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Apple has launched a new app called “Find My Certification Asst.” This is for MFi (Made for iPhone) licensed third-party accessory developers to test the interoperability of Apple’s Find My network with their accessories. The Find My network is currently used by the Find My app to search for lost Apple devices such as iPhones, AirPods, and Macs, but other compatible third-party accessories will soon be available. It is expected to be.
The release of the test app suggests that Apple is ready to announce the launch of a program for third-party devices in the near future.
The app describes that MFi licensees can use Find My Certification Asst. To test “detection, connectivity, and other key requirements” for accessories that incorporate Apple’s Find My network technology. .. It also contains information about the Find My network certification program posted on Apple’s MFi portal (mfi.apple.com). The portal now says Find My Network is “launching soon” as a technology for the MFi program.
Looking at screenshots of this new app, device makers perform a variety of tests in areas such as connectivity, sound (for example, making a sound when an item is misplaced), firmware, key management, NFC, and power supplies. Seems to be able to.
According to Sensor Tower data, the app was released to the public on the iOS App Store on April 4th. As it’s a new app, it hasn’t yet been ranked in any category of the App Store (including “development tools”). Also, there are no ratings or reviews at this time.
The release of this app is the first step towards the big goal of opening Apple’s Find My network to third parties. Apple itself also plans to launch a new accessory, AirTags.
Apple first announced at the 2020 Worldwide Developer Conference that it would open Find My to third-party devices, partly because of pressure from US and European regulators. Regulators around the world may be trying to give Apple an edge over AirTags, a competitor to Tile’s search device (with many others). I was investigating (side by side).
Tile, who had criticized Apple, said AirTags could connect to Apple’s U1 chip using UWB (ultra-wideband) for a more accurate search. A US Congressional hearing also pointed out that AirTags works with its own “Find My” app that comes by default on Apple devices. Tile argued that this would give Apple a first-party advantage in the search-finding equipment market that Tile had established and dominated over the years.
In response, Apple has opened access to the U1 chip to third-party developers through the 2020 “Near by Interaction” framework. As a result, Tile announced in January 2021 plans to launch a new UWB-based tracker.
Related article: Tile is preparing an ultra wideband tracker that makes it easy to find lost items in AR
In addition, Apple recently updated its Find My app with a new tab called Items. This is in preparation for the app to expand support for third-party accessories such as AirTags and Tile. This “Belongings” tab is enabled in the latest Apple iOS 14.5 beta and is described as “You can find out where to find your daily belongings,” including “Accessories that support’Search’.” ..
However, the fact is that in order to participate in Apple’s Find My program, it means that third-party device makers must abandon existing apps and require customers to use Apple’s “Find My” app instead. Above, Tile (and other companies) feel that Apple’s concessions will still be detrimental to their business as they hand over their customers and their data to Apple.
It’s also worth noting that when you launch the app, you’ll see icons that show three items: headphones, a backpack, and a suitcase. Coincidentally, Tile first integrated with Bose headphones and bag and bag makers such as Away and Herschel.
Apple has asked for comments on the release of the new app, but hasn’t received an answer yet.
Rachel Maga is a technology journalist currently working at Globe Live Media agency. She has been in the Technology Journalism field for over 5 years now. Her life’s biggest milestone is the inside tour of Tesla Industries, which was gifted to her by the legend Elon Musk himself.


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In the wake of the Brexit referendum there were many fears about the automotive market in the UK. These were due to the expected fluctuations in currency and uncertain future that manufacturers would pull out of the UK and imports would fall. Reading at the time was not pretty for the outlook for the UK Automotive industry.
Well today’s news comes less than a year after the referendum and just goes to show how strong the automotive industry is here in the UK. The figurehead stat today is that in the month of March one car was sent overseas every twenty seconds. Every twenty seconds, that is a fantastic figure. In the month of March the UK produced 170,691 vehicles taking the total produced to 471,695 this year. This is the highest rate of production we have seen since the year 2000.
UK car manufacturing has actually been on the increase year on year since the recession in 2008/2009 and continues to be increasing in strength. The investment into the UK for cutting edge technologies in production and the move forward in producing greener cars has seen this continual increase and the fantastic news we heard today about the volumes of production and exports.
Not only are exports up but investment in production is up, with more cars being produced in the UK than ever before. With factories in Birmingham, Sunderland, Oxford, Swindon and Ellesmere Port to name a few, the UK produces cars for Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, MINI, Toyota, Honda and Vauxhall to name the main production centres. These manufacturers have all continued to produce vehicles in the UK.
With these figures in mind and the news today it would certainly suggest that regardless of what is going on with the Brexit, with the snap General Election and all the current uncertainty, the UK will continue to produce cars and continue to gain momentum in the world market. Exciting news indeed!

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aluminum beverage can recycling rate reaches 64 percent
The overall recycling rate for aluminum beverage
cans in the European 27 including EFTA countries and Turkey increased
by 1.2 percent to 64.3 percent in 2009. Despite the difficult
economic situation the consumption of aluminum beverage cans
in wider Europe remained at 34 billion units – it was possible
to collect and recycle a further 400 million in addition to the
21 billion cans already recycled.
Traditionally beverage can recycling rates differ a lot from
country to country. Most of the Nordic European countries have
well-balanced deposit systems in place which generate stable
and high recycling rates of around 90 percent.
Countries such as Belgium with well-managed pre-sorted packaging
collection schemes also book excellent results. However, some
of these schemes need further improvement and should focus on
a better sorting quality and include the collection of cans which
are consumed out-of-home.
Successful local programs such as the UK Every Can Counts initiative
can further help and are now being replicated in other countries.
France and Austria joined with their own versions, called Chaque
Canette Compte in French, and Jede Dose Zaehlt in German. The
main purpose of these programs is to stimulate consumers at their
workplace or while enjoying other outdoor activities such as
a festival or a sport event to collect and deposit their cans
in designated bins.
In general it is strongly recommended that EU Member States further
improve their reporting of the recycled quantities of metal packaging,
for example by including the quantities which are collected outside
regular schemes. Several countries in Central and Eastern Europe
have collection schemes run by the private sector, using the
high scrap value of aluminum as the main driver while an increasing
number of countries also collect metals from the bottom ashes
of the household waste incinerators. These fractions should be
taken into account.
Based on the overall positive recycling trend over the past 20
years the aluminum industry together with the can manufacturers
are aiming at an average European recycling rate of 75 percent
in 2015 for all beverage cans and together with its partners
in the Metal Packaging Europe (MPE) platform – an overall recycling
rate for all metal packaging of 80 percent in 2020.


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The full-fledged return of Huawei is surprising everyone and the latest Mate 60 Pro shows that the return became possible with a self-reliant supply chain.
The supply chain of the Huawei Mate 60 series shows that the Huawei Mate 60 Pro has the highest rate of localized electronics components. In terms of numbers, Huawei acquired about 46 Chinese supply chain partners and over 10,000 components domestically. These numbers exceed 90% of the device’s localization rate.
In 2019, Huawei unveiled Mate 30 series and the local component rate was only 30%. In 2021, Huawei Mate 40E made its debut with over 60% of the local supply chain.
The component tree of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro includes Huawei’s self-developed new Kirin chipset, which is a major hardware. The company is not importing this chip from foreign instead, it’s being printed locally. However, past revelation shows that the company is still using memory chips from South Korea’s SK Hynix for the 512GB version but there is nothing to confirm on 256GB and 1TB storage variants.
The number speaks for themselves and shows the remarkable progress Huawei made in the past three to four years after US restrictions.
Industry analysts are claiming that the Huawei Mate 60 series could achieve over 10 million sales. Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that the cumulative shipments of Huawei Mate 60 Pro after 12 months could exceed at least 12 million units. Meanwhile, the current market trend is helping Huawei to expect more from consumers.
Therefore, the company is raising its year-end shipment goal and revising continuously. According to a past report, Huawei has increased mobile shipments from 30 million units to 40 million units. As of the second half of this year, Huawei already completed half of its shipment aim and now moving towards the rest.
In that case, the Huawei Mate 60 series will play a major role in covering most of Huawei’s shipment records. However, the growing self-reliant supply chain is a good indication for Huawei as well as consumers.
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Adobe Photoshop for iPad is still on track for a 2019 release, but without key features6
Although no official update on the software's launch has been provided since last year, Adobe is expected to offer more details next month at its annual creative software conference. After testing Photoshop for iPad for more than a year, some beta testers told Bloomberg that the beta versions don't include key features that they expected to be part of the final build of the app.
Also, the report mentions that less advanced features will be included in the upcoming iOS app, while some well-established ones won't make it at all, such as filters, the pen tool and custom paintbrush libraries, vector drawing, color spaces, RAW editing, smart objects, layer styles, as well as many options for mask creations.
An Adobe official said that the beta feature set is not representative for the final version, as the need to team up with Apple meant that some feature will be “coming in hot” ahead of the launch. However, he admitted that at launch Photoshop will lack some important features, which will be added over time.


