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Panasonic India launches a new range of Air Conditioners equipped with nanoeX technology

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Panasonic India today launched the new range of Air Conditioners (ACs) under the HU series enabled with recently announced nanoeX technology. nanoeX technology releases hydroxyl radicals contained in water. Hydroxyl radicals are also known as “nature’s detergent” that are capable of inhibiting bacteria and viruses, including 99.99% of the adhered novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

Panasonic has successfully tested the nanoeX device as well as nanoeX ACs for the inhibitory effect on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) at Texcell Laboratory, France. The new line-up of the five-star inverter nanoeX ACs will be available in 1-ton and 1.5-ton. The (CS/CU-HU18XKYF) will be priced at Rs 66, 000. Indian consumers can experience the new range of Panasonic ACs, across major retail outlets, online portals and Panasonic brand stores soon.

Manish Sharma, President and CEO, Panasonic India & South Asia said, “Panasonic has been a frontrunner when it comes to developing pathbreaking technologies over the years to cater to the ever-evolving needs of the consumers. Our new range of Air Conditioners come with the nanoeX technology demonstrating our commitment of making products that are relevant and in line with consumer requirement. Panasonic first tested the nanoeX device at Texcell Laboratory, France where we did see success in inhibiting novel coronavirus. We challenged Texcell Laboratory further to test the nanoeX device with Panasonic AC and this was also successful in inhibiting novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).”

Suguru Takamatsu, Divisional Head – Consumers Sales Division, Panasonic India said, “India has one of the lowest penetrations of ACs in the world at 5% that holds immense growth prospects in the segment. Further, with deteriorating air quality and the spread of new diseases, consumers have become more health-conscious. Therefore, our new range of Panasonic nanoeX ACs are capable of eliminating the growth of certain pollutants such as allergens, bacteria, viruses, moulds, odours, and certain hazardous substances to enable a healthier lifestyle for our consumers.”

Gaurav Sah, Business Head, Air Conditioners Group, Panasonic India said, “Our rich expertise of over 60 years in AC manufacturing has helped us innovate with products that add value to our consumers’ daily life. The new line-up of nanoeX ACs are equipped with ECONAVI, Twin Cool INV, and Jetstream technology for maximum safety and comfort. Tested under lab conditions in Texcell, the new Panasonic nanoeX ACs have an inhibitory effect on the adhered novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). These ACs are installed with the nanoeX device which releases 4.8 trillion hydroxyl radicals in a second that cleanses and deodorizes the indoor air. These nanoeX ACs can operate in fan mode and do not always require a compressor/ air cooling feature to be turned on ensuring – energy efficiency and round the clock indoor safety.”

The new range of Panasonic nanoeX ACs HU series features Miraie – Panasonic’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT platform to ensure connected living. Comfort factor is ensured through superior cooling via Twin Cool INV, ECONAVI and Jetstream. The promise of durability is assured through Shield-Blu and ecoTOUGH technology. The HU series have been designed aesthetically and will be available in Advance facia.

A safer and healthier indoor air quality is ensured through Panasonic’s original nanoeX  and nanoe-G technology. nanoe-G technology works on the principle of ionizer technology and is already present across our Air Conditioner range.

You can now get banned from Bumble for body shaming

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Bumble, the women-first dating and networking app, has today announced that it has banned body shaming. The popular app is updating its terms and conditions to explicitly ban unsolicited and derogatory comments made about someone’s appearance, body shape, size or health. This includes language that can be deemed fat-phobic, ableist, racist, colorist, homophobic or transphobic.

This change makes Bumble one of the first dating apps to explicitly moderate body shaming language, continuing to create a safer, kinder and more respectful space to make healthy and equitable connections. The app uses automated safeguards to detect comments and images that go against its guidelines, terms and conditions, which can then be escalated to a human moderator to review.

