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Have you tried to buy a graphics card recently? Attempting such a thing is a fast track to frustration, because the damn things are never in stock. Not by first-party sellers and at anywhere close to MSRP, anyway. That’s what makes Best Buy’s occasional restocks so delightful, and if you’re wondering when the next one will occur, you’re going
Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s When Best Buy Might Restock NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards
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GM’s BrightDrop starts production of its EV600 electric delivery van
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This is the BrightDrop EV410, a new electric delivery commercial vehicle from General Motors. [credit:
BrightDrop ]
In January, General Motors created a new electric vehicle brand. It’s called BrightDrop, and like GM’s legacy brands that are electrifying, it, too, will use the company’s forthcoming Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive electric motors. Unlike the rest of GM’s brands, this one is aimed squarely at the fleet market. At the time, GM CEO Mary Barra revealed that Fedex would be BrightDrop’s first customer. On Tuesday, BrightDrop announced that Verizon will also start using the electric vans.
In fact, Verizon will use a second BrightDrop vehicle, called the EV410. This uses the same battery pack and motor as the EV600 that we saw in FedEx colors at the start of the year. It will also offer the same 250-mile (402 km) range and come with the same package of safety systems. The biggest difference is the size and the amount of cargo each can carry; the EV410 is shorter overall than the EV600 and can carry 410 cubic feet (11,610 L) versus the bigger van’s 600 cubic feet (16,990 L).
Meanwhile, BrightDrop is completing the first production EV600s, which are destined to start work for Fedex this holiday season. BrightDrop has contracted out the initial low-volume manufacturing to an unnamed supplier in Michigan while it refits GM’s CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Canada. EV600 production at CAMI is scheduled for late 2022, but Verizon has a longer wait on its hands—EV410 production won’t begin until the following year.
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Source: Ars Technica – GM’s BrightDrop starts production of its EV600 electric delivery van
To the mountain and back: Rivian’s electric truck and its 314-mile range
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The Rivian R1T is the first electric pickup truck to reach the market. [credit:
Jonathan Gitlin ]
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.—Hats off to Rivian. Until 2018, almost no one had heard of the company. Now, it has brought the first battery electric pickup truck to market ahead of electric vehicle giant Tesla and just-plain-giant Ford, and this vehicle is aimed at a distinct buyer when compared to the everyman F-150 Lightning or the Mars colonist’s Cybertruck. The $67,500 R1T is for people who like exploring the outdoors—this is an adventure truck. And to put that claim to the test, last week we drove one up a mountain and back.
Rivian got started in 2009 and toyed with the idea of a number of different vehicles until it settled on a pair of battery electric vehicles—a truck and SUV—to begin with. Both were to be built in a former Mitsubishi factory in Normal, Illinois, that the company bought in 2017. The following year, the company emerged from “stealth mode,” and in 2019, I got to check out the concept R1T at that year’s New York auto show, where it pushed all the right buttons.
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Source: Ars Technica – To the mountain and back: Rivian’s electric truck and its 314-mile range
Picolibc Continues Maturing As Very Lightweight C Library For The Embedded World
While Keith Packard is known for his work on X11/X.Org, the past few years he has also been developing Picolibc as a C library intended for embedded systems. He also recently jumped from SiFive to Amazon and appears at the ecommerce giant to be working on Picolibc in an official capacity, presumably for use on Amazon’s growing hardware devices…
Source: Phoronix – Picolibc Continues Maturing As Very Lightweight C Library For The Embedded World
Final Fantasy XIV Player Literally Dabs On Boss With Kinect

Final Fantasy XIV, like most video games, is far from physically taxing despite the often-incredible feats performed by your character on-screen. But what if you, say, actually had to dance to get the Dancer job moving? Absolute madman Super Louis 64 answered this question earlier today, and the results are pretty…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XIV Player Literally Dabs On Boss With Kinect
Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) Review: A Sleek and Vibrant Notebook
As a laptop vendor, Huawei is entering its fourth year. Relying on x86 silicon and a GPU here and there, one thing Huawei does well is the quality of the design. The company has transferred the knowhow developed over a decade of smartphones into something bigger, with a keyboard, running Windows. The latest MateBook X Pro 2021 edition we’re testing today equips an Intel 11th Gen Core i7 with one of the physically largest displays you can fit into a 14-inch device, and a brushed aluminium chassis that’s very smooth to the touch and an Emerald Green finish that really stands out.