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Midwest franchise Wonders Ice Cream is expected to open by next month in Southeast Fresno. Photo via Wonders
Written by Edward Smith
What began as a concept for rolled ice cream in Minneapolis, in August 2018 has already found its way to Fresno with an expected July opening.
Construction for Wonders Ice Cream is underway at 6127 E. Kings Canyon Road, Ste. 102, according to Joungkong “JK” Yang, co-founder of the franchise. Though he and franchisee Mayko Ly expect to open by July, it may open sooner, Yang said.
Instead of churning the ice cream, Wonders serves rolled ice cream made on an anti-griddle that uses a freezing-cold surface to crystallize the cream.
The ice cream is always fresh, Yang said, prepared as soon as 30 minutes prior to serving it up.
The simple method allows the creamery to make a wide-assortment of ice creams. They have the standards such as strawberry, chocolate and a mint that’s dyed blue “because it’s awesome,” Yang said, adding that they can “make anything.” Wonders also serves taro root ice cream smashed with mixed berries that comes out a purple color.
Being from the Central Valley and loving fresh fruit, Ly is looking forward to the “mangonada,” which is mango, chamoy and Tajin, a Mexican chili, lime and sea salt blend. In addition to the frozen treats, they also have Italian ice, shaved ice and desserts like the baked honey buns topped with ice cream.
The ice cream is made before the customer’s eyes. Yang refers to his concept as “the hibachi of ice cream,” likening the process to the showmanship and excitement of teppanyaki chefs.
Because they don’t sit on large quantities of inventory or need large amounts of freezer space, startup costs and overhead are relatively low, Yang said.
Ly only needs a single-door freezer and a double-door refrigerator to operate. Her machines came in last week and she’s begun studying to perfect her ice-cream making.
Yang opened the first Wonders Ice Cream in August of last year in Minneapolis, when the rolled ice cream trend caught his and his partner Kit Houngnakhone’s eye. They penciled out the concept and opened the first store in Minneapolis. Another 13 are either open or under construction.
Ly found out about Wonders through Houngnakhone, a mutual acquaintance.
“The Hmong community is pretty small,” Yang said, “whether it’s California or Minnesota.” Yang has his own connections to Fresno from the numerous times he’s been to the Hmong New Year celebrations.
Houngnakhone explained the concept to Ly, who then reached out to Yang about franchising two years ago before it was ready.
By this February, Yang felt the model was proven and contacted Ly about opening. Now, she is converting a former dry cleaner at an up-and-coming shopping center at Kings Canyon and Fowler avenues. She said though some of the units are still under construction, they’ve all had their leases signed.
Ly will start with her and her kids running the shop, and hopes to employ about 15 people in total. She sees the job as a perfect opportunity for those looking for job experience. It takes about three training sessions before employees “break the ice” and make the ice cream for customers. Ly will be heading out to Minneapolis soon to see the store in action before the July opening.
“Summer’s coming and what better time for ice cream than now?” Ly asks.


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“We will launch the all new edition of Passat in the Indian market by March 2011. It will be launched at the same time as the ‘Think Blue’ campaign is introduced in the country,” Volkswagen Group Sales India’s Director, Neeraj Garg, said.
“The all new Volkswagen Passat will come to India with BlueMotion features like start stop, brake energy recuperation, DSG duel clutch gear box, gear shift indicator and an extremely fuel efficient engine,” he said.
Powered with a 1.8 liter fuel-efficient, TSI petrol engine producing 140bhp, this car will have a 6-speed DSG gearbox allowing the driver to switch between manual and automatic transmission. This includes a gear shift indicator, brake energy recuperation, and comfortable interiors.
Volkswagen should carefully price the vehicle might be little higher than the current version which is going out, whatever the case is, 29th March will the day for VW.
Also see – 2011 Volkswagen Passat Expected to Launch this March


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Australian energy company, AGL, will provide customers who own electric vehicles, such as a Tesla, all-you-can-consume electricity for A$1 per day.
The company's CEO Andy Vesey announced the Australian-first initiative at the Australia Energy Week Conference in Melbourne on Tuesday, the Australian Financial Review reported. He said it will cost a customer A$365 a year to juice up their electric vehicle to their heart's content, while it is at home.
It can be used for a range of electric cars including Tesla, the BMW i3, the Nissan Leaf and any cars that plug into a charger. A spokesperson for the company told Mashable Australia it would supply power to a customer's car charger via an installed meter or could sell them a charger if they don't have one.
"For a dollar a day if you have an electric vehicle and you have a AGL smart meter and a charger you can get energy for that car for $1 a day, as much as you like," Vesey said at the conference.
On Twitter, he confirmed the news with a note the deal will be available from November.
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To keep with the green theme, AGL will also carbon offset the offer, with the company investing in green initiatives to counter the carbon dioxide emissions. An AGL spokesperson advised this would be a carbon-offset product involving trees as that is what Australians are passionate about.
The spokesperson said the cost of using petrol could cost an average driver $17,000 a year so the $365 yearly cost was a no brainer for frugal consumers. It is a clear move by AGL to stay relevant in a world that is slowly moving towards greener vehicles and renewable energy sources.
With the cost of charging an electric car sitting around A$4.50 per 100 kilometres in Australia, that's a pretty decent saving to put away for a rainy day. Or a cruise up the coast.
UPDATE: June 22, 2016, 9:34 a.m. AEST A spokesperson for the company confirmed details around the deal.
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Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) ended the first half of the year on a high note with a double-digit growth of 17.8% year-over-year. From January to June, MMPC sold a total of 25,066 vehicles compared to the 21,282 units sold during the same period last year. With these figures, the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI) and Truck Manufacturer Association (TMA) each reported that MMPC continues to be one of the dominant brands in the automotive industry with its 23.0% market share.
MMPC’s June 2014 saw the company’s highest monthly sales figures at 4,535 units, beating out the 4,410 vehicles sold last February. This was a 10.1% growth over May sales of 4,120 units. Leading these sales were Passenger Cars (PC) and Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) with growths of 19.6% and 8.8% from May to June respectively. 3,504 LCVs were sold last month, 1,584 of which were Montero Sport units making the model the bestselling midsize Sports Utility Vehicle and the number one LCV in the Philippines. Meanwhile, Adventure and Strada models sold 664 and 316 units respectively.
Mitsubishi also reported that locally manufactured Adventure and L300 models are still two of the top choices for small and medium scale businesses. Mirage and Mirage G4s were also well received by customers looking for a fuel-efficient and practical compact car.
These impressive numbers lead MMPC to believe that sales will continue to increase as the year runs on. This belief is supported by CAMPI’s updated total industry sales forecast of 250,000 units, 20,000 more than the original announcement.
“Given our remarkable and on-track performance for the first semester, it is definite that we will surpass last year’s total sales of 43,176 units. Our goal is to sell more than 50,000 units this year in order to keep at least 20% market share”, MMPC Vice President for Marketing Services Mr. Froilan Dytianquin said.


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Gen Z are buying more vinyl than millennials, survey says
A new survey carried out by MRC Data has found that Gen Z (the newest generation, generally born between 1997 and 2012) music fans are purchasing more vinyl records than the millennial generation that came before them.
The survey of 4,041 people, aged 13 and over, which was carried out over the course of two weeks last month, found that 15% of Gen Z respondents said they had purchased vinyl in the past 12 months, compared with 11% of millennial respondents.
Another significant figure to emerge from the same survey is that 28% of Gen Z music fans say they discovered new music through video games, while social media also plays a very significant role, accounting for 51% of new music discover. TikTok is the leading platform for discovery accordng to the survey’s respondents, being responsible for 49% of new music discovery.
It’s believed that this link between music discovery and video games may have emerged from ongoing partnerships between musicians and video game makers, which has seen DJs such as The Blessed Madonna, Solomun and Joy Orbison make appearances on recent updates of the Grand Theft Auto series, and the likes of Travis Scott and Marshmello host live-streamed concerts through the game Fortnite.
Find the full results of the survey here.
Read DJ Mag’s 2020 feature on how Grand Theft Auto’s legacy continues to push musical boundaries, here.


