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It’s for some time been reputed that Nintendo is dealing with a Nintendo Switch 2, or a Nintendo Switch Pro, or a New Nintendo Switch. In any case, regardless of whether there are plans for a development to the first Switch, Nintendo hasn’t affirmed anything yet.
After Nintendo delivered the smoothed out and more reasonable Nintendo Switch Lite in 2019, bits of gossip about a top-notch Switch reassure—a Nintendo Switch Pro, maybe—offering overhauled equipment with improved illustrations and preparing power, started to look more solid and they’re not disappearing. There have been various reports that 2021 will be the year we see a Nintendo Switch Pro show up, regardless of whether remarks from Nintendo itself have been not exactly encouraging.
Nintendo has just said it isn’t stressed over the new PS5 and Xbox Series X and the deals of the Switch propose that it truly doesn’t have a lot to stress over right now. Notwithstanding, Microsoft’s attack into adaptability with portable cloud gaming on Game Pass can offend Nintendo, and the arrival of advanced just gadgets like the Xbox Series S and the circle free PS5, could provoke Nintendo to flag that it has something new and future-centered in progress.
Regardless of an absence of true affirmations, bits of gossip endure so while we hang tight for more complete answers from Nintendo, we will go through the reasonable (and impossible) opportunities for a Nintendo Switch 2 beneath.
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Nintendo Switch versus Switch Lite: is greater truly better?
In 2019, Nintendo delivered two new Switch gadgets: the Switch Lite and the Nintendo Switch with improved battery life. In any case, we’re anticipating that the House of Mario should have one more new Nintendo Switch at its disposal.
A Wall Street Journal report has recommended that – notwithstanding these new gadgets – there’s additionally an exceptional Nintendo Switch reassure in transit: possibly a Nintendo Switch Pro or Nintendo Switch 2. While we’re taking these bits of gossip with the imperative touch of salt, the report did accurately foresee the arrival of the Switch Lite, adding more weight to this theory. Be that as it may, when could we see this new Switch?
There have additionally been a few reports, the most eminent coming from Bloomberg, that 2021 is the year for a Nintendo Switch Pro. Experts, as well, have said they believe that it very well may be on the cards.
In any case, remarks from Nintendo’s Doug Bowser have caused us to feel less certain. As per Bowser, Nintendo is “continually seeing what is coming to decide: how might it upgrade and improve the interactivity experience? Also, regardless of whether that is on a current stage, or whether that is on a future stage, we’re continually taking a gander at that.”
He additionally said that “the force on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite in the fourth year is solid. Furthermore, we accept we’re changing the direction of another regular comfort life cycle”, adding that 2020 was the “midpoint of this life cycle”. Those remarks cause it to appear as though another Switch could in reality be a couple of years away yet.
That implies we’re essentially in obscurity about when a Nintendo Switch 2 may show up however our idealistic sides make them expect a delivery date at some point one year from now.
Upgrades cost cash, and updates with improved equipment doubly so. We’re completely expecting the Nintendo Switch 2 (or Switch Pro), with its refreshed equipment, to cost more than the current Switch’s £279/$299/AU$469 value.
Also, the Switch Lite isn’t modest. The handheld Switch costs $199.99/£199.99/AU$329.95, which isn’t excessively far off the first’s cost – and that is with fewer highlights than the first.
Dr. Toto recommended a sticker price of $399, which appears to be a decent gauge. All things considered, the PS4 Pro is $100 more than the PS4. The value increase considers the improved equipment without being restrictive. Notwithstanding, this is Nintendo we’re discussing, and we wouldn’t be astounded to see a Nintendo Switch Pro or Nintendo Switch 2 expense a touch more than that.
Switch Pro: designers mention to us what they need from the supposed Switch update
Nintendo might not have formally declared a Nintendo Switch Pro or Nintendo Switch 2, however, we’ve assembled all the greatest news and bits of gossip encompassing the new Nintendo Switch here for your examination.
Does data miner strike gold?
An information digger known as SciresM has guaranteed (using Wccftech) that they have discovered a reference to another Nintendo Switch model inside the Switch’s most recent firmware update, codenamed ‘Aula’.
This equipment utilizes a similar chip as the Nintendo Switch Lite and 2019 Switch model, the Mariko (Tegra X1+) SoC. Nonetheless, SciresM likewise guarantees that there are references to help for a Realtek chip which is a “4K UHD media SoC”. Instead of being inside the Switch tablet, they imagine that it “may be inside another dock and not inside the tablet, however, it’s impossible to tell from the firmware code yet.” They likewise say that the actual tablet will have an improved OLED screen, however what goal it’ll offer is as yet indistinct. The cases of some sort of 4K help do agree with the numerous different reports from the previous year which guarantee that an updated Switch fit for 4K is not too far off.
There’s been no affirmation from Nintendo itself that another Switch is on the cards and, truth be told, Doug Bowser has offered remarks as of late that recommend there probably won’t be for quite a while. In light of that, we’re taking this with a spot of salt.
Examiners believe it’s as yet on the cards
Despite Doug Bowser’s new remarks, industry investigators assume that there could be an overhauled Nintendo Switch on the cards for 2021. Addressing GamesIndustry.biz, Dr. Serkan Toto of Kantan Games and Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis said they think the reassurance is not too far off. Toto was very positive about his forecast, while Harding-Rolls was more saved, saying he figured such delivery in 2021 would make “business sense”.
We should temper our assumptions that there will be a Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch Pro any time soon if ongoing remarks from Nintendo of America’s Doug Bowser are anything to pass by.
Addressing Polygon, Bowser said that while enhancements to the Switch innovation are continually being contemplated, the organization isn’t feeling the pressing factor thanks to the continuous achievement of the first Switch and its Lite partner.
“We’re continually seeing innovation,” says Bowser. “Furthermore, as we probably are aware, innovation is continually advancing and evolving. Also, we’re continually seeing what is coming to decide: how might it upgrade and improve the interactivity experience? Also, regardless of whether that is on a current stage, or whether that is on a future stage, we’re continually taking a gander at that.”
Adding that “the force on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite in the fourth year is solid. Also, we accept we’re changing the direction of another run of the mill support life cycle.”
Bowser considers 2020 the “midpoint of this life cycle”, which recommends that it could, in any case, be an additional three years or so before we see any new Nintendo Switch. That doesn’t mean there will not be any enhancements whatsoever given the battery redesign given to new consoles in 2019 however it causes those gossipy tidbits about another support in 2021 to appear to be more outlandish than they.
Maybe Nintendo was correct not to stress over the dispatch of the cutting edge supports from Sony and Microsoft. It has been uncovered that in the dispatch month of the PS5 and Xbox Series X, Nintendo’s Switch group of consoles has remained on top in the US regarding console deals.
As per the investigation film NPD Group, the Switch, and Switch Lite collected an absolute 1.35 million deals in the US alone all through November. Indeed, the report likewise says that Nintendo’s equipment is selling considerably more in 2020 than the earlier year – around a large portion of 1,000,000 units more, to a sum of 6.92 million – regardless of now being three years into its lifecycle. We don’t have firm numbers for deals of the PS5 and Xbox Series X yet, however, the previous reassure is assessed to have sold around 2 million units worldwide across its two November dispatch dates, with stock evaporating before long.
The story isn’t the equivalent across the world—it’s important that the PS5 outsold the Switch in the UK. Notwithstanding, it shows that the Switch’s energy doesn’t appear to moderate even with new and all the more remarkable 4K consoles. How this affects a forthcoming all the more impressive Nintendo Switch 2 remaining parts not yet clear. Nintendo doesn’t require another reassignment right now with those deals yet dispatched at the perfect time it could push the Switch to considerably more prominent status.
A newfound Nintendo patent recommends that the organization might be intending to deliver another type of Joy-Con style regulator.
Initially documented in May 2018 and enrolled in April 2020, the patent shows a regulator that is exceptionally comparative fit as a fiddle and design to the current Joy-Cons found on the first Switch. In any case, it is somewhat refreshed and instead of being intended to slide onto a screen like the current Joy-Cons, this regulator has all the earmarks of being independent, without any rails for sliding insight.
While there isn’t a lot of need for independent Joy-Cons on the first Switch, they could be helpful with the later Nintendo Switch Lite, which has its controls joined.