Source: AnandTech – Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) Review: A Sleek and Vibrant Notebook
I'm Comedian Eric Wareheim and This Is How I Eat

If your concept of Eric Wareheim was formed purely through viewings of Awesome Show and Tom Goes to the Mayor, you might think the man hates food, or wants you to hate food, but that could not be further from the truth. Eric Wareheim loves food, respects food, and cherishes food, and he wants you to do the same. His…
Source: LifeHacker – I’m Comedian Eric Wareheim and This Is How I Eat
Celebrating the community: Yolanda
So far in our series of community stories, we’ve collaborated with young people from the UK, India, and Romania who are getting creative with technology to change the world around them.
Our next community story comes from a highly regarded community member who has been connecting young people with opportunities to learn and create with technology throughout her career. A US-based educator with over twenty years of experience, Yolanda Payne shares our mission to put computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world.
“The biggest reason I’m so invested in technology is because people invested in me.”
Yolanda Payne
Meet Yolanda
Yolanda Payne is an educator you might recognise from our online courses. Based in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA, she’s passionate about making technology accessible to all and helping young people become technology creators.
Yolanda says, “The biggest reason I’m so invested in technology is because people invested in me. They saw something that I was good at, showed me opportunities, and so in turn, that was my philosophy in teaching.”
Yolanda got her first computer at a young age and was hooked instantly: it opened up many new opportunities and led her to choosing a career in education. She says, “The computer gives me the tools to be an artist, it gives me the tools to create things, and if it does that for me, then just imagine what it will do for kids!”
“If you give a teacher a Raspberry Pi and show them these resources, they’re going to be hooked.”
Yolanda Payne
Yolanda has spent her entire professional life dedicated to education. She gained a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Mississippi University for Women; a master’s degree in Instructional Technology from Mississippi State University; and Educational Specialist degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Georgia in Curriculum and Instruction, and in Language and Literacy.

Throughout her twenty-one years as a classroom teacher and her time running Code Clubs, Yolanda found joy in supporting students who have multiple challenges or complex needs, and in seeing them thrive in the subject of computer science. Yolanda points out, “I worked with both students that were considered to be in special education and students that were gifted. And one of the biggest things that I saw that I don’t think people realise, especially about students in special education: they are used to solving problems. […] You’d be very surprised at how real-life problem-solving skills flow very easily into computer science.”
Yolanda now works as a Research Associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology. We are tremendously thankful for her contributions as an educator and an advocate for technology and young people.
Please join us in celebrating her story by sharing it on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook!
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New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix
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Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker’s actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them.
A newly discovered bug in Microsoft Azure’s Active Directory (AD) implementation allows just that: single-factor brute-forcing of a user’s AD credentials. And, these attempts aren’t logged on to the server.
Invalid password, try again, and again…
In June this year, researchers at Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) discovered a flaw in the protocol used by Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On service.
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Source: Ars Technica – New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix
Windows Who? 62 Percent Of Americans Have No Clue That Windows 11 Exists
Those in the PC enthusiast community are well aware of the impending arrival of Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system. After all, we’ve been with Windows 10 for over five years, and it’s about time for a change. Microsoft announced Windows 11 in late June and recently revealed that the operating system will ship on October 5th.