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In the course of the WWDC 2022 keynote, Apple introduced Internet Push to enhance notifications from net apps – however Apple’s relationship with the know-how has all the time been on shaky floor.
In the beginning of the iPhone’s creation, Steve Jobs was in opposition to permitting third-party apps on the machine. He wished builders to create net apps that may very well be used with Safari.
Internet requirements resembling HTML5 had been key to creating it a viable platform for apps. This kind of markup language buildings multimedia content material and interactive components.
Apple labored to enhance HTML5 efficiency on its gadgets. When the corporate launched iOS 8 in 2014, it included WKWebView, a brand new browser engine to make hybrid apps run in addition to native apps.
Jobs embraced HTML5 as a substitute for Adobe Flash. When he penned “Ideas on Flash” in 2010 he praised corporations resembling Netflix and YouTube for transferring to HTML5 video content material.
Apple additionally inspired net apps with iOS 13. It purged low-quality apps from the App Retailer and stated sure options and performance are greatest delivered via Safari.
That Apple pushes customers away from net apps and into the App Retailer with native apps and guidelines is the primary accusation from critics.
When it launched in 2008, Apple imposed a 30 % payment for publishing an app on its platform. Jobs praised native apps and stated they had been higher than their web-based brethren.
This has been the topic of lawsuits however is not the one side of the app debate. After the developer of Telegram Internet shared a 10-point record of iOS Safari points in April, Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote a publish in regards to the matter.
Revealed on June 13, Durov stated that feedback from UK regulator Competitors and Markets Authority (CMA) offered “an correct abstract.”
CMA’s conclusion of its year-long research of cellular ecosystems has issues about browsers on iOS, which is one other side of the app debate.
Apple bans third-party browser engines so each browser on iOS and iPadOS is constructed on the corporate’s WebKit engine. Consequently, CMA says, the corporate has few incentives to enhance WebKit and stifles customers and companies.
The purpose is to fend off rivals such because the Blink browser engine from Google. It is a part of the open-source Chromium challenge and its said mission is to maintain the online a focus for accessing data.
Google Chrome makes use of Blink on each platform it runs on besides iOS. The iOS model of Chrome makes use of WebKit and meaning Google is pressured to remain at Apple’s tempo.
WebKit is an open supply and the challenge’s mission is as a general-purpose content material engine for browsers and apps. Browsers ought to follow displaying content material as an alternative of apps, the message goes.
Builders need net apps as a result of they are often run on any platform with out the principles and restrictions of app shops.
Apple is transferring alongside, albeit slowly. The net app expertise in its working programs will enhance as revealed throughout June’s keynote.
And, becoming a member of the Apple Developer Program to ship Internet Push notifications will not be a requirement.
The function will not arrive till 2023 and consists of Push API, Notifications API, and Service Employees working collectively.
Web sites is not going to be allowed to push notifications with out person permission. A web site can solely request a push subscription in response to a mouse click on or keystroke.
Customers can click on a “subscribe” button and click on Permit within the permission dialog that seems. Notification toggles for web sites will probably be present in machine settings similar to native apps.
In macOS Ventura, a brand new daemon referred to as webpushd is put in as a LaunchAgent. It takes push subscription requests from webpages and turns them into push subscriptions with the Apple Push Notification service.
The result’s that net apps will really feel nearer to native apps. Utilizing the Share Sheet inside Safari, customers can add an online app web page to the Residence Display screen to mix in.
Apple could also be bettering net apps to appease builders, or regulators eying its management of the App Retailer. The corporate is also transferring to embrace these apps as a secondary ecosystem, so it will not be pressured to permit sideloading.
Proper now, in June 2022, it seems to be like the discharge of Internet Push in 2023 will probably be good for customers and builders.


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Fine Tubes has secured Nadcap accreditation for fluid distribution systems. This is in addition to accreditations the company already holds for heat treating, non-destructive testing, fusion welding and chemical processing.
The Ipswich (Massachusetts, USA) facility of Bodycote, a heat treating services provider, recently earned MedAccred accreditation, underlining the high standards of quality achieved.
Bodycote, a heat treating services provider, has recently announced that its Derby, UK location is the first facility in Europe to earn the MedAccred accreditation underlining the high standards of quality achieved.
SSAB recently showcased its Docol R8 product at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show in Indianapolis, Indiana, the largest show of its type in the world. “This is the fourth year SSAB has participated in PRI, but the first year the company has had enough inventory to address this year’s build season,” said Kim Colvin, regional sales manager, Automotive.


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Australia Current-Account Gap Unexpectedly Narrows Last QuarterMichael Heath
Australia’s current-account deficit unexpectedly narrowed in the three months through December on increased iron ore exports.
The shortfall on goods, services and investment was A$14.68 billion ($15 billion) from a revised A$15.05 billion in the third quarter, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney today. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 21 economists was for a A$15.3 billion gap. Net exports added 0.6 percentage point to gross domestic product growth in the fourth quarter, the bureau said today. Economists forecast a 0.5 point addition.
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens reduced the benchmark interest rate by 1.75 percentage points from November 2011 to December 2012 to stimulate industries outside of resources as commodity prices ease. A high currency has hurt earnings for manufacturers and retailers, helping create what the RBA has referred to as a multispeed economy with those industries lagging behind mining.
The net-income deficit narrowed to A$8.83 billion in the fourth quarter from the July-September period, today’s report showed. The goods and services trade balance recorded a A$5.55 billion deficit in the fourth quarter compared with a A$5.39 billion shortfall three months earlier.
The current account is the broadest measure of trade because it includes investment flows as well as goods and services shipments. A deficit represents money Australia has to borrow overseas to pay for the goods and services it imports and to finance investment not covered by local savings.


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With a plethora of Thai food options in Davis, UC Davis students chose Thai Canteen as the best.
The restaurant, located on E Street, opened in 2010 and prides
itself on its casual and student-friendly atmosphere.
“We cater to UC Davis students,” said store manager Peter Sriboonreuang. “It’s not your typical Thai restaurant with a waiter — you order at the counter. It’s fast-paced.”
Thai Canteen offers some of the lowest prices compared to other Thai restaurants in Davis. The most expensive item on the menu is the crab fried rice for $8.95. According to Sriboonreuang, the pad thai and Pad Si Ew are the most popular dishes, along with No. 10 on the menu, which is a stir-fry cashew dish. All range from $6.95 to $7.95 in price.
“The Pad Thai there is my favorite out of all the Thai restaurants in Davis,” said fourth-year chemical engineering major Kent Ly. “It’s a good place to come with a group of friends. They’re one of the only places that consistently open past midnight, which is good for a late night bite or a study session.”
“We’re open late, so when students are up studying, they can come in here and use our Wi-Fi,” he said.
In the past, Thai Canteen has partnered with the ASUCD External Affairs Commission to bring unlimited Thai iced tea during finals week for UC Davis students.
“We started that last year,” Sriboonreuang said of the event. “It’s a big old study session. It’s still up in the air for this year. We’re always thinking of ways to bring more students in and to get our name out there,” he said.
Runner-ups for best Thai restaurant were Sophia’s Thai Kitchen on E Street and Taste of Thai on G Street, respectively.
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A cheap $US300 ($420) TCL TV is one of the best tech purchases I’ve made in recent years. I had just moved to Brooklyn as a cash-strapped 20-something out of college and needed a TV that just got the job done. The TCL with Roku built in was the ideal solution, and since then, I’ve been recommending it to folks on a similar budget.
Now though, anyone in the market for a TCL, specifically those running Google TV, should think twice. Best Buy appears to have removed 5-series and 6-series TCL TVs from its store after widespread complaints of buggy Google TV software.
It’s a rocky start for TCL — the company only began selling Google-powered TVs earlier this year after earning a name with its Roku-powered models. We’ve long considered TCL’s 5- and 6-series TVs to be the best affordable 4K models around, and the addition of Google TV sounded like the cherry on top, but clearly, this cake needs more time to bake.
Chris Welch at The Verge, who reported on the apparent removal of TCL Google TV listings, says he has noticed some “general slowness” and that his roommate ran into crashes and freezes. Digital Trends Senior Editor Caleb Denison had a similar experience, calling the 5-series Google TV “glitchy” and “annoying.” Disgruntled customers echoed those experiences on social media and, as The Verge points out, the 65-inch 6-series model had a lowly 3.5-star rating on Best Buy before it vanished.
TCL still lists the 5 and 6-series Google TVs on its website, which even contains a link to their now-empty Best Buy product pages. Click on said link and you get a, “We’re sorry, something went wrong” message (sorry for the flashbacks, PS5 shoppers).
We should point out that poor performance as the reason behind the TV’s disappearance from Best Buy is only speculation, although it seems the most likely cause. We’ve reached out to Best Buy and TCL to get confirmation and will update this article as soon as we hear back. Whatever the reason, at the moment, one of TCL’s most popular models is not available at the exclusive U.S. retailer of TCL’s Google TVs, and um, that’s a big problem.


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Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical is part of its larger strategy to enter the healthcare industry and disrupt the traditional healthcare system. One Medical is a primary care organization that offers personalized, technology-enabled healthcare services to its members, including in-person and virtual visits, same-day appointments, and 24/7 access to healthcare providers through its mobile app.
By acquiring One Medical, Amazon gains access to its advanced technology platform and innovative healthcare delivery model, which aligns with Amazon’s focus on customer-centric, technology-driven solutions. With the growing demand for more convenient and accessible healthcare services, Amazon sees an opportunity to leverage its vast resources and expertise in logistics, technology, and customer service to improve the healthcare experience for consumers.
In addition to its acquisition of One Medical, Amazon has also made significant investments in other healthcare ventures, such as its joint venture with JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, Haven Healthcare, which aims to lower healthcare costs for their employees. Amazon has also launched its own online pharmacy, Amazon Pharmacy, which offers prescription delivery services.
Overall, Amazon’s entry into the healthcare industry is driven by the opportunity to disrupt and innovate the traditional healthcare system, and to provide more convenient, affordable, and personalized healthcare services to consumers.