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Venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners is pushing forward with its plans to open a geothermal-powered data center in Iceland despite that country’s economic swoon in recent months.
The Cambridge-based firm partnered with Icelandic private equity firm Novator in 2007 to form a joint venture called Verne Holdings, which does business as Verne Global. The venture is planning to open a data center on the site of what once was a NATO air force base. Those plans remain in motion, said David Fialkow, managing director at General Catalyst, even though the Icelandic economy has suffered from an economic collapse.
“Our data center is not on hold,” he said. “We finished the design. We’re ready to go operational in 2010.”
Recent reports from Icelandic media organizations have stated that the project has been delayed as much as a year due to the current economic crisis.
The IcelandReview, citing the Icelandic-language newspaper Morgunbladid, quoted Verne Chairman Vihjalmur Thorsteinsson as saying the plans to start operations in late 2009 were being pushed to 2010.
Then the banking system collapsed, currency restrictions took effect and of course the international financial crisis has influenced the foreign companies that we’re negotiating with. But those discussions continue and have advanced quite far.”
A year-old press release from the Keflavik Airport Development Corp., which is leasing space to Verne, said the data center was expected to launch in the “first months” of 2009.
But Fialkow and Verne CEO Jeff Monroe said the plans haven’t been pushed back, blaming the suggestion of a delay on translation issues.
“We always said it would take us 36 months to bring the project online,” Fialkow said.
The company expects to begin serving customers around the second or third quarter of 2010.
The total investment in the data center from Verne is expected to be around $306 million, according to several news reports.
Monroe said he doesn’t know where that number is derived from and wouldn’t disclose the company’s costs.
Fialkow said the company has raised some debt, though he wouldn’t provide figures. “Over time it will be one of our larger investments,” he said. Fialkow wouldn’t say how much General Catalyst has invested in the company. His venture firm has raised more than $1 billion since 2000.
Verne, which is primarily targeting European markets, is positioning itself as both a greener and cheaper provider of data center services. The data center will be able to use Iceland’s natural resources for electricity and cooling, Monroe said. “We are substantially less expensive than any competitors that are out there.”
Monroe wouldn’t say how much the company will charge customers.
Globally, demand for multi-tenant data centers grew by 14 percent in 2008, but supply only grew by about 6 percent, according to a recent report by research firm The 451 Group.
But Galen Schrek, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), said the current economic climate might make new customers hard to come by. “The economic stagnation probably means there’s going to be fewer new customers right now.”

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Wetpaint cuts staff as deep online ad slump takes toll on niche sites
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Earlier today, I pointed out that half of the Seattle area venture capitalists polled in a survey expect their companies to cut staff during the third quarter.
Well, it appears as if the carnage may have begun. Wetpaint today laid off 15 staffers or 27 percent of its workforce, TechFlash has learned.
The move comes as the heavily-funded Seattle company struggles to monetize its network of 1.6 million Web sites, many of them tiny sites that attract only a few hundred page views each month.
The advertising dollars just aren't there for those small sites -- sometimes built around weddings, family reunions and other very targeted events, the company said.
And that's forcing Wetpaint to focus efforts on the bigger ticket entertainment sites that drive much of the traffic through the network. In recent months, Wetpaint has been pushing into those areas with promotion of its wiki-designed sites around TV shows, movies, games and other forms of entertainment.
When Wetpaint unveiled its TV Fandex last month, I noted the new entertainment focus of the company and pointed out the possible competition with Seattle's BuddyTV. That could be intensifying with today's announcement.
Having raised a $25 million venture round last year from DAG Ventures, Accel Partners, Frazier Technology Ventures and others, the company still has years of cash on the books, according to a spokesman. Total funding in the company -- which now employs 40 people -- stands at $40 million.
But the Wetpaint spokesman said that they needed to make adjustments to the cost structure of the business given the sharp declines in the prices rolling through remnant ad networks in recent months.
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Starting from 2021, Linstow Center Management (LCM) will diversify its business strategy in Latvia and Estonia by developing multi-segment real estate projects, including hotels, shopping malls, office buildings, parking lots, recreational facilities and more. “In the Baltic States, we have started to implement our company’s Norwegian business strategy model which envisages diversification of business goals. This strategy has been implemented in Norway for more than 20 years, and we are convinced of its effectiveness in Latvia and Estonia as well,” reveals Frode Gronvold, Chairman of the Board of LCM. One of the first steps in the implementation of the new strategy will be the transfer of the Alfa and Mols shopping centre management service to Multi Latvia, starting from February 2021. In early 2021, LCM will present more information about the business strategy and investment projects planned for the following years….
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Chatsworth Road trader told to pay up to £455 for licence to sell on land he says is his
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A Hackney trader was surprised to learn the council will be charging him extra to sell goods outside his shop, despite never having purchased a licence before.
Tim Sanderson, who owns an antique furniture shop on Chatsworth Road called Sweet Interiors, says he has never had to pay to keep goods outside his shop in nearly a decade of trading.
All along Chatsworth Road, the pavement area has a marked dividing line between council owned and private land.
Tim said: "I really don’t understand where they think they have the power to charge me to put things outside my shop, on land which is part of my shop - it's not part of council land.
"How they think they have the jurisdiction over that I have no idea, because If that [area] got frost damaged over the winter I couldn't ring up Hackney Council and say: 'Can you come and mend this please?'
"Because they would say no, it doesn’t belong to us."
In a recent letter sent to Tim, and other Hackney shop owners, the council's markets authority stated: "Private land is not exempt from the requirement to have a Street Trading Licence".
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The council, under Section 21 of the London Local Authorities act 1990, considers street trading to be taking place on any road, footway or area, "not being permanently enclosed premises, within seven metres of any road or footway, to which the public have access without payment".
This means restaurants with seating areas and shops with benches, baskets, bags, boxes and even signs will all need to pay for a license, whether they have or have not done so previously.
While fees for shop front trading have remained unchanged since 2010, the council said in its letter to Tim, that there has been some "confusion and ambiguity" over the rules.
Fees would see traders spending £364-455 ever six months to sell goods outside their shops.
Tim said: "For a start we are deeply upset that it's at the end of the lockdown and now they are proposing, on top of our business rates, to charge us for selling outside our shops, which the shops on this street have traditionally done since they were built in about 1880."
The council says it sent out documents to all "license holders" regarding a public consultation in November 2019 and that the new terms and conditions for street trading are meant to provide more clarity.
It proposed to update street and shop front trading fees and charges due to increased running costs of the borough's markets, including waste management, infrastructure costs and storage costs.
However, Tim says he was never sent the consultation as he is not currently a license holder, despite his business being affected by the changes.
Tim said of the consultation: "This is the first I have heard about it, ever. So I am not quite sure who it went out for a consultation with because it certainly did not involve shop keepers, but it will directly effect us."
He worries the fees will change the "entire feel of the street" and plans to start a petition to oppose the plans which are to be implemented on July 1.
In response to concerns about Street Trading fees, the council's inclusive economy chief Cllr Guy Nicholson said: “Shop owners and anyone wishing to trade on the pavement have always been required by law to purchase a licence.
"The proposed changes were sent to all license holders at their registered address with the invitation to comment. The new approach introduces a fairer per square metre fee instead of the flat fees previously in place which means a licence holder only pays for the space they use."
The councillor continued: “It must also be stressed that Hackney’s shop front charges remain significantly cheaper than most other London boroughs, including the neighbouring boroughs of Haringey, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest."
However, a spokesperson for Tower Hamlets Council says it does not charge businesses for shop front projections on the businesses own land, adding: "We do not charge this at all".
They objected to Cllr Nicholson implying that Tower Hamlets and Hackney Council's rates were comparable due to this difference in shop front charges.
Still, Hackney council says it has been supporting the local business community during the pandemic by making sure that more than £50million of recent business support grants have been distributed, as well as working with businesses to maximise the trading opportunities.


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With so many major manufacturers recalling vehicles, proper recall marketing remains an essential task for dealers. Whether or not they’ve had to handle a recall themselves, all dealers need to be ready to meet customer concerns. Building off of this will require accurate recall data based on the newest figures.
The current year has seen several ongoing major efforts, including the Takata air bag recalls and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ various actions. However, before the year even began, a considerable number of vehicles throughout the U.S. had already been involved in hundreds of recalls.
In 2014 alone, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported 63.9 million vehicles were included in 803 different actions. Of these, the largest was Ford Motor Company’s campaign 81V008, which involved 21 million autos and concerned parking-gear components.
Ford recalls made up half of the top 10 recalls during this time, with a total of about 42 million vehicles addressed for different issues. Components ranged from deactivation switches and ignition elements to shoulder belts.
As of Aug. 12, 2016, the Takata recalls have seen 10 million air bags repaired. Honda has repaired the most, with around 4.1 million driver-side and 2.4 million passenger-side air bags fixed for a total of 6,565,550 remedied units. While the Chrysler recall page didn’t specifically list the amount of vehicles fixed, it did note the many different makes involved, with model years stretching as far back as 2002.
All of these efforts show the amount of attention put into addressing vehicle safety in recent years. As the government and manufacturers get more vigilant, dealers should use accurate recall data to respond to the latest issues.


