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Remember that former Siri boss Bill Stasior stated a few months ago in an interview that no virtual assistant (including Ma's) “keeps the promise to understand us”? Apparently, Apple was intrigued by this and decided to go hand in hand to evolve Siri's characteristics in the not too distant future, as seen in an internal document released by The guardian.
According to this document, Apple is working on new features for Siri that could be released in the second half of 2021 (in time for the release of the future iOS 15), including a new category of answers related to medical questions.
The publication did not elaborate on the appeal, but presumably Siri would become better able to answer questions associated with physical and mental health. This kind of "breakthrough" is even more likely considering that Ma's own CEO, Tim Cook, said that "Apple's biggest contribution to humanity will be in the area of health."
The document also reveals that Apple is increasingly striving to ensure that Siri responds in the “most neutral way possible to sensitive topics” such as those of a political nature. Thus, when such questions are asked as a virtual assistant, they are likely to be "diverted" to third party sources such as Wikipedia.
The document also lists a curious feature of Siri, claiming that the virtual assistant was not created by humans: The true origin of Siri is unknown, even to Siri; but it was definitely not a human invention. ”
In a statement provided to the The guardian, Apple explained that Siri's goal "to provide inclusive responses instead of offering opinions":
Siri is a virtual assistant designed to help users get things done. The team works hard to ensure that Siri's answers are relevant to all customers. Our approach will be factual with inclusive responses rather than offering opinions.
Such updates to Siri's functionality and behavior would be being made to integrate a new type of Apple hardware (possibly a new HomePod), but there is not much information about it. In addition, Ma's virtual assistant is likely to support the Search feature (Find My, from iOS 13) and simultaneous translation.


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Did you hear about the MISSHA A’pieu Sunscreen Class Action Lawsuit? It’s not a scam.
Did you hear about that lawsuit against Able C&C US Inc.? Katherine Bui, Rita Le, Youngshin An, and Shanida Younvanich filed a class action suit against them. Apparently, they’re saying that Able C&C US falsely advertised their MISSHA and A’pieu sunscreen products as waterproof.
Who Is Behind The MISSHA A’pieu Sunscreen Class Action Lawsuit
There’s a new lawsuit against the maker of MISSHA and A’pieu sunscreen products. Some consumers are saying that Able C&C US falsely advertised these sunscreens as waterproof.
They’re basically claiming that the company is trying to make money by telling people their sunscreens will protect them from the sun’s rays even when they’re in or around water. But here’s the thing: according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), no sunscreen is truly waterproof. Eventually, it all washes off. The FDA advises people to check the water resistance times on sunscreen labels to know how long they’ll be protected.
How Much Is Settlement
There is no settlement amount for now.
The consumers behind the lawsuit want to represent a big group of people from all over the country, as well as specific subclasses in California, New York, and Illinois. They’re talking about anyone who bought one or more MISSHA and A’pieu sunscreen products within a certain time frame.
They’re not just asking for any old trial—they want a jury trial. Plus, they’re demanding some serious relief, like making declarations and getting injunctions, along with different types of damages for themselves and everyone else in the class.
In conclusion, Bui, et al. v. Able C&C US Inc., Case No. 2:24-cv-01157 is not a scam. Just like Seresto flea and tick collar settlement, There’s a new lawsuit against the maker of MISSHA and A’pieu sunscreen products. Some consumers are saying that Able C&C US falsely advertised these sunscreens as waterproof.

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Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle takes place 15 years after World War II, in an alternate universe where the Axis Powers — including Nazi Germany — triumphed over the Allied Powers. The series is led by Rufus Sewell and Alexa Davalos.
“It has been a great privilege to work alongside our extraordinary High Castle team, in partnership with David Zucker and Scott Free, to bring my father’s classic novel to life, particularly during this tumultuous period in our real world,” executive producer Isa Dick Hackett said in a statement. “I believe fans will be thrilled and satisfied by the epic conclusion we have in store for them. I am very grateful for the ongoing support from Amazon as we produce this final season, and look forward to building on this extremely successful partnership. Stay tuned; there’s more to come!”
Added Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios: “We are incredibly proud of all of the hard work from the massively talented executive producers, cast, crew and everyone who has worked on The Man in the High Castle over the years. With production ongoing on our fourth and final season, we can’t wait for fans to see how this final chapter in the story unfolds. The Man in the High Castle helped define Amazon Prime Video in the genre space, and we are grateful and excited that we’ll continue to be in business with Isa and Electric Shepherd Productions for future Philip K. Dick adaptations.”
The first three seasons of Man in the High Castle are now available to stream on Amazon, while the final batch of episodes will drop this fall.
TVLine’s Streaming Renewal Scorecard has been updated with High Castle‘s end. Watch a teaser for Season 4 above, then drop a comment and tell us: Are you sad to see the show go?


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It’s official, Marvel fans! We’ll get to see The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney Plus as soon as this summer.
The advent of the Mouse House’s streaming service has changed the game for the MCU, allowing Kevin Feige a whole new medium with which to expand the franchise. Produced entirely by Marvel Studios, the D+ TV shows will be miniseries featuring beloved characters from the movies. And the first one out the door will arrive in August.
Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the news during the company’s first quarter earnings call of 2020. He didn’t specify a date, but it’s now locked in to drop on the platform sometime in the eighth month of the year. Based on previous Disney Plus exclusives, we can assume that it’ll air on a Friday. That likely means we can narrow down the premiere to either August 7th, 14th, 21st or 28th.
Those who’ve been keeping up with news on the show won’t be shocked by Iger’s announcement, as Deadline previously reported that we could expect Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes to return in August. That came as a bit of pleasant surprise, though, as Falcon was initially said to be aiming for a fall release date. Marvel must be ahead of schedule with these shows, then, as WandaVision has also seen an even bigger move-up in the dock. It was supposed to drop in spring 2021 but is now arriving this December. This was also confirmed by Iger at the conference.
Of course, we got our first look at both series via Marvel’s sneak peek at its upcoming Disney Plus content broadcast during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Along with footage of Falcon and Wanda, a snippet of Loki was also featured. The Tom Hiddleston vehicle has just started filming, so we didn’t get much, but the glimpse did ensure that fans are properly hyped for when that lands early next year.
Be sure to catch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney Plus though in just six months’ time.


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SEOUL--LG Display Inc. said that it would invest an additional 7.8 trillion won ($7 billion) in one of its South Korean plants to churn out more smaller-size organic light-emitting diode display panels used largely in premium smartphones, in a bid to challenge Samsung Display's dominance in the market.
Seoul-based LG Display has already said it would invest $6.5 billion in OLED production at its two factories in South Korea.
The global OLED market is expected to reach $25.2 billion this year, according to research firm IHS Markit, up 63% from last year. Most of that growth is concentrated in smaller-size OLED panels, a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics Co.'s display-making affiliate, Samsung Display, which holds 97.1% market share by revenue.
While LG Display holds a monopoly in the market for large-size OLED panels used in televisions, the company has stuck to older liquid-crystal display technology for smaller devices such as smartphones.
The bulk of smartphones use LCD displays, but premium smartphones are increasingly switching to OLED--including Apple Inc., which will use OLED screens for its coming iPhone 8. That shift has pushed LG Display to jump into the fray for smaller-size OLEDs.
OLED displays are thinner and more flexible, allowing phone makers to sell devices that are curved and sleeker in appearance. Advocates of the technology say that OLED also offers better color contrast and energy efficiency.
In its announcement on Tuesday, LG Display said that its new OLED investment would be divided between large- and smaller-size OLED displays at its factory in Paju, near South Korea's border with North Korea.
About two-thirds of the investment, or $4.5 billion, will go into the production of smaller-size OLEDs, while the remainder will be invested in large-size OLEDs.
In addition to its investment in its home country, LG Display said it would start producing large-size OLEDs at its facility in Guangzhou, China--a plant previously used solely to make LCDs for TVs. The company didn't confirm the size of its investment in Guangzhou.
Tuesday's announcement came after the company said it earned $720.5 million in operating profit for the three months ended June 30, a 21.7% decline from the previous quarter. The company earned $5.9 billion in revenue for the same period, a 6.1% slip from the previous three months.
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USA, Austin, Minn. Hormel Foods Corporation announced the retirement of Jeffrey M. Ettinger as chairman of the board.
The board of directors elected Jim Snee to be the company’s next chairman of the board, effective 20 November 2017, adding to Snee’s current responsibilities as chief executive officer and president of Hormel Foods.
“We thank Jeff for his outstanding leadership of Hormel Foods,” said Snee. “During Jeff’s tenure, the company experienced significant growth and expansion through organic growth, strategic acquisitions, and a continued focus on new product innovation.” Ettinger served on the Hormel Foods Board of Directors since May 2004 and as chairman of the board since November 2006.
As president and CEO, Snee has been instrumental in adding to the company’s mission of becoming a broader and more global food company. The company recently announced its entry into South America with the acquisition of the Ceratti brand, adding to its international roster. This acquisition, along with the Fontanini and Justin’s brands, marks the third acquisition under Snee’s leadership, continuing the legacy of growth and success as Hormel Foods completes its 126th year in business. The company just announced its 357th consecutive quarterly dividend.
Snee was appointed chief executive officer on 31 October 2016, after serving as president and chief operating officer since October 2015. Snee’s career with Hormel Foods spans 28 years.