The company is also updating guidelines for its content moderators to provide specific guidance around body shaming. People who use body shaming language in their profile or through the app’s chat function will receive a warning for their inappropriate behavior and repeated incidents or particularly harmful comments will result in being banned from the platform. Bumble moderators also have the ability to share resources that are intended to help the reported individual learn how to change their behavior to be less harmful to others in the future.

Priti Joshi, VP of Strategy at Bumble said, “At Bumble, we have always been clear on our mission to create a kinder, safer, respectful and equitable space on the internet, and our zero-tolerance policy for racist, harassing and hate-driven speech is an important part of that. We believe in being explicit when it comes to the kind of behavior that is not welcome on our platforms and we’ve made it clear that body shaming is not acceptable on Bumble. Our moderation team will review each report and take the appropriate action. We always want to lead with education and give our community a chance to learn and improve. However, we will not hesitate to permanently remove someone who consistently goes against our guidelines.”

Earlier this month, Bumble surveyed over 2700 single Indians to find out how body shaming has affected their lives. The stark findings include:

44% of respondents have been made to feel insecure about their body in the past year. 38% of respondents stated that people are more likely to make unsolicited comments online, 29% in-person and 33% both online and in-person. 75% of respondents feel that they are more likely to feel physically judged while dating compared than other areas of life.

Bumble users can also report someone for body shaming within the app using its Block + Report tool. Bumble is also encouraging their community to report bad behaviour through their in-app reporting to enforce this specific set of guidelines.

Bumble has also made it easy for people to block and report anyone whose behaviour goes against the company’s guidelines – even if they were just simply made to feel uncomfortable by someone. Bumble users can also visit the app’s Safety+Wellbeing Center for more resources to support them as they look to connect online.

As part of this change, Bumble is also reviewing its photo moderation policy. In 2016, the company banned shirtless bathroom mirror selfies and swimsuit and bra photos taken indoors. The company is in the process of reviewing and updating its photo guidelines.

In 2019, Bumble introduced Private Detector, a feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically detect and blur unsolicited nude images. The feature then alerts the recipient who can choose to view, delete, or report the image.

Adobe Survey: Young consumers drive growth in digital document use and e-signatures

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New research from Adobe has found that young people are driving the growth in digital document use and e-signatures, while increases were seen across all generations as many people e-signed for the first time in 2020.

As businesses, governments and consumers around the world embrace digital productivity, Adobe Digital Insights surveyed 4,000 consumers, including over 1,000 from Asia Pacific (APAC), about how they used e-signatures following the onset of COVID-19. The key takeaways: e-signatures are having a big moment, especially among young consumers; document security important to all generations; and there’s no going back in the year ahead.

Pandemic turbo-charges e-signature adoption, especially amongst Millennials. Prior to 2020, e-signatures had started to gain some traction in APAC, but this grew exponentially last year.

Over three quarters of APAC respondents (76 percent) said they e-signed more documents in the last six months of 2020 compared to late 2019 and early 2020, with adoption highest among Millennials (61 percent). More than half of APAC respondents (53 percent) said they signed for the first time last year, mostly because they had not been offered the option in the past. India had the highest proportion of respondents (62 percent) who said they e-signed for the first time in 2020.

Insurance policies (43 percent) and healthcare registration (38 percent) were among the most common documents to be e-signed in APAC. While business contracts were the most popular type of document to be e-signed in India (77 percent), it was less common to e-sign them in Singapore (57 percent). In Australia, legal agreements had the highest instance of e-signing (76 percent) whereas it was the least popular type of document to e-sign in India (49 percent). Insurance policies and renewal contracts were by far the most popular document to sign digitally in Singapore (81 percent).

Girish Balachandran, Director, Digital Media, Adobe India said, “The global pandemic changed what it means to be productive. While the shift from paper to digital has been underway since PDF was introduced more than 30 years ago, 2020 was a tipping point. Digital documents have become the currency of business productivity – the centerpiece for how businesses, governments and consumers communicate, collaborate and transact, thereby setting the agenda for the future economy.”

