategy Inc., Spotfire Inc., nQuire Software Inc., and WhiteLight. Database vendors Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM, and NCR Corp. are also incorporating analytics and broadening their products' reach. In turn, applications vendors Siebel Systems Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG, and Oracle also are working to connect their analytic capabilities to a variety of data sources.
Doug Laney, an analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based Meta Group, said that the Web-oriented functions of the traditional business intelligence vendors are by no means best-of-breed, and there is more intelligence built into the software by the Web analytics vendors, particularly when it comes to Web farms and IP address resolution.
That said, Laney added, the Web analytics vendors are being forced to expand their capabilities as the meat-and-potatoes business intelligence vendors add Web analytics.
"It's a multi-channel world, and anyone analyzing data within a single channel only is dead meat," Laney said. "It seems, therefore, that the Web site analysis vendors are merely prolonging their ouster and eventual atrophy or acquisition by adding 'me too' functionality that is much more mature elsewhere."
Customers that already have Web analytics in place can, in the meantime, use the expanded software and the newer pieces as building blocks to create a more inclusive analytics system.
One user of Accrue's software has implemented it over the past two years to monitor how changes to the Web site affect how visitors navigate the site, said a source requesting anonymity. More recently, the company is looking to analyze offline customer data with online data to track customer behavior more effectively. "Now we can generate better reports than with just the [analytic] application," said the source.


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India’s top tractor exports brand and country’s leading tractor manufacturer, Sonalika Tractors has always caught hold of the real market pulse and capitalised on hidden market opportunities to ensue the committed plans. Carrying forward the strong momentum built throughout FY’21, Sonalika Tractors has breached past 1 lakh tractor sales mark in just 9 months of FY’22, thereby charting the path to a new paradigm in 2022. Meanwhile, Sonalika has also entered the coveted club of 25,000+ export tractor sales in 9 months, a unique feat which remains a distant dream for many companies globally. Sonalika has further extended its lead in exports with 3,432 tractor sales & 31.2% market share in December’21, which is nearly double over the nearest No. 2 brand.
Cumulatively, Sonalika has sold 1,05,250 tractors in Apr-Dec’21. Year after year, Sonalika Tractors has been fast forwarding its sales performance of crossing 1 lakh tractors mark. The company has been manoeuvring through toughest of Covid-19 waves while addressing farmer’s critical requirements with superior technology powered tractors & implements. This also includes the recently launched Sonalika Tiger DI 75 4W CRDs tractor that delivers twin benefits in one tractor – the power of 75 HP tractor and fuel economy of 65 HP tractor.
Sharing his viewpoint on the remarkable achievement, Mr Raman Mittal, Executive Director, Sonalika Tractors, said, “It gives me great pleasure to announce that we have created a new record sales performance to breach the 1 lakh tractor sales mark in just 9 months of FY’22. Month after month, our strong focus on our mission and persistent approach of closely working with farmers while addressing their diverse needs, has enabled us to clock the extraordinary record 1,05,250 overall tractor sales within 9 months of FY’22 (April- Dec’21).


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Apple AR Glasses Latest Rumors, Release Date: Everything We Know So Far
Apple appears to be gearing up to release its much-anticipated AR glasses. Nothing so definite at this stage yet, leaving everyone asking and guessing.
One thing is certain though. The Cupertino tech company is not the kind to be left behind in AR field. Microsoft and Google, too, are already knee-deep in developing their own AR devices. So, Apple is in it.
Google first hit the AR road when it released Google Glass, that device displaying 2D images, followed by Microsoft’s HoloLens that could embed 3D images to your world. How about Apple? It was true to its Silicon Valley image: secretive. Rumors had it that Apple had the prototype of its AR device kept in the lab through all these years.
Apple CEO Tim Cook had let the cat out of the bag. He discussed the potentials of AR in the future allowing everyone to have a peek what’s going on inside Apple.
Jony Ive, the chief design officer, chipped in, too. He told a tech panel last year that “there are certain ideas that we have and we are waiting for the technology to catch up with the idea.” Sort of saying, they are waiting for the AR technology to mature.
Which is which: will it be AR headset or glasses? No one is sure but evidence had shown that it could be AR headset ahead of the glasses. The bad news: Apple is not in a position to roll it out anytime this year – perhaps, even later.
The Financial Times, in its March 2017 report, did also believe that Apple has the AR as its most important project inside the company but the rollout “still at least a year away, perhaps even longer.” A report from DigiTimes revealed that the Cupertino tech company is developing microLED screens, both small and large sizes. The small one is likely to be used in AR glasses.
The 2019 release date is most likely for AR Glasses but Bloomberg in November 2017 said Apple is ramping up everything to have 2020 as the most probable rollout date for its AR glasses or headset.
Apple AR Headset
All rumors, which had been circulating for years, are pointing to one thing. Apple AR headset is in the pipeline, codenamed T288. The Financial Times had reported in March 2017 that Apple was assembling experts on augmented reality. It appeared more resources had been poured out into AR project over other projects such as its first driverless car.
More reports – engineers working on AR project and reported work-related injuries by Apple employees working on the project – had it all confirmed that, indeed, Apple had its eye on AR headset. Then came the intriguing Apple acquisition of Metaio, a German company behind popular AR apps in the market today. The German company, after the reported acquisition, fell silent.
The Cupertino tech company is keeping everyone guessing while it is cooking something – it could be AR glasses or headset – in its kitchen. Well, 2019 or 2020 is not that far from now. Let us see.


