Mead Johnson & Company, and Abbott Laboratories Inc., are at the center of a lawsuit filed by the parents of a 34-day-old infant who died from necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). 

According to the lawsuit, baby Sanders was born prematurely on December 25, 2020, and was fed baby formulas produced by the two companies intravenously. By January 25, 2021, the baby had developed the fatal gastrointestinal disease, NEC, that led to his death on January 27, 2021. This lawsuit alleges that baby Sander’s death directly resulted from consuming the defendants’ cow milk-based formulas that were unreasonably dangerous.

The Companies Knew the Dangers

The lawsuit is based on the two companies’ failure to stop the use of cow milk in creating the baby formulas as there has been evidence of cow milk having the potential of causing NEC for over three decades now. According to a study published in the Lancet in 1990, the prevalence of NEC was six to ten times higher in children fed cow milk-based formulas compared to other formulas. The report also showed that premature babies fed on milk-based formulas were three times more likely to suffer from NEC than those fed with different formulas or breast milk.

The 1990 study is not the only one showing cow milk in baby formula as a contributory factor to NEC. A 2020 study published in the Journal of Pediatrics showed a 90% less likelihood of developing surgical NEC for infants fed on human milk and human milk fortifiers. 

According to the lawsuit involving Mead Johnson and Abbott Laboratories, the respondents were aware of the dangers of cow milk to infants and premature babies. Still, they failed to change their formulas or add a warning label on the products’ packages, placing consumers in unreasonable danger. 

Common Symptoms Associated with NEC

NEC symptoms include diarrhea, bloody stool, greenish-yellow vomit, lack of appetite, weight loss, fever, difficulty breathing, and lethargy. If your child shows any of these signs and has been consuming products from these companies, you may want to have them checked by your primary care physician to rule out the chances of NEC. 

According to experts, NEC results in death in almost 50% of all diagnosed cases, so you may need to seek medical intervention as soon as possible to save your child’s life.

Product Liability Law

Under product liability law, a manufacturer is liable for the damages resulting from a defective product. In the case of Abbott and Mead, the lawsuit is anchored on design defects because there is evidence to show the dangers of cow milk products on infants, but they went ahead and used it in their formulas.

“The liability in defective products lies squarely with the manufacturers,” says attorney Jason Schneider of Schneider Hammers. The future could be grim for these two companies if the parents of baby Sanders win the lawsuit as more and more parents are filing lawsuits against the companies for injuries and deaths resulting from their products. 

If your infant is diagnosed with NEC after consuming cow milk-based formulas produced by these two companies, you may want to talk to an injury lawyer to look at the viability of your case.

Source: TG Daily – Cow’s Milk-Based Formulas Lawsuits

Patients may be victims of medical errors due to the healthcare provider’s negligence during treatment or surgery. This is, however, not the only risk that patients are exposed to. Some patients are injured before they even get to the hospital through an ambulance crash.

Ambulance crashes, unlike what many people have come to believe, are common and can lead to a worsening of a patient’s condition and in extreme cases death.  In an ambulance crash, the patient is not the only one at risk of sustaining injuries. Everyone traveling in the ambulance can become a casualty if a crash occurs.

According to a report, an estimated 6,500 ambulance crashes are recorded annually, with fatalities recorded in 35 percent of these accidents. Often, ambulance drivers are under pressure to get to the hospital and may have to weave through busy intersections to make it in time. When an ambulance driver takes too many risks, they endanger their lives, the passengers’ lives, as well as other road users.

The Right of Way for Ambulances

The law gives the right of way to emergency response vehicles when they sound their siren or display flashing lights. The alarm or siren is an indication that someone’s life is in danger and the response team needs to get to a destination as fast as possible.

Because every second counts when responding to an emergency, other road users are therefore required to yield once they hear the sirens or see flashing lights. Many times, police vehicles, ambulances, and firetrucks will use both sirens and lights to alert road users that there is an emergency.

Causes of Ambulance Crashes

Although ambulances, like other emergency response vehicles, have the right of way, they can still be involved in accidents. Drivers are required to get the injured victims to the hospital as soon as possible, yet, they are required to carry out such duties with the utmost sense of responsibility and as safely as they can. When ambulance drivers become reckless in carrying out their duties, the likelihood of an accident increases. 

Some of the causes of ambulance accidents include:

#1. Excessive Speeding

While there is pressure on the driver to transport injured persons to a medical facility in a timely manner, it does not justify excessive speeding. When ambulance drivers go way above the recommended speed limit, the risk of being involved in an accident increases.

#2. Failure to Yield

Like other emergency response units, ambulance drivers have the right of way during an emergency. Other road users are therefore required to yield once they hear the sound of the siren. However, some motorists do not yield to the right of way, and this can result in an accident.

#3. Mechanical Failure

Ambulance operators must ensure that the vehicles go through routine maintenance. This helps to detect any mechanical faults on time. If the ambulance is not adequately maintained, mechanical failure can occur while the car is in motion leading to a crash.

#4. Distracted Driving

Many drivers fall victim to distracted driving, and ambulance drivers are not an exception. While behind the wheel, the driver’s eyes and mind should be entirely focused on the road, as any form of distraction can lead to a crash.

#5. Driver Fatigue

Most ambulance drivers are always on the go and can get exhausted as a result. When a driver is tired, it lowers their ability to make good decisions while on the road. 

Some drivers may nod off due to tiredness. It is therefore crucial for drivers who are tired to stay away from the wheel.

#6. Not Activating Emergency Sirens

Emergency sirens help alert other road users to yield to the right of way. When the driver fails to activate the sirens, motorists may not yield, allowing more room for accidents.

#7. Recklessly Driving through an Intersection

Many accidents happen at intersections. Drivers who do not exercise caution at intersections, especially when they hear sirens, may run the risk of getting involved in accidents.

#8. Lack of Training

Some ambulance drivers are not adequately trained, and this lack of training surfaces in their driving decisions. It is vital to ensure that the operators are well-trained. This will go a long way to minimize the number of ambulance accidents.

Common Injuries in an Ambulance Crash

Victims of ambulance crashes can suffer severe injuries and, in horrific cases, death. Some common injuries in an ambulance crash include:

• Whiplash
• Traumatic brain injury
• Spinal injuries
• Cuts and lacerations
• Bone fractures
• Paralysis
• Internal injuries

Ambulance Accident Liability

Although ambulance drivers are allowed to run a red light, which other motorists are not permitted to do, the law also requires them to operate in a way that makes the road safe for other road users. Ambulance drivers are trained to take a minimal amount of risk while driving when they are able.

Some ambulance drivers may take unnecessary risks, resulting in accidents leading to severe injuries and even death. If it is discovered that the driver’s negligence resulted in an accident, they will be held liable for the outcome. In an ambulance accident, the victim may be a medical emergency patient who has previously been involved in an accident which makes them even more vulnerable. 

Where this is the case, it may be difficult to determine who to hold liable for the injuries sustained and how much the liability should be shared. Therefore, victims of ambulance accidents need to consult a competent accident attorney. The attorney will advise on the best line of action to follow after carrying out a thorough investigation.

Wrapping Up

An ambulance accident can be very traumatic for the victims. A good number of the victims of such accidents become permanently impaired. Although ambulances have the right of way, it is very critical that their drivers exercise utmost caution while behind the wheel to prevent accidents. 

Accident victims often wonder if there is any need to involve a lawyer. It will be challenging to get your due payment from the insurance company without the help of an experienced accident lawyer.

Source: TG Daily – Ambulance Crashes and the Right of Way

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a U.S. federal law that was enacted in response to the corporate scandals of the early 2000s. These scandals, which involved companies such as Enron and WorldCom, led to the loss of billions of dollars in shareholder value and shook public confidence in the stock market. Because of this, it is now more important than ever to monitor for sox violations.

SOX was designed to protect investors by creating new standards for all public company boards, management, and public accounting firms. Among other things, SOX requires that companies maintain accurate financial records, disclose any material off-balance sheet arrangements, and establish internal controls to prevent fraud. SOX also created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to oversee the activities of public accounting firms.

The Goal of SOX

The goal of SOX is to restore investor confidence by increasing transparency and accountability in the financial reporting process. SOX sets forth strict rules and regulations that publicly traded companies must follow to achieve this goal. Violating these rules can result in heavy fines and even jail time. As a result, most companies take their compliance with SOX very seriously.

SOX compliance can be costly, both in terms of money and time. Companies must invest in new processes and systems to comply with the law. They also need to train their employees on these new procedures. For some companies, the cost of compliance is a significant burden. However, most companies believe that the benefits of SOX outweigh the costs.

The Components Of SOX

SOX consists of 11 sections, or titles, that address different aspects of corporate governance. Some of the key provisions include:

• Requiring all public companies to establish an internal control framework
• Prohibiting insider trading
• Establishing new responsibilities for audit committees
• Requiring enhanced financial disclosures
• Imposing stricter penalties for fraud

The act also created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to oversee the auditing of public companies. The PCAOB is a nonprofit corporation governed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Public companies must disclose their internal control framework in their annual report to ensure compliance with SOX. They must also obtain an independent audit opinion on their internal controls from their auditors. If a company’s internal controls are deficient, it must disclose that deficiency in its filings with the SEC.

How To Avoid SOX Violations In Your Company

The penalties for violating the Act can be severe, so companies need to do everything they can to avoid violations. 