The way respondents e-sign varies between APAC markets. In Australia, the most common method of e-signing consists of typing a name or initials (58 percent) whereas in India (58 percent) and Singapore (54 percent) most respondents uploaded a signature image they had saved on their computer. Across the region, the markets agreed that checking a box was not deemed an acceptable method for e-signing. In Australia, accepting an e-signature created for you also has lower acceptability and is infrequently used.

The pandemic pushed one third of APAC respondents (34 percent) to exclusively store their data digitally. Additionally, just as many (36 percent) saved documents both digitally and physically, and indicated feeling safer for having a digital backup of physical documents. Most digital documents were stored on computer or cloud, with cloud storage being most common among Generation Z (65 percent).

While signing and storage methods vary, security features are important to APAC participants across all generations. More than two thirds (71 percent) expect documents to be password protected and over half (57 percent) think documents require 2-factor authorisation.

The vast majority of APAC respondents agreed that e-signatures are convenient (92 percent), secure (80 percent) and legally binding (86 percent) and that they intend to continue using them post-pandemic (84 percent). Millennials in particular are most satisfied with the options currently offered and would like to see e-sign used more widely.

With around four fifths of APAC respondents reporting their wish for companies (82 percent) and governments (78 percent) to offer more documents with digital signatures, there is an opportunity for the public and private sector to improve citizen and customer experience through adoption of digital workflows.

Airtel announces 5G Ready Network

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Bharti Airtel has announced that it has become the country’s first telco to successfully demonstrate & orchestrate LIVE 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad city.

Airtel did this over its existing liberalised spectrum in the 1800 MHz band through the NSA (Non Stand Alone) network technology. Using a first of its kind, dynamic spectrum sharing, Airtel seamlessly operated 5G and 4G concurrently within the same spectrum block. This demonstration has emphatically validated the 5G readiness of Airtel’s network across all domains – Radio, Core and Transport.

Airtel 5G is capable of delivering 10x speeds, 10x latency and 100x concurrency when compared to existing technologies. Specifically, in Hyderabad, users were able to download a full length movie in a matter of seconds on a 5G phone. This demonstration has underlined the company’s technology capabilities. The full impact of the 5G experience, however, will be available to our customers, when adequate spectrum is available and government approvals received.

Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel said, “I am very proud of our engineers who have worked tirelessly to showcase this incredible capability in Tech City, Hyderabad today. Every one of our investments is future proofed as this game changing test in Hyderabad proves. With Airtel being the first operator to demonstrate this capability, we have shown again that we have always been the first in India to pioneer new technologies in our quest for empowering Indians everywhere. We believe India has the potential to become a global hub for 5G innovation. To make that happen we need the eco system to come together – applications, devices and network innovation. We are more than ready to do our bit.”

Vi partners with Voot Select to bring premium content to its customers

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Vodafone Idea Limited has announced a strategic partnership with Viacom18’s premium subscription led video on-demand streaming service, VOOT Select, to offer premium content on its digital platform- Vi Movies and TV app.

Under this partnership, aimed at bolstering the growth of digital ecosystem in India, customers of Vodafone Idea can now enjoy the curated content offering of VOOT Select, with a seamless viewing experience on their Smart phones.

To strengthen current content offering on Digital platform – Vi Movies & TV app, the partnership will give customers access to hours of exclusive content pieces  from Voot Select which includes the very successful original mini-series The Gone Game, high octane espionage series Crackdown and other critically acclaimed series such as Asur, Illegal & The Raikar Case, to name a few. Vi customers will now have full access to watch premium Hindi Shows of Colors & MTV like BIGG BOSS season14, Roadies Season 18, Splitsvilla & Khatron Ke Khiladi.

