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PAX Prime is now in full swing and all of you fans of video games are finally getting a chance to play or look at your anticipated titles that will be coming out soon or in 2015. Hells you are also going to be at ground zero for when new IPs are announced much like the recently announced Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell from Deep Silver. It wouldn't be a video games convention if it didn't have all that fun stuff mixed in.
Unfortunately not everyone can make it out to PAX Prime and that is where we have stepped in. We have a long list of news for all things video games including some of the updates and activities of PAX. In fact if you look just a bit lower you can see all that news from the last week in a nice list order. All of the Escape Dead Island and The Evil Within news you can handle. There is also a bit on the recently announced multiplayer for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Also if you haven't had a chance check out the Night Trap Kickstarter as we really need to get that game remade if nothing more than to celebrate the creation of the video games rating system; even though it is flawed.
I leave you to all that video game news for now. Hopefully all that are not at PAX this weekend can catch up on their backlog of video games and the news. As always, happy gaming.


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By CCN Markets: TradingView, a widely used platform for traders and stock analysts, has a bug so severe in its retracement display that it’s losing traders “incalculable” sums of money. A bug in the way that TradingView’s Fibonacci tools work has created real problems for some traders, one of whom is vocally spreading the word. Explaining the situation in a video and crying out on Twitter, a trader called CryptoTeddyBear is raising the alarm. Of Teddy Bears and Technical Analysis Nobody in cryto twitter seems to give a shit or to understand how bad the problem is with @tradingview's broken
The former CEO of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been refused a motion to stay a U.S. court case brought by former investors.
In the first edition of The Daily this weekend, we focus on a study estimating that 13 percent of people have used digital coins for payments. We also look at the latest financial report from Nvidia indicating losses due to falling demand for chips used in cryptocurrency mining. Lastly, a broker suspends its crypto CFD offering.
Report: 1 in 10 People Use Cryptocurrency for Payments
The popularity of cryptocurrency as a payment method has been increasing despite the falling price of digital assets over the past year. According to a recent study conducted by cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs, 13 percent of those surveyed have already used crypto to make purchases.
Taiwanese chip manufacturer United Microelectronics Corporation saw a roughly 10% decrease in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018. Like TSMC, who provide chips to Bitmain, they prominently attribute some of their losses to the downturn in demand for cryptocurrency. Less demand amounts to less need for mining, which subsequently lessens the demand for mining hardware. Co-president Jason Wang said: Looking into the first quarter of 2019, we anticipate further deceleration in customers’ wafer demand, due to a softer than expected outlook in entry-level and mid-end smartphones as well as falling crypto currency valuations. Although UMC’s ongoing transformation will need
The bitcoin price on Monday depreciated as much as 4.74 percent against the US dollar after breaking out of its two-week long consolidation period. At 20:00 UTC on Coinbase, BTC/USD was trading at $ 3,415, down 3.31 percent from today’s opening rate. The pair confirmed a downside break of its near-term bearish pennant formation. As it did, it also broke below a crucial support level at $ 3,460, which had capped a strong downside action on November 25, 2018. Bitcoin’s Technical Outlook Remains Weak Technically, the breaking of a bear pennant formation to the downside signals an extended selling action. It eventually
By CCN.com: Ford gave its fourth-quarter earnings call this afternoon. Despite a serious decline in interest in China and Europe, the company posted a 1% improvement over last year’s Q4 revenues as a whole, and a 2% gain for the whole year. The earnings call was launched as the markets closed with F seeing a
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New Zealand-based altcoin exchange Cryptopia reportedly suffered a major security breach Monday that resulted in “significant losses.” In response, the exchange has gone into an indefinite maintenance mode. While little else is known beyond what was revealed in the announcement, the language indicates that the attack could sideline the exchange for an extended period of time. Cryptopia has […]
U.S. stocks pared losses Monday morning after President Donald Trump predicted the United States would soon reach a comprehensive trade deal with China. Stocks Bounce Off Lows The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by as much as 230 points Monday morning, an extension of a volatile pre-market session for Dow futures. At the time of
The post Poised for a Comeback? Dow Jones Pares Losses after President Trump Predicts New Trade Deal with China appeared first on CCN
Losses stemming from an ongoing 51 percent attack against Ethereum Classic have now breached the million-dollar barrier, according to updated figures published by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Ethereum Classic Attack Grows More Costly CCN first reported yesterday that the 18th-largest cryptocurrency appeared to have become the latest blockchain network to succumb to a 51 percent attack,
The post Ethereum Classic Losses Top $ 1 Million after 51% Attack: Coinbase Research appeared first on CCN
The US stock market posted huge losses ahead of the holiday close as investors absorbed the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike and a bunch of other bearish economic data. White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Friday that the trade war between the US and China would not come to an end in near-term. He
The post US Stock Market Chalks up Huge Weekly Losses, But Bitcoin & DXY Impress appeared first on CCN
Taxes have been a hot topic in the cryptocurrency world this year. Many countries have been trying to figure out how to tax crypto assets, while traders have been figuring out how to lever them to write off losses. As bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies enter the mainstream, tax reduction strategies are starting to emerge.
Over the past two months, despite the expectations of increased sales during the Christmas season, major retailers such as Target and Walmart have continued to record large losses. Since November 9, the share price of Walmart has dropped from $ 105 to $ 87, by more than 17 percent, a steep loss for the largest retailer in
The post Target, Walmart See Steep Losses, UK Retailers ‘Smashed to Pieces’ appeared first on CCN
The bitcoin price on Friday expects to close the week on another drop as it slows its upside correction following yesterday’s $ 400 plunge. The BTC/USD rate is now trading at 4283-fiat, up 4.8-percent from its intraday low. The upside action is taking place as volume drops. It means that traders are showing no support to
The post Bitcoin Price: Bearish Pennant Portends Weekend Losses appeared first on CCN
The bitcoin price on Tuesday nursed extensive losses of over 12 percent against the US dollar, stabbing through $ 5,000 as it did. BTC/USD Intraday Analysis The BTC/USD index is currently trading at the 4513-fiat price level after a minor jump from its intraday low at 4035-fiat. The knee-jerk reaction after a massive sell-off does not confirm
The post Bitcoin Price Claws Back to $ 4,500 But Further Losses May Lie Ahead appeared first on CCN
Traders have reportedly incurred losses after OKEx settled bitcoin cash futures contracts with little warning ahead of last week’s hard fork.
Coincheck reported a pre-tax loss of 588 million yen (US $ 5.3 million) for the third quarter of 2018, the Japanese exchange’s second consecutive quarterly loss since hackers pilfered $ 530 million in January. That’s an increased deficit of 130 percent from the 259 million yen ($ 2.3 million) loss the previous quarter.
A Canadian bitcoin ATM firm which was sued by a victim of fraud can finally breathe a sigh of relief after a judge ruled that the firm was not liable for the losses incurred. The victim, a woman whose name was withheld, had sued Instacoin ATM Canada to get back the C$ 62,500 she sent using
The post Bitcoin ATM Firm Not Liable for Scam Victim’s Losses: Canadian Judge appeared first on CCN
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif was the victim of a major hack last week, local media sources have reported and the company has now confirmed. The hack, which occurred on Sept. 14 but was not discovered until Sept. 17, saw the hacker steal various amounts of bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and monacoin from the exchange’s hot wallet,
The post Newsflash: Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange Zaif Hacked, $ 59 Million in Losses appeared first on CCN
Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has experienced a large sell off as Bitcoin demonstrated a 3 percent drop in price, leading the market to drop $ 10 billion. Ethereum and EOS recorded the largest drop amongst major cryptocurrencies at 9 percent, while Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Monero, Cardano, and Dash demonstrated steep 7 percent
The post Crypto Bloodbath: Bitcoin and Ethereum Record Losses in $ 10 Billion Wipeout appeared first on CCN
Many altcoins have posted significant losses in recent days, with ETH currently testing price levels not seen in over 12 months after losing 40% in roughly one week. The declining value of altcoins has also driven BTC to continue to establish new highs for market dominance during 2018.
BTC Gains Dominance
The heavy losses sustained by many leading altcoin markets have led BTC to continue to further its market dominance over other cryptocurrencies. As of this writing, BTC has a market dominance of 57.6% and is trading for roughly $ 6,300 USD.

