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How Google is using its search clout to steer publishers to use AMP
Google and Facebook can exert their power on publishers in varied ways. Take Google’s effort to get publishers to adopt its fast-loading article page code, Accelerated Mobile Pages.
In theory, adoption of AMP is voluntary. In reality, publishers that don’t want to see their search traffic evaporate have little choice. New data from publisher analytics firm Chartbeat shows just how much leverage Google has over publishers thanks to its dominant search engine. Total Google traffic to Chartbeat’s client base is up 25 percent since January 2017, but AMP publishers had a 100 percent increase in mobile search traffic from Google. In contrast, non-AMP publishers’ mobile traffic from Google was flat in the same time period. For all publishers, using AMP or not, overall desktop traffic from Google was flat. (Google makes up about 40 percent of Chartbeat publishers’ referral traffic to Facebook’s 30 percent.)
“Google is increasingly becoming a mobile-first platform,” said Chris Breaux, data science director at Chartbeat.
The findings have implications for sites that aren’t using AMP, and there are plenty. Twenty-five percent of Chartbeat’s 50,000-publisher client base uses AMP. AMP publishers tend to be larger publishers, but not always, Chartbeat said. On a traffic basis, AMP users now get 18 percent of their mobile traffic from AMP, up from 16 percent last summer. For comparison’s sake, only 10 percent of the client base uses Facebook’s fast-loading Instant Articles template and those using Instant Articles see 11 percent of mobile traffic from Instant, down from about 15 percent last summer.
The growth of AMP traffic is another sign of the power Google wields over the web. Publishers are warming up to Google these days for sending them more traffic and being easier to work with, especially as their relations with Facebook deteriorate. Google said AMP pages load 85 percent faster (too fast for some publishers, who said their ads weren’t keeping up). Still, some are wary of the tech giant’s growing influence.
Along with AMP, Google is turning on a new ad filter in Chrome on Feb. 15, which will block ads based on its own research and that of the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group that Google helped found. And publishers have gotten in line: 37 percent of those that Google identified as having violations, including Forbes and the Los Angeles Times, have fixed them, according to Google. All these initiatives are presented as voluntary, but publishers that don’t go along with them risk losing out on search traffic, ad revenue or both.
“The increase in traffic, entirely driven by AMP, far outweighs the decline in Facebook referrals that drives all the news,” Chartbeat CEO John Saroff said. “For those that haven’t done AMP, we want to make sure they’re running that ROI calculation to make sure it makes sense because it’s a more meaningful source of traffic.”
The issue for some publishers is how well Google monetizes AMP. To speed up the web, Google had to strip down pages, which in turn limited the kinds of ad units publishers could run. According to the Distributed Content Revenue Benchmark Report from trade group Digital Content Next, revenue from AMP has been slow to build. In the first half of 2017, search represented just a sliver of the revenue from distributed content for publishers, behind OTT, syndication and social media, according to the report, based on data from 20 member publishers.
John Potter, CTO of Purch, said the publisher has been able to monetize AMP pages at a competitive rate with the mobile web since its header bidding solution was accepted as an AMP tag last year. His bigger concern, he said, is that “you don’t know where your AMP page will be shown on the Google results page, that the branding has been missing due to it being a Google URL and that the sessions that start on an AMP page versus a mobile page are shorter.”
Google said in a Feb. 14 blog post that publishers have tripled the amount of money they’re making from AMP pages in the past year and sped up the load time of ads, but also acknowledged there’s still progress to be made.
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Alibaba was another beneficiary of the new shopping habits caused by social distancing, with e-Commerce sales up 19% to nearly $13.2 billion in its latest quarter. The growth was somewhat unexpected for the company, which had projected a COVID-19-driven revenue drop in earlier guidance.
The number of annual active consumers in the e-Commerce giant’s China retail marketplaces reached 726 million, up 15 million from the 12-month period ended December 31, 2019. Mobile monthly active users across all of the company’s platforms reached 846 million in March, up 22% over December 2019.
Alibaba’s combined domestic retail businesses saw 21% growth for the quarter. Sales of physical goods on Tmall in particular grew 10% year-over-year, driven by fast-moving consumer goods and resilient demand for consumer electronics. Together, these categories generated 25% growth. This was offset by a decline in sales among categories including apparel and accessories, home furnishing and auto parts.
AliExpress’ international revenue growth was significantly slower due to supply chain and logistics disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, though it was still positive at 8%. The pace of recovery is still uncertain in countries outside China, but Alibaba noted that international commerce only represents 7% of its total revenue for fiscal 2020.
Another bright spot for the e-Commerce giant was its cloud computing business, which saw revenue rise 58%. Additionally, revenue from Alibaba’s digital media and entertainment segment grew 5%.
“The pandemic has fundamentally altered consumer behavior and enterprise operations, making digital adoption and transformation a necessity,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba in a statement. “We are well positioned and prepared to help large and small businesses across a wide spectrum of industries achieve the digital transformation they need to survive this difficult period and eventually prevail in the new normal. By focusing on the long term and investing in value creation for our consumers and business customers, we believe we will emerge from this crisis stronger and be ready to capture more growth in the future.”

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According to the latest data from International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, Apple now ranks number two in the worldwide wearables market, which grew 223.2% in 2Q15. According to the report, Apple shipped a total of 3.6 million units in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), just 0.8 million units behind Fitbit’s 4.4 million units.
“Anytime Apple enters a new market, not only does it draw attention to itself, but to the market as a whole,” noted Ramon Llamas, Research Manager for IDC’s Wearables team. “Its participation benefits multiple players and platforms within the wearables ecosystem, and ultimately drives total volumes higher. Apple also forces other vendors – especially those that have been part of this market for multiple quarters – to re-evaluate their products and experiences. Fairly or not, Apple will become the stick against which other wearables are measured, and competing vendors need to stay current or ahead of Apple. Now that Apple is officially a part of the wearables market, everyone will be watching to see what other wearable devices it decides to launch, such as smart glasses or hearables.”
The data highlighted that the Apple Watch had a huge impact on the “smart” wearables category (devices that runs third party applications).
“About two of every three smart wearables shipped this quarter was an Apple Watch,” said Jitesh Ubrani, Senior Research Aanalyst for IDC Mobile Device Trackers. “Apple has clearly garnered an impressive lead in this space and its dominance is expected to continue. And, although Fitbit outshipped Apple, it’s worth noting that Fitbit only sells basic wearables – a category that is expected to lose share over the next few years, leaving Apple poised to become the next market leader for all wearables.”
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Wilt Chamberlain’s Los Angeles Lakers jersey, which the late Hall of Famer wore during the 1972 NBA Finals, has just sold for $4.9 million at an auction.
The auction, conducted by Sotheby’s, was first announced in August when the jersey was displayed at the auction house’s gallery in Los Angeles. The bidding started on August 28 and concluded this week with a winning bid that surpassed expectations. The original projection was that the jersey would fetch around $4 million.
The final price of $4.9 million makes the 1972 Finals jersey the most expensive piece of Chamberlain memorabilia. It surpassed the jersey from Chamberlain’s rookie-year with the Philadelphia Warriors, which sold for $1.792 million.
Chamberlain’s Lakers jersey is also the third most expensive jersey ever sold. It only trails the autographed Kobe Bryant jersey from his MVP season in 2007-08, which sold for $5.8 million, and the 1998 NBA Finals jersey worn by Michael Jordan, which auctioned for $10.1 million.
The original listing of Wilt Chamberlain’s jersey stated that the player wore it in three different games during the 1972 postseason. This included Game 5 of the 1972 Finals against the New York Knicks, which the Lakers won to clinch the title. Chamberlain won the NBA Finals MVP honors.