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Consumers and a Changing Climate to Speed Up Farmer Innovation
Meeting consumer preferences for safe, nutritious and locally-produced food are among the key challenges that will drive future farmer innovation, Monsanto’s new Managing Director in Australia & New Zealand, Tony May, said today.
Increased consumer interest in the sustainability of farming practices along with the mounting pressures of a changing climate and increasing international competition will require big leaps in innovation.
May said that although local farmers face many obstacles, overcoming this trifecta of complex challenges will determine the long term viability and success of Australian farmers.
His comments come as new research by PG Economics reveals the huge economic and environmental gains brought about by Australian farmer adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops 20 years ago. Since 1996, GM crops have boosted farmer incomes by A$1.37 billion, reduced pesticide use by 22 million kg of active ingredient and lowered carbon emissions by 71.5 million kg.
“Technology has underpinned Australia’s global reputation as a clean and green agricultural producer. Local farmers have always met the high expectations of local and international consumers by using the latest technology and management practices available to them to produce safe, high quality food and fibre,” May said.
“If local farmers are to overcome this trifecta of challenges, we cannot allow complacency to set in. Supportive federal and state policy settings, along with cross-sector collaboration, are essential to encourage the development of scientific and technological breakthroughs that will improve livelihoods, our economy and environment.
Almost all of the cotton grown in Australia contains GM technology and is credited by the cotton industry as being crucial to drastically reducing chemical use, improving water management and enhancing the industry’s viability, he added. “Imagine the impact on rural economies and the environment had local farmers not been able to grow genetically enhanced cotton seeds for the past twenty years.”
Genetically enhanced seeds help farmers better manage weeds and insects, allowing them to produce more using fewer resources. Australian farmers were among the first in the world to plant genetically enhanced cotton seeds in 1996. Herbicide tolerant canola was first grown in NSW and Victoria in 2008. Western Australia, the country’s largest grain producing state, followed in 2010. Herbicide tolerant canola is grown by almost 40% of WA canola growers.
May also noted that the growing investment in and adoption of GM crops in key markets across Asia Pacific is both a challenge and an opportunity for Australian agriculture.
Growing consumer acceptance of GM technology and the need to sustainably improve food security in developing countries is driving the adoption of GM crops across our region,” May said. This trend was reinforced by China’s recent announcement that it intends to encourage a large increase in the development and planting of GM crops.
“Local farmers must be encouraged to adopt new technology to improve their international competitiveness. We know from decades of experience that our farmers are world leaders in adopting the latest innovations when they can access them,” he added.
“The last 20 years have also shown that farmers can successfully grow organic, conventional and GM crops side-by-side. This has allowed farmers in states on Australia’s east and west coasts that allow GM crops to be grown to benefit from the latest technology, as well as market their produce as ‘clean and green’ in international markets.”


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BioWare formally announces remastered edition of Mass Effect trilogy
We’re huge fans of Mass Effect here at SideQuesting, having awarded the sequel our GOTY in 2010. The series is regarded as one of the best modern RPGs, and has a giant following. Though the fourth main game, Andromeda, didn’t light the world on fire, the original games were still remaining popular online and in digital storefronts. Now they’re coming back.
Just as our GOOD FRIEND JEFF GRUBB has been telling us for months now, BioWare and its publisher EA have officially announced the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, a remastered collection of the first three games and all of their DLC. The news was announced in an N7 Day blog post on BioWare’s website. The package will include all of the single-player DLC, special weapons, and more, remastered for modern play in 4K and on modern consoles.
The game will release first for PS4, Xbox One and PC in Spring 2021, and be forwards compatible for the PS5 and Xbox Series.
BioWare *also* announced that a new Mass Effect game was in the works, but it’s so early that not much is known or revealed. A new Mass Effect game! There hasn’t been one since Mass Effect 3.
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The owner of Kmart and Bunnings is set to snag Catch Group after the $230 million acquisition was given the go-ahead by authorities.
The ACCC on Tuesday announced that it would be allowing Wesfarmers, who also own Target, to acquire the e-commerce retailer.
The deal was first announced in June when the conglomerate said they would be purchasing the online asset in a bid to grow their online presence.
At the same time, the ACCC commenced a review of the proposed acquisition to canvass its impact on the market.
But the consumer watchdog on Tuesday said they would be allowing the deal to go ahead after reviewing physical and online competition and any impact on other sellers.
“We reviewed whether Wesfarmers’ retail position could be leveraged into online sales and marketplaces in an anti-competitive way,” ACCC Commissioner Stephen Ridgeway said.
“The current growth in online marketplaces is fostering competition between providers, and feedback indicated that Wesfarmers’ proposed acquisition of Catch would be unlikely to change that level of competition.”
“Stakeholders also consistently told us that Catch and Wesfarmers are not close competitors, primarily due to the differences in their business models,” Mr Ridgeway said.


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Everyone has spring cleaning on their mind now that the weather has warmed up. Here is some extra motivation. Neighbor to Neighbor’s clothing room, is running very low.
The clothing room provides free clothing, including shoes, coats and jackets and accessories for men, women and children.
On Tuesday, the shelves and bins were virtually empty. Neighbor to Neighbor is in particular need of children’s clothes and disposable baby diapers.
They also accept sheets, towels, linens and blankets.
“Just a few weeks after I started here, Hurricane Sandy came through and you couldn’t even walk through here,” Nancy Coughlin recalled of her first weeks in fall of 2012 as executive director back in 2012 and the outpouring of donated clothing after the storm. “The clothing room was bursting. We had a POD out back and that was full. And an extra storage room was full of donated clothes too,” Coughlin said.
Fast forward to the first day of April 2014 and the clothing room is virtually empty. While residents from Port Chester and Stamford, as well as Greenwich can qualify to clothe their entire families and make an appointment to visit the clothing room — and come every other month in order to have seasonally appropriate clothing, according to Coughlin, “The clothing is all donated and there is never enough clothing to meet the need.”
It’s not necessary to make an appointment to donate clothing. Just park in the annex parking lot and follow the signs at the back of the church to the clothing room, which is down one short flight of stairs.
Donations to the clothing room are gratefully received Monday through Saturday from 8:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. Donors will be greeted by volunteers and will be asked to fill out a donation form. Donors estimate the value of donated items for tax purposes.
Neighbor to Neighbor is located in the Christ Church Annex at 248 East Putnam Ave. in Greenwich.


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While all eyes are on the Galaxy Note 9, Samsung is also said to be gearing up to launch a new Galaxy A smartphone. This series offers Samsung’s mid-range devices with premium features. A new report now suggests that the next Galaxy A device will come with features that are yet to be seen on Samsung’s flagship smartphones.
According to Korea’s ETNews, the Samsung Galaxy A (2019) will come with features like triple-camera setup at the back, and an in-display fingerprint sensor. Interestingly, both these features are widely expected to debut on next year’s Samsung Galaxy S10+.
In fact, the report adds that the Galaxy A (2019) smartphone will also feature the same rumored triple-camera setup – one lens with variable aperture, one super-wide angle lens, and one telephoto lens. A triple-camera setup was first successfully introduced on the Huawei P20 Pro. An in-display sensor, on the other hand, was first introduced by Vivo on its X21 smartphone.
It comes across as a tad surprising that Samsung is working on the same set of features that will be introduced on a flagship and mid-range device. But the report adds that this is likely to be a part of Samsung’s push to increase sales of its premium mid-range devices.
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The report quotes an industry source as saying, “Since the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco, Samsung has been cautious about adopting new technologies or parts from new suppliers. But it seems to be changing its strategic direction in order to further strengthen competitiveness of its budget phones.”
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Why it matters: Amazon has shared an early look at three dish design concepts that will anchor its Project Kuiper satellite Internet service. The dishes, referred to as customer terminals, are essentially outdoor antennas designed to communicate wirelessly with satellites passing overhead.
The standard terminal is roughly 11 inches square, an inch thick, and weighs less than five pounds (sans mounting bracket) According to Amazon, this model can deliver speeds of up to 400 Mbps and should cost less than $400 to produce.
Amazon is also developing a smaller 7-inch square model that’ll tip the scales at just one pound. This mini version will top out at 100 Mbps and could be ideal for cost-conscious consumers or enterprise customers looking to connect Internet of Things devices.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is a high-bandwidth design for government, telecommunications and enterprise applications. Amazon says this model, measuring 19 inches by 30 inches, will be capable of delivering speeds up to 1 Gbps.
The customer terminals are powered by a custom-designed baseband chip that was developed under the codename “Prometheus.” Amazon said the chip combines the processing power of a 5G modem chip like those used in smartphones with the capability of a cellular base station that can manage thousands of simultaneous connections and the ability of a microwave backhaul antenna to support point-to-point connections.
Prometheus chips aren’t limited to customer terminals. Amazon said the hardware can also be found in Project Kuiper satellites and ground gateway antennas, and are instrumental in each satellite’s ability to process up to 1 Tbps of traffic.
The e-commerce giant is in the process of scaling its infrastructure ahead of mass production of units, and will use the expertise it has gleaned from manufacturing consumer hardware like Fire TV boxes and Echo smart speakers. The first two prototype satellites are expected to launch into space in the coming months and assuming everything goes according to plan, Amazon could put production models into space by the first half of 2024.


