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- It empowers brands to predict industry trends up to 3 months in advance - a revolution in the consumer intelligence space.
- Powered by its Blue Silk™ Artificial Intelligence, Talkwalker continues being an innovation leader in the consumer intelligence space.
- Brands can now be proactive and optimize their strategy and campaigns in real time based on consumer behavior predictions. This will ensure they’re always ahead of their competitors, and stay relevant to their consumers.
Dubai - Talkwalker, the leading consumer intelligence platform, announced its launch of Forecasting, an industry first in predictable analytics that enables brands to foresee changes in consumer behavior and identify new trends before they happen.
Forecasting allows brands to predict how topics, trends, and campaigns will change over 90 days, allowing them to quickly adapt their communications to be more impactful. This will enable brands to be less reactive and more proactive - ensuring their strategies are efficient and profitable.
“Imagine how powerful your business would be if you already knew what will be trending next month,” said Lokdeep Singh, Talkwalker Chief Product & Technology Officer. “You’d be able to create more engaging campaigns, develop timely products that meet clients' needs, and deliver more personalized customer experiences. And that’s just what Forecasting brings.
It’s a game-changer that will help our clients when planning their business strategies, arming them with future insights based on past consumer trends. This is just the start of what we plan to do with predictive analytics. Our mission is to steer businesses toward making data-driven business decisions that’ll drive sales and revenue, based on the data of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, powered by our Blue Silk™ AI technology.”
Talkwalker has always been a leader in consumer intelligence innovation. It was the first to introduce visual analytics and AI-powered sentiment analysis, which have now become industry standards. Predictive consumer intelligence will be the next standard, enabling brands to build business strategies not just on current consumer trends, but the trends of the future. This will revolutionize businesses, as they deliver products that consumers want, before they know they want them.
This pioneering development is thanks to Talkwalker’s continued focus on artificial intelligence innovation. With over 12 years of development, Blue Silk™ AI provides users with the latest consumer intelligence analytics, enabling cleaner data, and richer insights, with a solution tailored for each client.
This focus on artificial intelligence has already been recognized within the industry, as Talkwalker was named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: AI-Enabled Consumer Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2021. The addition of predictive analytics will continue to provide all our clients with best-in-class AI.
Find out more about predictive analytics and other recent product innovations.
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GXOt just delivered a five-cents-a-share earnings beat and raised its full-year outlook.
Wilson said business remains strong at GXO and his company is hard at work, delivering reliable services to their customers ahead of the peak shopping season. GXO signed $1 billion worth of new business this quarter and almost $4 billion so far this year.
GXO is in growth mode. The company is currently adding 10,000 new employees to its team and is pairing that with tons of automation and robotics at its facilities for maximum efficiency.
The trend in logistics today is to place products close to your end customers. The company is building 75 new warehouse facilities in major markets, so customers can offer same-day and next-day delivery on more products.
Cramer said every time you hear about supply chain issues, think about how companies like GXO are profiting from it.
Let's check out the charts of GXO.
In this daily Japanese candlestick chart of GXO, below, we have a limited amount of price history. GXO is trading above the rising 20-day and 50-day moving average lines. The trading volume has declined from its early days as a public company but the On-Balance-Volume (OBV) line has stayed relatively firm. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) oscillator is pointed higher. There are some small upper shadows above $90 but I do not see that as a reason to be concerned.
In this daily Point and Figure chart of GXO, below, we can see a $101 price target.
Bottom line strategy: Keeping in mind we do not have a lot of price history to work with, traders could approach the long side of GXO risking to $82 for now. The $101 area is our first target.

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Under Armour Sues Clothing Company Over Knockoff Apparel, Logo
While the major news coming from Under Armour is that Kevin Plank will vacate his CEO role on New Year’s Day, the company is getting even more public attention through a lawsuit against a clothing company. In going after Ageas Inc. for its Hotsuit apparel, Under Armour is claiming that a “copycat logo” and the products that bear it are damaging its industry reputation.
— Vaudra International (@vaudra) October 22, 2019
Under Armour has long received attention in our news coverage due to its hit-and-miss identity among many consumers. Thanks to its $5.2 billion in revenue, it has become one of the most visible brands around, and the company hopes that its size and reputation will help it defeat Ageas, a Denver-based entity that has issued an assortment of apparel goods in the Hotsuit line since 1999.
A Baltimore Sun account of the legal matter notes that Under Armour is saying the Ageas logo has “already caused confusion."
We have covered a number of trademark infringement situations and have found ourselves occasionally weighing in on the direction in which a case might go. Under Armour, one could argue, does have time on its side, as it came into existence three years before Ageas began peddling Hotsuit goods. That point goes only so far, though, as someone has to feel quite strongly that the logos resemble each other so much that it could lead to increased Ageas sales at the expense of Under Armour.
Determining that will be the business of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, but we can say that if anyone should put up a gripe, it should not be Under Armour. To us, George Lucas and his “Star Wars” empire should be more incredulous, as we think the Ageas logo resembles a TIE fighter.


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This year the new diet aid Quantrim is the pill of choice for anyone wanting to lose weight fast.
It is herbal based, with the most natural powerful ingredients combined together to give you excellent weight loss results in just weeks.
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This week, Tesla defeated a lawsuit that blamed the corporate’s Autopilot for a 2019 crash, experiences , On Friday, a California state court docket jury discovered that driver help software program was to not blame for the Mannequin S crash that left the car’s driver with a fractured jaw, lacking tooth and nerve injury. Justin Hsu sued Tesla in 2020 after his EV pulled into a middle median on a Los Angeles metropolis avenue whereas Autopilot was engaged. It sought greater than $three million in damages, alleging defects within the software program and design of Tesla’s airbags.
Tesla denied accountability for the accident. It argued that Hsu used Autopilot on a metropolis highway, a observe the corporate warns towards within the software program’s consumer guide. The jury awarded Sue no damages and stated the automaker didn’t willfully fail to reveal details about Autopilot. As reuters Be aware, the check is believed to be one of many first assessments to incorporate the motive force help mode. Whereas the outcome won’t be “legally binding in different respects,” it’s anticipated to tell how legal professionals take care of technology-related incidents sooner or later.
The result of the case can be unlikely to ease the investigation Tesla already offers with over its claims of Autopilot and “full self-driving” software program. Originally of the yr, the automaker confirmed that the US Division of Justice has added the 2 options. The corporate is underneath investigation by the US Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration for its involvement in Autopilot collisions.


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You can then "scroll, pan and tilt to see the photo in realistic 3D".
Capturing the photos requires you to have dual-lens camera, specifically an iPhone with Portrait mode.
The capacity to make 3D photos is taking off now and it should reach everybody in the coming weeks.
Creating a 3D photo simply requires you to take a picture in portrait mode before creating a new Facebook post, selecting the menu icon at the top right, and choosing "3D Photo". Hence, all these devices can easily view and create the 3D photos. Later, a report by Facebook clarified that currently, the social networking site is just supporting 3D photos in the dual-camera setup iPhones for now.
This was a natural step for Facebook considering the platforms support of 360-degree image. It's "like you're looking through a window", Facebook says. However, your photos will have the depth that will give you the ability to see things from different perspectives and tilts within the photo. Basically, Facebook takes advantage of the portrait mode to display your 2D photos in 3D, using the depth information between the subject in the foreground and the background. But at the moment, the feature is not available on those devices.