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Should Dr Pepper be named the 'Official Soft Drink of Texas?' News Radio 1200 WOAI reports a petition on 'Change.org' is urging the Texas Legislature to make that step during the current session.
Texas, like every other state, doesn't have an officially designated soft drink, and lawmakers have not been excited about giving official state designation to commercial products.
The Dr Pepper origin story is well known. The soft drink was created by pharmacist Charles Alderton at the Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in 1885, making it the oldest existing soft drink in the country, predating Coca-Cola by one year.
The origin of the name 'Dr Pepper' is seeped in myth. The Dr Pepper Museum in Waco says claims that Morrison named the drink in honor of an actual doctor who had given him a job, or that he named it after his father in law have no basis in history.
Since in the Nineteenth Century sugary soft drinks were sold as medicinal products, especially for conditions of the stomach, and not as the refreshing beverages they are promoted as today, it is generally believed that the 'Dr' was simply added to add to the soft drink's appeal as a safe and medicinal drink.
One thing is certain, there is no period after the 'Dr' in Dr Pepper.
So far there have been no bills filed in the 2019 Legislature to declare Dr Pepper to be Texas official beverage.
Texas currently as a designate State Tree (the Pecan), a State Bird (the Northern Mockingbird), a Small State Mammal (the Armadillo), a Large State Mammal (the Longhorn), a State Flower (the Bluebonnet), a State Bread (Pan de Campo), a State Fish (Guadalupe Bass) and even a State Dinosaur.


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The Japanese manufacturer says the concept is "a vision of what a high-performance Nissan could look like in the future". Some reports have suggested the 2+2 model points to future styling for the next GT-R.
Nissan says it gave its designers free reign with the concept, with the brief to create a dream car for a fantasy garage featured in the Gran Turismo 6 video-game. The concept was penned by Nissan designers in London, with engineering input from the firm's technical centre in Japan. While not destined as a production model, Nissan says the car features a four-wheel-drive chassis and active suspension.
Vice President of the company's European design studio Koji Nagano said: "In reality, not everyone would be able to own a car like Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo, but through Gran Turismo anyone can drive it and experience Nissan’s promise of delivering innovation that excites."


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European Commission proposes new GMO deregulation: More risks, more market dominance for handful of GMO seed firms will result
A leaked version of the European Commission unit DG SANTE’s proposal to deregulate products of "new genomic techniques" (NGTs, or new GMOs) confirms early warnings of environmental, sustainable farming groups, consumer groups and scientists.
The European Court of Justice ruled on 25 July 2018 that NGTs are GMOs and need to be regulated as such. Ever since, GMO seed corporations have massively lobbied to get the EU GMO rules scrapped for NGTs.
Nina Holland, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), says: “If this proposal would go through, it would mean that these GMOs will no longer be subject to a risk assessment for health and environment, traceability nor labelling. This will increase biosafety risks and abolish consumers’ freedom of choice. Since NGT seeds will be patented, this will erode farmers’ rights, and it will lead to a further monopolisation of the already highly concentrated seed market.”
“The assumption the Commission makes that new GMOs would lead to more sustainability are based on industry’s claims, instead of real evidence. In reality, this is a give-away to the biotech seed firms like Bayer, Corteva and BASF.”
CEO and Friends of the Earth Europe have recently submitted a complaint to the EU Ombudsman into the very biased preparation work by DG SANTE in the lead up to this proposal. The Ombudsman has started an enquiry. DG SANTE’s consultation process was highly biased and took industry’s point of view much more into account than organic farming, environmental or consumer group views.
Key elements of the DG SANTE’s deregulation proposal are:
- The proposal creates two categories of new GMO plants. The ones in "Category 1 NGT" are those that according to the Commission “could also occur naturally or be produced by conventional breeding”.
These GM plants would have:
- no risk assessment for health and the environmental impacts
- no detection test required
- no traceability
- no consumer labelling
- no monitoring or coexistence measures.
This results in a far-reaching deregulation and a breakdown of environmental and health protection, which the EU Health Commissioner Kyriakides and DG SANTE has always denied would happen. DG SANTE only foresees a "notification procedure" for these GMOs – similar to what is planned (European Commission) for the UK.
Category 1 is defined by a set of criteria (Annex 1), including that the new GMO must have a maximum number of 20 genetic modifications, such as deletions, substitutions or insertions of nucleotides. However, there is no way of knowing that these modifications do actually occur in nature. Also, even if fewer than 20 nucleotides are intended to be changed, that does not mean that they are safe. In addition, unintended effects of the modification (of which there will likely be far more than 20) will not be checked.
Claire Robinson of GMWatch commented, "This number of 20 intended modifications is completely random, apparently having been pulled, like a magician's rabbit, out of a hat. There is no scientific evidence that a new GMO with one, two, five, or 20 altered nucleotides is any safer than a new GMO with more altered nucleotides. Even changing a single nucleotide within a gene sequence can cause drastic changes in the gene’s function and/or its expression, potentially making it allergenic or toxic to humans or wildlife."
DG SANTE's proposal means that consumers will have no idea whether they are eating new GMOs, that are in addition untested. The GMO-free food sector will have a hard time avoiding contamination in their food supply chain. Farmers and breeders will be able to know which varieties are Category 1 NGTs, through a public register.
New GMOs/NGTs will not be allowed in organic farming. In that sense, new GMOs are still GMOs. However, for the deregulated group of NGTs, as described above, there will be no co-existence rules. It will be impossible for organic farmers and breeders, as well as conventional farmers producing for the GMO-free food industry, to avoid contamination and keep their fields GMO-free.
Corporations already dominating the patent pool on these technologies, like Corteva, Bayer and BASF, will be able with this proposal to enter the EU market with unlabelled and untraceable - but patented – GMOs, which will further increase their control over farmers and food production in Europe.
The only exception in Category 1 are herbicide-tolerant GM crops, which will still need authorisation, for their evident negative impact on sustainability.
All other NGT products (Category 2) will be regulated, but the authorisation procedure will be simplified compared to the current EU GMO rules. These will still be labeled, but there will be no monitoring plan required, nor a detection method under certain conditions.
Remarkably, the Commission wants to still monitor “potential risks to health or the environment, impact of NGT plants on environmental, economic and social sustainability as well as impacts on organic agriculture and on consumers acceptance of NGT products” – but they will not have the data on risks, nor will consumers have knowledge of what they are eating.
Nina Holland says: “DG SANTE has been under strong lobby influence from the biotech seed multinationals who for years have called for this deregulation. They have been supported by a group of industry-linked scientists, such as those in the lobby platform EU-SAGE.
“This draft proposal means a complete undermining of the EU GMO rules. The biotech seed multinationals – who also are the main pesticide producers – will massively raise profits by gaining access to the EU market with untested, unlabelled – but patented – GM foods. In practice this also means giving up on the freedom of choice for consumers, and bringing harm to organic and GM-free farming.
“Even Vice-President Timmermans has claimed that such deregulation can help to reduce pesticides, without any facts supporting these assumptions. The key person responsible for the Green Deal sees it as a political reality that if he wants to get the pesticide reduction law SUR [sustainable use of pesticides regulation] passed, the deregulation of new GMOs will have to be given in return. This ‘horse-trading’ exercise would de facto mean dissolving the existing EU GMO rules, as a mere compromise to gain something else. This is a very bad idea. There is no evidence that new GMOs will reduce pesticides, and since the dominant biotech seed and pesticide corporations are one and the same (Bayer, BASF, Corteva, Syngenta) there is even less reason to believe that this would be their priority.”
Over 300 organisations, including CEO, wrote a letter to Vice-President Timmermans in May 2023 to keep the EU GMO rules in place for all GMOs and therefore stop the planned deregulation of new GMOs. Over 400K citizens signed a petition with that demand.
Claire Robinson of GMWatch commented: "Both the EU Commission's DG SANTE and the UK are engaged in a 'race to the bottom' to weaken regulation around new GMOs and reduce it to the same level as in the US. DG SANTE apparently believes that it is acting in the interests of the 'competitiveness' of the EU agri-food sector by boosting the intellectual property empires and thus the profits of agribusiness corporations. But if it gets its way, public health, the environment, and the non-GMO and organic food and farming sectors will be the victims."
- Find the leaked documents here.
- The ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from July 2018 can be found here: "Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs and are, in principle, subject to the obligations laid down by the GMO Directive".
- The opinions of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board on the DG SANTE Impact Assessment for this proposal, are also leaked. The first opinion was negative, the second is ‘positive with reservations’ and cites “significant shortcomings”. This includes the crucial point that the Commission does not explain in detail how it will verify that a product “could also occur naturally”. Whether something “also occurs naturally” is not even relevant; the only relevant aspect is whether the change brings a risk for environment or health if grown and consumed at large scale.
- This is a draft proposal by DG SANTE, which is currently in Interservice Consultation. The final proposal is currently scheduled for 5 July.
- In a recent report, "New Genome Techniques – A risky corporate distraction from real sustainable solutions (Questions & Answers regarding pesticide use)", Foodwatch concluded that “NGTs so far only seems to be an empty promise. Genetically modified crops suitable to achieve the “Farm to Fork” objectives are not available. It seems, they won’t be available within the next 10-15 years. Contrary to what proponents claim, under the current circumstances crops created by NGTs should be considered a high-risk technology as they pose a number of risks.”
- Letter from IFOAM EU and ENGA to Commissioners Kyriakides and Wojciechowski
- On 16 March, Environment ministers sent a clear message to the European Commission on NGTs, advocating for the implementation of the precautionary principle and for keeping GMOs produced with NGTs subjected to risk assessment.