However,
Source: Hot Hardware – Windows Who? 62 Percent Of Americans Have No Clue That Windows 11 Exists
OmniOS Adds VirtFS File Sharing For Bhyve, Better System Console Performance
The open-source Solaris/Illumos ecosystem certainly isn’t vibrant these days like back during the Sun Microsystems times with OpenSolaris, but OmniOS continues progressing as one of the few still-active and useful Solaris/Illumos-powered platforms…
Source: Phoronix – OmniOS Adds VirtFS File Sharing For Bhyve, Better System Console Performance
Western Digital Introduces WD Red SN700: PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs for NAS Systems
Western Digital’s Red series of drives for network-attached storage systems has a significant share in various NAS market segments. The series started off with a focus on hard drives, and more recently WD Red SSDs were introduced in Q4 2019, a few years after the SanDisk acquisition. These SATA SSDs (in both 2.5″ and M.2 form-factors) were based on Marvell 88SS1074 controllers and targeted caching applications.
The increasing popularity of tiered storage, coupled with the deployment of NVMe (in the form of add-in cards, and now, natively in NAS boards) has prompted Western Digital to create a new member in the WD Red family. The new WD Red SN700 comes in 5 capacities ranging from 250GB to 4TB.
| WD Red SN700 NVMe SSDs for NAS | ||||||
| Capacity | 250 GB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB | |
| Model Number | WDS250G1R0C | WDS500G1R0C | WDS100T1R0C | WDS200T1R0C | WDS400T1R0C | |
| Controller | SanDisk In-House? | |||||
| NAND Flash | 3D TLC NAND | |||||
| Form-Factor Interface |
M.2-2280, PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 | |||||
| Single-Sided (22.15mm x 80.15mm x 2.38mm) |
Double-Sided (22.15mm x 80.15mm x 3.58mm) |
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| Seq. Read Max (128KB @ QD32) |
3100 MBps | 3430 MBps | 3400 MBps | |||
| Seq. Write Max (128KB @ QD32) |
1600 MBps | 2600 MBps | 3000 MBps | 2900 MBps | 3100 MBps | |
| Rand. Read IOPS (4KB @ QD32) |
220K | 420K | 515K | 480K | 550K | |
| Rand. Write IOPS (4KB @ QD32) |
180K | 380K | 560K | 540K | 520K | |
| SLC Caching | Yes | |||||
| DRAM Buffer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Opal Encryption | ? | |||||
| Power | Peak | 9.24 W | ||||
| PS3 (LP) | 70 mW | 100 mW | ||||
| PS4 (Sleep) | 3.5 mW | 5 mW | ||||
| Warranty | 5 years | |||||
| MTBF | 1.75 million hours | |||||
| TBW | 500 | 1000 | 2000 | 2500 | 5100 | |
| DWPD | 1 | 0.7 | ||||
| Addl. Info. | Link | |||||
| MSRP | $65 | $80 | $145 | $290 | $650 | |
A PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe drive can provide a quantum leap in I/O performance, especially over pure HDD-based systems. NAS units are fast becoming hyperconverged application servers, and NVMe drives can improve user experience with both storage tasks as well as application tasks. In particular, tasks related to workloads like virtualization, multi-user collaborative editing and other similar applications. The benefits for traditional enterprise workloads such as intensive databases are also evident, even when the NVMe drive is used purely as a caching drive. Interestingly, the 1TB and lower capacity models have a 1 DWPD rating, while the 2TB and 4TB ones have a 0.7 DWPD endurance number.
It must be noted that Seagate has already released two generations of NVMe drives for the NAS market in their IronWolf series. WD is playing a bit of a catch-up in this particular market segment, but its SanDisk heritage and vertical integration can possibly give the WD Red SN700 an edge over the IronWolf series.
Source: AnandTech – Western Digital Introduces WD Red SN700: PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs for NAS Systems
6 Most Easiest Ways to Buy Jewelry Online

There are so many ways to buy jewelry online today, that even a regular shopper can get confused. Hence, below are some useful tips that would help you shop jewelry online both for men and women, such as diamond rings, etc. These ideas will help you in buying the best collection of rings at affordable price rates, from the best online stores. In this article, we will discuss some of the ways to buy beautiful rings online.
