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ExecutiveDec 04, 2013 10:17 AM By Ryan Lillis
Online retailers are always on the lookout for ways to drive additional revenue, accept during the holiday time, when merchants are generally focused on securing sales. But the smartest retailers are also concentrating on website performance and how to use the holiday shopping season to derive data. Here are 5 things you can do, right now, that will help increase conversion rates throughout 2014.
ExecutiveDec 03, 2013 7:47 PM By MCM Staff
Cyber Monday reached $1.735 billion in desktop online spending, up 18% versus the same day in 2012, representing the heaviest online spending day in history, according to comScore.
ExecutiveDec 01, 2013 5:22 PM By Tim Parry
During a conference call on Dec. 1, neither NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay or Prosper’s Consumer Insights Director Pam Goodfellow seemed to be alarmed by the drop-off in Thanksgiving weekend sales figures.
ExecutiveDec 01, 2013 2:14 PM By Tim Parry
comScore says Thanksgiving Day ecommerce sales made on non-mobile devices reached $776 million, up 21% from 2012, while Black Friday’s $1.2 billion sales day was a 15% increase over last year.
ExecutiveNov 30, 2013 9:38 PM By MCM Staff
[CLICK HERE for Multichannel Merchant's Cyber Weekend 2013 coverage] Mobile Visits Grow, but Revenue Explodes: Thanksgiving Day Sales on Smartphone-optimized Websites up 258% (via PR Newswire) PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Branding Brand, the leading mobile commerce platform to top retailers, today announced the results of its Mobile Commerce Index for Thanksgiving Day, which […]
ExecutiveNov 30, 2013 9:17 PM By MCM Staff
While many merchants optimized their ecommerce sites for growing Cyber Weekend demand, Compuware APM questions whether they have been prepared for the mobile commerce onslaught.
ExecutiveNov 30, 2013 7:48 AM By Tim Parry
Ecommerce sales reached $1.93 billion on Black Friday, an increase of 39% over Black Friday 2012, according to Adobe Digital Index 2013 online shopping data.
ExecutiveNov 29, 2013 11:04 AM By Tim Parry
Thanksgiving Day ecommerce sales were up 19.7% over the same period in 2012, according to the online sales trends compiled for the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. Sales were moderate, and then boomed around the same time retailers opened their doors Thanksgiving night.
ExecutiveNov 26, 2013 9:39 AM By Tim Parry
Less than 7 weeks after Jo.s A. Bank looked to acquire troubled apparel merchant Men’s Wearhouse, Men’s Wearhouse made an offer Tuesday to acquire Jos. A. Bank for $1.2 billion.
ExecutiveNov 25, 2013 10:30 AM By Tim Parry
Walmart Stores Inc’s board of directors has elected company veteran Doug McMillon to succeed Mike Duke as president and chief executive officer, effective Feb. 1. McMillon was also elected to the company’s board of directors effective immediately.


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This platform is set to enable next-generation payment transaction scale and responsiveness. Blockchain architecture is expected to touch 10 million transactions per second.
This payment network, powered by blockchain architecture, is developed to process more than one million transactions per second.
Akamai’s market-leading cloud security offerings will accelerate the transactions executed across the payment network.
“This new blockchain-based online payment system, built upon our cloud platform, will be designed to address the concerns related to scalability, latency and security that have to date hindered the broader use of blockchain,” said Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO and co-founder of Akamai.
“Akamai and MUFG are committed to delivering innovative solutions that can better serve customers and their payment processing needs,” he added.

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The mystery-solving Pikachu we've been waiting for is finally leaving its Japan-only status behind and coming to the West this spring.
The Nintendo 3DS game Detective Pikachu(opens in a new tab) will arrive in Europe and the Americas in March, more than two years after the game first released in Japan.
In Detective Pikachu, players control a human that works alongside a deep-voiced Pikachu who has somehow learned how to speak English (or whatever language you play the game in) to solve mysteries and chase down criminals. It sounds amazing.
Along with the game release, Detective Pikachu is being spun out into a live action movie, in which the titular Pikachu is voiced by Ryan Reynolds. What a time to be alive.


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Adult Industry News
Sun, Jan 08 2012 06:00am PST
“Poor Little Shyla 2” has been released exclusively on HotMovies.com.
Sat, Jan 07 2012 12:00pm PST
Girlfriends Films was declared the Adult Studio of the Year by XCritic.com.
Sat, Jan 07 2012 06:00am PST
California Exotic Novelties is gearing up for next week’s XBIZ Retail Expo and the ANME show.
Fri, Jan 06 2012 06:00pm PST
Top adult entertainment studios dug deep into their creative reservoir in 2011, producing numerous ambitious features that titillated audiences and showed the level of entertainment they can achieve.
Fri, Jan 06 2012 05:00pm PST
XBIZ is pleased to announce that Fleshlight founder Steve Shubin will receive the first ever XBIZ "Industry Innovator Award."
Fri, Jan 06 2012 03:45pm PST
Media Revenue has jumped into the search engine optimization trademark infringement suit waged by IntenseCash, saying it owns some of the 90 domains that are at center of litigation.
Fri, Jan 06 2012 03:15pm PST
Mobile adult ad network Reporo.com has concluded an exclusive deal with Xhamster to purchase all of its mobile inventory.
Fri, Jan 06 2012 03:00pm PST
XBIZ is pleased to announce the lineup of XBIZ Retail 2012 speakers, which is comprised of leading experts specializing in various sectors of adult retail who will offer a comprehensive analysis of the market and constructive look towards the future
Fri, Jan 06 2012 01:00pm PST
The Australian Sex Party’s (ASP) second Eros Progressive Business Award will be presented to shared winners, Windsor Wholesale Australia and Swiss Navy, at the 2012 XBIZ Awards on Jan. 10.
Fri, Jan 06 2012 12:00pm PST
Fleshlight.com, as well as the company’s affiliate program FN Cash, plans a big presence at next week’s XBIZ LA, the digital media conference.


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The free app links up with customers’ PayPal accounts so they can pay their bill in “less than a minute” at any stage of their meals.
Pizza Express says the app marks the first time PayPal online payments have been brought to the UK high street.
The launch of the app is supported by Pizza Express’ rollout of free WiFi via The Cloud in its 370 restaurants.
The app also features menus and allows customers to find and book restaurant tables and store vouchers and receipts.
Pizza Express adapted the layouts of its restaurants earlier this year to make more of the “theatre” and performance of its chefs and to improve in-store acoustics by removing unwanted noise.


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Gonow Auto South Africa Reliable Value
GoNow Auto SA is managed by Adri Roe, who was responsible for bringing Daewoo to South Africa, managing a profiting business when it was taken over by General Motors. Ms Roe has been involved in the South African automotive industry for the past 12 years after running one of the most successful Hyundai dealerships of the then Hyundai Motor Distributors South Africa for 5 years.
She was Marketing Director for Daewoo Motor South Africa for 5 years, responsible for option selection and purchasing of new car stock from South Korea, as well as the set-up of a national dealer network now operating under the GM banner.
After the GM take-over of Daewoo and subsequently the Delta Motor Group in South Africa, Ms Roe was general manager for Chevrolet South Africa: Marketing and Sales, responsible for the local launch of Chevrolet SA, as well as the set-up of a country-wide dealer network.
aWith GoNow we looked at manufacturers in China with the potential of growing internationally, not just in the Chinese market,a she explained.
Unbelievably China has over 400 manufacturers and assemblers of automotive products. aWe looked at cars, bakkies, buses and light commercials from dozens of them, eventually focusing on a handful of manufacturers with better quality vehicles more suitable for our market.a
LCV manufacturer GoNow Auto was originally selected by Chris Asmal in 2003, but a major problem at the time was that its vehicles were only available in left-hand drive. aHe not only had to convince the Chinese that there was a market for their product in other parts of the world, but also right-hand drive countries,a said Roe.
RHD development started shortly after, with 6 LHD vehicles shipped to South Africa in November 2005 for testing in local conditions as well as the SABS homologation process.
The official distribution agreement with GoNow Auto was signed on 14 December 2005 for South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, DRC, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Mauritius.
aAs a distributor our focus is on quality product that is technically sound and safe. After receiving the first right-hand drive models, we have made dozens of improvements to the vehicles, including more than 40 changes to the finish and trim - excluding equipment changes,a said Ms Roe.