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In a recent press news from 13th December, SAP announced at the SAP Influencer Summit in Boston that “leading software vendors are adopting the open SAP HANA platform for their existing products and building completely new applications.” Among them are companies such as T-Mobile and TIBCO.
Windows Azure team announced major updates including support for Node.js, better scalability for SQL Azure through Federation and higher individual DB Size limits (upto 150 GB), a limited preview for Hadoop and more.
Until now, Postgres was only available to Heroku customers for use with Heroku platform apps. This new service can be used from anywhere and with any Postgres client. Apps can connect from Heroku, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Foundry, EC2, or from your local computer while PostgreSQL is supported by most modern programming languages - including Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala ...
WSO2 has added a new Ghost Deployer, a Cassandra-based Column Store Service, an Apache Subversion-based Deployment and an enhanced Load Balancer to both Carbon and Stratos. This functionality is also available on StratosLive.
Python has joined the growing ranks of officially-supported languages on Heroku's polyglot platform, going into public beta this week. Python was the most-requested language for Heroku, and it brings with the Django web framework.
The Dynamics CRM SDK, which allows Dynamics CRM to be customized using .NET framework, opens the entire object model to developers to build solutions against. It does this using reusable application services and a multi-tenant architecture and allows to build multiple Line-Of-Business xRM applications on a single platform.
ThoughtWorks recently published its Technology Radar; a report to help technology leaders understand emerging technologies, identify strategic platforms and tools and prepare their organizations for them.
The International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) is the most important event that covers the full range of Product Line Engineering in software-intensive products. Its 15th incarnation will take place in the Munich City Center from August 21st to August 26th.
Microsoft bills Dynamics AX as an “enterprise resource planning solution”, but that term is not quite accurate. Like most ERP products, Dynamics AX is more akin to development platforms such as Salesforce than turn-key products that one can simply use. Since changes to the platform offers new opportunities and challenges for enterprise developers, now one of the products being tracked by InfoQ.
Apache Karaf has reached one year old today, as a top-level project at Apache. Karaf is a runtime package consisting of an OSGi framework (either Equinox or Felix), a command shell (Felix Gogo) and a number of useful utilities built in by default.
Caucho Resin has recently been certified a compliant implementation of the EE 6 Web Profile, starting with version 4.0.17.
Steve Marx, Tactical Strategist at Windows Azure, gave a presentation at MIX11 on “10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Windows Azure”, highlighting a list of things that can be done with WA but may not be common knowledge. We got in touch with Steve to ask him more about AppFabric, Startup Tasks, Blob leasing and more -
VMware has today announced the launch of an open source "Platform as a Service" (PaaS), Cloud Foundry.
With Java 7 now feature complete, Oracle is asking for input from the community for the next release, scheduled for late 2012. We take a look at what is likely to be in, and the overall direction of travel for Java 8.
IBM has released two new Java 6 SDKs based on its J9 VM, to take advantage of enhancements to z/OS Java security and the new z196 instructions.


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CHICAGO -- In contrast to recent industry efforts to change the Standards of Identity for chocolate, Mars Snackfood US has announced its support for the current definition of chocolate and pledged to continue to make pure, authentic chocolate with 100% cocoa butter for all of its U.S. chocolate products.
Changing the Standard of Identity for chocolate could allow manufacturers to make chocolate with cocoa butter substitutes.
"Changing the definition of what chocolate is would be a mistake. The bottom line is that we're not going [image-nocss] to change our chocolate. Today, Mars US chocolate products are pure, authentic chocolate and they're going to stay that way," said Todd R. Lachman, president of Mars Snackfoods US. "Even though we could save millions of dollars, we simply won't compromise the purity and authenticity of our chocolate by diluting it with a cocoa butter substitute. This company was built on qualityit's one of our core principlesand we will not lower the bar on chocolate quality.
The current industry petition to revise the Standards of Identity would fundamentally redefine chocolate. The proposal could allow manufacturers to call a product chocolate even if it used vegetable oil as a substitute for cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is one of the key defining ingredients in chocolate, providing the signature melt-in-your-mouth creaminess and texture, the company said.
"At Mars, the consumer is our boss, and American consumers are passionate about chocolate. They don't want anyone to change the chocolate they've enjoyed for generations," said Lachman. "As a privately held company, we have the freedom to invest in the highest quality chocolate and deliver what consumers want."
Mars has nearly 100 years of expertise making high-quality chocolate, it said, and it is one of a handful of companies still making its own chocolate. The company is one of the world's largest chocolate manufacturers, with chocolate brands including M&M's Chocolate Candies, Dove Chocolate, Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers and Twix.
Mars is also a global leader in cocoa research, it said. Its research has led to innovations in the areas of sustainable cocoa farming technology; taste and texture of chocolate products; and the health benefits of cocoa-based compounds such as flavanols, it added.
Hackettstown, N.J.-based Mars US is the U.S. food, snack and pet care operations of Mars Inc., one of the world's leading food manufacturers, with more than $7 billion in annual U.S. sales Other brands include Uncle Ben's, Pedigree and Whiskas.
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Ever since Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, in which over 87 million user data was improperly shared, Facebook has been rolling out security and data privacy updates, which also brought change in the Facebook API, causing a momentary setback to Tinder.
Facebook’s Privacy Fixes Broke Tinder
The dating service has confirmed the reports that many users can’t sign into its service and some have reported losing all their messages or matches. The affected users are stuck in a login loop where they’re asked for extra Facebook permissions, which is only to be sent back to the original Facebook sign-in request when they tap the relevant button.
Since you need a Facebook account to log into Tinder, this bug has potentially affected the entire user base. Furthermore, Facebook’s privacy changes will also affect other services too. This incident shows off the problem with Facebook’s sign-in option, which is very convenient when everything is working, but even a minor tweak to the Facebook’s API can break the entire service.
Facebook addressed the issue and stated that these problems were “part of changes” and that it’s “working with Tinder” to fix the problem.
While Tinder responded in a tweet, “A technical issue is preventing users from logging into Tinder. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to have everyone swiping again soon.”


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The pandemic already left Zelda boutique struggling, but now a possible series of shoplifting has cost the business thousands of dollars.
More info on Nashville small business hit hard by shoplifting during pandemic; owner warns other businesses
Interest Rate Increases: 4 Concerns for Small Businesses
Only 19% of small business owners think economic conditions will return to pre-pandemic levels in ... impact the ability of small businesses – already hit hard by wage inflation – to meet ...
Business owners can still take advantage of the Nashville Small Business Recovery Fund
Last year Metro Council approved for $9 million to go towards grants and another $9 million for loans for small businesses impacted by the pandemic ... other small business owners across Nashville ...
'This is the last thing we need:' Millions of businesses hammered by the pandemic need to start paying back Covid loans
CNN — At Teddy & The Bully Bar restaurant near downtown Washington, DC, business has never been the same since the pandemic hit. "It's very challenging," owner Alan Popovsky said. "I'm still ...
Darrell S. Freeman center to help small businesses: What to know about Fisk project
Freeman spent years of his life mentoring other Black business owners ... and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, two organizations also providing resources to Nashville small businesses.
Honolulu to distribute $10M to small businesses hit by pandemic
plans to award a total of $10 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to qualifying small businesses on Oahu that suffered economic impacts to their livelihoods due to the pandemic. Read more You ...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 2 2018
Guests of two of Tasmania’s luxury hotels are warned their personal data may have been accessed, with the owner — casino giant Federal Group — telling people to delete emails sent from the resorts.
In a statement, a Federal Group spokesperson said it confirmed it “experienced an unauthorised access to a third-party email distribution service and some past guests received an unusual spam-type email”.
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: August 21 2017
Travel agency Flight Centre is under investigation by the country’s privacy regulator after accidentally releasing personal information of an undisclosed number of its customers to third-party suppliers. The firm is ‘co-operating’ with OAIC inquiries.
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 15 2016
Hyatt Hotels is the latest hotel chain to fall victim to hackers stealing sensitive credit card information from guests around the world, including flagship properties in Australia.
The Park Hyatt Sydney, Grand Hyatt and Park Hyatt in Melbourne, Hyatt Hotel Canberra and Hyatt Regency Perth were among the hotels targeted over a six month period from July to December 2015, along with Hyatt hotels in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, the USA and Europe.