Avneesh Khosla, Chief Marketing Officer, Vi said, “We are excited to partner with Voot Select and provide unique content propositions to our customers to ensure that they keep coming back to us for more. Digital content consumption has sky rocketed in past few months with users moving towards OTT platforms and guzzling content, especially entertainment. Vi is a brand in tune with the needs of the customers, in these ever-changing times. This collaboration with VOOT Select reflects our commitment to offer the best and latest to our customers. The VOOT Select library is currently exclusively available on Vi and we are excited to bring this wide array of content to our users.”

Ferzad Palia, Head, VootSelect, Youth, Music and English Entertainment, Viacom18, said, “Voot Select has very rapidly risen to become India’s fastest growing premium video streaming service. With one of the most powerful and diverse content offerings in the business, we are delighted to now extend our service to subscribers of Vi on the Vi Movies & TV platform. Our ‘Made For Stories’ offering is sure to delight audiences across the country”

Amit Arora, President- India & South Asia, IndiaCast Media Distribution Private Limited added “We are delighted to announce that our channels are now available on Vodafone Idea. This marks the dawn of a great partnership to bring cutting edge content to the viewers across India. We stand by our commitment to entertain all generations with the diverse genres of channels that we distribute. Our collaboration with such a leading telecom player shall aid to reinforce the faith viewers have in us. We shall continue to work closely with Vodafone Idea to build our association from strength to strength.’’

Ex Co-founder of OnePlus Carl Pei launched his new venture ‘NOTHING’

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Nothing, a new forward-thinking consumer technology company based in London and founded by Carl Pei and his team, has officially been unveiled today.

This announcement comes shortly after a $7 million round in seed financing in December 2020 that included notable tech leaders and investors such as Tony Fadell, Casey Neistat, Kevin Lin, Steve Huffman and Josh Buckley. Kunal Shah, Founder, CRED, has also invested in Nothing.

Carl Pei, CEO and founder of Nothing said, “It’s been a while since anything interesting happened in tech. It is time for a fresh breeze of change. Nothing’s mission is to remove barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future. We believe that the best technology is beautiful, yet natural and intuitive to use. When sufficiently advanced, it should fade into the background and feel like nothing.”

Nothing will be releasing its first smart devices in the first half of this year.

Casey Neistat, YouTuber and Investor in Nothing said, “Consumer tech is a tidal wave of limitless potential. Nothing will be the brand at the forefront and I can’t wait for the world to experience its products.”

Pine Labs Introduces AllTap App to Empower Small Merchants

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Pine Labs, a merchant commerce platform in Asia, today launched AllTap, a feature-rich app that can significantly accelerate digital payments adoption in India. Pine Labs AllTap is a revolutionary new app for small merchants to immediately start accepting digital payments on their NFC-enabled smartphone without the need of any additional hardware.

The ‘tap and pay’ feature within the app is secure and is certified by PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), RuPay, Visa, Mastercard and Amex.

While the ongoing pandemic propelled the adoption of digital payments in India, a large and critical segment of small entrepreneurs are still untouched by digitization. Pine Labs AllTap addresses this key segment especially small merchants, home entrepreneurs, street vendors, hawkers, cab drivers, and others who are not ready to invest in a traditional point-of-sale terminal to accept digital payments.

Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs said, “We heard from small merchants, taxi drivers, self-employed individuals, tuition-givers, and several other solopreneurs, who wanted a simple digital payments acceptance solution. We are proud to unveil AllTap in response to their needs. AllTap comes with a cutting-edge contactless payments technology and requires no additional hardware for merchants to start accepting digital payments. Their NFC-enabled smartphone is now a payments acceptance device. Pine Labs AllTap has tremendous potential to bridge the digital divide not only in India but also in other markets. We are excited to introduce this pioneering app in the market today.”

Sanjeev Kumar, CTO, Pine Labs said, “With AllTap, we are offering merchants a robust PCI SSC-compliant Contactless Payments on COTS (CPoC) solution. This ensures all tap and pay transactions are fully secure. Our PCI SSC-CPoC listing underwent an extensive audit and certification from PCI SSC and leading networks Visa, RuPay, Mastercard, and Amex.”