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Between meals, we’re trying to keep up with the news. Here’s the latest:
Three’s Company, But Four Fast Casual Pizza Chains? I’ve been to Blaze, Pieology and MOD — all fast casual pizza chains that serve up pies quick and tasty. Based on my visits, all seem to be getting good crowds. So it will be interesting to see if there’s room for Your Pizza here. The Athens, Ga.-based chain is scouting the market for expansion, according to the C-J.
Hoosier Beer Spot: Rails, which has an original location in Seymour, is the newest concept to grace the 1870’s era building most recently known as Sam’s Food and Spirits in Clarksville. As Insider reports, the new spot will serve up American fare and beers brewed in Hoosier-land.
Meet a Hometown Beer-oe: Credit the Louisville Independent Business Alliance for coming up with a new twist on its annual Beer Fest at Slugger Field. For the Sept. 23 event, Mayor Greg Fischer, chef Edward Lee, LIBA Founder John Timmons and Forecastle captain J.K. McKnight are consulting with local breweries to create limited edition brews for the party. And you get in for $5, and can drink from 4-10 p.m.
The First Course Includes a Corn Dog: As part of Louisville Craft Beer Week, the Butchertown Grocery and Goodwood Brewing Co. are offering up a six-course dinner, with beer pairings, for $100 a ticket. It’s on Sunday, Sept. 18, and chef Bobby Benjamin will include mussels, pork belly and pheasant at the feast. Get tickets here.
Boat on Over: Dockside dining has always been a special privilege up the Ohio at Captain’s Quarters. Now Chef John Varanese has unveiled his $125K project designed to attract people with boats, and people with friends who have boats, to his spacious River House restaurant and the Levee. He’s added eight boat slips, a lighted stairway and some new Adirondack chairs on the lawn.
Sullivan Wins Gold: At the American Culinary Federation (ACF) “Pastry Live” competition in Atlanta Aug. 21, bakers from the National Center for Hospitality Studies at Sullivan took home five gold medals. Winners, pictured above, are Chef Derek Spendlove, Jessica Waked Diaz, Benita Gomez, Markeisha Crutcher, Jaelin Rifkind, chef Kendall Kneis. The school has developed a longstanding reputation as serious pastry arts school, and this adds to that stellar reputation.


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Bangkok : SCG Chemicals, or SCGC, a leading Chemicals Business for Sustainability, has embraced the Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) economic policy and exchanged perspectives and shared experiences on achieving sustainable business success through Green Innovation at the 3rd Thailand-Latin America and the Caribbean Seminar Series (The 3rd Thailand-LAC Seminar Series). SCGC showcased its plastic innovations for sustainability, marketed under the SCGC GREEN POLYMER brand, along with products from community enterprises developed in line with the BCG approach.
During the event, Niwat Athiwattananont, Technology Director of SCGC, participated in a panel discussion on “Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) Economy: Pathways to Enhance Partnerships between Thailand and Latin America and the Caribbean” to emphasize the importance of commercial research and development, which leads to eco-friendly plastic innovation in line with circular economy principles under the “SCGC GREEN POLYMER” brand. The brand offers four solutions: REDUCE, RECYCLABLE, RECYCLE, and RENEWABLE, aligned with mega-trends and global consumer demands. These solutions cater to partners and product brand owners seeking sustainable solutions and innovations, consistent with Thailand’s BCG economic policy, which promotes economic growth and sustainable development.
Additionally, SCGC organized an exhibition booth showcasing SCGC GREEN POLYMER innovations and products from community enterprises in Rayong province. These included pineapple fiber fabric from the Khon San Vithi Sanyai Fabric Weaving Community Enterprise Group in Ban Mo Mui, Pluak Daeng district, and products from local stingless beekeepers such as honey, soap, and essential oils from Ban Thap Ma Stingless Beekeeping Community Enterprise Group in Mueang district. SCGC has supported and helped develop these products following the BCG approach to create jobs and income for local communities. The exhibition was honored by a visit from Don Pramudwinai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, along with a delegation of Latin American and Caribbean diplomats, who explored the showcased innovations and products.
The 3rd Thailand-LAC Seminar Series was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of American and South Pacific Affairs, in collaboration with the embassies of nine Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and Peru. The event aimed to facilitate an exchange of policy perspectives and measures to promote trade and investment in the economic sector. Latin America, a region with high economic potential, has policies and practices prioritizing the environment, aligning with Thailand’s BCG economic development strategy.
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iTunes Store $10,000 Gift Card Winner is UK Woman
As part of Apple’s celebration of their 10 billionth iOS application being downloaded Apple ran a promotion that would see the person who downloaded that 10 billionth app would win an iTunes gift card to the value of $10,000, which apparently was won by a woman in the UK.
According to an article over on T3, Apple has come forward an announced that the winner of the iTunes $10,000 gift card was mother Gail Davis from Kent UK whose daughter had downloaded the Paper Glider game from iTunes.
Apparently when Apple rang Gail, she thought it was a joke and didn’t take the call, and said, “I had that moment of blind panic, but Apple kindly phones me back and said I was the winner.”
Gail spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live saying, “I have to confess it wasn’t me who downloaded it but my daughters.”
The Paper Glider game is made by Neon Play is a free download, which enables users to see how far they can throw a paper plane and is according to iTunes the number one game in the US and UK.


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Doubles as a domestic violence ad?
New road safety campaign via Ecovia, a highway management company.
The ads certainly have an impact.
But to what end?
Sorry for the cynicism, but — thanks to 20 +years in the business and 8 years of ad blogging — I smell an awards grab attempt by Terremoto Propaganda, the responsible ad agency. They look and feel like ads by art directors, for art directors. I get no emotional spark from them. They are apparently real ads; the company features a banner with images from the campaign on its website. But the fact that these ads are for a private company, and not part of a government safety effort, increases my suspicion.
And: the same idea has already been done, in 2010, in Russia, for car insurance, but using boobs (link, very NSFW).
Well, everybody’s an ad critic, so what do you think?
See two more executions in the campaign here.
- Mark Salling, who played Puck in "Glee," has been indicted on child pornography charges. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
- Never mind the $10 million: Donald Trump now says he won't debate "second place finisher" Bernie Sanders.
- No, France has not banned people from sending work emails after hours – no matter how much we all want to believe it 🇫🇷 ✉


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In recent months a major U.S. investment bank has failed and the global financial-services industry has announced over $350 billion in losses. In response, banks and other financial-services firms have had to raise close to $330 billion in new capital.
It may be tempting to think the worst is over, but this is only the beginning. The International Monetary Fund recently estimated that the global financial sector can expect to realize nearly another $600 billion in losses, while some economists have projected the figure will be closer to $1 trillion. In any case, it is clear that the financial-services industry will continue to need unprecedented amounts of new capital over the rest of this year.
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The popularity of water with lemon peaked this year. TNS
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For fitness instructor Megan Roup, mornings are incomplete without lapping up her hallowed glass of warm lemon water.
It’s a ritual she has stuck to for years, not quiet being able to recollect how it all started.
Every morning around 7am, as she prepares to film a live workout for her 237,000 Instagram followers from her New York City apartment, Roup sips on warm water with a big dash of lemon while her French press coffee brews.
“It just gets things moving and grooving in the morning,” says Roup, who founded the Sculpt Society workout beloved by many models.
“Along with a probiotic, it’s really helped my overall digestion.”
Roup is one of many influential figures who swear by the drink, which has famous disciples such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Gisele Bündchen, as per The Independent.
The advocacy of the morning elixir has become so commonplace, that you can find it in interviews with models and on fitness feeds.
The reasoning behind the ritual often varies.
Some share Roup’s belief that it aids digestion, lessening bloat and constipation; others claim it promotes skin health, believing it wards off the formation of wrinkles and clears up acne.
And, for the dehydrated among us, it’s simply a way to make drinking water more enticing.
“I can’t really say if I notice a difference in my skin or digestion, but I do consume more water when I put lemon in it,” says Laura Lajiness, a freelance writer in New York who has been drinking two glasses of lukewarm water with lemon on and off for years.
“Maybe there’s a placebo effect?”
The popularity of water with lemon peaked this year, as people stuck at home trained their attention to boosting their wellness routines, hoping to emerge from quarantine with a little more glow, and more fit, than before.
Google searches for “lemon and water” peaked in April and are growing overall, up 24.2 per cent since this time last year, according to data from the consumer intelligence firm Spate.
Like many wellness remedies, the drink is actually a repackaged ritual from another country — in this case, Italy.
Known to some Italian natives as “canarino,” or canary, the drink is one of the country’s many “nonna’s remedies” that are used as a post-meal digestif, upset-stomach soother or cold killer.
Prepared by combining boiling water with a lemon peel, bay leaf and, occasionally, a drop of honey, the mixture is “an ancient remedy used by Italian grandmas to bring immediate relief to their loved ones,” says Francesco Lucatorto, a chef who lives in Genoa.
But in recent years, younger Italians have followed America’s footsteps and rehashed it as a detox drink, often downed after an overindulgent night of eating and drinking.
Some folks add ginger, mint or turmeric to boost its benefits.
However, hoping that a daily dose of lemon water will detox or clear up your skin is far-fetched, experts suggest.
“There are no toxins in the skin to detox,” says Dr Panta Rouhani Schaffer, a dermatologist in New York, echoing a message that many doctors have tried to convey amid the rise of juice cleanses, which are based on this faulty concept of detoxification.
At most, lemon’s antioxidant properties can protect against free radicals, which have been shown to speed up ageing, Schaffer says.
But acne sufferers would benefit more from drinking two cups of spearmint tea daily.
The tea has been shown to have anti-androgen effects that can lessen male hormones like testosterone, which can cause acne.
One expert who won’t buy into the lemon water ritual is your dentist.
“I knew hot water and lemon had become really popular when our family dentist mentioned to us the harm of citric acid on tooth enamel,” Schaffer says.
“He had seen so many patients with new onset erosion from the drink that he began to warn everyone he saw.”
People with heart or kidney conditions should also hold off, according to Sonpal, the gastroenterologist, as excess fluids are often contraindicated in their treatment.
If you are able to put aside the dubious expectations from the drink, incorporating water with lemon into your weekly routine is an easy, expert-approved way to raise your water intake and reap the digestive benefits without spending much money.
Maintaining a healthy body is just as important as keeping a healthy skin. It gives you more confidence, and your smile shapes your beauty.
If you're thinking about having your first laser toning session, Dr. Geeta Grewal, a cosmetologist who believes in treatments that provide surgical-level results with non-surgical treatments and minimally invasive procedures
According to Korean beauty standards, the first thing to do is to double cleanse your face with an oil-based product that helps remove all the makeup from your face.
This remarkable achievement underscores Mediclinic’s unwavering commitment to providing patients with cutting-edge surgical solutions and revolutionising the future of healthcare.
The market stalls included several types of vegan leather, organic cotton and a seaweed-based yarn grown from regenerative kelp.
Food words are often the most fun, and the ones added this year reflect the ever-evolving culture of food and restaurants.