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Intagr8 had 'unsustainable business model', couldn't pay debts, liquidator says
Intagr8 Ltd, which was placed in liquidation this month after failing to pay creditors, ran an "unsustainable business model" with upfront sales revenue too meager to cover the cost of inducements for new customers to its bundled telephone and equipment deals, the liquidator says.
The collapse before Christmas left thousands of small and medium-sized businesses without telecommunications and internet services.
Steven Khov and Damien Grant of Waterstone Insolvency were unable to estimate the total assets of the company or its liabilities in their first report as liquidators. A creditors meeting has been called tentatively for Jan. 16 where the liquidators expect to give an update.
The liquidators didn't immediately return calls. Grant was quoted in media reports this month saying the business had monthly turnover of about $1 million and staff were being kept on pending the sale. Vodafone made up about 70 percent of Intagr8's creditors by dollar value, reports said.
The liquidator's report, while short on financial details, says Intagr8 "ran an unsustainable business model with the upfront sales revenue insufficient to cover the cost of the credits offered to induce sign ups."
"The liquidators are also aware that the failure of the business can also be attributed to a major supplier withdrawing telco services affecting the ability of the company to provide on-going services to customers," it said. "The ability of the company and the liquidators to limit the damage to the business as a result of the withdrawal and subsequent media statement regarding the withdrawal has severely diminished the value of the business in the hours following liquidation."
Making matters worse for the company, several suppliers had withdrawn services to the company and "began to actively convert customers of the company, further diminishing the viability and value of the business."
The liquidators said they would investigate the affairs of the company to determine if any insolvent transactions had occurred or if any company officers had been in breach of their duties.
Intagr8's sole shareholder and director is listed as Murray Taylor, according to the Companies Office. Taylor, who has reportedly left the country, blamed bad publicity after Vodafone severed ties with the company for its demise. Vodafone is owed about $1 million and is listed among 20 known creditors in the liquidators report, along with UDC Finance, ANZ Bank, Westpac New Zealand, the Inland Revenue Department and financing company Advaro, ultimately owned by a Maui Capital fund.
The liquidators have already sold Intagr8's business and remaining customer database to a new company reportedly called RS Comms, although that name is showing only as an approved name on the Companies Office. 2degrees corporate affairs director Mathew Bolland said the new owner had contracted with 2degrees to be a wholesale supplier for the business, although billing and other services were Intagr8's responsibility.
Intagr8 has been investigated by the Commerce Commission over complaints about its sales practices and confusion among customers about who they have contracted with. Earlier this month, Advaro said it was in talks with the new owner and that "those Intagr8 customers with hardware rental agreements with Advaro continue on the same terms and the rentals remain payable to Advaro."
Advaro defended its existing customer contracts, saying they had "always been clear about how the funding works".
"This includes information about who is the owner (the finance company) and who is the renter (the customer)," Advaro chief executive Joe Duncan said in a statement. "As a result, we received very few complaints from Intagr8 customers before the newspaper publicity - under 2 percent of our total Intagr8 customer base."
In a statement last year titled How Intagr8 Works, the company said it "combines telecommunication hardware alongside telecommunication billing, offering rental agreements to a market of small to medium-sized businesses applying the funds already being spent with current telecommunication providers."


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This Black Friday, legions of shoppers will throng to their local Walmart in frenzied pursuit of holiday deals. But it turns out that Walmart has saved the sweetest deals for itself.
In a recent analysis of Walmart’s tax spending, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) found that the company “avoids $1 billion a year in taxes” through federal loopholes, and various political shenanigans drive this always-low tax rate: the big-box giant is absorbing government subsidies both directly and indirectly, through its retail operations as well as its ingenious accounting methods. Overall, the retail giant can evade taxes through overseas accounts, on one hand, and raid the public trust on the other by capitalizing on the benefits system.
The losers in Walmart’s tax scheme are the working-class consumers who think they’re getting a good deal by elbowing through the mob surrounding the Xbox floor display. They’re being secretly robbed as the country’s pre-eminent retailer shields hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue from the tax system through creative, perfectly legal strategies to reduce its liability.
One major way Walmart and other multinationals skirt tax obligations, ATF explains, is to funnel the money to an overseas location where it can be subject to “a gaping loophole known as ‘deferral.’ ” The ability to park assets in other countries “gives corporations great incentive to earn profits offshore (or make it look like they are earned offshore)—often by moving jobs overseas.”
ATF estimates that through its globalized business structure, “Walmart is avoiding paying U.S. taxes on $21.4 billion in offshore profits.” And its reach overseas is expanding, with investment in new operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
While Walmart’s tax avoidance drains the government’s revenue streams, an even more convenient source of “savings” for Walmart operates on the retail level, through the pockets of consumers and workers who rely on taxpayer-funded federal welfare programs. Many of the associates, warehouse laborers and other low-wage workers in Walmart’s massive production chain depend on federal programs like Medicaid and food stamp subsidies to make ends meet. According to a 2013 congressional research report, “a single 300-employee Walmart Supercenter may cost taxpayers anywhere from $904,542 to nearly $1.75 million per year.”
So Walmart, which is known to be a major lobbying force on food stamp issues in Washington, appears to be suppressing wages and letting Uncle Sam pick up the slack. And it profits further as a purveyor of subsidized food: of every dollar of food stamps spent in this country, roughly 18 cents is spent at Walmart. And according to critics, the benefits of food stamps go primarily to the company and not to customers, whose food security is constrained by the dependence on welfare subsidies that Walmart indirectly promotes.
But Walmart isn’t just shirking its social responsibility; the retailer generously allowed some Oklahoma workers to set up a solidarity food drive to further supplement the low wages of “associates in need.”
Walmart (which has not yet responded to The Nation’s request for comment) has generally defended its business and labor practices against accusations of worker exploitation and tax dodging by arguing that the vast majority of workers earn more than the minimum wage and have a chance to qualify for benefits, and that its compensation practices are “comparable” to those of similar large employers.
Nonetheless, as the country’s preeminent employer of and retailer to working-class Americans, Walmart wields unique clout in Washington. ATF’s report reveals that the company is lobbying fiercely to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 to 25 percent, which could mean it “might save at least $720 million more in U.S. income taxes each year based on the profits it made and the taxes it paid from 2008 to 2012.”
In addition, Walmart and other mega-corporations are pushing Congress to expand the offshoring tax-avoidance mechanisms in order to “permanently eliminate from U.S. taxation profits that are reportedly earned in other countries.” Not only does this drain the tax base, according to ATF, it also encourages the offshoring of jobs. (By one estimate, this model, known as a “pure territorial tax system,” could lead firms to locate some 800,000 jobs overseas.)
Adding to those projections of Walmartization’s social costs are the potential environmental effects of Walmart’s carbon-intensive, fossil-fuel-based mass retail structure.
Yet this is not simply a matter of boosting poorer economies in which Walmart operates. According to ATF, this has a corrosive effect on the global economy by driving the structural inequalities that Walmart has capitalized on.
If the company is given free rein to offshore profits, the group argues, “Walmart’s suppliers with manufacturing facilities in low-tax countries will cut their costs; and the company and its suppliers would be able to increase US tax avoidance by establishing subsidiaries in offshore tax havens and use accounting gimmicks to shift income to those subsidiaries.” This pattern of chasing cheaper territories as tax havens shows how the global financial trends mirror the “race to the bottom” in the production chain. Though analysts have debated the structural effects of globalization on “development,” labor advocates point to a manufacturing and trade structure that fuels social inequality and perpetuates poverty wage jobs and exploitative working conditions in the Global South.
The next congressional session may see a further onslaught of tax slashing and austerity budgets. Noting that the House Republican agenda has revolved around budget cuts, ATF executive director Frank Clemente tells The Nation, “Business will be pushing them very hard to promote tax reform in their interest, as opposed to in the interest of the rest of us.” And a more conservative budget “means making no investments” in social programs, and further erosion of healthcare, education and public infrastructure spending. “Unless we deficit spend to pay for those things, we’ve got to raise the money to do it, and that means raising revenue.”
Since Walmart seems hell-bent on avoiding contributing to any of those revenue needs for social programs, American shoppers should be sure to stretch every dollar this holiday season—you may need a little to fall back on in the coming months.