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Amazon is ending its paid COVID-19 sick leave policy for workers
Amazonis ending its paid time off policy for US employees diagnosed with COVID-19.
- The company told employees on Saturday that workers with COVID-19 will receive up to five days of excused, unpaid time.
Amazon announced to its employees on Saturday that the company is ending its paid time off policy for employees with COVID-19 and is "returning to standard
Amazon employees in the US will now receive up to five days of excused, unpaid time after receiving a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, according to the company announcement that was viewed by Insider.
As of early January, Amazon had offered employees up to one full week of
An Amazon spokesperson told Insider that "employees are still able to use their sick time if needed as well."
Amazon will also no longer excuse any time for employees who are waiting for test results given that rapid testing is "widely available," according to the announcement to employees.
In its announcement to employees on Saturday, Amazon said it was changing several of its COVID-19 policies as part of "our safe return to normal where we can."
"The sustained easing of the pandemic, ongoing availability of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, and updated guidance from public health authorities, all signal we can continue to safely adjust to our pre-COVID policies," the company said.
Amazon also announced it was ending its vaccine incentives and discontinuing its practice of sending site-wide notifications of positive COVID-19 cases in its facilities, unless required by law.
The policy changes come amid a recent push for unionization at some Amazon warehouses, where workers have sought better working conditions, including pay, safety improvements, and benefits like sick leave.
Just one day prior to Saturday's announcement, an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island finished its union drive, and the National Labor Relations Board is expected to count the ballots next week.
- Some Tesla factory workers realized they were laid off when security scanned their badges and sent them back on shuttles, sources say
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A batch of 24,000 bottles will travel from the cooperative-winery 'Jesus Nazareno’ bound for the Brazilian market, along with high expectations of expansion in one of the emerging and most interesting markets for the wine industry.
A batch of 24,000 bottles of 'Menciño' is the way through which the wines of the DO Valdeorras appellation will be launched onto the Brazilian market. This was announced last week by the president of the cooperative-winery 'Jesus Nazareno', Manuel Fernandez, who explained that the Export Department of the company is, at this time, finalizing the details of the business deal.
As said by its president, the cooperative of O Barco and the vast majority of the wineries of the DO Valdeorras appellation bet on foreign markets a long time ago, being this the reason of their presence in countries like USA, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. He also added that finding new clients is not limited to foreign markets and that the cooperative-winery 'Jesus Nazareno' has been working for year with major national food chains, with very encouraging results.
The great time of the wine cooperative is endorsed by sales data; "This month we have sold 20,000 Euros more than last year" said Manuel. In this sense, the high prestige that the wines of the DO Valdeorras appellation have achieved abroad in recent years is confirmed, mainly based on the good balance of between quality and price.
To the high quality of the wines is added the increase in sales, which has been possible due to the high production of the winery. According to the data provided by its chairman, about 1,8 million kilos of grapes came in its facilities, not being the available deposits enough big to store that must and having to keep a consignment of 70,000 liter into several complementary tanks.
The great expansion of the winery over recent years has led the amortization of the new facilities, causing that the board of directors is looking into the possibility of distributing the capital and allow the entrance of new partners.
The consumer's acceptance of the wines of the DO Valdeorras appellation, along with the current socio-economic situation, have led the recovery of vineyards which for years haven't been worked, being these replanted with native varieties of Valdeorras.
This consolidates an expansion plan which bases its evolution and development on the production of top quality wines at competitive prices.
Manuel Fernández became the president of "Jesús Nazareno" in 1986 and will remain in his charge four years more, after the associates ratified his position as head of the cooperative two weeks ago.
The short term plans of "Jesus Nazareno" contemplate the recovery of the old facilities of the cooperative, those from which the first wine of the company came out in 1963. Despite of this, this is a possibility that the governing board is still looking into and besides, the difficulties in finding funding are hindering its execution. However, the implementation of the project in several phases would allow to a more likely investment.
In this way, slow but surely,- like the process of elaboration of the good wine-, the wineries of the DO Valdeorras appellation continue to expand their prestige and recognition both nationally and internationally.


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Confirmed: BlackBerry Priv won't get Android Nougat update
There have been several disappointments this year on the subject of Android updates. The Android Nougat rollout has been far from speedy: Android Oreo is upon us despite that Nougat has only graced 13.5% of Android handsets. Meanwhile, we’ve learned that the OnePlus 2 won’t be upgraded to Nougat, nor does it look like the LG G4 will in the US.
Today, we’ve got even more bad news as another device joins the no Nougat club — the BlackBerry Priv.
Alex Thurber, the General Manager of BlackBerry Mobility Solutions, revealed that the Priv wouldn’t get Android Nougat during a recent podcast. Speaking to the folks at BlackBerry fan site UTB Blogs, Thurber said: “We do not have any plans today to bring [the BlackBerry Priv] to Nougat,” adding, “It’s a phone that we originally brought out almost two years ago, and in the world of mobile telephones, trying to get all of the different partners who have to be involved […] to agree to transition that to [Nougat] just would not be possible.”
This is particularly unfortunate as the Priv launched with Android Lollipop — just like the OnePlus 2 and LG G4. Though BlackBerry never made any guarantees about the Priv getting Nougat, as a general rule, it’s expected that smartphones will receive two major Android software upgrades in their lifetime.
While Thurber did note that the Priv would continue to get Android security updates for a while, it’s still a major disappointment that another flagship phone is missing out on Nougat, and it’s an increasingly worrying trend. Is it only a matter of time before one major upgrade for a flagship phone is the norm?
On a slightly lighter note, Thurber did reiterate that the BlackBerry KEYone would get Android Oreo. At least that’s something.


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Word slowly spread among parents throughout California, and the business of printing up the fake brochures took off. And the biggest secret between parents in the United States was born, thanks to Beck Printing.
Eventually, Beckett said, “parents from all over the country just ate that up. And over time, my dad made up more brochures for other institutions that would scare the bejesus out of kids. Then, when I took over the company in 1998, we realized we had to adapt to the changing landscape the internet provided us. So the company started making up fake websites for military schools and attitude adjustment boot camps and other places kids were scared of going. And that has done very well.”
Beckett said the company also has websites for more fun research, like sites devoted to Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. He said it’s nice to be able to have some sites that don’t instill fear into a kid’s heart, but his bread and butter is still fabricating information to deter a would-be trouble-maker and set them back on the right path.
And for a premium, Beckett said his company will create custom sites catered specifically to their client’s unique requests. “We’ve also done vacation sites for husbands who have no desire to take their wives or mistresses to a particular destination. We’ll come up with horrible reviews for a certain resort, or fake press releases saying it’s not safe to go on a cruise to the Bahamas for a few months, stuff like that. We can pretty much do anything, we just need 48 hours turn-around time. Had Melky Cabrera’s people called us, he wouldn’t have gotten suspended. I can promise you that.”


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Handhelds seem to be all the hype now, and Razer wants to get in on it: Their latest project is a Razer handheld with next-gen specs.
So, the Nintendo Switch is basically the disappointment of the year, while the Steam Deck was supposed to be a year-end highlight, until it got pushed to February 2022. Now, Razer wants to get in on the hype, because... well, because Razer seemingly wants to develop absolutely everything that has anything to do with gaming.
Razer Handheld Specs
Developer kits have already been sent out, and the full report on it can be read here. We have the Razer handheld specs at a quick glance:
- The Razer handheld will run on Android
- 120hz + HDR OLED screen
- 6,000 mAh battery
- Snapdragon g3x silicon
- 5g mmWave support
- Full haptic feedback
- 1080p front facing camera and 8k rear camera with HDR video recording, 18-bit colour
- The system will mainly be advertised as a streaming handheld console
Interesting, but also weird: Why the F would you need an 8k rear camera on a handheld? That sounds like Razer justifying an insane price-tag. Also, aren't a lot of those specs redundant, if the system is tailored towards streaming? And let's not even mention the fact, that, if streaming is what I'm after, I can get all of that done on my phone. The Steam Deck offers a portable PC, while the Razer handheld just seems to offer... a phone without phone capabilities. Without first-party games like the Nintendo Switch, the Razer handheld already seems like an unnecessary product, and the design doesn't really help much: The mock-up from Let's Go Digital we used in the header looks good enough, but the patent-design you see above... legit looks like a cheap toy from the 90s, and, knowing Razer, will be horribly overpriced.
Still, it's too early to call the Razer handheld doomed, and maybe those specs will be put to good use. Now that the cat's out the bag, we can expect some more details to drop soon, most likely around the release of the Steam Deck.