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In an email sent to booked guests, Norwegian Cruise Line has updated its onboard mask policy to ask guests to wear masks while indoors as well as outdoors when social distancing cannot be maintained. This is an abrupt change from the line’s fully-vaccinated “cruise mask-free” policy, and has been made without warning.
Norwegian Cruise Line “Asking” Guests to Wear Masks
Guests booked on sailings of Norwegian Escape, Norwegian Joy, Norwegian Breakaway, and Norwegian Gem have received notification emails that the health and safety protocols onboard their upcoming sailings – as early as tomorrow, December 18, 2021 – have been changed.
Masks should now be worn on board in indoor areas unless passengers are actively eating or drinking or while in passengers’ staterooms. Masks must also be worn in any outdoor areas where social distancing cannot be maintained.
While the email’s language does say they are “asking” guests to wear masks and does not use the word “required” this amounts to a direct change of the line’s “cruise mask-free” policy in recent weeks, a policy for NCL’s fully-vaccinated sailings that many cruise passengers have appreciated.
The email goes on to reiterate the cruise line’s vaccination and pre-cruise testing protocols, which have not been changed. Guests who do not comply with the requirements listed in the email will be denied embarkation for their cruise without any refund or compensation.
The line’s official website has not yet been updated about this change in protocol and there is no confirmation as to whether this is a fleet-wide change or how long the protocol may be in effect.
UPDATE – Several hours after guests received their notification emails, NCL.com updated the “Sail Safe” portion of its website to clarify that “For sailings with embarkation dates through and including December 19, 2021, all guests and crew are required to wear masks onboard while indoors, except when actively eating or drinking, or seated at a table in a dining setting, or when in their stateroom.”
Short Notice Changes
This notification email has been sent to guests just days, even hours, before their cruises set sail, including the December 18, 2021 sailings of Norwegian Escape from Port Canaveral and Norwegian Joy from PortMiami, the December 19, 2021 sailing of Norwegian Breakaway from New Orleans, and the December 19, 2021 sailing of Norwegian Gem from New York. Additional ships may also be impacted by this change.
Norwegian Breakaway recently made headline news for multiple COVID-19 cases onboard, a total of 17 documented cases out of roughly 3,200 passengers and crew. The cruise with those cases returned to New Orleans on schedule and debarked as normal on December 6.
According to the CDC Cruise Ship Color Status, updated with data from December 16, no Norwegian vessels have “red” status indicating a severe outbreak. All four ships where passengers have confirmed receiving the notification email of new protocols – Breakaway, Escape, Joy, and Gem – are listed as “green” status which indicates no reported cases of COVID-19.
No Compensation Offered
At this time, Norwegian Cruise Line is not offering any refunds, future cruise credits, rebooking options, or other compensation for affected passengers who may wish to change their travel plans because of the dramatic change in protocols. It is possible that the line may change that policy in the next few hours, as this is a developing situation.
Stay tuned to Cruise Hive for further updates and more details as they become available.


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The fifth and final Android Wear 2.0 developer preview is finally here, bringing one pretty massive feature to the new wearable operating system — full iOS support. What that means is developers will be able to create iPhone apps that support Android Wear watches.
Previously, Android Wear watches connected to iOS could only access watch faces and apps that were distributed by Google through the Android Wear iOS app.
Of course, iOS support isn’t the only addition to the last developer preview of Android Wear 2.0. The operating system also adds a navigation drawer app, as well as support for NFC Host Card Emulation — which means you’ll soon be able to pay for things using
Support for iOS is an important feature for Android Wear. What it means is that the millions of iPhone users who don’t own an Apple Watch can instead opt for an
Developers might also like to know that apps compiled with this version of Android Wear 2.0 can be submitted for publication to the Google Play Store — where they’ll be available for users with an
The new developer preview for Android Wear signals that we’re getting closer and closer to a public release. Google says that the operating system will be available in early February, and reports indicate that it will finally be launched on February 9. Not only that, but the operating system will debut on a pair of new LG smartwatches, called the LG Watch Style and the LG Watch Sport. These two watches have been leaked a few times, drawing a mixed reaction regarding their design.
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In the ongoing back-and-forth to acquire Sirtex Medical (ASX:SRX), it seems that Varian Medical‘s (NYSE:VAR) $1.2 billion bid just wasn’t enough. Varian said today that it heard from Sirtex that the company’s board couldn’t turn down the $1.41 billion unsolicited offer from China’s CDH Investments.
The bid from CDH Investments came in at a 20% premium on Varian’s A$28-per-share offer, prompting Sirtex to reconsider a merger that already had approval from U.S. antitrust authorities and the German Federal Cartel Office.
In May, Varian formally notified Sirtex that it did not plan to submit a counter proposal. Varian said today that Sirtex formally terminated the deal with Varian and that the company is slated to pay a reimbursement fee of A$16 million to Varian.
“Varian is very disciplined in its business development approach and we do not see value beyond the A$28 price per share we offered for Sirtex,” Varian’s president & CEO Dow Wilson said in prepared remarks. “While disappointed with this decision, Varian’s long-term strategy has not changed. We remain focused on becoming a global leader in multi-disciplinary, integrated cancer care solutions; expanding the addressable markets that Varian can impact; and growing and creating sustainable value for our company and our shareholders.”
In a statement, Sirtex’s board wrote that it ultimately decided to go with CDH’s proposal “based on the materially higher offer price and our evaluation of the associated risks.”
The latest version of the CDH proposal includes a minor amendment, Sirtex noted – according to the terms of the deal, CDH Investments and its partner, China Grand Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Holdings Ltd., will jointly acquire Sirtex.
Australia-based Sirtex’s SIR-Sphere Y-90 is designed to deliver radiation therapy to patients with liver cancers. Last year, shares in the company developer fell sharply after it posted a net loss of -A$26.9 million in 2016, compared to a profit of A$54 million the year before.


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Apple is getting ready to launch its first all-new product in years, latest reports have suggested.
While we're now used to annual iPhone, iPad and Mac updates, it's claimed the Cupertino company could be about to introduce a brand new product category to its device line up for the first time since 2015.
The last all new device the iPhone maker introduced was the Apple Watch.
Now, however, it's claimed that the company is working on its own Siri-based answer to the hugely successful Amazon Echo smart speaker.
According to industry insiders, Apple is currently finalising the design for the currently unnamed product.
While Amazon's Echo is powered by its own Alexa smart AI, it's claimed that Apple's device will run the iPhone and iPad-friendly Siri assistant.
This means the always-listening gadget will presumably be triggered by the same "Hey Siri" vocal command as your phone.
As well as allowing users to speak to Siri in order to do things like make searches, set alarms, control smart home devices and check the weather, the smart gadget will let users make music selections using nothing but your voice.
For this to be a hit it will need to be backed up by solid audio abilities.
To this extent, it's been claimed that the device will utilise Beats audio technology with Apple having acquired the headphone brand a couple of years ago.
"Apple is currently finalising designs for their Alexa competitor, expected to be marketed as a Siri/AirPlay device," reputed Twitter-based Apple tipster Sonny Dickson said.
He added: "It is believed to carry some form of Beats technology, and is expected to run a variant [of] iOS."
Despite early details having leaked, there's currently no word on when the Apple smart speaker will launch.
Although the company is set to hold its annual WWDC developer conference in June, it's believed this will be too early for the device.
Instead, the Echo and Google Home rivalling gadget could drop in September.
This would likely see it debut alongside the eagerly awaited iPhone 8 and Apple Watch 3.