1. Find the Best Online Store:
The first thing to do is to find out the online sellers or shops, who have some of the best collections of Moissanite vs diamond rings and earrings. First, you should make sure that the store delivers within your location. The second thing is to look at their customer care or support. The best online stores are 100% customer-friendly. So make sure that the customers are well taken care of.
2. Check Online Sales:
One of the best ways to buy jewelry online is to check out online sales. At times there are discounts and offers on the sale items. But you need to be very careful when you buy jewelry online. Some of the online stores have really great discount offers. But there are also some fake stores, where the jewelers try to sell imitation or duplicate items. It would be best if you buy jewelry online from well-known stores, where the jewelers have their name fame.
You can find many people who are willing to sell their old jewelry online. There are even a number of jewelry manufacturers who have their own websites selling their products. If you are interested in buying something like this, the best place to go would be the Internet. But always be careful when buying online.
3. Payment Process:
When you have made up your mind about the seller, the next thing that you should do is to make the payment. You will find that most sellers will accept all major credit cards and payment providers. Also, they will ask you to provide them with your email address. It is important for the seller to send you the item on time. If he fails to do so, then he might be found out and you will lose your money.
4. Best Deal:
When you are satisfied with the payment options that are being offered by the site, then it is time to settle for the product that you want to buy. Of course, the jeweler would offer you the best deal. You should make sure that you are going to deal with a reliable jeweler.
5. Professional and Reliable Source:
It is important for the jeweler to be professional and reliable when you are buying a diamond engagement ring or any other precious stone from them. It would be better if you can check their feedback from other clients.
6. Able to Avoid Rush:
When you are shopping online, you can choose the jewelry you want. In this way, you can avoid all the rush and worry that you will face if you try to buy these items in the store. There are so many jewelry online sellers nowadays, so you might find it hard to choose which seller will give you the best offer. However, you should know that the more expensive the item is, the more you will be charged for shipping.
In conclusion, there are several ways to buy jewelry online. The most convenient way would be to go online shopping, but before doing so you should first research and compare the prices of the different jewelry online sellers. In this way, you will be able to get the best deal online.
Source: TG Daily – 6 Most Easiest Ways to Buy Jewelry Online
A Mattress Designed For Gamers Goes On Sale In Japan

There are gaming chairs, gaming keyboards, and gaming energy drinks. All that is old hat! In Japan, there are now mattresses for gamers.
That’s right, gaming mattresses! Japan’s Bauhutte has made its name by selling loungewear for gamers, as well as gaming desks, chairs, and even beds. The latest item it’s added to…
Source: Kotaku – A Mattress Designed For Gamers Goes On Sale In Japan
Fedora's Java Packages Have Fallen Into Rough Shape
While many years ago Fedora’s Java support was in great shape with quickly integrating OpenJDK going back to IcedTea, these days Fedora’s Java packages are barely maintained and largely fallen into disrepair…
Source: Phoronix – Fedora’s Java Packages Have Fallen Into Rough Shape
Top 20 Advanced SEO Techniques to Double Your Search Traffic

You may be wondering: “How do I double my search traffic?” Well, it’s not an easy task, and you won’t find a one-size-fits-all solution. You need to delve into advanced SEO techniques that will help you rank higher in the SERPS (search engine result pages). SEO reseller programs are a great way to make money and make your website more prominent. They allow you to sell the services of an SEO company for a commission in return. This post will focus on the top 20 advanced SEO techniques that will boost your rankings and get more customers coming through your door.
1. Stealth Backlinking
One of the many advanced SEO techniques that you can use is called stealth backlinking. Stealth backlinks are a little like regular backlinks, but they also include anchor text and no-follow tags. The reason to do these kinds of links is to be used as testimonials, endorsements, and references on your website.
2. Article Marketing
Article marketing is one of many advanced SEO techniques that allow you to send PR9 and PR10 links back to your website. When you link to external articles, make sure that the website is well optimized and offers high-quality content. Sending out these types of links helps with your code optimization and increases page rank in the SERPs.
With the SEO reseller programs, you can resell the services of an SEO company and make some money from them.
3. Negative SEO
Negative SEO is a controversial method used by some webmasters to target specific websites through backlinks and get them de-indexed from the SERPS. Google’s Penguin update is a perfect example of negative SEO because it showed us all that we can’t use shady tactics to climb up the Google ranks.
4. Meta Tag Optimization
Meta tags are the short snippets of code that sit at the top of your web pages. They are essential because search engines use them to denote key information about your websites, such as keywords, description, author info, and robots directives. It’s critical that you get meta tag optimization correct because it will help with ranking positions.
5. Link Building
Link building is one of the most common advanced SEO techniques webmasters use to rank for competitive keywords. It’s like link spamming, but it isn’t because you don’t want your website linking to low-quality sites and pages—only high-quality ones! Links are said to pass PageRank (PR), and if they come from .edu and .gov sites, you can expect the PR to be greater than normal.
6. Broken Link Building
Broken link building is another awesome advanced SEO technique that some webmasters swear by, while others think it’s a complete waste of time. How does broken link building work? You simply choose a keyword and find websites that are linking to low-quality, no-follow sites. Then you contact the webmaster and ask them if they would like to replace their broken link with a link from your website—this is done so that you pass PR.
7. Remove Useless Pages
Many people might not think this falls under advanced SEO techniques, but it certainly does. You should be regularly removing old pages from your website that have low PR and don’t offer much content. Use Google Webmaster Tools to see which pages don’t rank well or get any traffic, then delete them!
8. Link Building with Social Bookmarking
One of the most effective advanced SEO techniques to increase your website’s PR and get more eyes on the page is link building with social bookmarking. This means you find top websites that allow you to add a backlink for content, then you go ahead and do it. Since most of these sites have a no-follow tag, your link won’t pass too much PageRank. However, it does help with rankings, especially if the website you are on has a high PR, to begin with.
9. Producing Quality Backlinks
Producing quality backlinks is the best-advanced SEO technique that will get you found in Google searches—it’s not always about massive quantities! You need to focus more on one-way backlinks from high-quality sites because it will have a greater impact.
10. Track Your Rankings
You can’t expect to improve your rankings if you don’t know where you currently are! For this reason, you should keep track of your rankings to see how well things are going.
11. Posting on Forums
Forums are a great place to get advice from the pros and post information that people might be interested in—including your own website! You can post quality-content articles on forums that you know people will like, then post a link back to your website. This is one of the most effective advanced SEO techniques you can use to increase traffic and even sales!
12. Recovering from Google Penalties
If you’ve been hit with an unnatural links penalty or manual spam action, don’t stress because it’s fixable! Google has some useful recommendations on how you can recover your previous rankings, including removing spam links and improving user signals.
13. Getting Nice with Social Media
The more social media attention your website gets (especially backlinks), the higher it will rank in organic searches! Just make sure not to spam! You should regularly post relevant content to Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites.
14. Multimedia Content Marketing
Multimedia content marketing is a great way to get people talking about your brand, which will increase traffic and sales in the long run! You can produce a video that tells everything about your website or blog post images with quotes from the article you’ve written.
15. Link Reclamation
Link reclamation is when you go back to old websites linked to your website in the past and ask them to remove it. This is useful if someone has used your link on their blog without permission. Luckily, there are tools out there that can help you find these broken links so that you can contact the webmaster and have them removed.
16. Rewriting Content for Better Rankings
Google sometimes has difficulty figuring out what your site is about if you don’t use the best keywords in titles, URL structures, image tags, and meta descriptions. To make things easier on the search engine crawlers, rewrite your content to look like it was written for Google.
17. Optimizing Your Site Structure
If you want your website to rank high in search engines, you need to optimize the site structure! This means that all of the pages on your website should be accessible by crawling bots because they can’t read javascript or flash files. You also don’t want too many links on a page because it can make your site look unnatural to Google.