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The words “Fortune 500” carry a lot of weight in the business world. The 2016 Fortune 500 list is out, and the Eastside is representing with four companies on the list. The Eastside repping runs the gamut from tech to travel, from big trucks to big bulk stores.
Overall, ten Washington companies made the list. Fortune ranks the 500 companies by total revenue for the fiscal year. This year Walmart took the top spot, but the Eastside is on the rise with three of the four companies hitting their highest mark yet.
Revenue: $116,199, 000
Retail giant Costco is so Eastside that its in-house brand bears the name “Kirkland Signature.” This is the highest spot on the list yet for Costco, which was ranked #18 in 2015. Costco made waves in 2015 by breaking up with American Express, saying it’s Costco-branded cards would no longer be accepted in warehouses.
- Microsoft, Redmond
In 22 years on this list, 2016 is when Microsoft hits its highest rank yet. The company, under CEO Satya Nadella, is investing heavily in cloud technology. Microsoft made waves recently with the purchase of social media platform LinkedIn as well as bringing the difficult Nokia phone saga to an end.
- Paccar, Bellevue
You might not expect a semi-truck company in the tech-heavy Eastside, but Paccar is out on America’s roadways daily with brands like Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF. Paccar is an Eastside icon, founded in 1905. It has an assembly plant in Renton.
- Expedia, Bellevue
Expedia won’t be an Eastside company much longer. It’s departing Bellevue for Seattle by 2018. The travel booking company has been around for 20 years. 2016 is its second year on the Fortune list. Last year it ranked 458, so it’s on the move up the list.


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Ghanaian fashion designer Salim Signature is out with a brand new collection dubbed Today’s Man.
Spotted is the latest autumn/winter collection by Nigerian/ New York based fashion label Ezie. Featuring
Ghanaian fashion label Hall of Peters has just unveiled a brand new collection dubbed Heritage.
Back in 2014, UK-Zimbabwean designer Rahima Mohamed released her debut collection dubbed ‘Fly/Fly High’
Inspired by a trip to the beautiful city of Rome, New York based Nigerian designer Esther Ihezie is
Currently crushing on Andrea Iyamah’s latest collection! The Canadian based Nigerian fashion label recently unveiled their
We hear of people quitting their jobs in the corporate world and opting for something
We have got a new collection crush, recently stumbled on Ghanaian fashion brand Roots By Linnan’s
Recently stumbled on this interesting look book by a Kenyan accessories designer based in London.
Rising Fashion Brand Innocente Messy Makes A Bold Statement With Their New Collection – 'Africa Is Not A Country'
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Seattle-based Mexican restaurant and tequila bar chain The Matador had once hoped to debut their first expansion to Las Vegas over the July 4 weekend, but the team have now firmly set their sights on a new fixed date and started a countdown clock heralding their opening date.
Casa Del Matador will begin serving 128 tequilas on July 28, alongside a full menu of "zesty Mexican cuisine." Metalwork is a distinctive design element at their 11 Washington, Colorado and Oregon state locations and co-founder Zak Melang personally creates all the ornate tables and bar tops. The other hard to miss accent will be the mounted bull skulls augmented by local artists.
Located not far from Andiron Steak & Sea, the 4,306-square-foot space will be open Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to midnight and until 2 a.m. on Friday.
Weekend hours of 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m to midnight include a weekend brunch served from opening until 2 p.m. At their previous locations, breakfast tortas, huevos rancheros, "Mexican sweet bread french toast" and mimosas and Bloody Mary's are menu highlights.
The Matador will also offer a daily happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m and 10 p.m to 1 a.m.


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Washington — Parents and college kids plan to spend about 13 percent less on CE and other back-to-school items this year than last, a new survey shows.
Arlington, Va. — Consumer confidence in the overall economy improved slightly, while sentiment towards technology spending remained flat in July, according to
Arlington, Va. — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on Tuesday praised the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Incentive Auction Task
Arlington, Va. – The Consumer Electronics Association threw its weight behind a new U.S. House of Representatives bill to reallocate spectrum.
Arlington, Va. – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is urging China to resume negotiations in Geneva to conclude the Information Technology Agreement
Arlington, Va. — Gary Shapiro, the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) president and CEO, has signed a pledge supporting the It Can Wait campaign
Arlington, Va. – The Consumer Electronics Association has expressed concern over China’s negotiations toward an updated trade agreement with the U.S.
Barrington, Ill. — The Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) congregated in Chicago earlier this week for its three-day HTSA Marketing Summit II.
Arlington, Va. — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) released a statement commending U.S. Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y
New York — Worldwide PC shipments were down by double digits in the second quarter compared with last year's quarter, according to preliminary reports
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New York — The Anti-Defamation League’s National Consumer Technology Industry divisio
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5 privacy rights Europeans have that Americans don’t
A wide-ranging digital privacy law known as GDPR goes into effect in the European Union on Friday. In the works since 2012, the new law fundamentally reshapes how people think about their digital data and reasserts consumers’ rights to information about themselves.
It also sets up a contrast with the U.S., asserting broad, basic rights for EU citizens that Americans, by and large, don’t have in their daily digital media lives. Here are five of those new rights.
1. Privacy as a matter of course
The EU law takes as a given that privacy is “a fundamental right that can trump other interests,” as the California Law Review put it. Indeed, the right to privacy appears on the European Convention of Human Rights.
U.S. citizens have no such broad right to privacy (although the Supreme Court has found that such a right is implicit in the Constitution.) In the states, laws and lawsuits around privacy usually center on the question of harm, and the regulations that do exist are often sector-specific. Information about someone’s health or medical treatment, for example, is considered sensitive, as well as financial information. And children under 13 in the U.S. are generally protected from having their information collected.
A handful of tech CEOs have called for the U.S. to have a broad privacy law, and several states, including California and New Jersey, are considering bills of their own.
2. The right to choose
In the EU, if data on a person is to be collected, the person must actively allow it to happen.
In the U.S., consumers typically “consent” to give up data when they sign up for a product or service. For most of them, that consent comes at the end of a lengthy document in legalese that they haven’t even read, according to no less an authority than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “I don’t think that the average person likely reads that whole document,” Zuckerberg said of Facebook’s own terms of service during Senate testimony last month.
Under GDPR, companies are required to get EU customers’ opt-in to collect their information, and privacy policies that are overlong or written in impenetrable legalese are not allowed.
“By default, you’re going to be opted out, and you’ll have the option of opting in,” Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told CBSN.
More, a company can’t refuse to serve a customer who’s declined to share his or her data, as long as that data isn’t “essential information.” One expert from the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave this example to the New York Times: “A birthday cake company needs your name to put on the birthday cake.” Anything beyond that might not be “essential.”
3. The right to see your data
Europeans — and Americans in Europe — will be able to see the data that companies collect on them, and ask those companies to delete the information. That doesn’t apply only to technology companies, but banks, retailers — even your employer.
Outside of Europe, Americans can’t request their data or demand its deletion. Facebook, Twitter and other tech giants have rolled out tools allowing users to see some of the data that is stored on the service, but these self-service tools are incomplete, and leave out information that is collected about users’ activity on other sites, as two New York Times reporters on different sides of the Atlantic found when trying to download data on themselves.
And many companies refused to give any detailed data whatsoever. When one of the reporters tried to get her Amazon shopping history, an agent denied it, telling her, “It’s all private.”
A coalition of 22 privacy groups on Thursday called for major companies to follow suit and apply GDPR principles to their operations worldwide.
4. The right to know about any data breach
Under GDPR, companies that have suffered a breach are required to report it within 72 hours; if not, they risk fines. The infamous, by contrast, stayed quiet for six weeks before the credit bureau informed the world.
The U.S. has no overarching federal law on data breaches, although all 50 states have enacted varying laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The newest such law went into effect May 1, in North Dakota.
5. The right to be forgotten
In 2014, a European court held that citizens had a “right to be forgotten,” and that search engines such as Google had to de-list information associated with individuals’ names if it was irrelevant or outdated. Since then, Google has received 650,000 requests to remove information, according a January report, and two U.K. men are currently suing the online giant over similar information.


