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“It was a good fit, and I’m glad to be a part of it,” says Jens Reichert, CEO of Dayz.
“It’s the first cross platform game I’ve worked on and I love it.”
Reichers team has been working on the project for months, and he’s hoping to launch Dayz for the Rift in the coming months.
Reichers co-founder Jens Reinicherts team at the company’s offices in Germany.
Dayz cross-platform is an ambitious cross-device development plan.
Reiches team has worked on the Oculus project since 2016 and the Dayz game was originally going to be called Dayz 2.
But he decided to move the project forward to the Oculus platform to create Dayz 3, and that was the plan.
Dayz 3 will feature Oculus support, and Reichets team is working on Oculus Rift support.
Reics team is also working on cross-play between Dayz and DayZ 2.
Reichs team is still working on Dayz 1.
The Oculus Rift will be released in the fall, but Dayz will only be released on Windows PCs and Macs.
Reix is an open source VR gaming platform that Reichesss team developed.
It’s an open platform that supports Oculus Rift, Dayz, and Day Z. Reicahes team is currently working on an open-source version of Reix that will allow for cross-console cross-browser play.
Reix is the successor to the Reix SDK.
Reighes team built Reix in-house.
It was a big leap forward for VR and for VR-related development.
It supports multiple game engines, including Unity, Unreal, and Unity Mobile.
Reighes is a big part of Reighets success, as the company was able to create a VR-ready VR game in a matter of months.
Reigerts team has also been working hard on DayZ, which Reicheres team is very proud of.
Day Z is a cross-genre survival game that’s developed by Reicheds team.
The game was recently released on Steam Early Access.
It uses the DayZ engine.
It will also use Reix, and players will be able to play with their existing VR headset or on an Oculus Rift.
DayZ 3 is scheduled to launch on Windows, Mac, and Linux on October 11.
DayZ 3 has been available for Linux on Steam since November 18, and is available for the HTC Vive now.
Reigenys team is hoping to have DayZ 1 ready for Oculus Rift on October 16.


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E-commerce major Flipkart has invested in or launched new businesses. These include Shopsy, Flipkart Health, Cleartrip, and ANS Commerce and building strong technology capabilities such as image search, a revamped UX interface, and live commerce.
By investing in these areas, the company was able to create new employment opportunities and grow the e-commerce ecosystem in India, which in turn provides more opportunities for growth for more than 11 lakh sellers, including micro, small and medium enterprises.
Further, Flipkart invested in inorganic growth with investments in companies like Ninjacart and ANS Commerce. Flipkart also invested in its business-to-business vertical, Flipkart India, before the festive season sale of 2022. This investment reduced its cash balance in September.
Flipkart led the first week of the festive season sale by clocking a gross merchandise value of Rs 24,800 crores for a total estimated sale of Rs 40,000 crores across e-commerce platforms. Flipkart's losses widened to over Rs 7800 crores in the financial year 2021-2022. This is based on the performance of its business-to-business unit Flipkart India and B2C e-commerce unit Flipkart Internet.
The combined loss of both entities stood at Rs 5352 crores in the financial year 2020-21. Flipkart Internet, comprising online business-to-consumer platforms, has reported a widening of loss to Rs 4399 crores in the fiscal year 2022 from Rs 2907 crores in the fiscal year 2021.

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Cecil the Lion’s death drew worldwide condemnation, but the latest development is giving us all some hope. Ty – the biggest manufacturer of plush toys in the world – announced on Monday that it is set to make a Beanie Baby to commemorate the beloved lion from South Africa.
The 13-year-old wildlife celebrity was killed last month by Walter Palmer, an American dentist who is facing worldwide scorn, as well as potential extradition to Africa. Ty Warner, the founder and chairman of Ty, said that the special Cecil the Lion Beanie Baby “will raise awareness for animal conservation and give comfort to all saddened by the loss of Cecil”.
The highly-anticipated Cecil the Lion Beanie Baby will go on sale in September, and it will retail for around $5.99. The toy company stated that 100% of the profits from sales will go to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of University of Oxford, the group of researchers that was studying and tracking Cecil since 2008.
Delta Air Lines – the only American airline to fly to Africa – announced on Monday that it would no longer ship lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and buffalo trophies. Besides Delta, a couple of other foreign airlines announced similar bans last week.


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The Wii currently offers 512MB of internal flash memory for saved games and downloadable content, but following the launch of the WiiWare games channel many have already exhausted the console’s internal storage. Though the Wii is expandable via SD Cards, it can only execute downloaded code if it is stored within that internal 512MB block.
So, a new hard drive add-on for the Wii is coming then? Well, no. Fischer denied plans for an external hard drive, but said a solution that is “very linked to [Nintendo’s] overall strategy” is being developed by their team in Japan. Exactly what the solution will be remains to be seen.


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In a bid to find the biggest bargains, shoppers are flocking to discount supermarket ALDI to get their fill of household products.
13,000 Australian consumers voted in the ninth annual Product of the Year Awards, with ALDI edging out Coles with 13 products wins to 12.
According to the Nielsen survey, Coles was voted as having the best shopping environment, Woolworths had the best healthy offerings, and ALDI scored highly in the best bargain department.
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Meanwhile, agricultural imports decreased by 8.2%
Food exports, which include agricultural and agro-industrial products, amounted to $12 billion dollars in the first five months of the year, i.e. 5.1% more than in the same period last year.
Meanwhile, agricultural imports decreased by 8.2% and totaled $10.5 billion dollars, showing Mexico required less of these goods in this period.
According to SAGARPA, the surplus reached in said period is one of the highest recorded positive balances of the food industry in recent years.
The authorities stated the surplus was due to a more dynamic primary field and the further opening of markets for Mexican products.
Up to May, cumulative exports of agricultural products increased by 7.1% and totaled $6.2 billion dollars, SAGARPA stated.
Meanwhile, the agribusiness sector, which includes processed foods and beverages, made $5.8 billion dollars in international sales, i.e. 3% higher over the year.
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Nintendo has just announced that the Super Mario Bros. movie that was originally going to play in theaters in 2022 has now been delayed to 2023. Its new planned release dates are April 7 in North America and April 28 in Japan.
In a tweet, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that he had consulted with Chris Meledandri at Illumination and they agreed to push back the film’s release date, but that the wait would be worth it.
Fortunately, the new release date is just under 4 months, as the movie was planned to be released in North America on December 21, 2022, while other regions would have their release date announced at a later time. This was originally announced during September’s Nintendo Direct on September 23, 2021.
There is still no word on other release dates for other regions, but now that we know Japan’s release date, other regions should have a similar release time in April 2023.
The Super Mario Bros. movie has a star-studded cast providing the voices of the characters, with Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario, Jack Black as Bowser, and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad. Charles Martinet, the original voice of Mario, will be providing other voices for the film.


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In January 2011 CVSE announced that an alternative to conventional tire chains was now being allowed in British Columbia for commercial vehicles. The bulletin said that the use of pneumatic automatically deployed tire chains for commercial vehicles will fulfill the requirements of section 208 of the Motor Vehicle Act. This section requires winter tires or the carrying of tire chains in posted winter tire / chain control areas of the province.
It also announced the approval for use of the Autosock fabric traction device for light vehicles.
The bulletin was withdrawn after re-examination of the legislation contained in the Motor Vehicle Act. Neither of these devices is currently approved and only conventional tire chains will meet the requirements of Section 208.