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Innovative hearing Technology Startup launches World-first approved medical device and home treatment for Tinnitus
Hearing technology start-up Cleanhearing has developed Sono, the world’s only medical device approved to deliver electromagnetic stimulation for tinnitus at home.
If you run an automotive shop or jewellery store, if you have a medical laboratory, a food processing plant, and more, the ultrasonic cleaning solution may be just what you require.
UK charity Juvenile Arthritis Research aims to end this uncertainty and confusion. They have launched a new information booklet called My JIA.


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A retail center located at the northwest corner of Centennial Boulevard and 30th Street will break ground later this moth.
Developers of the project are Craig Anderson and Bentley Hill of Highland Commercial Group.
The Shops at Centennial will occupy 14,000 square feet and will include a dry cleaning establishment, hair salon, sandwich shop, bagelry, and tanning salon.
Anderson and Hill bought the property in 1990, and have kept the land vacant with the exception of 1 acre, which now serves as a site for Farmcrest, boasting one of the company’s highest volume stores in Colorado.
Hill said the two decided to build a neighborhood center on the site when they realized retail outlets in the area were limited.
"We watched the market evolve and noticed all [that] was going up were business complexes," said Hill. "With MCI just a third of a mile away, it was apparent a service-oriented retail center was needed in the area."
The space for the upcoming center is going quickly. According to Anderson, after only a few calls, 65% of the space was leased. Existing space in the center will go for $12 per square foot.
The builder for the project is Hammer Construction, with construction costs anticipated to reach nearly $1 million.


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Annual Mercedes Benz Classic Car Rally 2019 was Organised
News Desk, News Nation 360 : The MBCCR, which was first organized by Autocar India in 2014, is the only one of its kind in the country when it comes to classic car rallies. It is also among the biggest and most prestigious events of its kind in Asia. The blue riband rally also marks two other milestones : Mercedes Benz’ 25th year in the country and Autocar India’s 20th anniversary. The morning started with the burble of massive eight-cylinder engines, a grand excess of chrome, and encounters with automobiles of an era long gone. The best of the sixth edition of the Mercedes-Benz Classic Car Rally (MBCCR), was witnessed on November 10 in Mumbai. Over the last six years, participation in the rally has grown multifold despite the limited number of vintage and classic Benzes that were imported into India. What has also grown is the sheer variety of classic
Mercedes on display. The first edition of MBCCR only witnessed two 170V models. This year, there was nearly everybody style (including a rare
roadster) of the 170V in attendance, with a 230L Pullman for company. Also, part of the 2018 edition of the rally were stars such as a 1958 300 SL Roadster, a 1914 Benz Runabout, which is the oldest surviving Benz in India, and a couple of Adenaeurs. A 1929 W08 Nurburg and an extremely rare 500 K roadster were among the immaculately maintained gems that were the part of this event that has revitalized the classic Mercedes scene in the country. Autocar's Perseus Bandrawalla, curator of the MBCCR said that the cars on display range from the Benz Patent-Motorwagen to the Maybach 62 so that's a century of cars from Mercedes-Benz. But, as importantly, the rally also represents the evolution of the motor car over the last 100 years.
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Making next popular cellphone can be study in psychology
But the solutions seem disparate and not necessarily on the mark. The article describes how LG Electronics begins by asking focus groups to keep a journal, jotting down feelings about features they like most, and how LG executives regularly attend home and design shows looking for broader trends in popular culture; how a panellist at a recent industry conference suggested that cellphone makers tap into consumers’ neural networks, while another said they should understand their subliminal needs; and how Nokia designers and researchers got together a few weeks ago in a three-day retreat to discuss consumer behaviour, in order to tell Nokia’s top executives not only what consumers will want next year, but 3 to 15 years from now.
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Chinese regulators trying to contain Ant Group Co. and a growing online lending industry are targeting one target: the excessive, debt-ridden lifestyle of the country’s youth.
A new generation of tech-savvy citizens who are keen to consume helped fuel rising consumption, a growing engine of the Chinese economy.
Many used short-term loans to pay for expenses such as prestige cosmetics, electronics, and expensive restaurant meals. Thanks to Ant and other Chinese financial technology companies who gave unsecured loans to millions of people without any bank-issued credit cards, they found loans easy to obtain. In 2019, according to Fitch Ratings estimates, online lending already accounted for half of all short-term consumer lending in China.
Now, new financial regulations are forcing lenders to rethink their business strategies and have sparked an American-style settlement on the borrowing and spending habits of the younger Chinese population. From 2022 Ant and Co. will have to finance at least 30% of the loans they jointly issue with banks Let online lenders take more risk.
In the past few weeks, a grassroots campaign on Chinese social media called “Landing” – a metaphor for debt-free – has gained momentum, with people sharing their experiences and regrets about spending and borrowing too much.


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When I told my good friend David Thon that Google’s planned purchase of smartphone maker Motorola Mobility was a pure EDA360 play, he invited me to explain. In simplest terms, EDA360 posits that software now drives hardware in the processor-centric world of System Realization and that both software and hardware need to be developed in tandem for the best user experience and to streamline the development effort. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the smartphone market. As Patrick May’s article in today’s San Jose Mercury News says:
“Google has long cast an envious eye on Apple’s prowess at making mobile technology feel natural to the human touch, with icons, touch screens and even on-off slide buttons that seem almost eerily intuitive. Partly because designers create that software and hardware in tandem, an iPhone user, for example, can effortlessly download music from iTunes to a phone, then share it across Apple’s landscape of tablets, laptops and desktops.
Google’s Android operating system, on the other hand, has multiple versions and dozens of different host phones, often making the Android experience feel clunky and laborious. Downloading music on an Android device, for example, could require a third-party provider or make a user take several steps to achieve what fans describe as the iPhone’s turnkey elegance.”
We’ve seen this same sort of thing for three decades in the PC business. Apple’s closed systems often work more smoothly than do PCs derived from the original IBM PC architecture and Microsoft operating systems (first DOS and then Windows). However, the “open” approach taken by IBM, then Intel and Microsoft ultimately seems to gather more apps. It’s been true for PCs and with Google’s Android, the stats seem to indicate it might also become true for smartphones.
With the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google will enter the rarefied atmosphere of companies that control both the smartphone hardware and software. That list includes Apple, RIM, an d HP. However, what’s not said in the article is that there will undoubtedly be implications for the other smartphone makers wedded to Google’s Android OS including makers such as HTC, Samsung, and LG. It’s too soon to tell what those implications might be.


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In the last five years we’ve seen an increase of plus size models featured on the cover of International Magazines. From Robyn Lawley’s French ELLE cover to three plus size models gracing the June 2011 cover of Vogue Italia, international magazines are embracing plus size women like never before.
Justine Legault is the most recent plus size model to grace the cover of an international magazine. The curvy size 14 model appears on the May 2013 cover of ELLE Quebec. The cover image of Legault in a simple white shirt and gold accessories was captured by photographer Genevieve Charbonneau.
Take a look at the behind the scenes footage from the ELLE Quebec cover photo shoot. (P.S. It’s in French)


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In a recent report by Clearswift, 59% of business decision makers highlighted that phishing emails are currently the biggest concern for UK businesses when it comes to cyber-threats. In fact, phishing emails ranked as the top concern compared to any other type of cyber threat in all the surveyed regions.
Clearswift surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1200 employees in the UK, US, Germany and Australia.
Dr Guy Bunker, SVP of Products for Clearswift, explained that, “Email security consistently rears its head as a key vulnerability in UK cyber defences. This highlights that businesses need to change the way they’re approaching the task of mitigating these risks”.
He added that, “It is easy for a company to perform mock phishing exercises and physical penetration tests to assess vulnerabilities, however this underhanded approach to catch staff out may not always prove to be the best way forward. The approach should be twofold, focused on balancing education with a robust technological safety net. This will ultimately help ensure the business stays safe.”
But that’s not all…
According to the report, the second biggest threat was thought to be employees sharing passwords, with 33% of UK businesses listing this as a weakness. Third on the list was the misuse of USB Sticks and removable devices for data transfer, with 31% listing it as a concern.
Other cyber threats to make the top 10 list of concerns were ex-employees retaining access to networks (28%), and viruses as a result of malware on personal devices (26%). Considering some of the major hacking stories making news headlines in 2017, Hackers were only listed as a worry by 25% of those surveyed.
Employees not following data protection policies only ranked 4th on the list, with 30% listing the matter as an area of concern, something which may come as a surprise to some considering the GDPR deadline on May 25th 2018.
Do you think these issues pose a threat to your business?
If you think that your company could be at risk, contact SCS today to find out how we can keep you and your business secure in the digital world.
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Lenzing’s denim business is finding its own voice. The producer of wood-based cellulose fibers is trading in its scientific persona for an edgier image with Carved in Blue, the company’s new blog that “delves into the inner workings and innovations of the denim industry.”
With environmental responsibility at the forefront of consumer consciousness and denim’s return to fashion, the company said the timing was right to launch a denim-specific vertical. The blog offers insights from brands using Tencel and Lenzing Modal in their product, as well as well as the personalities and stories that make the denim business dynamic and authentic.
“We have been telling our denim stories for years and recently observed an increasing development of Tencel and Lenzing Modal in the denim market,” said Lenzing Director of Global Business Development for Denim Tricia Carey. “It has been amazing to reminisce on the early days of Tencel and our evolution in denim fashion trends and core collections. We built Carved in Blue to have a digital platform to tell our tales and those of our customers while capturing the vigor our fibers bring to the denim market.”
Lenzing reports demand for man-made cellulose fibers is expected to increase five to six percent year on year to 2020—nearly twice as fast as the global fiber market. Carved in Blue is the latest endeavor in Lenzing’s broader business goals of increasing its share of revenue generated by eco-friendly specialty fibers to 50 percent by 2020 and getting closer to its customers, two key cornerstones in the company’s scoreTEN strategy.
The company recently announced revenue for first quarter of 2016 jumped 8.1% to 512.8 million euro ($581.1 million), owed in large part to high demand for its fibers and the market’s higher fiber prices.