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Forget skis, now you can RIDE down the slopes: Alpine resorts open their pistes to mountain bikers - who can even get pulled up on the lifts
- A resort in Bern, Switzerland, has launched the new sport this season. It is being trialled on a separate slope
- It's the first time a Swiss resort has enabled the bikes to go up the mountain on ski-lifts, attached via the saddle
- Visitors can rent specially adapted bikes with extra-wide wheels. The sport is already available elsewhere
The fight over the fresh powder on slopes has traditionally been between skiers and snowboarders.
But now Alpine resorts are welcoming a new kind of winter tourist - the mountain bikers.
Bikers who want to challenge their skills on snow covered slopes can now visit Luftseilbahn Kandersteg-Sunnbuel ski resort in the Canton of Bern, among others.
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Luftseilbahn Kandersteg-Sunnbuel, a ski resort in the Swiss Canton of Bern (above) is now open for snow biking for the first time ever
A separate slope has been set aside for the sport on a trial basis so the bikers don't need to fight the skiers and snowboarders for space
Organisers also say it's the first time that bikers have been able to go up the slopes on their bikes via traditional ski-lifts (pictured above)
The bikes, known as Spittelmatte Fatbikes, come with extra-wide tyres that are specially adapted so they can bite into the snow.
They are fixed to ski-lifts via their saddles so bikers can reach the peaks without the arduous climb.
Resort guests can rent the bikes for 28 Swiss Francs (£19.70) for a half day or 40 Swiss Francs (£28.20) for a whole day.
However, they will still need to buy a lift pass if they're hoping to use the ski-lifts.
The bikes, known as Spittelmatte Fatbikes, come with extra-wide tyres. They are specially adapted so they can bite into the snow
The bikes are attached to the ski-lift via their saddle to go up-hill. It's the same lift used by skiers in the past and has not been adapted
Resort guests can rent the bikes for 28 Swiss Francs (£19.70) for a half day or 40 Swiss Francs (£28.20) for a whole day this season
The ski resort manager, Marcel Hiltbrand, said it is the first time such a 'combi ski lift' has operated in Switzerland, although snow biking is already available in other Swiss resorts.
Snow biking is also available at other resorts around the world, including Val Thorens and Les Deux Alpes in France and Nagano in Japan.
At the moment it is being trialled in Bern with a special piste put aside for the cyclists.
He said: 'We make it absolutely clear that we do not want the cyclists and the skiers and snowboarders on the same piste at the moment.'
It's not clear whether the slopes will become combined in the future.
The ski resort manager, Marcel Hiltbrand, said it is the first time such a 'combi ski lift' has been operating in Switzerland although snow biking is already available in other Swiss resorts
The new terrain could prove to be an interesting challenge to bikers
Snow biking is also currently available at other ski resorts around the world, including Val Thorens in France and Nagano in Japan
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Microsoft sent out a fresh Windows 10 update yesterday evening to the new Surface family of devices. The new Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 are both available for pre-order and should start showing up in US stores and Microsoft’s new flagship store in New York starting today. The flagship store is going to open today and it will most likely have a decent stock of new Microsoft devices available. Those who prefer ordering online might have to wait longer to get their new Surface, but at least it will be updated. The Windows 10 update that is currently rolling out is the preview version that insiders had already tested. While we were expecting the update to land in November, it seems like rolling out Windows Hello to the upgraded devices was a priority.
The new Windows 10 update adds more than meets the eye, but Windows Hello is one of the most important features that it brings forth. Microsoft incorporates facial recognition technology in the cameras of the Surface Book, Microsoft Lumia 950 and Surface Pro 4. The Surface Pro 4’s type cover has an added fingerprint sensor, which you can also use on the Surface Pro 3. The hardware is there, but until today, Windows Hello was not available on these devices. Starting today, however, people will have the ability to set up biometric security on their convertible machines and Lumia smartphone.
Windows Hello has been a long anticipated feature Microsoft first announced a couple of months ago. With the built-in biometric security app, the Windows 10 update adds a new dimension to the Windows 10 security features and builds upon the features that were already in place. With Windows Hello on board, users can just open their Surface Book and its camera will perform a facial recognition scan that will log the user into the operating system without much hassle. The same thing goes for the fingerprint reader on the Surface Pro 4 type cover. Once you start the device up, placing your set finger on the fingerprint sensor will unlock the device through Windows Hello.
Today’s Windows 10 update doesn’t just add Windows Hello, because it is a larger update that contains a couple of extras that were previously unknown, even to testers of the Windows 10 preview. The update adds a multitude of updated driver firmware into the mix, to ease access for various users. Driver optimization is a very important step for an OS because it makes the software and hardware work together seamlessly. The Windows 10 update adds upgraded firmware to Ethernet drivers, WinTab driver and many more specific to the device they’re being installed on.
Reviewers of Microsoft products have confirmed that all of the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 devices in their possession started receiving the Windows 10 update last night, adding Windows Hello. If you’re wondering about how to setup Windows Hello, you first need to add a PIN and a password in order to be able to access and setup Windows Hello. You can do this from the Accounts panel in Settings, navigating towards security and login methods. You can set the Surface Pro 4 to unlock based on your fingerprint sensor or facial recognition, while the Surface Book only supports the latter.
With the early Windows 10 update release date, Microsoft makes it clear that their products are ready to be enjoyed by the masses, to the fullest of their capacities. With Windows Hello and Windows 10, Microsoft is changing the way in which we approach the Windows ecosystem and revolutionizing the way we use convertibles and hybrid devices. All that is left that HAS to be improved quickly is the Microsoft Store. We are still lacking a lot of apps, especially for Windows 10 on mobile phones. Hopefully, once the flagship store opens today, developers will begin jumping on the universal app development bandwagon.


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The COP26 – the UN climate change conference – has started a global movement around climate change and actions against it. While shipping and ferry operations are essential partsof global supply chains and travelling, they are also a growing contributor of carbon emissions. The share of carbon emissions from shipping out of total carbon emissions from human activities is close to 3%.
With ETS, the EU will be the first governmental organisation to introduce an incentive for shipping companies to accelerate the move to sustainable operations, creating an incentive for the industry to increase investments in new technologies and shifting to new fuels to reduce its environmental impact.
Impact on customers
Shipping companies need to purchase emission allowances from the EU while also investing in alternative fuels and new technologies. ETS will have a significant impact on the cost base for the industry and the increased cost will need to be absorbed by the market.
With shipping in ETS starting next year, Stena Line will introduce a surcharge towards all customers in January 2024. This surcharge will be specified towards customers for best transparency. As the launch of ETS approaches, more details will become available from the EU and Stena Line will gradually inform customers regarding the anticipated effects.
Stena Line’s shift to sustainable shipping
Stena Line is committed to a shift towards new fuels for the fleet, as well as taking action to reduce the environmental impact in ports and other parts of the business. The first step in decarbonizing the Stena Line vessel fleet will rely on improved energy efficiency measures and biodiesel. This will continue together with the uptake of sustainable methanol for converted vessels. The long-term perspective will be governed by battery electrification with a share of cost-competitive sustainable liquid fuel at routes more challenging to electrify.
Introducing a degree of biobased fuel from sustainable sources is the most viable action to achieve a positive impact on emissions in the short term. Stena Line is working closely with Stena Teknik and Stena Oil to secure that these fuels are compatible with the fleet of vessels, aligned with regulatory requirements as well ensuring future supply of viable sustainable fuel.
In 2022, Stena Line entered a partnership with Liquid Wind for the development of new supply chains for a carbon neutral methanol fuel. Stena Line is confident that also battery electric propulsion will play an important role in the future and discussions are ongoing with authorities and other stakeholders around the development of the necessary infrastructure for electric charging. The co-operation with Stena Teknik will also help to keep track of state of the art of battery development.
A new generation of modern Stena Line E-Flexer ro-pax ferries meeting the demands from both freight customers and passengers is gradually being launched into the fleet, introducing a range of new design features and innovations that has a significant positive impact on fuel consumption and emissions.
Stena Line is also moving to shore power supplied with carbon neutral electricity to reduce fuel consumption and emissions while in ports, with positive effects both for carbon emissions and the local environment.
A closer look at the emissions trading program
ETS is a cap and trade scheme where a limit (the cap) is placed on the amount of specific pollutant emissions and obliges us as a company to hold an allowance for each ton of CO2 or other carbon equivalent gases we emit. The money from the sales of allowances will be used for EU’s green fund.
The ETS will in the start phase cover CO2 and eventually incorporate also nitrous oxides, soot and methane emissions – these will be included in the ETS scope using a certain calculation method.
There will be no set price list for these emission allowances – instead, the price will be defined by supply and demand on the market. As the supply side of these emission allowances will gradually be reduced to support the 2050 goal of net zero emissions, emission allowances will be increasingly costly, putting an even higher pressure on shipping companies to accelerate efforts to reduce their environmental footprint.
As for the scope of ETS, the new legislation will include 100% of emissions for voyages within the EU, 50% of the emissions from voyages starting or ending outside of the EU, and all emissions that occur when ships are at berth in EU ports.
The UK has notified that they will eventually introduce a similar system which would have an impact both on UK domestic routes and UK-EU routes.
To allow for a smooth transition to ETS, shipping companies will during an initial phase-in period purchase allowances for a portion of their total emissions, 40% in 2024, 70% in 2025 and eventually reaching 100% in 2026.
More details on the EU ETS can be found on the EU Commission website.