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The rise of virtual reality (VR) technology and devices has prompted online video subscription service providers, such as Netflix and Hulu, to launch virtual reality apps which allow users to access content in 3D. In partnership with Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus VR, Samsung Electronics has developed a product which transforms Samsung smartphones into virtual reality headsets for consumers. The Samsung Gear VR is due to release in November 2015.
The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset which is due for release in the first half of 2016. Oculus has also developed Oculus Video, a video streaming programme for the Gear VR and Rift headsets which allows users to stream content from Fox, Lionsgate, TiVo, Vimeo, Netflix and Hulu apps.
Netflix subscribers who own the VR headsets are able to access Netflix Living Room, which places viewers in a virtual cabin, facing a big screen TV with access to shows and movies.
The Hulu app will also feature immersive 3D environments which will allow subscribers to stream Hulu content as well as original virtual reality short-form content. Hulu subscribers will be able to log directly into the Hulu app through their VR device. Once inside, the immersive experience will allow viewers to watch Hulu’s entire library of content in 2D – including current season broadcast and cable programming, libraries of classic content and exciting Hulu Originals – all in unique viewing environments created for VR devices.
The virtual reality genre is also moving into the social media space with Facebook, which bought Oculus VR in 2014, working to create support for sharable 360 and 3D video as well as video developed for virtual reality headsets.
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- SWIFT’s integration with Ripple and Stellar signifies a shift in cross-border payment dynamics, driven by the demand for faster, simpler, and more transparent transactions.
- Ripple’s XRP and Stellar’s network have been pivotal in this transformation, promising to redefine the future of global transactions with their innovative technology.
The New Horizon of International Transactions
As the head of Swift Go, Tanja Haase has illuminated the evolving landscape of cross-border payments. Despite banks being the traditional go-to for such transactions, a shift is occurring. The underpinnings of this shift are clear: the acceleration of transaction speed, the simplification of processes, and the demand for transparent operations are all converging to reshape expectations and experiences.
This transformation is more than speculation. In a comprehensive survey spanning 4000 participants from eight significant markets, a substantial trust in banking security was noted. Nevertheless, a discernible segment is pivoting towards alternative payment solutions. The figures narrate the story vividly: Swift Go has witnessed its adoption by banks increase from 400 to over 600 within a year, with 400 already operational.
Decentralized Currencies Entering the Mainstream
SWIFT’s latest milestone in enhancing global transactions comes with the advancement of their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) interoperability experiment. This progression into beta testing by three central banks, including Hong Kong’s and Kazakhstan’s, heralds a new chapter for financial institutions — 30 of which are rigorously trialing the solution.
Synergizing Blockchain and Traditional Finance
In an era where synergy is paramount, Swift’s Chief Innovation Officer, Tom Zschach, emphasizes the importance of harmonizing CBDCs with existing fiat currencies and payment infrastructures. This is where Ripple and Stellar emerge as quintessential partners in revolutionization.
Ripple’s XRP is renowned for expediting global transactions, outpacing traditional financial mechanisms. It’s this efficiency that recently secured Ripple a strategic partnership with e-commerce giant Amazon, aiming to incorporate XRP into their payment systems.
Parallelly, the Stellar network asserts its unique proposition through interoperability. Stellar operates through entities known as anchors — regulated financial institutions that bridge traditional financial systems and Stellar’s blockchain, ensuring seamless asset issuance and conversion.
In the sphere of market performance, Ripple’s XRP is trading at $0.510923, experiencing a moderate uptick, while Stellar’s XLM shows a slight decline. Nevertheless, predictions are ambitious, with some anticipating XRP could soar to $500 by 2027, a testament to its potential dominance in the cross-border payment ecosystem. These developments underscore a pivotal transition in international banking, heralding an era where the fusion of blockchain innovation with traditional financial infrastructures is not just inevitable but already underway.


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The biggest battle going between Samsung and Apple on there patents eventually ended on Apple’s favour. Apple won a decisive victory on Friday in a lawsuit against Samsung, a verdict that will give Apple ammunition in a far-flung patent war with its global competitors in the smartphones business.
The nine jurors in the case, who faced the daunting task of answering more than 700 questions on sometimes highly technical matters, returned a verdict after just three days of deliberations at a federal courthouse in San Jose, Calif. They found that Samsung infringed on a series of Apple’s patents an mobile devices, awarding Apple more than $1 billion in damages.
Its all about innovations , Samsung as it copied designs from iPhone and rest other things also.Apple’s suit against Samsung, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, has partly been viewed as a proxy war against Google, which Apple executives have derided as a copycat, swiping Apple’s innovations. Steven P. Jobs, the late chief executive of Apple, told his biographer that Android was a “stolen product.”
While the decision is likely to weigh on Samsung shares, it sent Apple’s stock up 1.8 percent in after-hours trading. In a statement, Katie Cotton, an Apple spokeswoman, applauded the court for sending a “clear message that stealing isn’t right.”
“We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy,” she said.


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It’s quite quick, it’s been just a couple of days since the device launch, and OnePlus has even published its source code. Well, that’s quite impressive and OnePlus has set an example for other OEMs. The company released kernel source code for the OnePlus 6T on GutHub, and interested developers can grab it for developing the custom Mods and ROMs.
The latest development would surely help the users to customize their device as early as possible. Also, we will see the increase in third-party ROMs development. Users can now get ready for the custom MODs which will help them to grasp the device’s full potential. It’s a big pro from OnePlus Side, that validates the warranty even if you have rooted or modded the device. They will repair it, and users can get full benefits of the device’s warranty irrespective of root access or third-party software installed on it.
OnePlus made an announcement about the OnePlus 6T source code availability via an official community post. Along with they reminded some steps to unlock the bootloader of it.
Additionally, OnePlus 6T launched a couple of days ago at an event in the New Tork. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor coupled with 6/8GB RAM variants. It embeds a 6.41-inch optic AMOLED display with a 1080×2340 pixels resolution. It carries a waterdrop notch on the top and an in-screen fingerprint sensor.
In the camera department, OnePlus brings the same 16+ 20-megapixel dual shooters with an improvement in low light photography. On the front, it carries the same 16-megapixel shooter for selfies.
OnePlus has also made it available in the US via T-Mobile at the starting price of $579. So, it looks like a bargain deal with high-end specs, fully polished software and an excellent support.
Also, get ready for some custom mods and ROMs for OnePlus 6T. How many of you are going to be the proud owners of the OnePlus 6T?