18. Using Anchor Text Properly
Different words can have different weights in terms of how much value they pass to a page, which is why you need to use anchor text properly! You don’t want to use the same word or phrase over and over again because it will look spammy to Google.
19. Linking to Relevant Content on Your Site
Think of a situation where you’re at work, and you’re typing a search into the browser but have no idea what you want to find on Google? You go with the best option—a link from your company’s official website—because it’s relevant and reliable! This is a good example of how linking to relevant content on your site can increase traffic, boost rankings, and boost user experience.
20. Optimizing Your Anchor Text for Maximum Reach
Like with keywords, different types of anchor texts will have different weights for SEO value. You should be using keywords in your anchor text, but also try to vary it up so that you aren’t constantly repeating the same link over and over again. This will hurt your rankings instead of helping them!
Conclusion:
So that’s our list! With advanced SEO techniques such as these, your website can’t help but attract traffic and customers. Remember to keep in mind the user experience when implementing these techniques because if users leave your site, you’ll be missing out on valuable conversions.
Written by Scott Weathers
Source: TG Daily – Top 20 Advanced SEO Techniques to Double Your Search Traffic
What Can an Apple Mail App Do for You?

The Apple mail app is a reliable application with advanced features that help users manage their email accounts quickly and conveniently. It is a popular mail app with extra features that allow you to format emails, add multi-media attachments and other interesting add-ons to give you a better mailing experience.
Most users experienced various mail app issues that prompted Apple to revamp its app. Let us take a look at some of the enhanced features and how they can solve your mailing challenges:

Formatting Menu
Apple mail app gives users a variety of formatting options. For instance, they can align paragraphs, indent or outdent paragraphs, including bullets and numbering. Moreover, it has several formatting attributes like underlining, bold, and italics you can add to your document. The mail app also has a circular palette for changing text colors. Thus, the Apple app is quite convenient with improved formatting options.
Add Media Files
Another advantage of using the Apple mail app is the feature of adding media files. You can easily attach videos and photographs to your email message. The feature allows you to your image gallery in the library folder. All you have to do is tap the media you want to include, and it will automatically get placed in the email.
Take Photos and Include Files
Sometimes you might want to send a real-time image via email. Apple mail app allows users to take pictures or videos and upload them on the email message. The keyboard toolbar has a camera icon visible that you can use to open the files app. It allows you to upload and insert files or images from other online services with ease.
In addition, there is an icon for document scans on the keyboard that you can tap to insert scanned documents on your email.
Mark-up Tools
You might have a non-editable document that you need to mark or cross out information. One easy way of doing this is using the mark-up tools option available on the Apple mail app. The keyboard toolbar has a pen icon that you can tap to activate the mark-up tools. You can pick different tools to draw or mark documents or images to your desired results. Moreover, you can also include a new drawing in the email message.
Reply Menu
Unlike the old mail app, Apple has enhanced the reply menu with new exciting options. The reply icon on an open email now comprises several commands. Apart from replying, you can also archive or forward the message. In addition, you can also send a reply to many people on your email list.
Other features include flagging particular messages as highly important and marking already-read emails as unread. Users can also delete the message or move it to a separate folder. If some emails are not necessary, you can mark them as spam messages or move them to the junk folder.
Furthermore, you can enable the mute button to stop getting email notifications. Conversely, you can also activate notification alerts by taping the Notify Me section. Printing is also possible directly from the email.
Block Sender
Apple mail app also has the option of blocking email senders. You can enable this feature by opening the email message you don’t want and tapping the contact. Hence, you can block the contacts you don’t want and unblock them at any time.
Select Multiple Emails
The enhanced app offers a convenient way to select many messages at a go. You can perform actions like moving, deleting, or archiving them in one shot.
Diversity of Features
As you can see, the Apple mail app comprises many exciting features that offer users a seamless mailing experience. It is becoming a favorite mail app for most Mac owners. Try the features and manage your email accounts with ease and convenience.
Written by Adam Eaton
Source: TG Daily – What Can an Apple Mail App Do for You?