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Firefighters responded to a “working fireplace” on the Tesla plant in Fremont, California on Thursday afternoon, in response to a press release from the Fremont Fireplace Division.
No personnel or firefighters had been injured, the hearth division mentioned.
The fireplace reportedly occurred in an space of the Tesla facility that’s below building. That is Tesla’s major U.S. automobile meeting plant. The corporate is at the moment constructing a second one in Austin, Texas.
Elon Musk’s electrical automotive firm makes its Mannequin 3 sedan, Mannequin Y crossover SUV, and higher-end Mannequin S and X electrical autos in Fremont.
The Fremont plant lately shut down for a minimum of two days resulting from elements shortages, in response to Musk.
The manufacturing facility has a historical past of expensive fires, together with a number of fires at its paint store, as CNBC has beforehand reported.
In accordance with Tesla’s fourth quarter submitting with the SEC, Tesla has obtained “notices of violation” from the Bay Space Air High quality Administration District referring to air allowing and compliance for the Fremont manufacturing facility, too.
“The EPA is reviewing the compliance of our Fremont Manufacturing facility operations with relevant necessities below the Clear Air Act, and we’re working with the EPA in responding its requests for info,” Tesla mentioned within the submitting.
In accordance with the Fremont fireplace division, “The deep-seated fireplace was contained to a automobile manufacturing stamping machine.” Metropolis firefighters coordinated with Tesla’s inner brigade, the Tesla Fireplace Response Workforce, to include the hearth inside a couple of hours.
Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
As of Thursday night, the hearth on the Fremont manufacturing facility was below management with fireplace engines and a truck remaining on the scene to observe the state of affairs. The reason for the hearth was decided to be “molten aluminum and hydraulic fluid.”


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New Balance has just unveiled what it says is the first ever running shoe made with a 3D printer. The shoe has a midsole built from a 3D Systems printer using an elastomeric powder. The midsole is built using a process called selective laser sintering, in which the cross-sections are built up level by level using a laser. 3D printing could allow New Balance to sell more customizable shoes in the future, as the soles could easily be designed to the contours of individuals’ feet.
“This project represents an unprecedented technical collaboration in footwear”, Sean Murphy, New Balance Senior Manager of Innovation and Engineering, said in a press release. “To deliver this level of performance with a 3D printed component, we paired experts in running and biomechanics with leaders in plastics engineering, material development and generative design. These are the types of collaborations that will drive footwear design and manufacturing in the future.”
The shoes will be shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, then go on sale in Boston in April 2016.
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Ultrahaptics, the global leader in mid-air haptic technology, has appointed David Hearne as Vice President of Sales. David brings over 30 years sales experience in the electronics market to the role, having worked at a range of semiconductor and IP companies across Europe.
David joins Ultrahaptics from Cadence Design Systems, where he was most recently a Senior IP Sales Executive for Northern Europe, Scandinavia and Southern Europe. Prior to Cadence, David was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Plessey Semiconductors, where he was responsible for building a global sales team covering the US, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and implementing a company sales strategy across all regions.
“I’m delighted to be joining Ultrahaptics at such a crucial time. I have watched the company grow with interest over the last few years and am really looking forward to becoming a part of taking such an exciting young company to the next level,” said David Hearne, talking of his appointment.
CEO of Ultrahaptics, Steve Cliffe, commented: “David brings a wealth of experience to this role. We have started to see our customers bring products to the market and David will be instrumental in helping us to strengthen our commercial team.”
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THE ECONOMY has rebounded strongly in 2013, surprising the pundits but vindicating “monetarist” optimism. George Osborne, among others, suggests that the economy “is turning the corner”, implying a return to “normality”. Normal, of course, is subjective, but to the average person it probably means an environment in which the economy grows steadily, inflation is contained, living standards rise, and the real interest rate on savings is positive. Such a scenario, sadly, still seems distant.
First, the good news. Solid economic growth will likely continue into 2014. This is suggested by strong money supply expansion in the summer of 2013 – monetary trends lead the economy by six months or so according to the monetarist rule. The “best” money measure for forecasting the economy is the narrow aggregate M1, comprising physical cash and instant-access bank deposits. M1 holdings of households and private non-financial firms rose by an annual 11 per cent in August – the fastest rate since 2004, when the economy was growing by 3 to 4 per cent per annum.
Upbeat news may be accompanied by a further fall in inflation. A second monetarist rule is that inflation trends reflect monetary developments two years earlier. This has worked well in 2013 – this year’s inflation fall matches a slowdown in monetary expansion in 2010 to 2011. Consumer price index inflation could fall to 2.5 per cent by early 2014 – below the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) 2.9 per cent projection for the first quarter.
So why doubt that the economy is “normalising”? There are three reasons. First, inflation is likely to rebound later in 2014 and 2015, in lagged response to faster monetary expansion in 2012 to 2013. Depending on commodity price and currency moves, it could return to more than 3 per cent in the second half of next year. Market interest rates will probably rise in anticipation of this pick-up, in turn causing money supply growth to slow.
Secondly, the MPC should be acting now to head off inflationary risks by lessening the degree of monetary stimulus. Instead, it has locked itself into a straitjacket in the form of its convoluted forward guidance framework. By mid-2014, with inflation picking up and the unemployment rate at or close to its 7 per cent “threshold”, the MPC may be forced into belated – and significant – restraint. This would compound a market-led tightening and could lay the foundations for another downturn in 2015 to 2016.
A third reason for refusing to don the rose-tinted spectacles is the UK’s continued dismal productivity performance. The MPC expects output produced per hour worked to resume respectable growth as the economy revives, but the lesson of the last major productivity slowdown – in the 1970s – is that weakness can persist for years in the absence of policy change. Sluggish productivity implies that solid growth may run swiftly into capacity and inflation constraints, while real wages may continue to languish.
Osborne may be enjoying this economic boomlet, but the odds are that it will burn out before 2015 – partly because of the loose stance of his hand-picked monetary policy general.
Simon Ward is chief economist at Henderson Global Investors.
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The e-mails reeled into the lovelorn with tantalizing messages such as for example, “You caught their attention and now he’s expressed fascination with you. … Could he function as one?” These people were sufficient to persuade thousands and thousands of people to join up for compensated subscriptions to Match.com.
Yet authorities allege that the attention arrived perhaps perhaps not from key admirers but from reports the ongoing business had already flagged as possibly fraudulent.
The Federal Trade Commission has become suing the matchmaking giant, claiming in a problem filed Wednesday so it had utilized the phony love-interest advertisements to deceive people into buying its services.
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Instagram now has an offline mode for its Android that will let its users browse their feeds and their explore tabs even if they have no connection to mobile data or Wi-Fi. Any data that was previously loaded when the app was last connected to the web will be shown and comments and hearts will go live only when you connect the next time.
Users will be able to access the content that was previously available only online, as well as like the pictures, comment on them, save posts etc. All the changes will be made when you reconnect to the web. The explore tab will also work and would feature posts that you’ve already visited and downloaded before.
The offline functionality launched for Android will mainly help Instagram in its expansion in developing countries since Android devices are commonly used and it could make an even bigger hit in locations where the network is unreliable and or where getting postpaid plans with mobile data isn’t the norm.


