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Indra Nooyi receives honorary degree from Yale University for achievements in business
Nooyi was among 11 individuals to be presented with the honorary degrees for achieving distinction in their fields.
What's with the passport? Akshay Kumar, despite Canadian citizenship, is one of India's highest tax payers
In 2017, Kumar paid Rs. 29.5 crore as income tax.
Eric Schmidt leaves Google board, ending an era
Schmidt will not seek re-election to the board when his term expires in June, but will continue to advise on technical matters, according to Alphabet.
Chandigarh-based Hartek Solar Director makes it to Forbes under 30 Asia
Simarpreet Singh has stood out in the Industry, Manufacturing and Energy Category for launching customised plug-and-play rooftop solar kits with a mobile solar van aimed at providing sustainable electricity to rural communities.
Five Indian expats in UAE enter Forbes' billionaires list for 2019
The combined worth of the five expats, including three from Kerala, is a whopping USD 15.1 billion (Rs 1.04 trillion).
WhatsApp to get ads next year on its Status feature
The advertisements would be powered by Facebook's native advertising system.
How rich is Donald Trump really? Forbes says US President's net worth is $3.1 bn, but his tax filings show $10 bn
Trump used his claims of wealth as his qualification to be president.
Forbes Billionaire list 2019: Mukesh Ambani ranks 13th richest person with $50 bn net worth
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani jumped six positions to rank 13th on Forbes World's Billionaire list released Tuesday that was again topped by ...
Mukesh Ambani ranks 13th on Forbes World's Billionaire list with $50 bn net worth
Ambani jumped six positions after his wealth soared from $40.1 billion in 2018 to $50 billion in 2019.
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text: With the launch of Hyundai Kona for a price of Rs 25.30 lakh (ex-showroom, India), the carmaker has finally entered the Indian electric vehicle space. Hyundai Kona will be available in the country through the CKD route. It is to be noted that Hyundai Kona is India's first fully electric SUV. Once fully charged, it can cover a distance of 452 km. Watch the video for detailed specifications.

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Signals reactivation of historic site, development to begin for 3.7 million square feet of logistics space in Cecil County
Annapolis, MD— Governor Larry Hogan participated in a flag-raising ceremony today to signal the reactivation of the site of the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center and to celebrate the start of development activities on the 3.7 million feet squares of logistics and distribution space on 440 acres in Cecil County.
“Our state government’s entire mission continues to keep Maryland open for business, and today represents the culmination of decades of effort to do just that as we officially begin the redevelopment of more than 400 acres of land at this key location along the I-95 corridor,” Governor Hogan said. “There is a significant distribution and logistics market in this region, and the Bainbridge development will be a tremendous asset and help us continue to meet to the needs of more and more companies seeking to do business in our state.
The governor was joined for the event by Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger, representatives from MRP Industrial and the Bainbridge Development Corporation, and other local and state officials.
The site redevelopment will complement the major distribution and logistics market in the region and help Maryland continue to meet the demand of companies looking to do business in the state.
Established in 1941, nearly 245,000 recruits were trained at Bainbridge Naval Training Center throughout the Second World War. The center was reactivated in 1950 after the United States entered the Korean War. The facility was decommissioned by the United States Navy in 1976 and officially transferred to the State of Maryland in February 2000.
This redevelopment marks the latest announcement of economic development by the Hogan administration in Cecil County. In July 2021, Governor Hogan conducted a helicopter tour of the Principio Business Park, which covers over 1,600 acres and currently houses distribution facilities and offices for major corporations such as General Electric, Restoration Hardware and Amazon. . Also in July, Great Wolf Lodge innovated on its largest resort, which will be located in Perryville, and Highline Warren, a manufacturer and distributor of automotive products, opened a new state-of-the-art distribution center to Elton. In October, Alo Yoga and BELLA+CANVAS, two Los Angeles-based clothing brands, opened a new distribution center to North-east.


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Expanding its Plan A ethical scheme, retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has pledged to raise approximately $32 million for mental health, heart and cancer charities and reduce food waste in its operations by 50 percent by 2025.
In addition to those efforts, M&S will continue to cut carbon emissions, give grants to community businesses, provide career advice to young people, provide 10,000 pairs of plimsolls to children starting school and promote reuse of clothing by launching repair servicing and ensuring that clothing and homewares can be reused and recycled as effectively as possible.
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Marks & Spencer has pledged to raise £25m for mental health, heart and cancer charities, and halve food waste across its operations by 2025, as it steps up its ethical commitments under its new chief executive, Steve Rowe.
Rowe, who took charge of M&S just over a year ago, said the fashion, food and homewares retailer was also “determined to play a leading role” in social change by supporting community projects in 10 cities, including Rochdale, Glasgow, Liverpool and Middlesbrough.
M&S’s initiatives include cutting carbon emissions and giving grants of up to £50,000 for community businesses, careers advice to young people, and 10,000 pairs of plimsolls to children starting school.


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General Motors broke ground today on a $380 million plant expansion to its Wentzville Assembly facility to build the newly re-designed Chevrolet Colorado midsize pick-up in 2014.
In the sad language oft used when describing the floundering U.S. economy, GM said it is “creating or retaining” about 1,260 jobs hourly and salaried jobs. The new Chevrolet Colorado is based on an all-new midsize truck architecture developed by GM do Brasil within GM’s global product development organization.
This honest description from GM is an oblique way of noting that the Colorado pickup – which for a time outsold the once dominate but now dead Ford Ranger pickup – and its GMC Canyon sidekick are now built at the soon to be closed Shreveport plant. The Louisiana plant also built gas guzzling Hummers prior to the GM bankruptcy and taxpayer bailout, which resulted in the demise of Hummer, Pontiac and Saturn. Attempts to sell the Hummer business to the Chinese failed, apparently when the Chinese central government refused to approve the deal.
The latest version of the Colorado, which replaced the S10, originally debuted in Thailand last fall. Thailand is the world’s second largest pickup truck market after the U.S because of tax subsidies. In Thailand, the Colorado lineup includes 2wd and 4wd regular, extended-cab and crew cab body styles. Gasoline and diesel engines are available, including a new 2.5-liter and 2.8-liter turbocharged diesel engines that produce broad torque bands engineered for excellent cargo and towing capability. Colorado appears to have all the product attributes that make for a marketplace success. GM has withheld U.S. specifications thus far.
Ford Motor, too, has a brand new Mazda-developed pickup truck that just went into production in Thailand. Ford is billing the compact pickup truck as a global entry – it will be sold throughout Europe, Asia and South America, but thus far, says it has no plans to offer the Ranger in the U.S.
Ford, of course, once dominated the compact pickup truck market in the U.S. until years of product neglect combined with an assault by Toyota and Nissan pushed it to a footnote in the segment. This first forced the closing of Ford’s Edison, New Jersey plant. The remaining plant in Minnesota did not survive the Ford UAW contract last year and is now closed. It was – and remains – a stunning amount of business to cede to the competition.
The GM expansion – Wentzville builds Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cargo and passenger vans – comes as Ford Motor insiders say that the company is reviewing its decision to close the Twin Cities plant and drop the fuel efficient Ranger from its lineup this year. Ford executives had maintained for years that the super-sized F-Series pickup was all it needed in the U.S. market. Some still do.
- Midsize Chevrolet Colorado Pickup Will Be Built in U.S.
- New Ford Ranger Debuts in Bangkok – U.S. Bound?
- Chevrolet Colorado Show Truck Unveiled in Bangkok
- New Chevrolet Colorado Concept Begs the Fuel Economy Question: Where oh where is Ford’s Small U.S. Pickup?
- GM UAW Contract Offers Profit Sharing, Some New Jobs
- UAW has Deal at Ford Pending Local Approvals. 5750 Jobs Added or Retained During Contract. Shared Prosperity Claimed


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In Berlin, Slovenia presented as green and ecological country
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Ms. Irena Šinko, participated in the official opening ceremony of the Berlin International Green Week (IGW), taking place from 19 to 29 January 2023. At the trade fair, Slovenia is presented as a green and ecological country (ecological + local = ideal).
On invitation by German Federal Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Cem Özdemir, the Slovenian Minister, Ms. Irena Šinko, participated on 19 January in the official opening ceremony of the IGW trade fair, opening again its gates after a gap of two years due to Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the fair is open for visitors.
This year as well, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (MAFF) is presenting itself in this greatest agricultural fair that during ten days is visited by approximately half a million visitors. This year, Slovenia is presented as a green and ecological country and visitors may familiarize themselves with our country through the exquisite culinary art, exquisite wines (presented are all the three vine-growing regions), apiculture and apicultural products. Slovenia is presented as a tourist destination by the support of the Slovenian Tourist Organisation. Slovenian wines and apiculture are promoted in the Berlin fair specifically by the Wine and Honey Queens of Slovenia / Vinska in Medena kraljica Slovenije.
On 19 January in the exhibition room, Minister Šinko held several meetings and bilateral meetings with foreign delegations. In the forenoon, the Slovenian exhibition booth was visited by the German delegation of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, headed by the Minister Mr. Cem Özdemir; the EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Janusz Wojciechowski; Berlin’s Governing Mayor, Ms. Franziska Giffey, and other high guests and representatives of agricultural institutions in Germany.
Within the scope of the trade fair, a central event took place on 20 January, the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) – the 15th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, titled: “Food Systems Transformation: A Worldwide Response to Multiple Crises”. The Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference was attended by over 70 Ministers and Delegations from around the Globe, and representatives of major international organisations.
During the visit to Berlin, Minister Šinko will take the opportunity to participate in other events within the scope of the trade fair, and to meet with the representatives of the Slovenian national community in Berlin.