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This Friday starts a new tradition in British boy’s clubs as the first menswear-only fashion week showcase, the London Collections: Men, launches after growing from the humble menswear day tacked onto the end of the womenswear fashion week. This exciting change, orchestrated by the British Fashion Council and chaired by GQ Editor Dylan Jones, will see 90 British menswear designers competing on the same scale as the Milan and Paris menswear collections. HRH the Prince of Wales will add the royal seal of approval to the event as he kickstarts proceedings, hosting a Thursday evening reception at St James’s Palace.
There’s no doubt the event is a great development for the menswear industry, but is it needed? As runway shows increasingly become consumer-focussed marketing events, we examined the data to see how engaged consumers are online through social and retail channels.
We looked to two British retailers who are championing London Collections: Men – Mr Porter, Jeremy Langmead sits on the committee and they will host an evening with Esquire during the event, and Topman, who show their Topman Design collection at 12pm on Friday.
Fanbase increases show strong growth over the last quarter – and although Topman has just 13% of the followers of Topshop, they’ve risen by 19.48% compared to Topshop’s global growth of 7.57%. It’s a similar story at Mr Porter, whose total online fanbase is only 21% of Net-a-Porter’s, but their growth of 15.67% in the last quarter trumps Net-a-Porter’s 11.21%. Both are signs of a positive upsurge in the male fashion industry.
Turning to retail performance, Topman’s recent fastest-selling garments are an encouraging mix: from basics to high-trend. Their £7 burgundy t-shirt arrived instore on the 29th March and has already sold out in six sizes, with only XXL left instock. The New Love Club vest, at £22 and featuring a photographic print, arrived on the 30th May and is already out of stock across the board. Then there’s the incredibly dapper suede loafers which arrived instore on the 3rd June, retailing at £55, have sold out of five sizes, with only two sizes left in stock. This speed and pattern of assortment stock-outs is something we’d expect to see within womenswear. So is this a high street only trend, or are designer price points also performing strongly?
Mr Porter represents the best of men’s designer fashion online. Their most recent best sellers include the Oliver Spencer £255 cotton bomber jacket, which arrived online on the 8th May and is sold out of two sizes and low in stock of three more. Oliver Spencer is clearly well-placed for them as the £110 Grandad collar striped shirt also features in their current top 3 bestsellers; also arriving online on the 8th May and currently sold out of three sizes and low in stock of a further two sizes. And proving that premium basics are in demand is the £55 block colour tee from YMC, which arrived online on the 15th May and is now sold out in two sizes with one size low in stock.
It’s not just retail and opt-in fans seeing a surge in consumer interest – menswear designers, who have until now shown alongside womenswear in London, are also seeing exciting growth in consumer chatter. Christopher Shannon saw a 30% increase in online mentions during AW 12/13 shows from SS12, E. Tautz’s interest grew by 70%, Oliver Spencer’s by 94% and James Long’s online conversation grew by a whopping 170% in the six month gap. All four designers will be showing at London Collections: Men and it will be interesting to see how the event contributes to these figures!
Where has this growth sprung from? Men’s fashion has been spotlighted by the likes of luxury lifestyle mag Monocle, which has seen enormous success globally, and the quarterly Port, now on issue 6. And perhaps most interesting is David Beckham‘s appearance on the cover of June ELLE UK – the first male to front the mag in its 26 year history. Music is in on the game too: look to the male triumphs of the British music scene and you’ll spot a peacock or two: the sharply attired Tinie Tempah, Professor Green and Labrinth (and we’d better include the current UK No.1 Gary Barlow). These aren’t the torn t-shirt and scruffy jeans set: they’re giving airtime to seriously grown up threads. Of course, the influence of street style blogger Scott Schuman can’t be overlooked: and it wasn’t, with the CFDA honouring his (and Garance Dore’s) influence with their Media Award.
The lines really do seem to be blurring, making what has long been a female dominated arena a (slightly) more even playing field. Notable menswear designers taking the helm at design houses further imbeds the message; with Raf Simons having worked wonders at Jil Sander and now Dior and Hedi Slimane taking over at Yves Saint Laurent.
So we look forward to the upcoming showcase, confident that the trends which will appear there will send commercial waves rippling. Boys, it’s your time to shine!


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STERLING HEIGHTS — A Sterling Heights startup company is introducing a new breathing monitor for infants to prevent death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, accidental suffocation and asthma.
Brothers Ryan and Pete Santangelo founded SafeToSleep last year after selling an earlier company that provided background music to jails and prisons.
That company gave the Santangelos a lot of contacts in Asia for contract manufacturers and software developers.
“We kept getting a lot of proposals to develop technology,” Ryan Santangelo said. “One was using fiber optics to gauge movement. My brother and I both being parents, the first thing we thought of was baby monitors.”
The SafeTo Sleep sleep mat is embedded with a mesh of fiber optics. When the baby moves — even tiny movements caused by breathing — the system picks up the tiny differences in the light transmitted through the optics caused by the motion.
“It’s super sensitive to the tiny differences in light,” he said.
Information on baby’s breathing is streamed by Bluetooth radio to either a smartphone over an app, or a parent device Santangelo called “the granny unit.”
The system sounds alarms whenever baby’s breathing drops below 10 breaths a minute (from the normal 30 to 60). There’s also an alarm for rapid breathing, which can be caused by an asthma attack.
Now available after a six-month hospital trial, the device is available for $329 at www.safetosleep.com. The company’s working on other distribution now.


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eBaywent to bed on December 31st flush with holiday success, and woke up to a New Year full of snags.
Over the past several weeks,the auction giant suffered the longest outage in recent memory, faced down a throng of irate users over a privacy breach, and found itself slapped with a lawsuit byreal estate giant Re/Max.
Still, while such bumbles might seem enough to severely hamstring a companyin this turbulent climate, Yankee Group analyst Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that eBay should have no problem weathering the storm.
“When you’re as big as eBay, you’re much more able to say ‘whoops we made a mistake, we’ll try not to do that again,'” Ritter said. “I think eBay has seen a lotof market forgiveness, so I don’t think [these new issues] will be a major limiting force in their growth.”
A Bug’s Life
eBay’s privacy problems began when it discovered a “bug” had wiped out the default registration settings of 6 million users who registered between April and November of last year.
While working to correct the error, the company reset all 6 million customer accounts to “opt-in” for receiving company e-mails — the standard default.
“We are concerned that many people who signed up during that period of time might not be getting all the e-mail that they do want,” eBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told reporters. “What we’vedone here in the past several weeks is send individuals e-mails who were directly affected by eBay’s screwups.”
From Bad to Worse
However, when users who had registered as opting out — probably more than a few of the 6 million people affected by the bug — started getting unwanted company e-mails, eBay had a bunch of unhappy customers on its hands.
Moreover, the auctioneer raised the hackles of Internet privacy groups suchas TRUSTe, which had served as a consultant for eBay after the registration glitch was discovered.
“I think there are legitimate privacy concerns,” TRUSTe spokesperson Dave Steer reportedly said.
eBay is in the process of cleaning up the e-mail boxes of its customers and is putting a 15-day moratorium on e-mails sent to the affected customers while their registration choices get sorted out.
eBay found itself in even more hot water this week over what was supposed to be a rather positive development for the company — its brand-new television ads.
Unfortunately, real estate firm Re/Max did not find eBay’s TV spot spoofing the home-buying experience especially funny.
The eBay ad features a “For Sale” sign in front of a decaying house and promotes the site as a place to get home improvement goods. Shortly after the ads started appearing, Re/Max filed a trademark lawsuit against eBay, claiming that the “For Sale” sign is modeled after their real estate signs.
Spoof or Goof
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges that “the use of the signin eBay’s real estate commercial leaves the viewer with the impression that the sign is a Re/Max sign.”
Re/Max is seeking unspecified damages and a court order that eBay take the commercial off the air.
“We will be contacting Re/Max to tell them this ad was a spoof and meant to be somewhat entertaining,” Pursglovesaid in published reports.
In the Doghouse?
On top of everything else, eBay is still finding itself deafened bythe uproar caused by its recent decision to bar users from doing business outside of eBay.
On the upside, eBay has acquired a Korean Internet company, and is launching a page for high-end art collectors.
Also, eBay’s other TV ad, showing a dog burying household items in the backyard that have to be replaced with items bought on eBay, appears to have engendered no complaintsfrom animal rights groups.