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Verizon’s getting set to share the results of a recent study it conducted showing that “when an ISP cooperates with a file-sharing software maker they can speed downloads an average of 60 percent.” Oh, and it saves Verizon a bunch of money, too.
Verizon created the “P4P Working Group” with file-sharing company Pando Networks and developed a system which more or less favors P2P connections between geographically-close users on the Verizon network over connections to random users and networks in far-away lands.
According to the Associated Press,
In a traditional P2P network, if a Verizon customer downloads a file, only 6.3 percent of the data will come from another Verizon customer in the same city, said Doug Pasko, senior technologist at the company. In the “P4P” trial, 58 percent of the data came from nearby Verizon users, vastly reducing the company’s cost of carrying the traffic.
[Pando CEO Robert] Levitan said the technology might be ready for use by next month, when NBC makes available free downloads of its TV shows using Pando’s software. The shows will be financed by advertising, and P2P technology will be an essential way for NBC to cut costs. Distributing an hourlong TV show in high definition using traditional delivery systems would cost the network about $1. With P2P technology, that cost can be cut by 75 to 90 percent.
A big potential shortcoming is the fact that this only works with legal P2P file sharing. Verizon would be crazy to embrace illegal sharing but you’ve gotta wonder how much P2P traffic is sucked up by illegal networks versus legal ones. Secondly, this works well on a network like Verizon’s where users don’t split bandwidth with all their neighbors in the same way as cable-based networks.
A problem the “P4P” system does not address is that file-sharing software makes extensive use of a customer’s connection, both for uploads and downloads. This is not much a problem for phone companies like Verizon, but it is for cable companies, where up to 500 households share capacity on the local coaxial cable.
Still, though, it’s a step in the right direction and shows some forward-thinking on Verizon’s part. It’s capable of saving the company substantial amounts of money while allowing users to enjoy faster downloads.
Verizon Gets Cozy With P2P File-Sharers: Financial News [AP/Yahoo! News]


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ARM is on the verge of unveiling a 64-bit version of its processor chips, according to various sources. If true, the move would be another step forward in the firm's plans to move beyond mobile devices and compete with x86 chips in the server space.
The rumours claim that ARM has already shown off 64-bit processor samples in private, and that an announcement may come as soon as next week.
However, the chip design firm had not responded to requests from V3.co.uk for confirmation at the time of writing.
ARM has made no secret about seeking to expand beyond its niche as the processor architecture of choice for mobile devices, especially smartphones.
The company received European Commission funding earlier this year for research into more energy efficient datacentre platforms based on ARM chips.
ARM has also announced the Cortex-A15, a design unveiled in September that can scale up to produce chips with many cores, to target devices from smartphones to servers.
The Cortex-A15 is still a 32-bit chip, but supports 40-bit memory addressing for up to 1TB of memory, plus hardware support for virtualisation.
A 64-bit version of the ARM architecture would allow the chips to process data in larger chunks, as with current Intel and AMD chips, which would make ARM processors better suited to more demanding applications.
Most server operating systems are also created to target 64-bit processor architectures, which could be prove to be the real cause for any 64-bit move by ARM.
However, the company does not manufacture silicon itself, but licenses its designs to chipmakers such as Texas Instruments, Samsung and Qualcomm.
It will therefore be two or three years before any ARM chip announced now filters through into shipping systems.
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Meteor showers as a service will be visible for about 100 kilometres in all directions
Saturn's rings only formed in the past 100 million years, suggests analysis of Cassini space probe data
New findings contradict conventional belief that Saturn's rings were formed along with the planet about 4.5 billion years ago


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The growing need of technology in every facet of our lives cannot be overemphasized. Every sector – education, agriculture, health, finance, etc. has realized the need for a technological innovation in order to stay relevant, and this has led to the upsurge of many startups who are making efforts to provide sustainable solutions by providing technological innovations. And now The Church. It is quite obvious that the church has not seen much tech in these past few years of technological revolution.
After two years in the MEST incubator, Asoriba Inc. re-launched, introducing the Asoriba Church Solutions – a church management platform and app in January 2017. The innovation was met with great excitement by stakeholders of the religious body in Ghana. In February, the company represented at Social Media Week Lagos, where the Chief Product Officer at Facebook commended the team for a great job after a presentation was made to him.
In June of 2017, the CEO of Asoriba, Nana Opoku Agyeman-Prempeh who’s also a Forbes 30 Under 30 personality, was named Most Influential person in Science and Technology in Ghana by Avance Media.
Asoriba is on a mission to provide technology to $520 million African Christians. A number of investors believe this is possible, and have made good investments in this promising startup to help it achieve its aim. We believe that with all the necessary support the issue of Tech meeting Religion will be addressed to its full potential by this Ghanaian startup.
One sector that has seen an impressive technology in Ghana would have to be the agriculture sector. I must be quick to add that, there could be more to be done to address the never-ending need of this sector, especially when its been described as the backbone of our economy.
Agrocenta is one of the many tech startups in Ghana that helps farmers, especially small-holder farmers achieve high yield using technological means.
Agrocenta is an online platform that connects smallholder farmers directly to a market to trade fairly, and in 2017
“AgroCenta was founded by two ex-esoko employees, Francis Obirikorang and Michael K. Ocansey in 2015 to improve the agricultural value chain in Ghana. Two critical problems within the value chain, which are the lack of an access to market for smallholder farmers in the rural areas, which subjected them to activities of exploitative, buying from middlemen and the lack of a coordinated truck delivery system to cart their commodities from farms to markets to sell.
AgroCenta’s idea is to solve these age-old problems by introducing an online sales platform that connected smallholder farmers directly to an online market, which has wider geographic size, to sell their commodities. The end result? Exploitative buying was reduced to the barest minimum since farmers were in control of selling their commodities at prices that were favorable to them. Once a farmer gets offers from interested buyers, the problem of logistics and transportation were sorted using AgroCenta’s patent TrucKR solution that allowed the smallholder farmer in any remote village in Ghana access trucks at the click of a button. You can call it the uber for trucks. AgroCenta is changing the very lives of smallholder farmers by using technology to solve problems they encounter in agriculture”, an information on their website states.
During the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa, in 2017 held in Nairobi, Agrocenta emerged winners in the Social Good category of the competition.
The agriculture sector in Ghana is shaping out well, and Agrocenta is playing a phenomenal role.
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Africa has been listed as one of the continents with the lowest participation of women in tech – a challenge that has become a global issue with many organizations and institutions fighting for gender equality.
At the beginning of the year, a young woman, Ivy Barley, and her partner Maxwell, set out to equip females with skills in technology, and what a year it had been for this social enterprise. Developers in Vogue is a social enterprise that aims at building a community of highly skilled female developers who are passionate about using technology to revolutionize Africa and beyond.
In 2017, Developers in Vogue won prize monies in a number of elevator pitches. Notable amongst them was the E-Skills for Girls competition in Berlin, Germany. As a reward, the social enterprise secured a €15,000 prize money to fund the startup.
2018 promises to be an even more exciting year for this startup as they plan on training more than 100 young girls in programming.
Taxify may not be a household name yet, like their competitors, Uber, but you would want to consider them.
Uber disrupted the transportation industry with the introduction of a ride sharing app that helps users request for a ride at their convenience. Since its emergence in the Ghanaian market, there have been quite a number of complaints made by drivers and riders alike.
Taxify introduced itself into the Ghanaian market in December last year, and boy, it was disruptive. But for its relatively less drivers, that makes it frustrating for riders to find a ride to their destinations, Taxify would have been a preferred choice for ride sharing in Ghana.
With the right strategies, we believe Taxify will see a major breakthrough in 2018 and become a great force to reckon with.
Are there any startups you think will do amazing this year? Share with us below.
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"Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2" Teases Realistic Weather Graphics
While the game was announced nearly 2 years ago at the 2019 Game Awards, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, a sequel to the highly-praised 2017 game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, has yet to get a release despite being an exclusive on Xbox Series X (who bought the game's studio Ninja Theory in hopes of developing more exclusive titles). While it's not been confirmed whether the game will be teased at the Xbox and Bethesda showcase on June 13, today a short clip was posted to the developer’s Twitter which shows a time-lapse of a stormy cloud flowing over a fortified village. The point is to emphasize the natural look of the weather which, according to the caption of the team’s post, is created by “using flow maps to make clouds form and dissolve.” Check the footage out below:
There are a few notes in red at the top left corner of the video about rebuilding elements of the landscape, but otherwise it's a very obscure piece of footage to simply remind people Ninja Theory is putting work into every detail which could explain the delay of the game's release. Stay tuned!


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A group of U.S. Senate Democrats led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., are urging regulators to launch a review of a potential T-Mobile US Inc.-Sprint Corp. merger ahead of the companies' anticipated formal deal announcement.
In a letter addressed to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division Makan Delrahim, the senators warned of significant antitrust issues, including potential harm to consumers in case both companies agree to a merger. Sen. Klobuchar is the member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights.
"Beginning an investigation into a merger of T-Mobile and Sprint now will allow your agencies to quickly, but fully, review the agreement if it is announced," the senators said.
A potential deal could see T-Mobile's majority shareholder Deutsche Telekom AG taking a majority stake in the merged U.S. companies, while Sprint owner SoftBank Group Corp. will own about 40% to 50%.
The other signatories of the letter are senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.