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With Hurricanes like Ian making their way to Florida, here's a hurricane survival guide to help you stock on supplies
Floridians are no strangers to hurricanes, just look at the situation a couple of weeks ago. Hurricane Ian came and went after hitting Florida and changing its western coast forever so a hurricane survival guide will never serve you wrong.
The predictions were intense and alarming, and Governor DeSantis declared an emergency state in Florida’s counties. DeSantis warned residents should be prepared to expect heavy rains, powerful winds, floods, and even tornadoes. Hence, DeSantis instructed Floridians to stock up on supplies for an emergency.
Why is it important to be prepared?
With Hurricane Ian just like any other hurricane intensifying and on the verge of becoming a Category 5 storm, there can be a considerable chance that you might be on your own for a while. Some Floridian counties are even preparing to evacuate.
The storm’s intensity can also cause power failures in some areas. As a result, it’s best to start stocking up on supplies.
What supplies to stock?
Undoubtedly, the essential item on your hurricane survival guide has to be food. While purchasing food supplies, be mindful of choosing non-perishable foods, such as canned items, cookies, dried fruit, cereal bars, bread, instant tea, coffee, ready-to-eat meals, drinks, etc.
Hurricane Survival Guide Essentials
Besides stocking up on the essentials, you need to ensure you have cash on hand during a natural disaster to be prepared to buy anything you may need. ATMs may not be functional during a hurricane, and banks won't be open. Plus, some businesses may not accept any card payments. So, cash is what will get you through.
If you have children or pets, make sure you gather all their essentials, including diapers, food, medication, etc. Other necessities that may come in handy during a hurricane are tools, trash bags, sanitary supplies, cleaning supplies, toiletries, hygiene products, disinfectants, and a first aid kit including essential medications, ointments, etc. Stay updated with the latest news on Hurricanes and other guides by subscribing to Calle Ocho News. You can also keep up with other trending news, events, and more from Miami on the platform.


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There have been some changes in the rankings of the world’s longtime auto leaders and you won’t believe the revenue per second.
By Dan Carney – Business data aggregation and analysis site VisualCapitalist.com sifted through the annual results of the world’s car companies and ranked them by total revenues. For novelty, they’ve also included the total revenue per second of each company, with some eye-opening numbers at the top of the list. Even small-fry Tesla brings in $780 every second of the day! This list is based on last year’s sales numbers and represents the carmakers’ corporate entities as they existed last year. Since then, Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles has merged with Peugeot to form the head-scratchingly named Stellantis. So next year we should see some shuffling of the rankings.
BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroen have entered into a 50:50 venture to produce components for hybrids and electric vehicles, says a story in the Financial Times.
The two companies, which will launch the new operation in the second quarter of this year, will team up on the development of battery packs, electric motors, power electronics, generators, chargers and software to run the new breed of vehicles.
The German and French carmakers said that the components would be used in their own vehicles, and will also be sold to other automakers. The joint operation will begin equipping vehicles in 2014, the newspaper said. more>
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Tagged Auto industry, Business improvement, Industrial economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Super regions, Technology
Why Restarting the Global Economy Won’t be Easy
By Jerry Grillo – As the world contemplates ending a massive lockdown implemented in response to COVID-19, Vinod Singhal is considering what will happen when we hit the play button and the engines that drive industry and trade squeal back to life again.
Singhal, who studies operations strategy and supply chain management at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has a few ideas on how to ease the transition to the new reality. But this pandemic makes it hard to predict what that reality will be.
“There is really nothing to compare this pandemic to,” he said. “And predicting or estimating stock prices is simply impossible, unlike supply chain disruptions caused by a company’s own fault, or a natural disaster, like the earthquake in Japan.”
But COVID-19 represents a new kind of mystery when it comes to something as complex and critical to the world’s economy as the global supply chain, for a number of reasons that Singhal highlighted:
- The global spread of the virus and duration of the pandemic. “We have no idea when it will be under control and whether it will resurface,” Singhal said. “With a natural disaster you can kind of predict that if we put in some effort, within a few months we can get back to normal. But here there is a lot of uncertainty.”
- Both the demand and supply side of the global supply chain are disrupted. “We’re not only seeing a lot of factories shutting down, which affects the supply side, but there are restrictions on demand, too, because you can’t just go out and shop like you used to, at least for the time being,” he said. “And all this is taking place in an environment where supply chains are fairly complex – intricate, interconnected, interdependent, and global.”
- Longer lead times. “We get close to a trillion dollars of products annually from Asian countries, about $500 billion from China,” Singhal said. “Most are shipped by sea which requires a four-to-six-week lead time. The fact that logistics and distribution has been disrupted and needs to ramp up again will increase lead time. So, it will take time to fill up the pipeline, and that is going to be an issue.”
- Supply chains have little slack, and little spare inventory. While manufacturing giants such as Apple, Boeing, and General Motors have more financial slack to carry them through a massive economic belt tightening, their suppliers, spread out across the globe, come in different sizes, different tiers, “and these smaller companies don’t have much financial slack,” said Singhal, pointing to a report of small and medium sized companies in China, “which have less than three months of cash. They’ve already been shut down for two months, and cash tends to go away quickly.
“Many of these companies may go bankrupt,” he added. “So we need to figure out how to reduce the number of bankruptcies. Government is going to play an important role in this, and the stimulus package the U.S. has approved will be helpful.” more>
- ‘SlothBot in the Garden’ Demonstrates Hyper-Efficient Conservation Robot, John Toon
- Redesigning Hand Sanitizer and Donating 7,000 Gallons to Fight Covid-19, Ben Brumfield
- Spontaneous Formation of Nanoscale Hollow Structures Could Boost Battery Storage, John Toon
- This Supernova in a Lab Mimics the Cosmic Blast’s Splendid Aftermath, Ben Brumfield
- What Do Electric Vehicle Drivers Think of the Charging Network They Use? Michael Pearson
- Chemotherapy and Cancer Gang up to Cause a Neurological Side Effect, Study Says, Ben Brumfield
- Study Shows Hydroxychloroquine’s Harmful Effects on Heart Rhythm, John Toon
- Researchers Receive NIH Funds for Adjuvant Research to Boost Coronavirus Vaccines, John Toon
- People Think Robots Are Pretty Incompetent and Not Funny, New Study Says, Ben Brumfield
- Emory and Georgia Tech Create Barrier Protection Devices for Use During COVID-19, Joshua Brown
- Planetary Exploration Rover Avoids Sand Traps with “Rear Rotator Pedaling,” John Toon
- Georgia Tech Professor Leads Multi-Institution Team in Combatting Hospital Acquired Infections, Kristen Perez
- Emory, Georgia Tech Participating in Six-Year Exercise Research Study, Jerry Grillo
- ME’s Susan Thomas Awarded $3.2 Million NCI Grant for Follicular Lymphoma Research, Susan N. Thomas
- Improving Military Training with Machine Learning and AI, Michelle Gowdy
- Researchers Use Machine Learning to Fight COVID-19 Disinformation, Tess Malone
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Tagged Business improvement, Georgia Tech, Health, Industrial economy, Skills, Technology
Why noise is one of the biggest problems with electric cars
By Steven Dom – Imagine your company is engineering the next line of electric vehicles. You create technical specifications that reduce range anxiety, you’ve perfected the colors that pop and entice customers to buy and with battery technology advancement, you’ve priced it right.
But there are problems with electric cars.
Because the electric vehicle engine emits no noise, pedestrians are more likely to be struck by an electric vehicle. A study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicated that hybrid and electric vehicles are 57 percent more likely to cause accidents with cyclists, and 37 percent more likely to cause an accident with pedestrians, than a standard internal combustion engine vehicle.
Countries are requiring the quietest cars emit a sound to warn those around the vehicle of its presence.
Now, imagine after creating the ideal electric vehicle, the customers reject it based on the noise it emits. What if your vehicle’s noise is too strange or annoying?
This is just one of the many perils facing the quiet electric vehicle.
The goal of successfully getting an electric vehicle to market, one that a consumer would be interested in and enjoying, was about improving range. In a world lacking in electric vehicle infrastructure, solving range anxiety would allow customers to feel more comfortable driving the electric vehicles to-and-from work and longer trips beyond.
Engineers focused on vehicle architecture including the number of motors driving the wheels, managing the HVAC system’s energy consumption and finding ways to reduce weight, such as using thinner panels and less sound deadening components to provide better mileage. Without the roar of a combustion engine, there was no need to reduce noise. more>
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Tagged Business improvement, Electric vehicles, Industrial economy, Noise, PLM, Product lifecycle management, Siemens
Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, Author: Natasha Lennard.
By Bradley Babendir – This idea runs through Being Numerous, a collection of essays that seek to demonstrate and enact a means of non-fascist thinking. Lennard approaches a range of subjects as part of this project, from the controversy over someone punching Richard Spencer, to representations of dead bodies in media, to suicide. Each essay is rooted in Lennard’s foundational argument that “liberal, capitalist ideology … fails to address its own potential accidents and limitations.”
The first essay, “We, Anti-Fascists,” is a forceful piece in favor of anti-fascist organizing and thinking. Lennard opens the essay with an endorsement of the on-the-ground counter-violence of Antifa, and makes a convincing case for the necessity of such violence when traditional institutions cannot be trusted to protect counter-protesters. She also argues against the overreaction to Antifa by mainstream American media after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, after which, Lennard says, newspapers spent more page-space condemning anti-fascists than they did the white nationalists who had murdered the civil-rights activist Heather Heyer.
This defense of Antifa is perhaps the part of the essay that will grab most readers’ attention, but Lennard’s subsequent exploration of what she calls “fascistic habit” is its liveliest and most engaging section. more>
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The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) has organised a one day sensitisation workshop for farmers, artisans, dressmakers and others at Damongo in the Savannah Region on 10th May, 2022.
The one day workshop had participants educated on the need to promote locally made products and services in the 5 regions of the north and also create online services for the 5 regions alone.
The Upper West Regional manager of the GNCCI Mr Jeremiah W. Tingan in an interview explained that his outfit in a research conducted indicates that products made in northern Ghana are very good but poor marketing is a very big problem and as a result middle men are taking advantage of producers of products.
He explained that the buy they products at cheap prices, rebrand them and export or sell them back to the people at very high prices.
He added that his outfit would create a market for made in northern Ghana products that will be linked to the whole world with funding from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), that will later organize trade fairs for the 5 northern regions of Ghana.
Mr Tingan explained that the measure will create employment avenues for the people of the north especially farmers who will benefit directly from what they produced instead of the exploitation that is going on in the system by middle men.
He appealed to the media to help in selling and educating the people about the need to link up with the GNCCI to be able to better their lives in the various businesses that they are engaged in.
Some participants who took part in the one day workshop expressed satisfaction about the level of education of the program since it is an eye opener in marketing and selling of their products.
The GNCCI is an association of business operators, firms, and industries with interests spanning every sector of private enterprise in Ghana. As an advocacy organisation, the GNCCI was established with the prime objective of promoting and protecting commercial and industrial interests in the country with the Chamber representing the voice of the business community with total commitment to playing a leadership role towards propelling Ghana’s economy to higher heights and also serving as a link between established businesses, the emerging sector, and government at the various levels while offering it’s members a myriad of business support services.
The GNCCI has
the vision to provide leadership for the growth and prosperity of businesses in Ghana.