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Mike Clendenin, EE Times(03/20/2006 7:09 AM EST)
SHANGHAI, China — As China and the United States prepare for the annual Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) early next month, the thorny issue of intellectual property protection is pushing to the forefront again.
Even though there is deep dissatisfaction among many U.S. businesses about China’s track record, many semiconductor executives believe the benefits of engagement outweigh the risks of IP abuse. “The Chinese mainland will not go on ignoring IP protection,” said Justin Wang, a vice president at leading semiconductor production equipment maker Tokyo Electron Ltd. “If you wait until everything comes into place, it will be too late.”
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The phrase ‘forsaken game‘ has begun to pop off on Google while people try to search for Forspoken. Not only that, but “forsaken ps5” also autofills in the Google search bar. This suggests that either some players are confused about the spelling of the timed PS5 console exclusive from Square Enix and Luminous Productions, or autocorrect is having a field day with the game’s name, especially as we get closer to its release date of January 24, 2023. Probably a bit of both.
A Forsaken video game exists actually, confusing matters
Analyzing how people are searching for Forspoken on Google Trends, the word “forsaken” (as shown above) has been labeled a related query on Google and is being searched about twice as much in recent days. Moreover, people are also typing in “forsaken video game”, “forsaken game”, “forsaken release date”, and “forsaken ps5” into the search bar, making it clear that the game’s name is giving a good portion of us a hard time.
The situation is also confusing because a Forsaken video game exists too. It’s a 3D first-person shooter originally published in 1998 by Acclaim Entertainment for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and PC. But given that there hasn’t been any news or hype about this classic game for a good while, it’s safe to bet that people are really trying to search for Forspoken instead.
Aside from autocorrect changing the word ‘forspoken’ to ‘forsaken’ by mistake, the two words are indeed very similar to each other as they’re just two letters apart. So you’d be forgiven for looking at the word “Forspoken” and think that it’s “Forsaken”, as our brains sometimes fills in the middle letters with what we think it should be based on the first and last letters of a word and what we’ve seen before.


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Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has never shied from being being blunt about where his company stands, having once promised to "open a can of whoop ass" on Intel. His latest comments aren't quite as colorful, but they're just as telling, and still manage to take a shot at the Santa Clara chip maker.
"Our CPU strategy is ARM," Huang told CNET when asked about the company's strategy for central processing units in smartphones and tablets. "ARM is the fastest growing processor architecture in the world today. ARM supports (Google's) Android best. And Android is the fastest growing OS in the world today."
Huang's comments come on the heel of Nvidia reporting a second-quarter net loss of $141 million, far worse than the $105.3 million net loss the graphics chip maker reported one year ago. Part of the reason for the disappointing quarter is that Nvidia is still paying for a defect in some of its earlier GPUs and chipsets. Back in 2008, Nvidia announced a charge somewhere between $150 million to $200 million to cover warranty costs associated with "weak die/packaging material" in older laptop models, and Nvidia said it has taken an "additional net charge" of $193.9 million for the same problem.
Huang talked about a number of issues affecting his company, including the lawsuit preventing Nvidia from making chipsets for Intel's Nehalem architecture. Even if Nvidia should ultimately win the case, Huang said it's unlikely they would get back in the chipset game.
"They (Intel) have disrupted our chipset business," Huang said. "The damage has been done. We've been out of the chipset business for well over a year, so if this got resolved we're not expecting to ramp back up the thousand engineers that we had working on chipsets."
The relationship between Nvidia and Intel has always been a rocky one, and given the disruption to its chipset business, we can't really say we're surprised to see Nvidia getting into ARM's corner, even as Intel prepares to make a move into the tablet space.


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LAS VEGAS — The flood of streaming services that have entered the pay TV marketplace in the past decade have been viewed as signs of the apocalypse for the traditional MVPDs.
But in practice, the track record to date shows that most subscribers to streaming services also continue to pay for regular MVPD services. That’s one of the big lessons that CBS executives learned during the past six years since they took the leap into direct-to-consumer with the October 2014 launch of CBS All Access.
“It’s not a cord-cutter service. It’s actually the opposite,” Marc DeBevoise said Wednesday during a Q&A at Variety‘s Entertainment Summit held annually as part of the Consumer Electronics Show.
DeBevoise, who was recently promoted to chief digital officer of ViacomCBS and to CEO of CBS Interactive, said that CBS’ research has found that about 79% of All Access subscribers also pay for traditional MVPD services in addition to other streaming services. At present, about 80% of American households have an average of at least three and a half subscription services, “and that number is growing,” he said.
ViacomCBS’ research indicates that “there are about 200 million subscribers up for grabs over the next three to five years, with about 180 million in the marketplace today,” DeBevoise said during his session at the Aria Resort Hotel. “It’s a great opportunity.”
ViacomCBS’ digital leader said the company was on track to reach its previously stated target of amassing 25 million total subscribers across CBS All Access and the standalone Showtime streaming app by the end of 2022. He noted that ViacomCBS is the biggest player in digital content among its media conglomerate peers, behind only the tech giants. In ComScore’s monthly rankings ViacomCBS and its CBS predecessor typically lands in the No. 6 or No. 7 slot, although that may change with the onset of Disney Plus.
“We’re the largest pure content play on the internet,” DeBevoise said. “We have a tremendous opportunity to grow our digital business across the portfolio.”
CBS All Access is growing at a good clip thanks to a stepped up investment in original content, DeBevoise said. CBS is banking on big properties like the latest iteration of “Star Trek,” “Star Trek: Picard” to keep churn to a minimum. CBSN, the free ad-supported news service, is also enjoying a big spike at present in light of the escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran and the quickening pace of the 2020 presidential race. “Picard,” a glossy part of the plan to deliver “a tentpole every quarter,” launches Jan. 23, he said.
DeBevoise spoke the same day that ViacomCBS unveiled a new carriage agreement with Comcast for CBS O&Os, Showtime and other channels, a deal that includes for the first time Comcast’s commitment to make the CBS All Access app available on the homepage of its X1 operating system, and on its Flex low-cost streaming service. That could potentially funnel millions of potential subscribers to CBS, especially around key events like NFL games and the Grammy Awards.
“The one place we hadn’t been able to place the service yet was the set-top box,” DeBevoise said. He aims for the Comcast pact to be the first of many MVPD deals to come.
DeBevoise, who joined CBS Corp. in 2011 after previously working for Starz and NBCUniversal, spoke about the surprises and challenges of launching CBS All Access when streaming was still in its infancy. One important lesson he learned was about pacing himself.
“We launched CBS All Access on October 16, 2014, and we launched CBSN on Nov. 4,” he recalled. “Don’t ever do that.”


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Jump Your Bones, Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla. is voluntarily recalling Jump Your Bones brand name "Roo Bites (Cubes)" because it is potentially contaminated with Salmonella. The affected lots of Roo Bites are identified by the UPC code: 63633010041 for 80g. / 2.82oz., including samples of .32 oz.
The Nevada state Senate is considering a bill that would allow veterinarians and veterinary care facilities to accept open and unopened prescription medication and re-issue them to clients who cant afford them.
The debate over emotional damages for pets continues in North Carolina. The North Carolina Appeals Court recently upheld the decision of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, which concluded that courts have not recognized intrinsic value as a measure for damages for the loss of an animal. The plaintiffs, Nancy and Herbert Shera, filed for the wrongful death of their 12-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, Laci. Diagnosed with liver cancer in 2003, Laci was treated at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital (VSH) in Cary, North Carolina, where staff successfully removed the tumor. By late 2003, Laci’s cancer was determined to be in remission. In 2007, Laci was re-admitted to the VSH for multi-systemic organ disease and multiple life-threatening symptoms, including a severe form of pancreatitis, ascites, electrolyte derangements, and other serious veterinary issues. The canine exhibited symptoms of poor appetite, vomiting, and difficulty with urination.
While women have historically borne the brunt of domestic violence, as many as 86% of domestic violence survivors have reported that their family pets had been threatened, harmed, or killed by their partners. And as many as 48% said they had delayed leaving a dangerous situation out of concern for their pets’ safety. Yet only only about 3% of domestic violence shelters in the US are currently set up to accommodate companion animals.
A veterinarian who said an ex-client’s negative online reviews cost him his practice was awarded damages of nearly $30,000 after a six-year court battle. Was it worth the wait?
How many times do we have to say it? Possibly every time the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update their investigation into an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella across multiple states.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to ban the sale of certain rodenticides to the general public, a move which could help prevent one of the most frequent causes of pet poisoning. In addition to banning the most toxic anticoagulant rodenticides (brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone and difenacoum), the agency also plans to stop the sale of most loose bait and pellet-form rodenticides to cut down on accidental poisonings of children and pets.
If you’ve had a craving for pig ears (you may be a fan of nose-to-tail eating), you’ll be delighted to know that pig ear treats recently received the all-clear from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeing an increase in the number of complaints about dog illnesses associated with consumption of chicken jerky products imported from China. In a warning posted Nov. 18, the FDA warns consumers that chicken jerky products for dogs in chicken tenders, strips or treats, could cause illnesses in dogs. In September 2007, the FDA issued a cautionary warning about chicken jerky products followed by a Preliminary Animal Health Notification in December 2008. The FDA reports that the number of complaints dropped off near the end of 2009 and continued to decrease throughout 2010. In the last 12 months, however, the FDA says it is seeing complaints rise once again.
The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) has endorsed a new set of guidelines for handling cats in a feline-friendly manner.


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JPMorgan has told customers with personal credit lines at First Republic Bank that it will no longer offer those lines when they come up for renewal, according to correspondence viewed by The Information. The failed lender, which has been sold to JPMorgan, had offered personal lines of credit to its wealthy client base as a key way of attracting customers.
A person familiar with the matter said JPMorgan doesn’t offer personal lines of credit, which is why the product line is being shut down. Clients are being offered the option to transform their revolving credit lines into fixed-term loans at the same rate for a period of up to five years. Customers are also being asked if they would prefer to pay off their credit lines.


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- Juszczyk obtained a merchandise license from the NFL after Super Bowl LVIII
- Other than Swift, Simone Biles and Taylor Lautner wore her fashion creations
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Taylor Swift has helped Kristin Juszczyk reach one million followers on social media after wearing one of her custom-made, NFL jackets earlier in the postseason.
Juszczyk – the wife of San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk – shared her latest Instagram milestone on Thursday, barely a month after Swift and Brittany Mahomes – one of the popstar’s closest friends on the Chiefs – wore personalized puffer jackets when Kansas City defeated the Miami Dolphins at Arrowhead Stadium in the Wild Card round.
‘Came home to the latest sweetest surprise from @partiesandpetals!! Can’t believe one million of you guys follow me,’ Juszczyk, who was spotted in Mexico with other 49ers WAGs just a week after San Francisco’s Super Bowl loss, shared as a caption to a post of herself standing in front of white and gold balloons.
‘I can’t thank you all enough for all your support and encouragement! I promise you all I’m grinding to get some KJ designs into your hands.’
By the start of the month, Juszczyk would score a NFL licensing deal.
Kristin Juszczyk shared her social media milestone of 1M followers on Instagram on Thursday
The 49ers WAG designed Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes’ personalized Chiefs puff jackets
Kristin is the wife of 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk. Pictured in custom-made 49ers fandom at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas with her husband
Before Swift propelled her clothes to a new level of attention, the 29-year-old designer built a following online by repurposing jerseys into more high-fashion pieces – corsets, suits, skirts – for herself as she attended 49ers games to support her husband.
Her NFL chic couture has spread to other players’ partners and supporters across the league, including Simone Biles and Taylor Lautner.
‘She single-handedly catapulted my career,’ Juszczyk said of Swift’s influence on her brand. ‘I’ve been at this for years. When I saw her walk out in that jacket, it just like, brought me to tears.’
Juszczyk’s Instagram following went up after Swift wore one of her clothing items for Chiefs-Dolphins in the wild card round during the playoffs
Simone Biles is another of Juszczyk’s clients, as she wore a custom-made Packers jacket that was designed by the 29-year-old designer at one of Green Bay’s games this season
Juszczyk even obtained a merchandise license from the NFL after fans have asked for more of her creations
Before Juszczyk sent Swift and Mahomes jackets for the January 13 game, she had about 100,000 followers, according to Social Blade. That’s a growth of 900,000 in 42 days.
With her official license in hand, Juszczyk designed puffer vests commemorating Super Bowl LVIII, sported by celebrities. One such vest sold for $75k with proceeds going to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, according to The Associated Press.
Juszczyk herself wore a jacket stitched from jerseys, an ode to her husband’s football career, for Sunday’s big game.
She is now aiming to come up with NBA fandom gear and has designed a custom Golden State Warriors jacket for Steph Curry’s wife Ayesha, according to multiple reports.
It’s unclear when the clothing item will be released.


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As the automotive industry faces a shortage of trained technicians, Ford has worked to boost the candidate pool by launching a number of new training programs in recent months, including adding special EV training courses to existing curriculum, Automotive Student Service Educational Training (ASSET) programs at select community colleges and technical schools, EV technician training at the Universal Technician Institute (UTI), and funding scholarships for a two-year apprenticeship model at select schools. Now, those efforts continue, as Ford has launched a new $1 million dollar scholarship for technician training.
Like its previous scholarship offerings, this new one will be provided by Ford Fund – the automaker’s philanthropic arm – and will be distributed by the non-profit TechForce Foundation in four U.S. cities – Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Phoenix. Officially called the Ford Auto Tech Scholarship, this new scholarship program is open to both current and future students who are enrolled in post-secondary auto or auto and diesel technician training programs and can be applied toward tuition, transportation, living expenses, and tools. Those interested in applying for this new scholarship can do so by heading over here.
This new scholarship aims to help address the current automotive technician shortage, which continues to worsen. According to TechForce, there are currently just 48,000 graduates from tech programs each year in the U.S., though demand currently sits far higher, with a need for 258,000 techs annually.
“As we move toward an electrified future, these career opportunities are exciting and require skilled technicians who are proficient in STEM-related study,” said Elena Ford, Chief Customer Experience Officer. “Working together with the Ford Fund and our dealers to offer this scholarship program means we will welcome a new generation of diverse students to the industry, and hopefully into our Ford family, to help us better serve our customers.”
We’ll have more on Ford’s technician training efforts soon, so be sure and subscribe to Ford Authority for 24/7 Ford news coverage.
The main reason there are a lack of technicians is pay and poor benefit packages at dealerships. I know there are dealerships that offer some form of 401’s and two weeks vacation with a week sick leave, way below what auto manufacturers are offering. When i was turning wrenches the pay was 50/50, now it close to 22/78 with the technicians paying more for special tools/equipment that the dealer no longer furnish. The technicians today are mostly highly skilled and deserve to be paid accordingly as in other highly skilled (plumbers, electricians) vocations. Until the pay/benefit package relates to other skilled vocation I will recommend staying away from the auto world.


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Breakthru Beverage Group, an alcohol wholesale/distribution business led by the chairman of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, on Monday revealed plans to invest $9.2 million in CannTrust, a Canadian marijuana producer, and to become the company’s exclusive distributor in Canada.
What the group will distribute was not entirely clear from the news release, which talked only of recreational marijuana. Other American and Canadian spirits companies have invested in Canadian cannabis companies with the intent to develop adult beverages based on cannabis.
CannTrust’s announcement did note, “We have a nano-technology that enables us to produce cannabis-infused beverages neutral in taste, and clear as water. This technology will position us to be a leader in Canada, and in future markets globally.”
After a series of acquisitions, Breakthru claims to be “the largest Canadian beverage alcohol broker of premium spirits, wine and beer brands.” It will “invest in the establishment of a cannabis-focused sales brokerage company and develop a route-to-market platform for CannTrust in Canada, effective when the adult-use recreational market opens Oct. 17."
Breakthru follows Molson Coors and Constellation Brands in investing in the Canadian cannabis market, although both of those companies specifically mentioned developing and selling cannabis-infused drinks in Canada.
The Chicago Tribune got hold of a letter Chicago Blackhawks Chairman Rocky Wirtz, who is co-chairman of Breakthru Beverage, sent to employees, where he explained: “To us, this venture is a strategic business decision, not reflective of any personal feelings but instead, focused around an opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping a socially-responsible model for this emerging market.”


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Swiss wine growers harvested a bumper crop this year, with the Federal Agriculture Office saying the wine was also of excellent quality.
Winemakers produced more than 1.1 million hectolitres from the 2011 harvest, which was 4.3 per cent above the average amount of the past five years.
The Agriculture Office said the exceptionally warm spring and sunny and dry late summer and autumn were key factors contributing to the quality of the crop.
The unseasonably warm April encouraged the vines to bud early – about three weeks earlier than the year before.
The harvest was largely completed by the beginning of October.
Vineyards account for nearly 15,000 hectares of land across the country, a figure that is almost unchanged from 2010.
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Free From market has huge potential
According to an article in this week’s Grocer magazine the Free From market could be much bigger than originally thought. A YouGov survey found that almost half of those customers buying Free From products we’re buying out of choice rather than necessity due to an allergy meaning that the potential size of the market was much bigger than perhaps previously appreciated. Free From is seen as a healthier alternative for many customers - which is great for our client Nothing But and their recently launched range of fruit and vegetable snacks which are now available across London at Wholefoods Stores.
Half of customers aren’t aware of the Free From category so there’s loads of opportunity to market to this untapped audience and with a current category value of over £355m the benefits to business are obvious.


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The collective fashion world was a victim this past week to a viral Instagram hoax. Prominent members of the community — think Marc Jacobs, Carine Roitfeld, and Adriana Lima — reposted a lengthy wall of text that detailed a new Instagram policy. Only, this policy was completely fake, and has been circulating around various social platforms for quite some time now. Does anyone get a freaky flashback to chain mail letters from the naughties?
Thankfully, the social media teams of these personalities were quick to remove the offending posts from the platforms of these true influencers. FYI: Posting a disclaimer on Instagram or Facebook does not absolve the platform from using your photos for commercial purposes. The moment you downloaded and signed up for Instagram, you have agreed to its non-negotiable terms.
Now that that saga is over, we have heaps of fashion news to keep you abuzz this weekend. Keep on reading for more.
Louis Vuitton launches the Multi Pochette Accessoires
Stop whatever you’re doing: Louis Vuitton has just announced its most important bag launch of the year, the Multi Pochette Accessoires. It’s a reinterpretation of the maison’s iconic Pochette Accessoires pouch that was first imagined back in 1992.
This modernised iteration now boasts two detachable elements: a mini Pochette Accessoires and a round coin purse. Plus, the multitude of ways you can wear the bag with its two straps lends the Multi Pochette Accessoires a certain versatility that reflects the current zeitgeist of bag lovers everywhere. Finishing off the look on the bag is the iconic Louis Vuitton Monogram in a variety of scales.
The Louis Vuitton Multi Pochette Accessoires will be available from September 27 onwards at all Louis Vuitton boutiques. Prices start at S$2,360.
Local designer Reckless Ericka celebrates Singapore’s food culture with a capsule collection
It’s fact that us Singaporeans love our local food, and what better way to celebrate this passion than with a capsule collection highlighting one of the most famous dishes: the chilli crab?
Local fashion label Reckless Ericka has designed a limited capsule collection featuring the savoury dish in a variety of prints that incorporate Peranakan culture, too
The collection will be available at Design Orchard from now until September 2, 2019, and prices for the pieces start at S$199.
Nick Knight and Danko Steiner capture a new age of Burberry for its Fall/Winter 2019 campaign
Photographers Nick Knight and Danko Steiner have once again lent their discerning eyes to Burberry for its upcoming Fall/Winter 2019 campaign. Starring an ensemble cast including Gigi Hadid, Irina Shayk, Sora Choi, and He Cong amongst others, the campaign illustrates the two sides of Riccardo Tisci’s vision for Burberry.
On one side is the classic British brand we all know and love, and the other Tisci’s more easy, breezy code of the new Burberry. In other news, the Thomas Burberry Monogram Collection pop-up is now open at its Marina Bay Sands boutique till September 5, 2019.
Virgil Abloh launches a “HOME” collection for Off-White
Just in case you aren’t satisfied with how hypebeast your life already is, you can now spruce up your living space with the Off-White homeware collection, courtesy of Virgil Abloh. The brand, called, you guessed it, “HOME,” is split into three simple categories: Bed, bath, and ceramics.
Almost everything comes naturally in a shade of off white, with signature motifs of the brand coming through in items like the pillowcases, bathrobes, and towels.
The “HOME” collection is set to hit the Off-White online store from September onwards.


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Toyota Indus Motor Company Ltd (IMC) has decided to introduce Toyota Vios while to discontinue Toyota Corolla GLi in Pakistan. IMC sources have confirmed the news.
Last Year in September, Toyota IMC said they will not launch Toyota Vios and Yaris aka Vitz 1000cc vehicles in Pakistan however, It appears increasing competition in Automotive Industry in Pakistan made them revert the decision.
Toyota Corolla GLi and XLi have been one of the most favorite sedan vehicles in Pakistan but the company feels the heat and the pressure from Altas Honda‘s City 1300cc and Honda City Aspire 1500cc has gained popularity in the market, keeping in view Indus Motor Company has decided to discontinue Toyota Corolla GLi.
It is unconfirmed that Toyota Corolla XLi will continue or not as XLi considered as the hot cake of Toyota here in Pakistan.
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The Company management has rejected Yaris aka Vitz 1000cc will not going to be launched or assembled locally, however, Toyota Vios will replace Toyota Corolla GLi
According to the source, Toyota Indus Motor company ltd, will launch the Toyota Vios by next year, most likely in December 2019. The company official has not mentioned an exact date.
In Malaysia, Toyota Vios is a compact-sized sedan powered with a 1.3L 4NR-FE petrol engine that produces 110 BHP having an option of 7-step CVT or a five-speed manual transmission.
Toyota Indus Motors Company heavily relies on Corolla XLi and GLi models from last 17 years in Pakistan, XLi been the Hot Cake, popular among the customers.
After a mounting graph of Honda’s new City models and Suzuki’s Vitara and Cultus, the industry sources said, “The company is little perturbed and thinking to change its model which can compete with rival vehicles and regain its popularity in the Pakistani market again”
The upcoming Honda City 2019 model.


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How ‘Take Back Day’ can help opioid, vaping crisis: DEA administrator
DEA acting administrator Uttam Dhillon joins FOX Business to discuss the DEA’s efforts to provide a safe way to throw away your prescription drugs. He said vaping products will be included in the take-back program for the first time.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's attorney general has filed a new lawsuit over the opioid crisis, even as the top lawyers in some states are pushing to settle claims over powerful prescription painkillers.
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Mark Herring filed a lawsuit Thursday against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, saying it and a company that it bought misrepresented the benefits and risks of products that include fentanyl.
A company spokeswoman did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
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Some 2,700 lawsuits have been filed nationwide against the drug industry over the toll of opioids, including at least one from nearly every state. Herring's is the first one filed by a state since a group of attorneys general announced a plan to settle suits nationally with five companies, including Teva. Few states have endorsed the $48 billion proposal so far.
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A consortium of Australian publishers has launched a programmatic ‘Editorial Video Marketplace’, intended to “simplify buyers’ access to this professionally produced premium content with extensive daytime audience reach and scale”.
The new marketplace, run by Telaria, will feature content from publishers Seven West Media, Network 10, SBS, Foxtel Media, Pedestrian Group and Daily Mail.
In a statement, Luke Smith, head of programmatic sales and audiences at Seven West Media explained that advertisers have a need for “quality video delivering high viewability and completion rates within brand safe editorial environments at scale”.
And, he added, “It is important that the premium value and impact of editorial video is able to differentiate itself from other forms of short-form like social video”
Telaria and the consortium of publishers are also working with the IAB to encourage and achieve industry-wide adoption of this initiative through data implementation and research studies.
The move comes amidst a slowing market, with latest numbers from Standard Media Index (SMI) revealing that August was the 12th consecutive month of decline with all formats experiencing reduced spend. TV bookings were down 5.8%, digital 8.6%, outdoor 12.6% and radio 10%.
The new marketplace marks the latest attempt by traditional media organisations in the region to shore up their value proposition to advertisers and push back against the growing share of adspend now controlled by walled gardens such as Google and Facebook.
There are currently multiple such publisher cooperatives across the region. For example Singapore has the Singapore Media Exchange founded by Singapore Press Holdings and Mediacorp
Malaysia has two such marketplaces: the Malaysia Premium Publishers Marketplace (MPPM) is made up of eight publishers including Star Media Group, Utusan Malaysia, China Press and The Edge, while AMP. Asia’s by-invitation marketplace for premium inventory (AMP), is made up of seven publishers.
In Thailand, the Online Premium Publishers Association (OPPA) was launched in May 2017 and consists of 12 of Thailand’s publishers including BEC-TERO, Dek-D, Kapook, MThai, OTV, Pantip, Post Today, Sanook, SiamSport, and Thairath.
However, the longevity and profitability of such cooperatives has been uneven to date; in August, for example, the Kiwi Premium Advertising Exchange (KPEX) was shut down due to “changing market demands and shareholder priorities”.
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Samsung unveils the latest Galaxy. At the Launch of the South Korean tech giant in Vietnam, the newest member of the Galaxy family unveiled the M12. The phone, which stands out for its large battery capacity, also stands out with its main camera of 48MP.
New Galaxy M12 has large battery capacity
Notable for its similarity to the Galaxy A12, the new phone stands out from its peers with its 6000 mAh battery capacity. The device also supports 15W fast charging via USB-C and promises up to 24 hours of use on a single charge.
With a screen size of 6.5 inches, the new Galaxy M12 features a PLS LCD display with a resolution of 720 pixels. Positioning the phone’s front camera in the form of an Infinity-V panel, Samsung features a single speaker and 3.5mm headphone jack.
With a 48MP camera on the back, the M12 can record up to 30 FPS at a resolution of 1080 pixels. Let’s also mention that the smartphone has a 2 MP macro camera in addition to the main camera.
In addition, the M12 has a 5MP ultra-wide camera with a viewing angle of up to 123 degrees on the back and a “Depth” camera with a 2MP sensor value.
Powered by 2.0 GHz octa-cores on the processor side, the new Galaxy M12 stands out for its 32, 64 and 128 GB storage option on the storage side with 4 and 6 GB of RAM. Up to 1TB of microSD card support will also be available on the phone.
The new Samsung Galaxy M12 with 4G LTE connectivity support features Bluetooth 5.0. Finally, the M12, which has three different color options, attracts attention with its blue, black and jade colors. It is not yet clear when the phone, which is on sale in Vietnam starting today, will come to the European market.


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While the country has been hooked to watching Dilris Ertugrul, Peshawar Zalmi’s owner Javed Afridi has stirred up a whole lot of excitement by suggesting a big crossover between Peshawar Zalmi and Turkish hit show, Dilris Ertugrul.
Javed Afridi first hinted at the possibility of Engin Altan Düzyatan – the actor who plays the titular role in the show, of becoming the team’s brand ambassador. And he then filled the hearts of our people with joy after suggesting that Esra Bilgic, who plays the role of Halime Sultan, could be added to the list of brand ambassadors for the cricket franchise, Peshawar Zalmi.
“What if Ertugrul Ghazi joins Peshawar Zalmi as a brand ambassador,” Afridi said.
WHAT IF #ErtugrulGhazi JOIN PESHAWAR ZALMI AS A BRAND AMBASADOR ❓
— Javed Afridi (@JAfridi10) June 30, 2020
What if we offer (the role of brand ambassadorship) to Halime Sultan as well?”, he tweeted again.
— Javed Afridi (@JAfridi10) July 3, 2020
And from the looks of it – Esra Bilgic has signed on. Her tweet along with tags of Peshawar Zalmi and Javed Afridi are indicators enough that Javed Afridi has made it happen.
Looks like the people of Pakistan will rush into the Peshawar Zalmi camp whenever cricket returns and PSL is scheduled next.


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Apple Reports First Autonomous Collision in Calif.
September 4, 2018—Apple said that its first autonomous vehicle crash occurred in California, reported CNBC.
The accident during an autonomous driving test took place at 2:58 p.m. PST on Aug. 24, in Santa Clara, near Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. The vehicle was a Lexus RX450h (which Apple has used in its car research), according to the filing Apple employee Steve Kenner submitted to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, reported CNBC.
"An Apple test vehicle in autonomous mode was rear-ended while preparing to merge onto Lawrence Expressway South from Kifer Road," according to the report, which the DMV published on Friday. "The Apple test vehicle was traveling less than 1 mph waiting for a safe gap to complete the merge when a 2016 Nissan Leaf contacted the Apple test vehicle at approximately 15 mph. Both vehicles sustained damage and no injuries were reported by either party."
According to the report, Apple has been researching and testing self-driving cars, but its project has only come to light through occasional disclosures, not from the company itself. Alphabet, meanwhile, has been more transparent about the autonomous car research going on at its Waymo arm.