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Streaming, like HBO before it, freed creators from the moralizing of advertisers. If advertising enters the ecosystem, self-censorship could follow.
At the June 1 conference of the National Association of Television Program Executives in Hollywood, a college professor asked what TV executives didn’t want. During a panel he moderated that promised to look “under the hood” of streaming, Jeffrey Cole, founder and director of USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future, posed the question that has the power to celebrate the golden age of the redesigning television: “ How does power [streamers] working in this advertiser ecosystem where advertisers are afraid to offend and streaming content often offends?”
We all remember the joy of those first ad-free Netflix experiences. Part of that came from watching shows that no longer distorted their beats to match commercial breaks; More importantly, the scripts didn’t self-censor for fear of what advertisers might think — because there were no advertisers. Now, streamers have declared ad dollars essential to the long-term health of their platforms.
Unlike broadcasting, you don’t have to watch ads on a streamer. an ad-supported service or tier is just one (cheaper) option. However, while the programming is (technologically) platform agnostic, the platforms’ potential advertisers are not. Vikrant Mathur, co-founder of Future Today, which curates and connects advertisers with AVOD channels, told the audience at the Behind the Scenes panel that some clients require their streaming ads to only show G or PG rated movies – but all advertisers are demanding more data about the “context” of the programming.
“You have a real decline in audience and an inability to target linear media, you have a huge and growing audience on FAST, on AVOD and the dual supported services,” said Kevin Mayer, director of Candle Media, of its recent acquisitions Reese owns Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Moonbug and ATTN, among others. “So there is a huge flood of advertising [streaming] because advertisers who still want to put very high quality premium videos in an ad but want to be targeted. I think you will see a lot of energy behind this model. It makes a lot of sense.”
Advertisers and audiences agree and are already voting with their feet (especially if you have cash in your sock). According to Insider Intelligence, less than half of US households will pay for linear TV next year, down 10 points from 2020. Meanwhile, domestic video ad spending is estimated at US$76.20 billion, US$8 billion more than is spent on TV advertising.
The great migration of media buyers to streaming won’t increase until Netflix and Disney+ roll out their own cheaper, ad-supported tiers. Until then, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ will be the only major streaming services without an ad-supported option, though Amazon has its FAST/AVOD service Freevee.
Back then – meaning earlier this year – SVOD platforms had a boss: the user. That is no longer the case and perhaps never will be again. However, no one in the NATPE conference rooms at the W Hollywood Hotel was willing to discuss how this might affect the content itself. Eight decades of broadcast history suggest this will be the case. So is the observer effect, the psychological phenomenon where people change their behavior because they are aware of the presence of an observer. The advertisers are here and watching.
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With the reshuffling still alive at Myntra and Jabong after the merger between the two entities, the latest update is that Flipkart group has named Rishi Vasudev as the head of fashion and lifestyle category of the newly merged identity right after Amar Nagaram’s elevation as the CEO of Myntra and Jabong.
Economic Times’ report said that Amar Nagaram will be heading the product, tech and customer experience section while Vasudev will head the fashion and lifestyle section and both, Nagaram and Vasudev will be reporting to the CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy.
Vasudev, having served for more than 4 years as the Vice President at Flipkart, was recently promoted as the senior Vice President at the e-commerce major. Before joining Flipkart, Vasudev had an 8 month stint as the CEO of Calvin Klein in India.
A bunch of key executives have also been shuffled within the two entities. The elevation of Vasudev and Nagaram came after the departure of Narayanan from Myntra, who is expected to join the video streaming giant, Hotstar. Myntra’s Chief Revenue Officer, Mithun Sundar and Human Resources head Manpreet Ratia have also reportedly threw in the towel.
Some top-level handing out of roles and exits are also expected with the Flipkart group. Ananya Tripathi, former strategy head, Dipanjan Basu, former Chief Finance Officer and former Jabong head, Gunjan Soni also earlier gave their resignation.
The financial performance of Myntra in FY18 was surprising as the revenues came crashing down by 79% approximately from Rs. 2038.1 Crore in FY17 to Rs. 427.74 Crore. Analysts say that this is due to a major transfer of Myntra’s revenue to the new enterprise formed after acquiring Jabong.


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The Nottingham Evening Post has promoted reporter Jon Robinson to the post of Environment Correspondent.
Robinson will take up his new role from 28 January. He replaces Kevin Peachey, who is joining the BBC News Website as personal finance and consumer affairs reporter.
The Evening Post is published daily from Monday to Saturday by Nottingham Post Group, a part of Northcliffe. It has a circulation of 60,705.
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Delhi High Court asks RBI, SBI to respond to plea to revoke prohibition on use of UPI for cryptocurrency exchange
The petitioner, who is an account holder of SBI and registered user of cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX, said by the actions of the authorities infringe his fundamental right of trade and the right to equality.
The Delhi High Court Thursday sought the response of the Reserve Bank of India and State Bank of India on a plea seeking to direct the authorities to revoke the prohibition on the use of UPI platform in dealing and settling funds in the cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to SBI, RBI, National Payments Corporation of India, and the Department of Financial Services and asked them to respond to the petition.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on December 24.
Petitioner Arnav Gulati, a law student, said he along with numerous account holders of SBI and registered users of cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX is aggrieved by the actions of the authorities which infringes his fundamental right of trade under Article 19(1)(g) and the right to equality under Article 14 of the Constitution.
The lawyers said the PIL involved the interest of almost one crore retail investors of the WazirX crypto exchange platform and sought direction to the authorities to take effective steps and take back the decision of prohibiting UPI payments in the crypto exchanges.
The plea said in April 2018, RBI issued a circular prohibiting all the banks to deal with any virtual currency or provide services for facilitating any person or entity in dealing with or settling them including Bitcoins.
Such services included maintaining accounts, registering, trading, settling, clearing, giving loans against virtual tokens, accepting them as collateral, opening accounts of exchanges dealing with them, and transfer/ receipt of money in accounts relating to purchase/ sale of virtual currencies, it said, adding that thereafter, all the transactions related to cryptocurrencies via banking institutions were stopped.
"Later, the Supreme Court in March 2020 passed a final order nullifying the circular of RBI and paving the way for banks and their customers to deal in cryptocurrency. On the basis of the said order, the RBI issued another circular allowing the institutions under it to deal and facilitate transactions in virtual currencies," it said.
The plea said on September 15, SBI prohibited the use of the UPI platform for its account holders in the WazirX cryptocurrency exchange which has now been challenged.
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Two amicus briefs filed late last week support the position that NJOY's electronic cigarettes may not be regulated by the FDA as drug delivery devices because the products are not marketed with any therapeutic claims.
In the first amicus brief, filed by myself along with Bill Godshall, Dr. Joel Nitzkin, the American Council on Science and Health, the National Vapers Club, Midwest Vapers Group, and Consumer Advocates for Smokefree Alternatives Association, we make two major arguments. First, we argue that the FDA may not regulate NJOY's electronic cigarettes as drug delivery devices under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) because to be considered a drug delivery device, the device must be marketed with a therapeutic or medicinal claim.
We argue that "e-cigarettes are not “drugs,” “devices,” or “combination products” under the FDCA. A decade ago, in FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., the Supreme Court held that the FDA does not have jurisdiction to regulate tobacco products. In support of this conclusion, the Court cited the FDA’s long-held position that it “lacked authority under the FDCA to regulate tobacco absent claims of therapeutic benefit by the manufacturer.” In this case, the district court enjoined the FDA from regulating NJOY’s e-cigarettes “absent a proffer of evidence that the products are ‘intended to have a therapeutic effect.’” The FDA has failed to proffer any such evidence."
Second, we argue that the FDA is incorrect in asserting that an injunction on its enforcement of a ban on electronic cigarettes will endanger the public's health. On the contrary, we argue that it is the removal of electronic cigarettes from the market which will endanger the public's health by forcing hundreds of thousands of ex-smokers (vapers) to return to cigarette smoking. There is no identified chemical exposure produced by the use of NJOY electronic cigarettes (other than nicotine) that the FDA or any anti-smoking group has asserted - backed up by scientific evidence - poses a significant risk to users. In contrast, the cigarettes that would otherwise be smoked by vapers if e-cigs were taken off the market contain thousands of chemicals, many of which have been documented to cause significant harm to human health.
We therefore argue: "Against this backdrop, the FDA’s relentless attempt to ban the import of ecigarettes as unlawful drug-device combination products is nothing less than a derogation of its mission to protect the public health. The FDA knows that it cannot ban traditional cigarettes—indisputably one of the chief preventable causes of illness and death worldwide—so instead it seeks to regulate (and ban) what must surely be a safer alternative. In the context of a regulatory regime that contemplates the continued legality of traditional cigarettes, the amici believe that safer substitutes should be embraced, not abolished."
We conclude by asking the appeals court to uphold the district court's decision to issue an injunction preventing the FDA from enforcing its declared ban on NJOY's electronic cigarettes: "For the foregoing reasons, the amici respectfully request that the Court affirm the district court’s decision to enter a preliminary injunction barring the FDA from detaining NJOY’s products."
The second amicus brief, filed by the Washington Legal Foundation, provides a detailed argument why the FDA may not exert jurisdiction over NJOY's electronic cigarettes under the FDCA. The argument is summarized as follows: "Most relevant here, WLF participated as amicus curiae in FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 529 U.S. 120 (2000), the landmark Supreme Court decision holding that FDA lacked authority to regulate tobacco products under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”). There, as here, WLF was concerned about FDA’s theory of regulation, which asserted that “intended use” of a product within the meaning of Section 201(g) and (h) of the FDCA could be determined with reference to the products’ actual or foreseeable use, or other nonstatutory factors such as a product’s inherent attributes, rather than therapeutic claims made by the manufacturer. Such a capacious interpretation would give FDA unfettered discretion to regulate virtually any consumer product as a drug or medical device, well exceeding the proper ambit of the agency’s authority under the FDCA."
In other words, the FDA is attempting to assert that NJOY's electronic cigarettes are drug delivery devices simply because they affect the structure and function of the body and may be used by some consumers for smoking cessation, even though the company makes no therapeutic claim (such as advertising the product as being an effective smoking cessation treatment). The Washington Legal Foundation points out that if the FDA's interpretation is accepted, it would have the preposterous result of placing all sorts of items under FDA regulation, include carrots. Since carrots are thought by many consumers to prevent eye disease, the FDA's reasoning would lead to carrots being regulated as a drug, according to the brief.
The Washington Legal Foundation presents a detailed history of court decisions which make it clear that the intended use of a product is to be determined by the marketing claims made for that product, not by other factors such as the actual use of the product or merely by whether the product affects the structure and function of the body.
Indeed, as the brief points out, a former FDA chief counsel himself noted: "For decades, it generally has been understood that intended uses are established by manufacturer statements. It is not that intended uses are established by events in the minds of manufacturers (whatever those may be) and that the statements are merely evidence of what has occurred in those minds; rather, the statements create the intended uses, and the minds (and evidence of what has occurred in those minds) are irrelevant."
The brief concludes that: "In sum, there is no basis to defend FDA regulation of a drug or medical device absent a manufacturer making claims that the product will provide a therapeutic or medical benefit."
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These amicus briefs will be considered by the court. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for September 23.


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Microsoft has brought back the beloved Clippy assistant as a sticker pack on Microsoft Teams. Clippy’s resurrection comes two weeks after a user requested to bring back a Clippy sticker pack on the company’s feedback portal.
Clippy Sticker Pack for Microsoft Teams
A Microsoft representative confirmed the arrival of Clippy sticker pack on Microsoft’s community feedback portal.“Yes, it’s true – Clippy has agreed to come out of retirement! Whether you loved him or hated him, Clippy is back with a Retro Sticker Pack in Teams,” wrote the Microsoft representative.
Clippy sticker pack includes over 30 animated stickers that you can use in DMs and channels. You can take a look at Clippy stickers below:
As OnMSFT reports, Microsoft first released a Clippy sticker pack for Teams back in 2019. However, it didn’t last long and Microsoft ended up taking it down only a day later. “Clippy has been trying to get his job back since 2001, and his brief appearance on GitHub was another attempt. While we appreciate the effort, we have no plans to bring Clippy to Teams,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The Verge at the time.
Speaking of Clippy, this is not the first time Microsoft has used Clippy in one of its core products. After releasing Clippy wallpapers, the company announced the availability of Clippy in Office apps earlier this year. Furthermore, you even get a Clippy emoji on Windows 11, albeit in 2D form as Windows 11 won’t have 3D emojis.
Considering how Microsoft has embraced the Clippy avatar lately, one would hope that the world’s most valuable company is planning to retain Clippy going forward. How do you feel about Microsoft suddenly embracing Clippy across its products and services? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Groupon News Update: Warehouses Purchased for Groupon Goods
Groupon news update: the daily deals site has taken another developmental step in the form of warehouses for their newly established Groupon Goods business.
With Eric Lefkofsky only officially adopting control of the company from the ever-controversial and now ousted CEO Andrew Mason in the last month, Groupon are desperate to remain contemporary and relevant in this ever changing world of fickle internet businesses.
Under the control of Masons, whose role in the company can be succinctly described by simply looking at the company figures while he was in control – they lost 75% of their value – and his new business pursuit as a musician. Lefkofsky has already led the company into calmer, safer waters and the move to purchase warehouses to store some of the stock for their new endeavour, Groupon Goods, depicts how the company are developing to maintain relevancy.
These warehouses will form a network across North America that will allow for the daily deals company to branch out from the voucher system and into the same realm as other discount companies such as Amazon and CostCo. The new initiative will aim to rival these companies by taking those already converted to the Groupon way of thinking and just offer them a wider range of services.
They will strive to do the shipping of all of these discounted products in-house to reduce their costs and increase their chances of success in the market. This also comes as a retort to the companies who are currently struggling to keep up with each other as the demand to get their products out to customers at an ever-faster rate gets more intense.
Groupon News Update
In the same thread, the company have made several purchases of start-up companies that are designed to target more specialised customers and they have launched Groupon Reserve that allows the booking of tables at popular restaurants. This last business will then reach out into the realms of spas, hotels and salons and offer high-end, exclusive experiences at exclusive prices. Whereas Groupon Goods is looking to offer purely discounted products.
This expansion comes in light of the distinct drop in profits and even interest from the public after their first year of operation as a daily deals site – not all of which can be attributed to their previous CEO.
If you are interested in learning more about Groupon, their new businesses or the newly appoint CEO contact their customer services department and speak with an assistant. All of the relevant contact information can be found through the following link http://www.customerservicescontact.co.uk/groupon-customer-service/.
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Samsung sets up control tower for new growth drivers
South Korea warns tit-for-tat action over North Korea’s border buildup
Apgujeong Rolls Royce hit-and-run victim dies after 4 months in coma
12 foreigners nabbed on suspicion of drug use
Korea to start hiring E-9 visa foreign workers in restaurants
Korea Pass Cards to spur demand during 50-day shopping eventBy 김윤미
Published : Jan. 10, 2011 - 17:09
Korea Pass Cards, consisting of pre-paid cards and check cards for non-Koreans and credit cards and check cards for Korean nationals, can be used on subways, buses and taxis. They also offer 5-10 percent discount benefits at major shopping stores, tourist sites, museums, theaters and restaurants in Seoul.
The ministry launched the tourism cards, in cooperation with Lotte Card and the Korea Tourism Organization, on Dec. 20.
The stores and companies that offer related discounts include musical Miso at Chongdong Theater, Lotte Mart, Angel-in-us Coffee, Lotte Duty Free, T.G.I. Friday’s and TomaTillo.
Korea Pass pre-paid cards are available in denominations of 50,000 won, 100,000 won, 300,000 won and 500,000 won at airports, Lotte Mart and Seven-Eleven. For easier purchase of the cards, the ministry plans to establish online card sale at www.koreapass.or.kr in the near future.
The remaining credit can be claimed back at airports, Seven-Eleven stores and at VAT refund service provider Tax Free Korea in Dongdaemun Doota shopping mall and the President Hotel.
During the “Korea Grand Sale” event, foreign tourists will be able to enjoy shopping, dining, hotel accommodation and cultural shows at 14,000 shops and stores across the nation, either at cheaper prices or with free souvenirs.
The participating retailers include the “Big 20” major department stores such as Lotte, Shinsegae, Hyundai and Galleria, discount outlets such as E-Mart, Lotte Mart and duty free shops including Donghwa, Walkerhill and Shilla.
“The Culture Ministry aims to boost the number of foreign visitors to Korea to 10 million in 2011, and Korea Grand Sale and Korea Pass Cards are expected to play a very significant role in achieving that goal,” said Culture Minister Yu In-chon.
“I plan to discuss making Korea Pass Cards available in Japan and China when I attend the culture minister’s meeting with them on Jan. 18-19.”
The ministry also promotes Korea Pass Cards to locals. Korean nationals who purchase “My Country First Travel Event” travel package tickets on the Korea Tourism Organization website (korean.visitkorea.or.kr) through Korea Pass Cards will get additional discounts, the ministry said.
Korea Pass cards, available only in Seoul now, will be also available in Busan at the end of January.
By Kim Yoon-mi (email@example.com)
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After new supply chain disruptions caused by the crisis in Ukraine this week, BMW plans to gradually resume production at its plants in Munich and Dingolfing, the report said.
BMW plans to gradually resume operations at its Munich and Dingolfing car plants next week, media reported.
However, Reuters also reported that BMW has warned that it expects further breaks due to the crisis in Ukraine and the constant shortage of semiconductors.
A Reuters report also said that production of the BMW Mini brand in Oxford would be suspended for two weeks.
Europe’s car industry is faltering from supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine. Wiring harnesses became the most important point. Cable assemblies from Ukraine are shipped to Leoni plants across Europe for delivery to OEMs such as Opel, Porsche, Volkswagen, Audi and Lamborghini. Wiring harness products are often custom-made for certain platforms and vehicle models with very limited inventory. When supplies from Ukraine were cut off in late February, the impact on carmakers was instantaneous.
Wiring harnesses are relatively complex components, so production cannot be changed in a short time or is easy to replace. In particular, German OEMs have been and will continue to be affected by supply disruptions from Ukraine – although Leoni is likely to work hard to develop alternative power sources (such as factories in Tunisia).


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According to a recent news by Consumer News, about 33,800 Nissan Sentras are part of a recall issued due to issues with the engine reportedly stalling while the vehicle in is motion, potentially increasing the risks of collision.
The vehicle models included in the recall are the 2010 and 2011 year models of the Nissan Sentra with the MR20 equipped engine, The recalled vehicles were manufactured in May 2010 and from July 2010 through October 2010. The problem arises from an extra coating of applied zinc that may be too thick, causing the vehicles to stall in motion and potentially failing to restart.
Consumers should expect to be notified by the company to bring in their vehicles to their local dealers for an inspection and free replacement. For additional information, consumers should contact the company at 800-647-7261.
As a product liability lawyer Los Angeles, I’ve seen recalls of this kind in the past and know the severity of the hazards they entail. I hope this information can help raise awareness about this recalled product. If you or a loved one has been injured through the use or consumption of a defective product, speak with a Los Angeles personal injury attorney to learn about the legal options available to you. Please, continue to visit our blog for regular updates about unsafe and dangerous consumer products.


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In recent weeks, several companies have held major events with various new announcements. Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft and many more have all had their own showcases. Nintendo, of course, has been a notable absentee, but it seems the Japanese publisher will soon have its own show as well.
That’s according to hints from prominent insider NateTheHate, who has said in a couple of recent tweets that we can expect a new Nintendo Direct sometime this month. In another tweet, the insider suggests that the Direct will take place sometime between June 20 and June 26.
Interestingly, others have also thrown oil on the fire regarding this leak. Journalist Jeff Grubb recently said in his Game Mess Decides podcast that it is likely that a Nintendo Direct will take place sometime this week, along with another Nintendo event sometime in July, echoing what he said earlier this month. Meanwhile, IGN’s Daemon Hatfield also gave a similar hint in a recent episode of the Game Scoop! podcast, in which he said a Nintendo event could take place sometime this week.
Of course, it’s wise to take all of this with a grain of salt, especially since Nintendo is involved – and you can never be completely sure about a leak involving Nintendo. It will also be interesting to see what the scope of this Direct will be, if it does indeed take place, given previous reports that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would be Nintendo’s last major release for the Nintendo Switch (although we can expect Pikmin 4 next month).


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In the wake of China’s ICO boycott, what comes to pass for the universe of digital forms of money?
The greatest occasion in the digital currency world as of late was the presentation of the Chinese specialists to close down the trades on which cryptographic forms of money are exchanged. Thus, BTCChina, one of the biggest bitcoin trades in China, said that it would stop exchanging exercises before the finish of September. This news catalyzed a sharp auction that left bitcoin and different monetary forms, for example, Etherium diving around 30 percent underneath the record highs that were arrived at recently. Thus, the digital money rollercoaster proceeds. With bitcoin having builds that outperform quadrupled values from December 2016 to September 2017, a few investigators anticipate that it would cryptocurrencies be able to can recoup from the ongoing falls. Josh Mahoney, a market expert at IG remarks that digital forms of money’s past experience discloses to us that [they] will probably dismiss these most recent difficulties.
Nonetheless, these estimations don’t come without resistance. Mr Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, commented that bitcoin won’t work and that it is a cheat… more regrettable than tulip bulbs regarding the Dutch ‘tulip insanity’ of the seventeenth century, perceived as the world’s first theoretical bubble… that will explode. He goes to the degree of saying that he would terminate workers who were sufficiently idiotic to exchange bitcoin https://quickex.io/.
Hypothesis aside, what is really going on? Since China’s ICO boycott, other world-driving economies are investigating how the digital currency world should/can be controlled in their areas. As opposed to prohibiting ICOs, different nations despite everything perceive the innovative advantages of crypto-innovation, and are investigating controlling the market without totally smothering the development of the monetary forms. The enormous issue for these economies is to make sense of how to do this, as the elective idea of the digital forms of money don’t permit them to be arranged under the strategies of customary venture resources.
A portion of these nations incorporate Japan, Singapore and the US. These economies look to build up bookkeeping norms for digital currencies, essentially so as to deal with illegal tax avoidance and misrepresentation, which have been delivered more slippery due to the crypto-innovation. However, most controllers do perceive that there is by all accounts no genuine advantage to totally forbidding cryptographic forms of money because of the monetary streams that they convey along. Additionally, presumably on the grounds that it is for all intents and purposes difficult to close down the crypto-world however long the web exists. Controllers can just zero in on territories where they might have the option to practice some control, which is by all accounts where cryptographic forms of money meet fiat monetary standards for example the digital money trades.


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Vodafone launches UFB plans, Sky TV over UFB fibre
UPDATE: Vodafone is launching consumer UFB plans in parts of Whangarei, Auckland, Palmerston North, Wellington and Dunedin (all bar Whangarei are covered by Chorus). Christchurch and other areas will follow over the next few months.
The carrier has matched the $75 price-point set by other ISPs for their cheapest plans. Unlike Telecom, a voice-over-fibre service is included (meaning there's no need to hold onto a copper line). Vodafone also offering a naked fibre service - that is, without a voice line (see all the plans here).
Vodafone's key point of difference is that it's offering customers the Vodafone TV Digital Recorder, decoder that can play either Freeview or Sky TV content UFB fibre. The Recorder will be available from November 1, initially for Auckland.
The decoder is a "next generation T-Box" Vodafone consumer director Matt Williams says - a reference to the set-top box used by "tens of thousands" of customers on the HFC network in parts of Wellington and Christchurch that Vodafone inherited with its purchase of TelstraClear last year.
Video is seen by some pundits as a "killer app" for persusading people to make the move to fibre. But a clone of Sky TV's line-up (plus a modest number of pay-per-view movies), may not be compelling enough to make people upgrade.
The Vodafone TV Digital Recorder is software upgradable, and quite versatile. Asked if Vodafone could approach Netflix or a similar independent TV and movie download service, Mr Williams said it was technically possible, but "We connect New Zealand homes. They [Sky TV] provide the content. Our intention is not to go to Netflix."
He hinted niche content could be added, and that other services were possible in future - which in NBR's view will help differentiate Vodafone's service. For now, Sky TV is taking the lead on content. The pay TV broadcaster makes it clear who's wearing the pants in this morning's press release, with Sky TV CEO John Fellet's saying, "It’s great to see Vodafone TV using the digital rights we’ve purchased."
TV content will be unmetered (that is, won't count toward your data cap. Multicast technology used by Chorus will mean there is no interference with regular broadband use, Vodafone says. There is one piece of fibre, but electronically it's configured as two virtual pieces. Someone on a 30Mbit/s or 100Mbit/s plan could effectively get more bandwidth if it's required by the TV decoder.
ABOVE: Vodafone's UFB plans (click to zoom). Sky TV Basic through the Vodafone TV Digital Recorder costs $45/month; adding Sky Movies costs $22.05; adding Sky Sport $26.66. Pay-per-view movies cost $6.95 in standard definition; $7.95 in high definition.
The set-top box, which has a 300GB hard drive and the usual recording and live pause options, will cost $14 a month on Vodafone's cheaper plans, and will be free with higher-end plans.
Customers can get Freeview channels free, or pay extra for various Sky TV channels (tied to Sky's rate card but with discounts based on the overall UFB plan you buy from Vodafone).
Vodafone doesn't have an exclusive license to provide Sky TV content over broadband. Telecom and others also have deals with Sky TV to resell its boxes or create a clone of Sky TV's decoder. Vodafone pitches the fact it's the only ISP with a set-top box ready to go.
Vodafone will shortly launch a VDSL fast copper service, which will also likely include the TV service offer, Mr Williams says. The lack of a multicast option will make it more of a technical challenge, Vodafone says.
Vodafone stresses there are no capacity restraints with fibre. That Sky TV channels offered over satellite in HD will be HD on Vodafone's set-top box. But some standard definition channels will be less compressed than they are on Sky TV.
READ ALSO: Vodafone launches business UFB plans
OCT 4: Vodafone is tipped to launch UFB fibre-to-the-home plans this morning.
On Wednesday the carrier launched business UFB plans. The company told NBR a residential launch was "imminent."
This morning Vodafone consumer director Matt Williams is hosting an event at a private home in Auckland's posh Herne Bay.
Vodafone has been trialng UFB in the immediate area for nearly a year; NBR first had a spin on a Grey Lynn resident's (Chorus-installed) UFB connection back in December last year.
A key point of interest will be whether a voice-over-fibre service will be included with Vodafone's plans (a voice service was conspicuously absent from Telecom's launch, leadiing to complications around the need to retain the old copper line).
Vodafone NZ CEO Russell Stanners has previous said the UFB installation experience was "not ready for primetime." On the technical side it may now be up to snuff.
But in an interview with NBR last month, Chorus boss Mark Ratcliffe told NBR people who live down a right-of-way or in a mulit-tenant dwelling can face a wait of up to three month as his company seek to get the permission of every owner involved (Chorus - which is rolling out around 70% of the UFB, is pushing ICT and Environment Minister Amy Adams to make the UFB a "designated service," which would allow it automatic access to ROWs and apartments).
Vodafone's entry seen jump-starting market
So far, only around 10,000 of 300,000 within reach of fibre have taken a UFB plan.
Mr Ratcliffe - whose company is wholesaling UFB access to retail ISPs - told NBR that UFB adoption would accelerate once Vodafone entered the market.
"I suspect we’ll see the competitive dynamic changing a bit when Vodafone’s in the market. When you’ve got the big two retailers going head-to-head, competition drives greater demand," he said.
"When you’ve got two big guys going hard at it, that will see faster uptake."
Telecom holds around 50% ISP market share, and Vodafone (now including Telstraclear) has 29%, according to Commerce Commission figures. CallPlus (including Slingshot) has around 9%, and Orcon 5%.