Here are five ways to avoid Sarbanes Oxley Act violations:

Implement Internal Controls

One of the key provisions of the Sarbanes Oxley Act is the requirement that companies implement internal controls to prevent and detect fraud. Internal controls should be designed to address specific risks that are unique to your company. There are many different types of internal controls, but some common examples include separation of duties, dual approval requirements, and physical custody over assets.

Keep Accurate Books and Records

Another key provision of the Sarbanes Oxley Act is that companies keep accurate books and records. Accurate books and records are essential for adequate internal controls. If your books and records are inaccurate, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to design and implement adequate internal controls.

Comply With SEC Regulations

The Sarbanes Oxley Act also requires companies to comply with all applicable SEC regulations. The SEC has a variety of rules and regulations that apply to publicly traded companies, so companies must ensure that they comply with all relevant laws. Some standard SEC regulations that apply to publicly traded companies include the reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the proxy rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Cooperate With Government Investigations

If your company is the subject of a government investigation, it’s essential to cooperate with the investigators. The Sarbanes Oxley Act requires companies to cooperate with government investigations and will monitor for sox violations for potential violations of the act. Failure to cooperate with an investigation can result in severe penalties, including fines and jail time.

Seek External Guidance

The Sarbanes Oxley Act is complex, and complying with all of its provisions can be challenging for even the most experienced compliance officers. If you need help ensuring that your company complies with the act, seek external guidance from a qualified lawyer or accountant familiar with the act’s requirements. 

Final Thoughts

The Sarbanes Oxley Act imposes strict rules and regulations on publicly traded companies to prevent fraud and improve corporate governance. The penalties for violating the act can be severe, so companies must do everything possible to avoid violations. By implementing internal controls, keeping accurate books and records, complying with SEC regulations, cooperating with government investigations, and seeking external guidance, you can help ensure that your company avoids violating the act.

Written by Spencer Calvert

Source: TG Daily – How To Avoid Sarbanes Oxley Act Violations

It’s a tough market out there. Every business faces stiff competition, and law firms are no exception. Although firms have some repeat customers, you rely on a steady stream of new ones coming through the door.

When people need a new car, they start going from dealership to dealership, taking leisurely test drives, and negotiating prices. In many cases, when people need a lawyer, they need one now. That means law firms can’t expect casual comparison shoppers to simply happen by their offices.

When a potential client needs an attorney, your firm must distinguish itself, or it will get lost in the crowd. That isn’t easy, but it can be done if you’re willing to do the work. Here’s how you can make your law firm stand out in a competitive market.

Take Your Firm to the Top of the Rankings

Those Martindale-Hubbell Preeminent and Distinguished Lawyer designations are great. But those aren’t the only rankings you need in order to place your firm front and center with a prospective client. Your law firm needs to land on page one in a Google search.

If you think buying an ad to put you there is enough, think again. Most people skip those and click on the top organic search results. To get to a pole position, you need to invest in ways to increase your website’s search engine optimization.

Unless you happen to have a digital marketing specialist on staff, your law firm SEO will benefit most from outsourced expertise. Google makes multiple core updates every year and smaller algorithm changes once or twice a day. It’s smart to hire an agency that not only reacts to changes in real-time but fundamentally understands them.  

People who need a lawyer aren’t attracted by the firm with the most garish billboard on the highway. They’re increasingly pulling up Google to search for one. Focus on your SEO so they can find you when they do.

Speak Up

Recommendations from trusted sources continue to be one of the primary ways people find a lawyer. Every time your firm delivers great service to a client, that client will tell friends and family. Word-of-mouth advertising is still alive and well in the legal field.

There are other ways your firm should be capitalizing on the strength of referrals. For example, make sure your website highlights your experience, practice areas, and case results. Actively solicit happy clients for compelling testimonials you can use on your website.

You should also let your content speak to your legal expertise and use it to increase your SEO. Authoritative content is helpful and relevant to readers, so make sure yours incorporates top long-tail keywords without clickbait titles. If ever there were a perfect space for evergreen content, it’s a law firm’s blog.

To stand out among crowded competition, let your clients, your experience, and your expertise speak for you. What they have to say is more likely to resonate with prospective clients than a Facebook ad. These are ways you can brag without the braggadocio.

Communicate Effectively

Good two-way communication builds trust, and clients need to trust the law firm they hire to represent them. Moreover, people are often at their most vulnerable when they need an attorney. Your firm needs to demonstrate that communication is part and parcel of what you provide, even before someone hires you.

For prospects who click on your website, video can be an effective medium to begin building a feeling of trust. Attorneys speaking directly to them in plain English, assuaging fears and anxiety, can put potential clients at ease right away. The impression that you’re easy to talk to can prompt them to contact you. Meanwhile, that video can boost your SEO.

Responding quickly to online contact requests and calls requires constant attention, but it will pay off. Those who need a lawyer right away often hire the first one who gets back to them. And if your website enables them, don’t forget to monitor chatbot interactions to contact prospects who use them to ask questions.

Your law firm is selling a service, not physical goods. Effective communication allows you to set realistic expectations so you aren’t accused of overselling and underdelivering later. Remember that you need those glowing testimonials to give you an edge over the competition.

Evaluate Your Branding

Too many law firms think a nice logo, crisp letterhead, and catchy tagline constitute the full sum of their branding. In fact, branding is also your voice and values, what you promise, and how you position yourself amid your competition. Those aspects may be less tangible, but they might be more important than your office signage.

That’s not to say your logo and tagline aren’t important — they are. They should provide a strong visual and tell people who you are in a nutshell. And in the digital age, your website is the best tool you have to communicate your brand.

Your website should tell your story in a way that attracts the clients you want. You show and tell them who you are, what you deliver, and what makes you different from the other lawyers out there. Everything on the site that makes an impression on your target market is part of your brand.

Lawyers tend to consider themselves as their own brand, forgetting that a law firm is indeed a business. If you haven’t developed a content strategy to communicate who you are, it’s time. Otherwise, you’re just another sleek logo in a crowd of many.

Get Noticed

If you aren’t seeing enough clients walking through your front door, there’s probably a reason for it — or more than one. Technology is rapidly changing the way every business is found, including law firms. If you aren’t keeping pace, you need to step up your digital marketing game.

Make these smart moves to draw attention to your law firm. Once you do, you’ll start getting noticed for all the right reasons.    

Source: TG Daily – How to Make Your Law Firm Stand Out in a Competitive Market

More than a third of the global economy will see two consecutive quarters of negative growth, while the three largest economies — the United States, the European Union, and China — will continue to slow, the report said.

In its report, the IMF laid out three major events currently hindering growth: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the cost-of-living crisis, and China’s economic slowdown.

The war in Ukraine continues to “powerfully destabilize the global economy,” according to the report, with its impacts causing a “severe” energy crisis in Europe, along with destruction in Ukraine itself.

The IMF also highlighted that the risk of monetary, fiscal, or financial policy “miscalibration” had “risen sharply,” while the world economy “remains historically fragile” and financial markets are “showing signs of stress.” The energy crisis is also weighing heavily on the world’s economies, particularly in Europe, and it “is not a transitory shock,” according to the report.

“The geopolitical re-alignment of energy supplies in the wake of Russia’s war against Ukraine is broad and permanent,” the report added.

‘The worst is yet to come’: IMF issues stark recession warning | CNN Business

The International Monetary Fund has once again downgraded its forecast for the global economy with a sharp warning: “The worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession.”

Continue reading on CNN

‘We must change course’: UN warns that the world is on the brink of recession

“All regions will be affected, but alarm bells are ringing most for developing countries, many of which are edging closer to debt default,” the UNCTAD warned.

Continue reading on CNBC

IMF chief warns world heading towards age of greater instability

Kristalina Georgieva points to fundamental shift, with fragile global ties and more frequent natural disasters

Continue reading on the Guardian

Source: TG Daily – ‘Next Year Is Going to be Painful’, IMF Chief Economist Predicts

The relationships between IT vendors and their strategic partners are not always transparent. Certainly, there are obvious differences between the focus areas and skill sets of partners, such as value-added resellers (VARs), ISVs, system integrators, and specialists/consultants. But, traditionally, the relationships between vendors and partners also follow a hierarchy of sorts with those partners providing vendors with the most direct monetary value (like resellers) receiving greater attention and resources than others. 

Shifting that dynamic qualifies as news, so the recent blog from Kate Woolley, GM of IBM Ecosystem, explaining how the company is revamping its training, certification, and sales support offerings for partners is worth considering.

IBM’s partner investments

So what exactly is IBM Ecosystem doing? Woolley noted that as part of an ongoing effort to simplify partners’ experience and provide improved and expanded tools and resources, IBM is:

• Extending to all registered PartnerWorld members, at no charge, access to the same trainings, badges, and enablement materials that IBM’s sellers enjoy. Partners will have access to skilling resources that align with product offerings to deliver hybrid cloud and AI solutions to clients, within data and AI, automation, security, sustainability, infrastructure, and other areas.
• Helping partners qualify for sales and technical badges that demonstrate industry-recognized expertise, including the ability to position and differentiate IBM solutions. The badges are shareable on professional social platforms, such as LinkedIn, and travel with the learner. 
• Enabling partners to access additional prospecting materials, such as sales videos, seller presentations, client presentations, and content, including white papers, analyst reports, decks, and solutions briefs.
• Launching a new learning hub designed to dramatically improve the digital experience for partners. The hub offers a modernized and consistent experience, making it easier to find resources, the right training at the right time, and complete the coursework desired. The new learning hub can be found at: https://www.ibm.com/training/bplearn/catalog 

Woolley also highlighted that over the past year, IBM has doubled brand-specialized partner sellers in the IBM Ecosystem, increased technical partner sellers by more than 35%, and bolstered the digital experience with its Partner Portal. As a result, deal registration has improved, and the company has introduced partners to more than 7,000 potential deals valued at over $500 million globally. Woolley also committed to IBM’s plans to continue investing in partners’ experience with the goal of doubling revenue through the IBM Ecosystem in the next three to five years. 