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A major new infrastructure development, our newly released Active Sync (which is a big data ETL pipeline built on top of the Apache Pulsar streaming platform) is set to revolutionize the speed of ecommerce assortment synchronization for Shopify merchants.
Utilizing Shopify webhooks, all product data is synchronized, and kept up-to-date, on an automatic basis. This includes changes to prices, products, metafields, and everything in between. Updates take place as soon as the merchant makes a change – with NO requirement for them to manually trigger a sync or wait for the scheduled event. Changes will be realized live on site almost immediately, and queued when changes made are large to ensure no updates are dropped. Our developers have built Active Sync in such a way that we only need to index the changes you make, when you make them. This allows for faster, more efficient synchronization.
Active Sync, which is unique to Findify, has become the cornerstone of our brand new infrastructure – streamlining internal processes and paving the way for additional growth and innovation.
“This is all part of our quest to make merchant life as easy as possible and represents a fundamental change in the way we handle huge volumes of data,” revealed Findify CCO, Joakim Amadeus Olsson.
“With Active Sync specifically, merchants can rest assured knowing that their product database – including prices and stock levels – is always up-to-date. Shoppers will never see outdated results, only the most accurate and current assortment data. This will be particularly crucial when it comes to busy sales periods.”
Streamlining access with Shopify webhooks
Active Sync is accessible in a number of ways. Merchants with developer capacity can connect their store to the Product Push API while those that don’t their own developers can connect via Findify-created platform connectors – such as Shopify webhooks.
“In tandem with Active Sync, we have been working on creating a Shopify Active Sync Connector”, revealed Findify’s Head of Product Vsevolod Goloviznin.
“The new Active Sync infrastructure has been tested extensively during the autumn and the entire client base has now been upgraded. Webhooks will continue to be added for additional platforms but all clients can also already today utilize the custom Push API to enjoy instant updates.”
‘None of our direct competitors offers a faster product sync’
Findify CEO, Philip Nobel, said he was delighted to get this feature over the line at the very start of what is to be a record year for Findify.
“Active Sync is an amazing new infrastructure – one which none of our direct competitors has, and which will create great merchant value. It’s an extremely modern setup that will enable innovations on top for years. It has been highly anticipated by merchants, and I’m very happy to now have met this need for them. At Findify, we think there is nothing more important than listening to the wants and needs of our clients,” he said.
“This has been a major part of our product roadmap and our developers worked really hard to get this done. I’m incredibly proud of them and of what they’ve achieved. It was a big project, requiring an entire stack rebuild, but it is something that will benefit our clients greatly – which means it was absolutely worth it.”
For more information on Findify’s powerful ecommerce tool, which includes personalization software and solutions such as Personalized Search, Smart Collections, and Recommendations, book a demo here.


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(PCM) This news should not come as surprising, but word on the street is that Snoop Dogg has joined the growing list of investors who are backing the pot delivery company Eaze. The company promises to deliver medicinal marijuana to your doorstep in about a 10 minute time span. That is quicker than most pizza delivery services!!
Eaze launched about nine months ago and in its’ short time of existence they have already made over 30,000 deliveries and hope to begin further expanding, as well as, hire additional employees. The company has already earned about $10 million for various investors which in addition to Snoop Dogg include DCM Ventures and Fresh VC.
The investments come at a perfect time, as there is currently a huge business boom in the legal marijana industry. Medical marijuana is now legal in 20 states and recreational marijuana is legal in Alaska, Colorado, Washington and Washington, D.C.


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With the rise of Amazon as the No. 3 advertising platform it has become clear that retail sites have the potential to be the next frontier of the ad industry. In fact, according to new data and analysis, Amazon’s platform is growing faster than either Google or Facebook were at the same stage. With retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy now making the leap from retailer to advertising platform, are any of these companies poised to take the No. 4 spot away from Snapchat?
Over the last few years, Amazon has irrevocably changed how brands think about advertising, and traditional retailers are recognizing the opportunity. Ecommerce sites are no longer just a place to sell products, but also a place to build a brand through advertising on a platform, similarly to how brands have been using Google and Facebook for years. Walmart firing long-time partner, Triad, to bring its website ad sales and the related analytics work back in-house is a clear indication that the retailer is looking to open its platform, the first step of this shift. It is likely other retailers are quietly following suit.
Changing strategies around brands’ ad budgets are also a strong indicator of this retailer-turned-ad-platform evolution. For years, retailers received their ad dollars from a brand’s channel team and larger media advertising budgets were allocated for television ads, with separate budgets for digital platforms like Facebook and Google.
However, brands are now slowly shifting some of these bigger budget buys to retail sites as they recognize the value of online platforms as a key component of their overall brand strategy. As media teams are starting to realize this value, this also presents a huge opportunity for ad agencies and retailers to educate brands on these benefits.
While this new distribution of ad dollars signals a shift in the right direction, there is still a hurdle to get brands to think of these platforms beyond just a sales channel, but also a place to build reputation and brand awareness. However, brands that are doing this right are seeing a major payoff: Just look at phone accessory company Anker. Before 2017, Anker devices were almost exclusively sold on Amazon’s Marketplace, but with the brand-building power of the platform, the company now has a thriving multichannel ecommerce business.
When it comes to ad dollars spent on online platforms like Amazon, retailers are also in a unique position to amplify the impact due to their wealth of data on consumer behavior. For example, Walmart’s video content platform, VUDU, allows it to better identify a customer and their purchase habits, by tracking them from an OTT [over-the-top] campaign to what is bought in store. This access to vast data on shoppers and their shopping behavior allows a brand to better target potential customers going forward.
Taking this into account, along with the fact that there’s a fresh overall approach to thinking about how ad spend is shifting, Walmart is certainly in a position to become the next major player in the ad space.
However, they have one major hurdle…the perception of the Walmart store shopper vs. the Walmart.com shopper.
Through enlisting partners that are experts in this space, Walmart will need to develop a strategy to better explain the value of Walmart’s advertising platform to big brands. Triad, and now Walmart’s WPA, have not yet done a good job at communicating to advertisers the potential to grow a brand on their platform. While CPG brands may already be testing Walmart’s ad platform, presenting their platform’s value will be critical when trying to get ad dollars from categories like Consumer Electronics.
As the advertising world continues to change with the ways in which people search, research, and purchase, retailers are primed to take advantage of the opportunity at hand and open major new revenue streams. With the right strategy, Walmart could step into the No. 4 spot. And, while it will be interesting to see what the power player has in store, Walmart better move quickly—just last week, Target announced a shake-up in its own ad structure. The time is now.
Channel Bakers is an advertising agency that specializes in helping brands market on Amazon and other online marketplaces.


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PUBG Mobile still workds days afte IT ministry banned the game in India. Recently, the Indian government banned the famous royal battle game PUBG Mobile after China tensions showed no signs of slowing down. This was the third ban order since similar orders were released in the past by the Government.
PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite have already been pulled from the stores – Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. However, the game continues to be operational for those who have already downloaded it. The game is also available on a number of apk hosting websites which can be used to sideload the battle royale game.
India is a huge market for PUBG Mobile and Tencent Games, a game developer who lost over $34 billion since the ban order was passed.
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British Airways has today reopened its flagship lounge in the United States in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in Terminal 7, following a 16-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The opening of the Galleries Club lounge also marks the next step in what the airline calls ‘phased lounge reopening plan’ and will be available for passengers travelling in First, Club World and eligible card holders, ahead of their flight to London Heathrow Airport.
The news comes in time for the UK Government’s announcement that fully vaccinated travellers from the United States will be exempt from quarantine on arrival into the United Kingdom from 2nd August 2021.
Those flying from JFK in First and Club World can also enjoy an ‘enhanced’ check-in experience at the exclusive Premium Zone. The First Wing and First check in are also open.
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Passengers travelling on British Airways will now also be able to use the airline’s innovative new digital app ‘Your Menu’ to order food directly from their mobile device to their seat after scanning a QR code. The app will be available throughout the lounge, meaning that passengers can select from a wide range of complimentary food and beverages, to any seat.
On their return from the United States, at London Heathrow, passengers will have access to the Club and First lounges in Terminal 5, along with the new sleep zone ‘Forty Winks’, allowing them to rest ahead of their flight.
Tom Stevens, Director of Brand and Customer Experience, British Airways, said:
After the news about the change in entry requirements for US customers in to the UK, we expect to host more customers who need to travel and so we have decided that it is the right time to open our flagship lounge in New York. We are looking forward to welcoming some of our American customers back to London from next week and bringing Britons who reside in the US home for much-needed family time.
Elsewhere, the airline recently reopened three domestic lounges in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Meanwhile, Buy-On-Board has returned to British Airways’ short-haul flights and has also announced four new routes out of Belfast.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday:
Okta Inc., down $24.13 to $222.40.
The cloud identity management company cut its full-year earnings forecast and said its chief financial officer is resigning.
Best Buy Co., up $1.18 to $118.14.
The consumer electronics retailer blew away Wall Street’s first-quarter profit forecasts.
Gap Inc., up $1.13 to $35.15.
Walmart will sell the the clothing retailer’s new line of home essentials.
Dollar Tree Inc., down $8.36 to $100.11,
The discount retailer gave investors a weak profit forecast for the year.
Tellurian Inc., up 72 cents to $3.89.
The natural gas company signed a 10-year deal with Gunvor Singapore for liquified natural gas.
Lantheus Holdings Inc., up $3.27 to $22.78.
The company received FDA approval for its Plyarify imaging agent to help identify prostate cancer.
Anaplan Inc., down $7.38 to $49.61.
The software developer’s first-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street forecasts.
Tempur Sealy Inc., up $2.60 to $39.45.
The mattress maker gave investors an encouraging sales update and said it is buying specialty bed retailer Dreams.


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Thursday morning, 8 February, at approximately 10.15am, three men, armed with handguns, targeted Markham in Village Square Mall.
According to Captain Appel Ernst, Randfontein Police spokesperson, the robbers held three employees and two customers at gunpoint. “They were taken to the back of the store and forced to open the safe and the cash register,” she said.
Also read: Armed robbers hit new mall
They assaulted a male employee when he allegedly refused to cooperate and tied him up with shoe laces. All the victims were then locked in the toilet at the back of the store.
“The robbers took numerous cellphones and a small amount of money. One of them stayed behind in the store for a while after the other two had left,” added Ernst. A customer later freed the employees.
The West Rand Trio Task team urgently request information that might assist in this investigation. They can be reached on 079 496 6288.
Commenting on the matter, Village Square Shopping Centre confirmed the armed robbery and the theft of, “an undisclosed value of electronic devices and related stock.
“Security Services were on site and handed the matter over to the Randfontein Police for further investigation. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Safety of all patrons and shoppers is, and always remains, the Centre’s top priority and we will continue to remain alert,” Centre Management said.
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Most KFC restaurants in the UK are closed due to lack of meat.
The US-based KFC company holds thousands of stores around the world and the flavor of the sale of chicken is attracting people.
According to KFC, the meat industry has been affected by a small problem with KFC and DHL.
The KFC administration has announced that it has close to 700 restaurants in a total of 900 KFC restaurants.
In this case, workers working at a branch of KFC have stolen poultry meat.
Theft occurred in a video taken by someone close to the KFC restaurant in south London’s Erith.
The video was recorded on the video showing the processed chicken meat of about 6 black bags from KFC’s uniformed wearing of the restaurant from the back of the restaurant to the Volvo car.
He told the media that he thought the KFC administration was taking meat to increase savings due to meat shortages.
“Since we will not compromise on the quality of our food, we have closed many of our restaurants. We have strict policies to ensure its safety when handling meat transportation, so we are in a hurry to investigate this theft, and we will take the necessary measures, “said Mercer, manager of KFC’s restaurant.


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Kreston Pensions (Isle of Man) Limited is one of the sponsors of the inaugural ISLEXPO that’s being held later this month
Director Tanya O’Carroll said: ‘We are proud of the Isle of Man’s reputation as a credible international centre of excellence in the business world, always promoting and supporting innovative ideas, and ISLEXPO will demonstrate why businesses should come to our shores.
‘Islexpo is an exciting event attracting delegates from on and off the island and we are pleased to be able to support the appearance by guest speaker Sir Chris Hoy MBE. Kreston Pensions is sponsoring pre-dinner drinks where Sir Chris will be giving a presentation, ahead of a gala dinner before the conference day itself.’
Hosted by the Department of Economic Development, the conference takes place on May 25 with the spotlight on the opportunities available through the £50million Enterprise Development Scheme. The day will include world class speakers, panel discussions, practical workshops, interactive demos and industry insights.


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Samsung Galaxy A70 first impressions: Has the makings of a perfect mid-range smartphoneSamsung Galaxy A70 is priced at Rs 28,990 and will compete against last year’s Nokia 8.1.
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Samsung Galaxy A70 with triple camera setup launched in India, priced at Rs 28,990Samsung Galaxy A70 will be available for pre-bookings starting 20 April going on till 30 April.


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As new details surrounding the launch of Overwatch 2 continue to emerge, Blizzard is already making significant changes to various heroes within the game. Following confirmation of a closed beta on March 11, the developer has shared details on changes to Doomfist.
In the first Overwatch game, Doomfist featured in the Assault class, and in a bid to balance the pool of heroes, Doomfist has become a Tank.
During a recent broadcast, game director Aaron Keller confirmed the change alongside some additional changes that include a slight reduction in damage output.
Overwatch 2 Doomfist Class Change
During the broadcast, Keller compared the new playstyle for Doomfist to Winston. "He basically has a leap that's similar to a Winston leap." In addition to movement tweaks, Keller also shared that Doomfist is capable of escaping certain situations and is "more survivable" during matches.
With several fans wondering whether Doomfist could become overpowered, lead hero designer Geoff Goodman confirmed that the hero "does a lot less damage." Despite this, Goodman claims Doomfist is already overpowered in the closed alpha and "needs a nerf."
Overwatch 2 Release Date
Blizzard has yet to announce a definitive release date for Overwatch 2 but with a closed beta taking place in April, a 2022 release is still on the cards. With plenty of opportunities to fine-tune the game before it drops, Overwatch 2 could well surpass the successes of its predecessor.


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AWS AI Service Playing cards sign Amazon’s accountable AI catch-up %
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At AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon launched AWS AI Service Playing cards, a type of accountable AI documentation meant to assist prospects higher perceive the AI providers supplied by the cloud computing chief.
In accordance with Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular, the AWS AI Service Playing cards are a sign that Amazon is making strikes to meet up with its rivals in relation to embracing accountable AI.
Previously, Amazon “denied accountable AI” and fell behind their rivals, together with Microsoft and Google, in addressing accountable AI points, Sicular advised VentureBeat.
However Amazon has “an excellent historical past of catching up once they put their thoughts and the hassle and assets to catching up,” she mentioned. “They realized that that is critical and in everyone’s curiosity to have transparency, as a result of in any other case they received’t be aggressive.”
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AWS AI Service Playing cards provide accountable AI repository
In accordance with an Amazon weblog publish, the AWS AI Service Playing cards “present prospects with a single place to seek out data on the supposed use circumstances and limitations, accountable AI design decisions, and deployment and efficiency optimization finest practices for our AI providers.” The corporate mentioned they handle points together with equity and bias, explainability, robustness, governance, transparency, privateness and safety.
The primary three service playing cards made out there are for software program coping with delicate demographic points, together with Amazon Textract – AnalyzeID, Amazon Transcribe – Batch (English-US).and Amazon Rekognition – Face Matching. The third card addresses points associated to the controversial software which made headlines in 2019 when Amazon contested a examine saying that the expertise struggled to determine the gender of people with darker pores and skin tones. After the 2020 homicide of unarmed black man George Floyd throughout an arrest, the corporate issued a moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software program.
Now, the brand new AWS AI Service Card says it doesn’t help matching “photographs which are too blurry and grainy for the face to be acknowledged by a human, or which have massive parts of the face occluded by hair, palms, and different objects.”
Current Amazon steps in the direction of accountable AI
Sicular identified that Amazon has been making steps in the direction of accountable AI lately, together with hiring the authors of The Moral Algorithm, Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns, as Amazon Students in 2020.
Kearns, a College of Pennsylvania professor — and a scholar at Amazon since 2020 — advised Reuters that the choice to challenge the playing cards adopted privateness and equity audits of the corporate’s software program. He mentioned the playing cards would handle AI ethics considerations publicly at a time when tech regulation was on the horizon.
“The most important factor about this launch is the dedication to do that on an ongoing foundation and an expanded foundation,” he mentioned.
The AWS AI Service Playing cards construct on associated efforts by Microsoft, Google and IBM. “The launch of the AWS AI Service Playing cards is a step in the suitable path in the direction of constructing accountable AI by design,” mentioned Krishnaram Kenthapadi, chief scientist at ML observability firm Fiddler AI. “This builds on a associated line of labor resembling datasheets, mannequin playing cards, factsheets, system playing cards, and ABOUT ML in the direction of benchmarking and transparency of machine studying knowledge units, fashions, and techniques,” he mentioned.
“They’re excellent first steps,” Sicular mentioned, including that she thinks Amazon is “in all probability going up the stack” when it comes to reaching government decision-makers, at a time when there’s fierce competitors among the many massive cloud suppliers for AI funding within the cloud.
“I believe it’s a part of the competitors with Microsoft,” she defined. “However [Amazon] does put a whole lot of emphasis on accountability [now]. That may be very spectacular.”
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Where to next for travel?
In a webinar held recently as part of PSG’s Think Big webinar series, Guy Leitch, Editor of SA Flyer magazine and aviation expert, discussed where SAA is going, what needs to change and where to next for business travellers in light of Covid-19.
Despite there being no shortage of interventions to save SAA, creditors are getting restless and many jobs are at risk. “The air connectivity provided by SAA is essential for the South African economy in that it enables tourism and the transport of goods and services for economic enterprise. Let’s consider if there was no SAA anymore,” said Leitch. “The other airlines won’t be in a hurry to enter the South African market due to Covid-19, so this will leave a gap in air travel services for South Africa.” This doesn’t only impact people coming in but affects cargo too (80% of cargo by value is transported by air).
Profitability is possible
Leitch feels that SAA could be profitable again, given the right changes.
The airline is bogged down with issues of poor management and corrupt procurement, and it could do with amending some of its unprofitable flight routes. “They cannot make money east of Dubai because they can’t compete with the super connectors like Emirates or Qatar Airlines, so they should cancel all of those routes, perhaps with the exception of Perth.”
Legacy problems with unsavoury suppliers need to be addressed too. “One example was that the airline was paying R17.50 for every bottle of water that gets handed out, but that should have cost R2,” Leitch remarked, as there are also many small but effective ways the airline could improve how it operates.
Comparing SAA to the success of Ethiopian Airlines isn’t a fair comparison, he said. Ethiopia’s geographical advantage as a natural hub aside, the airline has ‘whole of state’ support, down to making tourism visas easily available if that could improve business. Leitch said South Africa went the other way; embracing air route liberalisation, and this makes for paper-thin margins but is great for air travel affordability and thus tourism.
“Twenty years ago, SAA accounted for two thirds of South Africa’s airline traffic, but now it makes up only about 12% of it.”
A private sector partnership could be the ticket to saving SAA. Failing to produce a viable business rescue plan, however, will mean nothing will change.
Leitch said demand for flights for permitted business travel since lockdown has not helped the industry much as demand is less than 3% of where it would ordinarily be. “I think this has been a big disappointment for airline carriers. Even if they consolidate ten flights into one, 25% to 30% capacity loads are not going to make any money.”
However, he argued that SAA needs to remain operational to enable it to restart for the return to the post-Covid “new normal”.
Leitch argued that the health risks of travelling on an airliner are largely subjective, and now that people have become used to using video conferencing technology, some business travellers may opt to continue having online ‘webinar’ meetings instead of spending the time and money to have face to face meetings.
“The way business has moved into digital communication during lockdown is likely to shape the business travel market dramatically,” Leitch says. The days of the big travel hubs may well be over too. “Point to point travel is set to re-emerge as the preferred way of getting around,” Leitch said. “People aren’t going to want to transit through busy hubs like Dubai. They will want to get to their destination and straight back again.”
When will Leitch personally start flying in an airliner again? He says he plans to fly in November this year to the AGM of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Amsterdam. “It’s 50/50 as to whether it will happen, but they are saying we should come to the meeting. I’m happy to do so, unless we see a significant spike in infections,” he said.
One thing is for sure
“The only certainty we have in times like these, is the uncertainty of Covid-19 and this plays a big role,” added Bertus Visser, Chief Executive of Distribution at PSG Insure, who hosted the discussion. “One can hope to find the right balance to bring the airline industry back to where it needs to be.” Time will only tell how things will land, and it will very much depend on how Covid-19 travels too.


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Pushing on with battery project despite colbalt price dip
THE proponents of Townsville's battery metals projects, including the embattled Clive Palmer, say they are moving ahead with their development plans despite a crash in cobalt prices.
But at least one - Australian Mines, which is proposing the Sconi project at Greenvale - says the tanking cobalt price certainly doesn't help.
"It does make getting new projects up a lot more difficult," Australian Mines managing director Ben Bell said yesterday.
Cobalt prices have risen a rollercoaster since early 2017, soaring from about $US30,000 a tonne to peak at more than $US90,000 a tonne last year, before falling away to $US26,000 a tonne on latest trade.
The ride has reflected market sentiment about the prospects for a transition to electric vehicles and forecast shortages in cobalt, used in smartphones and tablet batteries, and soon in electric vehicle and home storage battery systems.
Players including Australian Mines, Pure Minerals, Imperium3 and Clive Palmer's QNI plan developments in Townsville to service the battery market.
Mr Palmer, who is fighting a $200 million lawsuit by liquidators of his Yabulu nickel refinery, announced last year its tailings ponds held $6 billion worth of cobalt and that they would process the material for the first seven years of operations.
That cobalt presumably is still worth $2 billion at today's prices and a spokesman for the businessman yesterday said Mr Palmer "absolutely plans on reopening the refinery".
A spokesman for Glencore, which holds a long-term lease over the refinery's former nickel berth at the port, said they remained open to discussions on port access, while a spokesman for the port said they had "positive discussions" with Mr Palmer's Queensland Nickel Sales about recommencing nickel ore imports.
Mr Bell said they continued to negotiate with financiers and still hoped to be "on the ground" to begin development of mines and processing plant at Greenvale later this year.
Pure Minerals managing director John Downie said while cobalt was a "nice add", their refinery, proposed for the Lansdown Industrial Precinct, would produce 25,000 tonnes of nickel sulphate, 3000 tonnes of cobalt sulphate, 4600 tonnes of magnesium oxide and 221,000 tonnes of hematite iron ore.
Nickel, where prices had increased 30 per cent to $US14,000 a tonne since 2015, was the metal to watch, Mr Downie said.
Pure Minerals' subsidiary Queensland Pacific Metals plans to import nickel ore from New Caledonia for processing at a $300 million Stage 1 plant in Townsville in mid-2021.


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The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission have posted joint warning letters to companies that make and distribute opioid cessation products.
The two watchdogs warned that the companies are illegally marketing their unapproved products as treatments or even cures for people with opioid addiction and withdrawal. Selling unapproved products as therapies for opioid addiction is a violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and also violates the Federal Trade Commission Act, according to the FDA and FTC.
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Over at Gamasutra, Xbox chief Phil Spencer has some very prescient ideas about the future of console gaming, and the ways that consoles are changing and becoming more like mobile and PCs.
Spencer sees a future in which console games span multiple hardware generations rather than being locked to one system. He notes that "console games feel more like PC and almost mobile games, than they ever have. Not visually, in the case of mobile games, but in terms of games as a service."
Today, if I look at the top ten games that people are playing on Xbox One (and I do that every day) a lot of those games are games that have been around for years. I can pick something, obviously I can pick something like Minecraft, but that's a little bit cliche at this point. But pick something like GTA V. GTA V is a game that's been out there forever, a massive success, and still incredibly powerful on our platform, in terms of what people are playing as they continue to play it.
You know if you think about like, Destiny 2 is coming this year -- I pick Destiny because I think I have 600 hours into the game. But you know, Destiny 2's gonna be one of these games that I expect five, six, seven years from now, people are still going to be playing that game. It's going to be a little bit like WoW. Which you know, whatever its been, 10 years later, 15 years later, millions of people play the game.
So from a development platform, we needed to think about our hardware as multi-generational. Because we said 'Okay, there's gonna be games that are going to live multiple generations. And our software platform really has to service a developer's need to service an ongoing set of users.'
This strikes me as pretty much the way things are headed now in console gaming. With mid-generation "refreshes" like the PS4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio, a hardware generation can last much longer than before, at least in theory, while still keeping pace with evolving technology. Meanwhile, a more powerful PS5 or Xbox Two (or whatever they might be called) is a lot less appealing at this point, since modern systems are already pumping out impressive visuals and anything more powerful represents diminishing returns for consumers.
And really, why not have older games run on newer systems? If PS5 comes out, there's no reason that all your PS4 games shouldn't run on the new console, just like (many) older PC games work fine on a brand new PCs. Having a new system run the previous console's games certainly helps consumers in the early launch days when the new game catalog is still thin-pickings.
As Spencer notes, on both PC and mobile games don't simply stop working when you upgrade. I can buy a new graphics card, or completely overhaul my entire PC with a new CPU, motherboard, memory, etc. and my Steam catalog will still run just fine. There's no reason consoles shouldn't follow suit; after all, you can still have console exclusives that will only run on the newer system. I suspect we'll see this become commonplace going forward, as well as more "refresh" style upgrades. I don't think that's a bad thing, though there's something about PS4 Pro and Scorpio that reminds me a little of having the Olympics every two years instead of every four. It's just not as exciting.
A game catalog that follows you from one system to the next, on the other hand, is very pro-consumer and good for business, too.
Fun Trivia: Phil Spencer began working at Microsoft in 1988. That was 13 years after the company was founded in Albuquerque, NM in 1975, and 13 years prior to the launch of the original Xbox in 2001.


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Here we are again when Apple is ready to take the stage to unveil its future for its iOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS. Yes! you heard it right, WWDC 2018 is here its starts from June 4th at San Jose Conventional Center, California.Rumour mill has been very silent this year and there weren’t many rumours, but Bloomberg has published its roundup of what to expect at Apple’s WWDC 2018.
In the year 2017, Apple refreshed MacBook and MacBook Pro and along with it introduced 10.5-inch iPad Pro and second-gen 12.9 iPad Pro at WWDC 2017.
The company is working on refreshes to the MacBook Pro and 12-inch MacBook with new Intel Corp. chips and is planning a new low-cost laptop to succeed MacBook Air. But those won’t be ready until later this year, according to people familiar with the plans. Apple is also working on a redesigned iPad Pro line with Face ID, but that’s also expected later.
Ming-Chi Kuo’s final analyst notes for KGI Securities was also corroborated in the report before his retiring. In that report, Kuo predicted about the redesigned Apple Watch this fall, which will feature a 15.5 larger display. Gurman added new details today:
The company is working on a pair of new Apple Watches that keep the overall size of the current models, but include slightly larger, edge-to-edge screens, according to a person familiar with the product’s development. These changes will be the most notable external enhancements since the Watch launched about three years ago, but the new models will still support watch bands from earlier models, another person said.
It is most likely that hardware is not going to be the highlight next week and it is going to be the software-centric conference. Apple will introduce new ARKit design to make augmented reality app more engaging on iOS. This new software is going to be called “ARKit 2.0”, the company is planning a new mode which will let users game each other in the same virtual environment. Current changes will lay a foundation for Apple AR headset which is currently planned to come out in 2020.
If we talk about the iOS 12, it will come with new sets of Animojis and modified NFC capabilities which will let users use their device instead of transit cards and hotel keys. New iOS 12 feature includes new Digital Health initiative, which will give users tools to monitor the time usage on different apps. This will help users look at their addicted habit of phones and move to healthier habits. Further new changes will be seen in notification management area. Sure, iOS 12 is going to be interesting but it is iOS 13 where the true excitement lies.
All in all, WWDC 2018 will feature some interesting announcements but there is not going major unveil this year. Rumours are that may be iPhone SE 2 launch at WWDC 2018 but we are still not sure about it.


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