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Winchester Introduces New SCTP Packaging on Super-Target Shotshells
Winchester Ammunition and the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) are once again teaming up — this time with new co-branded ammunition packaging.
“This is an opportunity to keep the SCTP organization in front of millions of our customers across the United States and build interest for their mission in support of the youth shooting sports,” said Matt Campbell, vice president of sales and marketing for Winchester Ammunition.
Winchester is the official ammunition of the SCTP and displays the organization’s logo on its widely popular Winchester Super-Target shotshell packages (symbols: TRGT128 and TRGTL128), which are now shipping to retailers and dealers nationwide.
“We want more people to learn what SCTP has to offer, and this is one way to get our brand exposed to more people,” said Tom Wondrash, SCTP national executive director. “We’re really proud of what the SCTP and SSSF organizations have been able to accomplish, and every year we see exponential growth in the number of teams and participants. We really couldn’t do it without the support of brands like Winchester.”
To ensure that this incredible trend of success continues, Winchester Ammunition has made substantial investments in the SCTP organization, including presence at the national competition in Marengo, Ohio, and a special ammunition purchase program for its teams.


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VIETNAM, March 25 – HÀ NỘI — Greening the garment and textile production is no more time an selection for the multi-billion-greenback field but a should in the context of rising necessities for sustainability all over the world, authorities mentioned.
Quite a few garment-importing nations around the world were being using motion for sustainable and circular textiles.
The European Commission was calling for an close to rapid manner by 2030 with the Technique for Sustainable and Circular Textile which set eco-design principles, commencing with textiles. Appropriately, by 2030 textiles positioned in the EU, the world’s major market for garment merchandise, must be long–lived and recyclable.
“There is no other way for the garment and textile industry of Việt Nam if it does not want to be excluded from the global game,” Lê Tiến Trường, chairman of Vietnam Nationwide Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex), mentioned.
In accordance to a the latest report about the garment and textile current market by STS Group, the global garment and textile industry was value around US$573.22 billion in 2022 and Việt Nam was between important exporters of garment and textile solutions, with each other with China, India, Bangladesh and Turkey which altogether accounted for far more than 55 for every cent of the world’s garment export worth.
The world garment and textile sector was forecast to increase at 6.6 for every cent this year to achieve $610.9 billion.
Regardless of extraordinary growth, the garment and textile market was the next most polluting business in the globe, which dumped all over 90 million tonnes of waste into the environment for each 12 months on ordinary, the report pointed out.
Nguyễn Thanh Ngân from Vinatex cited data that the world-wide garment and textile sector eaten up to 79 billion cu.m of drinking water for each 12 months. All-around 2,700 litres of water was eaten for the manufacturing of a T-shirt, ample for a person to drink for 2.5 decades.
In addition, the washing which dumped microplastics from artificial fibres into the surroundings also brought on pollution.
Going inexperienced is critical for Việt Nam’s garment and textile industry in the context of raising requirements for sustainability, Nguyễn Hữu Nam, Deputy Director of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, HCM Metropolis branch, mentioned.
Major importing nations have been setting needs for social duty, environmentally friendly creation and circular generation with the least expensive vitality and organic source consumption.
However, STS Team said that the chances had been there for individuals who took early methods toward sustainable and round output and there was a massive likely market for recyclable merchandise.
The recyclable garment market place was approximated at $6.9 billion in 2022 and anticipated to arrive at $9.4 billion in 2027 with an annual growth rate of 6.4 for every cent in the time period.
Nguyễn Hồng Quân, Director of the Institute for Round Overall economy Development, reported sustainable improvement was increasingly the choice of customers, citing a McKinsey study in 2022 that up to 63 per cent of people viewed as the sustainability of models when earning paying for choices.
“The sustainability necessities pose difficulties for Việt Nam’s vogue marketplace but there are possibilities from the transition to far more sustainable and round models,” he claimed.
Quân, on the other hand, pointed out that greening the trend market was not simple for Việt Nam which remained intensely dependent on imported raw materials, generating it tricky for enterprises to management high-quality and sustainability of the supply chain.
There was also a absence of large-scale industrial zones specialised for garment and textile manufacturing with wastewater treatment method method alongside one another with a scarcity of higher-quality human methods for the software of Market 4.. In addition, relocating to round manufacturing necessary substantial money, he said.
A selection of measures have to be applied to encourage the changeover towards circular manufacturing in the vogue market, in accordance to Quân.
First, it is essential to develop plantation areas for raw resources with insurance policies to stimulate financial investment in the study and growth of new components.
Supports need to be delivered to advertise enterprises to set up sustainable value chains and motivate the creation of environmentally – helpful products, with each other with producing round generation, escalating the software of details know-how and building the human sources for sustainable trend business development.
In accordance to Trường, it will take time and financial resource for the garment and textile sector to put into action eco-friendly changeover. The Authorities requires to build a legal framework that encourages producers to put into action environmentally friendly output as a element of the energy to access the target of zero emissions by 2050.
Việt Nam’s garment and textile export attained a record of $44 billion in 2022, building Việt Nam the third most significant exporter of garment and textile export after China and Bangladesh. Having said that, the expansion slowed down appreciably in the final quarter thanks to falling demand in big marketplaces as an effect of increasing inflation pitfalls and international uncertainties.
The international desire for garment and textile market place this year was forecast to be 5 per cent decrease than 2022, at all around $700 billion. Việt Nam set the focus on for garment export at $47 billion this yr. — VNS


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Amada, Mitsubishi Electric collaborate
Amada and Mitsubishi Electric have announced that the companies are collaborating in the laser beam machining business. Aimed at enhancing competitiveness in the domestic sheet metal manufacturing industry and enhancing competitiveness in both the domestic and international markets, the collaboration is expected to expand in the future.
According to the companies, both have strived to enhance product capacity and response capability by using technical innovation, but have been urged to strengthen their businesses further in order to make their products even more competitive.
The companies have agreed to cooperate in their strategic businesses while enhancing competitiveness in global markets by maximizing the strengths of both companies. They will discuss laser beam machine technology and synergy effects in production in order to improve technology. Both will continue selling products under their own brands.


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Motorcycling has definitely come a long way in the last few decades, and it’s a decidedly mainstream hobby that sees many professionals going hog wild over it. In fact, the popularity of motorcycling has increased 17 per cent in the last year according to abcnews.com.
Either way, these boomer professionals aren’t just casual riders. They’re riding some of the best bikes out there by manufacturers such as BMW, Harley-Davidson and Ducati. This is because the baby boomers have the money to spend on these toys. And though most riders continue to be male, women are purchasing their own bikes to ride now more than ever, making up nine per cent of Harley-Davidson buyers last year alone.
I obtained my motorcycle license four years ago. My motorcycle of choice is a BMW F650S and I ride with my partner as often as we can. He is a collector of vintage BMW motorcycles and as such, a number of people typically congregate around his bikes when we stop to look around in small towns that we visit on our daytrips. We have met some wonderful people as a result of sharing similar interests in motorcycling.
Many adult communities in North America have picked up on the growing trend and are now offering active motorcycle clubs to get residents’ motors running.