Final analysis

What are the takeaways here? A couple of things are worth noting. First, IBM’s decision to allow all registered partners to freely access training and materials that emphasize the quality and value of the company’s solutions qualifies as a great example of a vendor making itself easier for partners to support. That might sound like a no-brainer, but it is particularly important for a company actively working on expanding partner-driven sales. It also sets IBM apart from IT vendors that treat strategic partners hierarchically. 

It is also worth noting how closely aligned the materials and skilling assets are with key IBM strategic imperatives and targets, including hybrid cloud and AI solutions, automation, security, sustainability, and infrastructure. Note that “infrastructure” (aka hardware) is at the end of this list—suggesting the emphasis the company is placing on evolving partners’ skills beyond simply driving sales of servers and storage arrays. 

For over a decade, IBM has been transforming itself from a traditional enterprise systems player into a vendor that delivers reliably powerful, innovative, and effective solutions to a broad range of global businesses and industries. To achieve that goal, the company needs to help ensure the participation and success of companies with whom it collaborates. 

Kate Woolley’s blog highlights the value of providing all strategic partners access to enhanced training and sales collateral. She also underscores IBM’s commitment to its own transformation and to bringing strategic partners along for what should be a memorable and profitable ride.  

Written by Charles King, Pund-IT®

Source: TG Daily – IBM Levels Skills/Sales Support for Ecosystem Partners

For some time, Money Saving Expert has been the UK’s go-to for honest and impartial advice on most essential financial topics. Along with the useful resources published by the MSE team itself, the website also has a forum with more than two million active members.

But what is the official (or unofficial) Money Saving Expert take on bridging loans? Does the Money Saving Expert website offer any advice, direct or otherwise, for those looking into bridging finance?

What is Money Saving Expert?

Established in 2003, Money Saving Expert was created by Martin Lewis – a financial journalist who would eventually make his own fortune helping other people save money. He’s now worth tens of millions of pounds, but can still be found regularly advising folks on how to save money on their household bills, and other outgoings in general.

Money Saving Expert is staffed by more than 100 people, who create and curate a steady stream of consumer-finance related posts. Martin Lewis himself has become known as something of a guru on the financial advice scene and is constantly popping up in high-profile slots on popular TV and radio shows.

He sold Money Saving Expert to the Money Supermarket Group several years ago for a massive sum of money but still contributes to its output. 

What Does Money Saving Expert Say About Bridging Loans?

Interestingly, bridging finance is not a topic that has ever been brought up on Money Saving Expert in any official capacity.  In fact, there has barely been any mention of bridging finance from the Money Saving Expert team itself, over the years.

The same can also be said for Martin Lewis, who so far has remained fairly tight-lipped regarding his thoughts on bridging finance; perhaps due to the fact that bridging loans have only recently started to become mainstream in nature, having previously been near-exclusively available to established business borrowers.

How About the Money Saving Expert Forum?

It is a slightly different story where the Money Saving Expert forum is concerned, where (literally) thousands of conversations have taken place to date about bridging finance.

All of this makes it surprising that little to no information and guidance has been published by Money Saving Expert in the meantime.

Taking a look at the Money Saving Expert forum sheds light on some of the most common questions and concerns regarding bridging finance. For example, some of the most frequently asked questions of all by members of the Money Saving Expert forum include the following (and variations thereof):

• Will I qualify for bridging finance?
• Who can apply for a bridging loan?
• What does the bridging loan application process look like?
• What security needs to be provided for a bridging loan?
• How are bridging loans repaid?
• Can a bridging loan be repaid on a monthly basis?
• Is it possible to get bridging loans with bad credit?

This would seem to suggest that general interest in bridging loans among the consumer audience has been piqued for some time. But given the lack of formal input from bridging loan experts, advice sourced from forums like these is not always reliable.

Always Ask the Experts…

Of course, it is not to say that forums like these cannot be useful for accessing invaluable information. Particularly when it comes to people’s first-hand experiences with bridging finance, there’s much to learn in public forums.

But if you have important questions or concerns regarding bridging finance, they should always be discussed with an expert. Book your obligation-free consultation with the team at Bridgingloans.co.uk today, and we will help you build a clear picture of the pros and cons of short-term borrowing.

Source: TG Daily – Money Saving Expert Bridging Loans: What’s the Verdict?

ThinkPad is almost the polar opposite of Apple in that ThinkPad is function over form while Apple tends to be form over function. You buy Apple for the look of the device and to feel part of the Apple cult, but you buy ThinkPad when your job depends on what you do on a laptop. While Apple is long on pretty and lightweight, it’s also famous for throttling its products along with various “gate” problems surrounding coverups, and ThinkPad has historically been the brand you can depend on to get the job done. While Apple is clearly a U.S. company, Lenovo is an international firm with leadership spread all over the world. Both products are iconic, though whereas Apple was once known for innovative ideas, that reputation has eroded over time while ThinkPad continues to define new technologies, most recently foldable screens and head-mounted displays.

Let’s look back at some of the highlights of the last 30 years.

The butterfly keyboard

One of the first notebooks I ever lusted after, though I never got one, was the little ThinkPad 701C with the big keyboard that carried the butterfly name. Granted, the power you could get in a notebook back in the early 90s was not much compared to today. Hilariously, we argued at the time that the processors of that time were overkill. 

Still, the idea of a tiny laptop that had a full-sized keyboard was compelling, and this was the product that filled a halo role and got people excited about the brand, even though most of us ended up with a more generic black ThinkPad laptop.

The T-Series

If ever there was a gold standard for a business laptop it was, and to a certain extent still is, the ThinkPad T-Series, particularly the T400s. They were affordable, not too heavy, had relatively long battery life, a very strong industrial design, and had one feature most users seemed unaware of. In fact, it was the basis of a running joke for much of the life of the T-Series: it had a unique keyboard light that users would forget when asking for new features (most asked that the laptop get a lighted keyboard, something it already had).

If the laptop with the butterfly keyboard got people’s attention, it was the T-Series that they bought, so virtually every other laptop, with the exception of Apple, copied the T-Series to some degree. It is interesting to note that when the MacBook air came out, which was thinner than the ThinkPad, Apple ran this ad showcasing that Thinnest isn’t necessarily best. 

First dual-screen laptop

Another innovative laptop came out in 2008 with dual screens, which was the ThinkPad 700ds.  This laptop had a second screen that would pull out and provide you with more screen real estate. It was a small screen, though bigger than you had on most Smartphones of the time, allowing you to do things like look at your initial social media feed while you were working on a project.  Screen size has always been a limiting factor for notebooks and ThinkPad, well beyond any other vendor, has been focusing on creative ways to increase effective screen size for years.  

The true table convertible

With all of the hype surrounding the iPad taking over the world, the ThinkPad group came up with an alternative concept in 2013 called the ThinkPad Helix. This product had a removable tablet that could also be reversed to do presentations, something that some sales organizations thought they needed to do individual pitches.  Still, it was very sturdy and robust and even though the tablet threat was overstated (largely because Apple stopped driving it after Steve Jobs passed), it was a far more useful alternative to the iPad than most other challengers.   

ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2014

The second-generation ThinkPad Carbon was a showcase of just what you could do with carbon fiber to create a fully functional, thin, light laptop that made the MacBook Air look stupid. One other unique feature was its adaptive function key row that used grayscale e-paper displays to provide unique function key options customizable by the user. It was certainly innovative, but users preferred the keys the way they were so this feature was replaced by a more common row of function keys in 2015. Still, it showcased a willingness to try something new and different, and if you don’t try new things, you won’t discover new opportunities. Sadly, like the butterfly keyboard, this one didn’t last but it was certainly innovative for its time  

The ThinkPad Fold

ThinkPad was aggressive with foldable displays, first coming up with one that folded down from 13” to a purse-sized form factor and then, more recently, releasing one (that I think is a far better idea) that folded up from 12” to near 17” for vastly greater potential productivity. Sporting amazing-looking OLED displays, these foldable laptops represent the cutting edge of laptop innovation today and showcase that while Apple hasn’t had a truly innovative laptop idea in years, ThinkPad is still leading the market in productivity-focused innovation.

Wrapping up:

It has been 30 amazing years for ThinkPad, and it’s a wonder that the unit—which transitioned 30 years ago from what was once the IBM PC company to Lenovo—is still out-innovating its peers with a product line focused on business users, not consumers. Throughout its 30 years of existence, ThinkPad has been known for its consistent look, extremely reliable nature, and its tight focus on customers who want to both be proud of their laptops and get real work done. ThinkPad is the brand you buy if your livelihood depends on your PC working and, I expect, it always will be. Happy 30^th Anniversary ThinkPad!