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Today, the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released its Internet of Things Trust Framework, to address IoT privacy and security risks. The Framework provides guidelines for IoT manufacturers, developers and retailers to follow when designing, creating, adapting and marketing connected devices in two key categories: home automation, and consumer health and fitness wearables.
“The rapid growth of the Internet of Things now includes thousands of connected products, yet it’s shocking how little planning there has been for these devices becoming a part of everyday life,” said Craig Spiezle, Executive Director and President of the OTA, a non-profit group with a mission to enhance online trust.
The framework was created by the OTA IoT Working Group, which was established in January 2015 and presented initial findings at the TRUSTe IoT Privacy Summit in June. The working group is comprised of major companies including Microsoft, ADT, AVG Technologies, Symantec, Target and TRUSTe. This working group proposed best practices in order to protect consumer data, while requesting feedback from nearly 100 other organizations. The main focus was on safety and reliability of any IoT devices as well as an often overlooked component — sustainability.
“Sustainability—the life-cycle supportability of a device and the protection of the data after the warranty ends—is critical to the security, privacy and personal safety of users and businesses worldwide,” according to the OTA’s press release. “Without addressing sustainability, devices that may have been secure off the shelf will become more susceptible to hacking over time allowing hackers to remotely control these devices. This is a persistent concern, first demonstrated with baby monitors, just recently by infiltration of fitness wearables to spy on health vitals, and will likely be again soon, perhaps through general mayhem caused by sabotaging connected appliances.”
The OTA is seeking public and industry comment on this list of best practices from now until Sept. 14, 2015. To review the framework, provide feedback, or for information on joining the IoT Working Group, visit: https://otalliance.org/IoT.


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Marks & Spencer has confirmed 525 jobs at its London head office will be in the firing line as it works to cut costs and improve its “complex” business operations.
The retail giant also said 400 permanent staff from its Marble Arch office would be relocated, with many IT and logistic roles moved to operations in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, and Middlesex.
The department store chain said the job cuts would be done through redundancies, reducing its number of contractors, and not filling vacancies.
A recent review showed M&S has “become too complex and inefficient”, and the company said the impending staff cuts would address this “by removing duplication, driving accountability and establishing clear, consistent processes which, in turn, will strip out unnecessary costs”.
M&S chief executive Steve Rowe said it was “never easy to propose changes” that impact employees.
“But I believe that the proposals outlined today are absolutely necessary and will help us build a different type of M&S – one that can take bolder, pacier decisions, be more profitable and ultimately better serve our customers,” he said.
“M&S has to become a simpler and more effective organisation if we are to deliver our plans to recover and grow our business.”
While M&S still expected costs to rise by around 3.5 per cent this year, it said the staff cuts would lead to savings accounting to one per cent of its UK operating costs per year.
A collective consultation with employee is expected to start imminently, with the company stating it would “give careful consideration to any alternative proposals”.
Speculation about possible job losses first arose on the weekend, but an M&S spokeswoman at the time did not confirm it.
The speculation followed an announcement from the retailer on Friday that staff would receive a 14.7 per cent pay rise.
The raise came after 70,000 employees signed a petition calling on M&S to not go ahead with proposed pay cuts to offset the cost of the National Living Wage.
M&S said customer assistants would receive £8.50 an hour – or £9.65 if they work in London – from next April.
This offer is well above the living wage, which stands at £7.20 and the voluntary rate of £8.25, and £9.40 in Greater London.
However, Sunday and bank holiday pay rates will be scrapped and become standardised.
Two months ago, M&S‘ like-for-like sales in its clothing and home division dropped by 8.9 per cent, which prompted chief executive Steve Rowe to push ahead with changing the company’s pay and pension scheme.


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Surendra Pilaniya a shines as a teacher and entrepreneur on YouTube.
With internet users in India now exceeding 700 million, millennials are redefining the virtual space in pursuit of their dreams. YouTube has emerged as the preferred destination for millennials to hone and showcase their talents and innovations.
Novel coronavirus threatens to disrupt the normal ecosystem. But the pandemic couldn't stop a new group of young stars going viral around the world, who have shown their willingness to change the world with innovation and creativity.
Surendra pilaniya is India's youngest YouTube teacher and digital entrepreneur. He has demonstrated as a leader in the YouTube powered content industry.
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His journey to become a business tycoon is surely an inspiration to millions. He shows that unshakable will and self-confidence can move mountains and take you up the ladder in the industry.
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Britvic poised for £700m flotation
SOFT drinks group Britvic has pressed the button for an autumn flotation and will shortly be choosing financial advisers.
The company, which owns or distributes 15 brands including Abbey Well water, cordial maker Robinsons and the eponymous fruit juices, is likely to be valued at between £600 million and £700 million.
The move had been expected after Richard North, chief executive of InterContinental Hotels, said in March there was 'no strategic rationale' for the group to own a 47.5% stake in Britvic.
It was inherited from Bass, the group from which InterContinental was demerged.
Britvic's flotation was scheduled for next year, but the timing has been brought forward following recent successful offerings from Premier Foods and C&C Group, the Ballygowan water and Tayto Crisps company.
Whitbread and Allied Domecq own 23.75% each, while PepsiCo owns five%.
PepsiCo had previously opposed the sale of Britvic but, following the signing of a 15-year bottling contract between the two companies this year, it has now agreed to the plan. Britvic is the UK distributor of PepsiCo.
It is believed that Merrill Lynch, which acts as adviser to Inter-Continental Hotels, was tipped to organise Britvic's float.
But other shareholders objected following pressure from their own financial advisers.
The selection of advisers will take place over the next few weeks. It will include Merrill Lynch. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, adviser and broker to Whitbread, might also be involved.
Cazenove and Citigroup are brokers to Allied Domecq. Several private equity funds have made approaches to buy Britvic over the past three years, but these came to nothing.
Britvic sales rose ten% last year to £647 million, with operating profits up 22% to £83 million.
The company sells more than 1.1 billion drinks and supplies about 250,000 retailers every year.
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City Furniture, a regional furniture retailer with stores across Florida, has launched three of IBM's MobileFirst for iOS apps — Sales Assist, Payment and Finance — for the iPad Pro device to be used by its in-store associates as they seek to make the shopping experience more efficient and personalized for customers, according to a press release emailed to Retail Dive.
The retailer is rolling out the apps to 400 store associates across 15 City Furniture showrooms, as well as the 12 Ashley Furniture HomeStore showrooms the company operates in Florida. The apps give store associates real-time access to the more than 8,000 SKUs complete with images, product information, colors, styles and unique customer profiles at their fingertips.
City Furniture worked closely with IBM to create the apps and is using IBM’s Bluemix cloud platform to link these new applications with the retailer’s existing applications and data, enabling a high-performance, scalable and flexible hybrid cloud environment. IBM plans to evolve the apps with City Furniture to further connect with the retailer’s existing CRM system and analytics so store associates can more easily follow up with direct marketing for prospective customers based on data from prior purchases and interactions.
IBM's MobileFirst for iOS apps come from a series of enterprise-class solutions that IBM teamed with Apple to develop back in 2014. The apps are sold to a variety of industries, retail being one. From there, IBM appears to work more closely with its clients in those particular industries to customize the apps for their specific needs.
City Furniture needed something that would help store associates cut down on the amount of time it took them to answer customer questions and find items customers were looking for, either in showrooms or somewhere else in the retailer's multi-store network. As noted in a press release from IBM, "When customers used to have questions or wanted to look at different styles of furniture, City Furniture store associates had to record that information manually and spent a great deal of time walking around the showroom to find desired products."
Now, using the MobileFirst for iOS Sales Assist app, City Furniture's store associates can find those products more quickly and complete with further images and data, while standing in one place and keeping the customer directly and personally engaged. The Payment and Finance apps also improve on what had been a desk-bound process by allowing store associates to process transactions and set up financing plans in quick strokes.
This isn't the first time we have seen a retailer put mobile technology and access to deep data resources into the hands of store associates, and it certainly won't be the last. Crate and Barrel last year embraced similar technology, and as more retailers migrate their stores to a showroom model we are likely to see more adopt these solutions.
City Furniture claims to already be realizing a difference from using the apps, saying that Sales Assist has helped average purchase order per customer more than 5% per customer with Sales Assist. Even more notable, the apps have reduced the amount of time it takes for a customer to select a product, choose services and delivery, then make a payment or apply for credit by half. That kind of improvement will produce a payoff for City Furniture both in its bottom line and its customer satisfaction ratings.