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By Ryan Bradley, senior editor
FORTUNE -- After months of buildup, on Wednesday Google announced a new, subscription-based streaming music service called Google Play Music All Access. The name may be clunky, but the offerings appear bountiful.
Google (GOOG) secured deals with three of the four major record labels—Universal Music, Sony, and Warner Music Group. Fortune reported in March on the Warner deal, and the plans from YouTube to launch a similar streaming service. Google Play Music All Access is, as its name suggests, built atop Google Play for Android, which previously existed as a digital locker for music. All Access merges users' current Play collections with access to millions of additional songs, for $9.99 a month.
Google is offering a 30-day free trial and, in a bid to reward early adopters, if you sign up by June 30th, after the trial ends, All Access will cost $7.99 a month.
While Google's service seems a direct shot at other subscription-based streaming music providers, like Spotify and Rdio, it is also a direct shot at Apple (AAPL), which has long been rumored to be planning a streaming service on its iTunes store. That Google managed to ink deals with the major labels -- companies that Apple has had a long relationship with -- and launch before Apple was clearly a point of pride at the company's Mountain View headquarters, where the company announced the service at Google I/O, its developer's conference. Google called it "radio without rules" and "your personal library, blended with ours" and repeatedly touted the power of "Google powered recommendations" behind a music discovery engine.
Google Play Music All Access launches Wednesday. (You can sign up here.) What will be fascinating to watch, in the coming months, is not just how Google's competitors respond, but what YouTube offers in music. After all, YouTube is currently the biggest music site on the Internet, and it gives its content away for free. When so much music is so readily available for free, what is it that makes people willing to pay for a service such as All Access?
Barnes & Noble's tablet business is struggling mightily. So what's the book chain to do? Let Google in.
FORTUNE -- Ask Stephane Maes, Barnes and Noble VP of Product, why holiday sales of its Nook tablets were weaker than expected, and he'll tell you it wasn't due to lack of interest. When shoppers looked at the Nook HD, one of the first things they asked was whether apps bought for their MOREJP Mangalindan, Writer - May 3, 2013 1:07 PM ET
Exclusive: Google is planning to roll out a music streaming service to capitalize on the power of YouTube.
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FORTUNE -- YouTube, the world's largest digital repository of streaming media, will launch a subscription music service later this year. The service has its own negotiating team and operating unit but will likely have some overlap with new features also rumored to be coming to Google's Android MOREMar 5, 2013 10:35 AM ET
Both now boast more than 700,000 apps, but Apple's store generates 4.3 times more cash
FORTUNE -- Manufacturers on Google's (GOOG) Android platform may be selling more devices, but Apple's (AAPL) App Store is still the best place to be for developers trying to make a living.
That's the bottom line in the year-end review published Friday by Distimo, a Dutch analytics company:
"On a typical day in November 2012, the revenues in the MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 21, 2012 7:23 AM ET
The battle to become the dominant one-click entertainment shopping mall begins
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General Motors has Harley Earl selling Buicks. Now it's Ford's turn to revive its own historical figure.
Henry Ford, who built the Model T, will soon appear in Ford commercials, and there's no better time for it. "Obviously, Henry Ford showed the world how to build the most perfect cars," said William Clay "Bill" Ford, who is the current president of the Ford Motor Company. "So we'll be honoring the legacy of the man by reviving him and selling cars."
Instead of sticking to just one brand (as Earl does for GM), Henry will also show up in ads for other Ford products, such as Lincoln-Mercury and Mazda. "We're out to show the world that we're not one-dimensional, like GM," Bill Ford said.
Earl will be stepped up in GM ads as well. He reportedly signed a new deal with Cadillac to pitch that division's new vehicles, and he's also talking with Chevrolet, Pontiac and Saturn for potential gigs, but he'll continue to be the main attraction for Buick.


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On November 1, Nike, the NBA and teams introduced the 2021-22 Nike NBA City Edition uniforms to celebrate the league’s 75th Anniversary Season. The launch of the 2021-22 Nike NBA City Edition uniforms represents legacy remixed: a tribute to the game’s most iconic moments – and a preview of how Nike is redefining sport for a new generation.
The uniforms reimagine 75 seasons of basketball history through the prism of 28 team stories, juxtaposing old and new to create an unforgettable look and feel for this milestone season. The result isn’t just a love letter to the game. It’s a celebration of fandom – and an invitation to a new generation to join in.
Over its five-decade history, the Houston Rockets have become one of only a few franchises to win back-to-back titles and feature three different MVP winners. This 2021-22 Houston Rockets Nike NBA City Edition Uniform reminds Rockets fans of the franchise’s rich history while pushing the team into the future.
The uniform’s style is inspired by the mid-90s uniforms, with white pinstripes fading into navy that continue to the shorts. “’94”and “’95”, the two years the team won an NBA championship, is written on the vents of the shorts, and the belt buckle features the team logo from the Clutch City championship years of ‘94 and ‘95.
The logos on the shorts are from the 2000s, when fan interest skyrocketed thanks to a new arrival, and the Rockets lit up the league with a 22-game winning streak.
“H-Town’’ from last season makes an appearance on the anthem.
The “Houston” font across the chest was the same font used on the road uniforms during the team’s championship seasons.
“The Houston Rockets have achieved a lot on the court, but they’ve accomplished just as much to expand the game off the court,” says Aaron Cain, VP/GM, Men’s, at NIKE, Inc. “The Nike NBA City Edition Uniforms were designed to honor those distinctly ‘H-Town’ achievements and styles — all with the heart of a champion.”
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Almost 6 months of becoming available globally, Apple Watch is finally coming to India. Though the company has not made any announcement in this regard, the Apple India website mentions that the smartwatch will become available in the country starting November 6. Today Apple Watch is being delivered in tier 9 which includes Chile, Philippines, and South Africa. India will mark Apple's tenth tier of countries. It's unknown at this time what additional countries could be added the next tier.
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Yesterday it was announced that more than 2 million pounds of poultry had been recalled.
According to KSTP:
Simmons Prepared Foods has recalled more than 2 million pounds of poultry products due to possible contamination of foreign materials, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The items subject to the recall were produced between Oct. 21 and Nov. 4. The products have the establishment number "P-1949," "P- 486" or "P-5837" inside the USDA mark of inspection. See all of the products subject to the recall here.
The products were distributed in Minnesota, as well as Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.
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Our vision is to be the most affordable and highest quality email service provider in order to successfully drive clients to compliant digital communications to increase cost savings and improve efficiencies.
Homosassa, FL (PRWEB) August 24, 2015
Trustifi is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Jerry Montella as its new President and CEO.
Jerry has served on Trustifi’s Strategic Advisory Board over the last two years and brings over 40 years of print-to-mail industry experience to Trustifi.
“We are committed to delivering to our corporate and consumer customers the leading state of the art secure eDelivery technology. We are very excited to have Jerry leading this new phase in the growth of our company," says Lenny Esmond, Trustifi’s Chairman of the Board.
Jerry is a print to mail industry leader whose sterling resume includes such roles as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Postal Policy Council, a member of the Executive Council for Disaster Recovery Journal, and Director of the Brokerage Division and Executive Vice President of Mail-Gard. Mr. Montella is an established industry expert and is a noted author and speaker for the print-to-mail industry.
“This is an exciting time for Trustifi and I am thrilled to be working with this great team. Our vision is to be the most affordable and highest quality email service provider in order to successfully drive clients to compliant digital communications to increase cost savings and improve efficiencies," says Mr. Montella.
Trustifi Postmarked Email is a patented platform that is system agnostic. It pushes out Authenticated, Validated and Postmarked (AVP) eDocuments, including notices or bills, to a consumer’s existing inbox via regular email in order to improve overall paper suppression rates. Security and protection options for sensitive documents include encryption with persistent/static passwords or one-time passwords delivered via second channels, such as a SMS to a mobile phone.
Additionally, a new app for compliant and secure AVP email will be launched in the next 2 weeks to make this technology easily accessible to all consumers and professionals by using their smart phones and tablets.
About Trustifi Corporation
Trustifi Corporation is a provider of secure eDelivery solutions focused on highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Government and Corporate Enterprises. Trustifi Postmarked Email empowers corporate communications by providing legal proof of sending to help manage compliance risks and to safeguard critical communications. Trustifi’s secure eDelivery solution is combined with its patented postmarking technology into an innovative and consumer-friendly product.
For more information, please visit http://www.trustifi.com, email maryellen.moro(at)trustificorp(dot)com or contact Mary Moro, VP of Business Development at 310-308-9995.


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Blog: A different game of ‘tag’
Leonie Barrie | 26 July 2004
Japanese authorities have decided that tagging kids with RFID chips is the best way to protect them. The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing and their movements will be tracked by strategically-placed readers. The tags being trialled are similar to those used for inventory control on merchandise at retailers and wholesalers – and as one reader on the Japan Today website puts it: “The morning register will become a stock inventory.”
Of course safety is of paramount importance in this day and age, but there’s a real danger too that a whole generation will grow up without a basic knowledge of common sense safety. I grew up with slogans like "Be smart, be safe!"; "Clunk Click Every Trip!"; and of course the Green Cross Code (which still seems to be part of the UK government’s soberingly-named ‘Arrive Alive’ campaign).
And what about the various campaigns aimed at putting a stop to RFID technology altogether? Will they decide the benefits outweigh the disadvantages when it comes to children’s safety and relax their stance on using the tags on humans?
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Elvis Presley may have left the building 36 years ago, but the King of Rock and Roll is still a very hot property. Authentic Brands Group announced it's purchased the intellectual property rights associated with the music icon from Core Media Group. A purchase price was not disclosed.
Authentic Brands already controls the Marilyn Monroe and Juicy Couture Brands. It will now own and manage global rights to a vast library of thousands of Elvis photos, album covers, movie posters and archive video footage.
It will do the same for events like "Elvis week."As part of the deal, Authentic Brands will operate Graceland in partnership with the chairman of National Entertainment Collectibles Association.