Source: TG Daily – ThinkPad’s 30-Year Anniversary:  Innovation Squared

Last week at Intel Innovation, Intel released its first discrete graphics card. It’s nice looking, but can it compete with AMD’s and NVIDIA’s best offerings? The answer is no.

But it would have been impossible for Intel to come up with a new card that beat the best from two companies that have been running hard against each other in that segment for decades. So, Intel came up with a different strategy: create a card that is solidly in the value space with regards to pricing but provides it with features that are often only found in premium cards. This not only potentially provides a lot of value where the volumes are typically higher, but competitors won’t want to respond for fear of devaluing their higher-end offerings.  

Now, this is a new card which means there will be growing pains. If you aren’t into first-generation technology teething problems, you’d best wait a few months so that any driver or incompatibility issues are addressed by others. But for those that want a decent level of performance in an affordable graphics card, the Intel Arc A770 is for you.

The strategy is very similar to how Japanese and Korean car makers came to market. They hit low price points with cars that had features often not found until you got to premium offerings to establish themselves in the market, then brought out ever more capable products over time. This strategy allowed Toyota to eventually challenge and take leadership from General Motors.  

Let’s talk about Intel’s Arc A770 Limited Edition discrete graphics card this week.  

Perception and reality

A good marketing program focuses on the perception of the related product because, to the buyer, perception is reality. The new Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition card leads with perception. Limited editions are typically the first cards to market at the high end of any line and are often relatively unaffordable since they go for a significant premium.

In its most expensive configuration, the Arc A770 Limited Edition card is only $349 which is a $20 increase over the base card and the real value. The difference between the two cards is 8 GB of memory. The reason to have both is to create the impression in the mind of the buyer that $20 but 8 gigs of memory you can’t upgrade is one great deal.  

Exclusivity tends to connect to buyer status, and status drives sales. This is at the core of Intel’s naming gambit. They don’t have cards in the nose-bleed pricing segments, thus the card they do have is their flagship. Typically, such a move would devalue more expensive cards, but Intel doesn’t have those which allow them to put features in this card like XeSS, Smooth Sync, Speed Sync, and Arc Control that you’d typically find in more expensive offerings.  

Performance

Due to its new technology, Intel’s Arc card performs best with the latest games that take into account the XeSS up converter. This accounts for a lot of the current AAA titles, but older titles that were created before this card was released won’t perform as well. One of the most thorough benchmarks for this new card can be found at PCMag which confirms that with current games, the card over achieves, but with old games, it underperforms its competitors. However, once those older games are updated, it is likely their support for this new card will also increase.  

The key is the XeSS support which allows the related system to render at low resolutions, then upscaling the result. But if the game doesn’t support XeSS, it will be hampered competitively, and the related performance will be lower than with other similar cards. The gameplay isn’t horrible, but clearly, this card is best for those playing current titles until the older titles are updated for this new upscaling technology.  

Wrapping up: 

For early adopters, the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition looks to be good value, but that value will increase as more game developers embrace its unique upscaling technology. It is a pretty card in a case and will visually enhance most any system built that has a window into the case to see it.  At $349 it is one of the best desktop PC values in the market, but higher-end cards from both NVIDIA and AMD will outperform it. For many, however, that extra performance may be financially undesirable or not needed depending on the game title.

As is always my advice with brand new products, it would be wise to wait a few months before buying this card so that any problems are discovered by others.  So far, even the most rigorous testing hasn’t identified a major problem, only tuning issues, but there’s almost always breakage when a new technology like this rolls out. The real test will come when thousands of people use the card.  

Best of luck and good gaming!

Source: TG Daily – Intel’s Interesting Arc A770 Discrete Card Strategy

A pro-Putin hacking cell has announced plans to wreak havoc across official US websites over the next three days.

The website is believed to have been subject to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which seeks to disrupt a site by flooding it with web traffic in a bid to try and knock it offline.

For each of the websites, the hackers have detailed how they plan to disrupt the services.

Russian-speaking hackers knock US state government websites offline | CNN Politics

Russian-speaking hackers on Wednesday claimed responsibility for knocking offline state government websites in Colorado, Kentucky and Mississippi, among other states — the latest example of apparent politically motivated hacking following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian hackers reveal list of American targets for attack

The alleged attack by Killnet temporarily knocked out several government websites on Wednesday.

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Montenegro wrestles with massive cyberattack; Russia blamed

The coordinated attack, which started around Aug. 20, crippled online government information platforms and put Montenegro?s essential infrastructure at high risk.

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Source: TG Daily – Russian-Speaking Hackers Target US Websites In A Series of Cyberattacks

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk drew the wrath of Ukrainians from the president on down for Twitter posts urging Ukraine to seek a negotiated solution to the invasion by Russia and to cede Crimea for good.

Musk also launched a Twitter poll asking citizens of occupied areas of eastern Ukraine recently annexed by the Kremlin — plus Crimea, which Moscow took in 2014 — to decide if they want to live in Russia or Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy responded by posting his own poll to Twitter asking his followers if they preferred an Elon Musk who supports Ukraine….or Russia.

Musk’s plan to end Russian war infuriates Ukraine on Twitter

Elon Musk has gotten into a Twitter tussle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the tech billionaire floated a divisive proposal to end Russia?s invasion. The Tesla CEO, who on Tuesday revived a $44 billion deal to take control of Twitter, argued in a tweet that to reach peace Russia should be allowed to keep the Crimea Peninsula that it seized in 2014.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent thousands of Starlink satellite internet dishes to Ukraine, company’s president says

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Elon Musk Stole My Old Plan for Peace in Ukraine. Too Bad It Doesn?t Make Sense Anymore.

These ideas might have worked in March. Now, not so much.

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Source: TG Daily – Musk’s Post on Russia-Ukraine Peace Plan Triggers Uproar

Video conferencing in modern conditions is not just a video phone connecting several sites, as some might think. Everything is more difficult. It is a whole computer technology that allows people to hear and see each other, exchange information online, and process the information received.

Videoconferencing systems have made this possible. To conduct a video conference, you need to have the right equipment and the ability to connect through various communication channels with your interlocutor (including satellite), which would meet the necessary requirements.

Today, many programs offer video communication between people, which allows you to quickly resolve issues. Among such applications, the iMind platform can be distinguished, which provides a wide range of services for its users.

Can you do without video?

Why do we need video conferencing at all, while there is telephone conferencing? According to research, about 80% of information a person perceives through the eyes. Therefore, video conferencing is a very useful thing and the scope is quite wide.

Video conferencing is essential for conducting various selectors among managers. Doctors can hold an urgent consultation, which will involve specialists from all over the world. Video conferencing can be used to:

• training seminars;
• trainings;
• master classes.

Also, videoconferencing can be useful in security systems and in a number of other industries.

Video conferencing is a common thing for most people. A few years ago, videoconferencing was a hard-to-reach technology: in order to use it, you had to buy an expensive camera, conduct high-quality Internet, which was available to very few. Now a lot has changed – and the Internet has become faster and the webcam has become cheaper, and almost every laptop and smartphone has a built-in front camera. In general, videoconferencing is now available to everyone, and it significantly expands the horizons of human capabilities.

At first glance, this technology does not look shocking – there is a camera that can show in real-time, and you can chat. But if you think about it? Humans have essentially eliminated distance as a factor that divides society into small groups. Today, video conferencing erases all facets of problems, sharing knowledge, building a business, communication is easier than ever. Moreover, the quality of video communication is increasing every year and  the effect of the presence of interlocutors located far from each other is already felt.

Videoconferencing brings many benefits to society. First, physical boundaries lose weight. You can communicate with representatives of other countries absolutely freely, regardless of kilometers and customs checkpoints. It, in turn, makes the whole world more united, closer, and the development of technology leads to an increase in mutual understanding among people.

Secondly, videoconferencing opens up new business opportunities. All business, regardless of industry and scale, is built primarily on communication between people. It is the basis, the foundation on which all industries are built. And today, this foundation has become much easier to build.

Videoconference made it possible for businessmen to communicate easier and cheaper, to avoid exhausting and costly business trips. Today it is enough for a businessman to make a video call, and he is already in touch with his partners, colleagues, regardless of the distance. Videoconferencing has already become an essential tool for businesses around the world.

What are the disadvantages?

The disadvantages of video conferencing are not obvious. It is quite possible that the spread of new forms of communication will lead to changes in society. Videoconferencing can be a driver of change. Is it good or bad? Let each answer this question independently.

Written by Adam Eaton

Source: TG Daily – Why do we need videoconferencing?

Developing software is a complex task, and many details should be kept in mind so you don’t miss something important. As technology progresses, software developers need to correspond to the latest advances to develop really efficient software. It is not easy but in the end, the quality product is always worth the resources that were put into its development. 

Technology helps save time and other resources, but detailed work has to be done in order to create a robust solution. But what does it take to make a high-quality product, and what are the cycles of software development consists of?

Let’s analyze the process of software development life cycle and have a look at some software development trends to get a bigger picture.

What is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?

The software development life cycle is a term that describes the main cycles of software development consists of, and the general pattern it has. The structure of the cycle allows developers to have a reliable plan which will allow for the software to be effective. Planning also saves time and helps organize the whole process. Hard work combined with lots of analysis contributes to creating software with efficient functions and high-quality design. Such products serve longer and can help businesses achieve their goals.