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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and Republic of Korea are producing Tongil-type, stress-tolerant rice varieties to increase production across Africa. The new cultivars are expected to increase the area and duration over which rice can be grown to meet the pressing needs of farmers and consumers.
High yielding and stress-tolerant rice varieties, including Korean Tongil-types, are being bred by AfricaRice researchers in an initiative which will benefit more than 35 million smallholder farmers across 20 African countries. In partnership with the Rural Development Administration of the Republic of Korea, under the Korea-Africa Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative, the Center will also support seed multiplication and dissemination of the newly released cultivars. By employing an innovative breeding technique, the partnership is expected to develop and distribute new rice varieties across Africa faster than ever before.
Rice is the second most important source of calories in Africa after maize, but farmers are not producing enough to meet growing demand. In Nigeria alone, 17 million t of rice has been imported from South Asia and the US over the past 5 years. Duties for imported rice are at 60% and the price of a bag of rice doubled in 2016. After experiencing rice shortages and food insecurity during the grain market crisis in 2008, rice farming has been a priority in Nigeria.
Korean Tongil-type varieties can yield up to 8 t per ha of milled rice, quadruple the average yield produced by African farmers. Some varieties also exhibit a tolerance to low temperatures which will enable rice area expansion in high elevation areas in Eastern and Southern Africa such as Ethiopia, Madagascar and Rwanda. “The new varieties are expected to be high yielding, with high grain quality, and will help improve rice production by expanding the area and duration over which rice can be grown,” says Baboucarr Manneh, an irrigation rice breeder at the AfricaRice regional center in Senegal.
To speed up development and distribution of rice varieties in Africa, the rice researchers will use an innovative technique, known as anther culture, which reduces development of a new breed to 1 year. Development of a fixed breeding line usually takes about 3 years. “When developing anthers, the pollen bearing organs of flowering plants are cut from unopened flower buds and developed in the laboratory into young plants using specialised techniques,” explains Manneh. “Anther culture-derived plants do not need to be propagated through several generations to fix them which shortens the time needed to develop new rice varieties.”


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Masthead Studios’ has announced its online free-to-play shooter Guns and Robots is now available to players in its open beta.
Players can battle in this arena-based shooter in different modes including Death Match, Race and Capture the Flag, according to Polygon.
Three robot classes are available for character customisation as well as thousands of weapon combinations to make up the weapon customisation with options in durability, damage, energy consumption and ammo supply. Any robots created will continue to be accessible in future weeks and will not be deleted, says Masthead.
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Bajaj hikes prices of the KTM 390 Duke by Rs 7000 in India
We already knew it was in the offing. Bajaj has announced a price hike of the very successful KTM 390 Duke in India. The prices of this pint-sized motorcycle have been hikes by around Rs 7,000. At launch, Bajaj Auto had said that the 390 Duke's Rs 1.8 lakh price tag was introductory. The 390 Duke, just like its sibling the 200, has had phenomenal success in India and elsewhere in the world. Bajaj manufactures the Duke siblings at its Chakan plant.
The 2013 KTM 390 Duke at the launch event in Pune
The 390 Duke is powered by a 44PS 375cc 4-stroke engine. It is mated to a 6-speed gearbox, the same as the 200 but with a taller 6th gear. In our tests, the 390 Duke did the 0-100kmph run in just 5.6s and maxing out at a true 168.5kmph. It delivers around 34kmpl on the highway.
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Bajaj will very soon offer a new black colour for the 390 Duke. This colour was first exclusive to the European models. Come 2014, the KTM-Bajaj alliance will also launch the faired 390 Duke, the RC390. We expect an Auto Expo 2014 unveil for the motorcycle. Additionally the 690 Duke will also make its way to India by 2015.
Click here to read about the KTM 390 Duke road test and here for 390 vs CBR250R comparo.
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“Walmart has stopped displaying the Mississippi state flag — which includes the Confederate battle flag — in stores. Walmart said the decision to no longer display the Mississippi flag is in line with its 2015 policy ending sales of all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag," CNN reported last month.
"We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer,” stressed Walmart spokesman Brian Nick. "We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the confederate flag from our assortment -- whether in our stores or on our website."
As they never tire of spouting, the groups that Walmart caved to on this issue all regard the confederate battle flag as a “symbol of hate!”…speaking of which:
“HATRED is the central element of our struggle!… HATRED that is intransigent…HATRED so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold-blooded killing machine…We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable! To establish socialism rivers of blood must flow!”
“We must keep our HATRED (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!”
"If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!"
“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!”
All Che Guevara quotes above are thoroughly documented here.
“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and drink; the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent…The Negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths.”
Now here’s one for Walmart shoppers in the great southwest, especially California: “Mexicans are mostly a rabble of illiterate Indians.”
No doubt BLM and their Democrat/media allies (who Walmart caved to) would all brand the above as “hate- speech!” Yet some issue from Che Guevara’s very diaries, which Walmart proudly merchants among a huge array of Che Guevara items, a small sampling of which can be found here.
Walmart shoppers (and staff) should be informed that Che Guevara’s hate-obsession was actually the U.S. He murdered Cubans because of their supposed affiliation with the U.S. ("U.S.--Backed" Batista, the CIA, etc.)
Che's genocidal fantasies included a continental reign of Stalinism. And to achieve this ideal he craved, "millions of atomic victims"--most of them Americans:
“We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies' very home, to his places of work and recreation. We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!" raved Che Guevara in his Message to the Tri-Continental Conference in 1966. “The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him!"
Whatever else we might say about him, Che Guevara was not one to simply talk the talk. Regarding his hatred of the U.S. he was fully prepared to walk the walk. To wit:
On Nov. 17, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI discovered that Che Guevara's bombast had substance. They infiltrated and cracked a plot by Cuban agents that targeted Macy's, Gimbels, Bloomingdale's and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set to go off the following week, the day after Thanksgiving. Che Guevara was the head of Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Department" at the time.
A little perspective: For their famous March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them, which killed and maimed almost 2,000 people, al-Qaeda used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che’s agents planned to set off five times that amount of explosive power in the three biggest department stores on earth, all packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year’s biggest shopping day. Macy’s gets 50,000 shoppers that one day. Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children—actually, given the date and targets, probably mostly women and children—were to be incinerated and entombed.
Back in 1962 the FBI relied heavily on “HUMINT” (Human Intelligence.) So they’d expertly penetrated the Black Friday plot, knew the plotters and had them tapped. One by one the ringleaders were ambushed and arrested.
Had those detonators gone off, (or if the FBI of the time had been headed by somebody like Comey instead of J Edgar Hoover) 9/11 might be remembered as the SECOND deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
It can’t be repeated often enough: Che Guevara’s main targets of hatred and scorn were the U.S. and Americans—not Cubans.
Sure, the people he tortured and murdered were overwhelmingly Cubans–but that was only because he couldn’t get his hands on any Americans. Che Guevara regarded his Cuban torture and murder victims as proxies for the hated “Yankee imperialists,” (as CIA agents, pawns of United Fruit, etc.).
In fact, on the few occasions when the Castroites were able to get their hands of some of those hated Americans (as POW’s in Vietnam, for instance), the results were horrific. Might any Walmart shoppers conceivably be offended by the items thoroughly-documented here?