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Announced by Henry Tang, OPPO’s Chief 5G Scientist, at the Qualcomm 5G Summit 2019 in Barcelona, the new device will be powered by Qualcomm’s dual-mode 5G mobile platform and support both standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) networks.
Representing OPPO at the 5G Summit, Tang shared his insights on the current state of 5G and the future products, applications and cutting-edge experiences set to be enabled by the next-generation of connectivity.
“The unrelenting efforts from OPPO and other industry peers have paved the way for the rapid adoption of 5G, with users in select countries and regions already becoming early adopters of OPPO”s 5G smartphones,” Tang said in a statement.
“We hope our next-generation dual-mode 5G offerings will deliver a superior experience to more consumers in more markets globally, making 5G readily available to a wider consumer base worldwide,” he added.
As of September 2019, OPPO had filed applications for over 2,500 global patent families and declared more than 1,000 families of 5G Standard Essential Patents to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
In addition, the company has submitted more than 3,000 5G standards-related documents to 3GPP, ranking among the top contributors to the international standards organisation.


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We all know at least one of ‘em. They fawn over vinyl records and collect speakers larger than most people’s bed side-tables: they’re called audio geeks. What these people are after, is lossless, high-quality audio that was only supported on Tidal and Amazon Music up until now. This week, Spotify announced Spotify HiFi.
Spotify hosted its first all-around update and announcement event called Stream On yesterday. It highlighted some of its most prominent creators, musicians and podcasters. The most enticing announcement of which was the addition of its HiFi subscription tier that will provide listeners with pure lossless audio. That’s essentially CD-quality audio blasted from your Spotify app.
“Premium subscribers in select markets will be able to upgrade their sound quality to Spotify HiFi and listen to their favorite songs the way artists intended,” the music streaming service said in its announcement. Obviously, ‘select markets’ rarely includes the southern-most part of Africa, but here’s to hoping it brings its CD-quality option to South Africa.
Apparently, it has been one of the most requested features by its users over the past few years — and it’s understandable. Some people just want to hear small nuances in music that isn’t otherwise clear.
It is working with ‘some of the world’s biggest speaker manufacturers’ in a bid to make Spotify HiFi accessible on all platforms and hardware. This means we may see native Spotify integration with some of our favourite speaker brands in the near future.
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If you’re a regular reader of PSLS, we’ve got some news that won’t surprise you all that much – this Thursday’s PS3 exclusive reveal will be from new developer SuperBot Entertainment.
We first broke the news that SuperBot were working on a “combat heavy” PS3 exclusive, followed the rumors that they were creating a Sony Super Smash Bros game called Title Fight, and then reported it could be called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, which we further backed up with proof that Sony had registered a domain of the same name. Everything pointed towards SuperBot announcing the game this Thursday, as GTTV’s big “secret PS3 exclusive reveal“, something that has now been confirmed in a promotional teaser:
Be sure to come back to PSLS this Thursday for the full details on the game, and more. While you wait, be sure to check out the appropriately-themed latest edition of the PSLS webcomic, POWERon:


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Human Element Prequel Is Ouya's First Exclusive Game
The first game being developed exclusively for Ouya is an episodic prequel of Human Element, the first project from Robotoki.
Robert Bowling, the studio's president, says he personally donated $10,000 to the Kickstarter project. The prequel games will center on the zombie outbreak as it begins in the game's universe. The full title, which is expected to launch in 2015, takes place 35 years after the outbreak.
You can read our full interview with Bowling about his departure from Activision and his new studio, Robotoki, right here.