All of the stages in this cycle are interconnected, and each of them provides the result for the next one. The final stage summarizes everything as the implemented software is tested.

So, what are the five stages of a software development life cycle?

Analysis Of The Requirements

This is the most important stage of the whole process of software development. Before you start developing software, all of the company’s requirements need to be analyzed. This is why starting a discussion with various specialists is helpful. All the sides of the process of development need to be understood and addressed. Otherwise, there will be misunderstandings right at the beginning of the process of development, and it will lead to further complications. By getting a picture of what purposes is software needed, what are the conditions of utilization, who will use it, and what is the desired outcome of this utilization, you may get to know what general requirements for software the company has. Also, knowing the purposes helps understand how the company’s professional goals can be achieved in an easier way and how a digital solution may help.

If you have a clear plan of what the process of usage will look like, it will not take you much time to design the product and know the particular details that are required for the software to be efficient. This analysis is also necessary for the definition of quality requirements and effective risk management. 

The main goal of requirement analysis is to make sure the goals are clear, and developers have a clear picture of what the software will be used for and how to serve the company’s needs well.

Design Development

The design stage defines all of the next stages of effective software development. You need to have a clear picture of what a solution should look like and what the components will be. 

The “Requirement Specification” document, created in the first stage of the process, has a special guide for developers. Both the software and system design are developed according to these instructions. This is important in order to define what parts of the design are especially important. The different parts of the product which are created during this stage are:

• various parts of the system;
• what hardware is required;
• the entire architecture.

The result of the design development constitutes the final product and is used in the next stage to make enhancements. After the process of designing, the coding will take place. The design plan is created by lead developers and technical architects, and all of the main requirements are incorporated into it. The process is somehow similar to company website development, as it also includes robust architecture and detailed structure. Knowing the structure allows us to easily navigate the process of the creation of the product.

Implementation

The process of coding itself is done in this part of the software development life cycle. The necessary data is created and placed in a database by an admin, and the interface is created. The design specifications allow developers to produce code that is used in the next stage of the cycle. This stage of the cycle is the longest and it takes the most effort. But in addition, this stage is critically important as it makes the core of the software development. IT web development companies spend a lot of resources on this stage.

This stage also implies many changes can be made so the developers need to be prepared for high pressure. But quality execution of the process of coding prevents potential mistakes in the future.

Testing

Testing is required in order to know if the product meets all of the necessary requirements and if nothing is missing. In order to know the readiness of the software, various methods of testing are being implemented, including system testing, unit testing, integration testing, and so on. 

After these kinds of tests, you can evaluate whether the software is suitable for the desired requirements and is ready to be used. Testing is essential to understand the weak parts of the products and prevent potential issues as there is always a chance for some mistakes to appear.

Maintenance

This is the final stage in which the software is ready to be utilized. If all of the requirements of planning and design are met, then the product is suitable for the company’s needs and may perform all necessary functions. 

This stage is also critical for the whole process of development as the practical usage of the product may indicate what the potential issues are, and what are the weak parts of the software. Even QA testing does not prevent additional problems from occurring. When noticed, these problems may be addressed by the marketplace development agencies and all of the requirements met. Routine maintenance and regular upgrades are essential for keeping the product high quality.

Conclusion

The development of software is a complex and detailed process, and there are many aspects that need to be seen and enhanced during its various stages. Good software requires thorough planning, elaborate design, and many hours of coding, and after that, a product may be utilized. In order to create something that will serve for a long time and be effective in its work, many minor stages have to be finished and the final outcome enhanced. Even after the software is created, new updates need to be constantly performed.

In order to stay up to date, developers need to follow the latest technological trends and use quality tools. By combining technology with analysis and research, professionals can create a really robust solution.

Many stages of the software development life cycle may seem difficult, but all of them are necessary for quality software. Mistakes are inevitable in this process, too, so it is necessary to learn from them and use the experience which was gained in developing software for better results in the future. 

Written by Adam Eaton

Source: TG Daily – Five Stages of a Software Development Life Cycle

The Rise of Party Game

Stumble Guys of Kita Games has finally reached its breakthrough two years after its launch, with its monthly revenue exceeding 100 million RMB. It is a battle royale party game, racing up with 32 players dashing through chaotic obstacle courses. Run, jump, and dash to the finish line until the best player takes the crown!

Party Game is definitely one of the main props in the game genre in the current mobile game market. As GameLook has reported, the Party Game is the one and only category that has held up in the face of declining overall U.S. mobile Game revenue this year. In August this year, the authoritative gaming industry Rollic also gave a very optimistic outlook for the future development of the Party Game category.

For instance, Flappy Bird, which can’t be missed when it comes to the Party Game, is the originator of the Party Game and was developed by a Vietnamese named Don Nguyen. This is a user-friendly game and is so simple that everyone can get on it instantly even without focusing on the game wholeheartedly. This type of easy-but-additive mode attracted massive players with over 50 million downloads within a short period of time. From then on, the Party Game mode has been set. Party Game is destinated to go viral on Web 2, as the multiplayer model and social fever are the main factors that reinforce its popularity, and what comes along is the skyrocketing discussion and sensation. 

The Coming of the Party Game in Web 3

Web 3 games have incorporated economic elements into the game, giving players the ability to generate, collect, earn, and utilize tokens, from which they can gain actual income. Puffverse recently released details about its upcoming Web 3.0 gaming project, PuffGo. As a metaverse that is powered by an outstanding development team, PuffGo is only a small part of the whole ecosystem, but they chose PuffGo to be the first one to introduce Puffverse to the public.

In terms of PuffGo’s storyline, the Puff team has spiced up the characters and story for fun and interactivity. To have a sneak peek, it’s an interlocking story in which all characters interact with one another in some way. The story starts with the missing of the Demon King and the invasion of the Demon King City by the vicious Moru evil group, which is led by a cunning and self-centered character – Mr.B. All the main characters are related to the invasion somehow. They all have unique personalities. 

Skill to Earn

While many existing Web 3 games are primarily webpage games, a comprehensive metaverse world with a content-rich storyline utilizes economic features for players to have fun, as well as integrate with Web 3 assets.

The game contains a wealth of level themes and gameplay and offers a variety of matchplay modes to choose from. Players can collect game characters with different appearances, personalities, and abilities, and change them into various costumes. In addition, players can take advantage of the specialties of different characters to participate in a variety of level plays. Each character comes with abundant skills and strategies that can be used wisely to compete for higher ranking and better resource rewards. In terms of level setting, players experience things distinctively depending on whether they have NFT character assets or not. The modes differ in the number of participants, the way to form a team, and the rewards.

Players can improve their individual combat capacities or team attributes with a reasonable combination to get the victory. This is how Skill to Earn works! The point is to really master the game, using your game experience, and actually finish the match. The game aims to provide players with an entertaining and differentiated game experience, allowing them to use each character with strategies to diverse theme-level games with varied costumes. Characters each have distinct personalities and figures, with their own storylines, unique skills, and attributes that play to their strengths in different application scenarios. With them, players can live and play carefreely and immerse themselves in the NFT game metaverse – Puffverse to have the best game experience in the crypto world.

About Puffverse

It is pretty smart to release PuffGo, the Web 3 gaming, as the first step of Puffverse, considering the heat Stumble Guys and Fall Guys have brought. But there’s more beyond the game itself.

The typical single-character settings were abandoned in favor of a character set that emphasizes “Who I am” by letting the users choose from different characters. Each character has their own character traits — Everyone is born different, and everyone can confidently be their best self — There is always a role whose character can be projected onto the individual player, triggering the maverick GenZ users’ empathy for “being brave and being yourself,” allowing them to accept and integrate into Puff’s world. Puffidentity is what matters the most, and it can be used across all products in Puffverse.

The main focus of the Puffverse team right now is mostly on creating a Disney-like metaverse. Puffs will be the character inside our metaverse. Users can access our metaverse through TVs, mobiles, virtual reality headsets, and other devices to play socially, competitively, and for fun. To earn profitably, players can even design their own UGC land in the metaverse. The team has extensive experience in the gaming industry with reliable partners and will keep enhancing the game’s quality and providing players with a variety of experiences.

Behind Puffverse

Puffverse, as the pioneer that combined web 3 with Party Games, attracted the attention of massive investors. Starting from 2019, due to the limits imposed by the epidemic, the majority of people worldwide are unable to travel as freely as before, but the socialization need still remains. With 300 million users worldwide, Xiaomi is a user-centered platform where quality content and platform will complement one another to create positive feedback in a loop. As a result, a team from Xiaomi decided to expand the investment in content production while choosing this track in the medium casual competitive category given the overall situation at the time (COVID-19). Hopefully, this will increase the viscosity of the platform and product users. The team also collaborated with Unity to develop the underlying framework of the product and designed a full set of Unity technology to realize the product planning. Unity provided all the technical support for the Puff project, and the best TA team in the world was brought in to realize the Puff product’s art and animation. The team created the base framework of the editor based on Unity to give the best action game experience to the users after it was introduced to the public.

The crypto world needs some excitement and freshness. Puffverse and its first product, PuffGo, will definitely be the most-anticipated gem among many.

Written by Awais Ahmed

Source: TG Daily – The Upcoming Stumble Guys of Web 3! Seize the Initiative of Puffverse – PuffGo

After more than two months of audit and confirmation by the CMMI Institute of the United States, AiDot Inc. officially passed the software CMMI-DEV V2.0 certification evaluation and obtained the Level 5 certification, which is currently the strictest and most authoritative certification in the international software research and development field.