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(4 day ago) The research team of Northwestern University has developed a new 3D printer with great future. The printer is much larger than the existing one on the market, and the printing speed is much faster - it can print adult sized objects in a few hours.
(4 day ago) It is reported that the first issue of the Chinese edition of the bimonthly magazine Computer magazine will be launched in March 2020, with more than a dozen top English magazines published by IEEE in Chinese and domestic content collection and editing. Deeptech, founded in 2016, is a hard technology content brand specializing in the popularity of new technology and science, culture, industry and science and technology services.
(10 day ago) The Shenzhen network police put forward the corresponding disposal suggestions: 1. Stop using TeamViewer remote management software recently; 2. Ban 5938 ports for TeamViewer remote communication in the firewall; 3. Return to teamviewer.com domain name through Web application firewall or other devices in refined units.
(10 day ago) PCIe 4.0 products are coming out one after another, but the next generation of PCIe 5.0 has been eager to come. The standard specification has just completed less than half a year. It has been adopted by a number of products and technologies, such as Intel 10nm Agilex FPGA, such as CXL, CCIX, Gen-Z high-speed interconnection standards.
(14 day ago) AMD has just ushered in the era of PCIe 4.0, and the next generation of PCIe 5.0 standards is already on the road. Not long ago, Intel shipped a new Agilex FPGA that supports PCIe 5.0 and uses a 10nm process. Now, Gen-Z Alliance has released the latest version 1.1 of this high-speed interconnection standard and added PCIe 5.0.
(17 day ago) Now, when you enable blocking third-party cookie settings in browsers, Chrome allows "preventing third-party websites from saving and reading cookie data". Now, if you enable the samesite = none cookies flag, it will display the "Delete Third Party Cookies" button on the "All Cookies and Site Data" page, and clicking the button will clear all available Cookies and Site Data from third party websites.
(17 day ago) Access: JD.com Mall (figure via AnandTech), the new physical layer specification (Gen-Z Physical Layer Specification 1.1) uses the PCIe physical layer and the modified IEEE 802.3 Ethernet layer standard to provide 56 GT/s transmission rates per channel.
(19 day ago) Global Foundries, founded in 2009 after AMD split its manufacturing division, is now the world's third-largest chipmaker after TSMC and Samsung Foundry. For years, the company has been trying to compete with TSMC and Samsung Foundry for customers like AMD by providing leading chip manufacturing technology.
(22 day ago) IT Home News Sept. 30 According to the Wall Street Journal, Tom Caulfield, CEO of GlobalFoundries, the world's second largest pure wafer factory, told the newspaper that its Fab 8 Semiconductor Wafer Factory in Malta, New York, has 3,000 employees and is planning to make its first operation in 2022. The way of public offering is to sell minority shares of the company to achieve listing.
(22 day ago) Visit: Because of this historical relationship, GF company has been known as AMD's "girlfriend" by players, but their names have long since disappeared and become a pure money relationship. Last year, after GF announced its withdrawal from the research and development of 7Nm technology, AMD also transferred its 7Nm order to TSMC. Now, the 7Nm Rillon and Navi graphics cards are both TSMC. For OEM, GF only retains 14 and 12 nm cooperation.
(26 day ago) Visit: According to the security announcement issued by Microsoft, the root cause of this vulnerability is the way scripting Engine handles objects in memory. Specifically, the script engine in Internet Explorer has a remote code execution vulnerability when processing objects in memory. This vulnerability destroys memory in such a way that an attacker can execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
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The credit-reporting company Equifax Inc. disclosed late last week that hackers gained access to some of its systems, potentially compromising the personal information of roughly 143 million U.S. consumers. The Wall Street Journal says it’s considered one of the biggest and most threatening data breaches in recent years.
The size of the hack is second only to the pair of attacks on Yahoo disclosed last year that affected the information of as many as one-and-a-half billion customers. It also involves nearly twice the number affected by one of the highest-profile breaches at a financial firm, the cyberattack at J.P. Morgan Chase and Company about three years ago.
Troia Corey is Director of the Consumer and Environmental Protection Division at the New Mexico Attorney General’s office. Corey says there are a couple of things consumers should be aware of in light of the Equifax breach.


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NJ wine production has grown over the years but the state has not yet gained great recognition as a source of fine wines. That is starting to change.
Garden State Wine Growers Association has been instrumental in the growth and sponsored a Wine Festival at Waterloo Village which we attended. Their next event, if you are interested in New Jersey Wines is a Wine Trail Weekend in July. Alba Vineyard, one of the largest NJ vineyards, is sponsoring an event First Annual Festival of Wine on June 3rd and 4th.


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Denny's and Gotham teamed to launch a Facebook promotion in honor of Bacon. The restaurant chain recently launched a new "Baconalia" menu, and to hype it, the brand has decided to invite fans to participate in a Facebook sweepstakes to win tickets to Chicago's BaconFest 2011. Yes, there is actually a festivcal that celebrates bacon. Who knew.
Fans can also win $100 Denny's gift cards, and other prizes. To enter, fans visit the Denny's Facebook page, click on the BaconFest Sweepstakes tab, and enter their info.
- A behind the scenes look at the recent Megan Fox Emporio Armani shoot. 'Nuff said.
- About.com Advertising blogger Paul Suggett has had it with ads that use actors who pretend to be a brand.
- MTV is doing a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook employees.
- Here's the latest Left Brain Right Brain ad for Mercedes Israel. Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv created.
- Galpin Jaguar says, "If a customer buys or leases an eligible comparably equipped Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Lexus or Porsche within 10 days after a new Jaguar test drive at Galpin, they will receive an American Express Gift Card valued at $1,000,"
On April 5 Carlsberg will launch Unbottle Yourself, a competition that will encourage Swedes to engage in outgoing "missions" designed to "unbottled" the nation's apparently pent up reservations. The winner will get a free trip to Hong Kong.
The competition is delivered via mobile with an iPhone and Android app that includes over 500 missions such as silly in-store dances and dares to process one's love for another.
Prepare yourself for much light-hearted idiocy. But who knows. The competition could be the purveyor of the next viral sensation.
If you tweet about Kraft Macaroni & Cheese today, your tweet could be in a commercial on TV tonight. Kraft and its agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, are monitoring Twitter for tweets that mention Mac & Cheese. Five tweets will be picked for inclusion in five commercial which will be written and filmed today. One ad will air during Conan and Lopez and the other four will be viewable on the brand's Facebook page.
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Senior Brand manager Noelle O'Meara told Mashable the tactic may be repeated if today's efforts go well. She also said the immediacy of social media has nudged marketers ever closer to real-time marketing.
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The wall surrounding Warsaw Horse Racing Track is a monument to the Warsaw graffiti scene. About a mile of wall space covered with colorful graffiti. We're told it has always been an important place for the Polish hip-hop culture. While the area has been in decline over the years, it's still well respected by artists the world over.
Recently, Adidas planned to place ads on the wall and that has raised the ire of some in Poland who have called for a boycott of the brand. In its advertising, Adidas often uses graffiti imagery and though the groups claims the brand supports graffiti artists, the group is not pleased with Adidas' presence on their holy shrine to the graffiti art form, saying, "They do not care about our work and history."
The group has launched an Adisucks Facebook page and already has 23,227 supporters.
Do brands simply not get the culture? Do they not care? Or do these reactionary groups just have their panties in a twist over nothing?
The spin cycle of sadness. All we are saying is give socks a chance. I'm the Johnny Appleseed of missing socks. They're like sweaters on your feet. Kumbaya, my socks. If we're not careful, there's going to be a sockpocalypse.
As a follow up to its clever debut video, LBi has launched its second Sock Loss video for GE. The new PSA is for L.O.S.S. (Laundered and Orphaned Sock Society), continue to explore the mystery behind loss socks and why there always seems to be one missing.
With a series on online videos and radio commercials, Chicken of the Sea is giving life to its iconic mermaid. In the videos, we see the mermaid sitting on a rock conversing with different characters and sharing the reasons why Chicken of the Sea is so great.
One video features a boy who, as children often do, continuously asks "whay" after every answer the mermaid gives until she distracts him with, well, yet another entity that isn't as real as some would have us believe.
Right in line with the insanity that is the Charlie Sheen Saga, the Two and a Half Men star has hooked up with Celebu-tweet company Ad.ly and could earn a million dollars in his first year of sponsored tweets. Of course that's a drop in the bucket compared to what he currently earns but it never hurts to have a back up plan. Especially when you're Charlie Sheen.
As you may have heard, Sheen gained a million followers in the 25 hours and 17 minutes following his opening a Twitter account.
- Today, Herbal Essences launched the Fantasy in a Bottle contest on Facebook. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi Canada, users can select from various fantasies - such as a trip to Hawaii or maid service for a year - and get a chance to win $5000 towards it.
- The number of hookers using Facebook to advertise their services is on the rise.
- Ogilvy has apologized for a pamphlet and website offering money for body parts that was actually part of a campaign to advertise a South African horror movie.
- Some lawyers are better than others when it comes to rape.
- Into Wii? Like to spank women in short miniskirts? Like threesomes? Foursomes? Girl on girl? Then you're gonna love this Ubisoft We Dare trailer.
- Mashable has hired its own ad sales forces to be headed by former Ziff Davis VP Ken Detlet. Previously, Federated Media handled sales.
You of course remember the Dutch Axe commercial in which super hot angels fall from the sky to hook up with Axe wearing men, right? Well now there's a follow on to that. It seems on angel has been left behind. One very, very hot and very, very frustrated angel.
Yes. Left behind. Left writhing in a state of perpetual, hyper sexualized ecstasy. Pent up with explosive desire because she hasn't found her match. A match who can offer her much needed release from all her unrealized desire. Desire so powerful it causes her to moan with wanton abandon from the clouds above. Desire which brings her to the edge of nirvana but refuses to deliver. Desire which, if not given the chance to release itself in a flood of orgasmic delight could very well cause the world to end as we know it.