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Amazon customers in Italy, the UK, and an additional U.S. city will soon have the option to get their packages delivered by a drone beginning in late 2024. The Prime Air drone delivery system is expanding to international locations, and adding a third city in the United States by the end of next year— specific cities in the U.S. and abroad will be named in the coming months. The new locations add to our existing drone delivery operations in the U.S., where we’ve been using drones to safely deliver packages weighing up to five pounds in one hour or less, for almost a year.
In addition to the new delivery sites, Prime Air is unveiling the new MK30 drone design, which is quieter, smaller, and lighter, than previous models. We’re also announcing that drone deliveries will be integrating into Amazon’s delivery network, meaning drones will deploy from some Same-Day Delivery sites. In Italy and the UK, we will start integrating into some of our fulfillment centers, which will provide Amazon customers with faster delivery of an even greater selection of items. We will start with one site in each location and expand over time.
Here are all the details on the expansion, the new drone design, and the integration of drone deliveries into Amazon’s fulfillment network.
Amazon’s Prime Air drone deliveries are coming to Italy, the UK, and a third U.S state
We are working closely with national regulators and international regulators, and communities in the EU, Italy, the UK, and the U.S., to develop this program. We have committed the necessary time and resources to build a safe and scalable service. We have refined the technology, and are now building the right infrastructure to ensure the service provides the ultimate convenience for our customers. We’ve also taken great care to ensure that our drones' design philosophy and demonstrated levels of safety are setting a higher bar for safety across the commercial drone delivery industry, working closely with regulators to design to the highest standard set within those regulations.
We expect drone delivery to take flight in all three new locations by the end of 2024. Once available, eligible Amazon customers can opt in to drone delivery and choose from thousands of items that weigh five pounds or less—including household products, everyday essentials, beauty items, and office/tech supplies. More details on the cities to come.
The new MK30 drone will be faster, quieter, and lighter
Our newest drone, the MK30, is unlike any other drone. The new design can fly twice as far as previous Prime Air drone models, which will allow us to deliver to customers who live farther out from our fulfillment networks. The MK30 is quieter and will be able to fly in more diverse weather conditions—meaning customers can get super speedy deliveries even in situations like light rain, and hotter and colder temperatures. Our drones have a unique package delivery system, where packages are held inside drones during transit to protect their contents.
Like previous models, the MK30 will operate safely and autonomously, and are equipped with sense and avoid technology, which allows the drone to identify and avoid obstacles in the delivery area. The beauty of this system is it can sense and avoid objects that weren’t there the day before, for example, a freshly planted tree, or mobile crane moved into its path. Check out more details and photos of the MK30.
Drone deliveries will now deploy from some Same-Day Delivery sites
Drone delivery will no longer only take place out of stand-alone Prime Air Delivery Centers, like those in Lockeford, California and College Station, Texas. Moving forward, we will integrate drones into the Amazon delivery network, so customers will have traditional delivery vans, Flex delivery vehicles, and Prime Air drones leaving from the same building.
In the U.S., the drones will operate out of some Same-Day Delivery stations, which are essentially smaller versions of our fulfillment centers that process orders for delivery on the same day they were purchased. These sites offer a selection of products that are well aligned with things customers want and need fast, and what drones can safely deliver. Think of products that fit the size and weight capabilities of the drone—like cold medicines and batteries—we place them close to customers at these sites, which enables us to deliver them at our fastest speeds, and now it makes sense to make deliveries even faster via drones.
The integration aims to help Amazon streamline the retail experience, create a safer and more sustainable delivery model, and deliver products more quickly.
We’re developing drones that can fly thousands of times and deliver millions of packages annually for customers. With each delivery we make, we earn additional customer confidence in our service. We’re focused on bringing ultra-fast drone delivery to as many Amazon customers as our technology can safely enable. We’ll soon be taking flight from new cities, countries, and continents. Stay tuned for more details and updates in the coming months.
Working with policymakers
Amazon has been working closely with regulators and governments around the world to expand drone delivery. Here’s what they have to say about the exciting expansion of our program in Italy and the UK:
“The future has arrived in Italy. Being chosen by a global player such as Amazon is further confirmation of the strategy pursued by ENAC (the National Civil Aviation Authority), to push for innovation of advanced air mobility in the aviation industry, creating a national ecosystem favorable to the safe development of new services. Italy's experience will be an inspiration and support for safe operations in the rest of Europe," said Pierluigi Di Palma, President of ENAC.
“For some time, the Italian Air Navigation Service Provider (ENAV) has looked beyond air traffic control, to the management of airspace as infrastructure available for the economic growth of the country. We support projects such as Amazon's drone delivery, and we are aware of our role not only as a service provider but as a true strategic industrial partner,” said Pasqualino Monti, CEO of ENAV, the Italian Air Navigation Service Provider.
“Exploring the options of how drones can be safely and successfully incorporated into more of the UK’s airspace is key. It is vital that projects such as this take place to feed into the overall knowledge and experiences that will soon enable drones to be operating beyond the line of sight of their pilot on a day-to-day basis, while also still allowing safe and equitable use of the air by other users," said Frederic Laugere, Head of Innovation Advisory Services at the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
"Amazon’s announcement today is a fantastic example of Government and industry coming together to achieve our shared vision for commercial drones to be commonplace in the UK by 2030. Not only will this help boost the economy, offering consumers even more choice while helping keep the environment clean with zero emission technology, but it will also build our understanding how to best use the new technology safely and securely," said Aviation Minister Baroness Vere.


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