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Carlinville marks next hot spot for Max-A-Million’s
By JACKSON WILSON
Enquirer Democrat Reporter
As of October 2019, the city of Carlinville now houses four gaming centers. The newest one is Max-A-Million’s, a facility that is the most recent addition to a chain of businesses operating within the state of Illinois.
Other locations include Quincy, Jacksonville, Litchfield, Springfield and Robinson.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the original Quincy Max-A-Million’s grand opening.
“The community of Carlinville seems to be a big fan of this business type,” said Max-A-Million’s Emily Pridemore. “The city was very helpful in terms of being patient and helping us to get things going. The applicants that we brought on board were very welcoming based on all of the information that they provided. Everyone was friendly and made the experience feel familial.”
A lot of new Carlinville businesses have been centered around a family tradition and Max-A-Million’s has recently been added to that list as well.
“Our owners, Mark and Tanner Friedburg, are actually a father-son duo,” said Pridemore. “They were inspired to create this chain because Mark’s father was also involved working alongside them in their insurance company. They rolled the dice, played on with that decision and we supported it.”
Each Max-A-Million’s location offers five video slot machines for a variety of virtual gaming experiences. The ultimate goal of the business is to make the stay extra special for customers.
Complimentary refreshments – drinks and snacks – are offered along with the providing of sophisticated seating style.
“We always believe our environment is kept quiet, comfortable and fresh,” stated Pridemore. That’s why we fully believe that we are the best. We don’t consider ourselves to be under the category of a bar, tavern or rest stop. Those are usually the places that you would generally find lots of video slot machines but we present a dedicated space to play so that the main focus is about players having privacy. I think that’s a positive experience in terms of discretion as well as maintenance of the building itself.”
Since it came into existence, Max-A-Million’s has been making a big splash along with the financial numbers that have grown ands flourished over the past couple of years.
“This particular form of gaming is one of the fastest-growing entertainment concepts within the entire state,” said Pridemore. “Video poker brought Illinois $375 million in 2018 so that’s a statistic I would definitely encourage people to put out there. It’s a positive benefit.”
For more information and to find out about hiring opportunities, visit maxamillions.com.


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PHILADELPHIA - Texas Rangers pitcher Cole Hamels struck out trying to see last year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show despite paying nearly $70,000 to a London-based event promoter for VIP tickets, according to a recent lawsuit.
The former Philadelphia Phillies star said he and his wife hoped to attend the 2015 New York City lingerie show and bought three VIP packages from Cornucopia Events.
The money was to cover a four-night stay in a luxury hotel, a limousine with champagne, goodie bags and access to the after-party and exclusive restaurants. The suit alleges Hamels and his party got none of the perks and were denied entry to the event.
Hamels is seeking $150,000 in damages for fraud and misrepresentation. The company advertised that it hosted premiere parties and could score tickets to world-class events.
"We pride ourselves on opening doors to the world's most exclusive venues and filling them with fabulous people, whilst creating bespoke events for the corporate arena," Cornucopia wrote on its promotions, according to the suit.
An email seeking comment from Cornucopia's managing director wasn't immediately returned Wednesday.
Heidi Hamels, a former Survivor contestant when she was Heidi Strobel, is also a named plaintiff.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 gets a 16.6% discount
The NVIDIA RTX 4080 graphics card, which made its debut last year at a price of $1199, has received a significant price reduction. Despite experiencing gradual price drops over time, the market has witnessed no substantial fluctuations in its cost—until now.
MSI, a company which has been quick with recent price cuts for its Radeon and GeForce series in the last few months, has unveiled a tempting offer for the RTX 4080. Priced at $1099, the graphics card comes with an additional $100 discount through the use of a coupon. This deal effectively brings the price down to an unprecedented $999, marking the first time this card has been available for less than $1,000.
While such reduced prices have not yet reached all regions, European gamers can now take advantage of the reduced cost as well, with the RTX 4080 available at €1159—a noteworthy 12.7% decrease from its original pricing. Meanwhile, even more enticing offers can be found in China, where the same SKU is currently retailing at a 13.7% lower price, surpassing the impact of higher exchange rates.
RTX 4080 pricing (MSRP → Current):
- US: $1199 → $999 (-16.6%)
- EU: €1329 → €1159 (-12.7%)
- CN: ¥9499 → ¥8199 (-13.7%)
Newegg’s offer is part of the “Fantastech” promotion which runs starting from today through July 9th. Please note that pricing and availability may vary in different regions, and interested buyers are encouraged to check with local retailers for specific details.


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Automakers are chafing at the ambitious plan Democrats are advancing to bring down the cost of electric cars and accelerate the transition from gas-powered vehicles.
Carmakers say the climate bill sets impossible targets
The timelines in the measure, some auto companies and trade groups say, may be impossible to meet. They are lobbying reluctant lawmakers to extend them. The push has split clean-vehicle proponents, with some advocating for looser guidelines to get more electric cars on the road quickly, as others argue the provisions are crucial to shoring up a dangerously unstable supply chain.
The dispute underscores the immense challenge the United States faces in its effort to retake control of production lines at a critical moment in the energy transition.
“Incentives that very few or no vehicles qualify for are not what car buyers expect and will not advance the Biden administration’s goals on vehicle electrification,” said Dan Ryan, vice president for government and public affairs at Mazda North America.
Also expressing concern is Autos Drive America, a trade group representing 11 international auto companies. “We encourage Congress to steer clear of any policy that would constrain electric vehicle production, hinder consumer adoption, and make it more difficult to achieve our shared climate goals,” Jennifer Safavian, the group’s chief executive, said in an email.
But there are also risks with not moving as aggressively as the bill proposes. China’s dominance over existing supply chains could mean the incentives paid for by American taxpayers wind up boosting profits of Chinese companies, further solidifying its control over the industry and creating a growing risk to American national security and energy independence.
“The United States is in a position to change behavior and build a domestic industry here,” said Ben Steinberg, who heads the Battery Materials and Technology Coalition. “We have resources here. We are partnered with allies on this. We need to work fast because we have a dependence on foreign adversaries for things that are critical to our way of life. They are tough targets, but they are achievable.”
The Senate measure, part of the Inflation Reduction Act, would push auto companies to immediately source their minerals and components from America or its 20 free-trade-agreement partners, which excludes key mining and manufacturing hubs like Japan, Argentina and the European Union. By 2025, carmakers seeking the credit would not be permitted to source any of their materials or components from China, including from the colossal mining operations around the world that Chinese companies control.
Some analysts predict the rules would disqualify buyers of most electric car models from claiming the $7,500-per-vehicle tax credit. The best-positioned companies are those like Tesla, which began moving long ago to bring supply chains to the United States. Facing much bigger hurdles are firms like Toyota, which is among the most heavily reliant in the industry on supply chains that do not meet the guidelines spelled out in the climate legislation. Neither company responded to a request for comment.
The lead champion of restrictions on the tax credit is Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who played a key role in negotiating the act. Manchin has expressed skepticism of incentives for electric vehicles, which are already selling out of showrooms while remaining too expensive for middle- and lower-income drivers. He has also expressed concern that China controls so much of the production line.
Manchin seemed unmoved by automakers’ concerns in remarks to reporters Tuesday.
“Tell [automakers] to get aggressive and make sure that we’re extracting in North America, we’re processing in North America and we put a line on China,” Manchin said, according to Reuters. “I don’t believe that we should be building a transportation mode on the backs of foreign supply chains. I’m not going to do it.”
The proposal renews an existing $7,500 credit for electric cars that has few strings attached but is also no longer available for the most popular car models. It gets phased out for each carmaker after they sell 200,000 electric vehicles.
But the measure also includes billions of dollars in new government investment to help companies move their supply chains.
“It doesn’t just set tough metrics and say, ‘good luck,’ ” said Joe Britton, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association. “I do think it gives us a pathway to pull these supply chains out of Asia. It is just a matter of how quickly we can do it.” The association is joining car companies in urging lawmakers to ease the deadlines for onshoring the mining, processing and assembly activities involved in battery production.
“Every six months we can push this back gives people time to pull these supply chains out of Asia,” Britton said. “We want the most vehicles and consumers to be eligible for these credits as possible.”
Those urging lawmakers to stand firm on the supply chain targets in the bill say automakers are overplaying their potential to slow down the transition into zero-emission cars and SUVs. Among them is Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, who says lawmakers and the industry for too long have neglected supply chain instabilities that are fast becoming an existential threat to the energy transition.
“Having these goals is a good thing,” Bazilian said. “If we put these ambitious — even heroic — targets into the bill and nobody is able to meet them, there is flexibility for agencies to adjust them later. We see this happen with all kinds of policies, and this is no different. There is always flexibility in the implementation phase.”


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Plethora Solutions (LON:PLE) has agreed a deal with a partner that will allow the AIM quoted firm to take control of the global development and marketing of PSD502, its treatment for premature ejaculation.
The deal opens up new markets for Plethora to pursue directly. In particular it can now pursue a launch of the product into America, where, according to the company's estimates, there are 24mln men suffering from premature ejaculation.
As such, it believes the American market could be worth 'several hundreds of millions of dollars' per year.
Plethora plans to submit a new drug application to the US Food and Drug administration before the end of next year, which, according to Plethora, could mean a 2016 product launch is possible.
The company has already been working towards a European launch, with a market authorisation application currently with the European Medicines Agency, and a decision expected before the end of the year.
As well as North America, the deal also gives Plethora the opportunity to pursue roll outs into South America, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China.
Under the terms of the agreement revenues will be shared with the partner, although the majority will go to Plethora.
Plethora also told investors that it will seek new partners as well, to ensure the launch of the product in what it calls 'high potential' territories.
"Today's agreement marks an important step in the global commercialisation of PSD502," said chief executive Ronald Openshaw.
"Premature ejaculation is probably the most prevalent male sexual dysfunction, with an estimated 1-in-4 men suffering from this condition.
"We anticipate the European Approval this year and intend immediately to initiate the regulatory and commercial development in the United States."
Prior to this deal Plethora has been working with its partner, Shionogi, since 2007 and it was given the rights for the European market in 2011.
In today's statement Shionogi chief executive Dr John Keller said: "Plethora has made considerable progress in their prosecution of the European Marketing Authorisation Application for PSD502 and their business development activities.
"Given their focus and dedication to achieving the maximum possible potential for PSD502, we are pleased that they will undertake the primary responsibility to successfully register and, with partners as appropriate, commercialise this important potential treatment in territories around the world."