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● Flipkart has introduced several new programs for sellers, along with industries first strategic policy
changes focused on the growth of a democratic seller ecosystem
● Flipkart will kick-start the festive period with ‘Sale Price Live’ event
● Ahead of the 10th edition of Flipkart’s BBD, Flipkart concluded a comprehensive series of seller
conclaves, which witnessed participation from over 4500+ entrepreneurs across cities – Delhi,
Surat, Jaipur, Agra, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata
Ahead of the 10th edition of The Big Billion Days, its annual flagship event, Flipkart has achieved a significant milestone of over 1.4 Million sellers on its platform. With a growth of over 27% of sellers on the platform since last year, the milestone signifies the growing ecosystem of sellers and MSMEs in the country. This is a testament to the faith that Indian MSMEs, small businesses, and enterprises today have in Flipkart, including Shopsy, as trusted partners to leverage the power of e-commerce to digitize and modernize their business, expand market reach and improve revenue.
Earlier this year, Flipkart announced a slew of industry-first marketplace policy changes and new capabilities to build a more inclusive e-commerce ecosystem that contributes to seller partners’ growth, prosperity, and empowerment. The new sellers that have joined the platforms hail from across the length and breadth of India, including metro cities Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities such as Jammu, Kanyakumari, Kollam, Ludhiana, Mangalore, Thrissur and Vellore. Most new sellers on-boarded contribute to products under lifestyle, BGM and home categories.
Towards its efforts to empower sellers to leverage the latest consumer-facing technology, Flipkart has introduced industry-first tech interventions that add value and opportunities for them on its platform. One such service is AI Powered Cataloging, an industry-first AI-led automated solution that converts any product image to Flipkart-standard quality on the go, making it easier for sellers. Using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) powered software, sellers no longer need to invest in expensive model-shooting for their product listings and can avail of the AI-powered services Flipkart offers as per their requirements. These technology interventions not only benefit the sellers by boosting their sales and growth but also ensure that customers receive a seamless and satisfying shopping experience on the platform.
Flipkart will kick start the festive season with its Sale Price Live (SPL) event in the coming week that has been introduced for sellers in a lead-up to TBBD (The Big Billion Days). This SPL is designed to encourage sellers to offer their products at attractive prices, equivalent to what they would provide during TBBD, thereby maximizing their benefits and growth ahead of the festive shopping season.
Speaking on the milestone and growth of sellers, Rajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Officer, Flipkart Group, said, “At Flipkart, we are focused on building and enabling opportunities via e-commerce for Indian businesses, especially MSMEs. We have taken several steps through our Flipkart Samarth program to help make e-commerce more inclusive for a wide range of sellers, including artisans, craftsmen, women and people with disabilities. We are encouraged by the participation of sellers from across India in the opportunities that the digital economy provides while creating lakhs of new jobs. We are immensely proud to be able to play a part in contributing towards this journey.”
Commenting on the milestone, Rakesh Krishnan, Vice President and Head – Marketplace, Flipkart, said, “Flipkart is committed to building a cutting-edge e-commerce ecosystem for Indian MSMEs. As we gear up for the festive season, we remain steadfast in our mission to propel seller success through innovative tools and initiatives. Onboarding 1.4 million sellers underscores Flipkart’s dedication to promoting inclusivity and convenience within our seller community. Building on Flipkart’s commitment to supporting and empowering sellers, we recently concluded a series of pan India Seller Conclaves, which witnessed participation from over 4,500 seller entrepreneurs.”
“Reflecting on my journey, seeing how my business has evolved on Flipkart’s platform is fulfilling. Flipkart has nurtured my growth, from navigating the initial stages easily through the 10-minute onboarding process to witnessing increased operational efficiency and customer insights. As I anticipate the upcoming festive season, I’m confident that my evolved approach, backed by Flipkart’s unwavering support, will take my business to new heights,” said Salman Sheikh, a Flipkart seller who owns a lighting and audio business named Good Price Store.
Ahead of the 10th edition of Flipkart’s TBBD (The Big Billion Days), Flipkart Seller Hub recently concluded an extensive series of seller conclaves spanning several major cities – Delhi, Surat, Jaipur, Agra, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata. These conclaves garnered an overwhelming response, with more than 4,500+ enthusiastic entrepreneurs actively participating in various informative sessions. These seller conclaves have played a pivotal role in equipping entrepreneurs with valuable insights, growth strategies, and essential skills to cater to the ever-growing demand of over 450 million customers.


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In addition to prioritizing quality over quantity, so insiders say, the engineers will also have greater flexibility to push back the release of features that still need time to flawless. After launching a series of updates that have contained bugs and undeveloped features, Apple's faced criticism from its users and developers. It's no wonder that iPhone and iPad owners aren't updating their software as quickly as they used to - just 65 percent of iOS users have updated to iOS 11, according to Apple's developer website.
Apple will reveal its next major platform update for mobile devices, iOS 12, in the summer this year before eventually releasing it in the fall.
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Also in the works for this year: a redesigned version of Apple's stock-tracking app and updated version of Do Not Disturb that will give users more options to automatically reject phone calls or silence notifications. Additional iPad software upgrades aren't expected until 2019 but they include a feature that would let you run several windows in one app and click between them like tabs in a web browser and a feature that lets two screens from one app run side by side. Apple is also working to integrate Siri into the iPhone search view, redesigning the interface to import photos onto an iPad, and making it possible for several people at once to play augmented reality games. New features for the Apple Pencil and a toggle in the email app to mute notifications for a thread have been pushed back. With that said, it can be seen that the main focus is on quality and time. "But with its newfound size it has seemingly been unable to find the right balance". On the other hand, sticking to what Troughton-Smith calls a "ruthlessly ambitious" upgrade cycle risks rushing out features before they're ready and undermining Apple's vaunted reputation for quality.More news: Trump Says Israeli Settlements Complicate Peace Course of
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Newhaven bakery success
Posted on 29/04/2020
Tailormade Bakery and Kitchen on Avis Way has doubled its turnover week-on-week since launching its new online delivery service further to the COVID-19 restrictions taking place.
Famous for its pies, the business has been selling out since online operations took off.
Andrew Bull and Graham Bull have been running the business in Newhaven for 10 years.
Andrew said: “It’s incredible. We’ve always wanted to do delivery, but it’s never been the right time.
“It started after I heard a woman in a supermarket worrying she wouldn’t be able to get anything for dinner because there was nothing available.
“I told her we could get her a pie from the bakery – and it just went from there.”
The news of the delivery service spread on Facebook and went from local to national deliveries, with orders coming in from North Wales and Somerset.
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‘Free-from’ foods move into the mainstream globally
The ‘free-from’ foods market is booming in many parts of the world, widening into new categories and increasingly moving into the mainstream with introductions from major food manufacturers and brands, according to market research organisation Innova Market Insights.
Innova Market Insights said leading supermarket multiples are also dedicating more shelf-space and improving in-store signage, as well as offering their own brand ranges in many instances.
According to Innova Market Insights, considerable effort has gone into developing gluten-free and lactose-free products globally in recent years, but at the same time the whole ‘free-from’ category is widening out to include broader definitions such as ‘dairy-free’, ‘additive-free’, ‘preservative-free’ and even, increasingly, ‘GM-free’.
‘Clean-label’ trend growing
The clean-label trend has moved forward considerably in recent years. Nearly 13 per cent of total food and drink launches recorded globally in 2013 used additive- and/or preservative-free claims, up from 10 per cent in 2008.
“While claims using the term ‘natural’ have increasingly come under fire for lack of clarity regarding definition, the use of additive-free and preservative-free claims has been able to move forward relatively unhindered,” said Lu Ann Williams, Director of Innovation at Innova Market Insights.
GM-free labelling use growing
“Interest in naturalness is still highly evident, however, and is also reflected in the growing use of GM-free labelling,” Ms Williams said. “Although it remains relatively limited on a global scale,” she said.
Just 2.3 per cent of global launches used GM-free labelling in 2013. Snacks, bakery and dairy had the largest number of launches, reflecting the significance of GM ingredients in sectors using high levels of cereals for food or feed, ahead of meat, fish, eggs, confectionery and ready meals.
Gluten-free claims continue to grow
Meanwhile, back in the more traditional ‘free-from’ sector, gluten-free lines continued to see rising availability, increasingly moving out of the specialist dietetic sector and into the mainstream market.
Nearly 8 per cent of product launches recorded in 2013 used a gluten-free positioning, rising to 10 per cent in Western Europe, and nearly 14 per cent in the US. Innova Market Insights said this growth was partly due to improved labelling regulations, but also to rising awareness of gluten intolerance in the diet and the development of more mainstream and good-tasting gluten-free products across a range of food and drinks sectors.
Lactose-free launches also grew
The use of lactose-free claims were less popular than gluten-free, but even so, 1.5 per cent of launches used this kind of positioning in 2013, double the share five years prior.
The dairy market has, perhaps not surprisingly, seen the highest levels of activity, accounting for over one-third of total lactose-free launches, with 7 per cent of dairy launches using this type of claim. Levels of interest and product activity were particularly high in North America and Western Europe, where 10 per cent of dairy launches used this type of positioning.
“It is clear that the free-from sector is set for further growth, with interest continuing to spread from those diagnosed as specific allergies and intolerances, via the self-diagnosed, to those with a more general interest in health and wellbeing,” Ms Williams said.
“The ongoing development of a greater range of products with a high-quality image and good-taste profile is helping this along,” Ms Williams said.
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This is not a particularly bright time to be alive, when good news is hard to come by. If you’re looking for any injection of hope from news reporting, you’re best off headed to a puff piece about a raccoon learning to skateboard or a parakeet that learned to say funny cuss words. When the world’s on fire, we desperately need the dopamine coming from whatever modern-day waterskiing squirrel pops up. Today, however, we get a particularly succulent nugget that’s enrobed in a delicious coating of redemption, rare if small-scale economic hope, and nostalgia.
The news is this: toy retailer and site of tantrums throughout the ages, Toys ‘R’ Us, is coming back. The beloved childhood wonderland went out of business in 2018, citing poor sales and defeat at the hands of Amazon et al. The truth may be more centered on a couple shark-eyed equity firms that bought it and immediately stacked $5 billion in debt onto the business, but this is supposed to be an uplifting article, so we’ll leave that for another day.
Toys ‘R’ Us is coming back in multiple forms: partly through a partnership with Macy’s that will place small locations within their existing forms, but also in the flagship locations that we all know and love, the one you’d beeline through the parking lot to on a birthday or after an aced math test. The big, action-figure filled Gardens of Eden that were the child equivalent of a dad at Home Depot. And emotional bunkers like a huge Toys ‘R’ Us have never been needed more by kids.
After all, U.S. children these days don’t exactly live the stress-free life of past generations. Gone are the days of cocoa puff breakfasts and a relaxing afternoon spent burning ants with a magnifying glass in the backyard. When I was a kid, any tactical gunfight knowledge I had was directly related to Halo maps, not keeping my organs unpunctured by an AR-15 during Spanish class. Kids also don’t have the same release valves that adults do: they can’t go on vacation, and they famously aren’t allowed to get s***faced at bars.
So, finally, kids get a win. Once again, an injured nation of tots and teens will feel peace in the gentle embrace of an anthropomorphic giraffe. At least, until they realize their parents can’t afford any of the toys because of inflation and stagnant wages, or the first active shooter incident at one of the new Toys ‘R’ Us locations. But until then it’ll be cool!


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November 24, 2013
Manufacturing In Mexico Is In Midst Of Unprecedented Boom
Detroit is often called “Motor City,” but calling Mexico “Motor Country” is becoming increasingly more accurate.
November 28, 2012
High Quality, FTAs Attract Record Auto Investments to Mexico
Good news for auto-parts manufacturers: Mexico is enjoying its best auto-manufacturing year yet. Car exports rose 12% to a record 1.98 million units in the first 10 months of 2012, according to a report by Bloomberg news, citing new November figures from the Mexican Automobile Industry Association. The country is on track to keep growing through 2017.
October 5, 2012
How China’s Slowdown Is Fueling Mexican Manufacturers
As Chinese wages and currency concerns rise, major auto manufacturers are increasingly looking south of the U.S. border for their needs. Ford, Audi, Nissan, and Honda are committing billions of dollars on new plants in Mexico—and demand for nearby auto-parts manufacturers, auto textiles and parts suppliers will follow suit.
June 19, 2012
The Auto Industry at Speed through Mexico's Manufacturing Roadmap
One of the fast growing industries in Mexico is the automotive manufacturing industry, both in terms of making auto parts and finished vehicles.
May 17, 2012
Chihuahua Ranks High in Aerospace Manufacturing in Mexico
A rising aerospace manufacturing powerhouse may not be the first thing many people think of when they think of Mexico, but one day this may change.


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What new ps4 games are coming out in july 2018? well, the sun’s shining and there are sega skies outside. this means that the games industry is on a little bit of a break in the wake of e3 2018. July is a pretty slow month when it comes to video game releases, but there are actually some pretty big and important games coming out this july, especially if you're on xbox one or nintendo switch. Free ps4 ps plus games for july confirmed, available now another batch of freebies is on the way soon. by chris pereira | @thesmokingmanx on july 3, 2018 at 2:45am pdt. 2018 has been a pretty killer year for gaming so far, and half way through we're looking at a great slate of games for july. here's the ones we really think you should check out this month. Pre order now. these amazing games are just over the horizon, coming soon to playstation®4. click to learn more about each one, watch some trailers and videos to get a feel for what they're like, and then pre order so that they're waiting for you on launch day.
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For about 36 hours this week, registered beta testers could view, but not post, new messages on any of the various discussion groups Microsoft hosts for its products that are in beta testing. In order to gain access to different discussions, testers would have to know or deduce a three-digit code for the product they were interested in.
That meant that someone testing the, say, would be able to read about .
"All they had were viewing rights," Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said.
The security breakdown occurred as Microsoft was testing a new version of the internal program it uses to manage its discussion groups, Sundwall said. Sundwall said the company inadvertently gave full discussion group permission to its thousands of beta testers when the new software was installed.
The problem has been fixed and testers once again have access only to discussions on products they are testing, Sundwall said.


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What are the odds of the Toyota Starlet being reborn?
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Following the release of the ID.3, Volkwagen to follow that up with the ID.4
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Toyota's subcompact crossover was supposed to be revealed this week. Have they postponed the launch?
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Aside from the GR Yaris and Corolla, Toyota reportedly also considering a hot C-HR
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What’s New: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it is taking action to enforce the law against marketing, selling, and using wireless jammers, including those that target GPS/GNSS. While reports do not mention anything about spoofing, it is against the law also.
Why It’s Important: The FCC is the federal agency that has the authority to enforce the law on this, and establish and enforce supporting regulations.
What Else to Know:
- While news reports do not mention anything about the FCC addressing spoofing, that is against the law also.
- Unfortunately, over the last 20 years the FCC’s enforcement bureau has been greatly reduced in size while the incidents of accidental (also not allowed) and intentional interference with GPS has greatly increased.
- While it is illegal to market, sell, and use jamming devices, they are not illegal to own.
- The U.S. does not have a systematic way to detect interference with GPS/GNSS signals. The 2022 interference event at Denver lasted 33 hours before it was geo-located and terminated. The event at Dallas the same year lasted for 24 hours and the source was never located.
- We looked for the original statement from the FCC spokesperson, but were unable to find it on the FCC site. It looks as though it was made directly to NBC in response to their inquiry.
- Even if Amazon and other US outlets stop selling jammers, there are plenty of other sources. See our post ‘I stopped counting jammer websites when I got to 100.’ – Charles Curry
- LINK TO FCC PAGE ON JAMMERS
The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it is investigating Amazon and other retailers for the alleged marketing and selling of unlawful electronic devices, including radio frequency jammers.
The FCC does not always disclose ongoing investigations. It did so in a statement to NBC News after the news organization reported that some retailers and drone technology companies were marketing jammers online, despite FCC warnings that jammers are illegal.


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THE British Fashion Council has confirmed that London Fashion Week will relocate to a new home as of next February. The Store Studios at 180 The Strand - where London Fashion Week Men's currently takes place – will fulfil the BFC's ambition of "creating a fashion and cultural hub in the heart of London", it said today.
London Fashion Week moved its central show space last year from Somerset House to Brewer Street Carpark. After three seasons showing in the space, it will now amalgamate all of its fashion events to be held at The Store Studios, including the bi-annual London Fashion Weekend which has been renamed London Fashion Week Festival.
“London is a top fashion capital - we have brilliant fashion colleges, leading designers and established brands, and Londoners of course have a great sense of style," said deputy mayor for culture and creative industries, Justine Simons. "London Fashion Week and London Fashion Week Men’s have been blazing a trail on the world stage, and the brand new London Fashion Week Festival will up the game even more – cementing The Store Studios as the coolest new creative quarter in London and offering a fantastic opportunity for the public.”
The BFC said this morning that "The Store Studios holds a strategic location at the intersection of north, south, east and west London and has easy access to the river as well as to main central areas such as Covent Garden and Southbank."
It has previously played host to the Louis Vuitton Series 3 exhibition, Christopher Kane, Roksanda and Thomas Tait’s runway shows and is currently showcasing The Infinite Mix exhibition curated by the Hayward Gallery.


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Even though they produce fewer cars than mainstream automakers, companies in the supercar business are not immune to increasingly stricter emissions regulations. It's the reason why performance vehicles have been receiving heavy doses of electrons in recent years, so much so that Ferrari's hybrids are now actually outselling the ICE cars. Maranello's rival from Woking is no stranger to electrification, having introduced the P1 back in 2012.
In 2023, the Artura is the British brand's PHEV with a smaller V6, but should you want a pure ICE experience, you'll have to get the 750S we recently drove. It's not going to be here forever because McLaren chief technical officer Charles Sanderson says the V8-only powertrain is living on borrowed time. He suggested the 750S may very well be the firm's final series production car to offer a V8 while skipping electrification. He did leave the door open for limited-run special editions with eight cylinders and no electric motors.
Here's what he said in an interview with Australian magazine CarSales: "I'll never commit to it formally, but I think it's likely to be the last non-electrified series-production V8 just around the regulations globally in respect to internal combustion. We would love to [keep it going] because there's something special about internal combustion and there's a market for it. We enjoy it and I think the customers love it."
He went on to say that while an internal combustion engine delivers a "very pure experience," McLaren is keeping its options open by looking into hybridisation. Sanderson mentioned the company is exploring all powertrain options. However, a fully electric supercar is unlikely to happen soon. In early October, McLaren CEO Michael Leiters revealed he doesn't think EV technology will be ready for "real supercars" until 2030. Of course, the people behind the Rimac Nevera and Lotus Evija would beg to differ.
For many years, McLaren has focused solely on supercars, ignoring the lucrative SUV segment out of fear it would dilute the brand. The new management team sees things differently as it hasn't completely ruled out a high-riding model. However, it's going to take a while. In a previous interview during the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Leiters mentioned the company will first have to start making some real money before an SUV arrives. He referred to this more practical model as "shared performance" by having more than two seats and an extra pair of doors.


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Groupon subscribers in San Francisco and Minneapolis/St. Paul on Thursday were offered a deal on food that they’d actually have to serve themselves.
General Mills became the first CPG brand to test the daily deals platform, asking $20 for $40 worth of breakfast cereal, snacks, cookie mix, canned corn, and Hamburger Helper. Such items are part of the 90-year-old giant’s “General Mills Sampler Pack,” which was accompanied in the Groupon offer by a coupon book worth $15. The pitch also included free home delivery.
Five-thousand vouchers isn’t exactly a huge number on the daily deals platform. When comparing the effort to other national Groupon offers, General Mills is clearly in test mode.
“We’re always looking for efficient ways to sample our products and given Groupon’s scale, we thought this would be a way to reach a sizeable audience,” Karl Schmidt, the food giant’s director of promotion marketing, told Ad Age. “Our next steps are to evaluate the results – I think the early read is positive – and then factor the results into our next fiscal year, which begins in June.”
Minneapolis-based General Mills isn’t the only company to sell CPG products directly through Groupon. E-commerce sites like Soap.com began offering household items on Groupon last year.
But mostly, the Chicago-based Groupon is known for its local restaurant deals.
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SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The bulk of Vietnamese consumers are positive about the design and image of South Korean goods, but many feel burdened by their high prices, a poll showed Tuesday.
The survey of 2,000 Vietnamese people, taken by the Ho Chi Minh City office of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), showed 84 percent of the respondents think South Korean products have good designs.
An additional 16 percent consider their designs ordinary, with no negative responses.
Concerning the image of South Korean goods, 89 percent expressed approval, with the remainder considering it common.
Positive responders came to 70.7 percent for their durability, and 76 percent for convenience, functionality and quality.
But slightly over 54 percent responded that they dislike the price level of South Korean goods, with 75.4 percent having a positive view of their brand recognition.
The largest percentage of the pollees at 39.4 said South Korean goods remind them of electronic products, followed by cosmetics with 38 percent, health food with 6.6 percent, fashion and clothing with 4.8 percent, and cars with 4.6 percent.
Nearly 62 percent cited China as South Korea’s biggest rival in Vietnam, trailed by Japan with 22.8 percent and Taiwan with 14.8 percent.
According to the findings, Vietnamese consumers think South Korean goods have better design and quality than those from rival countries but lag behind them in terms of brand recognition and price competitiveness.


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Unilever raises stake in HUL to 67 percent
REUTERS - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever said it had acquired a little over two-thirds of Indian unit Hindustan Unilever following the close of a voluntary tender offer, falling short of its plan to raise its stake to as much as 75 percent.
Shareholders of Hindustan Unilever, India's largest consumer goods maker, tendered 319.7 million shares to the offer, taking Unilever's holding in the unit to 67.28 percent from 52.48 percent, Unilever said in a statement.
Unilever, which makes products including detergent, soap, margarine and ice cream, paid 600 rupees per share, valuing the transaction at about 2.45 billion euros.
Earlier this year, Unilever said it planned to pay up to $5.4 billion to raise its stake in Hindustan Unilever to as much as 75 percent, as part of a strategy to increase its presence in fast-growing emerging markets.
(Reporting by Abhishek Takle in Bangalore; Editing by Dale Hudson)
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OCL India share price surged 16 per cent and hit fresh 52-week high of Rs 628 on Wednesday after the company reported 270.61 per cent rise in its net profit figures at Rs 133.53 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2016 against Rs 36.03 crore in the same quarter a year ago.
The share price of the company soared 15.97 per cent up at Rs 609.75. The scrip opened at Rs 597 and touched a high and low of Rs 628 and Rs 581, respectively, in trade. However, the benchmark index BSE Sensex closed 69 points, or 0.27 per cent, down at 25,704.61.
Net sales of the company grew 24.19 per cent year-on-year (yoy) to Rs 820.51 crore for the quarter under review against Rs 660.67 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
Operating profit of the company jumped 119.64 per cent yoy to Rs 255.57 crore in the latest quarter ended March 2016.
OCL India is engaged in manufacturing special refractories. The company operates in two segments: cement and refractory.


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Yahoo Brings ‘Real Time’ Updates To News Shortcut
Yahoo has enhanced its News shortcut with real-time feeds and updates. The idea is to make the News Shortcut more current and more social with Twitter content in the form of videos, photos and tweets. The new shortcut has a horizontal tabbed interface that offers access to each category of information (see screens below). According to Yahoo this is the first such integration with Twitter, although both Google and Bing are starting to integrate Twitter feeds.
The Yahoo Search Blog explains:
Starting today, you can see relevant photos, videos, and tweets about a breaking news story on the Yahoo! News Shortcut. Many of you are already familiar with the existing Yahoo! News Shortcut, which displays headlines on our Web search results page when you look for news stories. The enhanced shortcut with these new tabs will now display for many breaking or major news searches.
Images make the implementation self explanatory:
The enhanced shortcut seeks to make Yahoo Search the first place to go find the most current information on a range of news stories. Apparently there’s no comparable Yahoo News integration on the immediate horizon although it’s being considered. In terms of the “noise” that often shows up in Twitter, Yahoo is running a separate algorithm to filter the content and make sure that it’s free of irrelevant information.
When asked about whether users will take advantage of these content tabs, given that historically tabs are not widely utilized, Yahoo’s Larry Cornett told us that in user testing Yahoo was “very pleased” with the reaction to the new shortcut and its format.
News is a context in which “real-time” information makes perfect sense, unlike a range of other contexts where I may not need or want to know — right now.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — SuperValu reported a drop in profit and revenue in its fiscal third quarter, during a period the grocery store operator called a "challenging" environment.
Shares of SuperValu Inc. fell 69 cents, or 11.5 percent, to $5.32 in morning trading Wednesday.
Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, SuperValu operates several grocery chains, including Cub Foods, Farm Fresh and Hornbacher's. The company plans to split off its discount chain Save-A-Lot into a separate company, a decision it first announced in July.
On Wednesday, Supervalu reported net income of $34 million, or 13 cents, in its fiscal third quarter, down from $79 million, or 30 cents per share, from the same period before.
Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, were 16 cents per share. The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 16 cents per share.
Revenue fell 2.6 percent to $4.11 billion, slightly below the $4.16 billion analysts expected, according to FactSet.
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Gionee Set Take on Redmi Note 5 Pro, Zenfone Max Pro (M1) With New Smartphones Today
Gionee is set to unveil new smartphones in an event in New Delhi today.
Gionee India is set to unveil new smartphones in the country today. (Representative Image: News18.com)
Gionee is set to introduce new smartphones in its portfolio in the Indian market today. The new devices by the Chinese smartphone maker are expected to take on the budget offerings by Xiaomi and Asus, the likes of Redmi Note 5 Pro and the recently launched Zenfone Max Pro (M1). Though not much is known about the upcoming Gionee smartphones at the moment, the launch will be the first of Gionee in India in the year 2018.
As per the teasers of the event scheduled to take place in New Delhi today, the tagline "Transform the View" hints at a larger display device by Gionee. If so, these will be the first such smartphones by the company in India. The teaser also hints at two upcoming smartphones by the company as two smartphones can be seen on the event teaser released by the company. As per reports, the new Gionee smartphones might be priced anywhere between the range of Rs 9,000 to Rs 15,000.
If so, the new Gionee smartphones will have to compete directly against the likes of Redmi Note 5, Redmi Note 5 Pro, Asus Zenfone Max Pro (M1) and other such smartphone offerings. The budget smartphone segment in the Indian market is as it is the most crowded, with most of the smartphone manufacturers aiming to release products catering to that segment.
Earlier this week, Asus also announced its budget smartphone in the market as the Zenfone Max Pro (M1). The Zenfone Max Pro sports a 6-inch Full HD display with a and an 18:9 aspect ratio. The device is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 SoC with eight Kryo 260 cores and comes in two memory variants. It runs the latest Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box and comes as the first offering by Asus to run a stock Android. As for its optics, the Zenfone Max Pro (M1) sports a dual camera setup at the back that includes a 13-megapixel primary sensor coupled with a 5-megapixel secondary sensor for depth effect. The camera also comes with LED flash and features like PDAF. AT the front, the Zenfone Max Pro comes with an 8-megapixel selfie shooter with Softlight LED. The Zenfone Max Pro is backed by a massive 5000 mAh battery.
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Police turned people away from the Nevada festival in Black Rock desert, as rains reduced the playa to undrivable sludge; organizers warn it may be closed tomorrow, too. Thousands of cars turned back for Reno, and nearby gas-stations ran dry.
The playa's mud is unbikable, undrivable, and barely walkable, after several hours of thunderstorm. Reno hotels are reportedly not gouging as they bulge at the seams with burners, which is swell and smart of them, given the importance of tens of thousands of burners to the local economy.
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Tesla: Autopilot was on – and ignored – in fatal Model X crash
Tesla has confirmed that Autopilot was enabled on the Model X that crashed, fatally, in California last week, though says the driver ignored multiple warnings before the incident. The crash saw driver Wei Huang collide with a concrete highway lane divider last Friday, March 23. He later died in hospital from his injuries.
At the time, Tesla blamed the severity of the crash for delaying its access to the logs that the Model X records during use. However, it did have some statistics on the stretch of road in question. Since the start of the year, the automaker said, cars with Autopilot enabled have driven that portion of the highway roughly 20,000 times. Over 200 successful Autopilot trips are carried out daily on the stretch.
Now, in a new blog post published this evening, Tesla has revealed more details now that it has access to the logs. Most notably, the data confirms that Autopilot was, indeed, active during the time of the incident. There are, though, indications that the driver was not sufficiently engaged with the system.
“In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum,” Tesla said today. “The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.”
Tesla’s system, like other adaptive cruise control technologies in a variety of cars, uses a range of alerts and warnings to bring the driver’s attention back to the road. In the case of Autopilot specifically, sensors in the wheel monitor whether – as recommended – the driver has at least one hand in contact. If they remove their hands for an extended period, the length of which depends on the nature of the road and the speed that the car is moving at, they get a visual warning on the dashboard display. That’s followed by audio alerts, and finally the car is designed to automatically bring itself to a complete stop.
Huang, though, apparently ignored both the warnings and the approaching hazard. “The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator,” Tesla writes, “but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken.”
Tesla continues to blame the severity of the incident on the crash attenuator. A safety barrier built into the concrete highway divider, it’s designed to absorb forces during a collision, crumpling before the car reaches the concrete itself. However, Tesla points out, in this situation the attenuator had previously been destroyed in an earlier, unconnected incident, but not yet been replaced.
“We have never seen this level of damage to a Model X in any other crash,” Tesla points out.
It’s the second fatal crash to have taken place involving a Tesla in Autopilot mode. Back in May 2023, a Model S sedan collided with a truck in Florida, after neither the driver, Joshua Brown, nor the car’s systems spotted it crossing the highway ahead. After an investigation, Tesla concluded that the Model S’ camera had not been able to sufficiently differentiate between the white truck and the bright sky behind it.
2 NTSB investigators conducting Field Investigation for fatal March 23, 2023, crash of a Tesla near Mountain View, CA. Unclear if automated control system was active at time of crash. Issues examined include: post-crash fire, steps to make vehicle safe for removal from scene.
— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) March 27, 2023
The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed it is investigating this latest crash. Earlier this week, it said it was unclear as to whether Autopilot was active. It also cited a fire in the car, which Tesla says was slow-burning and only became an issue when all occupants were away from the vehicle. That, the automaker points out, is as it’s designed to behave.
The fatality comes at a precarious time for autonomous driving technologies. Though Autopilot is only intended as a driver-assistance aid – and indeed there are warnings both in the car’s handbook and displayed on its touchscreen display cautioning that attention is still required – it’s likely to be compared to the death caused by an Uber driverless car in Tempe, Arizona earlier this month. Investigations there are still underway to understand what happened when a woman walked out in front of the autonomous Volvo SUV running Uber’s hardware and software suite, and the car failed to stop in time to avoid a collision.
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Cadillac’s answer to Tesla Autopilot won’t activate off highways
Cadillac’s Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system will land this fall, the automaker has confirmed, taking on Tesla’s Autopilot in the process. The feature had been expected to launch in 2023 alongside the Cadillac CT6, but the automaker opted to delay its release out of a surfeit of caution. Now, though, it’ll be offered as an option on the 2023 Cadillac CT6 from this fall.
Super Cruise promises to build upon the existing adaptive cruise control offered in the CT6 and other Cadillac cars, which can already keep pace with traffic. It adds automatic lane-centering, so that the car will be able to navigate lanes on highways by itself. Unusually, the automaker is also going to limit exactly where owners will be able to turn Super Cruise on.
While it may not be the first to market with a semi-autonomous driving system, Cadillac couldn’t help but level a little snark at the competition. The core of that is the technology Cadillac has chosen to outfit the CT6 with. Where Tesla’s system relies solely on cameras and radar sensors, Super Cruise throws in LIDAR too.
LIDAR – or Light Detection and Ranging – has become a common feature on self-driving cars. It effectively scans the environment around the sensor to build up a real-time 3D point cloud, picking up other vehicles, pedestrians, and other obstacles. Though far more precise than camera and radar systems alone, its primary downside is its cost, with the sensors often the most expensive component on self-driving cars.
In the case of Super Cruise, a LIDAR sensor will be combined with onboard cameras and radar sensors, in addition to a high-accuracy GPS 4-8x more precise than usual. Real-time data from those sensors will be combined with a LIDAR-scanned map database, which Cadillac has been building just for the system. It apparently incorporates every mile of limited-access highway in the US and Canada, not only the twists and turns of the road, but details on changes in incline from going up or down hills.
In short, Super Cruise knows what to expect from the road ahead. When it doesn’t know – such as when the car leaves a highway by a defined off-ramp – it will be disabled. Unlike Tesla’s Autopilot, which can be switched on while driving on routes other than just highways, Cadillac’s system will only work when the company is confident in its abilities.
It’s a distinctly different strategy than that employed by Tesla, whose Autopilot system has become synonymous with semi-autonomous driving – and, CEO Elon Musk has promised, will one day flourish into fully-autonomous technology. Tesla has taken a more proactive approach, initially adding Autopilot to owners’ cars through overnight updates, and then periodically upgrading and tweaking the system as it gathers real-world data. Tesla drivers themselves have become willing test-pilots, in effect, putting Autopilot through its paces as the algorithms are progressively refined.
That hasn’t always been a smooth path, mind. Autopilot has been blamed or implicated in a number of crashes, most memorably an incident in 2023 where an owner was killed after switching on the semi-autonomous system and then failing to recognize a truck pulling across the road. A subsequent NHTSA investigation found that the crash had been operator error, blaming the driver for not paying sufficient attention.
Indeed, the other exclusive feature of Super Cruise compared to other semi-autonomous systems of its ilk is driver attention awareness. A small camera atop the steering column will use infrared light to track the driver’s head position; that will allow the system to figure out where the driver is looking. If they’re not paying sufficient attention to the road ahead, dashboard prompts will be given to encourage that.
Should the driver continue to ignore the road, however, a steering wheel light bar will direct their attention more explicitly. Further escalations can include notifications in the digital dashboard, seat vibrations, and audible warnings. Should the driver be unable to retake control – such as from a medical issue – Super Cruise is able to bring the CT6 to a controlled stop, and then use OnStar to contact emergency services on their behalf.
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Super Cruise will be made available as an option on the 2023 CT6 Prestige from this fall, in both the US and Canada. Pricing for the feature is unknown at this stage, though we may well find out more at the New York International Auto Show 2023 this week. Unfortunately for existing CT6 owners, the technology won’t support retrofitting.
Tesla on offensive against NHTSA gag-order allegations
Tesla has come out fighting against reports that the automaker is trying to cover up car safety issues, and prevent owners from discussing them with federal safety agencies. The accusations came following a report of a broken suspension system in an out-of-warranty Model S, which Tesla offered to help pay for repairs on as part of what the company says now was a “goodwill gesture” to the owner.
Part of that gesture, however, the owner told the Daily Kaban, was signing what was described as a “non-disclosure agreement” that, according to their interpretation, was intended to prevent any discussion of potential suspension component flaws with regulators such as the NHTSA.
The NHTSA relies on owner reports to build out its complaint database and flag up any issues which could have broader implications. If sufficient reports are found, the automaker is required to provide a no-cost fix.
According to Tesla, in a blog post today, the reality of the agreement is that it’s designed to protect them in court, not from safety investigators. The goodwill agreement’s terms that owners “will not commence, participate or voluntarily aid in any action at law or in equity or any legal proceeding against Tesla or related persons or entities based upon facts related to the claims or incidents leading to or related to this Goodwill” is intended to indemnify the company’s offer from being “used against us in court for further gain.”
Of course, though the agreement makes no specific mention of the NHTSA or any other agency, it also doesn’t make clear that Tesla doesn’t consider them to fall under the contract’s scope. That’s something the NHTSA has voiced concerns about in a statement, and something the automaker says it will be looking at improving:
“We will take a look at this situation and will work with NHTSA to see if we can handle it differently, but one thing is clear: this agreement never even comes close to mentioning NHTSA or the government and it has nothing to do with trying to stop someone from communicating with NHTSA or the government about our cars” Tesla Motors
What it insists does not need improving, however, is the suspension system itself. Referring to the specific vehicle in question, Tesla concluded that it had “experienced very abnormal rust” as a result of 70,000 miles of heavy usage including “down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car” from the owner’s home.
Contrary to initial reports that the NHTSA had opened an investigation, Tesla says that during a “routine screening” the safety agency had requested more suspension information from the company, later concluding that no further data was required.
Tesla goes on to suggest that the initial report of the problem, and speculation about non-disclosure agreements, could have been motivated by hopes to short the company’s stock, or by a writer with an axe to grind against the automaker.
With the greater attention in recent months on car recalls and safety updates, fueled by broader issues across the industry such as the Takata airbag problem, the role of the car-owning public in flagging issues to the NHTSA has never been more under scrutiny.
Right now, that involves filing a report at chúng tôi which is also where owners can check – using their car’s VIN, the unique identification number each is assigned – if any outstanding recalls apply to their vehicle.
Just how many drivers actually know about the site is questionable, however, not to mention the role individuals play in logging claims, and the implications of those reports.
Given that the sort of flaws the NHTSA is instrumental in catching and getting fixed are only going to become more important – the FBI warned earlier this year that subpar auto electronics could leave doors open to hackers remotely damaging vehicles – it seems like it could be time to make the safety defect reporting process more user-friendly.
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During the keynote address at Share19 in New York, BrightEdge CEO Jim Yu announced a new technology that could make a major difference for digital marketers.
The patented technology, called BrightEdge Autopilot, completely automates certain SEO tasks — it will be available in early 2023, and if it does everything Yu says it will, it’s a game changer.
Specifically, BrightEdge Autopilot will identify and perform SEO tasks that don’t need a human touch, including:
Duplicate content issues
It’s SEO running in the background, 24 hours a day, in real time.
“This was really, really hard technology to build,” said BrightEdge CEO Jim Yu. “We’ve been building it for 12 years.”
He and CTO Lemuel Park came up with the idea of making certain aspects of SEO autonomous by listening to their clients.
“Time and again we heard the same thing: digital marketing teams were challenged by limited resources and organizational silos — and their own bandwidth was limited thanks to repetitive, laborious, and soul-crushing repetitive tasks.”How BrightEdge Made SEO Autonomous
Yu likens BrightEdge Autopilot to a self-driving car.
“You have to drive a car millions of miles to develop self driving capabilities, and it’s the same thing with creating autonomous SEO,” Yu said.
“We’ve been testing and tuning different algorithms for 12 years,” he said.
During those 12 years, they’ve studied 345 petabytes of data — to put that into perspective, that’s 57 times the size of all the photos on Instagram.
They’ve also crawled 500 billion pages – meaning that if every single person in the world had a webpage, each of those pages would have been crawled 71 times.
Put simply, they’ve tested, tested, and tested again, across different industries and businesses. They’re currently running BrightEdge Autopilot on more than 1,700 sites.
On average, the customers using BrightEdge Autopilot have seen:
60% increase in page views per visit
21% more keywords on Page 1 rankings
2X increase in conversions
28% improvement in ad quality score
“Large sites with tons of pages really benefit from the self-healing aspects of BrightEdge Autopilot. It helps whenever things get broken. And, of course, even as you fix things, other things get broken again — but the self-healing is always running in the background to address issues like orphan pages and duplicate content,” Yu said.
Meanwhile, he said smaller sites are benefiting from the mobile performance improvement and self-linking pages.
Autopilot ensures that your site is always (automatically) promoting the right content, driving users to related content, and optimizing your site flow.
BrightEdge Autopilot provides three main solutions for businesses of all sizes across all industries by:
“With BrightEdge Autopilot, you can compress the time it takes to do the SEO tasks you need to do so you can stay ahead — and focus on innovating and creating,” Yu said.BrightEdge Autopilot in the Wild
Campbell’s Soup Company has early access to BrightEdge Autopilot.
At the Share19 conference in New York, Campbell’s Global SEO Manager Amanda Ciktor shared the impact of BrightEdge Autopilot.
Ciktor reported that she was able to get BrightEdge Autopilot up and running within a day — and the results speak for themselves.
4,000 keywords moved to Page 1.
75,000 images were compressed automatically.
35% pages earned a faster mobile page speed.
There was an overall 5 second load time improvement.
And it’s not just Campbell’s that is seeing success.
Brands across numerous industry verticals have seen dramatic performance improvement with up to and over 65% immediate uplift.
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Was 2014 really the hottest year on record?
Is climate change real, has the Earth got warmer, and was 2014 truly the hottest year on record? NASA waded into the heated argument over heat with unequivocal claims that we can’t ignore rising temperatures, citing not only its own numbers but those of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and concluding the environment is getting hammered by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. However, while the claims may be bold, other researchers are less convinced that the results are so clean-cut, arguing that the sheer complexity of taking an average of the world’s temperature leaves certainties far from reach.
According to NASA and NOAA, nine of the ten warmest years since figures were recorded have been since the year 2000, only 1998 spoiling the clean sweep.
More worryingly, according to the two agencies, 2014 was “the warmest year on record” and there has been an continuing acceleration of temperature rises. Although average temperatures have gone up by around 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (or around 0.8 degrees Celsius) since 1880, numbers crunched by the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York suggests it’s within the past thirty years that the major damage has been done.
Scientists from both teams are under no illusions about what is causing the change, blaming emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases for the gradual increase.
“This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades. While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases” Gavin Schmidt, Director, GISS
However, their certainty isn’t shared throughout the climate change community. According to parallel research by Berkeley Earth, the situation is simply too complex – and the differences in the numbers too small – to draw such clean-cut conclusions.
“The global surface temperature average (land and sea) for 2014 was nominally the warmest since the global instrumental record began in 1850,” the California team concurs, but goes on to caution that “however, within the margin of effort, it is tied with 2005 and 2010 and so we can’t be certain it set a new record.”
As Berkeley Earth flags, warmth is not ubiquitously raised across the planet. For instance, Michigan experienced its 14th coldest year, it’s pointed out.
The final conclusion from Berkeley is that, while the highest temperature year can’t necessarily be figured out, the Earth’s average temperature for the last decade is still high and has been consistently so for the past decade.
It’s not the first time NASA has issued ominous warnings about climate change, insisting last year that it was probably too late to reverse melting glaciers. Still, even with the numbers collected from tens of thousands of stations around the globe, arguments over whether temperature changes are man-made or natural continue to rage, and differences in opinion among researchers are unlikely to settle them any time soon.
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Amazon Prime Day was a complete bust… or was it?
Now that the dust has settled from Amazon Prime Day, it’s clear that the Seattle-based online retailer wasn’t just using overblown hyperbole to get rid of some of its online inventory. It also didn’t miscalculate. Rather, the response was more likely exactly what Amazon expected. As we previously reported, there were some great deals to be found, but for the most part, Prime Day was ridiculed for featuring discounts on seemingly random or even off-the-wall crazy items.
Of course, that only garnered more media attention. And yes, it helped the company get rid of some of its more eclectic inventory. But in all likelihood, it was even more calculated than that. Imagine for a moment if Prime Day were filled with nothing but stellar deals on the sexy big-ticket items. $100 off video game consoles, 50%+ savings on laptops, deeply discounted furniture, etc.
Instead, casual users found themselves heading to all sorts of unusual products, if nothing else than for the amusement of seeing what everyone was complaining about.
And as we all know, the Amazon website is built like a casino — all the company needs to do is get you in, and at least some fraction of people will look around and suddenly get lost until they realize they just blew some of their money.
And for the lucky people who stalked the stagnated offers throughout the day, they got some genuinely great deals. For everyone else, Prime Day turned into some kind of buzzworthy gag that encouraged even the less-interested crowd to dig in and browse through all of the available deals.
Sure, they probably started off looking at the shoehorns and lime-colored tennis shoes, but could have very well ended up coming across something they actually needed as well. These customers might not have even bothered to check the Prime Day deals if there wasn’t so much social media curiosity about it. And those are exactly the kinds of customers Amazon wanted to attract.
Some of the analysis of Prime Day sharply criticized Amazon’s strategy that ranged from calling it a miscalculation all the way to a complete failure, as if some random teenage blogger really believed he understood Amazon’s business goals better than the six-figure-salary managers who meticulously orchestrated the whole thing.
When questioned about the criticism, Amazon offered no sympathy at all and instead proclaimed that the day was a complete success. The fact that the online giant did not even give credence to the complaints proves that the reactions were exactly what it expected.
And in all honesty, how many people are never going to shop from Amazon again as a result of #PrimeFail? At the end of the day, Amazon is still the best online retailer in the world. And if it tries to promote “Prime Day” again next year, will it be a flop? Considering this year went perfectly according to plan, probably not.
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A new smart fabric used in one of jazz musician Herbie Hancock's electric keyboards could find its way into military gear.
Keith McMillen Instruments has recently spun off a smart fabric company, Bebop Sensors, with the hope of partnering with original equipment manufacturers in the defense, aerospace and other industries, said the founder of both companies, Keith McMillen.
Unlike most other wearable sensors, which typically measure physiological data such as heart rate and respiration, the sensors in Bebop's fabric can also measure other kinds of contact between a person and his or her environment, McMillen said. "We can measure pressure, location, bend, twist, stretch."
That same fabric is used in the QuNeo electric keyboard designed by McMillen and played by professional musicians like Hancock. The instrument is as small as a tablet computer, but the user can modify the sound of a musical note by swiping or putting more pressure on a button, for instance.
To make its smart fabric, Bebop attaches microscopic polymerized conductors into a material. The attachments are flexible and invisible to the naked eye, but when you squeeze the fabric or stretch the fabric, the relationship of these particles changes and...