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Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has been asked to testify before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday, in a hearing focused on income inequality.The Amazon (AMZN) founder was invited by Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, the senator’s spokesperson, Mike Casca, confirmed to CNN. The hearing will include testimony from Jennifer Bates, an Amazon employee who is at the center of an attempt to unionize one of the company’s warehouses in Alabama. Bezos’ office confirmed to the committee that he has received the invitation, but not whether he plans to attend the hearing. He is not legally required to do so. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Washington Post first reported the news of Sanders’ invitation.”Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest person in the world, is in many respects emblematic of the unfettered capitalism that we are seeing in America today,” Sanders said in a statement to CNN.
“I have invited him to testify at the Budget Committee hearing on income and wealth inequality to explain to the American people why he believes it is appropriate for him to be spending a whole lot of money denying economic dignity to Amazon workers in Bessemer who want to form a union, while he has become $78 billion richer during the pandemic and is now worth $183 billion.”Bezos announced last month that he would step down as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Biden throws support behind Amazon workers holding milestone union vote‘
The attempt to unionize the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, has become the focal point of a growing struggle between Corporate America and labor groups to unionize within companies and states that have resisted such efforts. The election results in November have emboldened unions to expand their ranks, and President Joe Biden has offered his support to the workers attempting to organize in Alabama.
This is not the first time Sanders has attempted to challenge corporate leadership at its highest ranks. During his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, Sanders traveled to Bentonville, Arkansas and spoke at Walmart (WMT)’s annual shareholder meeting about the company’s treatment of its workers.
Sanders offered a resolution to put an employee on the board and increase the company’s minimum wage. The resolution was defeated.In his new role as Budget Committee chairman, Sanders has a powerful tool to call attention to his concerns about economic inequality. He engineered an attempt use budget reconciliation to insert an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour in the Covid relief package but the plan was turned back by the Senate parliamentarian.
Sanders has vowed that his mission to raise the minimum wage is not over. He has said he will attempt to use reconciliation to get it passed in the future if Republicans refuse to support an increase.Here’s why 2021 could be a big year for labor unionsRepublicans continue to be skeptical of attempts to expand union ranks across the country and bust up laws in red states that prevent workers from being forced to join unions. GOP Senator Marco Rubio from Florida penned an op-ed in USA Today where he argued that creation of a union at the Amazon plant in Alabama would lead to fewer jobs and smaller wages.”Adversarial labor relations are generally harmful. When it is a good American company — for example, certain American automakers — adversarial relations risk hurting labor and management alike by causing American industry to lose ground to foreign competition.
And too often, the right to form a union has been, in practice, a requirement that business owners allow left-wing social organizers to take over their workplaces,” Rubio wrote.The Florida Senator however was in agreement with Sanders on Bezos and Amazon who he accused of using “anti-competitive strategies to crush small businesses.
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New boutique fitness centre offering aerial yoga opens in Ipswich
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A new boutique fitness centre is bringing the latest fitness trends from London and New York to Ipswich, offering aerial yoga, box-fit and dynamic reformer pilates.
StudioFlex is a class-based fitness centre consisting of three studios and a FlexCafe near the Suffolk Show ground at Three Rivers Business Centre in Felixstowe Road.
The centre specialises in group fitness classes including hot yoga, barre, mat pilates and mat yoga and offers a range of premium classes such as aerial yoga, box-fit and flex and dynamic reformer pilates on equipment imported from America.
The boutique centre was due to open in March, days before the country went into lockdown, but it was forced to postpone its grand reopening.
James Peasey, the former Woodbridge Golf Club head professional and now manager at StudioFlex, said it was a difficult time for the new venture.
“It was such bad timing,” said Mr Peasey. “But since we opened a few weeks ago people have really been enjoying the boutique side of things.”
The boutique approach to exercise means class sizes range from four to six people, with customers having more of a one-to-one training session.
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Mr Peasey said this is a “hands on” way to learn the new techniques, while also having the social and fun element with group training.
He said the aerial yoga has proved to be a big hit with customers, who would have previously needed to go to Bury St Edmunds to try out the skill.
The fitness classes can be bought on a pay-as-you-go basis and all new customers can try any class for £10.
All of these classes run for approximately an hour but they are available as 45 minute express sessions, helping those with busy schedules to squeeze their fitness fix into their day.
Customers can then enjoy a range of healthy food and drinks in CafeFlex – the studio’s new cafe – which has a range of brunches, lunches, coffees and smoothies to chose from.
The opening of the cafe has got off to a slightly slower start than StudioFlex had hoped, which has been impacted by the move from office to home-working.
“Usually there are 200 other employees at the business centre, but now there is only around 15 to 20 on site,” Mr Peasey said.
To book a class at the boutique centre contact StudioFlex at email@example.com or visit their website.


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For many, their mental image of a German sports car looks like a Porsche 911. For decades, the heart of the Porsche lineup has consisted of the stalwart 911 in a dizzying array of models. The lineup has expanded around the 911 to include the competent Boxster roadster, Cayman coupe and the Cayenne SUV.
The 911 line benefits from new 3.6 liter and 3.8 liter engines and revised front styling. The new engines are more powerful than the previous versions. A new optional 7-speed PDK double clutch transmission replaces the six-speed Tiptronic found in prior models.
Next up for Porsche is the launch of an all-new 4-door vehicle.


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While local economic development officials wait to see what happens next in their quest to lure an aerospace manufacturer to Volusia County, the company they’ve been hoping to attract has been revealed as Blue Origin, the private commercial space flight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson confirmed last week that he personally has talked to Bezos.
“I and a number of others are working hard to attract new business to Florida’s Space Coast,” Nelson said. “Among other things, I have talked to Jeff Bezos and urged him to come here.”
Bezos, 15th on this year’s Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s top billionaires, is one of a couple of billionaires competing to revolutionize commercial space flight and exploration, making it more efficient and affordable with new vehicles and technologies.
The space industry is growing,” said Lance Erickson, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach and coordinator of its commercial space operations program. “They’re bringing in new kinds of innovation and technology.”
For Volusia County officials, said Erickson, it’s an “opportunity” to expand in a new direction.
Volusia and state economic development officials have worked for months with a consultant scouting potential sites in several southeastern states for aerospace-related manufacturing. The officials refer to the project only as “Project Panther,” and would not confirm the company is Blue Origin, citing non-disclosure agreements they’ve signed.
Excitement about the project ramped up a notch last week when Blue Origin announced it had reached a critical stage in the development of one of its new rockets. In a press conference at its Kent, Washington, headquarters, company President Rob Meyerson said the company has completed acceptance testing of its new rocket engine, the BE-3. The announcement generated a wave of excitement in the industry nationwide because the engine is the first new hydrogen engine to be developed in the United States in more than a decade. In the news conference, Meyerson confirmed the company was looking at launch sites in Florida.
Keith Norden, president and CEO of the Team Volusia Economic Development Corporation, would not comment specifically on Project Panther, or any of the other aerospace-related projects being discussed. However, it’s very important for Volusia County to attract those kinds of jobs, “higher pay, skilled aviation and aerospace-related,” he said. “Team Volusia’s mission is to create higher paid jobs for our citizens.”
Even if this company doesn’t select a Volusia site at this time, Denys said it’s crucial to economic development in Southeast Volusia to expand a “commercial space brand.”
No matter what happens with Project Panther, it would be a good strategy for Volusia to keep moving forward in getting sites ready for potential suitors, said Mullis, the site selection consultant. “As this whole commercialization industry begins to change the face of the Space Coast, there’s going to be sites like Oak Hill needed.”