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OnePlus 9 Pro Camera Samples and what Official Quote about it, 2 Years Warranty Confirmed, 3C Certification and More
OnePlus is about to launch its new flagship, the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro, which prominently features a partnership with high-end camera brand Hasselblad. In a short video, the company explains that it turned to Hasselblad to tweak and improve its camera. In the video, Pete Lau founder and CEO of OnePlus and chief product officer, explains that users demanded better color reproduction on their phones.
In the video, Hasselblad Global Marketing Manager Bronius Rudnickas says that the two companies have succeeded in their goal of achieving excellent color quality and that working with OnePlus means their customers will be able to take the best photos possible.
DXOMARK’S controversy! OnePlus 9 Series does not send test
As a well-known camera review agency, DXOMARK has frequently appeared in cell phone launches in recent years, and manufacturers often use their review rankings in DXOMARK as a promotional selling point.
However, in recent times, DXOMARK has raised questions from netizens over some of its model ratings, such as the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, whose total score is only 121, lower than that of the previous generation Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. This week, DXOMARK has raised questions again over the OPPO Find X3 Pro review, which mentioned in its report that the phone doesn’t come with a free-form optical component, but this feature was one of the more important selling points at the launch. Possibly, so, Pete Lau, founder, and CEO of OnePlus announced that the OnePlus 9 series will not be sent for DXOMARK testing.
Despite not sending tests for DXOMARK, the imaging prowess of the OnePlus 9 series is still something to look forward to as it brings Hasselblad imaging technology to the cell phone space. Officials emphasize that Hasselblad is a legendary brand in the imaging field, having recorded countless classic moments such as the first human moon landing. “We will aim to refresh the new standard of mobile imaging, and through deep R&D and technical cooperation, we will work together to create an OnePlus Hasselblad cell phone imaging system, and jointly show the ultimate charm of Hasselblad image quality on the one-plus high-end flagship.”
OnePlus 9 Series with 2 years official warranty
Hello everyone, today 315, I decided to announce a decision that may offend the industry: OnePlus 9 Series models, will be able to enjoy 2 years of official warranty service! Twice as long as the official industry warranty!
I think, as the flagship emperor, the OnePlus 9 series should not only achieve the leading industry in terms of products but also the best in terms of service. Seeing the research data, the replacement cycle of flagship users is concentrated in about 2 years, so this is equivalent to you buy our new product, almost the entire life cycle of use can enjoy the official warranty.
I knew that this decision would raise the industry-wide user demand for flagship service, as we did two years ago when we focused on the screen; my colleagues in the marketing department also reminded me that this decision would be easy to hate and would make it very difficult for our friends to do, and would even blacken us, saying that OnePlus had added the cost to the pricing, etc., I told them that if anything happened, we would be able to get the best warranty. I told them, if we look ahead to everything, we can’t do anything right. The thing that can bring real benefits to users, welcome friends is to follow up.
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In the meantime, a well-known blogger revealed in a post that the new OnePlus 9 series has received domestic 3C certification, and the new standard is equipped with 65W fast charging and a 4500mAh dual-cell battery solution, which has a sufficient guarantee in terms of battery life. Besides, the blogger also said that it is now possible to determine that the OnePlus 9 Pro is equipped with wireless charging, but the standard version can not be determined for the time being.


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Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola sparked mixed reactions on social media after buying a Ferrari Portofino for each of his three daughters.
Otedola reportedly asked her daughters – Cuppy, Tolani and Temi – to accompany him for shopping, and being the wonderful dad he is, his daughters gladly accepted.
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They were, however, surprised when they were driven to a car dealership filled with the latest Ferrari cars.
The three ladies were given a chance to choose the car of their liking, and they settled on a brand new Ferrari Portofino.
Taking to Instagram, Cuppy shared photos of their new ride with a caption that read;
“Papa took us shopping and bought one for each. Ferrari Portofino,” Cuppy shared.
Tolani also flaunted her new ride on Instagram, thanking her dad for what he termed ‘the most stunning gift’.
“Haven’t been out in a while, but I’m so excited to take this beauty out for a spin! Thank you so much Papa for the most stunning gift. Love you,” she wrote.
A 2020 model of the car reportedly costs about KSh 23 million.
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One of the biggest directors in Hollywood is ready to totally embrace filming on the iPhone.
Steven Soderbergh — whose titles include everything from Ocean’s Eleven to Magic Mike — filmed his latest movie entirely an iPhone. Only instead of using it as a gimmick, Soderbergh says he’s likely going to start using iPhone on most of his future films.
Soderbergh certainly isn’t the first director to shoot a movie entirely on iPhone. Tangerine was highly praised by critics and shot all on iPhone, but that was due to budget reasons. Soderberg’s new film Unsane was shot entirely on iPhone too
During an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival, Soderbergh said he was so impressed by the quality of the iPhone’s cinematography that it’s now a legitimate tool.
“I think this is the future,” Soderbergh said in an interview. “Anybody going to see this movie who has no idea of the backstory to the production will have no idea this was shot on the phone. That’s not part of the conceit.”
Soderbergh has been known to experiment with a wide range of cameras in his movies. He used to be a huge advocate of the expensive RED 4K cameras. Now he says the iPhone is a “gamechanger”. Asked whether he’s going to commit to shooting films exclusively on iPhone, Soderbergh said he’s leaning that way.
“I’d have to have a pretty good reason not to be thinking about that first… There’s a philosophical obstacle a lot of people have about the size of the capture device. I don’t have that problem,” explained Soderbergh. “I look at this as potentially one of the most liberating experiences that I’ve ever had as a filmmaker, and that I continue having. The gets that I felt moment to moment were so significant that this is, to me, a new chapter.”
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A popular Christmas market in Reading town centre has applied to sell alcohol from its stalls this festive season.
Each Christmas, Broad Street comes alive with stalls selling German sausages and seasonal sweets and treats served by Peaks Catering Ltd.
This year, the company owner Jo Peak has applied to sell alcohol from the stalls.
She said: “We’ll have an alcohol offering this year in Broad Street, that’s the reason for the application.
“It’s so we can sell mulled wine and beer from the stalls.”
In full, Peaks Catering has applied to sell alcohol from 10am to 10pm Monday to Saturday, and 11am to 10pm on Sundays.
It has also applied for the provision of ‘regulated entertainment’ for the same periods of time as above.
Peaks Catering is based in Surrey and also runs burger and hot dog vans for events and temporary pick & mix sweet sales.
The market stalls will be in Broad Street from November 16 to December 29.
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We already know that more and more Filipinos have been falling in love with kimchi, thanks to the unli-samgyeopsal trend, not to mention the popularity of everything K-culture. But now there’s an even better reason to start making kimchi an everyday staple.
According to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Allergy, fermented vegetables, including kimchi, may actually help lessen one’s chances of dying from COVID-19. However, it’s important to note that kimchi or any fermented vegetable should not be regarded as a miracle anti-COVID drug. In fact, South Korea’s Health Ministry issued a statement early on clarifying to the public that consuming kimchi won’t cure the disease.
But there’s no disputing that eating kimchi has multiple health benefits. This traditional Korean food can be made using any raw vegetable (usually cabbage) that is then salted and seasoned with any number of ingredients like ginger, garlic, spring onions, gochugaru or chili powder, then left to naturally ferment. It is ubiquitous on the Korean table, used as a side dish (banchan), as well as a main component of soups, stews, and even fried rice.
Kimchi is one of those dishes that seem to have it all, both flavor-wise and health-wise. With infinite variations (and not all of them spicy), kimchi is low-calorie, low-fat, rich in vitamin C and beta karotene, and loaded with minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals. It boasts probiotic properties that are essential to maintaining gut health, and even more crucially, to boosting the immune system.
Former WHO expert Dr. Jean Bousquet of Montpellier University in France led a team of researchers to determine a correlation between European countries’ COVID mortality rates and their daily consumption of fermented vegetables. While the study focuses on fermented foods like sauerkraut and fermented milk prevalent in Europe, it posits that countries with diets heavy in fermented vegetables reported lower coronavirus deaths. Accessible via MedRxiv, the study reports, “Foods with potent antioxidant or anti-ACE activity—like uncooked or fermented cabbage—are largely consumed in low-death rate European countries, Korea and Taiwan, and might be considered in the low prevalence of deaths.”
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South Korea, land of kimchi, happens to have a low fatality rate of only 2.14% based on 297 deaths out of 13,879 infected as of this writing. Sauerkraut-loving Germany also exhibits a relatively low fatality rate of 4.47% (with 9,099 deaths and 203,717 infected as of this writing), compared to the United Kingdom at 15.30%, Italy at 14.33%, and France at 14.05% where fermented vegetables are not part of people’s daily diets.
Fermented foods are supposed to help reduce the amount of the enzyme ACE2 that can enter the lungs, thus making it harder for the virus to enter the body. In an interview published in The Sun, Dr. Bousquet explains, “Coronavirus binds to ACE2 that induces oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic effects. Fermented foods have potent antioxidant activity and can protect against severe Covid-19.” As a result, Dr. Bousquet admitted that he has added more fermented vegetables to his diet. In the same interview, he shares, “I have now changed my diet, and it includes raw cabbage three times a week, sauerkraut once a week, and kefir at breakfast and pickled vegetables.”
During these COVID-uncertain times, it seems like a no brainer to “do as the doctor says” and add more fermented foods to one’s diet. Kimchi can be easily sourced from your neighborhood Korean grocery or online supplier, and you can even make it yourself—all the more reason to never run out of kimchi at home.


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Benugo is to roll out carbon labelling for cakes and chilled foods in its cafes and restaurants across the UK.
The café chain introduced a carbon labelling pilot in partnership with the Natural History Museum in September 2022. Now the labels will be available in all its sites, including the V&A, British Museum, Science Museum, Barbican, Benugo cafes in John Lewis and all Benugo high street locations.
The data and carbon labelling system has been developed and administered by Foodprint from Nutritics – a fully automated environmental impact scoring system for the hospitality and foodservice sector. Its labels highlight scoring levels of carbon impact from A-E, with A being the most climate-friendly choice.
It is part of its mission to help consumers make better choices. For example, it serves carbon neutral coffee in collaboration with ClimatePartner. It has also introduced wooden cutlery and paper straws, while salad bowls are made from 70% recycled plastic or press cardboard, and napkins are made from 100% recycled paper.
“We want to give our customers the option of making informed choices to reduce the carbon emissions associated with food purchased from our sites across the UK,” said Shane Kavanagh, commercial director at Benugo.
Using the Nutritics Foodprint solution enables the business to use software it has already deployed for its nutritional calculations.
“It allows us to treat carbon in the same way we treat a nutritional value, applying it to every food and drink item for which we have a recipe, helping customers make more sustainable choices, and helping us develop lower carbon food choices across our business,” Kavanagh added.
Nearly half of the population is trying to make eco-conscious choices when eating out of home, noted Stephen Nolan, Nutritics managing director.
“Foodprint scores, as presented at COP27, will help consumers understand how their food choices impact the environment,” he said.


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Toshiba, one of the leading multi-business organisations from Japan has planned to invest $100 million in power sector in India by 2016. As a first phase of implementation, Toshiba announced to invest $30 million.
In a statement released by Toshiba Corporation, Toshiba is all set to invest 3 billion Yen in Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems India Private Ltd (TTDI) in Hyderabad. Toshiba has set the target for transmission and distribution of power sector in one of the potential high-growth market in the world. The new facility in Hyderabad will begin in 2015.
Toshiba also plans to secure 20 per cent market share in India by 2018.
The new power transformer line will support production of 765 kV (kilovolt) transformers with a capacity of 500 MVA (mega volt ampere), while the new switchgear line will produce high voltage products. Toshiba already exist in production line of small and medium capacity transformers and low and medium voltage switchgears.


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Surrey’s only green business awards resounded to a prediction that businesses face a pre-condition to operate based on their social-environmental impacts within the next decade as it celebrated the sustainability achievements of the winning 2023 businesses.
The CREST23 Award winners were revealed at the CREST23 Business Convention at the WWF’s Living Planet Centre on Thursday 26th October and included Sustainability Hero for 2023 Ben McCallan, Chair of a community hub for environment action groups, Zero Carbon Guildford.
Ben achieved national recognition for his team when they were congratulated in the House of Commons earlier this year for a UK Community Project Award.
The awards were made after attendees had heard from Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti, Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey, who said: “Businesses will have to look at the balance sheet not just when it comes to profit but also when it comes to social impact, environmental impact and that should be a pre-condition for you to operate.
“Within the next decade, those will be a precondition for all businesses to operate. Those that do not qualify will not be allowed to operate.” Adding that it was not the same as corporate social responsibility which was like “make up” where you tried to “save your face or clean your conscience by doing something voluntary.”
It was a community bus company, Waverley Hoppa, that scooped the Sustainability Impact category for businesses with a turnover of over £1million, which was an even sweeter success, having missed out on the CREST22 Smarter Transport last year to the winner McLaren Applied.
The award, sponsored by Holdsway, recognised its service for vulnerable or infirm members of the community as well as its commitment to reduce carbon emissions.
The Smarter Transport Award, sponsored by Surrey County Council, this year having gone to a prestigious blue-chip company in 2022 went to Solarcycle UK, a start-up which develops and installs off-grid solar charging stations for e-bikes and e-scooters.
The Sustainability Impact for businesses with under £1million turnover, sponsored by the University of Surrey’s Institute for Sustainability, was For Earth’s Sake, a Cranleigh eco-hub shop.
Meanwhile, Albury Organic Vineyard, considered one of the best sustainable English wines and one of a small handful of English vineyards to follow biodynamic principles, was awarded the Restoring Nature Award, sponsored by the WWF-UK and was a new category for 2023.
Transforming Food Award, sponsored by the Surrey Wildlife Trust, went to Food Float, a not-for-profit community interest company which offers a range of locally sourced produce. The award for Circular Efficiency, sponsored by Carol Miller Media, went to Bee Friends a local bee farmer with thirty-three apiaries mainly in the Surrey Hills.
A further new category for 2023 was the Community Impact Award, sponsored by Surrey Hills Enterprises, and it was presented to Surrey Choices, which provides a range of support services dedicated to improving the independence, confidence, and life skills of disabled people.


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This update was scheduled to go live at 1:30 am Sunday (BST) but due to some last minute improvements Activision had delayed the roll out. But the feature packed COD Mobile update is now live and everyone can start experiencing it.
The much awaited zombie mode is here on COD Mobile which will be available in raid mode and endless survival mode. The zombie horde will be at the Call of Duty: World at War map Shi No Numa. In raid mode, players can earn points by boarding windows and killing zombies. Once players reach 8th and 12th rounds they will go against the Abomination (boss).
Endless survival mode, as the name suggests is a traditional zombie mode where players survive till they can. Players can compete against their friends and see who lasts the longest against an endless wave of zombies.
COD Mobile is getting controller support back with the latest update. Activision had removed it in October which garnered a lot of backlash from the community. For COD Mobile, DUALSHOCK4 PS4 and Xbox One controllers are supported. Controllers will also work only in matches and not in menus. Players should also set up their controllers in-game before syncing it.
COD Mobile is adding a new winter themed map in multiplayer mode. Battle royale is also getting a winter themed update along with new areas to explore. There's also a new M16 weapon players can get and encounter new events as well.
The new season is now live on COD Mobile with winter themed rewards for ranked multiplayer and battle royale. There are new characters and themed content as well in season 2. COD Mobile has also made some changes like balancing scoring experience at higher ranks, optimised ranked matchmaking and improving scoring issues. COD Mobile will also remove banned players from the leaderboard.


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Suspected hackers forced Youbit, a leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, to declare bankruptcy after their latest attack resulted in the loss of 17% of the firm’s total assets.
Youbit suffered two major cyber-attacks in less than ten months which forced it to declare bankruptcy and disburse the cryptocurrency in its possession.
Popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit was forced to declare bankruptcy after a major cyber-attack on its servers wiped out 17% of its overall assets. This was the second such cyber-attack the exchange suffered this year and its closure surely doesn’t bode well for other cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
The sudden and unprecedented surge in the value of Bitcoin has tempted hackers to mount repeated cyber-attacks and phishing attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges and marketplaces of late. Last week, Bitfinex, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, said that it suffered a series of major DDoS attacks that forced it to go offline several times since November.
A week ago, cryptocurrency marketplace NiceHash’s payment servers were compromised, resulting in the loss of Bitcoin wallet value worth millions of dollars. According to CoinDesk, hackers stole as many as 4,736.42 Bitcoin from NiceHash customer wallets which was equivalent to more than $62 million at current rates.
A cyber-attack on Bithumb, South Korea’s largest etherium cryptocurrency exchange, in July also resulted in a loss of over $1 million in digital coins. The hackers also compromised details of 30,000 customers and proceeded to dry up customers’ Bithumb accounts using stolen passwords.
Following the latest cyber-attack on its servers, Youbit announced that it has halted all deposits and withdrawals and that it would disburse all cryptocurrency in its possession.
‘Due to bankruptcy, the settlement of cash and coins will be carried out in accordance with all bankruptcy procedures. However, in order to minimize the damage to our members, we will arrange for the withdrawal of approximately 75% of the balance at 4:00 am on December 19, The rest of the unpaid portion will be paid after the final settlement is completed,’ the exchange said in a statement on its website.
A number of researchers have connected Lazarus Group, an infamous North Korean hacker group, with various cyber-attacks conducted on cryptocurrency marketplaces and exchanges in the recent past. A few days ago, researchers at security firm Secureworks revealed that Lazarus Group sent spearphishing e-mails to executives at several cryptocurrency firms about a vacant CFO position at a leading London-based cryptocurrency firm.
Recipients were asked to apply for the vacant CFO position by downloading Microsoft Word documents attached to the emails which purportedly contained details like job description, responsibilities and eligibility requirements. These attachments in fact contained Remote Access Trojans (RATs) which downloaded additional malware into victims’ systems to help the group steal cryptocurrency from their servers.
It remains to be seen if the Lazarus Group or any other North Korean hacker group is responsible for the cyber-attack on Youbit’s servers that resulted in the loss of cryptocurrency worth millions. The firm has promised to minimise the losses suffered by members by either offering cyber insurance worth 3 billion Won or by selling its operating rights.
‘While the exact details of the attacks on Youbit are unknown, an examination of the other cryptocurrency attacks over the year suggest that organisations need to start with the basics. Firstly, server infrastructure and the applications that host cryptocurrencies need to be seen as a security risk – as this is a vector for attack we have seen time and time again,’ says Leigh-Anne Galloway, Cyber Resilience Lead at Positive.com.
‘No matter how secure a currency is, if the web application, mobile application, server or network the currency operates on is vulnerable, the contents are at risk. Secondly, there needs to be a greater focus on preventing social engineering attacks – protecting against website clones and educating users to avoid malicious websites and apps as quick as possible.
‘If cybersecurity continues to be a second thought, we will continue to see sustained attacks that damage the reputation of virtual currencies as a whole, and ultimately results innocent users losing their money to criminal,’ Galloway adds.


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Now that digital downloading is all the rage, rumors are flying, and it's time for "deal watch." McDonald's
According to the Los Angeles Times, McDonald's will serve up about $30 million in advertising, receiving discounts on songs licensed from Sony Connect. The music will be given away for free with items from its menu. (The mind races. Happy Musical Meals? A song with your salad?)
We've mused about the prospects for Apple
Even more recently, Starbucks
Apple's had a pretty big slice of the legal download market, with a 70% share. Sony's a little late to the game. It's a little surprising, considering Sony brought lightweight music on the go with the Walkman, back when cassette tapes were a hip alternative to those old-school 8-track tapes and vinyl.
According to the news coverage, Apple was courting McDonald's, only to be beaten to the punch by Sony. That hurts -- McDonald's would have been a sweet deal for Apple, in terms of exposure for a musical service. McDonald's pack weight with some 30,000 locations, roughly 47 million customers served daily, the repeat business of its customer traffic, and its appeal to young people.
Despite the fast-food chain's marketing muscle, the partnership is still a rumor, and Sony Connect hasn't even made its grand entrance as of yet. Expect the unexpected as more companies sign on to this new trend of using music for marketing. And keep an eye on all the players as they try to take a bite out of Apple.
Is Apple going to lose its advantage in the digital music space? Talk it over on the Apple discussion board.
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Nixu grows in Swedish cybersecurity market
Finnish cybersecurity company Nixu is acquiring the cybersecurity business of Swedish security company Vesper Group.
Nixu will acquire the business in a cash transaction valued at around 1.6 million euros.
Vesper’s cybersecurity business hunts and detects breaches and threats in clients’ networks as a managed service and will further strengthen Nixu’s leading position in the Swedish market.
“The European cybersecurity market is fragmented and offers growth potential both organically and via acquisitions,” said Petri Kairinen, Nixu’s CEO. “Vesper Group selling its cybersecurity business and starting a partnership with Nixu is a clear sign that the market requires special, dedicated expertise, which is a key competitive advantage of Nixu.”
Nixu first entered the Swedish market in 2016 and has since acquired three cybersecurity companies in the country. The Finnish company’s strategic vision is to become the number one cybersecurity partner in Northern Europe, with a strong local presence in Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands.
It has experienced double-digit growth for several years now, with reported revenues of 40.1 million euros in 2018. It employs nearly 400 cybersecurity experts worldwide.
The latest acquisition is expected to be closed on 1 April.
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When Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore in 1994, no one could have guessed that in less than 15 years, Amazon would fundamentally reshape the U.S. retail landscape. No one, that is, except Bezos himself: As Brad Stone’s book about Amazon, “The Everything Store,” makes clear, Bezos’s goal from the start was to change the way Americans shop.
Amazon’s remarkable rise carries two important lessons for economists: First, one ambitious, innovative company can have a huge impact not only on an industry but also on the economy as a whole. Today, Amazon employs more than 230,000 workers, a figure that doesn’t count thousands more who work as contractors in the company warehouses, sell products on its marketplace and rent out their labor on its “Amazon Mechanical Turk” platform. Amazon has contributed to the decline of entire industries — department stores, bookstores, movie rentals — while helping to create whole new ones.
The second lesson: Amazon’s success was almost completely unpredictable, at least from the outside. To an economist looking at data on new ventures, Amazon was merely a bookseller, hardly a business known for its breakout growth even before the Internet upended the industry. And even if someone had looked more closely, what distinguished Amazon from Pets.com or Kozmo.com or any of the other high-flying startups that came crashing down to earth when the tech bubble burst in 2000?
As a result of those lessons, policymakers concerned with entrepreneurship at both the local and national level have long favored what economist Robert Litan dubbed a “shots on goal” approach: Try to encourage as many startups as possible. Most of those companies will fail. Of the survivors, most will never grow into major economic engines. But statistically, a few will turn out to be the next Amazon, with huge rewards for their local economies.
In research set to be published on Monday, however, a team of researchers at MIT argues that Amazon’s rise wasn’t so unpredictable after all. The researchers believe they have found a set of characteristics that can identify which companies have a shot at success. That could allow cities and states to move beyond the shots-on-goal approach and instead try to foster the specific types of companies that are most likely to create jobs and drive innovation.
“The shots-on-goal approach, really, I think was the best that could be done based on the information that was available before,” said Catherine Fazio, who is studying the policy implications of the new research. “But if you have further insight into the entrepreneurial potential … then you can start to experiment with programs and have a more tailored approach.”
The new research comes amid a three-decade-long slump in U.S. entrepreneurship. In 1980, Americans started more than 450,000 new companies, according to data from the Census Bureau; in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, there were just over 400,000 new companies even though the U.S. population is nearly 40 percent larger. The startup drop-off has corresponded with a decline in other measures of economic dynamism — Americans are changing jobs less often, for example, and are moving across the country less frequently — leading economists to worry that the U.S. as a whole has become more risk-averse.
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The air conditioner industry is booming, but which companies are the hottest and which ones are making the most noise?
A new report by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers shows that while air conditioning has been growing in popularity, it’s not just a luxury item for those who want to save money.
It also seems to be growing more expensive, particularly as consumers become more aware of the high cost of air conditioning.
“In terms of affordability, the most important thing for people to understand is that there’s a huge difference between a cheap, high-efficiency unit and a really good one,” said John Hagg, the association’s senior vice president of consumer insights.
“And if you have a really low-efficiency air condition unit, you’re going to spend a lot of money on it.
If you have an efficient unit, they’re going for a lot less.”
While the overall trend in air conditioning purchases has been toward more efficient units, the study found that the biggest winners were the major manufacturers of air conditioning equipment.
The top three companies are:Air Conditioning Manufacturers of America (ACEA), which makes the popular Coleman air conditionors; North American Thermostat, which makes models like the Thermostatic and the Venti air conditionor; and AECI, which produces units that are made by companies like Venti and Air Thermostats.
The study noted that the ACEA and North American brands have been steadily gaining market share over the past few years.
“We’ve seen a huge shift in the way people are choosing to use their air condition,” said Michael Haskin, a senior vice President of marketing and consumer insights for ACEA.
“We have this growing consumer base that wants to save more money and buy better products.”
Haskin said consumers are more aware that air conditioning is more expensive than traditional heating and air conditioning systems.
He noted that most consumers still think air conditioning will only cost them $1 to $2 a month.
“People are seeing it as a luxury.
People don’t realize that it’s going to be cheaper and that they can have an effective product,” Haskins said.
In fact, ACEA estimates that the average cost of an air conditionee is $8.60 a month, compared to $9.90 a month for heating and $10.80 a month or more for air conditioning in the US.
“It’s not surprising that air condition is getting more expensive,” Hagg said.
“But if you compare the price of air conditions to other costs, it really is a bargain.”
Hagg said that while consumers will be more conscious of the cost of their air conditioning system, they will not be as careful when buying it because they don’t have the luxury of knowing the true cost of a unit.
“The price of a home air condition or furnace is usually higher than the price people pay for the air condition in their home,” Hagoin said.
“They are not going to make the same purchase because they know the price is higher.”
Hagoin added that air conditions have become more efficient over the years, and the ACEAs survey found that a majority of people said they were willing to pay more for a better unit.
“I think people are willing to spend more money, but they’re not going out and buying it, because they’re comfortable with the product,” he said.
As more people purchase air condition systems, Hagg says the industry could see a big uptick in efficiency, especially as people get more comfortable with using them.
“When I first started this business I was going to buy an air-conditioning system for my home, and now I’ve got more money than ever before,” Hag said.
Hagg also noted that ACEAs consumer research showed that a good number of consumers have been switching to a hybrid air condition system that is also an energy efficient device.
“So I think we’ll see a lot more people buying more efficient air condition units,” he predicted.
“When you look at the average price of an electric unit, we think the average value is around $7 to $8 a month.”


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Traders phone up gambling helplines as game-like broker apps spread
Helplines of playing dependancy restoration teams have been ringing with a brand new sort of caller: day traders.
The rise of cell brokerage functions outfitted with prompts, animations, rewards and digital thrives have introduced the texture of investing platforms nearer to on-line sports activities betting and playing.
“The consumer expertise is converging and the road between playing and investing, which was already fairly fluid, has nearly been fully erased,” stated Keith Whyte, government director of the Nationwide Council on Downside Playing, among the many teams reporting extra calls from inventory merchants to their assist strains.
The US Securities and Alternate Fee is now examining the extent to which brokers’ and funding advisers’ “digital engagement practices” — together with so-called gamification — help or undermine small buyers. A public remark interval that closed on Friday drew greater than 2,000 submissions.
The regulator has needed to meet up with new methods for buyers to purchase and promote shares, derivatives and cryptocurrencies from their cell phones on apps far flashier than conventional brokerage platforms.
Slot machine-style graphics, chief boards and lists of fashionable shares are among the many novel types of digital engagement beneath examine. The SEC is how digital design itself might be construed as giving funding recommendation — a enterprise that’s topic to regulatory oversight.
Specialists say that sure apps seem designed to encourage habits which are tough to shake. “Gamification is about hooking and holding,” stated Natasha Schüll, professor at New York College and writer of Habit by Design, about machine playing in Las Vegas.
Silicon Valley engineers first integrated gamification into app design a little bit greater than a decade in the past. Engagement was measured by time spent on an app and design targeted on monetising that point. Mark Pincus, the billionaire founding father of the net recreation firm Zynga, in 2011 predicted that “recreation mechanics would be the most precious ability within the new economic system”.
The fusion of inventory buying and selling with game-like options has gained consideration as a brand new technology of buyers flocked to the market through the pandemic. Whereas playing carries a cultural stigma, new buyers on brokerage apps are susceptible as a result of they “don’t see themselves as playing”, Whyte stated.
Felicia Grondin, performing government director of the Council on Compulsive Playing of New Jersey, stated the absence of different issues to guess on, comparable to sports activities and horseracing, within the early days of the pandemic pushed some gamblers into inventory buying and selling platforms that may ship the identical thrill. Her group’s 1-800-Gambler helpline has obtained an nearly 50 per cent improve in calls associated to day trading because the begin of the pandemic, she stated, although she famous that the amount was small in comparison with calls about lotteries and sports activities betting.
Whyte views the rise in merchants’ calls to the Nationwide Council on Downside Playing as “the Robinhood impact” — a reference to Robinhood, the commission-free US dealer. Robinhood has estimated that half of all new brokerage accounts opened from 2016 to 2021 have been on its platform, and half of its personal 22.5m funded accounts opened since 2015 have been first-time buyers.
Till earlier this yr, Robinhood’s app greeted new customers with a “scratch off” perform that exposed a free share of inventory for opening an account and rewarded clients with falling digital confetti after they executed trades.
Emoji stars and high-five symbols are nonetheless utilized in Robinhood buyer communications, deposit confirmations and notifications. After a commerce is accomplished, customers are prompted by a sunglasses-wearing smiley face to contemplate inserting one other order.
Robinhood has argued that it supplies data customers need. “The effectivity of design that creates a pleasant buyer expertise shouldn’t be thought of ‘gamification’ and doesn’t point out any intent to control clients,” David Dusseault, president of its Robinhood Monetary division, wrote in response to the SEC’s request for remark.
Vlad Tenev, Robinhood’s chief government, wrote in a Wall Avenue Journal column final month that it was “offensive” to counsel that new buyers have been “uninformed gamblers”.
Reactions and reinforcement after a commerce are borrowed from the gaming and playing worlds, gamification specialists stated. They appear designed to make customers really feel constructive a few choice and preserve them engaged, no matter whether or not they gained or misplaced. Explosive strikes in meme stocks and cryptocurrencies have strengthened the emotional punch.
“While you’re reinforcing that exercise, it begins to rewire an individual’s mind, and interprets to behavior that for some results in dependancy,” Grondin stated.
Robinhood has eradicated confetti however added a rising scorching air balloon “celebration” to its new IPO Entry function, which permits clients to take part in sure preliminary public choices. Nonetheless, “even the rising suggests one thing”, stated Andrew Zimmerman, founding father of Conduct Design Collective, a behavioural science consulting agency. “If it was a brick that fell from the highest, you’d get much less constructive suggestions.”
Vibrant colors and reside costs that scroll up and down like slot machine wheels intensify consumer reactions to unexceptional numbers and drive motion. “An animation or response makes you’re feeling such as you did one thing, and also you get a launch of dopamine with out having to have interaction your acutely aware mind,” Zimmerman stated.
Gamification doesn’t change the choices accessible to retail buyers, as nobody is compelled to make a commerce. However overly simplified, gamified interfaces on brokerage apps have an effect on the best way selections are made, specialists stated.
“There’s a distinction between making a consumer platform simple to make use of and making a consumer platform that appears like a online game, that doesn’t really feel like I’m taking numerous danger,” stated Vicki Bogan, professor at Cornell College’s enterprise faculty who research the gamification of finance.
A whole bunch of retail buyers filed feedback in response to the SEC’s invitation. Commenters additionally included the North American Securities Directors Affiliation, a gaggle of state investor-protection regulators.
“Through the use of options comparable to confetti, scratch-off model graphics and awards programs, sure corporations are encouraging buyers to make trades that will not be of their finest pursuits and would conversely serve the pursuits of the broker-dealer,” the affiliation wrote to the SEC.
Schüll stated Robinhood’s success in bringing folks into the inventory market was largely constructive.
“However they’re additionally making the most of a desert of regulation on this new digital terrain,” she added. “We haven’t put clear limits in areas the place gamification might be problematic, like funding.”


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Wireless electricity eliminates tangled cords
A common fixture in any college dorm room is the overflowing power strip, with wires stretching across the room to power laptops, TVs, microwaves, and mini-fridges. This unavoidable disarray is common enough to be tolerated, but eliminating the need for wires is a thought that has probably crossed the minds of many individuals. With current research in this field, however, this may become a reality in upcoming years.
Wireless electricity is based off a concept known as resonant energy transfer, introduced around 100 years ago by Nikola Tesla. At TEDGlobal 2009, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler explained that a wire coil, called the power source coil, uses electricity to resonate at a very high frequency. The energy from the coil’s resonance can then cause another coil to resonate without having to physically touch the original coil. The second coil is the power capture coil, which is made to resonate only at the same frequency as the power source coil. If the two coils are placed close enough, the power source coil will cause the power capture coil to resonate, and magnetic energy will transfer between them. This is the basis of wireless electricity transfer.
“The power source converts the electricity into an oscillating magnetic field, and the magnetic field carries the energy from point A to point B, and at point B it’s converted from a magnetic field back into electricity,” explained David Schatz, director of business development and marketing at WiTricity.
Scientists at WiTricity state that wireless energy transfer will provide more than just convenience and better organization.
Many electronic devices today are powered by disposable batteries, which are detrimental to the environment, cost-ineffective, and inefficient compared to many other sources of power, according to Giler. In addition, batteries are often used around power sources. “By building an electricity power source into one of these heavy devices [like a computer] that’s around and happens to be plugged in, you can then use it in devices that are always used nearby [like an iPod or cell phone],” Schatz said, “and thus they don’t even need to have a battery.”
WiTricity, a company founded in 2007, is hoping to revolutionize the way electronics may be powered in the future. The name WiTricity comes from “wireless” and “electricity,” which is a perfect description for their research. Currently, the company is developing a method to safely power electronics without using wires. Other companies are working on different forms of wireless electricity, like WiPower, which hopes to be able to charge devices wirelessly using a charging pad.
It may be shocking to think that power cords will someday be a thing of the past, but it has already been proven that this technology is functional.
Just recently, working with electronics manufacturer Haier, WiTricity showcased their product at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show by powering a 32-inch TV set completely without wires, according to a report from www.SFGate.com.
While this revolutionary technology is enticing, roadblocks do exist in its distribution. “It takes a while to convince companies to adopt something as radically new and different as this, because they have to change their products to incorporate it,” Schatz said. “And we have to take the technology and develop it from some sort of laboratory scientific experiment to something that can be produced in the factory.”
It will take more improvement before wireless electricity devices will be able to be produced efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition, there is a range limitation for powering devices. Schatz realizes that some devices will eventually need to move away from power sources. “What we’ll be able to do with those products is to be able to allow them to charge without having to be plugged in. In some cases you can directly power things if they happen to be always used in proximity to a source, and in other cases you can usually charge the devices when they’re in proximity to the source,” he said. In short, wireless electricity can be used to directly power larger appliances that are not mobile, like desktop computers, and can also be used to charge devices that can be taken anywhere, like cell phones.
Despite the current limitations, we can expect to see this technology being implemented in the very near future. Schatz said that while the technology “is more of a conceptual design, in 2010 the very first of our products will be shipped to customers in commercial and military applications. In the end of 2010 and early 2011, it will start to be shipped in some consumer electronics applications.”


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New Cruise Line Industry Developments
Now that cruise lines have gotten millions hooked on the pleasures of cruising, they're looking for ways to hook millions more. According to Art Rodney, president of Disney Cruise Lines, over 90 percent of Americans who can afford to take a cruise have not.
Cruise lines are finding that for many potential cruisers, shipboard pampering is not enough. Many people also want to spend their vacations experiencing foreign cultures or learning new hobbies. To appeal to these people, cruise lines are adding special-interest cruises to their repertoires, focusing on everything from gardening to jazz to oil painting. Silversea began a new program in 1996 that offers passengers an opportunity to learn more about geography, culture, oceanography, photography, and nature from National Geographic Society photographers and journalists. In addition to onboard lectures, there are also shore excursions hosted by National Geographic experts. The '90s are also bringing a returned focus on destinations. Cruises to Europe, the Amazon, Africa, and Asia are growing in popularity.
Along with the boom of the cruise industry there have been a number of company shake-ups, mergers, and rising competition. As with any maturing and expanding business market, larger cruise lines have swallowed up smaller companies in a number of cases. One of the biggest recent mergers was the purchase of Celebrity Cruises by Royal Caribbean, which has resulted in the creation of one of the largest cruise companies in the world.
Since 2000, major cruise lines have launched 81 new cruise ships. The industry shows no signs of slowing and we should see a steady introduction of new cruise ships over the next five years.
Another recent development in the cruise industry has been the divergence between companies building larger and larger ships versus those catering to customers who want a more intimate experience. Companies like Royal Caribbean have been busy building "megaliners" capable of carrying up to 3,000 passengers. These vessels continue to add more and more amenities, such as virtual reality gaming rooms, ice-skating rinks, and multi-story shopping centers, as well as special services, including bookings of onboard wedding ceremonies. America World City will also have four 400-passenger catamarans that will dock inside the ship's hull, enabling passengers to shuttle to any port where the ship is too large to dock. Westin's megaliner will include a number of features to make it attractive to conventioneers, including rooms equipped with dataports and other business amenities, a global business center for executive training, and 100,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space. Other features will include a Broadway-style theater, restaurants, nightclubs, a museum and planetarium, a sports complex, six swimming pools, shops and boutiques, a TV studio, and a casino.
For a growing number of people, however, sailing on huge ships where it's possible to spend an entire day without even seeing the ocean, and where thousands of passengers pass by in a blur, is not the kind of experience they are seeking. This fact has created a growing market for smaller cruise lines that operate everything from 200-passenger cruise ships to yachts and sailboats that carry only 10 to 30 travelers at a time. Companies like Seabourn Cruise Line operate small luxury vessels that sail to exotic locations such as Asia and South America.
The tremendous growth in the cruise industry is opening up jobs in both large and small companies. In the last five years over 74,000 new cruise industry jobs have been added. So there has never been a better time to be looking for a cruise line job. We recommend that you read through the free resources we provide on JobMonkey and then if you decide that you are serious about getting a cruise ship job, you should consider a membership to Cruise Job Finder.


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Nagpur readies itself as the seventh edition of ‘Beejotsav exhibition-cum-sale’ commences from tomorrow. The three-day ‘Beejotsav 2019- National Seed Festival’ will be inaugurated at 1pm on Friday and will be held at the Mure Memorial Lawns.
The festival aims to introduce and provide organic and affordable food for the consumers. It also attempts to reduce the exploitation of farmers by holding discussions, talks and awareness campaigns, distributing indigenous seeds, having organic product stalls, etc. The festival believes in being the platform which brings the farmers and their produce directly to the customers.
Keeping in mind the aim of the festival, the organizing group has invited two women farmers from Bhandara to inaugurate the event. They will perform ‘Bijaai puja’ - a puja of the seeds, to mark the event open. On Day 2 and 3, sessions and discussions will be held from 10am to 1pm. The exhibition and sale will open post the session from 1pm and go on until 10pm.
‘Nagpur Beejotsav’ group has been actively working since the last 7 years towards conservation of seeds, organic farming and cultivation of toxic free food. It also adopts various projects including those of urban solid waste management and production of fertilizers from waste.
Akash Naoghare, one of the fellow organizers, said, “We are expecting the crowd who visit us in the next 3-4 days to be more aware about the food they’re eating. When people are told about the journey about their food, right when it is in the farm until it reaches the place, they tend to value food more. We all sit down to read and find out more information about our phones when we just buy it. But when it comes to food, we don’t tend to do that. And ironically, food is more important than our phones.”
This year’s main attraction is the diversity of seeds that will available. People from West Bengal, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and various other states will bring in seeds from their region to the festival. The exhibition will have 60 stalls in total. These stalls are divided into two main domain viz. organic farm produce and sustainable lifestyle products. As the name suggests, the farm produce will be the ones that will offer grains, seeds, etc. whereas the sustainable lifestyle products will have items such as smokeless chulha, slow fashion garments, soaps that don’t pollute water and many more.
A variety of food stalls serving organic food such as gurr ki jalebi, mahua ki kheer, mahua bonde, nachni laddoo, etc. will also be set up. Apart from this, there will also be stalls of healthy, wholesome foods.
The festival concludes on Sunday at 10pm.
The schedule for the next four days -
10am to 1pm: Pre-inaugural session on various topics.
2:30pm to 3pm: Inauguration ceremony and felicitation of Dr. Shantilal Kothari/.
3pm to 5pm: Farmers’ experience sharing.
10am to 1pm: Woman farmers’ summit.
3pm to 6pm: Young farmers meet.
9am to 1pm: Awareness session for consumers.
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Nike is doubling down on its decision to sign Colin Kaepernick as the latest face of the brand; a new two-minute spot for the label has just been released starring the former San Francisco 49er.
The commercial is set to air during the NFL season opener, according to TMZ. Throughout the clip, Kaepernick praises several of his fellow athletes while sharing inspirational messages with viewers. Serena Williams, Odell Beckham Jr, LeBron James, one-handed linebacker Shaquem Griffin of the Seattle Seahawks and others are acknowledged for what they do on and off the clock.
Regarding Odell, Colin says …
“Don’t picture yourself wearing OBJ’s jersey. Picture OBJ wearing yours.”
Regarding Shaquem, Colin says …
“If you have only one hand, don’t just watch football, play it at the highest level.”
Regarding LeBron James, Colin says …
“Don’t become the best basketball player on the planet. Be bigger than basketball.” (while video runs showing LeBron opening his new school in Ohio)
Regarding Serena, Colin says …
“And, if you’re a girl from Compton, don’t just become a tennis player. Become the greatest athlete ever. Yeah, that’s more like it.”
Check out the spot below:
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 5, 2018
The commercial moves Nike into the second phase of its current “Just Do It” ad campaign, which will reportedly also include a new custom Kaepernick shoe and apparel line. Release dates have yet to be revealed.


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This post is part of the Food Writer’s Diary blog.
The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen is not an event for the masses.
Hosted by Food & Wine magazine in a wealthy resort town in the Colorado Rockies, it’s costly to get there and expensive to stay, even without the $1,650 cost of admission. So it’s not surprising that the event tends to focus on celebrity chefs and luxurious foods.
But this year, between caviar hand shots (make a fist, balance a large dollop of caviar where your thumb and forefinger meet, eat the caviar and sip Champagne) and parties featuring magnums of wine selected by the nation’s best sommeliers, more universal issues were discussed. And the cuisine at some of the parties attached to the three-day event showed how far we’ve come from the days when European food and sushi dominated the high-end food scene.
One discussion during the American Express Restaurant Trade Program focused on the changing culinary landscape, and that didn’t mean the goat tacos Stephanie Izard dished up at the American Express Platinum House — a mansion on edge of downtown Aspen reserved for premium card members.
Moderator Andrew Zimmern meant that both restaurateurs and consumers are increasingly concerned with sustainability. He discussed the topic with celebrity chefs Jonathon Sawyer, Mike Lata and Ludovic Lefebvre, and rancher Anya Fernald of Belcampo Inc., which operates certified humane, organic ranches, processing facilities, butcher shops and restaurants.
“Issues of environmental, economic and nutritional concerns around the globe have not just impacted Anya’s ranch, Ludo or Jonathan or Mike’s restaurants, or consumers,” Zimmern said. “It’s a much more global issue.”
Panelists discussed a sea change in the way they cook.
Sawyer opened Greenhouse Tavern in Cleveland nine years ago as Ohio’s first certified green restaurant, with the goal of doing what they could to make the world a better place “and give our children and grandchildren something better than our parents gave us,” he said.
Lata, based in Charleston, S.C., reminded the operators in the audience that 15 years ago, restaurants, particularly on the East Coast, focused on importing premium ingredients such as Scottish prawns and Caspian Sea caviar. But he and many other chefs have since been drawing inspiration from local producers instead.
“You don’t really understand after a while cooking any other way,” Lata said.
Even the caviar hand shots were from domestic, sustainably raised sturgeon.
Lefebvre advocated for chewier, more flavorful cuts of steak, such as those enjoyed in his native France.
Fernald was all for that, since she said the only way for her ranching practices to be economically sustainable was for meat beyond the precious 9 percent eaten as steak in the U.S. to be sold at a premium. That means more Americans need to appreciate skirt, hanger and flat iron steaks.
It’s unusual for these topics to come up in Aspen. Also unusual was the menu at the publisher’s party, on top of Aspen Mountain.
Apart from the ice cream — a chocolate-and-marshmallow treat called “I Wanna Rocky Road All Night,” made for Food & Wine by Ample Hills Creamery of Brooklyn, N.Y. — the food, except for a couple of Indian-accented curries, was Middle Eastern. The beef shawarma with tzatziki was a highlight, but there was also hummus and babaganoush, stuffed grape leaves, tabbouleh, fatoush, baklava and date pudding with cardamom.
Yes, the party was called Dubai in the Sky, and was sponsored by Emirates airline, and was hosted by Iranian-born Food & Wine editor-in-chief Nilou Motamed (who is stepping down now that the magazine is moving its headquarters to Birmingham, Ala.), but the food wouldn’t have reflected that if it hadn’t also been completely on-trend.
I think it’s a great sign of the times that food in this country, even at the most prestigious events, reflects a growing concern for the planet’s welfare and a cosmopolitan approach to what we eat, both of which were noticeably absent just 15 years ago.
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KENYA – The GLOBALG.A.P TOUR conference, which promotes food safety and good agricultural practices, will be held in Kenya from March 28 to 30 at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi.
GLOBALG.A.P is a widely accepted certification system for agricultural products.
The meeting will be held in collaboration with Rootooba, a technical support service for Kenyan agriculture.
A wide range of business leaders will attend the conference, including implementing partners for USAID, sector associations FPEAK, and the Agrochemicals Association of Kenya.
The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), Avocado Exporters Association of Kenya, Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK), Agrochemicals Association of Kenya (AAK), and participants in the private sector will be present.
The Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Mithika Linturi and GLOBALG.A.P. Managing Director, Dr Kristian Moeller are expected to give their keynote address during the event.
There will be a dialogue led by the private sector to make sure the cost of compliance is reasonable and practicable, according to Charity Mutegi, Technical Lead at Rootooba.
“Private sector knows best how and where the shoe pinches most, and hence remains critical in providing solutions,” she said.
The conference will endeavor to advance good agricultural practices, safe and sustainable farming, market compliance, accessibility to regional and global trade networks, and customer responsiveness.
It is also anticipated that discussions will focus on increasing prospects for Kenyan produce to enter untapped regional and international markets.
According to Mutegi, the conference’s discussions will center on crucial concerns affecting the trade in fresh produce in both local and international markets.
“These include changing pesticide regimes, implications of the lifting of the GMO ban on Kenya’s fresh produce export markets, testing solutions, harmonizing market standards for the benefit of producers and exporters and financing solutions,” she said.
Mutegi said some of the other expected outcomes from the conference include increased awareness on emerging global markets for Kenyan produce, with a special focus on the US.
“The recommendations from the event are expected to form grounds for a follow-up with relevant government agencies and the private sector, including the National Horticulture Taskforce, GLOBALG.A.P National Technical Working Group and Agriculture and Food Authority, among others,” she said.
She pointed out that since the first stop on the Kenyan tour in 2019, local producers have been more interested in embracing GLOBALG.A.P standards and adhering to other global market standards.
“Additionally, there has been efforts by major development partners to support market growth for agrofood products as a means to foster local and international trade,” she said.
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Participants will also have an opportunity to make site visits to enterprises with a proven record of globally-recognized best practices in production and handling operations.


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Now a much larger study out of the Technical University of Vienna has reached the same conclusion. For that study, researchers examined more than 1,400 iPhone apps and found that more than half of them collected users' device IDs -- 40-digit unique numbers that identify individual phones, according to MIT's Technnology Review. What's more, 36 of the apps accessed the phone's location while five gleaned information about the users' contacts.
Unlike the case with cookie-based online ad targeting -- where users can set their browsers to reject cookies (or click on opt-out links when they're provided) -- people don't appear to have any good way of downloading apps but blocking them from transmitting iPhones' unique serial numbers.
The research could put additional pressure on Apple to either change the design of the iPhone or its approval process for app developers. The company is already facing two potential class-action lawsuits by iPhone and iPad users who allege that the transmission of their devices' unique identifiers violates federal wiretap and computer fraud laws.


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From April 2020, rules regarding the amount of company car tax paid by drivers choosing pure electric vehicles are changing, offering significant tax savings for company car users. In addition, there are also tax savings for employers.
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The Government has announced proposed increases to statutory payments from 1st April 2020 that include low-paid workers receiving the biggest cash increase ever with a National Living Wage (NLW) pay rise of 6.2%.
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