Internet Protocol Television: What You Should Know About?

Internet Protocol television (IPTV) has increased in popularity over the past several years. Viewers are attracted to IPTV for several reasons. First, IPTV provides a higher quality of picture and sound than regular television. With Internet TV, you never miss an episode of your favorite TV show. You can pause, rewind, skip, and replay anytime you want. And with an IPTV subscription, you get even more benefits.
Broadband Internet Connection:
A Broadband internet connection is required for both IPTV services. The reason for this is that without it, IPTV will not work. For those who have a high-speed internet connection, they can watch live television online for free or at a much lower cost than what other options require. If you have a dial-up modem, you can still get IPTV service at the same quality as if you had your local cable company to offer this service.
Packages of IPTV Services:
With the recent merger of cable companies in the US, many people were left without cable services. In order to continue offering abonnement IPTV, providers needed to find new partners. Many traditional TV providers quickly entered into agreements with other providers in order to stay in business. Major cable providers have also started offering bundled packages with IPTV services so that consumers can save money on their subscriptions.
Satellite and Cable Companies:
With the introduction of IPTV services, many broadband connections are no longer necessary. Satellite and cable companies can provide high-quality services directly to your home without the need for a separate connection. Cable companies offer a one-time fee for lifetime line rental, making it easier than ever to hook up. Satellite providers will often provide several channels of digital video programming delivered wirelessly. This means you can get internet protocol television delivered directly to your receiver.
Software Applications:
You can also watch IPTV through PC satellite software applications that have been created especially for this purpose. These software applications are designed to easily stream digital video content from one website to another. For example, you can watch IPTV through an online movie site, then download the videos to your computer, and transfer them to your PC. Once you have transferred the videos to your PC, you can watch them right from your computer, or even stream them to your television. These PC satellite software programs make it very easy to watch live television online.
It is also possible to directly receive internet protocol television broadcasts over the airwaves. Most television stations now distribute their digital video streaming content over the internet using broadcast internet protocol (BGP). When you subscribe to BGP, you can receive these television broadcasts anywhere in the world and at any time.
Become More Popular:
Because there are so many ways to watch IPTV traditional television broadcasting equipment is becoming less effective and obsolete. It may not be long before all traditional broadcasting methods are replaced by internet protocol television broadcasting systems. The most obvious way to replace traditional broadcasting is to broadcast over the internet. Many television stations are already doing this. Satellite companies have even signed deals with major internet service providers to make it possible for people to watch IPTV via the internet. With more people tuning into digital video over the internet, the need for traditional television broadcast equipment is dwindling.
If you want to watch IPTV over the internet, there are several different services available. You can choose a service that allows you to watch up to two dozen television channels at once, or you can choose a package that offers a number of local channels. You can also choose a user-friendly set-top box or a set-top box with a large picture. No matter what kind of set-top box or satellite dish service you choose, you will surely enjoy watching your favorite ITP programs.
Source: TG Daily – Internet Protocol Television: What You Should Know About?
Ecommerce Website Design and Development

The Internet has become the main tool for the development of global business. It has allowed people to carry out business transactions remotely. All this is possible with internet access. This explains the reason why most companies nowadays are serious about developing e-commerce sites. Web platforms can be used to carry out trading activities. The development of an e-commerce site is associated with the development of such platforms. Web developers who are familiar with web design are also familiar with e-commerce web development company Fireart. Such developers should sufficiently be knowledgeable about how to create secure platforms for web browsing.
Why the need?
The popularity of the market is showing no signs of slowing down online, so now might be the perfect time to start selling online. There are more options for creating an e-commerce business. You can work with an e-commerce platform provider to build an online store, or you can work with a website on your website platform from start to finish.
Working with such services offers convenience, but if you need additional flexibility and control, it is better to create your site yourself.
In this case, you will learn what happens when using your own e-commerce (DIY) website, from choosing the right tools and services that you will need to create your web pages, choosing the best hosting providers, a payment solution that is right for your business site, and to determine the best security for your site.