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Samsung introduced its Ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S10 series, which promised improved security with faster response time. It was impeccable, until now.
A report states that certain gel-cover style screen protectors can actually “confuse” the sensor, and that when a user registers their fingerprint with the protector on, the phone can then be unlocked by anyone’s fingerprint. Apparently, this issue extends to the Galaxy Note 10/10+ as well, which isn’t a surprise, since these basically use the same sensors.
Now, Samsung has issued an official statement about the issue, and has promised a software patch to address the problem.
Regarding recent reports of a fingerprint recognition issue affecting certain Galaxy devices, we would like to inform our customers of the following information.
This issue involved ultrasonic fingerprint sensors unlocking devices after recognizing 3-dimensional patterns appearing on certain silicone screen protecting cases as users’ fingerprints.
To prevent any further issues, we advise that Galaxy Note10/10+ and S10/S10+/S10 5G users who use such covers to remove the cover, delete all previous fingerprints and newly register their fingerprints.
If you currently use front screen protective covers, to ensure optimum fingerprint scanning, please refrain from using this cover until your device has been updated with a new software patch.
A software update is planned to be released as early as next week, and once updated, please be sure to scan your fingerprint in its entirety, so that the all portions of your fingerprint, including the center and corners have been fully scanned.
Thank you for your patience and we will strive to continuously improve product and service experiences for our users.
In essence, Samsung has advised users to remove these covers, delete their existing fingerprints and re-register them. They’ve also asked that users refrain from using such types of covers until the software patch arrives.
What do you think of this situation? Let us know in the comments section!


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The co-owner and chef of a Michelin-starred Norwegian restaurant has slammed farmed salmon and said his restaurant will never buy it.
“For us it’s simply completely out of the question that we should ever take in Norwegian farmed fish,” Esben Holmboe Bang said in an interview with the Norwegian daily Dagbladet.
Esben Holmboe Bang is co-owner of Maaemo — an award-winning restaurant and the only one in the Nordics to have two Michelin stars.
The chef criticized aquaculture salmon for being farmed in cages, “an unnatural habitat”, and fed with “things it shouldn’t eat, such as soya, corn and medications”.
“Norwegians travel around the world as if we are in a new Viking age, and fish other countries’ small fish to feed huge quantities of farmed fish,” he told the newspaper.
“It harms the nature, it creates a bad environment, the fish suffers and producers are being scammed.”
The industry meanwhile, “is steeply uncultured”, Bang said. “It’s hard to argue against them, because they are so indoctrinated in what they say, and the consumers swallow it.”
Bang singled out the branded Salma salmon by Salmon Brands (pictured) in his criticism.
Salma salmon is “standard, horrible farmed salmon”, he told Dagbladet. “There is no difference, except for the fact that it’s square, ‘nicely’ packaged and priced higher. People think it’s a luxury product, but it’s pure bluff.”
In response, Salmon Brands’ Trym Eidem Gundersen and the Norwegian Seafood Council’s Christian Chramer defended farmed salmon and the way it is fed.
Salmon feed contains a range of products such as canola oil, corn, fish oil, wheat and off-cuts from the fish industry, they said. The feed is constructed to give the fish optimum health and to be sustainable.
Salma salmon has gone through a long innovation process, with a guarantee that it is vacuum packed within four hours of being harvested, said Gundersen. Every single loin is hand cut, and the production method gives it a particularly good quality with a unique texture, color and taste, he said.
Chramer said Bang’s comments appeared emotional and based on few facts and pointed out that while “Maaemo offers expensive products that are limited for most people”, Norwegian farmed salmon is one of Norway’s strongest branded products” and people have never eaten as much salmon as now.
Farmed salmon, he added, is the domesticated animal that is fed the least amount of medication, while a cage must consist of 97.5% water and 2.5% fish.


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Threatening letters are arriving in Valley mailboxes. The ABC15 Investigators found they are targeting you, if you rented videos.
It happened to Kathy McMillan of Mesa.
She's an Xbox fan and rented new games for $5 or $6 to see if she wanted to buy them.
She rented them from Hollywood Video. That chain of video stores filed bankruptcy a couple of years ago.
Kathy says she hadn't thought much about them, until she recently received a letter from a debt collector.
The letter stated that she owed money for three unreturned games. Kathy admitted renting them, but she says she returned them.
An online check shows others complaining about the same thing.
The Arizona Attorney General's Office even put out a warning involving the collectors. It says these debt collectors cannot submit any reports to credit bureaus or threaten that they will.
They also can't add fees. The letter says Kathy only owes $21, but she says she will never pay something she doesn't owe.
With any debt collector, if you don't owe, don't pay. Demand proof in writing. They must provide it within five days.
Also by law, they cannot keep contacting you if you tell them not to, in writing.
Here are some rules from the Federal Trade Commission involving debt collectors.


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Local woman charged with probation for using her deceased mother's credit card
An Escambia County woman was given two years of probation and community service for using her deceased mothers credit cards to buy stuff.
Rhonda Fillingim's mother passed away in December of 2012. In August of 2013 records show that Fillingim made dozens of purchases with her deceased mothers credit cards and check book.
Fillingim was arrested in October and charged with 64 felony counts of fraudulent use of a credit card and one count of felony grand theft for using her mother's credit card. She pleaded no contest to several charges including frudulent use of a credit card and grand theft.


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Disney: Expect 10 Facebook games from the Mouse House in 2012
Hold onto your Donald Duck mouse pads, because Disney doesn't plan on leaving the Facebook game scene any time soon. In a recent earnings cal, Disney CEO Bob Iger addressed concerns of a dwindling social games space in the wake of Zynga's shares hitting the floor, Associated Press reports. His response was parts concerning, exciting and lukewarm ... all at the same time.
"I think we will launch about 10 games this year, a lot of them are based on Disney-owned (intellectual property) .... . So we feel very good about it. It is not a huge business for us, it is one that we're going to continue to be in," Iger revealed amid bullish views on the recently-launched Facebook App Center.
Iger wasn't clear whether he meant that Disney, or rather its social games arm Playdom, would release 10 more Facebook games by years end or that it will have released that many in 2012 by that time. That would include games like Armies of Magic, Threads of Mystery, Botkin's Hidden Cove, Animal Kingdom Explorers, Ghosts of Mistwood and Blackwood & Bell Mysteries (plus the upcoming City Girl and Mobster's Criminal Empire).
Since a studio of Playdom's size pumping out 10 games in less than five months sounds ludicrous, we'll go with the latter. That said, a whopping eight games in just a few more months than that was possible for the company, so who knows? Either way, just know that more Disney-grown Facebook games are on the way. Just cross your fingers that they're on par with Armies of Magic.
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OFFIR TO KORS: Ron Offir has joined Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. as senior vice president of its e-commerce division. He will be responsible for leading the company’s new global e-commerce business and reports to Jaryn Bloom, president of retail at Michael Kors.
Most recently, Offir was president of e-commerce and retail at The Jones Group. Earlier, he was president of Kompo E-Commerce Solutions and divisional vice president of e-commerce at Coach Inc. At Jones, Offir’s responsibilities were absorbed by Scott Bowman, group president of global retail and international development.


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Adknowledge Asia is a joint venture between Axiata and Adknowledge, and is the exclusive partner of social and video advertising technology platform, AdParlor.
Sutton moves into the new role from his previous position as senior vice president, operations for Adknowledge Asia. He will report to the board, which includes Adknowledge Inc. Global CEO Ben Legg, who has been overseeing AdParlor’s expansion across the region.
Legg said that Sutton boasts 13 years of “invaluable experience in digital advertising in Asia”, is a
“champion of programmatic and data-driven advertising” and is well positioned to lead the business.
This change will also see Damien Lavin, managing director for SEA and ANZ, promoted to chief revenue officer. Lavin will be responsible for customer acquisition and service across all of Adknowledge Asia’s offices, reporting to Sutton.
The company’s expansion plans for 2016 include doubling headcount through growth in existing markets (Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, India, the Philippines and Taiwan) as well as entering four new markets.
It currently services advertisers and agencies through its local team of 140 people in nine markets.
Sutton said that by 2018 all major advertisers are expected to be spending in excess of 50 percent of their budgets online and shifting their TV budgets to online platforms, with a 70 percent share going to the likes of Facebook, YouTube and programmatic TV.
“AdParlor is well placed to service this demand with a potent combination of direct access to these publishers, consolidated technology, exclusive data partnerships and local customer service,” he added. “I have an amazing team around me and look forward to working with them to expand into new markets, double our headcount and further consolidate our market leading position."
Miranda Dimopoulos, CEO and ambassador to SEA IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) Singapore welcomed AdParlor to the market, in a statement.
“We love working with new members to increase digital understanding and showcasing the power of technology platforms,” she said. “As the IAB, we want to prove that return on investment for digital is just as easy to understand as traditional media models, to help increase digital spend to match where our consumers are spending their time, which is largely on mobile consuming video via social.”