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Sleep is improved by this gyno therapy!
More than 80 different sleep disorders have been identified but one of the most common causes of sleep disorders is nighttime awakenings to take trips to the bathroom soon this is translating into difficulty in maintaining sleep, excessive sleepiness during the day, and eventually the whole disruption of your body's natural sleep/awake circadian rhythm cycle.
In a study published in January in Obstetrics and Gynecology it was shown that treating urinary urge incontinence with medication actually improved sleep quality, less nighttime trips to the bathroom, and less daytime sleepiness. Even women without incontinence can have disruptive urge symptoms that can be bothersome at night as well.
For women who do not want to take medication other therapies including MonaLIsa Touch and ThermiVa have been successful in treating nighttime trips to the bathroom, overactive bladder, urge incontinence, as well as related bladder symptoms.


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November 18, 2013: Andrea Greeven Douzet has been named publisher at Manhattan, Beach and Front Desk New York. She had been fashion and accessories advertising director at InStyle. (mb)
May 10, 2011: Andrea Greeven Douzet has been named national account director at The Plum Network.
She had been national account director at Niche Media. (release)


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Online sports betting operators form organization to promote responsible gambling
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Seven of the largest U.S. sportsbooks, including FanDuel and DraftKings, are launching a trade group to promote responsible gambling. Members of the Responsible Online Gaming Association will share best practices and the names of customers who’ve been banned from their platforms for problematic betting.
Americans legally wagered nearly $120 billion on sports in 2023, according to the American Gaming Association. That’s up 28% from the year before.
The rise of sports betting is also driving fan engagement, per Kenneth Shropshire, who studies the business of sports at Wharton.
“People are watching games to the finish to make sure they win their money or to see their money fly away,” he said.
But Shropshire said that leagues and sportsbooks have to manage perceptions around irresponsible gambling and addiction, as well as athlete betting scandals that can cheapen sports.
“Here we have the enterprises themselves coming together and saying, ‘How can we provide consumer confidence?'” Shropshire said.
The companies participating in this trade alliance are walking a tricky line, according to Victor Matheson, an economist at the College of the Holy Cross.
“Let’s be serious — they’re trying to get as much revenue as possible, and the way you do that is by getting people to gamble a lot,” he said.
The sportsbooks could be making internal rules to head off stricter regulations from state governments, he noted.
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Molson Coors Brewing Co. chairman Pete Coors is grabbing headlines for the second consecutive week.
Now, Coors has scored himself an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, and he’s turned his focus toward President Donald Trump and a recently imposed 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum.
In the piece, Coors urged President Trump, who he referred to as a “shrewd businessman,” to end the Midwest Premium, which he called a “mysterious fee” added to all U.S. aluminum orders.
“It is time to fix this mess and end the premium once and for all,” he wrote. “A private solution would be best — one crafted by producers, buyers, market makers and customers like Molson Coors. Let us forge a new deal on aluminum, to the benefit of a hundred million fans of the most American of beverages. President Trump, are you with us?”
The Midwest Premium, which is determined through a survey of traders conducted by Standard & Poor’s-owned company Platts, is supposed “to cover the cost of transporting, storing and delivering the metal.” However, according to Coors, the Midwest Premium has increased by 140 percent since January, to 23 cents per pound, even though the tariffs did nothing to increase the costs that the premium tracks.
“That 23 cents per pound is 28 percent of the cost of aluminum at MillerCoors — and we buy half a billion pounds of it every year,” he wrote. “This artificially inflated premium could cost us tens of millions of dollars each year, far more than the cost of the new Trump tariff.”
In a press release issued earlier this month, Beer Institute (BI) president and CEO Jim McGreevy called for a “fair and transparent pricing system for aluminum.”
“Industries thrive when there is predictability and accountability in the metals market,” he said. “The Department of Commerce and Department of Justice should investigate the unregulated Midwest Premium to ensure pricing irregularities and other unfair market practices do not disproportionately have a harmful effect on end users of aluminum.”
McGreevy also recently appeared on Bloomberg Markets’ “Balance of Power” to discuss the impact of aluminum tariffs on those within the beer industry. In advocating for “some mitigation or repeal of the tariffs,” McGreevy called out the Midwest Premium saying, “there is no stability to it, and it is created by one company, in secret, with the input of aluminum producers and aluminum traders who have an interest in seeing a high Midwest Premium.”
In his WSJ op-ed, Coors added that commodities firms are hoarding aluminum, and he pointed to an April 25 CNBC report that said 2 million tons of aluminum are being stockpiled throughout the U.S. by firms waiting to sell when prices spike. That’s three times the amount of aluminum produced annually in the U.S.
In March, four beverage trade groups — the Beer Institute, Brewers Association, Can Manufacturers Association and American Beverage Association — sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross citing “major concerns” over the tariffs’ potential to cause “price-gouging within aluminum markets.”
“Rather than being a measure of the cost of storing and shipping aluminum, the MWP [Midwest Premium] has become a device to artificially raise the price paid for aluminum by end users, and to enrich producers, traders, and other market participants,” the groups wrote.
The trade associations have collectively asked the Trump administration to exclude aluminum can sheet from the tariff.
According to The New York Times, the Commerce Department has received more than 8,200 exemption requests from companies that import foreign aluminum and steel in the two months since the tariffs were imposed.
Trump has temporarily exempted the European Union, Mexico and Canada from the tariffs through June 1.
The Beer Institute has stated that the aluminum tariff amounts to a $347 million tax on American brewers and could lead to the loss of more than 20,000 jobs.
Coors, in his op-ed, wrote that “as a leader in the $100 billion-a-year U.S. beer business, I’m deeply concerned about a possible pullback in expansion, acquisition and innovation in the industry.”


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Entertainment promoter Daniel Coleman used the stylish backdrop of the Fashion Institution of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan recently to launch the first Annual Anguilla Fashion Expo scheduled to take place on the island paradise from Feb. 28 to March 2.
“Come and be Inspired By Tranquility Wrapped in Blue,” is the tagline that beckons fashionists and tourists to what will be a star-studded event at the five-star Paradise Cove Resort on Anguilla’s pristine southern shore.
Coleman was mesmerized by the island after just one visit and wanted to transform the British territory into a fashion and tourism destination for visitors. To this end, he pitched his idea to the Chief Minister Hubert Benjamin Hughes, Tourism Minister Haydn Hughes and the Anguilla Tourist Board and a fashion expo was born.
Anguilla Access, a tourism company has partnered with Coleman for an exciting tourist package on the island where the promoter said, “the fashion event would be fabulous, the food will be fabulous, and the beautiful people will welcome guests with open arms.”
During the kick-off, Guyanese American fashion designer Roger Gary and 17-year instructor at Fashion Institute of Technology Professor Steven Cutting teamed up with Daniels to finalize the weekend production that will include a fashion workshop by Cutting.
His presentation will teach the fundamentals of fashion for women, men and children’s wear. Marketing terminology for fashion, product promotion, fashion analysis, branding, marketing supply chain and fashion retailing formats are among other topics to be discussed. Cutting will be the feature presenter at the seminar.
A Makeup and Foundation workshop will be conduced by Ja’Maal Buster and Damien Salter while artists to the stars Marque’ and Jaci Michelle will conduct a Hair Style and Hair Care workshop.
Roger Gary who will head-up a long list of New York designers at the fashion forward affair is poised to debut his stunning colorful Aqua Couture swimwear line. He said his work would be ‘typical Gary style’ with an Anguilla twist.
Guyanese New Yorker fashion designer Michelle Cole will present her Cole of ColeFacts Concept, Kai Design will launch a Jewel Inspired Swimwear line and Beachwear designer Julissa Fernadez and designers from St. Lucia, St. Maarten and others from the region will showcase stunning pieces.
Meanwhile, Lue Sierra, Miss America and Miss USA coach and diva extraordinaire – the “go-to” model for the runways of Bob Mackie, Bill Blass Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta, Givenchy, Patrick Kelly, Giorgio Armani, Escada, and Randolph Duke, is whipping models into shape for the March 2, fashion show.
To learn more, go to www.anguillaexpo.com.