Benefits of e-Commerce
Internet commerce has several very compelling advantages for each of the parties:
- The advantages of e-Commerce for the client: the ability to view and buy goods at any time of the day and day of the week, delivery to the address or to the nearest transport department, detailed information about the product / service / service. You can easily compare offers from different companies, find the most profitable, save time and money.
- Advantages of e-Commerce for organizations: significant expansion of the geography of commercial activities, increased efficiency of business processes and real money savings. For example, an online store does not need to rent a large area for trading, hire sales consultants, and so on. Read more about this in our article “Business Processes of an Online Store”.
- The e-Commerce industry offers tremendous opportunities for everyone who works in it. Despite the undeniable advantages, e-commerce has some disadvantages as well.
E-commerce appeared due to the rapid development of sales technologies, the introduction of automated resource management systems at enterprises, and the growth in the number of active Internet users. Recently, e-commerce has become an increasingly wide range of human activities.
Today it is very convenient and quick for an ordinary Internet user to pay for goods or services using the Internet, receive and transfer money from his electronic account, use the services of banks via the Internet – all this is e-commerce.
Before starting to create an online store, design a template and build a website design, you need to conduct a preparatory, research stage. It is necessary to study the needs of the market for which the future store will be oriented, to analyze the stores of competitors, and to study the target audience (target audience) of visitors to the Internet portal.
Having received information about the market, target audience and competitors, you need to develop a concept for the future online store:
- determine how goods will be purchased and where they will be stored;
- what is the principle of the process of forming prices for goods (services);
- define the process of payment and delivery of goods to customers.
After carrying out preparatory work and creating a concept for the online store, they proceed to the stage of website design & development services. The main element of building a website at the design stage is the creation of technical specifications (technical specifications) for the development of the site. It records the tasks facing the site, the characteristics of customers (CA), and the goods and/or services sold, outlines the requirements for the design and content of the website based on the developed concept of the online store, as well as its technical and functional characteristics. This step describes the structure of an e-commerce site.
Source: TG Daily – Ecommerce Website Design and Development
Osaka Approves MGM-Orix IR Bid
Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Osaka Prefecture has officially selected the MGM Resorts-Orix Corporation consortium’s bid for the construction of a major urban Integrated Resort (IR) including a casino at the Yumeshima site in Osaka Bay.
The approval of the ¥1 trillion (US$9.1 billion) bid was widely anticipated because no other consortium opted to challenge MGM-Orix in the final Request for Proposal round.
Bill Hornbuckle, president and CEO of MGM Resorts International, stated, “Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City have implemented a comprehensive and well considered selection process to achieve the goal of developing a world-class Integrated Resort in Osaka, and I am honored that we have been selected as the partner for Osaka. No other place has a brighter and more enjoyable future for tourism and hospitality than Japan, and Osaka is a good place to launch that future.”
MGM Resorts has been working toward this result for the better part of a decade in a methodical and determined fashion. Its “Osaka First” policy was officially declared in January 2019, but long before that time it had focused on this location more than any other in Japan.
While at one point there was speculation that it might go higher, the ¥1 trillion investment figure has also been on the table for quite some time. Then-Chairman and CEO James Murren publicly dropped that number as early as November 2017.
Once it opens its doors in the latter part of this decade, it is estimated that the Yumeshima IR will pull in over 20 million visitors on an annual basis and produce yearly revenues of about ¥540 billion (US$4.9 billion).
MGM and Orix will be equal partners in the consortium with about 40% ownership each. The remaining 20% will likely be taken up by a wide range of smaller partners.
The planned IR will have a floor area of 770,000 square meters, including a casino, an international conference hall, an exhibition hall of about 20,000 square meters, and large-scale accommodation and entertainment facilities. About 15,000 people will be directly employed.
All three of the candidate prefectures—Osaka, Wakayama, and Nagasaki—have now selected their IR consortium partners. The next step is the joint applications to the national government for licensing.
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