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As Blizzard has rotated cards out of Hearthstone's Standard gameplay mode, those cards have disappeared from the game's store, too — which can make it tough for anyone wanting to experience the Adventures or build their collection of Wild cards.
Hearthstone has just announced a new way to play: the Standard game format.
A new Innkeeper's Tale from the official Hearthstone website has all but confirmed the suspicions we had regarding the PC Gamer news release from last week -- it looks like the Argent Tournament is coming to Hearthstone.
PC Gamer just received some news from Blizzard Entertainment in the form of a trumpet-playing cardboard tube and a scroll announcing some upcoming Hearthstone information.


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BEIJING, January 6, 2022 (TMTPOST) — South Korean cosmetics and skincare giant Innisfree have reportedly shut down over 80% of its outlets in China.
Innisfree’s several outlets in China’s capital city Beijing have already closed down, including outlets at CapitaMall Taiyanggong, Joy City and Wanda Plaza at Huaifang, Beijing Business Today reported.
The South Korean company has reportedly suspended the operation of over 600 outlets in China, with only 140 outlets remaining.
Innisfree’s latest fiscal report shows that the company’s revenue in 2020 slumped by 37% year-on-year to around 2 billion yuan, which is only half of the revenue of its prime time in 2016.
Innisfree is a South Korean cosmetics brand owned and founded by Amore Pacific in 2000. Innisfree is popular for its affordability and brand concept, which emphasizes healthy and reasonably priced beauty products with ingredients sourced from Jeju Island.
Innisfree is not only closing down its business outlets in China. Innisfree shut down all of its outlets in North America on May 8, 2021 due to the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, Amore Pacific’s spokesperson said. Innisfree will continue to sell its products on e-commerce platforms.
Amore Pacific’s another brand Etude House faced similar situations in China. The brand closed down all of its brick-and-mortar outlets in China in March, 2021. Etude House has been suffering from poor market performance since 2017. Its global sales dropped 38% year-on-year to around 660 million yuan in 2020.
Other foreign brands are not doing very well in China too. Japanese brand KATE will reportedly pull out from China. In 2021, American cosmetics brand Benefit Cosmetics decided to close all counters in China and shift focus to online channels and Sephora outlets.
The rise of Chinese cosmetics brands such as Perfect Diary and Florasis in recent years accelerated the decline of foreign cosmetics brands in China.
On the Double Eleven Shopping Festival in 2021, eight Chinese cosmetics brands made it into the top 10 brands on Tmall in transaction volume.


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Cracked Monocle, a local Austin tabletop gaming company, takes the risk and bets big on attending the rapidly growing Gaming Expo at SXSW. The self-published gaming company has been attending conventions around the state for the past two years, however, with the growth of the SXSW Gaming Expo, Cracked Monocle decided to risk the cost of the traditionally video game heavy event for the potential exposure that it offers.
Daniel Burrow, the company’s owner, stated, “We are really looking forward to SXSW. It gives us the opportunity to not only reach an entirely new audience, but also, for the first time, show off our games at a highly publicized event.”
“Counting the booth costs, banners, and promotional materials needed for us to make SXSW successful, this will be the single-most expensive event or promotional campaign that Cracked Monocle has ever participated in, but we feel that with the amazing community that SXSW has developed and the increasing interest in tabletop games, that the exposure and feedback we receive will be more than worth it.” said Alex Whisenhunt, Cracked Monocle’s Marketing Director.
With the growing success of their tabletop role-playing game, Tephra: the Steampunk RPG, SXSW is just one of the strategies that the company is employing to grow their player base, including a new website and several contracts with distributors around the country.
Cracked Monocle can be found at booth 239 and will be running 15-minute Tephra demos, displaying previews of upcoming products, and holding developer book signings.


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MetroIntelligence Economic Update by P. DUFFY
July personal income rises for first time since April, consumer spending edges up
In July, personal income increased 0.4 percent (the first increase since April), disposable personal income (DPI) increased 0.2 percent (also the first increase since April) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased 1.9 percent (versus increases of 6.2 percent in June and 8.6 percent in May).
Inflation tracker PCE price index up 0.3 percent in July and 1.0 percent year-on-year
The PCE price index increased 0.3 percent in July and 1.0 percent year-on-year. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.3 percent in July and 1.3 percent year-on-year.
August consumer sentiment up 2.2 points from July, but down 17.5 points year-on-year
Consumer sentiment has remained trendless in the same depressed range it has traveled during the past five months, rising 2.2 points from July to August but down 17.5 points year-on-year. Although strong gains in consumer spending from the 2nd quarter lows can be anticipated, those gains will significantly slow by year-end without some additional fiscal spending programs to diminish the hardships faced by unemployed workers, small businesses, as well as support for state and local governments.
Share of new condo construction shrank to 4% in 2Q20
The market share of rental multifamily construction starts increased to 96 percent during the second quarter of 2020. In contrast, the historical low share of 47 percent was set during the third quarter of 2005, during the condo building boom. An average share of 80 percent was registered during the 1980-2002 period. During the second quarter of 2020, there were only 3,000 condo multifamily units that started construction. There were 76,000 rental apartment starts. Condo construction has been weak since the end of the Great Recession.
Strong demand for homes leads to largest annual price growth in a year
Home seller confidence is growing and the number of new homes on the market is recovering closer to levels seen last year. Still, buyer demand is outpacing this new supply as newly pending sales are up big in year-over-year numbers, driven partly by mortgage rates that fell even further this week. Newly pending sales were up 16.5 percent from the same week last year as strong buyer demand is continuing into the late summer. That’s the biggest year-over-year jump since mid-February, before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Home sellers that accepted an offer last week typically did so after 13 days, which is 13 days faster than a year ago.


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Netflix looks one way on a Roku, another way on an Apple TV, and yet another way on a Smart TV. That’s not really the best experience, so the company has decided to unify its look across multiple platforms. However, whether you’ll get the new design – which becomes available today – depends on the device you have.
I’ve been using Aereo regularly since it launched in Houston last month, and while I still like it, I’m starting to be more aware of its shortcomings. Aereo is still very much a work in progress, but if you’re going to rely on it, you’ll have to lower some of your expectations.
For the past few years, the standard in Wi-Fi technology has been 802.11n, a wireless transmission protocol that, in theory, can deliver data up to 600 megabits per second. In the last year, a newer version of Wi-Fi has begun to appear in consumer routers – 802.11ac. It’s actually an evolved version of 802.11n, but it offers dramatically better connection speeds.
There’s a Catch 22 here. The Disney and ESPN apps, and others like them, allow you to watch content from these providers independent of cable or satellite TV connections. But in order to access them you still need a cable or satellite TV account. It’s a false convenience – why would you watch the Disney Channel or ESPN on Apple TV if you can watch it through your normal cable service?
One of the biggest challenges for cord-cutters is keeping track of multiple sources for TV programming. One of the big benefits of cable is that it keeps content organized.
Apple may have solved this cord-cutter’s dilemma with the acquisition of a small startup called Matcha.tv.
Aereo, which streams local broadcast channels over the Internet, is coming to Houston Sept. 16. But don’t expect the new company to bring any additional jobs to town.