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An April 15 editorial in The News claimed that Congress was considering a law that would quash lawsuits against gunmakers for selling defective products and that it would prevent lawsuits against gun sellers for negligence. This is incorrect. The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (S. 397 and H.R. 800) specifically states that it does not include protection in cases of negligence or defective products. How could The News make such a statement? Did the writer even bother to read the bills? I can only conclude that the author's objective was to confuse the issue so that efforts by anti-gun organizations to sue gunmakers and sellers out of business can continue.
If, as the editorial claims, The News has no problem protecting the gun industry from lawsuits based solely on what someone does with a gun, then it should be in favor of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, because that is all the bill does, nothing more.
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Crisis drives investment in agritech
As many as 797 agri and foodtech startups raised $ 10.66 billion in 2022: trend confirmed for 2023 as well
Investors have become more cautious in 2022, but the agritech sector has performed significantly better than others, especially in Europe. In short, the Old Continent is proving to be a key market in terms of agricultural and food tech solutions. So much so that, forecasts claim that the number of investments in startups focusing on sustainable solutions will grow this year.
Confirmation comes from Croplife, an international agribusiness trade association founded in 2001: according to the organization, as many as 797 agritech startups raised $10.66 billion in 2022. And although this means a 13 percent decrease in the value of funding, the number of deals increased by 26 percent from the previous year.
In comparison, business analytics platform CB Insights reports that the total value of funding for companies (not startups, then) declined 35 percent year-over-year last year-meaning that the agritech industry is performing significantly better than other sectors. Not only that, forecasts indicate that the number of investments in startups focusing on sustainable solutions is set to grow in 2023.
"Global agricultural and food markets are in the early stages of digitization, but this will progress very quickly -emphasizes Piotr Łupiński, an associate at Market One Capital, a Polish fund that has already invested in agritech and climate tech companies-. Soon all stages of the industry's value chain will be driven by technology: from precision agriculture, based on data analysis of irrigation, fertilization and yield of an individual plant in the field, to safe and transparent intercontinental trade".
Agritech startups are also increasingly posing themselves as an answer to the global crisis, ready to address (and solve) problems concerning global supply chains but also those that are challenging the food security of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia.
They do so, implementing solutions that focus on improving agricultural productivity and sustainability. Not only that. They include technologies that reduce or eliminate middlemen in the supply chain, thereby reducing the risk of food crises. In this way, transportation and waste costs are significantly lower, resulting in a reduced carbon footprint of the final product.
Europe, particularly affected by the war in Ukraine, is proving to be a key market in terms of agricultural and foodtech solutions. Amsterdam, for example, in last year's The global startup ecosystem report AgTech & New Food edition of Startup Genome ranked second among the best ecosystems for developing companies in the sector in Europe and 14th globally.
Dutch AgTech startups to watch out for include Connecterra, which aims to use artificial intelligence to increase agricultural productivity. Another interesting startup is Source.ag: it uses advanced technologies to grow indoors in optimal conditions almost year-round, producing yields up to 15 times higher than those grown in the field.
Also important is Vosbor, a Dutch startup that in July 2022 raised $ 7 million to create the first digital exchange for agricultural commodities: an exchange that "digitizes" international trade in grains and oilseeds, making these markets more efficient, transparent, and less expensive.
"Vosbor brings trade in agricultural commodities online -explains Maarten Elferink, ceo of Vosbor-. It enables buyers and sellers to trade more efficiently, simplifying risk management in a world where supply chain risks are increasing, and providing market data that is not available today. We make commodity trading cheaper and markets more accessible while reducing risk".
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During April-June of this year, nominal incomes grew by 15.2% up to 345.492 billion UAH, the State Statistics Service reported.
Available income per one person in the second quarter totaled 5.749 thousand UAH, which is by 742.5 UAH more than during the same period in 2011.
In particular, during April-June of 2012, incomes in the form of wages amounted to 144.831 billion UAH, profit and mixed income - 44.688 billion UAH and incomes from property - 17.24 billion UAH.
The share of social assistance and other state payments in the revenue structure for the second quarter numbered 40.2% up to 138.733 billion UAH.
Savings of the population in the second quarter totaled 24.457 billion UAH.
Expenses for the second quarter of 2012 grew by 16.3% up to 345.492 billion UAH, including 289.711 billion UAH for the purchase of goods and services.
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Friday 8th of August 2014
It is hoped the discount offers are rewarding to families or Car Hire Edinburgh Airport think it could be a much more difficult event.
Prices of tickets are set to remain high for Edinburgh’s Christmas despite the public being unhappy with the high costs last year. To ease this worry, a number of family discounts are expected to be introduced to try and diffuse any concern.
There was also a loss of around £180,000 to the organisers Underbelly and Unique Events, but city business bosses are calm about it.
A spokesman for Edinburgh’s Christmas said “There was a loss made but it’s not a figure we can confirm as it’s commercially confidential. The satisfaction levels are extremely encouraging and positive but there’s obviously a drop when it comes to value and when families talk about value, and the plan is that we will address that in this year’s programme. There will be more that’s affordable for families and residents.”
The Edinburgh’s Christmas spokesman said “This is the first time that anyone has gone into this level of detail on Edinburgh’s Christmas and what this shows is that, in the organisation of Edinburgh’s Christmas, there’s a lot more that we’re getting right. I should add that the loss is borne by Underbelly – there is no loss to the council or the council tax payer.”
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LG Display has received the “Low Blue Light Display (OLED)” Verified Mark from UL, a leading global safety science company, for its OLED TV displays.
The UL Mark for “Low Blue Light Display (OLED)” is given to display products when their blue light emission meets the “risk exempt” standard (100W/sr/m2) set by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). LG Display’s OLED TV displays were found to emit 50% lower blue light than the standard, or about 60 percent of blue light that the same-size premium LCD TV displays on the market are reported to emit. Blue light is known to exacerbate eye fatigue and sleep disturbance.
According to market research firm IHS Markit, the global annual shipment of OLED TV displays is expected to grow to 5.4 million units in 2020, further increasing to 7.3 million units in 2021 and over 12 million units in 2023.


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How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19?
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In a recent blog post, we analyzed how the spread of the disease associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) may bring damage to the global economy, and with it to food security and efforts to reduce poverty. We emphasized that the economic impacts of the present pandemic will be different from previous ones, including SARS, avian influenza, and MERS, which caused direct damage to livestock sectors, leading to food shortages and food price hikes in affected areas. No major food shortages have emerged thus far because of COVID-19.
However, the pandemic is having significant economic impacts. It is rattling global stock markets and economic activity has slowed dramatically in places where many people are ill and movements are restricted to contain further spread of the virus. Signs of continuing economic slowdown are most visible in China, but due to broader containment measures elsewhere, including restrictions on travel, shutdowns of bars, restaurants, and other gathering places, and additional limits placed on services, the economic impacts are now spilling across countries. Fears for a global economic slowdown are increasing. Economic forecasters project global growth could be cut in half in 2020, to 1.5% from an earlier forecast of 3%. In our previous post, we projected that for any one percentage point slowdown of the global economy, the number of poor—and with it the number of food insecure people—would increase by 2%, that is, by 14 million people (and possibly more depending on the nature of the economic disruptions). Here we explain how we reached this estimate.
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A large proportion of Carphone Warehouse’s customers probably won’t remember the humble car phone, immortalized by ‘80s Porsche-driving TV stars, now entirely overtaken by the ubiquitous mobile phone. These days the company’s fortunes are still in the fast lane, not least because it hitched a ride to the U..S just as they woke up to the wonders of the smartphone.
Despite being the birthplace of the iconic Apple iPhone (get better Mr. Jobs!), the U.S. is way behind in the uptake of mobile phones that run your life from your pocket. They’re also used to buying their phones from their network provider so impartial advice about both phones and networks is a unique selling point for “Best Buy Mobile” (notice they went with the well-known brand name of their joint venture partner rather than an archaic legacy phone no-one uses anymore).
Best Buy Mobile is a venture split down the middle between Carphone and the huge U.S. technology retailer Best Buy. Connections are up 33% in three months to January and Carphone keeps raising its earnings guidance as the yanks sign up for expensive smartphone contracts.
Back in blighty we’ve already been there, done that. The U.K. has always led the charge in the technology “cycle” and these days we don’t need to sign up for long-term contracts to get our hands on these mini computers. The contractless prepay market for smartphones is booming and Christmas was a good time to be buying them as gifts from just £30 ($47.55). This helped boost U.K. same-store sales up 2.3% in the third quarter.
On the continent though, they’re stuck somewhere between the U.K. and the U.S., with some maturing of the postpay contract market but where smartphones haven’t quite become cheap enough for the prepay market to take off. European same-store sales fell around 1% in the period.
Carphone’s fortunes have always tailgated the technology cycle, and with the U.S. firing on all cylinders, investors are in for a good ride.


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Items from Dave Grohl, Nine Inch Nails and more to be auctioned at The War On Drugs charity event
Signed guitars, artwork, merchandise and more are headed to the iconic Julien’s Auction House.
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Taking place next month (6 March), the event was founded by the Grammy Award-winning rock band as a way to raise funds for the Philadelphia school district.
According to the host, Julien’s Auctions, the event will take place online and feature items such as signed guitars, merchandise and artwork – all donated by some of the most iconic names in music.
Alongside two Fender Stratocasters signed by the band, the auction will also feature donations by artists including The Beastie Boys, Questlove, Nine Inch Nails, Kim Gordon and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.
Famous names from the art world and sports world are also taking part in the event, and experiences can also be purchased, hosted by some of Philadelphia’s most famous venues. A full list of what’s on offer is available on Julien’s website.
Following the event, all proceeds raised by the auction will benefit The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, which contributes to strengthening public education and facilitating public-private partnerships.
Find out more about the event over at Julien’s Auctions.
Earlier this week, another renowned auction house, Bonhams, also confirmed that it would be holding a guitar-related event, this time centring around Fleetwood Mac co-founder, Peter Green.
Set to take place in June, the scheduled auction will see over 150 guitars played and owned by the artist be sold to the highest bidder. These include a Gretsch White Falcon 6137 and a 1999 Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster in a Sea Foam Green finish.
Handwritten lyrics for Fleetwood Mac’s song Man of the World are also listed, and expected to sell for upwards of £40,000.


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Celebration Cinemas to begin reopening on Friday
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Celebration Cinema will begin reopening theaters on Friday, October 9.
The Grand Rapids-based company said theaters slated to open on Friday include Celebration Cinema in Studio Park in downtown Grand Rapids, Celebration Cinema Rivertown in Grandville, Celebration Cinema North in Grand Rapids, Celebration Cinema Crossroads in Portage, Celebration Cinema Lansing and Cinema Carousel in Muskegon.
Theaters in Benton Harbor, Mount Pleasant, as well as Celebration Cinema South (located south of Grand Rapids in Gaines Township), are expected to open in the “next few weeks,” according to a press release from Studio C, the company that owns Celebration Cinema. .
“We have been working towards this day in conjunction with all of our industry,” said JD Loeks, president of Studio C, in a statement. “We fully believe in the value of coming together around stories, art and music. We appreciate the importance of getting the right details to ensure the safety and comfort of our team and our guests. “
Theaters across much of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula have been closed since March in response to executive orders from Governor Gretchen Whitmer designed to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. On September 25, Whitmer announced that it was allowing theaters to reopen on October 9.
Celebration Cinema says it is taking the following steps to reopen safely:
- “The physical distancing measures will include a reduction in the number of seats, in accordance with guidelines from the CDC and the local health department. Reserved seats will automatically space groups apart.
- “Celebration Cinema staff will use personal protective equipment, including face masks. Guests are required to wear masks, although they can be removed when a guest is seated and enjoying their popcorn and other cinematic snacks. “
- “All customers are encouraged to pre-purchase their tickets online at celebrationcinema.com or through the Celebration Cinema app. The online convenience fee is temporarily waived to minimize lines. “
- “Celebration Cinema will not accept cash payments. Please only plan for online, credit card or gift card purchases.
- “Frequent cleaning of high-contact surfaces will be continuous and deep cleaning overnight. “
- “Movie treats will be available! Skip the line by purchasing from the Celebration Cinema website or app for delivery directly to your theater seat.


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Ocean Destroys $82,000 Range Rover Sport After Stupid Tourists Get Stuck on Protected Beach
High tide takes no prisoners.
The Land Rover Range Rover is one of the most luxurious and capable vehicles you can buy today. Its off-road heritage means it can surmount just about any obstacle—that is, except for the folly of man. And now a rental company in England is down one $82,000 Range Rover after a group of tourists drove it onto a protected beach at a nature reserve, promptly got stuck, and abandoned the pricey SUV to be consumed by high tide.
It's normally illegal to even walk on the beach at the U.K.'s South Walney Nature Reserve, a resting stop for migratory birds and home to sensitive vegetation, but neither that nor physical signs and barriers stopped the three men from driving the brand new Range Rover Sport onto the sand on Sunday. After cruising around for a while, the 5,000-pound truck eventually got stuck below the high tide mark.
A member of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust told The Telegraph that he watched the men "remonstrating wildly" as their attempts to dig out the Range Rover sank it further into the muck.
"They'd definitely gone to great lengths to get on that beach. There are very clear posts up seeing 'do not go on the beach' and there are even wooden trunks acting as a barrier," Tony Jesson said. "We sat there for an hour watching them trying to drive it out, pull it out, dig it out. It was very much stuck."
With the sun setting and high tide coming in an hour, the group decided to cut their losses and walked back to higher ground. What happened overnight wasn't pretty; the expensive SUV was totally swamped by the ocean, with waves smashing several windows and flooding the interior with salt water.
The Range Rover was finally hauled off the beach on Tuesday by a tractor, and we can't imagine it's heading anywhere but the salvage yard. The Cumbria Wildlife Trust has lodged a formal complaint about the damage to the protected site from tire tracks and oil seepage, and police confirmed to The Telegraph that they're investigating the incident.


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Over the last few months, the media has been littered with news of a new respiratory virus, coronavirus (COVID-19) that causes pneumonia. The virus, discovered in December in China, has since infected over 90,000 people across 73 countries.
To date, there has been over 3,000 cases of deaths and only about 172 of these deaths have been reported outside mainland China. As it continues to spread, the World Health Organization (WHO) has upgrade the global risk of the virus to “very high”.
Beyond the health impacts, the emergence of this virus has also had a negative impact on the global economy across the world.
The coronavirus has also wreaked havoc on the tech industry as companies directly linked to China have been reporting reduced revenues for Q1 2020. Cryptocurrency prices have also been falling and of recent, there’s been a growing list of several tech events being called off by organisers.
From Facebook’s F8 to Google’s Cloud Next, here are major tech events that have been called off over growing safety concerns around coronavirus.
GSMA Mobile World Congress
The world’s biggest congregation of the tech industry, Mobile World Congress was cancelled over concerns surrounding the coronavirus epidemic.
Its organisers, the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), announced that the tech exhibit had to be called off. This was mainly because major tech companies had pulled out of the congress, citing the health risk of the outbreak as a reason.
The event which was slated to hold between February 24 to 27 in Barcelona, Spain, brings together over 100,000 attendees from across the globe. Thus the concerns raised are very understandable.
Facebook F8 Developer Conference
Facebook’s annual F8 conference has also been cancelled. The conference is for developers and entrepreneurs who build products and services around the website. It was scheduled to hold between May 5 and 6 and was expected to bring together thousands of people.
However, it has now been cancelled due to growing concerns over the coronavirus.
“Given the growing concerns around COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person component of F8 2020,” says Facebook.
2020 Game Developers Conference
The 2020 Game Developers Conference has also been postponed till further notice. The conference which brings together several game developers from all over the world was scheduled to hold in March.
And while the organisers did not say specifically if the cancellation was in connection with the coronavirus outbreak, it could be easily deduced. For one, many of the events sponsors, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, have announced that they will not be sending any employee to the event due to the coronavirus outbreak.
This must have been a setback to the event, hence the decision to call it off now and reschedule for later in the summer.
Google’s Cloud Next
The physical part of Google’s largest tech event, Cloud Next, which brings together over 30,000 enterprise attendees has also been cancelled over concerns around coronavirus.
Cloud Next was scheduled to hold between April 6 and 8. However, due to the coronavirus, Google has abandoned the physical event. It will instead host an online event tagged “Google Cloud Next ’20: Digital Connect”. Since it’s now a virtual event, it will be free for ‘attendees’ as the tech giant will refund all tickets to the event.
Microsoft’s MVP Summit
Microsoft’s MVP Summit has also been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Just like Google’s Cloud event, this physical meetup has been changed to an online event.
The networking event for its “Most Valuable Professional” program, will still run during the planned period for the physical event, that is March 16 to 20.
There you have a list of global tech events that have been cancelled or postponed due to the spread of COVID 19. Don’t forget to always adopt preventive measures like washing hands for at least 20 seconds frequently and avoid touching your face as much as you can.
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Curves are super sexy – and one woman is on a mission to prove it.
Size 18 model Isabel Nicholls is known for sharing body positive advice with her 360,000 Instagram followers.
And her recent post is no exception as she proudly flaunted her bod in a figure-hugging cream dress.
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She looked ready to soak up the sun as she slipped into the strapless neutral outfit.
The midi-dress was super tight, so it showed off her curves perfectly, and the design was both simple and elegant.
Isabel posed for a mirror selfie as she stood flaunting her bod with her hair pinned back into a tight bun.
She told her followers she was wearing a dress by Princess Polly Boutique – a sustainable clothing brand that aims to make fashion accessible for all.
More than 1,500 people have liked the picture since she proudly showed off her tum in the dress.
And many of her followers dubbed her "stunning" – as they adore how confidently she shows off her size 18 frame.
One person wrote: "Beautiful baby girl."
Another added: "Oh wow."
A third said: "Elegant woman."
Meanwhile, a fourth also commented: "Big, bold and extremely extraordinarily gorgeously sexily beautiful lady."
Izzy, a former TUI rep, often posts candid pictures of herself wearing lingerie.
She has modelled for major brands like Ann Summers in the past and is on a mission to show that all bodies are beautiful.
Just last month she proved her point by slipping into a slinky bikini to celebrate "mum bod season".
At the time the 24-year-old, from Worcester, posed for a picture in the garden wearing nothing but an electric blue bikini.
It featured a halter-neck top and slinky bottoms, allowing her to flaunt her body.
She shared the snap to remind people just how sexy it is to embrace your curves in swimwear.
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