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Dhani Loans and Services is a NBFC registered with the RBI. Dhani, a 100 percent subsidiary of Dhani Services Limited, disburses loans online but does not take any deposits. The company offers personal loans and loans to small and medium businesses, the company’s website said.
Several users were shocked to find unaccounted outstanding loans from Indiabulls-owned Dhani Loans and Services Ltd appearing on their credit history without their consent. In the past few days, many users took to social media to raise concern over the misuse of their PAN details by unknown third parties to avail loans from the fintech start-up.
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These people claim that they had never borrowed any loans from the online lender. Some individuals have approached the Reserve Bank of India and cybercrime authorities alleging fraud.
When did it start?
Some of these loans from Dhani have been taken in the past six months. Apart from the permanent account number (PAN), most of the other customer details were not genuine.
Pharma company employee Surya Tripathi from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, told Mint that his credit score had been dropping since November 2021. When he probed, Tripathi found out that there were two loans from IVL Finance wrongly attributed to him, which were affecting his credit score. IVL Finance was formerly Indiabulls Consumer Finance Ltd.
Software engineer Dileep Kumar from Delhi also discovered a Dhani loan wrongly attributed to him in November 2021. He had immediately written to the Dhani about the anomaly and also complained to the RBI ombudsman a month later.
Following the RBI complaint, Kumar received a mail from the Dhani redressal team, acknowledging that his “KYC documents have been tampered and been misused for availing a loan facility from our company", Mint reported.
What is the company doing?
When contacted, Dhani confirmed the developments and said it had initiated action in the matter. The company is weighing all complaints to see if it was a case of identity theft and rectifying records in the credit bureaus.
In order to stop stray events of identity thefts, Dhani is working with global security platform G-defence to re-verify each device against a specific customer and PAN through various data fields.
As part of its measures, Dhani has also increased its customer support team to 6,500 people to attend to customer problems. The company has introduced a special menu on the IVR of its customer service helpline that will help immediately resolve past cases.
In a statement to CNBC-TV18, Dhani said it had disbursed small transaction finance loans to over 35 lakh people in the past 12 months, of which 99.9 percent were given to genuine people.
The fintech lender slowed the process of signing up new customers in the last month in a bid to tighten its processes, the report quoted a person aware of the development.
Indiabulls-owned Dhani Loans
Formerly known as Indiabulls Consumer Finance Limited, Dhani Loans and Services is a non-banking financial company registered with the Reserve Bank. Dhani, a 100 percent subsidiary of Dhani Services Limited, disburses loans online but does not take any deposits.
The company offers personal loans and loans to small and medium businesses, the company’s website said.
A person can avail of loans from Dhani by giving only PAN card details and address proof as documents. The Dhani app has over 5 crore downloads on the Google Play Store.


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Updated: Jun 14, 2020
Roger McNamee, who originally backed Facebook through his VC firm Elevation Partners, is now their most strident opponent. The December 2019 New Yorker article, Big Tech’s Big Defector, outlines how McNamee turned from friend to foe after the company’s role in the 2016 election.
The range range of data privacy solutions interspersed throughout the article was new ground for me. We hear much lamenting about “big tech” and data privacy, but conversations around reform are sorely lacking in substance.
Illustration by Marc Pallarès
“The core of McNamee’s concerns is Internet companies’ use of what he calls ‘data voodoo dolls’—digital profiles they develop for each user. He claims that these profiles are ‘effectively an extension of yourself,’ and that it should be ‘no more legitimate to trade the data in a data voodoo doll than it is to trade someone’s kidney.’” The digital voodoo dolls result in many social ills: discrimination, election manipulation/interference, voter suppression, amplification of “harmful” content such as anti-vaxxer propaganda.
Micro-targeted online political ads: “By collecting data from Facebook without user consent, the company was able to identify micro-populations of voters, then serve up customized ads encouraging them to vote for Donald Trump.” To understand how this is truly a novel threat to democracy, one must first understand the traditional political advertising channels. TV ads cannot microtarget audiences. Instead, broader demographics are served adverts through pre-buys with set schedules.
To be clear, there is not necessarily a consensus on the extent of social media’s impact on elections and the risk for consumers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, generally considered a left-leaning organization, views some of McNamee’s policy proposals as extreme. Bill Gates says that McNamee blames Zuckerberg unfairly. Despite the nascent range of opinions on data privacy, many major state actors view data privacy as a problem that warrants legislation that includes major penalties for violators.
Proposed policy reforms:
The problem with the prevailing policy “opt-in/opt-out” solutions such as CCPA in California and the GDPR in the EU: “ Such laws expand consumers’ control over their data and give them new legal tools for holding companies accountable. ....Under G.D.P.R. rules, companies must ask users to opt in before their data can be processed by third parties—but, as soon as consumers consent, it’s more or less back to business as usual. And the rules are relatively loose when it comes to metadata. Even if the contents of a phone call are protected, the time of the call or the parties involved might not be.”
According to McNamee, antitrust regulation, a much discussed topic during the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, does not address the root cause: “ ‘I want to prevent the data from getting into the system in the first place,’ he told me. The reform that would really have teeth, he says, is one that would ‘ban all third-party commerce in private information—financial information, location information, health information, browser history, scanning of e-mail.’ Companies would be allowed to collect data needed for their services, but nothing else: a wellness app could store your height or your weight but not the location of your gym—and none of this information could be shared with
There are other proposals that might redefine online privacy norms without wholly reinventing them. Tristan Harris, a former Google ethicist and the executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, said that most people “would never say a doctor or lawyer shouldn’t have access to information about us, or that they can’t monetize something in their relationship with us. We say they have to monetize it in alignment with our best interests.” Instead of a ban, Harris argues for extending the fiduciary duty of doctors, lawyers, and other professions to include Internet companies, legally binding them to act exclusively in accordance with their clients’ well-being.
Another approach is pigovian in nature: Harris also “Proposes a tax on income derived from targeted digital ads, an approach endorsed by the economist and Nobel laureate Paul Romer. In theory, this would encourage tech companies to adopt business models that rely less on personal data, and the tax would be progressive, so as to favor smaller businesses. Harris likens the monetization of user data to the extraction of fossil fuels: “These are the most profitable business models but also the most polluting.” Alongside a tax on polluters, he proposes subsidizing alternatives—platforms that have made commitments not to stoke outrage.
In summary, current laws do not address the root of data privacy problems. Further, it seems like the term "big tech" is being misapplied. "Big Tech" is a blanket term for a handful of tech companies that have distinct regulatory challenges and impacts on wide swaths of society. Can we just use the proper nouns?