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Big things come in small packages for Little Passports, a San Francisco subscription company that sends children tiny suitcases filled with geography toys and activities.
In just two years, founders Amy Norman and Stella Ma have scaled the company dramatically, bringing in just under $2 million in revenue in 2012, and tripling Little Passports’ size in the last six months. They also moved the company out of Ma’s home and into a SoMa space, increasing their heacount to 10 with more hiring planned this year.
Norman and Ma — who serve as co-CEOs — attribute much of their success to the uniqueness of their products — subscription-based packages that provide interactive activities and materials that include souvenirs, readings and letters from fictional pen-pal characters Sam and Sophia. The packages also offer access to online activities designed to teach kids about the different countries and all 50 U.S. states.
“If you are looking to educate kids about other countries, there are not a lot of great products,” said Norman. “There aren’t products that engage in a fun way.”
Little Passports has also made use of Facebook marketing. Last June, the company spent about $30,000 on Facebook ads and revenue for the month was about $130,000. Six months later, the company’s monthly spending on Facebook advertising grew to as much as $150,000 and its December revenue was $700,000. The marketing is working because of the product, Norman said.
Norman and Ma started to build Little Passports in 2009, after meeting while working at eBay. Both pregnant with their first children, the two wanted to launch a company that would have an impact on kids. Recognizing a need to increase awareness of geography and history among children — 50 percent of Americans age 18 to 24 can’t locate New York on a map, said Norman — the two combined what they call a “passion for global citizenship” with their own fond memories of getting packages in the mail.
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Bitcoin, the world’s most renouned cryptocurrency, skyrocketed in 2017, from below $1,000 in the commencement of the year to the ancestral miracle of $20,000 progressing in December.
The cryptocurrency marketplace has recently gifted a fibre of losses, culminating in a nosedive on December 22, with Bitcoin descending next $11,000. After the extreme downturn, Bitcoin recovered and has been hovering between $13,000 and $16,000 in recent days.
Sputnik: Today, as Bitcoin is ruinous record after record, what is your foresee for 2018?
Tkachuk: Bitcoin is a new tool, so required methodical instruments can't always be practical to it. The tellurian trend for its expansion remains, including the futures prices on the Chicago exchange. In general, marketplace players design the ceiling trend to continue.
Sputnik: How can you explain the waste in the cost of Bitcoin?
Tkachuk: High sensitivity is normal for new financial instruments. A thespian boost in price is customarily followed by a vital drop.
Investors are very supportive to the news and delicately conflict to any changes. In addition, until this month, Bitcoin had traded only on electronic exchanges, which are reduction fast than traditional exchanges.
Sputnik: While the recognition of Bitcoin is an achieved fact, how could you criticism on other cryptocurrencies?
Tkachuk: Each blockchain record and each cryptocurrency has their possess feature. For example, the Ethereum platform has intelligent contacts. Dash is unknown while Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash have an increasing retard size.
The recognition of a cryptocurrency depends on how investors see the prospects of its technology. It is notable that recently Bitcoin Cash, Dash and Monero have shown vital growth.
Sputnik: What do you think about the suggestion, for example, by Saxo Bank researcher Kay Van-Petersen that Bitcoin’s expansion could be taken down by Russia and China?
Tkachuk: Russia’s share in global cryptocurrency trade is small and the change of our nation [on the market] is insignificant. But China is a trendsetter. Bitcoin forsaken in September when the Chinese regulator was tightening the screws in the cryptocurrencies market.
Sputnik: The Russia supervision has discussed the thought to introduce the supposed “CryptoRuble,” which would be the only authorised digital banking in Russia and would be taxed just like the Russian ruble. What prospects would such a banking have?
Tkachuk: The two categorical facilities of any cryptocurrency is the deficiency of regulation and anonymity. The CryptoRuble would have conjunction and so it would face problems competing for investors with other cryptocurrencies.
If the Russian supervision particularly regulates the marketplace there will be a shade market. Transactions in cryptocurrencies are almost unfit to trace.
Sputnik: Bitcoin has a number of competitors, some of which are corroborated by oil and gold. What are the advantages of such cryptocurrencies?
Tkachuk: we think that cryptocurrencies backed by physical commodities will not be very popular. We can see this on such examples as Bilur, which is corroborated to oil and GoldMint [backed by gold].
If you want to place a gamble on the expansion of oil or bullion – gamble directly on oil or gold. Due to the same reason, shopping bitcoins is better than buying Bitcoin futures.
Sputnik: Is the thespian boost in the recognition of cryptocurrencies already inspiring normal currencies or maybe the change could in the future?
Tkachuk: Today, in terms of its size, the cryptocurrencies marketplace can't be compared to the normal financial market. For example, Bitcoin’s market cap is hundreds of times reduction than the income batch in the United States, the American batch market’s top or American GDP.
In the future, blockchain could take the share in the remuneration systems market, but will not totally reinstate Visa, MasterCard and PayPal. In some situations, a regulator is critical and the risks of blockchain are not well assessed. In general, the destiny of cryptocurrencies will count on the process of global regulators.
The views and opinions voiced in this essay are those of the orator and do not indispensably simulate the position of Sputnik.


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JOHOR BARU: A mother and daughter were arrested for allegedly stealing various items of daily essentials worth RM1,300 at a supermarket in Taman Bukit Indah, here.
Iskandar Puteri District police chief Supt Noor Hashim Mohamad said the two, aged 58 and 30, were arrested at about 1pm Saturday by a security guard at the supermarket before a police report was lodged at about 5.30pm.
"The two housewives were detained at the exit of the supermarket with a cart containing the items believed to be stolen which were put in plastic bags. Among the stolen items were two packets of rice, two bottles of cooking oil, laundry detergent, toys, several pieces of children's clothing and a few bars of soap," he told reporters here Sunday.
Noor Hashim said initial investigation found that both of them had come from Batu Pahat and admitted to stealing all the items. Both of them tested negative for drugs.He said the 30-year-old woman has three children, including a baby aged nine months. - Bernama


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Klonoa: Door to Phantomile for the PlayStation® debuted in Japan in 1997 and the Americas and Europe in 1998. Since then Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (2001) was released for the PlayStation®2 and the franchise has remained a cult classic. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is available for the Wii™ and PlayStation®Network. Written by Jim Zub with lineart by Hitoshi Ariga and colors by Espen Grundetjern, new strips of Klonoa go live every Wednesday at 9:00AM Pacific.
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CARY, N.C. — Like retailers who have slashed their prices in an effort to make the most of what's expected to be a sluggish holiday sales season, automotive dealerships are pulling out all the stops to make deals before the end of the year.
Liz Geller and her husband, George Eiben, for example, didn't intend to drive away from Crossroads Ford in Cary Friday with a new Ford F-150. But they did.
"We were just window shopping, but we kind of got sucked in," Geller said.
"They're doing some pretty good discounting," Eiben added.
Local dealers say they are doing whatever they can without taking a loss in an effort to boost year-end sales numbers.
"I've been selling Fords for 10 years, and they've never done this before," said Crossroads' general sales manager, Eric Kaplan. "They're giving employee pricing, what a Ford employee pays, and rebates on top of that, up to $6,000."
Dealers are doing all they can with attention-grabbing headlines and offers in the showroom and through the mail.
"We're pulling out all the stops," Kaplan said. "We're making deals."
A scratch-off flier worked with Tina Hudson, who was looking for a car for her 19-year-old son.
"Eric took us to the new cars, and actually that's what we're a little more interested in now," she said.
Other dealers, like the Capital Lincoln Mercury Mazda of Cary, are offering up to zero percent financing and more-than-usual on trade-ins.
"We're doing what we have to do," Capital of Cary's general manager, Clarence Ferguson, said.
And customers, he said, are responding.
"We're jammed today," he said.
Although the dealers would not say what sales have been like for the year, Crossroads Ford said it is expecting to do 40 percent of its December business this month alone.
Most deals end sometime between Jan. 1 and Jan. 15, depending on the dealership. Some, not all, say they will also be open Sunday.


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Samsung is slated to launch a foldable machine alongside the Galaxy S20 series. It might not be the Galaxy Fold’s successor as originally speculated, though. That will be released later in the year, in accordance to every other report. Samsung will reportedly unveil its take on the foldable Moto Razr with a foldable phone known as the Galaxy Z Flip. It will all in all use “Samsung Ultra-Thin Glass” which has crease. It will on the whole use a Dynamic AMOLED display.
Renowned leaker Max Weinbach shed some light on the Galaxy Z Flip. The Galaxy Z Flip will, however, come with a glass display screen as a substitute of plastic. All the Samsung foldable smartphones we have on the market right now feature plastic screens, making them rather fragile under ordinary running conditions. While foldable glass isn’t precisely a lot stronger, it overcomes a lot of structural troubles through plastic.
Moving on to the Galaxy Z Flip’s innards, we get a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ SoC. Samsung is all in all possibly reserving its stock of Snapdragon 865 chips for the Galaxy S20 sequence and the Galaxy Fold 2, so it isn’t very stunning to see an older chip on the phone. All matters considered, it is still a very effective SoC and is capable of delivering flagship-grade performance. This is so interesting and amazing to talk about!
Other specs consist of two 12 MP cameras on the back, a 10 MP digital camera at the front, as well as support for Wireless Powershare. It’ll be interesting to see this device’ internals, as cramming in wireless charging capabilities in a foldable structure factor can be rather cumbersome. The side-mounted f ingerprint scanner in no way absolutely caught on as a trend, as it feels all in all clunky and awkward to use. An under-screen solution would have been ideal, considering that a rear-mounted choice wouldn’t be viable. This is so great!
There is even going to be a 0.1-inch show at the front that one can use to take a look at necessities such as battery status, time, and even use it as a viewfinder. However, he thinks that it could surely be 1-inch in measurement and that 0.1 is a typographical error for 1.0. The Galaxy Z Flip will reportedly cost about $1,000, which is an incredible cost for the hardware it offers. It will be on par with the base Galaxy S20, which is anticipated to start at $800.
So wait for the time when you can hold this amazing and best Samsung mobile phone in your hand to all in all rock and roll with it! Stay tuned with us for more latest updates about this handset!