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A preliminary round of talks will run for two weeks, launched with a video call between U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.K. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, according to a statement from the British Embassy. There will be about 100 negotiators on each side discussing goods and services, digital trade, investment and supporting businesses. Additional rounds will take place approximately every six weeks, according to the statement, and will be carried out remotely until it is safe to travel.
“More trade between the U.K. and U.S. is essential if we are to overcome the unprecedented economic challenge posed by coronavirus,” Truss said in the note.
“As we start trade talks with the U.S., we want to strike an ambitious deal that opens up new opportunities for our businesses, brings in more investment and creates better jobs for people across the whole of the U.K. We are seeking an agreement that works for the small businesses and entrepreneurs who are suffering most in this difficult period, and provides vital support to the long-term health of the economy.”
The call, which will draw on expertise from the government and private sector, comes after the UK published its objectives for the negotiations in March, which outlined an initial assessment of the long-term bilateral trade between the two countries.
“Securing a U.K.-U.S. free trade agreement can pave the way for stronger economies, and create the potential for better jobs, higher wages, more choice and lower prices for citizens in both our countries,” said U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. Dame Karen Pierce.
U.K. officials said they will drive a “hard bargain” to lower tariffs on exports, according to the BBC. The U.K. government forecasts eliminating tariffs and reducing other trade barriers with the U.S. could boost the economy by between 0.07 percent and 0.16 percent in the next five years. Critics, however, argue improved terms with the U.S. won’t compensate for the U.K.'s Brexit-induced economically distant relationship with the European Union.


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- 28 Feb 2017:Intel split the Cyclone 10 into the performance-oriented GX and low-power optimized LP series. The GX series uses TSMC's 20nm process and is geared for a number of uses in the industrial, automotive, and broadcast markets. These include machine vision, robotics, infotainment, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, and audiovisual applications.
- 15 Feb 2017:New chip from MIT could mean power-efficient AI in all your electronics (Feb 14) - Andorid AuthorityResearchers at MIT have developed a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition that could result in a power savings of up to 99%.
- 8 Jan 2016:When AMD unveiled its new Polaris architecture, there was still some question as to where the new graphics processors would be built. Historically, AMD has built GPUs with TSMC and used Globalfoundries for its CPUs and higher-end APUs, which use integrated graphics.
- 2 Jun 2015:A new low-power, high-speed memory technology on the horizon could replace solid-state drives, hard drives and DRAM in PCs, and bring higher levels of storage capacity to mobile devices and wearables.
- 25 May 2015:Globalfoundries offers new low-power 28nm solution for high-performance mobile and IoT applications (May 20) - Company releaseGlobalfoundries has announced it is offering a 28nm High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) radio frequency (RF) process technology that will provide power-efficient solutions for highly integrated mobile applications and connected devices.
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- 11 Feb 2014:ARM and SMIC broaden IP partnership with 28nm process for mobile and consumer applications (February 9) - Company releaseARM and SMIC have announced an agreement to offer the ARM Artisan physical IP platform for SMIC's 28nm poly SiON process to provide high-performance, high-density and low-power technologies for SoC designs.
- 22 Jan 2014:Intel confirms using ARM-based chip core in smartwatch it demoed at CES (January 21) - ComputerworldFor years, Intel has been battling to replace ARM-based chips used in smartphones and other mobile devices. Now it has partly succumbed to the low-power ARM approach.
- 18 Dec 2013:Just as its predecessors did, the LPDDR4 specification is aiming to double its data rates while slashing power consumption in half, but first publication of the spec by JEDEC won't be until 2014.
- 11 Nov 2013:The semiconductor industry is in a standoff over the next big thing - 3D chip stacks. Someone needs to blink before the technology will be viable for creating the next generation of high-performance, low-power systems.
- 25 Sep 2013:Ultra-low-power, context-aware motion-recognition platform to result from STMicroelectronics and Movea cooperation (September 20) - Company releaseSTMicroelectronics and Movea have announced their agreement to integrate Movea's SmartMotion technology into the STM32F401 microcontroller operating as a low-power sensor-hub controller.
- 2 Sep 2013:Imagination Technologies will release a new CPU design in 2014 for low-power servers.
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- 24 Sep 2012:Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced the availability of its 1.2-volt low-power embedded EEPROM platform, which is fully compatible with its 0.13-micron low-leakage (LL) process.
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- 15 Feb 2012:Intel's latest effort to crack the smartphone market revolves around its new ultra low-power Atom chip code named Medfield and Google's Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" mobile operating system, both of which reportedly appear in a new handset from Motorola that's due to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress later this month.
- 5 Jan 2012:Imagination is investing in Toumaz Microsystems, a newly-formed subsidiary of Toumaz, an Aim-traded company which has created a "digital plaster", a credit-card sized device with a wireless chip and electrocardiogram pads that remotely monitors patients' heart rate, body temperature and respiration.
- 6 May 2011:Startup chip design company Adapteva has announced the multicore Epiphany processor, which is designed to accelerate applications in servers and low-power devices such as smartphones and tablets.
- 15 Feb 2011:Intel has announced that the company is sampling its 32nm "Medfield" handset chip with customers. Scheduled for introduction this year, the Medfield chip will extend the performance benefits of Intel architecture into a low-power solution specifically designed for the smartphone market segment.
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- 16 Aug 2010:Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners and Highland Capital Partners represent the traditional venture capitalists behind Smooth-Stone. They have been joined by ARM, Texas Instruments and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC).
- 21 Jun 2010:Following its recent move to TSMC's high-performance, low-power (HPL) process technology at 28nm, Xilinx is aggressively broadening the reach of programmable logic into the traditional ASSP and ASIC markets with three new FPGA families on its roadmap, the low-cost low-power Artix-7, the Kintex-7, and the high-end Virtex-7 due to be sampling in the first quarter of2011.
- 14 Jun 2010:Samsung Electronics' foundry business, Samsung Foundry, has qualified 32nm low-power (LP) process with high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology. The process has successfully completed reliability testing at Samsung Foundry's 300mm logic fabrication line in Giheung and is now ready for production of customer designs.
- 26 May 2010:The first ASIC prototypes implemented in ST's 32LPH (low-power high-performance) process technology are expected early in 2011 with production ramp-up in the second half of 2011.
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- 12 Dec 2008:IBM, Dell and Intel stand out among technology and consumer-products companies for their policies directed at averting climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.
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Streaming Is a Pain, Downloading Video Would Make a Difference, Say Consumers
More Than Half Expect to Be Able to Download Videos from Their Streaming Services and Many Would Pay A Premium For That Function
Pittsburgh, PA(22 Feb 2017)
Streaming services are frustrating consumers according to a new national survey conducted by Penthera, the pioneer in download-to-go (D2Go) functionality. Complaints are often related to a poor user experience, which could be improved with D2Go.
"Whether they are heading to the beach or the daily commute, consumers recognize they cannot rely on always having video-grade data connectivity. The Penthera survey data shows they see download-to-go functionality as an important tool in assuring the availability of their favorite videos, even if only used occasionally," said Colin Dixon founder of nScreen Media, a noted video industry analyst.
The survey finds that 92% of consumers have been frustrated trying to stream video, with the three most common frustrations identified as:
- Buffering, per 65% of participants
- The stream is slow to load, according to 40% of participants
- The placement of advertising, per 50% of participants
Consumer who struggle to stream video retaliate with their pocketbooks. When asked how they react, respondents said:
- 53% will just give up on that streaming session
- 26% said they stop using the unsatisfactory service
- 11% will cancel their subscriptions
“Consumers expect content anywhere, on any device, but delivery on that promise is still at the mercy of robust, ubiquitous Wi-Fi connectivity. We just are not there yet, and consumers are dissatisfied,” said Dan Taitz, president and COO, Penthera. “Our survey shows that fewer than 9% of respondents said they are ‘never frustrated’ when streaming. The technology exists to satisfy, and even delight, consumers.”
The survey indicates that offering D2Go functionality is also beneficial to the streaming services:
- 39% of survey participants said they are more likely to subscribe to a service offering D2Go
- 34% said they are more likely to watch programming from a service offering the feature.
- 18% said they are less likely to cancel a service with D2Go.
Some of the survey respondents indicated they already use D2Go to eliminate their streaming frustrations:
- Nearly half of those surveyed said they use D2Go so they don’t have to worry if Wi-Fi is available or robust where they are going;
- Another 21% use D2Go to avoid depleting their mobile data plans
- 17% don’t want to pay for Internet access at their destination (g. an airline or a hotel).
A further 53% said they’d be willing to pay more (up to $5 per month) to have download as a feature from their favorite streaming service.
The online survey was conducted in January and attracted responses from 804 men and women, aged 18-64, who stream videos on mobile devices.
Penthera develops and deploys software products facilitating the delivery of TV shows, movies and other video content to mobile devices. Penthera’s customers have included network providers, content owners, network operators, device manufacturers and other entities that need to deliver media content securely, reliably and verifiably to their customers and employees. For more information, visit www.penthera.com.