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So as expected Google stadia is reportedly trying something new. Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service is still coming up with new ways to attract gamers, and it’s finally trying one that we’ve suggested for years: free time-limited trials of entire games, so you can see whether it’s for you.
As 9to5Google reports, you can now hop on over to Stadia, sign in with your Google account, and be playing a 30-minute free trial of Hello Engineer.
A Stadia rep tells The Verge this is an experiment Google’s running over the next couple of months, and it’ll come to other select titles in the weeks to come. It won’t always be 30-minute sessions, and you may not see the same games as everyone else, though.
Google Stadia Is Reportedly Trying Something New
Google also has this dedicated webpage for other free trials that it might offer in the future, though you’ll only find Hello Engineer there right now. Google previously tried some limited demos.
Honestly, it’s still not as seamless as it could be. You still do have to sign in with that Google account (even if you’re already signed into your Google account for Gmail, Drive, etc).
You still have to click through a health and safety screen, and another screen to verify access, and then wait a tad for the game to load. We’re still not at the magical “click an ad for a game to instantly be playing that game” quite yet.
But it’s a step in the right direction, particularly if this becomes a standard feature of Stadia titles. And why not? From a game developer or publisher’s standpoint, there’s no work needed to create a demo, and the fact that it’s a cloud game should alleviate any privacy concerns.
When Gaikai arrived on the cloud gaming scene over a decade ago, it demonstrated the your-game-ad-can-be-a-game concept right from the beginning.
Hello Engineer on Stadia
If you enjoy Hello Engineer, you can buy it on Stadia, or sign up for a Stadia Pro subscription that includes it for free.
Other completely free options on Stadia include Destiny 2 and Super Bomberman R Online, so there’s no point in wondering whether cloud gaming technology actually works for you: you can just try it right now with three different games, no strings attached, to find out.
Just don’t necessarily expect Google to put its full weight behind Stadia anymore. I wrote how Google seemed more interested in its Whitelabel potential in February, and last week we learned how AT&T has taken Google up on the offer with its own free trial of Batman: Arkham Knight.


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And mobile revenue increases year over year on Black Friday, as more shoppers turn to their smartphones, a new study finds.
Escalate Retail, the entity created by the merger of GERS Retail Systems and Ecometry, today announced it has signed five new retailers: Emporium Luggage, Ice.com, Trailblazers, Touring Club Suisse, and Video Plus.
Escalate Retail, the entity created by the merger of GERS Retail Systems and Ecometry, hasn’t wasted any time signing new customers. The company, provider of sales, merchandising, and loyalty systems for retailers, e-retailers, and direct marketers, today announced it has signed five new retailers: Emporium Luggage, Ice.com, Trailblazers, Touring Club Suisse, and Video Plus.
Emporium Luggage (Irv’s Luggage Warehouse), will implement Escalate Retail’s Commerce Suite and POS solutions. Ice.com, the Montreal-based online jewelry retailer which also owns Diamond.com, has selected Escalate Retail Commerce, CRM, Gift Registry, and Business Intelligence solutions. Trailblazers, a company that sells add-ons for trucks, will integrate store and web channels with Escalate’s Commerce and POS solutions. Touring Club Suisse, a Swiss membership organization providing roadside, travel, and leisure services, will implement the Escalate Retail Commerce Suite. Video Plus, a company that provides communications tools to the direct selling industry, has chosen Escalate Retail’s Commerce Suite.
“The Escalate Retail technologies we have chosen to run our Ice.com and Diamond.com businesses will ultimately assist us in streamlining our operations while allowing us to do more of our site and marketing initiatives seamlessly and efficiently,” says Shmuel Gniwisch, CEO of Ice.com. “This puts us on an exciting path as we grow our companies to the next level.”


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LG announced launch of its new device LG X4 in south korea. Highlighting part is device coming with LG pay support and with Qualcomm snapdragon 425.
The phone is coming with 5.3 inch IPS HD display and pixel resolution is 720 x 1280 pixels. The phone is powered by Qualcomm snapdragon 425 and come with 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. The battery capacity is of 3000 mah power.
The device runs on Android 7.1.2 Naugat. LG adds new LG pay feacture in this budget device which is good thing. Coming to the camera, the phone has 8MP rear camera with LED flash and 5MP of front camera. Price of the device is 2,97,000 won(Rs 17,100). The phone will be available in black or gold color.


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Another report from Bloomberg today reveals more insight into what’s in store the current year’s update to the iPhone. The report says that Apple “isn’t planning major changes” for the 2021 iPhone, however one key redesign is in trying: an in-screen fingerprint reader.
Internally, Bloomberg says that Apple engineers are referring to the 2021 iPhone as an “S” year overhaul, which infers minor updates contrasted with the iPhone 12.
“Apple isn’t planning major changes for this year’s iPhone line given the enhancements made to the smartphone in 2020, including 5G and new designs, according to people familiar with the situation. Inside Apple, engineers consider the next iPhones another “S” version of the device, the nomenclature typically given to new iPhones with minor upgrades.”
The large change, however, is that Apple is trying help for an in-screen fingerprint reader during the current year’s iPhone. It’s at last muddled whether this component will make the cut for the iPhone 12S, yet it is something in testing:
“Though overall changes will be minor, Apple is still testing a key upgrade for 2021: an in-screen fingerprint reader. This would add a new method for users to unlock their iPhone, going beyond a passcode and Face ID facial recognition. Apple started to move away from fingerprint sensors in 2017 with the launch of the iPhone X, but Touch ID has remained as a feature on Mac laptops and cheaper iPhones since then. Qualcomm Inc., which provides Apple with 5G modems, earlier this month announced a faster in-screen fingerprint sensor.”
This isn’t the first we’ve caught wind of Touch ID getting back to the iPhone. Solid Apple examiner Ming-Chi Kuo announced in August 2019 that it will deliver an iPhone with both Face ID and under-screen Touch ID in 2021. Furthermore, the dependable leaker L0vetodream has likewise announced that in-screen Touch ID will before long advance toward the iPhone.
At last, Bloomberg composes that Apple has “discussed removing the charging port for some iPhone models in favor of wireless charging.” Again, it’s unclear if this change will advance toward the iPhone 12S or if Apple will save it for a future model. It’s important that Ming-Chi Kuo anticipated in 2019 that Apple would dispatch an iPhone without a Lightning port in 2021.
The report additionally makes reference to that AirTags are as yet on target to be delivered at some point this year, with Apple having initially wanted to dispatch them close by the iPhone 12.
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If Apple follows its typical annual launch cycle, we needs to be handled to a shiny new iPhone 12 this September. With a doable launch only a few months away, the rumours and leaks are beginning to choose up tempo and based on the newest photographs shared on-line, the iPhone is getting a shocking new look.
Shared on Twitter by JinStore – an Apple Premium Reseller – the photographs seem to unmask the moulds utilized by third-party companies to create instances for as-yet unannounced gadgets. Apple, and different producers, provide these designs to case designers so there will likely be a quantity of selections for patrons in the days following the iPhone launch occasion. If this did not occur, it could take months for instances and display screen protectors to reach on cabinets.
If these pictured moulds are actual, they verify early rumours that Apple is making its subsequent technology of smartphones look way more like the iPad Pro with a sq. edge quite than the present smooth curves discovered on the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro.
The agency’s premium pill already features an analogous and extra industrial design to that proven in these newest photographs. And that is not the solely factor that could be shifting from the pill to the telephone.
Apple iPhone 12 launch could deliver two iPad features to this gadget
Some rumours counsel the top-tier iPhone 12 Pro will get the LiDAR scanner that is discovered on the new 2020 iPad Pro. This distinctive lens is ready to measure distance and depth way more precisely which can assist the iPhone to be significantly better in relation to augmented actuality duties.
One closing factor proven in the picture is that the iPhone 12 could arrive in three sizes. That would make it much like the present vary which incorporates the 6.1-inch iPhone 11, 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro and 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro Max.
It’s thought that no less than one of the gadgets will lastly get entry to 5G information speeds which might enable homeowners to obtain information and flicks on the transfer at speeds of over 300Mbps.
As with all leaks, we’ve to take these newest photographs with a pinch of salt but it surely actually could be an thrilling few months forward for iPhone followers with a lot of new features to stay up for.
Whether the iPhone launch will nonetheless happen in September stays a thriller with some analysts re predicting that Apple will likely be compelled to delay the launch on account of the present well being disaster gripping the world.
Although there isn’t any official launch date for the iPhone we do know one occasion that’s going down quickly. Apple’s WWDC Developers Conference will likely be going down from Monday, June 22 and anticipate a lot of information about the upcoming software program updates to your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
The occasion often takes place in entrance of 1000’s of builders in San Jose, California however this 12 months Apple is broadcasting all of the information through a dwell stream.
Express.co.uk will deliver you all the information from this international occasion subsequent week.


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A teen hoped that by sharing her problem with acne and how she has learnt make-up tricks to hide it would help at least one person going through the same ordeal, says The Daily Mail.
“I know exactly where you are, I’ve been in your shoes and there is hope,” she said. “Someone else has been there and there is a way for you to feel confident…you just need to kind of search around for what it is that makes you lighten up.”
The California born went on: “I hope this helps you if you guys have acne, or even if you don’t have acne and you just want really pretty skin,” she says at the end of one of her makeup tutorials.
But the 19-year-old teenager has been watched by millions of YouTube users thanks to bravely taking to the internet to show off her severe skin complaint.
She said: â€śI got my first pimple in the third grade and it progressively got worse, I had to work out how to deal with it.â€ť
â€śI filmed the video last November but it took me a month to post it, I thought I was going to get the same hate I got at school over my skin. But I thought if it could help one person, one girl or guy with the same condition, it would be worth it.â€ť
Cassandra Bankson uploaded a video to YouTube showing her red and blemished skin before applying make-up – and how she managed to make her face look flawless in just ten minutes thanks to her beauty tricks.
Due to unusual success of the video, the 19-year-old Californian girl was asked to appeared on Good Morning America to share her story.Â “It’s been overwhelming,” she said on the show of the response online to her video.
“It really is an eye-opener. I never knew that for men, for women, even for adults, it’s such an epidemic. Yes, it’s cosmetic, but it goes deeper than that. I think that’s something that’s a little bit of a misconception.”
Cassandra revealed that she was bullied at school for her problems with skin but she learnt how to conceal it by practising different make-up techniques.
Her blemish-concealing make-up application became so expert that the teenager was able to become a model with her skin appearing flawless in her portfolio shots.
The youngster also mentioned that she is partnering up with Hourglass Cosmetics to promote its Immaculate Foundation. The partnership developed after the makeup company saw a review Bankson posted on her YouTube channel.
Cassandraâ€™s channel, DiamondsAndHeels14, has over 19 million views and over 160,000 subscribers in all.
“I posted a review of the Hourglass Cosmetics foundation. Hourglass saw that video, they watched it, and then they emailed me!” Bankson said gleefully in a follow-up video.
“They said, ‘Hey would you be interested in getting the chance to talk to everyone who watches your videos one-on-one, tell them about acne, talk to them about foundation and meet them’ And I was like ‘Oh my God are you kidding me?!'”
The California native insisted that her meet-and-greets will not consist of 30 seconds of talking and then her limply posing for photos.
“We are going to hang out. We are not going to ‘meet up.’ We are going to hang out!” she told her followers.


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Major brands have been distancing themselves from the National Rifle Association following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14. In the last week, shooting survivors and gun control advocates have encouraged airlines like Delta and United, car rental companies like Avis, National and Enterprise, insurance companies like MetLife and Lockton Affinity, banks like First National Bank of Omaha and Republic Bank to cut ties with the NRA. As consumers increasingly use their wallets to make political statements, could this be a watershed moment for brands?
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Lin Mun Poo on Friday was sentenced to the maximum of 10 years of imprisonment by a U.S. federal court judge in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Poo, 32, in April pled guilty to access device fraud in connection with possessing stolen bank card and credit card numbers. He also admitted to compromising a computer server that belonged to the Federal Reserve Bank in addition to installing a malicious software code onto that server.
Poo traveled to the U.S. in October 2010 to sell stolen credit card and bank card numbers, and sold the information to an undercover special agent of the U.S. Secret Service. When arrested, Poo had more than 122,000 stolen bank card and credit card numbers in his “heavily encrypted laptop computer,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, which noted that he also hacked into the computer system in 2010 of a Defense Department contractor.
“Lin Mun Poo is responsible for victimizing public and private financial institutions here and around the world, as well as potentially endangering our national security infrastructure,” said U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch.
The Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section of the Office of International Affairs of the Justice Department’s criminal division assisted in the case.


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NAB is urging the FCC to keep a light touch when it comes to promulgating additional rules for IBOC, particularly for subscription services delivered via multicast channels.
In reply comments to the commission, NAB said, “Most commenters rejected limitations on the amount of subscription services that may be offered, finding such regulation unnecessary to the preservation of free, over-the-air digital radio.”
Beyond the baseline requirement that broadcasters offer one free digital programming service comparable to or better in audio quality than their current service, stations “should be free to allocate remaining bandwidth in response to consumer demand and changing marketplace conditions,” the trade group stated.
NAB agrees with Cox Radio that the penetration level for IBOC receivers with conditional access capability will not support a subscription service for some time and so it would be “unreasonable” for the agency to establish spectrum caps now.
In addition, a spectrum fee “would create a disincentive that would almost certainly doom the technology before a market can develop,” said NAB.
The Benton Foundation urged new public interest requirements for digital radio, but this would “throw the commission back to an outdated era of heavy-handed and unnecessary regulation,” NAB argued.


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Considering all the natural challenges TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) is facing, this looks like a solid quarter… Q2 revenue came in at $19.7 million, 32 percent over last year’s $14.9 million, and nicely ahead of the $19.3 million analysts were expecting. Note, however, that $3 million came from its acquired Promotions.com unit, without which revenue growth would have been a still-respectable 12 percent. Net income of $2.3 million ($.07 per share) was in line with estimates. Ad revenue for the quarter was up 16 percent to $6.4 million. Paid services revenue was up 9 percent to $10.3 million. The company also continues to diversify away from financial advertisers. Non-financial advertising revenue was up 34 percent, accounting for 45 percent of the total.
There’s no outlook in the release, nor any discussion about the economy and its effect on advertising, so we’ll be listening for that on the call. We’ll also see if the company says anything about Mainstreet.com, which CEO Tom Clarke has talked up highly on past calls, but which recently had a shakeup.
One other note: The company said yesterday in an SEC filing that it had extended the contract of founder and key personality Jim Cramer by one year.


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GRETNA, La. — A new self-serve wine bar celebrated its grand opening on Nov. 20 in downtown Gretna.
Developed by four friends who served together in the U.S. Air Force, the Stained Glass Wine House has more than 300 different types of wine in bottles, 24 self-serve wine taps, eight taps for spirits, and eight taps for local beer and handcrafted cocktails. The business uses a digital system with touch screens, LED lighting and product info that is connected to a cashless app that minimizes person-to-person contact and allows customers to set spending limits.
“When we came up with the idea to open Stained Glass Wine House, Tasha, one of our co-founders, was adamant that this idea only works in Old Gretna,” said co-founder Kyle Gregore in a press release. “From the support of the neighborhood, business community and city government. She was totally correct. Our vision for Stained Glass Wine House is not only to create the premier establishment in the New Orleans Metro Area, but more importantly to help change the perception of the West Bank and continue to grow the burgeoning community of Gretna.”
The Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission provided tax incentive guidance on the Enterprise Zone program and offered support in connecting the Stained Glass Wine House team to elected officials, local business organizations, and possible vendors.
“JEDCO is proud to support this emerging concept, which adds to the energetic sense of place in Jefferson Parish,” said JEDCO President and CEO Jerry Bologna. “Through the Jefferson EDGE 2025, the long-term economic development strategic plan for Jefferson Parish, we increased our focus on building up businesses that support our efforts to celebrate the culture and quality of life in our community.”
Stained Glass Wine House is located at 201 Huey P. Long Avenue, Suite A.


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The 50th Anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort will be one of the biggest ever! The celebration will extend to all four Resort theme parks with amazing...
Epcot is getting a redo! According to Disney, this will be the biggest transformation they have ever done to any park, here are the details!
Disney Cruise Line guests can look forward to a signature island experience that celebrates the spirit and culture of The Bahamas and the natural environment at a new Disney port of call.
This new resort will be a new, first-of-its-kind experience where guests will check-in for a two-night adventure aboard a starship called the Halcyon.
“Disney Genie,” a new digital offering set to debut in late 2020 that will enhance the way you plan for and experience a trip to Walt Disney World Resort!
Announced today at D23 Expo in California, Disney has confirmed that there will be a brand new show coming to Disney Springs.
Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway is coming to both Disneyland park in California and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida, check out the new details!


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The Post Office goes into the clothing business
Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night has taken on a different meaning at the U.S. Postal Service with plans to launch a new product line of apparel and accessories under the brand name, “Rain Heat & Snow.”
The Postal Service’s unofficial motto, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” serves as a backdrop for a licensing agreement the organization has signed with Cleveland-based fashion apparel company Wahconah Group, Inc. The agreement leverages Postal Service intellectual property by introducing the Rain Heat & Snow brand of apparel and accessory products.
“This agreement will put the Postal Service on the cutting edge of functional fashion,” said Postal Service Corporate Licensing Manager Steven Mills. “The main focus will be to produce Rain Heat & Snow apparel and accessories using technology to create ‘smart apparel’ — also known as wearable electronics.”


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If you think that the Volkswagen Golf GTD is a tad expensive, take a look at the León FR TDI. VW's Spanish company, Seat, offers most of the Golf GTD's package, including the same engine, a 2.0-liter unit able to produce 170hp, at a slightly lower price. The sad part is that this engine, fitted with common-rail diesel technology, is the only one in the León line-up that is currently Euro V compliant. In the León FR TDI, drivers get performance along with a few benefits at t
Over the past few months, rumors have circulated that the joint venture between Toyota and Subaru to develop an affordable, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive coupe has been delayed. ToMoCo president, Akio Toyoda, sought to address those concerns at last month's Tokyo Auto Salon, and according to Toyota's new overlord, development is still underway.
According to company insiders with whom we've spoken, Nissan has been working on its own compact, rear-wheel-drive vehicle for over three years, and the announcement from Toyota and Subaru about their own RWD coupe has caused Nissan to ramp-up development.


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Money expert Clark Howard says that people are coming up to him more often to ask about the best cell phone plans and deals on smartphones.
With so many Apple and Android devices to choose from, it can be hard to easily identify the best new cell phones.
Shopping for a new cell phone? Google can help
Let’s say you’ve been looking through the Black Friday 2017 ad scans and found two phones that you’re interested in. How are you going to decide which one to buy?
Before you hop in the car to learn more about the phones from a salesperson, start with Google.
Using Google’s regular search feature, you can now enter two phone models with a “vs” in between and you’ll get a side-by-side comparison of their main features.
Here’s what came up when I searched “iPhone 7 vs iPhone 8” on a mobile device:
The new comparison tool will display information such as a phone’s release date, storage capacity, screen size, weight and battery life — as well as either the total price or the price on a monthly payment plan.
This feature also highlights the star rating and links to reviews — Clark always reads the reviews thoroughly.
For the comparison between the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8, Google’s “highlight differences” mode made it clear to me just how much the two models have in common.
In fact, Clark says the iPhone 7 is the deal for Apple users this holiday season — not the iPhone 8 or iPhone X.
Google’s cell phone comparison tool doesn’t give you all the information you may want before buying a phone, but it’s a good starting point and could help you eliminate some phones from consideration.
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Scientific rolls out virtual sports in Pennsylvania
Scientific Games has moved to take advantage of the expanding Pennsylvania regulated gambling market by launching its virtual sports services in the US state.
Working in partnership with Pennsylvania Lottery, the service will be made available across various retail venues, bars and taverns across the state.
The initial virtual sports offering will be branded ‘Xpress Sports’ and include motor racing and American football content.
Scientific is also working with the Lottery on its new online and mobile gaming service.
Drew Svitko, director of the Pennsylvania Lottery, said: “Virtual sports games appeal to Pennsylvanians’ passion for sports and, like all of our games, virtual sports games are supported by systems technology innovation.
“Our recent game entertainment expansion with Keno, iLottery and now virtual sports is already generating new funds to benefit older Pennsylvanians.”
Pennsylvania Lottery did not respond to a request from iGamingBusiness.com to confirm if the new games will be available online.
Pennsylvania is yet to launch a regulated internet gambling market, but the state last week did sign off on sports betting laws and also awarded interactive gaming certificates to three casino licence-holders in Pennsylvania, suggesting that full regulation is not far away.
Since going on sale on May 22, Pennsylvania iLottery online and mobile games have generated $51.3m (£39.9m/€44.5m) in sales, which the Lottery said makes it the most commercially successful in the US.


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(WXYZ) — September is National Baby Safety Month, and Target is giving people 20 percent off a new car seat, baby stroller or select baby gear when you recycle your old car seat.
This is part of the company's Car Seat Trade-In event, which happens from Sept. 3 - Sept. 13.
All you have to do is bring an old car seat to the Target store near you, trade it in at Guest Service for a coupon, and then save 20%!
According to the company, 11.9 million pounds of car seats have been recycled so far.
Target will accept and recycle all types of car seats, including: infant car seats, convertible car seats, car seat bases, harness or booster car seats, as well as car seats that are expired or damaged.
The company said that materials from the old car seats will be recycled to create new products from Waste Management like pallets, plastic buckets and construction materials.


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OnePlus 12R colour options have been leaked online, ahead of the handset's debut in India and global markets. The successor to the OnePlus 11R is expected to debut as a rebranded version of the OnePlus Ace 3, which will succeed the OnePlus Ace 2. A few days before the Ace 3 handset is launched in China, the company has revealed its design in a video. Details of the upcoming OnePlus phones have also surfaced online over the past few weeks, including processor, battery, camera and display specifications.
Tipster Ishan Agarwal (@ishanagarwal24) leaked the colour options of the upcoming OnePlus 12R model in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The phone is seen in Black and Blue colour options in the leaked promotional image and teaser video. This phone is seen to feature a similar design as the OnePlus Ace 3. The OnePlus 12R is confirmed to launch globally and in India on January 23 alongside the OnePlus 12.
Meanwhile, the Chinese smartphone maker shared a video on a Weibo post, that shows the OnePlus Ace 3 in a gold colour option. The teaser also reveals the design of the smartphone. The phone is seen with a similar design language as the preceding OnePlus Ace 2. The upcoming handset is seen with a curved display, glass back panel and metal middle frame. A slightly raised circular rear camera module is seen placed in the top left corner of the rear panel.
Previous leaks have suggested that the OnePlus 12R is expected to launch in Cool Blue and Iron Grey colour options. The phone is expected to be available in configurations of 8GB and 6GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 128GB of UFS 3.1 or 256GB of UFS 4.0 onboard storage. It is said to be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and is likely to boot Android 14-based OxygenOS 14 out-of-the-box.
The OnePlus 12R has also been tipped to feature a 6.78-inch LTPO 4.0 ProXDR panel with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz along with Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection. It is also likely to carry a 50-megapixel IMX890 primary sensor, an 8-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide lens, a 2-megapixel macro shooter at the back and a 16-megapixel sensor in the front. The phone is also expected to be backed by a 5,500mAh battery with 100W wired fast charging support.
OnePlus Ace 3 seen in a gold colourway
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The OnePlus Ace 3 is expected to debut in China with similar specifications as the OnePlus 12R, which will arrive in global markets as a rebranded version of the same phone. An earlier report suggested that the phone will be launched by the company in China on January 4.
Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 alongside the Galaxy Tab S9 series and Galaxy Watch 6 series at its first Galaxy Unpacked event in South Korea. We discuss the company's new devices and more on the latest episode of Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts. Affiliate links may be automatically generated - see our ethics statement for details.


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Mount Isa's St Vincent de Paul op shop will keep its doors open between Christmas and the start of 2021 to give those without family a place to visit for a chat and to escape the heat.
- Vinnies in Mount Isa will remain open between Christmas and New Year this year
- Manager Liza Dowler says it is important for people to feel connected during the holidays
The store has been a haven for those without family during the pandemic
When daily temperatures reach the mid 40s in outback Queensland at Christmas time, most people shut the windows, turn on the air-conditioner, and stay indoors with family.
For those without family, however, there aren't many places to go, as most shops are shut during the Christmas and New Year period.
But local Vinnies manager Liza Dowler is changing that.
Ms Dowler said, after spending 18 months working at the store, she realised it was much more than just a clothing shop.
"We have a couple of ladies who come in [to volunteer] because they were feeling lonely, particularly through COVID," Ms Dowler said.
Ms Dowler said for those living in regional and rural towns the Christmas period could be tough and many people were left without anyone to talk to over the holidays.
"There are a lot of people who don't have a family unit that they live with, therefore they can feel quite lonely, quite vulnerable," she said.
"Sometimes they'll buy something [at the shop]. Sometimes it's all about just coming in and connecting.
"It's a safe space to come and have a chat."
From big business to charity
Ms Dowler said before starting at Mount Isa's Vinnies she worked in bigger retail chains.
"I wanted to make a change in my life," she said.
"I've worked in big retail and a lot of businesses like that, whereas [at Vinnies] I can give back.
Ms Dowler said, like all charities, Vinnies relied on volunteers to keep the shop running.
"We have a mixture of volunteers — we have three people come in because they want to come in, we also have two people who come in because they have chosen us to work at through Centrelink," she said.
"We also have a trainee, a young lady who's doing a traineeship through the Queensland Retailers Association … at the end of it [she] will come away with a Certificate 1 in Retail."


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Adobe's stock jumps to record close as investors cheer cloud transition
- Adobe's six-year transition from packaged software to the cloud has turned it into one of the hottest names in technology and lifted the stock to a record.
- Shares of the software maker, known for products like Photoshop and Acrobat, climbed almost 4% on Friday to $317.94, the highest close in the company's 23 years on the public market.
- Like Microsoft, Adobe has transitioned from the old world of desktop and licensed software to cloud and subscriptions, where consumers can access products from a multitude of devices, paying by the month.
- With a market capitalization of over $150 billion, Adobe is the third most valuable U.S. business software company, behind Microsoft and Oracle.
- Adobe said in its earnings report that it's projecting fiscal 2020 revenue of $13.15 billion, which would represent 18% growth from $11.17 billion in 2019.
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Larry Kudlow: 'We will see if the Chinese stay with their word'
- National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow maintained a cautious optimism around the trade agreement struck by China and the U.S. China and the U.S. agreed on a phase one trade deal on Friday.
- The agreement — which both sides are aiming to sign in January — includes some tariff relief and a commitment from China to increase its purchases of U.S. agricultural products.
- However, Kudlow noted that discussions over forced technology transfers — a major sticking point of the trade war since it began — may not be over along with talks about intellectual property protections.
- Stocks posted small moves on Friday after investors learned the details of the phase one trade agreement.
- As part of the deal, China will purchase $40 billion in U.S. agricultural products.
- However, Kudlow said those purchases will be made over a two-year period.
- Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis.
Facebook lost some hard drives in a car break-in, but former employees probably shouldn't worry — here's why
- In fact the announcement is possibly a testament to Facebook's improved transparency on data protection issues, and the heightened regulatory obligations for telling affected people when there data could possibly be viewed by an outside party.
- It follows that the Facebook equipment will probably have had the same fate, it's contents wiped, any identifying stickers removed and then propped up for sale on eBay. They may have simply ended up in a massive Bay Area warehouse, like in this case from 2018, where hundreds of laptops and other equipment that had been stolen in cars were recovered, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
- This has meant that Facebook in particular -- under the microscope as it is -- will probably continue to report every, single arcane and non-impactful security and privacy incident that it experiences as a company.
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- The cryptocurrency is seemingly in the news every day as investors and businesses try to understand the future of this digital finance.
- In The Bitcoin 101 Report, Business Insider Intelligence breaks down how blockchain technology works and details the current and prospective uses of cryptocurrency.
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THE FUTURE OF FINTECH 2019: The five megatrends reshaping the financial services value chain
- In only the first quarter of 2019, Apple Card sent a shock wave through the credit card space, FIS' $35 billion Worldpay acquisition set a record in the payments industry, and Fifth Third's acquisition of MB Financial minted a new top-five bank.
- Looking ahead, the mix of investor capital, sweeping global regulations, technological developments, and financial services globalization will promise to ignite more major developments before the year ends.
- The incumbent banking and payment providers presiding over this landscape will face a mounting challenge to keep up.
- Firms must stay ahead of technology demands, preserve their bottom lines, grow their customer bases, and stay on the right side of regulators.
- These companies are reaching ever further across the financial services value chain, from banking to insurance, wealth management, and payments.
- Get the latest Bank of America stock price here.
Ivanka Trump is reportedly a headline speaker at CES 2020, the biggest consumer tech show of the year
- Ivanka Trump will reportedly headline the largest tech trade show of the year in January.
- CNET reports that President Donald Trump's daughter will speak on a panel at CES 2020 alongside Gary Shapiro, the president of the Consumer Technology Association, the organization that puts on the trade show.
- However, it's unclear what Shapiro and Ivanka Trump will discuss on the panel.
- In charge of overseeing the president's job training efforts, Trump appeared alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai in October when the company announced it was committing to a White House worker initiative.
- However, Ivanka Trump's scheduled panel alongside Shapiro is surprising, given that Shapiro has been an outspoken opponent of the president.
- Shapiro has also publicly rebuked the White House's increase of tariffs on products imported from China, saying the trade war is taking a financial toll on US chipmakers and the nation's tech industry.
Capital One is planning to close its remaining three data centers in 2020
- The primary worries among these professionals is that using the cloud for data storage could lead to data leaks and a lack of control.
- These benefits have been pushing a few major banks, such as Bank of America (BofA) and Chase, to adopt the cloud to varying degrees, but Capital One's dedication to an all-cloud strategy could help it get the most out of cloud computing in the near future.
- But a new cloud from BofA and IBM is on the horizon that could spur strong adoption from other major banks further down the line.
- And BofA's input could help this new cloud enjoy baked-in features — such as automated security tools and top-level encryption — that will reassure banks about the security of their data and the level of control they can exert over it.
Top 14 IoT Trends to Expect in 2020!
- The latest marketing report from Frost & Sullivan Technology Advancements Shaping Big Data Progress suggests that this deadly combination of IoT, Big Data and AI could do wonders in the coming days by developing highly productive applications.
- This is one of the most popular IoT trends that will bring great differences in the field of technology and foster its advanced application to build technical devices.
- But things will surely change, you can expect a better scenario in the next year with the development of robust IoT devices with improved security.
- With the use of AI and Big Data techniques, these IoT trends popping up in the near future will foster improved decision making among market strategists and industry experts.
- At present, various home insurance companies make use of smart sensors and various other connected devices using the internet of things trends.
2020 Democrats weigh in on the biggest issue in tech
- From checking big tech’s power to making sure the internet is equal for all, the 2020 candidates weigh in on the biggest tech issues.
- Bernie Sanders: [I believe] the most important tech-related issue of today is the enormous concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few massive, unaccountable technology firms.
- We need to pass my Anti-Corruption Plan to clean up Washington and we need to break up big tech — both of these plans will put power in the hands of the American people, where it belongs.
- Certainly we must hold our online platforms accountable, while making sure that technological innovation is an economic accelerator and opportunity equalizer for everyone.
- The United States is also at risk of losing our longtime technological edge to China, which is making record investments in next-generation technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and nanotechnology.
How 2020 Democratic candidates would regulate facial recognition
- Elizabeth Warren: I’ll establish a task force on digital privacy in public safety to establish guardrails and appropriate privacy protections for this and other surveillance technology, including the use of facial recognition technology and algorithms that exacerbate underlying bias.
- Further, I will direct the Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice to launch an interagency council on technology privacy that will review the public guidance, work with Congress to introduce legislation that regulates evolving technology, oversees the implementation of standards at the federal level, and collaborates on funding opportunities with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and other federal grant-making agencies.
- This department will be tasked with working with government bodies and private industry to monitor and regulate emerging technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence.
- Local, state, and federal governments should establish clear policy that captures the benefits of the technology for public safety while addressing very legitimate concerns about privacy and bias.


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Morven's history will come to life in more ways than one next year when a new hotel is constructed in the town's main street, to be known as Sadleir's Waterhole.
Replacing the Morven Hotel Motel that burnt down in April 2016, the new pub's name has been derived from a waterhole of the same name in Hamburg Creek that the township was originally settled on, when Captain TJ Sadleir and his wife set up camp there in the 1860s.
The name is pronounced as Saddlers.
Louise Winten, the spokeswoman for the group of eight local families that has acquired the land and liquor licence, said they were excited to move the project forward and see the south west town's main street filled with businesses again.
Morven became a town without either beer or a dedicated grocery shop when the local supermarket closed unexpectedly in 2017, but the latter reopened a couple of months ago.
"We will be buying from there, and there will be employment in the hotel for locals," Ms Winten said. "The community has suffered during such a prolonged drought so we are very excited to be moving forward."
After a working bee scheduled this month to clear the site, the Morven Hotel Group is hoping that building will start early in the new year so that it can open the doors to a family-friendly pub with a country-style atmosphere in the first half of the year.
One of the vacant site's features still standing after the 2016 fire has been an old baker's oven but unfortunately it won't be a part of the new hotel.
Ms Winten said it had been declared unstable by the Murweh council, who had issued an order to demolish it.
"We will be saving the big oven doors and the bricks though, which we might incorporate in a pizza oven or something like that down the track," she said.
Sadleir's Waterhole would not be just a place to serve alcohol but an essential community hub, she said, adding that a venue where people could relax and socialise had been missed as the drought wore on.
The hotel will provide meals, as well as hot showers, meals and downtime for truckies heading north, east or west through town.
Ms Winten said they wouldn't be offering accommodation but there was a motel just a few doors away for overnight travellers.


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Following the lead of Waitrose, KFC, Heinz and Greggs, Subway has jumped on the vegan bandwagon with its ‘Meatless Meatball Marinara’.
The sandwich chain and agency Above & Beyond filmed a series of three live tastings, during which vegetarians were invited to try out the new Meatless Meatball Marinara Sub. However, during the tastings, the host suddenly gets “confused” about whether or not they have in fact been given the meat version. Everyone starts to look horrified—but then they are quickly reassured by a Subway employee that they are in fact eating a meatless product.
The prank was meant to show that the plant-based sub is just as delicious as its counterpart. It may appeal to flexitarians, but it could alienate a group of people who take their decision to live meat-free very seriously.
Veganuary has gone past from just being a trendy hashtag on Insta posts to a genuine lifestyle. In fact, a British judge recently ruled that ethical veganism should get the same legal protections as religious beliefs, such as from workplace discrimination.
Al Gounder, Marketing Director at Subway, added, “Less than 1% of the UK identifies as vegan, so this campaign addresses the 42% who call themselves flexitarians, without excluding the 88% who identify as meat-eaters. We’ve done something fresh and slightly anarchic that will disrupt all the ‘me too’ conversation in Veganuary and put the Meatless Meatball Marinara firmly on the map.”
Subway‘s prank, even if only a joke, is not something that all the vegans would take lightly. Brands must not jump on the plant-based trend without making a serious commitment to serving people who live meat-free.


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KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): The Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC) said it will keep a close eye on the cement industry in light of recent news of a proposed cement price hike among cement manufacturers.
MyCC chief executive officer Iskandar Ismail said the commission is currently working with the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs to assess the issue under the Competition Act 2010 if necessary.
"While the commission has taken note of the price increase notices that have been issued by the cement and ready mixed concrete players, the commission also took cognizance of the effect of the recent merger between YTL and Lafarge which has led to the market being more concentrated at the upstream and downstream level," MyCC said in a statement.
The statement was issued prior to the government's announcement today that industry players have agreed to not increase the price of cement. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the decision was reached following a meeting with the industry players yesterday.
MyCC, in its statement, highlighted that Sections 4 and 10 of the Competition Act strictly prohibit businesses from entering into any anti-competitive agreement or abusing their dominant position in the market.
It was reported on Sunday that construction firms had received notice from cement manufacturers that cement prices would increase by up to 40%.


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According to a research publishedby Ameri Research Inc., the global legal cannabis market was valued at $14.3 billion in 2016. The market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 21.1% between 2017 and 2024, while culminating in 2024 global sales of $63.5
As recently reported by New Frontier Data, cannabis stocks have outperformed major indexes in 2016. "Cannabis stocks significantly outperformed major indexes in 2016, fueled by speculative investment based on anticipated expansion of new legal markets. In the run up to the election, stocks increased by 207.8% and continued to rise, even with an uncertain future under the new administration. While recent comments by the (presidential) administration did have an initial dampening effect on the market, we have seen continued growth relative to Q4 2016 whereby cannabis stocks are still outperforming other sectors," said Giadha Aguirre De Carcer, CEO of New Frontier Data.
SinglePoint, Inc. (OTC: SING) on June 6th announced that its initiative to develop a Bitcoin payments solution in partnership with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (OTC: BITCF). The two companies signed a Joint Venture agreement to develop and distribute a viable payments solution using block chain technology. First Bitcoin Capital is an industry leading Bitcoin and blockchain technology provider and SinglePoint has a deep history in distribution. The two companies believe this partnership will enable each company to focus on their core strengths to build and supply the best Bitcoin solution available.
With the massive and widespread adoption of Bitcoin worldwide, the two companies will pursue opportunities to leverage their payment technology background and develop a proprietary solution specifically for high-risk payment verticals including the cannabis industry. SinglePoint's representation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year saw many solutions being utilized in other countries based on Bitcoin and other crypto currencies such as Ethereum. SinglePoint and First Bitcoin Capital believe they have found a way for the customer experience to go unchanged at the point of sale when paying with a credit or debit card at medical and recreational cannabis dispensaries.
As SinglePoint CEO Greg Lambrecht states, "In January 2014 SinglePoint announced and started working on a bitcoin payment solution, shortly after we recognized the issue of minimal user adoption of digital currency. The payments industry has rapidly changed since that time. There is now tremendous momentum and demand for bitcoin acceptance as an alternative form of payment. This Joint Venture with First Bitcoin Capital is perfect timing. Bitcoin payments are catching on and cannabis dispensaries need a solution fast."
Kush Bottles, Inc. (OTCQB: KSHB) is a dynamic sales platform that provides unique products and services for both businesses and consumers in the cannabis industry. The company is a packaging and supplies company for dispensaries and growers, Kush Bottles has sold more than 100 million units and now regularly services more than 4,000 legally operated medical and adult-use dispensaries, growers, and producers across North America, South America, and Europe. The company has facilities in the three largest U.S. cannabis markets and a local sales presence in every major U.S. cannabis market. On May 9th, Kush Bottles announced it has acquired the web domain Roll-uh-Bowl.com, an online distribution platform for retail sales of collapsible and unbreakable medical-grade silicone water pipes. Roll-uh-Bowl.com sees an average of 39,500 web users per month.
MassRoots, Inc. (OTCQB: MSRT) is one of the largest technology platforms for the regulated cannabis industry. The Company's mobile apps enable consumers to make educated cannabis purchasing decisions through community-driven reviews. MassRoots is affiliated with leading businesses and organizations in the cannabis industry, including the ArcView Group and National Cannabis Industry Association. On June 9th, MassRoots and HIGH TIMES, the world's leading cannabis media, events and information business announced that MassRoots made a strategic investment in High Times Holding Corporation, 'High Times', the leading voice of the Cannabis Industry, in February 2017.
CV Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB: CVSI) operates two distinct business segments: a drug development division focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics utilizing synthetic CBD; and a consumer product division in manufacturing, marketing and selling plant-based CBD products to a range of market sectors. CV Sciences, Inc. has primary offices and facilities in San Diego, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. On May 2nd, CV Sciences announced that it will be meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 15, 2017, to discuss its initial drug candidate (CVSI-007), a chewing gum that combines CBD and nicotine, which the Company believes has the potential to effectively treat smokeless tobacco addiction.
Cannabis Sativa, Inc. (OTCQB: CBDS) focuses on branding and marketing the highest quality, legal cannabis and hemp products. On April 10th, Cannabis Sativa announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire the intellectual property for the White Rabbit brand of cannabis sprays and cannabis mints. The acquisition will include the exclusive and proprietary product formulations, product mixes, manufacturing methods and branding. The White Rabbit product line currently consists of fast acting low dose cannabis oral sprays and popular low dose cannabis mints. Both the spray and the mints are formulated as CBD only, THC only and CBD/THC blends. Dosage ranges include 2.5mg, 5mg and 10mg tablets and sprays with 1:1 and 20:1 variations of each.
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Here's your Investing Action Plan for Friday: what you need to know as an investor for the coming day.
X TVs, smartphones and winter coats aren't the only hot sellers on Black Friday, which has become a more important shopping day for auto sales. Top carmakers like General Motors (GM), Ford (F) and Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) report November sales tomorrow. Meanwhile, a key manufacturing gauge comes out, while another discount retailer reports in what is turning out to be a more upbeat holiday and earnings season for the battered sector.
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Carmakers will reports monthly tallies throughout the day. Analysts at Edmunds expect the annualized sales rate to slow to 17.8 million from October's blistering pace of 18.1 million, which was boosted by demand to replace cars lost in the heavy hurricane season. A year ago, sales clocked in at 17.87 million, according to Autodata. The amount of incentives offered will be key to watch as overall demand has cooled this year and automakers are eager to clear out any remaining inventories of 2017 models.
Shares of GM closed down 1.6% at 43.09 on the stock market today, working on a flat base with a 46.86 buy point. GM also said Thursday it plans to have a self-driving ride-share service operating in some cities by 2019, as it seeks an early lead in the race to provide autonomous cars on a mass scale. Ford dipped 0.3% but remains in buy range. Fiat Chrysler rose 0.3%.
The Institute for Supply Management will issue its manufacturing activity index for November at 10 a.m. ET. Analysts expect it to tick down to a still-robust 58.4 from 58.7 in October. With data pointing to an economy at or near full employment, firing on all cylinders, the ISM's subindexes on employment and orders may be key. The Commerce Department will report October construction spending figures at 10 a.m. as well, and analysts expect a monthly increase of 0.5%, accelerating from September's 0.3% gain.
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Estimates: EPS to climb 25% to 5 cents, as revenue edges up 1% to $1.12 billion, according to Zacks Investment Research.
Stock: Shares rose 0.8% to 59.10 and have gained 9% so far this week.


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Xolo has announced plans to bring Android 4.4 KitKat to some of it’s smartphones. Meanwhile the phone maker has released ROMs for the beta version of the OS for three devices — Xolo A500 Club, A550s IPS, A600, and the Q1200.
Meanwhile, a standard, complete update is rolling out for the company’s current flagship device, the Xolo Q3000. Users can get their Q3000 updated via OTA, while Xolo says you can still download the ROM from their website if you prefer the hard way.
The update brings about improvements in the phone’s camera, a UI redesign, faster performance amongst other things.
“Xolo has been proactive in releasing Android updates across devices in all price ranges. Thanks to the dedicated engineering team who has been continuously working with the chipset manufacturers to ensure users gets the best software support,” the company announced.


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Starway Hotel Expects 100 New Members In A Year
Starway Hotel has announced that it plans to add a 100 additional hotels to its chain in a year.
The group will focus on east China, north China and Pearl River Delta.
Liu Jiajun, the executive general manager of Starway Hotel, said that the group has now 10 hotels in Beijing, its key area. Next the group will concentrate on development and expansion in east China, north China, and the Pearl River Delta, and is planning to add 100 new hotels in one year. By the end of 2010, the group is expected to have a total of 150 hotels.
Liu said that currently China has about 10,000 traditional mid-range hotels, yet due to the lack of strong brand and marketing capabilities, they are having a hard time surviving. Meawhile, the market is demanding high-quality mid-range chained hotels, revealing a major disconnect between supply and demand.
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- Celebrity Cruises CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo said many travelers are eager to shell out extra cash.
- During the pandemic, Americans saved $1.6 trillion and now many are looking to vacation.
- Despite bad press surrounding cruises, several trips have sold out within days of being announced.
Celebrity Cruises CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo said many people who were cooped up during the pandemic are eager to spend extra cash on luxury travel perks.
She told TIME that the company's bookings have reached 2019 levels.
"We find that they're spending a lot of money on board because they just want to enjoy themselves. They want to go to the casino. They want to get a massage. They want to go to a specialty restaurant," she said, adding that she agrees that a return to big spending will come "roaring back."
"People are just going to go for it because it's been quite a long time since they've been able to."
During the pandemic, Americans saved an estimated $1.6 trillion, according to data from the Commerce Department. As the vaccination rate increases and the economy continues to reopen, more people are looking to spend their savings on vacations this year, with more Americans planning to travel than ever before. A trend report from online-rental hub VRBO found that 65% of people in the US plan to travel more in 2021 than they did before the pandemic started.
For months, cruise industry executives have been banking on pent-up demand from travelers to help fuel the industry's recovery. Earlier this year, several cruise lines sold out within days of announcing new cruises. Silversea and Oceania broke sales records when two of their 2023 world cruises sold out the day they opened for sale. In April, Cruiseline.com found that of the 11,000 travelers it surveyed, 93% said they'd consider going on a cruise in 2021 or 2022.
While few industries have been hit harder by the pandemic than the cruise industry, Lutoff-Perlo said the company is in a position to bounce back from renewed interest. Royal Caribbean Group, the parent company of Celebrity, reported a loss of $5.8 billion in 2020. After suspending operations in March 2020, the company estimated it burned through $250 million to $290 million a month in cash that year.
Celebrity Cruises is planning to launch its first cruise from a US port on June 26.
The CEO said despite all the bad press surrounding cruise COVID-19 infection rates during the onset of the pandemic, Celebrity Cruises is working to welcome travelers back to their normal lives. Earlier this month, one of the company's cruise ships, Celebrity Millennium, had two travelers test positive for coronavirus. The cruise, which sailed from St. Maarten on June 5, was the first big cruise ship to allow American passengers who were fully vaccinated.
The company's marketing is focused on a return to normal, rather than the various COVID-19 safety measures the company has put in place, the CEO said.
"People want to get back to traveling, people want to get back to doing the things that they haven't been able to do in a really long time," she told TIME. "We are appealing to the place that the consumer is and their mindset right now is they want to get back to reconnecting with their families, to reconnecting with other people, to reconnecting with the planet and traveling again."


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text: AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MORE‘Mame,’ ‘Hello, Dolly!’ composer Jerry Herman dies at 88160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! LAS VEGAS – At the telecommunications conference here this week, a visitor could be forgiven for thinking he missed a turn and walked into the wrong trade show, a more glamorous one that dealt with entertainment rather than the plain old telephone system. Every other booth at TelecomNEXT, which ended Thursday, had some demonstration of how phone companies can deliver video programming. A visit by the chief executive of The Walt Disney Co. underlined that for the companies here, the future of “telephone” is spelled “television.” “IPTV has gotten the imagination of a lot of service providers,” said Robert Balsamo of equipment provider Calix Networks Inc. IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, is the main way phone companies are getting into video delivery. The technology overcomes one of the disadvantages of phone lines – they can carry only a few channels, compared with hundreds for cable. An IPTV set-top box sends messages up the phone line, telling the delivery system which channels to send back down. That way, the system only needs to deliver the few channels you’re actually watching. Although this can result in a delay while switching channels, Microsoft Corp., a major supplier of IPTV software, said its latest version overcomes much of it. Once channel switching and other technical hurdles, such as the susceptibility of phone lines to interference, are overcome, most viewers won’t be able to tell if they’re watching TV from a modern cable system or IPTV. IPTV does have some technical advantages, but they’re rather small and won’t matter to most consumers, according to Ted Henderson, a Stifel Nicolaus analyst. But Henderson also believes IPTV doesn’t really need a technical advantage to compete with cable. Convenience matters a lot to consumers, and being able to get wireline phone service, wireless phone service, broadband Internet and television from one company, the so-called quadruple play, is sure to appeal, he said. Verizon Communications Corp. said this week it has signed up 30 percent of available households in Keller, Texas, just six months after launching its TV service there. That figure will be “daunting” to cable companies, Henderson said, noting that a typical cable penetration rate is 50 percent, and about 20 percent of households have satellite TV. It isn’t entirely clear, however, that telephone companies can repeat elsewhere the successes of Keller, an affluent, newly built suburb of Dallas. Furthermore, Verizon is not even using IPTV, but taking the much more costly route of drawing fiber optics into customers’ homes, bypassing the bottleneck of the phone lines. That means it can use technology more similar to cable and also provide Internet service at very high speeds. AT&T Inc., the country’s largest telephone company by number of subscribers, has been testing IPTV in San Antonio and plans to roll it out in more markets this summer. Cable companies are countering by partnering with Sprint Nextel Corp. to add wireless service, complementing the telephone services they’ve been rolling out. Besides the technological hurdles of TV service, the phone companies have a legal obstacle. Cable service is provided under deals with county and city governments. It’s time-consuming for phone companies to negotiate their own deals at the local level – Verizon has noted that even if it obtained one local franchise a day, it would take years to provide video to all its customers. That process has been short-circuited by new laws in Texas and Indiana that allow applicants to obtain video franchises from the state rather than local commissions. Virginia has approved a similar law, but it has yet to go into effect, and the phone companies are hoping for more such laws.


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Nintendo recently had one of their Direct presentations where they announced numerous games for the Nintendo 3DS. Perhaps among the most surprising was the announcement of a 2D Pikmin title for the Nintendo 3DS. Those who have been long time fans of the series know that it generally follows a relatively slow rhythm of tactics and reason to manage effective problem-solving.
This game seems to be more in line with traditional 2D Side-Scrollers, where the signature Pikmin commands and mechanics are still at play, but in a much faster-paced setting that requires more out of your quick-wit.
Nintendo announced not too long ago that a new Pikmin installment was in development, but one could imagine that this is not what players had in mind.
This Nintendo Direct saw a very interesting trend of Nintendo taking popular console games and franchises and moving them to handheld. They even announced ports of Super Mario Maker and Yoshi’s Woolly World for Nintendo 3DS.
The Pikmin title still has no official title, but it can be expected to release in 2017. Nintendo made a strange decision, holding a Nintendo Direct and still avoiding the announcement of their NX console. Analysts believe the announcement could still come before Tokyo Game Show on the 15th of September. That big reveal may be just around the corner, but in the mean time, get ready for a new breed of Pikmin action to hold you over!


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Lexus is yet again displaying its high-performance passion with the new GS F sedan which made its first appearance at the Chicago Auto Show since making its Detroit Motor Show bow.
The GS F is the latest addition to the brand’s “F” range, which is symbolized by sound, response and power.
Building on the mid-sized GS luxury saloon, the GS F featuring a re-designed engine, driveline and suspension system alongside overall tuning that enhances its reflexes.
A naturally-aspirated 5.0-litre V8 engine developing 460bhp is paired with an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
The new GS F is set to be released later this year.
Lexus’s display at the Chicago Auto Show features over 20 vehicles – showing off a range of Lexus division offerings including performance-minded F SPORT models, several hybrid models available in the luxury class and the limited edition Crafted Line.
Live entertainment will be provided in the exhibit as Luxury Awaits, the automakers luxurious lifestyle guide, introduces “Lexus Verse and Flow” at the Chicago Auto Show.
The award-winning “Lexus Verses and Flow” series brings a strong list of R&B music artists delivering powerful performances at McCormick Place in Illinois.
Attendees at the show can enjoy the free live music whilst relishing delicious Garret’s Popcorn and drinks at the Lexus coffee bar.
After its performances, guests are invited to stay on for a special artist meet-and-greet; attendees are also encouraged to take pictures of the Lexus performers and share their experience on social media.
The GS F features structural reinforcements as well as an exclusive suspension design to capture the potential offered by its powerful engine.
Lexus aimed to achieve sports car-like handling with a significant amount of circuit testing japan and at the world famous Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany.
Yoshiharu Nakajima, project chief designer, said: “Fun to drive – it’s what characterises all the cars wearing the F badge, and it was our intention that the GS F should be true to that quality.


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Overhill Farms has reported a net loss for its fiscal third quarter on the back of falling sales but said it remains optimistic about its prospects.
The US frozen-food firm suffered a net loss of $331,971 for the three months to 3 July. In the same quarter last year, its net income was $930,333, or six cents per share. Net revenues were $39.7m, down from $43.4m for the same period last year, Overhill said on Friday (12 August).
Chairman, president and CEO James Rudis attributed the dip to a number of factors, including lower orders due to the difficult economic climate and higher energy, commodities and freight prices.
He said: “While we are optimistic about the near-term and mid-term prospects for our business, this was a difficult quarter for the company and for the food industry.
“Consumers continue to be cautious in their spending, which impacts sales of all retailers, including our customers. The reduced volume from our retail and foodservice accounts also lessened our operating efficiencies and thus our gross margins.”