This is another important milestone for AiDot Inc. to obtain authoritative certification in terms of product quality, innovation strength, management, and service level.

What does CMMI level 5 company mean?

Passing the CMMI 5 level certification indicates that AiDot Inc.’s software technology research and development capabilities, project management capabilities, quality assurance capabilities, and solution delivery capabilities continue to maintain the international advanced level, and can provide customers with more mature industry solutions. Higher quality service is of great significance to the sustainable development of the company in the future.

Statistics data from the official website of CMMI shows that only 15.8% of the 10,987 CMMI-certified companies have achieved Level 5 certification. According to SEI (Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University), software development companies that CMMI certified and actually implement the CMMI management model, have improved project estimation and control capabilities by about 40%-50%, and productivity has increased by 10%-20%. Product error rates fell by more than a third.

AiDot’s scope of this evaluation included 19 process time domains such as software requirements development management, technical solution implementation, project management (including planning, estimation, monitoring, risk management, quantitative management, etc.), Agile software development practices, root cause analysis, decision analysis, peer review, testing management, training management, configuration management, quantitative management, organizational process assets, and high-level governance. The evaluation team unanimously determined that AiDot Inc.’s software R&D process system complied with the high maturity specifications and requirements of CMMI-DEV V2.0, and successfully passed the 5-level certification of CMMI-DEV V2.0.

About CMMI：

CMMI is the Software Capability Maturity Integration Model, was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense and jointly developed by CMU-SEI (Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute), is the industry standard for measuring the capability maturity and project management level of software enterprises, and is also the most authoritative software capability assessment system in the world. CMMI maturity level 5 is the optimizing level, which is the highest level.

About AiDot： 

AiDot is a smart home platform that connects devices across brands and ecosystems. With AiDot, your home becomes a connected space that makes your life simpler, safer, and more entertaining. 

The AiDot app is the central part of the platform for controlling all smart home devices installed in your home. No matter where you are, you can control “Works with AiDot” devices in your home, including lights, switches, outlets, cameras, sensors, and household appliances, or create scenes and automation around your routines.

“Works with AiDot” (WWA) is a mark of interconnectivity across different brands and categories. You can easily control any product featuring the WWA label with AiDot app. Brands that have joined the AiDot ecosystem include well-known smart device brands, such as Linkind, OREiN, Mujoy, Winees, WELOV, Syvio, GoGonova, Ganiza, etc. 

For more information, visit: www.AiDot.com
Contact us: marketing@aidot.com

Source: TG Daily – AiDot Inc. Obtained Level 5 Certification of CMMI-DEV V2.0

CEO Pat Gelsinger is working to turn Intel into the power it once was. Intel has some significant advantages, like its own FABs, which remain entrenched in enterprise standards worldwide. But years of neglect for core businesses are hard to overcome. One of the first things to do is recapture the interest of developers. What is sad about this last is that Gelsinger is considered to be the founder of IDF, the old Intel Developer Forum that a predecessor, operating tactically, killed. Intel Innovation is the replacement for IDF. It’s smaller than any IDF I remember, likely because folks still don’t want to travel. This event is happening during a shift on interest between ARM and RISK V which could provide an interesting opportunity for Intel to recapture some developers.

This week, let’s talk about what Pat Gelsinger shared at Intel’s Innovation keynote.

Software-defined silicon enhanced

As noted above, Intel is in the midst of a turnaround with a greater focus on software in the future and what appears to be a shift towards providing services to other companies. Intel is using a term that the company avoided throughout most of its life, a term that has become so popular that back in the early 2000s, Microsoft and IBM, who both avoided that term, also pivoted to it. That term is “open.” It embodies where customers, huge enterprise customers, want their vendors to go and where those vendors are moving to embrace the related concepts aggressively.  

Concepts like Intel Shuttle aim to educate and train the next generation of engineers. Gelsinger announced that he is committed to expanding this kind of educational engagement significantly in the future.  

Intel GPUs

Gelsinger announced Intel’s new line of HPC GPUs, which are used as accelerators in high-performance data centers. This new area for Intel provides some interesting background. When Gelsinger last left Intel, he left due to a prior failed GPU effort. That wasn’t his fault, but resulted, like so many failures I’ve studied, from an unwillingness to recognize that the path Intel was on was the wrong one and working groups actively covering up that the technology didn’t work. Gelsinger was blindsided which gives him a unique motivation to get it to work this time. 

At Innovation, he also spoke about gaming, and while Intel’s new ARC GPUs aren’t going to be competitive with the best from AMD or NVIDIA, they will provide a low-cost alternative to their mid- and entry lines. The strategy is penetration pricing-based, which makes funding-related marketing problematic, but if Intel invests adequately, it should be successful. 

Intel has an interesting play here, providing a very affordable alternative to more expensive cards from competitors with what should be better upscaling and AI support for that price point. It will require some impressive marketing to get users to see what a great value this card potentially is, but the strategy, assuming the card performs as promised, is compelling. 

Intel developer cloud

Innovation is a developer conference, so Gelsinger brought one of the Intel developers on stage. Given that Intel has been defined by old white guys like much of the technology industry, the developer Gelsinger called up was fascinating. Ria is an 18-year-old out of Harvard who has been working at Intel for years and is a prodigy. It is essential to get young people excited about STEM, particularly engineering, and showcasing a young woman as a significant portion of Gelsinger’s keynote should draw attention to Intel’s diversity efforts, where they are sincerely trying to make a significant difference in this segment. 

In watching this, I was reminded of the problems of scripting a presentation like this with teleprompters and the need to assure people are comfortable with the technology. Ria, the youngest on the stage, actually took to the effort well and arguably did as well or better than her older peers. 

They walked through some of Intel’s AI modeling tools focused on Computer Vision and AI modeling. They presented a relatively simple but impressively capable Intel AI creation tool. The example they gave was targeted at farming which is often at the low end of the scale for technology innovation but is an area where there is currently a massive effort to create solutions that avoid pesticides and help create crops that are more resistant to climate change to help avoid what would otherwise result in worldwide famines. It showcased how farmers, with little training, could train AI models themselves to increase farm yields potentially. 

Gelsinger announced the launch of Intel GETi (available in Q4 this year) to help enterprises create and modify AI models. The related demo with Chipotle used PreciTaste and OpenVINO in combination with Intel’s AI tools to optimize restaurant operations and reduce operating costs. I’ll be happy if they can make Chipotle’s chips edible (our local store puts so much salt on their chips they’re practically inedible).  Given that this is computer vision-based, assuming the cameras can see the amount of salt, they could fix my problem with our local Chipotle.  Currently, this technology is in a limited test, but they announced they would be rolling the technology out to their stores shortly.  

Gaming

Intel was once heavily involved in gaming, sponsored LAN partie,s and aggressively supported video game companies. Gelsinger took the company back to those roots and showcased a game developer, Inflexion Games, on stage using the Unreal Engine. She was able to run up to eight game instances at the same time for debugging and scene modification. The game being demonstrated was Nightingale, which appears to be an RPG steampunk fantasy game; it looked very realistic.  

13^th Generation Intel Core

Gelsinger announced Intel’s 13^th generation platform (due next month to market) and argued it has the most robust single-threaded performance of anything on the market. It will be interesting to match it up against the new Ryzen processors that AMD also announced this week (I have an AMD system in test, which is impressive, setting a high bar for Intel to overcome). They promise 6 GHz out of the box at the top of the line, which is an impressive performance. 

Text to image

This technology, which I first saw at an NVIDIA GTC event years ago, allows a person to describe a picture which the computer then creates. I’m looking forward to using GAUDI2. Both my mother and my first stepmother were artists, so you’d think I would be able to draw, but to my eternal embarrassment, my art skills suck. Gelsinger also announced and showcased a GAUDI2 accelerator which did a decent job of creating attractive pictures from descriptions.  

Samsung Extended Screen and Intel Unison

PCs are screen-constrained, and Samsung, Lenovo, Motorola, and others have been exploring foldable displays. What Samsun brought on stage was a slidable display. Just pull the edges of the display, and it grows from 13 inches to 17 inches. It reminds me of a future computer I saw in an old Gene Roddenberry TV series years ago. It was an impressive demonstration, and I can hardly wait to see one of these screens in person.  Coupled with this new display, Intel showcased a new feature called Intel Unison which featured single-tap connections to peripherals, and they showcased it working with the Samsung Slide display. Acer, HP, and Lenovo will be the first to market with this option.  

Silicon optics 

This USB-sized connector used fiber optics to create an extremely high-speed fiber optic connection. The implication is that future USB optical optional connections provide wired networking speeds vastly faster than we can get today.

Wrapping up:

To close out the talk, Linus Torvalds came on stage. Torvalds is considered the father of Linux and one of the founders of the Open-Source movement. He created Linux on Intel technology, and his initial effort resulted because he couldn’t afford to buy UNIX, so he wrote his OS, which has grown to become one of the true industry powers primarily driven, at least initially, by volunteers.  It is interesting to note that Torvalds doesn’t consider himself a visionary but a plodding engineer who works on current problems but doesn’t concern himself much with what will happen decades in the future. Gelsinger gave Torvalds the first-ever Intel Innovation award.   