Using the Pine Labs AllTap, merchants can convert their NFC-enabled smartphone into a payment acceptance device in minutes and avail a host of additional features such as converting a transaction into Pay Later EMIs to increase sales. AllTap is powered by Pine Labs’ robust payment infrastructure which is already trusted by over 150,000 merchants.

Pine Labs AllTap addresses several pain points of small merchants. Merchant can now switch to contactless digital payment, accept digital payments acceptance during door-step delivery, reduce the checkout time delays through quick tap-and-go payments.

Top Five Capture Cards for PS5 from AVerMedia

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AVerMedia Technologies, a digital multimedia technology company, recently announced the list of best 5 capture cards for PS5, including Live Gamer ULTRA, Live Gamer BOLT, Live Gamer DUO, Live Gamer Portable 2 PLUS, and Live Gamer EXTREME 2.

These capture cards add additional value to the user to show their gameplay and stream to the world. These capture cards let users enjoy the full resolution and frame rate of the console lag-free while recording or streaming high-quality video.

Bryan Wang, BU Manager of MEA – IN at AVerMedia Technologies said, “We at AVerMedia are committed to provide our customers with the most enjoyable gaming experiences with a full spectrum of product lineups. Even though the PlayStation 5 in India is going to launch on 2nd February, 2021, we are ahead with list the list of five high quality compatible capture cards to add an additional value to the hardcore gamers and streamers. PS5 being a premium digital device, users in India are more than eager to lay their hands on and also want to stream to showcase their gaming prowess to their friends and followers. Because of this we have laid out our plan so early to give them a chance to stream from the day one of getting hold of PS5.”

 

Live Gamer ULTRA (GC553)

The GC553 is an amazing piece of hardware that is compact, sleek, and gives off a gamer aesthetic. The GC553 comes with three ports with 2 being HDMI (HDMI in / HDMI out) and a Type-C port. It records at following formats – 2160p30 (4k30fps), 1440p60, 1080p120 and 1080p60. The GC553 comes with HDR Passthrough. The AVerMedia Live Gamer ULTRA for short is a great game capture card for the PS5, on which one can record and stream at the highest quality possible.

 

Live Gamer BOLT (GC555)

The Live Gamer BOLT is the world’s first external video capture device to record 4K60 HDR10 and Full HD at 240 frames per second. The ThunderBOLT 3 port technology in GC555 allows gamers to capture their gaming exploits from PlayStation5 and transfer them to a connected laptop or desktop in 4K at 60 frames per second in HDR. With the BOLT’s ULTRA-low latency, award-winning aesthetics, impressive video capturing power, and RGB lighting effects, AVerMedia sets a new standard in the consumer video capture industry. With BOLT’s innovative video capturing capabilities, content creators are able to record HDR10 content up to 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) at 60 frames per second.

 

Live Gamer DUO (GC570D)

The Live Gamer DUO, an internal PCI-Express x4 card which is perfectly compatible with PS5. GC570D is the world’s first dual input capture card with 4K HDR 60 FPS and Full HD 240 FPS pass-through. With the Live Gamer DUO’s primary input and powerful onboard video processing capabilities content creators can enjoy 4K60 HDR10 or Full HD 240 FPS gameplay on the Passthrough side, while capturing at Full HD 60 FPS or Full HD 60 FPS HDR10.

 

Live Gamer Portable 2 PLUS (GC513)

The Live Gamer Portable 2 PLUS is the first capture card to offer 4Kp60 gameplay while recording at 1080p60 footage. The GC513 offers PC-Free mode and support for high-capacity microSD cards. The 4K Passthrough works like a charm, the portable nature of the device can even record gameplay, commentary audio, and party chats directly to a MicroSD card, making it an essential tool for streamers and gamers to capture and share epic moments no matter where they are. The capture card is compatible with any platform, making it an accessible card by removing the need to install any drivers. Additionally, the card offers MP4 and MOV recording for easy editing and efficient uploading across a variety of services.