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- Ford has collected 100,000 pre-orders for the F-150 Lightning, he said.
- The recovery starts at about $ 40,000 and promises up to 300 miles of range.
- Lightning orders open this fall, with deliveries starting next spring.
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U F-150 Lightning, A battery-powered version of Ford’s popular pickup, debuted last month to great acclaim – and orders are already stacked.
Three weeks after the May 19 Lightning revelation, the truck already has 100,000 customers fairly interested in taking advantage of a $ 100 deposit, a Ford spokesman told Insider. Reserve holders may begin placing real orders this fall, and the first trucks will be delivered in spring 2022.
In the New York Times first reported the pre-order stage.
Deposits are refundable, so it is not known how they will translate into effective sales coming this fall. We don’t even know how many Lightnings Ford plans to build each year. In 2020, the company will move around 100,000 Ranger pickups and close to 800,000 F-Series trucks.
The F-150 Lightning starts at $ 39,974 before target costs and comes in four trim levels. There is a work-oriented Pro model, with XLT, Lariat and Platinum. The truck receives 300 miles of range with an extended battery option, even that figure can be conservative.
The base price of the truck puts it in the same league as the upcoming Tesla Cybertruck and makes it significantly more expensive than other future models like the Rivian R1T and GMC Hummer EV.
Ford reported a flood of pre-order F-150 Lightning in the days following its revelation, but orders slowed. The morning after the Lightning’s May 19 debut, Ford CEO Jim Farley said the company had received 20,000 preorders. A week later, that number had grown to 70,000.


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In its early days, the web’s founding principles were clear and simple: A new way to host and distribute information globally, bringing data together in a way that’s fair and open for all. But as adoption rose, networks swelled and our reliance on the internet grew, and finding a home for all that data became a challenge — and so we turned to cloud computing as the answer.
Consumers adjusted to the idea of their information being ‘up in the cloud,’ and businesses gradually moved to software as a service (SaaS) and centralized cloud storage. At the surface-level, the transformation was a success — but it came at a significant cost.
Few involved in the shift realized that cloud computing wasn’t fit for its purpose. Data centers became bloated, expensive and environmentally damaging; speed, safety, and reliability of networks struggled to keep up with the rate of increasing consumer expectations; and most alarmingly, a small group of technology corporates took control of managing and monetizing the data. Three-quarters (74 percent) of cloud computing is now controlled by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM. The problem has reached a tipping point — but one blockchain startup feels it has the solution and is ready to let early adopters join its cause for a fairer, faster, safer internet.
Decentralized Architecture for a Democratic Internet
The U.K. startup DADI launched its peer-to-peer (p2p) network last month — a decentralized take on cloud networks that will be powered and majority-owned by the public. Building a user community ready to take part, DADI promised to be up to 60 percent cheaper than existing cloud services. The company now hopes that, later this year, consumers will begin linking up their devices at home and at work, earning residual income in exchange for becoming a contributor to the network. The idea aims to convert home electronics like games consoles, laptops, and smart-TVs — which spend much of their lives in standby mode — into dual-purpose devices that also contribute spare


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Out of all the fashion weeks, London is known as a place to discover emerging brands. Between the recent design-school grads making their industry debut and the talent coming out of incubators like NEWGEN and Fashion East, there's always a new name to check out or a collection that impresses the fashion crowd to name it a label to watch.
Ahead of the Fall 2020 shows, we're rounding up a few of the ones we — and the industry — have our eyes on. They're bringing their unique approaches to fashion and points of view to the London Fashion Week stage and beyond, so you'll want to remember them.
Charlotte Knowles and design partner Alexandre Arsenault had already garnered acclaim for their lingerie- and corset-inspired pieces, having gone through Fashion East and made a splash during London Fashion Week, by the time Bella Hadid walked the 2019 VMAs red carpet wearing pieces from the duo's Fall 2019 collection. Still, that verified the brand's cool factor — and the two-fer of having a Hadid be photographed in your designs plus appearing on the red carpet gave Charlotte Knowles a whole new audience. (Hadid has worn pieces from her collections a few times since.)
"People have the choice of showing what they want. They're much more comfortable wearing things that are more revealing because they have control over it," Arsenault told Elle of the brand, to which Knowles added: "It is very considered — where we reveal and what we choose to reveal."
Charlotte Knowles returns to London Fashion Week with a Fall 2020 runway show on Feb. 18.
ASAI has a knack for going viral. The brand's exposed-seam, semi-sheer tops are a staple among the too-cool fashion stars known for putting under-the-radar labels on the map. (Think: the Susie Bubbles of the world.) And its tie-dyed mini dress memorably got the Rihanna-on-vacation-slo-mo treatment. (Rih's such a fan, she tapped the brand for a limited-edition Fenty collab last year.)
The man behind them all is A Sai Ta, a London-born Central Saint Martins alum whose résumé includes stints at The Row and Yeezy.
Lulu Kennedy, the founder and director of Fashion East, told Business of Fashion about breaking the program's own rules — offering him four seasons of financial support, versus three — because "we thought he was really special and could use one last push. I think it really shows. It helped to get his feet firmly on the ground."
Sai Ta is now a BFC NEWGEN recipient and will show his Fall 2020 collection at the BFC Show Space on Feb. 15.
A part of BFC NEWGEN since 2018, womenswear designer Supriya Lele made her London Fashion Week debut for the Spring 2019 season. The Royal College of Art grad frequently looks to her family and heritage for inspiration, weaving Indian traditions with modern-day British trends.
"It's about being from two places, and not really knowing if you're from here or there," she told Vogue. "These ideas of these skeletons of your identity… the damping down of the identity you go through as a teenager — and then finding your confidence to grow into a woman and find yourself."
Lele has developed a following over the past few years — her pieces have been photographed for WSJ Magazine and Le Monde’s M Magazine and are carried on SSENSE, Farfetch and at the now-defunct Opening Ceremony — but they got a major signal boost in November, when Bella Hadid wore a tie-front leather top from her Spring 2020 collection out and about last fall. Now, she's back on the Fashion Week calendar, kicking off the shows in London at the BFC Show Space on Feb. 14.
Yuhan Wang joined London's Fashion East designer incubator in 2018, months after showcasing her Central Saint Martins MA graduate collection at London Fashion Week. Since then, she's continued to develop a sense of reimagined-femininity, with soft color palettes and delicate fabrics fashioned into imaginative, almost sculptural silhouettes.
"My journey so far has made me question what femininity is about and how I can re-shape that concept in a way that reflects the contemporary woman," she told Vice in 2018.
Wang closes out London Fashion Week with a catwalk show on Feb. 18. Also, she makes adorable beaded-peach pouches (pictured above).
Designer Eftychia Karamolegkou actually studied graphic design in Athens before switching gears to fashion, enrolling in programs at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and Central Saint Martins in London. Fast-forward a few years, and she counts Phoebe Philo and Gaia Repossi as customers and landed on the shortlist for the LVMH Prize.
"My whole brand aesthetic is about subtle messages... whoever gets them, good," she told Business of Fashion ahead of her Spring 2020 show last London Fashion Week. "I'm not trying to dictate the story — at the end of the day, it's about the clothes."
For Fall 2020, the designer — who specializes in tailored workwear — earns a designation from NEWGEN as "one to watch" during London Fashion Week.


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In a new interview with Mashable, Apple’s Johny Srouji and Phill Schiller provide an interesting look at the development of the A11 Bionic chip powering the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8.
Interestingly, Srouji – senior vice president of hardware technologies – said that development of the A11 started three years ago when the iPhone 6 was Apple’s flagship handset.
That three-year roadmap does require room for changes:
“The process is flexible to changes,” said Srouji, who’s been with Apple since the first iPhone. If a team comes in with a request that wasn’t part of the original plan, “We need to make that happen. We don’t say, ‘No, let me get back to my road map and, five years later, I’ll give you something.”
Schiller and Srouji wouldn’t get into specific requests, but Schiller admitted to me, “There have been some critical things in the past few years, where we’ve asked Johny’s team to do something on a different schedule, on a different plan than they had in place for years, and they moved heaven and earth and done it, and it’s remarkable to see.”
The A11 Bionic chip sports two high-performance cores 25 percent faster than the A10, and four high-efficiency cores at 70 percent faster than the previous processor. The system on a chip is 64-bit and includes 4.3 billion transistors with a second-generation performance controller for 70 percent faster multithread workloads.


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Ford develops 'lifetime' van electronic key
In an age where electronic devices are expected to last only a few years, if that, Ford said it had introduced a "super-tough" new version of the ignition key designed to last a lifetime in the hands of the most demanding drivers.
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