In closing, Gelsinger gave us a near-term peek into the future, one that promises a more open, more agile, and more user-focused Intel. 

Source: TG Daily – Intel Innovation 2022 Keynote: The Return of IDF

Blockchain data and information service provider OKLink has strengthened its product development this year by releasing a series of upgrades to its product line, including several remarkable changes to its multi-blockchain explorers. These are viewed as critical steps that could help realize its parent entity OKG’s ambition of becoming a Web3 conglomerate.

A highlight of OKLink’s blockchain explorer pre- and post-Ethereum Merge

“We are confident of becoming a hub in the Web3 era as demand for blockchain data has increased substantially along with the constant development of the crypto world,” said Hermione, head of the multichain explorer product team at OKLink.

Hermione’s confidence is not groundless. Not long ago, she and her teammates witnessed a growth of four times in website traffic around the Ethereum Merge on Sept. 15. “We had prepared a countdown page for the Merge pretty early so that our users could always know when it would happen,” added Hermione. As the Merge drew near, the team’s efforts started to get noticed when more and more people began to post screenshots of the page here and there.

Another thing that Hermione felt delighted to talk about was that OKLink was the first to launch a reliable EthereumPoW (ETHW) explorer in the industry and is now the only official provider of blockchain explorer for ETHW, a forked blockchain of Ethereum after the Merge.

User-driven design and globalization: OKLink’s strategy for its multichain explorer development

It was no accident that the market gave positive feedback on OKLink’s products. “We’ve made tangible progress in developing and honing the multichain explorer this year due to our adopted strategy,” explained Hermione. “When the opinions from our users value more in the decision-making process, we’re encouraged to strive to make blockchain data understandable and accessible for a wide and varied audience interested in blockchain and crypto.”

The multichain explorer developed by OKLink incorporates a multitude of different blockchains into one search engine. Users can filter blocks, transactions, and content by various criteria over blockchains. It currently supports 18 public blockchains, all of which are of broad concern in the market: Solana, Polygon, and Avalanche, to name a few. Moreover, at least eight more explorers for public blockchains, such as Optimism, Arbitrum, Fantom, and Aptos, are waiting to roll out. 

Besides, the open APIs provided by OKLink’s multichain explorer have granted developers and researchers full access to the data contained on four blockchains. All blockchain explorers will support API access in the future. The API feature may aid numerous analytical queries, such as filtering, sorting, and aggregating up-to-the-minute blockchain data. Businesses could also benefit from connectivity and query options that tailor and aggregate meaningful data in many ways to provide the best product for traders, custodians, exchanges, and private investors at fast speeds and reliability. 

Furthermore, for the convenience of users from around the globe, OKLinks multichain explorer could switch between 12 languages. And also, blockchain data is mostly well visualized in charts or diagrams to match users’ needs for comparing trends across blockchains. 

The new normal: Multichain explorer as a vital entrance to the Web3 world

For any crypto market participant, whether a trader, a crypto wallet service provider, or a crypto exchange, a blockchain explorer would be a must to understand what is happening on the blockchain in real-time.

There has been a broad consensus that search engines are now the critical Web2 infrastructure. And we are all getting used to finding data or information by “Googling” around. While in the era of Web3, most data would be stored on the blockchain, a ledger that contains all the transactions ever processed. Consequently, finding one particular data entry would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. The easier way to examine and explore on-chain data and information would be to use a blockchain explorer. This would also gradually become Web3 users’ new normal.

With the ongoing development of the blockchain industry and the introduction of new techniques (especially the interoperability between blockchains), a significant trend has formed where the multichain explorer is becoming more and more popular. 

Just like dining in an all-you-can-eat restaurant, one may access data and information from various blockchains at the same time through the help of a multi-blockchain explorer. Furthermore, the service provider may add additional functions and features to the explorer, such as in-depth research and analysis of the crypto market. 

About OKLink

As OKLink’s parent company, OKG is one of the earliest blockchain companies founded in China. It has now developed into a conglomerate and a leader in the blockchain industry. Established in 2013, OKG has been committed to the research and development, and commercialization of blockchain technology. OKLink has been one of OKG’s subsidiaries dedicated to blockchain data and information services since 2018. Visit the website and Twitter for more information.

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Source: TG Daily – OKLink to realize Web3 goal by strengthening multichain explorer strategy

It can be challenging to celebrate longevity in a tech industry obsessed with newness and youth. But decades-long success is difficult to disagree with, especially when a company steadily progresses in market and technical leadership. In the case of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), the celebration in question is the 30^th anniversary of the launch of the company’s ThinkSystem servers. 

To mark the date, Lenovo announced Infrastructure Solutions V3 which it described as “the most comprehensive portfolio enhancement” in its history. The new offerings include ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile, and ThinkEdge servers and storage systems, enhanced ThinkShield security features, a new XClarity management platform, and sustainability-focused solutions, like next-gen Lenovo Neptune warm water-cooling and carbon offset services. Let’s consider Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions V3 offerings and what they mean for the company and its customers and partners. 

The path of ThinkSystem innovation

How did the ThinkSystem reach its 30^th anniversary? In 1992, when the platform was owned by IBM, the company launched the PS/2 servers which leveraged the same Intel silicon and many of the same technologies and features as IBM’s PS/2 PCs. That name was replaced in 1994 with PC Servers and then a few years later by Intel-based xSeries and System x solutions in IBM’s evolving server branding strategy. 

Lenovo purchased IBM’s PC business and portfolio in 2005 and, nearly a decade later (2014), bought IBM’s System x server business, organization, and intellectual property. As they had during the IBM PC acquisition, some competing vendors attempted to cast aspersions on Lenovo’s server deal. Just as it did in that earlier instance, Lenovo proved doubters wrong by investing in continuing technical and market innovations that helped the company achieve leadership in areas like supercomputing, high performance, and hyperscale computing. 

Equally importantly, Lenovo’s focus on infrastructure IT helped the company reach its goal of being a fully rounded vendor of integrated business solutions that extend from client devices to data centers to the furthest edges of corporate networks to the cloud. 

Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions V3

Technical details for the new ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile, and ThinkEdge solutions were thin on the ground, in large part because they will leverage next-gen silicon and other technologies that haven’t been publicly disclosed. That said, the new Lenovo solutions are designed to appeal to organizations from small SMBs to large hyperscale players. They include:

• New ThinkSystem servers in high volume rack and tower configurations, offerings for mission critical workloads and high-density environments, and flash storage systems. The new solutions will incorporate new Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, and Arm-based CPUs, as well as AMD Instinct and Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia AI Enterprise software
• New ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offerings that are pre-integrated with Microsoft (ThinkAgile MX and ThinkAgile SX), Nutanix (ThinkAgile HX), and VMware (ThinkAgile VX) solutions. Among these are three new Lenovo Microsoft Azure Solutions: 1) SQL for AI and Machine Learning (ML) Insights, 2) Backup and Recovery, and 3) Azure Virtual Desktop. 
• New ThinkEdge servers featuring Intel Core & Intel Xeon processors, NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX embedded solutions, and Arm processors. The new Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-a) V2.5 is designed to securely authenticate and activate ThinkEdge AI servers via a phone, accelerating business insights. 
• Lenovo XClarity One, a new open cloud software management platform that offers a single portal for managing Lenovo’s TruScale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Management-as-a-Service (MaaS), and Smarter Support functions. XClarity One is designed to simplify how customers manage IT orchestration, deployment, automation, metering, and support processes from the edge to the cloud. It will also provide visibility into infrastructure performance, usage metering, and support analytics.
• Enhancements to Lenovo ThinkShield Security, including Modular Root of Trust which bolsters on-chip tamper-detection and monitoring to help customers detect and recover from cyberattacks and digital compromises. In addition, Lenovo System Guard incorporates advanced hardware monitoring to enhance the security of systems during manufacturing, delivery, and deployment. 
• The fifth generation of Lenovo Neptune Direct Water-Cooling technology will be available on a broader range of servers. This feature uses loops of warm water to cool systems more efficiently than conventional air, enabling customers to reduce power consumption by up to 40 percent.
• Sustainability-focused solutions, including Lenovo CO2 Offset Services which allows customers purchasing select ThinkSystem servers to offset emissions by supporting United Nations climate action projects. Lenovo’s new TruScale Sustainability services offer pay-as-you-go utilization that helps prevent over-provisioning and reduce energy consumption. Lenovo’s Asset Recovery Services are designed to simplify end-of-life asset disposal. Finally, Lenovo noted that innovative packaging designs, such as shipping servers pre-installed in racks have saved over 3.5 million pounds of cardboard to date.

No pricing or availability details were provided in the announcement. 

Final analysis

Data center product portfolios tend to obscure the complexity of IT market evolution and how vendors respond by developing new commercial offerings. The increasing sophistication and segmentation of HCI is a good example of this. While initial solutions focused on businesses’ increasing interest in and use of software-defined IT that virtualized conventional system elements and functions, contemporary products like Lenovo’s ThinkAgile servers are designed to maximize the performance and value of specific partner applications and solutions and related business processes. 

Similar incremental developments are commonplace in virtually every corner of the business compute market, including on-premises corporate data centers, off-premises clouds, and hyperscale infrastructures, and combined hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Since innovative vendors manage numerous and various kinds of product and process evolutions simultaneously, it can be difficult to perceive the extent of the IT “forest” due to the number and variety of the solution “trees.” 