 

Live Gamer EXTREME 2 (GC551)

The Live Gamer Extreme 2 is an ideal for streamers and content creators who want a hassle-free device to broadcast their very best gaming moments to the internet. The LGX2 is a capture card that is capable of capturing footage at 1080p60 with 4Kp60 pass through. The device itself is pretty small which is handy-dandy which can easily fit your pocket. The LGX2 also inherited the ULTRA-Low Latency capability from the LGX which allows for uncompressed data capturing with near-zero latency. This instant viewing greatly improves creators’ workflow and overall recording experience.

Barco expands laser portfolio with new single-chip G100 Projectors

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Barco, visualization technologies, is pleased to announce the launch of its new G100 series projectors. The company expands its laser projection portfolio with a budget-friendly projector range that meets Barco’s high-quality standards and customer requirements in terms of brightness, technical versatility, and sustainability.

The introduction of the three G100 models further strengthens and diversifies Barco’s projector hardware offering for media-based attractions, such as planetariums, theme parks, and other smaller events.

Rajiv Bhalla, Managing Director at Barco India said, “Barco is a global leader in high-performance display systems. The G100 laser projector series delivers perfect results on image performance, flexibility, sustainability and reliability. The range addresses both indoor and outdoor multi-channel media-based bright projection requirements, making it an ideal fit for the audio-visual industry. With its future-proof design, stability and performance over time, the G100 projector series enables best outcomes at a very competitive price range.”

The G100 is a single-chip projector with native WUXGA resolution and comes in three brightness variants: 16.000, 19.000 and 22.000 lumens. This high-brightness power enables advanced image quality to impress with pioneering projections both indoor and outdoor.

Up-to-date with the most recent technological needs and signal capabilities, the G100 supports all of the latest input sources, including HDMI 2.0, to enable deep color palettes. The new projector series further stands out in the industry with a future-proof design and exceptionally low noise levels, which is an important differentiator for indoor installations especially.

To ensure full operational versatility and effortless implementation, Barco also brings a new extensive GC-lens range to the market for the G100 models, with throw ratios going from 0.38 up to 10.8, and a large shift capability. With the excellent onboard cooling, the G100’s can withstand a maximum ambient operating temperature of 50°C. Such features make the G100 ideally suited to high-brightness projections, indoors or outdoors, close-up or far away!

To conclude, the G100 projectors feature carefully selected components that lower the power consumption of the device, extend the light source lifetime, and, accordingly, limits the ecological footprint of the units. As a result, the ecoscoring team has granted the projectors an A-score and a Barco ECO product label.

The broad Barco single-chip portfolio has proven to be successful with customers and projects that look for versatile solutions enabling creative freedom. One of the most recent examples being the Memory Lane Museum in Russia where 180 Barco projectors of different sizes, resolutions and brightness levels were installed to create an interactive and immersive experience that tells the story of the Great Patriotic War.

TSMC to manufacture 3nm chips for Intel in 2022: Report

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Intel has been struggling for some time despite being the leader in the computer chipset market and blaming that on the CEO, the company announced the appointment of current VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger who will take control next month.

Now, according to some media reports, there has been another major development related to the company. Intel has given an outsourcing contract to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for manufacturing 3nm chips.

The report claims that Intel’s upcoming chips designed with a 3nm process will go into mass production in the second half of 2022. With this, Intel will become the second-largest customer for TSMC’s 3nm process after Apple.

Earlier, it was reported that Intel has been in talks with TSMC and Samsung as the company is exploring the possibility of outsourcing some of its high-end chipset manufacturing. While the report claims that it has reached an agreement with TSMC, the talks with Samsung are said to be in the preliminary stage.

Intel has been a giant player in the semiconductor market that is worth over $4 trillion. The American company is valued at around $230 billion but seems to have losing its grip over the market and competitors have taken the approach of designing chips and outsourcing productions to third-party manufacturers.

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