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On Black Friday, discounted boxed smartphones seem to be the equivalent of dry foods in a post-apocalyptic movie.
This video, first spotted by the Telegraph, shows customers of a Walmart in Moultrie, Georgia, duking it out over discounted pay-as-you-go smartphones.
Walmart has announced that the big box retailer has completed a total of 10 million transactions between the hours of 8pm and midnigh
Groupon maintained its spot as the top mobile commerce app, but Best Buy saw the biggest overall one-day gain on Black Friday, according to Onavo, a Sequoia-backed mobile data compression startup.
Usage of Best Buy and Walmart’s iOS apps jumped by more than fivefold last Friday and Thursday night. Following them were Kohl’s, Target and ShopSavvy.
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The month of October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we want to share with you some of the brands and charities who are helping raise awareness towards Breast Cancer. Keep reading to find out this year’s round up of events and products that have been on our radar!
Pink Pearl Charity Donations
Pink Pearl is a charity founded by our Editor-in-Chief Elise Gasbarrino who is an ovarian cancer survivor herself. The organization helps self-identifying young women, between the ages of 18 and 40, battling cancer of any type. They provide them with virtual wellness retreats, learning series, local socials. Additionally, they give one-on-one counselling sessions, support packages distributed in hospitals and cancer centres, and post-secondary scholarships. You can make a direct donation to the women in need through Pink Pearl’s website.
Graydon Skincare Moon Boost Serum
Especially good for thirsty skin, this velvety hydrating vitamin serum is formulated with nutrient-dense superfood oils and extracts. Together, they help reinforce the skin’s natural barrier while providing it with a healthy glow.
For the month of October, Graydon Skincare will donate a percentage of proceeds from every purchase of Moon Boost Serum to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada. Breast Cancer Society of Canada is a registered, national non-profit charity dedicated to saving lives through breast cancer research.
LASHGOD Peek-A-Boo-Pink Collection
Canadian beauty brand LASHGOD has launched a limited-edition Peek-A-Boo-Pink Collection in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month, donating 15% of proceeds of sales to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada.
You can shop the collection online at lashgod.ca, or in-person at the two Toronto salons: LASHGOD Salon Don Mills (1310 Don Mills Rd.) and LASHGOD Salon Yorkville (236 Avenue Rd.)
Diosa Designs Boob Bag
The Boob Bag is a sleek and stylish hands-free sling bag/belt bag that keeps your days limitless.
Diosa has launched this crossbody bag to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So, for all of October, $5 for each bag sold will go to the Canadian Cancer Society to help support women with breast cancer and fund lifesaving research.
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Fedeen Games Reveals Forsaken World Mobile’s Fashion Clothing
Fedeen Games is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a “Top Developer” badge on the Google Play store.
Awarded by the Google Play editorial staff, the Top Developer badge recognizes “established, respected developers for their commitment to launching high-quality and innovative apps on Android.”
Showing, not telling is what it’s all about. So, in support of the recently obtained award, and with Forsaken World Mobile nearing 20,000 pre-registered players, Fedeen Games is set to reveal the next feature being added to the soon-to-be-released MMORPG. Players will be able to strut their stuff with a wide array of Fashion Clothing being added to the growing list of player customization options.
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2012 Kia UVO for US can be considered a success and there is no reason to question this, as it provides a wide range of options based on voice-commanding. In this context, although hard to believe, Kia is determined not to waste time and returns to the lab, decided to come up with a second-gen UVO interface which not to require a smartphone to become functional and which to be suitable for all its markets.
The car would feature a screen, like a tablet computer, and allows the user to choose from a series of icons and screens. In addition to this, the system will be fully voice controlled, will provide the option of downloading applications. According to Kia’s representatives, the information could be accessed by only using a paired phone; unlike UVO, the smartphone connection remains optional.
“You can hook your phone up and integrate your phone into it, but the phone is not necessary for this system to operate. (…) (But) if you hook your smartphone up to it, you can view the contents of what’s on your cell phone on the touchscreen.” said Kia spokesman Michael Choo.
The good news is that this new technology should be available into all Kia’s international markets, although it was developed specifically for the United States.
“As of now, UVO is only for North America, whereas the next-generation is intended to be globally applicable.” (Choo)
So, Kia’s new telematics is currently in the works, so we will probably find out more details in time.
What do you think about such a development for Kia?
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DETROIT – OnStar won the Best Telematics Safety Technology Award from Telematics Update on Tuesday evening, the ninth consecutive year OnStar has received an International Telematics Update Award.
OnStar has accumulated 21 Telematics Update Awards in the program’s nine-year history. The ceremony, which was kicked off by Clear Channel’s Ryan Secreast, recognizes the most prominent and up-and-coming players in the industry in 10 telematics categories.
The Best Telematics Safety Technology award highlights OnStar’s commitment to providing more than 6 million customers with unparalleled safety and security services. Since its inception, OnStar has deployed emergency services more than 1 million times, and receives nearly 2,500 Automatic Crash Response alerts monthly.
“We’re thrilled that the telematics community has again recognized OnStar’s unwavering commitment to providing drivers with a safety service they can rely on,” said Linda Marshall, OnStar President. “Our team makes a constant effort to not only enhance the safety of our customers, but also to help all drivers on the road and assist first responders in emergency situations. We thank the first responder community, who make the life-saving technology of OnStar a reality every day.”
Last year, OnStar, in coordination with the General Motors Foundation, provided a $500,000 grant to the International Center of Automotive Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System for research related to the prediction of injury severity after a crash. Research being lead by Dr. Stewart Wang, director of the University of Michigan Program for Injury Research and Education, uses OnStar crash data, hospital records as well as first responder and police information to help improve the outcome for severe crash victims.
The awards precede the Telematics Detroit Conference, the biggest telematics-focused conference and exhibition of the year. On Thursday, Greg Ross, OnStar vice president business extensions, will give a keynote speech where he will discuss OnStar FMV, the company’s new retail product that can be installed in 90 million vehicles already on the road.
Launching later this summer, OnStar FMV will deliver OnStar’s award-winning services to drivers of non-GM and older GM vehicles on the road. It can be installed on most top-selling vehicles manufactured in the past 10 years, including vehicles from Ford, Toyota and Chrysler. OnStar FM will be available at Best Buy and other consumer electronic retail locations. To check if your vehicle can support OnStar FMV use the vehicle compatibility tool, which is also available at OnStar Facebook page.
OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, is the leading provider of connected safety and security solutions, value-added mobility services and advanced information technology. Currently available on more than 40 MY 2011 GM models, OnStar soon will be available for installation on most other vehicles already on the road through local electronics retailers, including Best Buy. The OnStar Mobile App is a recipient of the 2011 Edison Award for Best New Product in the Remote Driving Aids segment and OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown is a recipient of the 2010 Edison Award for Best New Product in the Technology segment. OnStar safely connects its more than six million subscribers, in the U.S., Canada and China, in ways never thought possible. More information about OnStar can be found at www.onstar.com.
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Toyota And Microsoft Join Forces For Developing Next Generation Telematics
The Japanese automaker Toyota has revealed this week that it has teamed up with Microsoft for developing the next generation of telecommunication and information technology for cars. By using the Windows Azure platform, Toyota and Microsoft will develop a range of systems that we will most likely see as soon as 2012.
However, the ultimate objective of this partnership is to create a cloud platform from which Toyota buyers can use telematics services around the world. For reaching this ambitious goal, the companies are going to invest about $12 million in the joint venture.
Source: Toyota via Autoblog | Photo: nextcars.net
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