As a result, an event such as Lenovo’s 30^th ThinkSystem anniversary can provide valuable insights into how a vendor has progressed and what it has accomplished over time. In the eight years since the System x deal with IBM, Lenovo has grown from a client computing powerhouse into a mature provider of end-to-end business computing solutions, including market-leading HPC and hyperscale systems. 

In essence, a portrait of Lenovo a decade or so ago would have depicted an energetic and ambitious individual or small group of colleagues. In contrast, the new Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions V3 can be viewed as a family of interconnected members, all of them working toward both singular and deeply integrated goals. Considering the achievements and new offerings summarized in the Infrastructure Solutions V3 announcement, it will be fascinating to see what Lenovo accomplishes during the coming decade. 

Written by Charles King, Pund-IT®

Source: TG Daily – Lenovo’s ThinkSystem at 30: System, Software, Security and Sustainability Innovations

GTC is NVIDIA’s premier conference. NVIDIA is at the forefront of a number of coming waves ranging from autonomous machines (robots and transportation vehicles), metaverse creation, digital twins, and one of the major drivers for evermore capable AIs. Oh, and NVIDIA’s gaming focus remains strong, so it’s also one of the few firms making our video games much more realistic. What makes the company stand out to me is that it uses its technology throughout the conference keynote so that it is not only a showcase of announcements but shows how the products announced can be used. 

Let’s talk about some of the highlights from this year’s keynote.

RTX 4080/90

This was a little depressing for me because I just installed an RTX 3080 in my VR test system. At GTC, NVIDIA announced the 4080/90 which are significantly more powerful than my 3080. Image quality is enhanced, they are a better platform for developing metaverse elements, and the visual capability of these cars is nothing short of amazing. At around $900 for the 4080 and around $1,500 for the 4090, they aren’t insanely expensive.  

The quality of games like Flight Simulator has a level of realism to them that is impressive and a little upsetting, upsetting because I don’t have either card, yet.

Omniverse

NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform is the leading development platform for the applied metaverse. Updates now embrace the entire product lifecycle from creation to making. It’s effectively a full 3D production pipeline that can be shared across an organization enabling teams, which are often geographically disbursed, to collaborate on the creation of defined products, buildings, advanced systems like robots, and entertainment media. 

This appears to not only be revolutionizing the design and creation of things but media, as well, allowing TV and movie creators of the future to develop high-quality content with a fraction of the budget and staff that otherwise would be required. 

Digital twins are a key part of Omniverse that allow the initial modeling and the eventual highly automated management of these systems, systems that encompass advanced factories, smart buildings and cities, and, I expect, battlefields. 

GTC showcased an implementation that used AR glasses to allow employees on the ground to blend metaverse elements using Omniverse to help navigate real buildings and do repairs at scale using these next generation tools. As I write this a large hurricane is driving toward the East Coast, and I can imagine a future implementation of Omniverse where first responders can see an overlay of what was, and metaverse creation using drones of what is, in order to identify likely places where people may need rescue.  And, after the event, allowing those that have lost their towns to again visualize what once was, so they don’t feel like they lost where they grew up as a result of the disaster.

NVIDIA showcased its GDN (Graphics Delivery Network) that, along with the Omniverse Cloud on AWS, will bring this technology to the world. Backed by NVIDIA’s technology, including uniquely configured and highly focused servers and workstations, this is how many of us will envision the future before it is created.  GTC showed how Omniverse was used to create the latest Rimac supercar. A car that will redefine high performance. 

Thor takes over autonomous cars and robots

NVIDIA Drive Thor just replaced the prior autonomous driving platform which utterly outperforms the prior technology. The platform can run QNX, Linux, and Android simultaneously and covers all of the processing needs of the car, from driving to entertainment. Much like cloud implementations, these functions can be kept virtually separate and secure. Drive SIM, NVIDIA’s training simulator for autonomous driving, has been significantly enhanced to create simulation scenarios on a global scale.  Using a Nuraral Reconstruction engine, simulations can be infinitely modified to take into account even the most unlikely events, like a sudden snow storm in Florida (hey it could happen). Watching these simulations is amazing because they increasingly look like real roads and cities, and I wonder how long it will be until this tool will be used to present evidence in courtrooms or to convince city administrators to fix endemic traffic and safety issues.  

It’s already being used to design better automotive cockpit controls and vehicle entertainment systems. How often is the same technology provider engaged in all parts of the creation of something as complex as an autonomous car?  This integration into all parts of the creation and operation of future cars should lead to faster advances, higher quality products, and far fewer mistakes like the old Pontiac Aztec.  

NVIDIA Drive Orin is the brain of NVIDIA’s autonomous vehicle effort, with NVIDIA Jetson being the variant that is targeted at autonomous robots. NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, an accelerated platform for the future of autonomous robots using the Metropolis platform (there must be a lot of Sci-Fi fans, given the product names, at NVIDIA) was also announced. The most interesting part is the application of this technology in medical Instruments that are software-defined and powered by AI. This should significantly improve the quality of diagnostics from these systems, particularly those that can use Computer Vision and increasingly be used for surgical robots which will be more precise, make fewer mistakes, and be more reliable, particularly in remote areas where qualified specialists aren’t available. AMRs, or Autonomous Mobile Robots, will revolutionize last-mile delivery, warehouse operations and provide help for the disabled.  

HPC

NVIDIA Triton is at the heart of much of the world’s HPC efforts. When it comes to finding patterns and relationships, according to NVIDIA, NVIDIA Triton is the preferred product which uses Deep Learning and the leading frameworks. The implementation that caught my attention is real-time image processing for live video. For those of us that stream, this means that we’ll always have perfect lighting and look our best even if we didn’t get much sleep and can’t afford a makeup artist (or they didn’t show up).  

NVIDIA’s CUQUANTUM, in use by leading quantum developers, including IBM, provides improved development resources as the market moves ever closer to quantum supremacy. There was a long list of related tools that NVIDIA launched to address the coming waves of HPC-level AI and quantum computing, again showcasing that NVIDIA remains on the cutting edge for development tools and platforms for these coming disruptive computing waves, like language models to create ever more capable conversational computers and personal AI assistants that will increasingly redefine our lives. Chatbots become more aware, digital assistants more capable, and the emergence of digital companions, particularly for those working in isolation or those of us that have outlived family and friends, are advancing at an impressive rate. 

One of the more interesting announcements was NVIDIA BioNeMo targeted at hugely reducing the time needed to create future anti-virus responses and more effective cures and treatments for the diseases that plague us.  

Recommender engines

These are the utilities that push customers to the products and services they should be most interested in. When they work properly, they massively increase conversion rates and revenues because, rather than having to try to convince someone to buy something they don’t want, they push people towards products they already like.  NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper platform is increasingly favored for these systems with far greater potential accuracy and greater scalability. Interestingly, the Grace CPU, which is unique to NVIDIA, is at the heart of this solution and, I expect, will eventually break out of this implementation to do other interesting things in the future.  

Interactive avatars

Toward the end of the keynote, we were treated to interactive avatars. These could be cartoonish or photorealistic and can increasingly interact with users as if they were humans. Shifting languages on demand and still looking like they are speaking directly to you and being responsive to an ever-increasing breadth of questions using facial and hand expressions which eventually will be indistinguishable from real people. Deloitte was announced as the NVIDIA customer that is aggressively bringing this technology to market. 

Wrapping up:  

Fully simulated worlds, ever more capable AIs, recommenders that work, advances in HPC computers and quantum computing training, massive improvements in autonomous vehicles and robots, and a host of tools that will redefine how computers interact with us. Woof. It was like watching the next generation of the computer industry. I doubt any of us have more than the beginning of an understanding of how significantly this will change how we work, how we live, and how we interact with both the real world and the metaverse that will increasingly be indistinguishable from it. At GTC this year I again saw the future and, to be honest, I’m a bit overwhelmed. The future is coming for us, but at NVIDIA it is already here, and the rest of us are struggling to catch up. If you want to see the future, watch the GTC keynote this year.

Source: TG Daily – Jensen Huang’s GTC Keynote

Vladimir Putin has said he is prepared to use nuclear weapons as he warned the west: “I’m not bluffing.”

Putin went on: “Those trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the tables can turn on them.”

Asked to deliver a message to the people of Ukraine, Foreign Office minister Gillian Keegan said: “We’re by your side, we will help as much as we possibly can.” He said: “If there is a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, and in protecting our people we will certainly use all means to us – and I’m not bluffing.”

And to the Russian people, she said: “Look beyond your own media, it’s very clear what is going on in Ukraine.”

“He is continuing to completely misrepresent what is happening in Ukraine,” she said.

‘I’m Not Bluffing’: Vladimir Putin Warns The West He Is Willing To Use Nuclear Weapons

The Russian president issued the threat in a rambling TV address.

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Ukraine war: Biden warns Putin not to use tactical nuclear weapons

The US president says Russia will become more of a pariah than ever if such weapons are used.

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Putin waves nuclear sword in confrontation with the West

WARSAW, Poland (AP) It has been a long time since the threat of using nuclear weapons has been brandished so openly by a world leader, but Vladimir Putin has just done it, warning in a speech that he has the weapons available if anyone dares to use military means to try to stop Russia’s takeover of Ukraine.

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Source: TG Daily – Putin Warns The West He Is Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons