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In the US, 98% of people who buy plant-based meat also purchase conventional meat. It’s clear now that production of animal-based proteins has many limitations — environmental degradation, animal welfare, cultural considerations, and health constraints. The replacement of meat by alternative ingredients is fast becoming a norm in many countries around the world, with the numbers and varieties of alternative meat products expanding annually. The rapid growth of the alternative protein market is posing a threat to the conventional meat industry.
The global population is projected to increase to about 10 billion people by 2050. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), nearly half of the worldwide grain harvest is required to feed the livestock population, which amounts to 1.4 billion bovines, 1 billion pigs, 20 billion poultry, and 1.9 billion sheep/lamb/goats.
Agricultural production explicitly directed to human consumption accounts for just 37%.
Alternative meat is one of the biggest trends in food technologies, and it is proposed as an opportunity to address some of the problems created by conventional meat production and consumption. A market for animal-free and manufactured food items to substitute for the meat industry has been driven by the latter’s high GHG emissions, the land and water used for production, and the desire to reduce or eliminate animal agriculture.
Different from legumes, meat alternatives are foodstuffs made to smell, look, and/or taste like meat to fulfill similar functions in diets. Plant-based meats:
- can replace traditional meat as a good protein source from the perspective of nutritional value
- have less cholesterol and more dietary fiber, which can be appealing to consumers
- can be made available to a wide range of consumers, such as those who rely on vegetarian, halal, or flexitarian diets
Considering the increasing environmental awareness and the rise of meat alternatives as substitute products, a question arises. What kind of threat do alternative meats pose to the meat industry?
Traditionally, most plant-based meat alternatives were manufactured by small businesses. What does the entrance into the emerging alternative meat market of large agri-food companies like meat processor Tyson Foods and food multinational Nestlé say about the future of the meat industry? (Author’s note: I found it slightly unnerving to see Jimmy Dean Plant-Based Breakfast Sandwiches in my local grocer’s freezer case recently.)
According to CB Insights, JBS, one of the world’s largest meat companies, launched its own meatless protein in June, 2020 and acquired Dutch plant-based meat manufacturer Vivera, Europe’s third-largest plant-based foods producer, for $408M (€341M) in April, 2021. Other meat packers offering their own lines of plant-based alternatives include Smithfield, Hormel, and Cargill.
Projections for Replacing the Meat Industry with Plant-Based Alternatives
If the Center for Consumer Freedom’s “informational” campaign targeting plant-based meats is any indication, the meat industry is nervous. The nonprofit advocacy group launched scathing ads titled “Fake Meat, Real Chemicals” that demonized plant-based meat. “So-called plant-based meats don’t grow on a vine,” the ads stated. “They ‘grow’ in factories.”
An editorial from the LA Times debunked the ad’s controversial premise over whether meat alternatives are wise choices or not. “A plant-based meat that satisfies meat cravings and delivers protein but with a smaller climate footprint is a potential environmental game changer and the reason Impossible Foods was one of the recipients of the UN Global Climate Action Award in 2019,” the editorial summarized. “No wonder the meat industry is on guard.”
Texturized vegetable protein produced using various ingredients led to the original development of plant-based meats. Currently, it occupies the biggest market among the different meat alternatives, and researchers calculate that the market will increase to over $21.23 billion by 2025. Fortune estimates that plant-based food sales will increase five-fold by 2030.
IFF Nutrition & Biosciences reveals the following stats about plant-based consumers.
- More than half — 52% — of US consumers are eating more plant-based foods and beverages.
- The number rises to two-thirds — 65% — globally.
- Almost 60% of respondents said that their change to plant-based food was permanent, or they hoped it was permanent.
- Taste was cited as the top response as a barrier to consuming plant-based food.
- All consumer segments in the model – Health Helpers, Weight Strugglers, Health Wise, Taste Driven, Good Life, and Just Food – cite that eating plant-based food makes them feel healthier.
NielsenIQ says that plant-based proteins have a strong (and growing) presence in the dairy case and frozen dessert aisles. During the 52 weeks ending July 3, 2021, plant-based alternative milk products accounted for 15.5% of all milk dollar sales. Dollar sales reached $2.4 billion, a one-year increase of 9.8% and a two-year jump of 27%. Plant-based cheese grew 19.8% for the year and 65% for the 2 full years.
Taken in aggregate, these trends signal that plant-based protein foods remain a prime growth opportunity for retailers and brands.
Indeed, the emergence of alt-meat sectors alongside animal agriculture may offer more choices for rural producers in terms of which markets they sell to and what forms of production they adopt or pursue. The most urgent challenge could possibly be the development and optimization of mass production processes with reasonable pricing.
Is a Vegan or Vegetarian Diet Too Exclusive?
Sure, lots of people from both sides of the aisle acknowledge that adoption of healthy and sustainable diets is essential for safe-guarding the Earth’s natural resources and reducing diet-related mortality. But, often, people also qualify that position by saying that vegan or vegetarian diets are too expensive for lots of people within populations.
The Lancet Planetary Health journal recognized the importance of that distinction between desired versus affordable plant-based eating, and they conducted an extensive study to estimate the costs of healthy and sustainable diets around the world. What were the study’s parameters? The researchers:
- Examined regionally comparable food prices from the International Comparison Program for 150 countries.
- Paired those prices with estimates of food demand for different dietary patterns that, in modelling studies, have been associated with reductions in premature mortality and environmental resource demand, including nutritionally balanced flexitarian, pescatarian, vegetarian, and vegan diets.
- Used estimates of food waste and projections of food demand and prices to specify food system and socioeconomic change scenarios up to 2050.
- Estimated diet-related health-care costs by pairing a comparative risk assessment of dietary risks with cost-of-illness estimates.
- Assessed climate change costs by pairing the diet scenarios with greenhouse gas emission footprints and estimates of the social cost of carbon.
What were their findings?
- Compared with the cost of current diets, the healthy and sustainable dietary patterns were, depending on the pattern, up to 22–34% lower in cost in upper-middle-income to high-income countries on average
- The diets were also at least 18–29% more expensive in lower-middle-income to low-income countries.
- Reductions in food waste and a fuller cost accounting that included the diet-related costs of climate change and health care in the cost of diets increased the affordability of the dietary patterns in future projections.
- When these measures were combined, the healthy and sustainable dietary patterns were up to 25–29% lower in cost in low-income to lower-middle-income countries, and up to 37% lower in cost on average for the year 2050.
- Variants of vegetarian and vegan dietary patterns were generally most affordable, and pescatarian diets were least affordable.
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Filthy, Greedy Pigs!
This is disgusting! Apple has announced that for the quarter ending December 30, 2006 they posted $7.1 BILLION in revenue. Of that revenue, $1,000,000,000 (1 BILLION) was profit.
Clearly Apple is taking advantage of consumers if they have made that much money. It's price gouging! How can they justify such obscene profits? It's sad that in this great country that rich, greedy people sit in board rooms and plan to make themselves even more wealthy. Why is this even legal? Who gave these people the right to scheme and plan and take advantage of people who are just victims of the herd mentality when it comes to popular products?
There should be an immediate congressional investigation in to the profits made by Apple, Inc. I'm even willing to go further than that. I am calling for the nationalization of Apple, Inc. It should be obvious to everyone that any company that can produce such a profit is an important national resource and cannot be trusted in private hands. Under government control, Apple would even thrive more. Apple employees would become government employees and their obscene salaries would be brought more in line with national salary standards and the benefits would probably be better. This means they would be unionized as well so they wouldn't have to work under the terrible strain of long hours. In theory that should produce better products.
Since Apple would be owned by the government, all of those profits would go to pay for important social programs rather than in to the hands of greedy stockholders and rich executives who get huge bonuses just for overcharging for cheap plastic and electronics.
Nationalizing Apple will be huge success then we can begin the process of nationalizing other successful companies. Microsoft is an obvious next target since we depend so heavily on Windows for running large and small businesses in this country. This kind of power will only be abused in private hands; the government is the only organization capable of handling this sort of thing.

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Omicron grants of up to £6,000 to support the Hospitality and Leisure industry are now available. Wiltshire Council has opened applications for the Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant (OHLG), a one-off grant of up to £6,000 that is available to rateable businesses.
The grant is aimed at businesses in the hospitality, leisure and accommodation sectors, with the value of grants depending on the business’s rateable value. The OHLG is £2,667 for businesses with a rateable value of under £15,000; £4,000 for businesses with a rateable value of £15,000 and over to less than £51,000; and £6,000 for businesses with a rateable value of over £51,000. The deadline for OHLG scheme applications is 28 February 2022.
To apply, businesses should visit the council’s website, read the application guidance, and carefully complete the online form. It is vitally important that applications are submitted correctly to allow them to be processed.
Important that every business that can apply for Omicron Grants knows how to apply
Melksham South councillor Jon Hubbard, whose division includes the town centre, commented, "I'm really pleased that this grant scheme has now opened and our hard hit hospitality sector. Melksham is blessed with a great range of town centre hospitality outlets and we know that they have found the past 22 months really hard. Our cafes, bars and takeaway sector are an important part of the local economy and I'm delighted this desperatly needed support is being offered to them."
Cllr Richard Clewer, Leader of the council and Cabinet Member for Economic Development, said: “We’re delighted to now be offering these grants of up to £6,000 to support rate-paying businesses in Wiltshire.
“We know that the Omicron variant has made these past few months particularly tough for businesses in the leisure and hospitality sectors, as it has throughout the pandemic, and that’s why we’re doing all we can to support them.
“Even if they have received a COVID business grant previously, businesses will need to reapply for an OHLG after carefully reading the criteria on our website. I’d urge all eligible Wiltshire businesses to apply for one of these grants as soon as possible so that we can start processing the payments that Wiltshire leisure and hospitality businesses need.”
While the OHLG scheme is now open for applications, the council is still finalising Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG), and businesses should sign up to the council’s business newsletter for up-to-date information.
To find out more, apply for an OHLG and to sign up for the newsletter, people should go to: www.wiltshire.gov.uk/business-advice-support-covid19-grants


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UPDATE (May 27):
Leaf took to Twitter once again to announce it received all the CeeDee Lamb cards owed to collectors.
With that said, Leaf also announced the termination of the litigation against Lamb on its Twitter.
“We are thankful for the resolution quickly,” Leaf said in its tweet.
We are pleased to announce that Leaf has received all of Ceedee Lamb’s cards owed to collectors!! We are pleased to announce the litigation is being terminated and we are thankful for the resolution quickly.
— Leaf Trading Cards (@Leaf_Cards) May 26, 2022
UPDATE (May 25):
Leaf announced that Lamb returned the cards to the company Tuesday afternoon.
The company says it hopes to have the cards checked in so redemptions can begin filling on Thursday.
This is a win for the hobby, a win for collectors and a win for manufacturers who are somewhat helpless when issues arise. I personally thank @_CeeDeeThree for putting collectors first and fixing this. Collectors: Thanks for your patience. I wish I had been able to fix sooner https://t.co/305qABFxud
— Brian Gray (@leafceo) May 24, 2022
In a tweet, Leaf thanked Lamb for “promptly addressing the issue” and said all the signatures are on-card.
“This is a win for the hobby, a win for collectors and a win for manufacturers who are somewhat helpless when issues arise,” Gray said on Twitter. “I personally thank @_CeeDeeThree for putting collectors first and fixing this. Collectors: Thanks for your patience. I wish I had been able to fix sooner.”
ORIGINAL (May 24):
Leaf Trading Cards CEO Brian Gray said Monday morning the company is filing the first-ever lawsuit against an athlete to compel the completion of an autograph contract.
In a tweet, Paul Lesko, a litigator for Peiffer Wolf Carr & Kane, revealed the athlete is Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb.
“As we shared last week, Leaf has filed the first-ever lawsuit against an athlete in order to compel the completion of an autograph contract, so customers holding redemptions are not forced to take replacements. We hate doing this, but customers need defending here,” Gray said on Twitter.
I’m sure @Paul_Lesko will report on this soon enough. Well let the court docs do the talking.
— Brian Gray (@leafceo) May 23, 2022
Lesko was able to get a copy of the Leaf v. Lamb lawsuit, in which Leaf is seeking $100,000 or less.
In the lawsuit, Leaf alleges Lamb breached his license agreement with the company to sign cards, thus causing “significant damage to Leaf, including loss of income and goodwill with customers who purchased redemption cards with the expectation they’d be signed.”
First up, Leaf is seeking $100,000 or less…so obviously not a get-rich-quick lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/aW3iGhc7Hs
— Paul Lesko (@Paul_Lesko) May 23, 2022
Lamb allegedly “failed and refused” to sign the required amount of cards after Leaf and the Cowboys WR signed an agreement for him to sign cards. They also provided the cards for Lamb to sign and return.
According to Lesko, the complaint only has the breach of contract as a cause of action. Lesko says this should be a simple case.


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The uncertain macroeconomic environment has investors moving away from assets perceived as risky. As a result, the crypto market has plunged 57% from its all-time high, and many individual crypto assets have fallen even further. For instance, Solana (SOL -4.28%) and Chainlink (LINK -3.80%) are down 80% and 86%, respectively.
Of course, those losses hurt in the short term, but the current market crash creates an opportunity for long-term investors. Crypto prices have always bounced back in the past, and Solana and Chainlink are backed by a compelling investment thesis.
Here's what you should know.
Solana is a smart-contracts platform powered by the SOL coin. The project was started by former Qualcomm software engineer Anatoly Yakovenko, and his expertise shines through in the blockchain architecture. Thanks to a unique proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, Solana can theoretically handle 50,000 transactions per second. Better yet, those transactions can be finalized in just 13 seconds, and users pay a fraction of a cent in transaction fees. That makes Solana far faster and cheaper than Ethereum.
More importantly, the platform has captured the interests of developers and investors. There are over 1,500 blockchain projects in the works on Solana, including NFT marketplaces, Web3 applications, and a wide variety of decentralized finance (DeFi) services. In fact, Solana is the fifth-most-popular DeFi ecosystem in the crypto industry, with over $4 billion invested on the blockchain.
Looking ahead, several recent catalysts could drive price appreciation, but the recently launched Solana Pay is one of the most noteworthy. The platform allows consumers to transact directly with merchants, eliminating third parties like banks, payment processors, and card networks. And by removing those intermediaries, Solana Pay makes digital payments far more efficient. For context, PayPal typically charges 2.99% plus a fixed fee for credit card transactions, but you would pay a fraction of a penny with Solana Pay.
Additionally, Coinbase Global recently added support for Solana to its self-custody wallet. That means Coinbase Wallet users can now hold coins from the Solana ecosystem and engage with software and services on the blockchain. That could move the needle for Solana, as Coinbase is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. by trading volume.
In closing, the bull case for Solana is straightforward: As more users adopt software and services on the blockchain, demand for the underlying SOL coin will rise, pushing its price higher. That's why this beaten-down cryptocurrency is a smart buy right now.
Smart contracts are computer programs that run automatically under certain conditions. In other words, they are the instruction sets that power DeFi applications and are a more efficient method of forming agreements. Smart contracts allow anonymous parties to engage in deals and transactions without an intermediary. And once deployed, they cannot be altered or deleted, which means they are essentially tamper-proof.
Unfortunately, the utility of smart contracts is limited because blockchains are, by design, incapable of interacting with external systems. In other words, blockchains cannot access real-world data. Chainlink solves that problem.
Chainlink is a network of decentralized oracles -- entities capable of bringing real-world data onto any blockchain. The Chainlink protocol is powered by the LINK coin. Specifically, oracle node operators -- the people who run the network's hardware and software -- must stake LINK in order to participate, and they are paid in LINK for completing jobs.
Here's an example: Let's say you want to book a rental property that happens to be supported by a smart contract. When you enter a specific date, the smart contract would request pricing data from Chainlink. Node operators would bid on the task, and the protocol would select several oracles to complete the job.
That's particularly important: Choosing just one oracle would introduce a single point of failure, but by selecting several oracles, the protocol ensures the decentralized nature of the blockchain remains uncompromised. All the data from the different oracles is aggregated and reconciled to ensure an accurate result.
Chainlink is not the only decentralized oracle network, but it is the most popular by a long shot. It has more integrations -- data providers and blockchains -- than any rival, and it supports nearly $25 billion in DeFi investments, more than the next 10 oracle networks combined. In fact, Bank of America analyst Alkesh Shah recently said Chainlink is one of the reasons that the DeFi industry itself is growing so rapidly.
That makes the investment thesis crystal clear: As smart contracts become more mainstream, demand for Chainlink oracles should rise. And because those oracles are paid in LINK coins, demand for the underlying cryptocurrency will rise as well, driving its price higher. That's why this cryptocurrency is worth buying.


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Canon Australia has reshuffled its executive ranks with the appointment of a new managing director and executive officer.
Oceania managing director, Taz Nakamasu, has been promoted to executive officer of Canon Inc and will be based in Japan, from April 1, 2015.
Canon's New Zealand managing director, Yusuke Mizoguchi, will replace Nakamasu, taking on the role of managing director of Canon Australia/Canon Oceania.
Yusuke Mizoguchi will also take on Taz Nakamasu’s responsibilities as Chairman of Canon New Zealand, chairman of CiSRA, along with a number of his board positions.
There will be a period of transition during March, according to a company statement.
Kim Conner has been appointed as managing director, Canon New Zealand.
During his four-year tenure at Canon Australia, Taz Nakamasu has achieved many significant milestones.
He led the first two acquisitions in the region, namely SunStudios and Harbour IT as well as overseeing the integration of Océ.
Nakamasu also drove strong profitability in the Oceania business, along with leading a number of major projects and initiatives for the business.
This included the recent relocation and design of Canon Australia’s new headquarters, along with the re-design of working practices within the business.
Nakamasu said he was extremely humbled by the opportunity he had been given to lead Canon Oceania for the last four years.
"During this time I have worked with some extremely talented people that have supported the achievements that we as a business have made," he said.
"In Yusuke Mizoguchi and Kim Conner, we have two exceptional leaders that will take the Canon Oceania business to the next level.”
New Zealand boss, Mizoguchi, oversaw a full company reorganisation, investment in capability to drive customer engagement and the development of a strong leadership team to maximise business results.
Mizoguchi said it was with great honour to take on on the leadership role.
"Everyone who works in the Canon Oceania region has tremendous respect for what Taz Nakamasu and his team have achieved during his tenure," he said.
"I take on a business that is truly in great shape.”
According to a company statement, the appointment of Kim Conner to Managing Director Canon New Zealand is recognition of her many achievements with the Canon Consumer division in New Zealand, including achieving number one market share in a number of key categories.
The appointment means Conner becomes the first female managing director in the Canon Oceania region.
Conner said, having spent seven years helping to grow the Canon New Zealand business and seeing the various changes take place, it was fantastic to be given the opportunity to lead a company that is not only well-recognised on the global stage, but has a significant place in the New Zealand business community.
"We’re thoroughly committed to continuing and indeed extending our reach, while being known as a great and sustainable place to work,” she said.


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Samsung recently announced
a new multi-chip package dubbed 'moviMCP', with an included NAND flash chip for mobile phones dubbed 'moviNAND' boosting internal memory storage capacity to 4GB, which could eliminate the need for manufacturers to include external SD, miniSD or microSD slots for memory expansion.
"We’ve now perfected a memory chip that allows handset manufacturers to significantly reduce development time while deploying an extremely robust design that will result in higher performance for smaller phones, with higher storage capacities," said Samsung's Jim Elliott.
The arrival of larger flash memory chips is good news for the mobile market with the increasing combination of features such as digital camera, mp3 player and PDA all in the same device. The 4 GB moviMCP is currently available for OEM sampling and Samsung expects to ship 392 million units by the end of the year.


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Costa Rica Events – Christmas in Costa Rica has begun. Decorations are in the stores and you can feel everyone starting to prepare for the holiday season.
The group is led by Jose Pablo Umaña. It will run until December 21st on Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 7 and Sundays at 3 and 7.
The classic story portrays poverty in 19th century London. Ebenezer Scrooge, the mean hearted antisocial, turns into a cheerful character with holiday spirit.
This is the third year they will present the play.
Some changes have been included to enhance the experience. It’s an updated version, different from last year’s. The tickets are on sale now.
You can get them at the box office or at boleteria.espressivo.cr.
The cast this year is made up of amazing talent, including Vinicio Rojas, Melvin Jimenez, Ana Ulate, Zoraya Manalich, Pablo Gonzalez, Alejandro Flores, Fanny Vargas, Jorge Castro and Ricardo Tames.


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TROY — With the increased demand for disposable masks, one Troy company is expanding its production line, adding 50 jobs during the global pandemic.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-8th District) toured the Novacel Inc. facility in the 400 block of Union Street on Wednesday afternoon. The company is locally known as the Troy Laminating and Coating and is part of the French parent company Chargeurs Company.
The company has added two new pieces of production equipment and is waiting on the final two pieces dedicated to manufacturing disposable masks also known as personal protection equipment or PPE for domestic use.
J.R. Turner, general manager of Novacel Inc., said with the current two production lines, the facility will churn out 2.5 million masks per month. Once the additional equipment is installed, Turner said, the rate will double to 5 million masks a month.
Following the tour, Davidson said it was exciting to see local businesses in his district thrive in the midst of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Obviously it’s a public health crisis that’s turned into an economic crisis. Frankly, even in our civic discourse and public life, people are ready to restore our way of life and rebuild our economic — and this (company) is doing both,” Davidson said. “They are building PPE that our health care sector needs, and it’s creating jobs right here in the 8th District. It’s a product made heavily offshore, heavily in China, and it’s going to be made right here in Troy, Ohio, which is great.”
Turner said, “We are creating up to 50 jobs in manufacturing here through the investment of our parent company, Chargeurs. We are able to bring over a million dollars in capital into this facility to revitalize the manufacturing in the area and also to support those 50 jobs and making a product that’s critically needed local, state, and across the country — we’re excited to be part of that and give back to our community.”
Turner thanked Davidson for his support the company received to add the PPE production line to the 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.
Davidson, former owner of West Troy Tool, said it was exciting to tour the production facility and learn about how the expansion project came to fruition and how each department like engineering to production are working together.
“It’ll be exciting to come back when you have not just a few people but maybe dozens of people out here working to go full-scale production, run at rate and good quality checks, and everything going robust,” Davidson said. “I can see how it’s coming together, and it’s a bit of a way to live vicariously for something I miss, which is being back in the arena making things.”
The company is also part of the city of Troy’s new Employee Creation Incentive Program established earlier this year.
The program provides payroll income tax rebates to qualifying companies. The ECIP will be for six years and its incentive of $50,000 per year has been recommended. The city’s rebate back to Novacel Inc. will be about $9,000 per year for six years.
Representatives from FastLane, one of Ohio’s six Manufacturing Extension Partnerships, attended the tour. FastLane consulted with Novacel to work on expanding the company’s capabilities. Novacel Performance Coatings is a specialty laminate and coating manufacturer in Troy.


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Today, Google will be delivering the keynote for its 2014 I/O conference. The event will be streamed out live, and we’ll be covering the keynote with regular updates. We expect to see a lot of big news coming out of the Mountain View company, so return here at 12pm ET (9am PT) for all the nitty gritty.
Google is moving quickly to establish a foothold in your home: After acquiring Nest Labs, it’s now acquiring Dropcam — a startup that makes cloud-based security cameras for your home — for $555 million in cash. The question now, of course, is whether people will be comfortable giving Google a potential pervasive peephole into their homes, rather than a small, innocuous startup taking a gander.
Google has admitted in an SEC filing that, in a few years, it ‘could be serving ads and other content on refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities.’ If you thought that Google’s recent forays into driverless cars, wearable computing, and smart homes were purely about creating awesome, life-enhancing products, you were mistaken: As always, Google has its ever-watchful eye on blanketing as much of the world as possible in advertising.
Google. When you read that word, the first thing you probably thought of was search. Considering Google accounts for around 70% of all web searches in the world (or about 85% of the English-speaking world), and has done for a decade, that’s not a huge surprise. Google is quickly diversifying, though; it’s dangerous to put all of your eggs in one basket, after all. In the future, Google won’t be a search company at all.
Google has acquired Nest Labs, maker of the Nest thermostat and Protect smoke detector, for the princely sum of $3.2 billion in cash. Putting aside the utterly absurd price — it’s twice what Google paid for YouTube, and 64 times what it paid for Android — the main takeaway here is that Google, after a false start with Android@Home, is getting back into the home automation/smart home/internet of things game. The big picture, ladies and gentlemen, is that your dream of a smart, internet-connected home, with water, heating, light, security, and AC that you can control from anywhere, is very nearly here — and it’ll be powered by Google.
Controlling the environment around us has long been an up-hill battle with HVAC, lighting, and personal electronics being relatively recent innovations. In the past decades, our homes have become both increasingly comfortable and complex. Now we’re finally getting to the point where comfort and complexity don’t have to go hand-in-hand.
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Despite the new storage solution Nintendo is rolling out for the Wii, Dead Space: Extraction will not be getting any downloadable content.
The game's executive producer, Steve Papoutsis, revealed that while the idea is "interesting", Visceral currently has no plans to release any Extraction DLC. In contrast, the original game has already received tons of DLC (or, as like to call them, "downloadable cheats").
Dead Space: Extraction is scheduled for release on the Nintendo Wii late this year.
- Lurkers, Slashers, and Leapers star in new Dead Space: Extraction screens
- Dead Space: Extraction will be as long as original, will have new weapons


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This can't be one of our (UK) Queen's Corgi's, surely she wouldn't be as crass, as to Vacuum it!
A check that sold the rights of Superman for just $130 is up for auction..
On March 1, 1938, DC Comics gave two young men from Cleveland $130 for the rights to a comic character named Superman. That $130 check essentially created a billion dollar industry and set in motion nearly 70 years of legal battles that continue to this day.
All the 14 Window cameos from the run of Batman.
A 62 year old eBay user in the UK, registered since 1998 had her ID "Animal" replaced by eBay, without her consent, with the new ID "animal_animal123" her previous ID "Animal" was allegedly then handed over to the manufacturer of certain surf wear products. This sets a new low for eBay if indeed they have hijacked a veteran registered user’s common word name and finally completely caved in to courting large business partners.
Apparently Pirate Bay has plans to set up an high altitude wireless network of swarming Aeriel drones. Not unlike a London think tanks concept of Electronic Countermeasures, a project from Tomorrow's Thoughts Today, Link
Raspberry Pi, an innovative £22 GNU/Linux box in a tiny package, launched yesterday -- sort of. Demand was so hot that all the company's retail partners collapsed under load.
Unfortunately I don't expect this to happen to me any time soon. But this collection, inherited by Michael Rorrer from his aunt, contained 44 of Overstreet Price Guide‘s Top 100 issues, including Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27 (1st appearance of Batman), and Captain America #2, just to name a few. Here’s more on this incredible inheritance:
Real bullets for use on Real Zombies. Finally...


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Market Insights Snapshot
In the California market, Glass House Farms (CA) has maintained a steady presence in the top 20 brands for the Flower category. The brand's ranking remained consistent at 11th place from August to October 2023, slightly down from its 9th place position in July 2023. This indicates a strong and consistent performance in this category, even amidst the highly competitive nature of the cannabis market. However, the brand's sales in this category saw a slight dip in September 2023 but rebounded in October to surpass July's sales figures.
On the other hand, Glass House Farms (CA) has struggled to break into the top 20 in the Pre-Roll and Tincture & Sublingual categories in California. In the Pre-Roll category, the brand saw a slight improvement in its ranking from 48th place in July 2023 to 43rd place in October 2023. However, it's worth noting that the brand did not rank in the top 50 for the Tincture & Sublingual category in July 2023, but managed to climb to 42nd place by October 2023. This shows a positive upward trend, but the brand still has a way to go to secure a spot in the top 20.
In the California flower market, Glass House Farms (CA) has maintained a steady position in the top 20 brands from July to October 2023, with ranks of 9th, 11th, 11th, and 11th respectively. This consistency in ranking indicates a stable market presence. However, competition is fierce. UpNorth Humboldt has shown a slight improvement in rank, moving from 10th in July to 9th in October, indicating a potential increase in market share. Dime Bag has also shown a steady increase in rank, moving from 12th in July to 10th in October, hinting at a growing popularity among consumers. On the other hand, Connected Cannabis Co. has seen a slight drop in rank, moving from 8th in July to 12th in October, which could suggest a decrease in consumer preference. Lastly, Eighth Brother, Inc. has shown the most significant improvement, moving from 18th in July to 13th in October, indicating a strong upward trend. These shifts in the competitive landscape could have implications for Glass House Farms (CA) in terms of market positioning and strategy.
In October 2023, Glass House Farms (CA) saw 'Super Silver Haze (3.5g)' as their top-performing product, selling 7266 units. Following closely in second place was 'Super Silver Haze Smalls (7g)', a new entrant in the top products list. 'Mafia Funeral (3.5g)', which was not in the top products list in the previous months, made a comeback and secured the third position. 'Garlic Starship (3.5g)', despite a drop from first place in September 2023 to fourth in October 2023, continued to be a consistent performer. The fifth spot was taken by a new product, 'Jealousy Julep (3.5g)', marking its first appearance in the top products list.


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2021 Jeep Compass Variants & Features Revealed
The facelifted SUV will be launched on 27th January and will come with new variants and revised pricing.
While Jeep is getting ready to launch the 2021 Compass, the SUV’s variants and features have been revealed already.
The facelifted SUV will come in 5 variants in total and they are Sports, Longitude, Limited, Limited (O) and S and even the base variant does come with a good amount of equipment as standard.
Features offered on each 2021 Jeep Compass variant are as follows –
Over and above the kit offered on the Sport variant, the Longitude comes with
In addition to the equipment offered on the Longitude trim, the Limited variant gets features such as –
This variant comes with features such as –
Top-of-the-line S variant gets all the features mentioned below over and above the ones already stated earlier.
When it comes to the colour options, the 2021 Jeep Compass will be offered in shades such as – Bright White, Brilliant Black, Exotic Red, Galaxy Blue, Magnesio Grey, Minimal Grey and Techno Green.
Do note that the finalised list of 2021 Jeep Compass variants and features, including that of the Trailhawk variant, will be revealed when the car gets launched in a week’s time.
Source – Team-BHP.com


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Football star (and author) Terrell Owens has some bad timing.
While a morning cuppa can be good for you lead researcher Roland Griffiths notes that energy drink brands like Red Bull, Rockstar and Monster contain 10 milligrams of caffeine per ounce, 14 times more than in a can of soda, or 7 cups of coffee.
Lawyers are already grabbing for the September 24 issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, where 41 cases of caffeine abuse between 2002-2004 are documented, with symptoms like "nausea, vomiting, high blood pressure, tremors, dizziness and numbness." (That's the drinkers, not the lawyers.)
The American Beverage Association calls the article "a rhetorical attack" that lumps "mainstream" companies with "novelty names," offering a "fact sheet" claiming a 16 oz. Venti from Starbucks has twice the caffeine of a "mainstream energy drink."
So those suggesting that energy drinks should require warning labels need to be aware of the slippery slope this would create: to be consistent, products at coffeehouses also would require such unnecessary labeling.
Given how my local Starbucks is often filled with high school and college students, that's going to be tempting.


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23 Sep 2020
HMD Global has launched the Nokia 2.4 and Nokia 3.4 as its latest budget offerings. The handsets come with HD+ screens, entry-level chipsets, and up to triple rear cameras.
17 Apr 2020
Alongside the recent unveiling of OnePlus 8 series, OnePlus has also announced several improvements to its Android 10-based OxygenOS operating system.
14 Apr 2020
OnePlus has announced its latest crop of flagship smartphones, namely the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. Both the handsets come with a new punch-hole design, latest Snapdragon 865 chipset, 5G support, and improved cameras.
04 Dec 2019
American tech giant HP has launched its latest Chromebook x360 laptop in India.
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Expanding its Chromebook lineup, HP has launched the all-new Chromebook x360 in India.
16 Aug 2018
For reasons as yet unknown, Google is rebranding its Google Drive storage plans as Google One, and has introduced newer, cheaper cloud storage plans for its customers, marking the first price cut in its cloud storage service in over four years.


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Pulse Performance Products of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., is recalling about 8,900 children’s electric scooters.
The knuckle that joins the wheel to the axle can break, posing a fall hazard to the rider.
No incidents or injuries have been reported.
This recall involves Pulse Safe Start Transform electric scooters for children with manufacturing date codes between September 10, 2016 and October 11, 2016.
The date code is printed on a label located under the platform in format XX(month)/XX(day)/2016 – 066QY. The scooters were sold in blue and have two wheels in front and one in the rear.
The scooters, manufactured in China, were sold exclusively at Target stores nationwide from October 2016, through November 2016, for about $100.
What to do
Consumers should immediately take the recalled scooters away from children and contact Pulse Performance Products for a full refund.
Consumers may contact Pulse Performance Products toll-free at 844-287-8711 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (PT) Monday through Friday or online at www.pulsescooters.com and click on “CPSC Safety Recalls” for more information.


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An Apple analyst is predicting that Apple are developing an iPhone without ports for release in the next few years.
Ming-Chi Kuo is a respected Apple analyst who has made correct predictions for their developments over the years. His latest investor note has some interesting things to say about what he reckons to be the future of iPhones as 2020 and 2021 approach.
Kuo reckons that in 2021 Apple will launch their very first iPhone with no ports or inputs at all. They’ve already ditched the headphone jack in favour of lightning-supported aux connections and Bluetooth connected devices. This iPhone would see the lightning port abandoned as well, for replacement with wireless charging and totally wireless device connections.
Kuo says that Apple will “provide the completely wireless experience”, but says that they will only be doing it for their “highest-end model”. He is also predicting that in 2021 they will release a sequel to the iPhone SE 2 Plus without a home button, for an “all-screen design”.
His predictions also suggest that next year, in 2020, Apple will release 4 new iPhones. They will release a range of different sized smartphones offering 5G connectivity and varied camera setups. Their higher end 6.1 inch and 6.7 inch models will feature a triple-lens camera set-up.
Whilst these are just predictions, Kuo has become renowned worldwide for his accurate predictions about what Apple have in the pipeline.


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Epic Games states that the game would no longer be available to anyone under the age of 18 on iOS and Google Play of Fortnite v13.40.
The game is still playable for those who already have it installed. But since the August 2020 removal from the iOS, macOS, and Google Play stores, it has been there since the v13.40 update and has experienced some bugs. As of January 30th, players will no longer be able to use the game’s virtual currency, known as V-Bucks.
“We want all versions of our games to use the current suite of Epic Online Services including parental controls, purchasing defaults, and parental verification features,” Epic Games tweeted. “We are not able to update the app on these platforms given Apple and Google’s restrictions on Fortnite.”
Epic Games vs. FTC aftermath
In December, Epic Games introduced restricted accounts that disable voice chat and in-game purchases for anyone under the age of 13.
In the same month, the FTC claimed that Fortnite violated the Children’s Online Privacy Act and misled players into making inadvertent transactions; Epic Games settled these claims by agreeing to pay a fine of $520 million.
The issues have been resolved in fresh updates by Epic Games. However, Google Play and iOS devices aren’t tolerating the issue. Therefore, Epic Games had no choice but to restrict access to anyone under the age of 18.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claims that Fortnite gamers didn’t know that they were making inadvertent purchases, thus the game’s developers have decided to remove the option to use V-Bucks.
It’s important to remember that the upcoming Fortnite 18+ won’t affect most gamers because they can still get their hands on the popular game in other methods besides the App Store or Google Play. For instance, GeForce now allows you to play the game on iOS or macOS. The game is available for direct download from Epic Games’ website for Android devices.
It’s not a big deal if you’re already past 18, that’s why you should learn the best spots for Chapter 4 on Fortnite!


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One of Australia’s leading vegetable growers has transformed the way it picks and packs its produce to ensure the country’s consumers continue to have access to high quality products during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Fresh Select, which grows lettuce and brassica vegetables at Werribee South on the western fringes of Melbourne, has implemented a range of new measures to ensure it continues to meet food safety standards, while also protecting the health and welfare of its staff.
“As an industry, our staff are critically important to ensure continued supply of fresh produce,” said John Said, chief executive of Fresh Select.
“We’ve equipped some of our staff with the tools to work from home and for those harvesting and packing with protective clothing, such as face masks and disposable coveralls, whilst maintaining the social distancing of 1.5m. We’ve also seen changes to the way our teams operate, with designated break areas and split shifts.”
From a consumer standpoint, Said said fresh produce is more important now that ever.
“We know the proven benefits of eating fruits and vegetables can provide and we want to reinforce the message that the virus is not transmittable by food,” he explained.
Produce Marketing Association Australia-New Zealand's (PMA A-NZ) head of food safety, Deon Mahoney, said Australian growers are doing everything in their power to ensure business continuity and provide consumers with peace of mind that produce is safe to consume.
“Food authorities around the world have confirmed that food is not a vehicle for the transmission of the virus,” Mahoney explained. “Combined with the high-level of food safety practices on Australian farms, we’re incredibly fortunate to have access to such a diverse range of high quality fruits and vegetables.”
PMA A-NZ is encouraging consumers and industry stakeholders to share what they love most about Australian farmers and produce by uploading an image to social media with the hashtag #JoyofFresh.
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Will Sugar Be The FDA's Next Target?
The Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to further reduce trans fats in processed foods — a move that would require food companies to prove hydrogenated oils harmless before using them in products.
These days, most consumers consider this a good thing, but trans fats have historically been championed as a healthier alternative to butter and lard. It wasn’t until the 1990s that studies began to link trans fats to heart attacks and disease.
The Atlantic’s senior editor, Corby Kummer, joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to discuss why it took the FDA so long to admit the risks of trans fats, and what it may deem unsafe next.
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McDonald's unveils details of Joe Flacco commercial
Joe Flacco’s television commercial for McDonald’s will debut nationally Monday evening and we now what new product the Baltimore Ravens quarterback will be pitching.
The Business Journal first reported last week Flacco would star in a new commercial for McDonald’s.
In the spot, the two quarterbacks participate in a football throwing competition for a box of the wings. The commercial plays off a popular McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) ad from 1993 where Michael Jordan and Larry Bird have a shoot-off for a Big Mac.
The new commercial was filmed in mid-July while Flacco was in Los Angeles for the annual ESPY Awards. The ad is a spoof of sorts on the power outage that took place at Super Bowl XLVII, where Flacco and Kaepernick squared off in a thrilling game won by the Ravens.
Flacco made headlines in March when he stopped at a McDonald’s in Aberdeen hours after signing a six-year, $120.6 million contract — the largest deal in NFL history.
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PC gamers have long maintained an uneasy alliance with various DRM schemes. While there are exceptions, most players are willing to tolerate DRM solutions that don't impact gameplay, harm system responsiveness, or require ridiculous license resets to install the game on more than 0.25 computers. Solutions that depart from this norm typically aren't well received, and a situation with Assassins Creed Origins has some gamers seething.Multiple(Opens in a new window) users have reported(Opens in a new window) seeing their(Opens in a new window) CPU usage(Opens in a new window) peg to 100 percent while in-game, and in some cases this may be causing stuttering frame rates or other low-performance problems. Various users with CPUs including a Core i7-4790K, Core i7-3770, and a Core i5-4590 have all reported issues on Steam. The Core i7-4790K is particularly noteworthy, since that CPU is both fairly new and, for several years, represented the fastest Intel CPU you could buy in gaming. This is particularly true in gaming tests (as reported by Anandtech's Bench), where the 7700K and the Core i7-4790K were fairly well matched. Games, in general, do not respond to frequency changes very much. Data and graphs
In short, Steam users suggesting this is a result of gaming on a potato are wrong. A modern game that can't run well on one of the higher-clocked and highest-performing CPUs that Intel has released in the past few years has a problem. In fact, given how poorly games typically scale across four cores, even Core i5s from the Haswell era should be fine. TorrentFreak(Opens in a new window) reached out Voksi, leader of the team who cracked Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus this week, and found out something rather interesting. According to Voski, this issue isn't specific to Denuvo, but is related to how Ubisoft went about implementing its copy protection approach for Assassin's Creed Origins.
"Basically, Ubisoft have implemented VMProtect on top of Denuvo, tanking the game’s performance by 30-40 percent, demanding that people have a more expensive CPU to play the game properly, only because of the DRM," Voski told TorrentFreak. "It’s anti-consumer and a disgusting move."
Volski went on to say that Ubisoft has layered a second level of DRM over Denuvo. Denuvo has been cracked faster and faster with each new game release, and Ubisoft wanted its DRM to last longer than a half-day or less. To achieve this, it wrapped an application around Denuvo, dubbed VMProtect. This supposedly protects Denuvo from being cracked, while Denuvo protects Assassin's Creed Origins from being cracked. It's turtles DRM, all the way down.
"It seems that Ubisoft decided that Denuvo is not enough to stop pirates in the crucial first days [after release] anymore, so they have implemented an iteration of VMProtect over it," Voksi explains.
Ubisoft, to be fair, has historically been great at ramming DRM down players' throats with dubious results or benefits for anyone. But these days, even keeping a game uncracked for a matter of days or weeks is believed to pay significant dividends. When it first debuted, Denuvo protected some games for months on end and the company reaped corresponding rewards. If this approach helps lock games down again, we'll presumably see more companies adopting it. And if that means weaker CPU cores have more trouble driving games, well, AMD now has six-core/12-thread CPUs for sale at $200 to $250, with Intel also joining it to drive core counts higher.Update: Ubisoft has told Ars Technica(Opens in a new window) that "the anti-tamper solutions implemented in the Windows PC version of Assassin’s Creed Origins have no perceptible effect on game performance." It claims that the game uses the full extent of available resources to ensure a steady 30fps performance. This is almost certainly false. While it is possible that the addition of VMProtect has no meaningful impact on the game's CPU usage, there's also no reason why a modern high-end desktop CPU should be bogged down at 100 percent usage to ensure a measly 30fps frame rate. Ubisoft has a long history of blaming everyone but itself for its own terrible performance optimization; any game that can run at 25-30fps on the relatively weak CPUs inside the Xbox One or PS4 should never struggle on a quad-core/eight-thread CPU with much higher IPC and more than double the clock speed. DRM may not be the problem, but something is broken in the game.


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Extrusion equipment supplier Ghioldi set up and ran polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastic on a blown-film line at the recent Plastimagen event, looking to capitalize on the local market's interest in biodegradable bags, spurred in part by an on again off again plastic bag ban. "We see a lot of interest in Mexico," explained Filippo Ghioldi. "No one really knows what biodegradable, oxodegradable, etc. films are so we wanted to have a machine running at the show."
The Ghioldi line processed a Novamont Mater Bi PLA resin in a single-layer blown-film set up. The 65-mm extruder had a machine output of 110 kg/hr through a 200-mm die, producing a 1.2m wide web, which was wound. The system had been sold into the local market and will be the first of its kind in Mexico, according to Ghioldi.
Ghioldi noted that his business has been a long-time collaborator with fellow Italian firm, Novamont, working to optimize that company's material for the extrusion process. Ghioldi has actually supplied several extrusion lines for Novamont's lab....


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The big players, from institutional investors looking for core to private equity companies hunting for value-add opportunities, have money to spend and they want to spend it on logistics, delegates heard at Real Asset Media’s Trends 2022 briefing, which was held recently at Savills’ headquarters in London and online on the REALX.Global platform.
“Logistics is still very appealing compared to offices, retail or other asset classes”, said Nick Preston, Fund Manager, Tritax Eurobox. “Growth will continue despite the uncertain macro environment, and that’s why we are focusing on our day job, managing our assets well”.
There has been a shift to quality which is benefitting those who have resilient assets in good locations.
“Companies are looking to consolidate into high quality, well-located logistics spaces, and they want to build a more resilient business by holding more stock closer to their customers”, said Preston.
Nearshoring is a trend that will continue, just like the focus on good locations and quality assets. These are not passing fads but rather long-term, substantial shifts in the market.
“We’re building to as high a spec as possible as costs allow, because for us quality is key”, said Will Prewer, Capital Markets UK, Ireland & EMEA, DHL Supply Chain. “We’re still driving quite a big pipeline of development, as people keep looking for supply chain solutions and there’s no sign of that demand dropping off. Occupationally, the market feels very strong”.
The only frustration, he said, is not being able to create enough new high quality buildings to meet demand. Supply cannot keep up with demand.
Experts agree that the best way to drive value and ensure quality is creating sustainable assets.
“We are seeing a clear shift: awareness is growing and ESG is on everyone’s agenda now”, said Prewer. “We’re targeting the very best carbon neutrality and the best qualifications for our assets, but we’re also investing in a bigger electric fleet, hydrogen trucks and new fuel-efficient planes”.
Ensuring energy resilience has become a key part of a sustainable strategy.
“The direction of travel is clear”, said Preston. “We’re looking at how our properties in the UK and across Europe, which tend to be very large and well-located, can be used for energy generation, not just for occupiers but feeding into the grid. Providing high-quality buildings with resilient energy supplies is a key differentiator for us, a real selling point”.
The push for sustainability is also leading to more creative solutions and more re-purposing of existing assets.
“ESG is not just about putting solar panels on the roof, it’s about future-proofing assets and it also encompasses social justice”, said Michael Hughes, CEO, Verdion Group. “ The focus on the quality of buildings means more emphasis on redeveloping sites. Developers complain about the lack of permits, but in truth it’s opened up new opportunities for redeveloping brownfield sites”.
The focus on ESG can also help when it comes to planning and permits issues.
“Municipalities are extremely reluctant to give the green light to logistics development”, said Preston. “So you have to work with them and reassure them by showing them the environmental and social impact benefits”.
Growth set to continue
The sector’s growth trajectory is set to continue but prices have become more realistic, which is a positive.
“Huge demand and competition had led to record prices, taking bids for logistics assets to a level where it was just about working”, said Marcus de Minckwitz, Head of EMEA Industrial & Logistics, Savills. “Now there are still deals going on, but buyers are able to say they’re at the limit of what they’re prepared to pay because their costs are going up. Discounts vary between 0% and 20%, a big range”.
Market conditions have normalised and adapted to the new economic and market environment. Costs have become more of an issue, as the results of the new Logistics Real Estate Census 2022 show.
“Cost is now a real driver”, said Prewer. “We’re trying to provide a solution by pushing through multi-use locations rather a single retailer in a single location. It helps companies mitigate cost increases as they re-calibrate their supply chains”.


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There’s no shortage of data security rules, regulations and laws that businesses in the US have to contend with. It’s not uncommon for them to compare the cost of compliance vs the cost of fines and choose to pay the penalties of non-compliance.
However, if you do business with member states of the EU and your organization stores/processes personal data of its citizens, GDPR is something you literally cannot afford to ignore.
The architects behind GDPR are aware that businesses do these cost comparisons and have helped make those calculations easy. Their solution: make the fines so massive, there’s no recourse but to comply.
Here are two examples of the GDPR enforcement fines in the regulation:
- For breaches against key points of GDPR such as the basic security principles for processing data, obtaining consent and requirements to internal transfers, the higher of 4% of annual global revenue or €20,000,000 can be fined.
- For lesser violations, like not having records in order, not following data breach reporting rules, or not conducting privacy risk assessments, the higher of 2% of annual global revenue or €10,000,000.
The biggest fine in 2015 issued by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) was £400,000 against TalkTalk (weak security allowing a hacker to easily obtain customer data).
The smallest fine from GDPR dwarfs that.
In November of 2016, Tesco Bank, one of the largest banks in the UK, suffered an unprecedented data breach that reportedly resulted in money being stolen from about 20,000 accounts. The incident is currently under investigation by UK regulators. Fines of up to £500,000 could be imposed.
If the GDPR rules were in effect at the time of the TalkTalk and Tesco Bank incidents, the fines could be significantly larger. At least in the case of Tesco Bank, the fine could exceed $1BILLION.


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Women own most of the UK's tablet computers
YouGov's latest Tablet Tracker report indicates that women owned 52% of the country's touchscreen computers in May.
That's a reversal of the position last year when the pollster put the figure at 43%.
It suggests the turnaround is driven by both the release of smaller tablets and women getting hold of second-hand devices.
The trend has also helped boost the number of 18-to-34-year-olds owning one of the touchscreen computers - they now account for 26% of the market, compared with 19% a year ago.
"The early adopters of tablets have typically been affluent males," said John Gilbert, lead director at YouGov Technology and Telecoms.
"As they buy the latest models, they have placed their old devices on to the secondary market or given them to other members of their household.
"A growing number of females and under-35s own older tablets, such as the iPad 1 and 2 while affluent males have the more recent iPad 3 and 4 and Samsung devices.
"Add to this the fact that it is women and young people driving the popularity of iPad Mini in the UK and it is clear where the surge in tablet ownership among females and under-35s comes from."
The survey also indicates that 22% of UK-based adults now own a tablet, and that 19% of non-tablet owners are "hot prospects" to buy one soon.


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Check out a F10 M5 decked out in full carbon fiber 3D Design aero kit, full titanium Akrapovic exhaust system with carbon fiber tips, H&R springs, wheel spacers, black front grilles, with more on the way (Gruppe M intake, ECU tune, downpipe and also wheels).
The F10 M5 is now in service a the BMW Performance Center in Spartanburg, SC and an M5POST member was on hand to be one of the first lucky drivers to sample the new 2013 M5 at the facilities. As previously revealed, they all have the carbon ceramic rotors. This is his account of the experience:
In short, the car is fantastic. Some may miss the screaming V10 but the turbine like rush of acceleration, pulling hard from a slow corner even in 3rd, is mighty … CONTINUED
Here’s a rather unique BMW Individual color – the 2013 F10 M5 in Individual Cognac Metallic. This model was spotted at an Italian BMW dealership and retails for 105.900 EUR.
Road and Track compares the 2013 M5 against the Cadillac CTS-V. Will the M5 redeem some of the losses that the E60 M5 took against the latest CTS-V in the last years of the previous M5′s life cycle? See inside.
BMW took the 2013 F10 M5 onto the salt flats for a some high speed run, slowed for our eyes with a high speed slow motion camera, where it mimics a high speed bullet as it hits various targets. The promo mixes a bit of high art with the aggressive sounds and in-car footage from the M5.
The location reminded us of the popular and by now classic E39 M5 commercial which was shot on the Bonneville Salt Flats. See both videos below.
If you’re an M5 and manual transmission fan then this current F10 M5 generation will be your last chance to own the combination. BMW M’s head of engineering, Albert Biermann let on this week to Insideline that there are no plans to fit the next generation M5 or M6 with a manual transmission. Manual transmission is currently offered as a no-cost option for the F10 M5 in North America (only) and will likely become an option for the F12/F13 M6 as well.
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The GruppeM Ram Air Intake System for the BMW F10 M5 has officially been released. The carbon fiber air intake system’s dyno graph shows peak gains of +15 HP and +30 lb-ft torque over stock.
The F10 M5 has hit BMW’s Spartanburg Performance Center in force. There are now at least 15 new M5s being prepped for duty at the BMW M School in Spartanburg!
Among this fleet is the very first Sakhir Orange F10 M5 we have seen. Sakhir Orange is a new color available for 2013 M5s. You can see photos of all the other available M5 colors in our photo threads compilation.
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A couple of production level F10 M5 sedans have been spotted for the first time with M carbon ceramic brakes, which we previously announced as being delayed until the 2013 calendar year sometime.
The gold ceramic brakes look great paired with the Alpine White M5!
Here’s a first real life look at the Frozen Blue Individual BMW M5 F10 M Performance Special Edition, which is currently on display at the Canary Wharf MotorExpo in London.
Photos and details inside.
Russia is developing quite a pattern of originating some flashy (yes, understatement) colored BMWs. In the past two years, we’ve witnessed a gold leaf wrapped X5 M and a green chrome F10 5 series originate from the country.
Someone has now decided that Monte Carlo Blue, the flashiest F10 M5 color currently available from the factory, is still not eye catching enough. Why bother fooling around with traditional metallic paint colors or the matte paint options that are all the rage these days when you can just … CONTINUED
Here is a first look at the Kelleners Sport aero kit and exhaust system for the F10 M5. The cosmetic parts include a carbon fiber front spoiler lip, carbon fiber mirror covers, sideskirts, black rear bumper diffuser with carbon fiber fin, and carbon fiber trunk spoiler. Black 20″ Kelleners Hamburg wheels are fitted on the car.
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Microsoft drops controversial Xbox One DRM pre-owned game and connection policies after outcry from gamers
Removal of mandatory internet connection and restricted game sharing are a response to "candid feedback"
In a shock announcement following criticism from the press and the public Microsoft has retracted two controversial policies for the Xbox One. The console will no longer need to connect to the internet once every 24 hours and gamers will now be allowed to share, resell and lend their games freely.
The news came from a blog post on the Xbox One’s official website signed by Don Mattrick, the President of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft.
“Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback, “ said Mattrick. “I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. “
Mattrick went on to detail the policy changes, saying that with regards to offline play, “after a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again” and clarifying that with regards to restrictions on sharing games: “There will be no limitations to using and sharing games, it will work just as it does today on Xbox 360.”
The announcement of the changes surprised many, with PCWorld describing the reaction on the internet as “largely euphoric”, with the Facebook message announcing the changes gaining over 75,000 likes in three hours.
Criticism against the Xbox One for its original restrictions on game sharing and its need to connect to the internet came not only from the public and the press, but also from Microsoft’s rivals. The unveiling of the PS4 by Sony at E3 even included a 22-second spoof video entitled “Official PlayStation Used Games Instructional Video” showing two Sony employees simply handing a game from one to the other.
However, the changes announced by Microsoft have also meant cutting some features from the new console. Speaking to Kotaku, Marc Whitten – the vice president of Xbox Live – stated that “There’s a few things we won’t be able to deliver as a result of this change.”
"One of the things we were very excited about was 'wherever we go my games are always with me.' Now, of course, your physical games won’t show up that way. The content you bought digitally will. But you’ll have to bring your discs with you to have your games with you. Similarly, the sharing library [is something] we won’t be able to deliver at launch."
The ‘sharing library’ was Microsoft’s concept that allowed games to be shared with up to ten members of your ‘family’ – essentially anyone you might have been living with.
Whitten also confirmed another change, abolishing the Xbox One’s proposed region locking: "You could buy a console in any country and use it any country," said Whitte. "You can use any disc in that console."
Whittle also clarified the future for Xbox One’s digital policy in an interview with gaming website Polygon, saying that "While we are adding in the ability to use physical discs, we still believe in the power of a digital and cloud-powered future played out at launch and rolled out over time. You are going to see us invest a ton in all of the ways digital builds experiences."
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Is Huawei developing an under-display selfie camera right now?
A bunch of patent from Huawei suggests that they could be working on a smartphone, which is equipped with an under-display selfie camera very soon. This is due to the fact that the patent shows that there is no notch for the front-facing selfie camera visible towards the top of the display.
Not only that, but the patent also hints that the aforementioned smartphone will come equipped with 2 image sensor as well as 1 periscope image sensor at the rear. With all that, do take some of the information mentioned with a grain of salt, due to the fact that Huawei has yet to confirm leaks.
Would you be interested in getting a Huawei smartphone with an in-display camera sensor? Let us know on our Facebook page and for more updates like this, stay tuned to TechNave.com.


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John Williams just warned that significant inflation will feed into the global system because of rising oil prices and the Fed’s policy to debase the dollar. Williams, who founded ShadowStats, also warned the US dollar will take a major hit because of global “dollar dumping.” Here is what Williams had to say about the situation: “With oil and gasoline prices pressured by market concerns over Middle Eastern political stability, monthly consumer inflation jumped in February and stabilized in the three-plus percentage range on a year-to-year basis.” John Williams continues: “The current level of inflation, however, stands where it is due primarily to the effects of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to debase the dollar, which, in turn, spiked global oil prices into the $100 per barrel range. The effects of the dollar-debasement and oil-price-spiking policies not only had direct inflationary impact on energy-related prices, but also—in the period following QE2—had an accelerating upside impact on inflation throughout the broad economy, as indicated by rising “core” inflation (net of food and energy inflation). While the Fed and Wall Street like to tout “core” inflation, since rising food and energy prices can be ignored, protracted higher oil prices—in particular—eventually work their way into the broad economy and create inflation issues that are tough to ignore and for the Fed to contain.
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Bitcoin Was First Used to Buy Pizza
Bitcoin Pizza Day is an event that commemorates the first real-world transaction involving Bitcoin. It is observed across the world on May 22.
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History of Bitcoin Pizza Day
It took place on May 22, 2010, when Laszlo Hanyecz, a Bitcoin enthusiast and an early crypto adopter, made a purchase of two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins (BTC).
At the time, Bitcoin had no established value, so this transaction served as a notable example of using cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange.
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On May 18, Hanyecz announced on a forum called Bitcointalk.org that he was looking to buy pizza – preferably two large ones – using bitcoin. He offered 10,000 BTC to anyone who would be willing to order, collect and bring them to him. Someone pointed out that he could get $41 for those bitcoins on a certain exchange website, which priced BTC at less than half a cent per coin.
Another user agreed to the trade, and the pizzas were purchased and delivered to Laszlo’s address. This transaction, though seemingly mundane at the time, has gained significance in Bitcoin’s history as the first documented instance of Bitcoin being used for a tangible purchase.
It highlights the incredible appreciation of Bitcoin’s price since its early days.
Significance of Bitcoin Pizza Day?
The historical significance of Bitcoin Pizza Day is visible in the use of Bitcoin for purchasing real products. Laszlo inadvertently set a precedent for future use cases of Bitcoin, and the growth of Bitcoin is proof of the same.
According to Laszlo, the pizza purchase with Bitcoin showed the world that Bitcoin is real. Although, the Bitcoin pizza price turned out to be a huge loss for Laszlo as he was left with only a few Bitcoins in single digits.
Bitcoin Pizza Day has become a symbolic event celebrated annually by the cryptocurrency community to mark the growth and adoption of Bitcoin as a decentralized digital currency.
It serves as a reminder of the humble beginnings and the potential for future development in the world of cryptocurrencies.
This year Bitcoin Pizza Day celebration, Binance has started its Celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day with Binance to stand a chance to win 10% of your trading volume.
Now the question is – if you were Laszlo Hanyecz, how much would you pay in BTC to order the pizza?


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Coalition cool on family silver sale
The government appears to have cooled plans to sell off a raft of state assets, including the Tote and Air Traffic Control group NATS.
The biggest auction of the ' family silver' since the Thatcher era was expected to raise £20billion to help plug the black hole in the public finances.
But the language used in the spending review to describe government asset sales was significantly weaker than the robust commitment made four months earlier in the emergency Budget.
Change: George Osborne said decisions on 'how' and 'whether' to proceed with sales of the government's interests in NATS, the Student Loan Book and the future of the Tote would be taken by next year's Budget
In June, the Chancellor promised to make a decision on selling part of the student loan portfolio within the next 12 months.
He also pledged to resolve the future of the Tote in a way that 'secures value for the taxpayer,' and explore options for a potential sale of NATS.
But it was all change yesterday, as the Chancellor said decisions on 'how' and crucially 'whether' to proceed with sales of the government's interests in NATS, the Student Loan Book and the future of the Tote would be taken by next year's Budget.
The sale of horse racing bookmaker, the Tote, has been under starters orders for more than a decade and another failed attempt would be a bitter blow for the likes of William Hill (up 1.8p at 161.7p), which has publicly expressed an interested in snapping it up.
The privatisation had been a Labour Party manifesto commitment since 2001. But it wasn't until 2006 that a racing consortium, and Tote staff were invited to bid. Their proposal was rejected after terms could not be agreed.
In 2008 the government tried to sell it again on the open market, but was forced to pull the disposal in the wake of the economic downturn.
The Student Loan Book has been available for private sector purchase for some time. But there have been real concerns about potential liabilities. A report by the Adam Smith Institute said: 'The government should increase its efforts to secure a private sector buyer, probably a bank.'
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The most awaited FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 tickets are selling fast.
On Wednesday, the World Cup organizers said, that around 1.2 million tickets have been sold for this year's FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The secretary-general of Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, Hassan Al-Thawadi shared the official figures for the first time at Qatar Economic Forum which was held in Doha from June 20 to June 22.
Hassan Al-Thawadi said there had been record-breaking demand for the November-December FIFA World Cup which will be held in the Middle East for the first time.
“I think about 1.2 million tickets have already been purchased,” he said at the Qatar Economic Forum.
“So people are actually buying and people are excited to come here. There’s no doubt about that,” he added.
According to the organizers, a total of 40 million applications request were received in the first two phases of the sale.
A total of 3 million tickets were available for the prestigious event. Within that 3 million, only 2 million tickets were available to fans as 1 million tickets were kept for FIFA Officials and World Cup sponsors.
1.2 million tickets have been sold so far in the first two phases according to Hassan Al-Thawadi. So as per calculations, only 8,00,000 tickets will be available for the third and the last sales phase.
However, the dates for the third phase have not been announced yet. The system for the third official sale phase will be on a first come first serve basis.
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At the present moment, awareness is being raised about the sweatshops rented by subcontractors to make the products marketed by internationally know brands such as Nike and Gap. But there is a question that lingers in people’s minds that no one really seems to know the answer to. What is a sweatshop? A sweatshop is firstly not somewhere you would find in Britain.
In Britain and many other first world countries there are strict laws that must be followed concerning working hours and conditions but in the less economically developed countries, many people are grateful if they can get a job.The governments in these countries tend not to be as strict on working conditions as they are in Britain and the laws which are created are not followed. The main reason goods are not manufactured in places such as Great Britain is because it is cheaper abroad. The wage you pay the worker is less and also companies do not have to pay any taxes or export duties. These countries are known as trade free zones.
In these countries you can fire any workers who ask for a raise as well as cheating workers out of wages and making them work unpaid overtime whenever you want. On top of this the governments in these countries would not interfere if you dumped toxic by-products as there are no environmental laws and they would ‘bend over backwards’ to build any roads or infrastructures that would aid a company. Ninety per cent of the factory jobs go to women and the majority of women hired are between the ages of fourteen and thirty.The reason for this is that in the free trade zones there is immense sexism and the young women they hire are at their physical prime meaning that they can endure the hard tasks set for them the six or seven days a week in which they work. Women also get fired just for being pregnant. Some companies have been investigated for forcing their female workers to take birth control as well as making them have abortions.
All companies claim to offer maternity leave as well as other benefits such as union membership but it is very rare that any of this ever takes place.


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Significant Reduction in Refueling Fees Will Save Customers up to 40%; Charges in Maryland Will Likely Be Among Lowest in Nation
LINTHICUM, Md. (June 18, 2008) - With gas prices soaring and many families preparing for summer vacations, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler on June 12 announced agreements with the major car rental companies that will drastically reduce refueling fees charged to customers renting cars in Maryland. Following an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the companies agreed to decrease refueling fees - which can be as high as $8.00 per gallon - by as much as 40%.
"Marylanders are already hurting at the gas pump, and paying $8.00 per gallon is just salt in the wound," said Attorney General Gansler. "Today, we have made it easier to visit and do business in Maryland, and these agreements can be a national model for states that want fair pricing."
Six months ago, Attorney General Gansler met with representatives of the rental car companies to discuss their refueling pricing policies. After those meetings, the OAG launched an investigation into the reasonableness of refueling prices at rental car companies in Maryland, including at the rental car facility at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The investigation found that some of the rental car companies had increased their refueling charges drastically in recent months, far in excess of gas prices found in the Baltimore/Washington/Philadelphia area.
In response to the investigation, each of the rental car companies agreed to bring their charges within Maryland more closely in line with prevailing prices for full-service fuel, plus a refueling service fee averaging between 135 to 142% of the prevailing price on a per-gallon price, or a flat rate of up to $10 per vehicle. For example, prior to the agreements, a consumer would have paid an $8.00 per gallon refueling fee. After the agreements, the same consumer will now pay a $5.85 per gallon refueling fee, the equivalent of 140% of the prevailing price of full service fuel.
As a result of these agreements, Maryland will have among the lowest, if not the lowest, rental vehicle refueling charges in the nation. In making today's announcement, Attorney General Gansler thanked the companies for their willingness to help consumers deal with the high cost of gasoline. Prior to the negotiation of these agreements, Enterprise Rent A Car and its affiliated companies (Alamo Rent A Car and National Car Rental) already posted refueling fees consistent with today's agreement.
Source: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler


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FIFA World Cup 2018 is here. So are we! On the enthralling occasion of World Cup, Air India Express in association with Madhyamam is conducting a Soccer Carnival at Lulu International Shopping Mall, Kochi. Air India Express in association with Madhyamam is also conducting a virtual shootout contest, and that too, at Lulu International Shopping Mall, Kochi. To celebrate the football mania, Air India Express joins hands with Madhyamam, setting up virtual football ground in shopping malls and other public places to invite the football lovers to try their luck at the virtual kiosk.
The inaugural ceremony of the soccer carnival occurred last day. Shri. A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish IAS (Managing Director of Kochi Metro Rail Limited) has inaugurated the contest by kicking-off the ball. The chief guest for this occasion was Former Indian International Player Shri. C.C Jacob.
To participate in the contest, visit the kiosk on the 2nd floor of Lulu Mall. Don’t forget to share your experience and exciting photos with us. We are all set to run a series of contests with a bouquet of exciting gifts including free round-trip tickets across the state of Kerala.


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Here is how Tesla did at Giga Berlin in July 2020. Torque News also has a second confirmation that after all Tesla is going to build battery cells at Giga Berlin.
Our friend Eva Fox of Tesmanian has published two interesting reports discussing Giga Berlin's end-of-July achievements and the second battery cell production confirmation from Brandenburg's minister of environment and economy.
Armen Hareyan is the founder and the Editor in Chief of Torque News. He founded TorqueNews.com in 2010, which since then has been publishing expert news and analysis about the automotive industry. He can be reached at Torque News Twitter, Facebok, Linkedin and Youtube.


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During an talk with business wire channel CNBC on Monday, Deutsche Bank researcher Sherri Scribner pronounced that formed on Apple’s stream batch price, investors are too confident about Apple’s prospects. As she put it, “Expectations are pricing in some-more than Apple can chew.” The researcher says that investors are awaiting Apple to lift off a repeat of mercantile year 2015, that was led by a recover of a iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. With a incomparable 4.7-inch shade on a former, and Apple’s initial phablet represented by a latter, a association garnered income $31 billion above expectations.
The problem, according to Scribner, is that for Apple to measure income $30 billion above expectations for mercantile year 2018, a association would have to boat 290 million iPhone units during a new mercantile year that started during a commencement of this month. The problem is, a best year Apple ever had was mercantile 2015 when a iPhone 6 ascent cycle led Apple to boat a record 231 million handsets. Current Wall Street expectations call for Apple to boat 245 million iPhone units in mercantile 2018. It would be a new record, though could tumble brief of a array indispensable to accommodate investors’ expectations.
While a Apple iPhone 8 and Apple iPhone 8 Plus competence not be adequate of an ascent to furnish record shipments, a Apple iPhone X could assistance Apple toward reaching that goal. It’s a initial iPhone to underline an OLED arrangement and it offers an edge-to-edge 5.8-inch screen. Throw in new AR features, a Portrait Lighting mode that creates thespian backgrounds for selfies, and a new TrueDepth Camera with Face ID, and Apple is charity some sparkling new features. But there is a cost to compensate to compensate for all of these new capabilities. The formidable TrueDepth Camera is proof to be tough to manufacture. As a result, Apple competence have a really singular array of units accessible when a phone launches on Nov 3rd. Apple could confirm to pull behind a launch date to December.
For mercantile 2019, Scribner sees a comparison to mercantile 2016 when a iPhone 6s array sparked a down year for Apple. She expects Apple to news a dump in sales for mercantile 2019.
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Telemundo Network Group LLC, one of the most recognized Spanish-language TV networks in the United States, has announced a multi-million dollar (US$) strategic investment in Spanish-only e-tailer Espanol.com in an effort to target Hispanic consumers in North and Latin America.
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