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Lloyds Banking Group has announced plans to close another 66 branches in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
In the latest closures, the group will close 48 Lloyds Bank branches and 18 Halifax sites between October 2022 and February 2023.
This is the fourth such announcement from Lloyds Banking Group in recent months. In total, customers will lose access to 133 Lloyds Bank branches, 50 Halifax outlets and 19 Bank of Scotland branches by early next year.
The closures follow a significant reduction in branch visits over several years as customers do more online, Lloyds Banking Group said. It added that visits to the latest branches listed for closure had fallen by 60% on average in the past five years.
According to the banking group, customers who find their nearest branch is closing will have at least one free-to-use ATM within half a mile and a Post Office within 1.1 miles.
Russell Galley, director of consumer relationships at Lloyds Banking Group, told consumer group Which?: “Our customers have more choice than ever in how they bank with us. As our customers do more online, visits to some branches have fallen by as much as 85% over the last five years.
“Alongside our digital, online and telephone services, we’ll continue to invest in our branches, but they need to be in the right places, where they’re well-used.”
In the last month, branch closures have also been announced by NatWest Group and Barclays.


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Magnusson advised Raw Fury on the deal. Wigge & Partners has advised Altor Fund V.
Altor Fund V has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Raw Fury AB and enter into a partnership with the owners and management.
Raw Fury is a leading game publisher focusing on artsy, story-rich PC & console games in the ‘indie’ niche. The company was founded in 2015 by Jónas Antonsson and they have published 24 games. The games are developed by smaller independent developers, which are found all over the world.
Magnusson’s team was led by Anders Bäckman (Picture) and Eric Cederström.
The team from Wigge & Partners consisted of Anders Morén, Louise Sörelind, Filip Karlsson and Gustav Eiroff.


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EA Sports' latest entry in the long-running series of FIFA football/soccer games is about to hit multiple subscription services. Following multiple teasers over last week, confirmation has arrived of FIFA 23 hitting the EA Play subscription's available games list tomorrow, May 16. With this, subscribers across PC (EA App and Steam), Xbox, and PlayStation are all gaining access.
This is not only good news for EA Play members though. Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members are also gaining access to the massively popular sports title at no extra cost thanks to EA Play being included as an added benefit to being subscribed.
Released in September of last year, the 2023 FIFA entry touts a vast animation library titled HyperMotion2 that has been captured from real-life matches for realistic in-game movement. There are also dribbling improvements to offer more responsiveness, women’s club teams for the first time in the series, as well as cross-play support between platforms across a variety of modes.
This is the final instalment that will ship with the EA Sports FIFA name as well. Starting with the upcoming entry, the series is officially being rebranded to EA Sports FC (Football Club). Expect the full reveal of EA Sports FC to arrive in July.
While the FIFA 23 announcement has arrived already, Microsoft should also have a fresh Xbox Game Pass lineup announcement regarding the second wave of May ready for tomorrow as well.


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THE 1st Ellon Boys’ Brigade are celebrating a festive windfall after two fundraising events brought in nearly £7,000.
The company organised their annual Christmas card collection and delivery service, and a coffee morning.
Captain Dennis Chalmers said they were delighted with the sum raised from the two events.
He told the Times: “The 1st Ellon Boys’ Brigade Parents and Friends Association Committee would like to thank all those who supported the Christmas card fundraiser and coffee morning.
“The Association would also like to thank all the volunteers who helped out.”
Mr Chalmers said the funds would help pay for minibus upkeep and activities and equipment for the boys.


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The agency made the prediction at a recent meeting in Dublin, Ireland at which national regulators discussed efforts to identify non-European API manufacturers that – from July – must provide written confirmation of quality in order to ship their products to drugmakers in the European Union.
“The initial mapping was based on information provided by marketing authorisation holders. The mapping work used a smart pdf form which was sent to all NCAs, and which in turn was sent to all the manufacturers in their territory. Each manufacturer entered data that was submitted to a MHRA hosted dedicated database.
“With further data still to be received… approximately 300 sites may require inspection to prevent AS and therefore finished product shortages” the HMA continued, adding that “there are resources available at an EU level for inspections of approximately 25 sites by the end of June 2013.”
The HMA estimate is significantly lower than the 1,200 manufacturing site visits the MHRA suggested may be necessary in December last year when efforts to identify key non-Europe-based API suppliers began, which indicates that drug firms are starting to submit details of their suppliers.
The lower estimate may also reflect the positive impact steps taken in response to the new EU laws – such as the Chinese SFDA’s recently launched survey and the US’ recent request for exemption - have had.
However, despite this, the HMA’s suggestion that there is only enough money available at EU level to fund less around 10% of the 300 visits will exacerbate various national regulators’ concerns that they will end up footing the bill.
The MHRA, for example, has said it has allowed 30 to 40 man days a year for API plant inspections prompted by the new import laws, which works out to around only 10 manufacturing site visits.