BlackBerry might pride itself on a unique security-oriented approach to Android, but that was hardly reflected in the DTEK60 development process. If you have been keeping an eye on the Canadian company over the past few months, then you definitely know about the leaked renders, followed by a full specs reveal on the official website, all topped off by a weird pre-release pre-order campaign in Canada. That being said, it comes as no surprise that we are already pretty well acquainted with the device BlackBerry made official today. Much like its DTEK50 sibling, the DTEK60 is based on an existing…
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Veteran value investor Bill Miller on the markets 15 Hours Ago | 02:59 Legendary investor Bill Miller, who once beat the S&P 500 15 years in a row, said stocks look more attractive than bonds in the current market environment. In an interview with CNBC’s Scott Wapner on “Halftime Report” on Monday, Miller explained that stocks will remain more attractive as long as they yield more than bonds. “Bonds are unattractive in my view. I believe we hit a double bottom in bonds in the summertime and we’re in a benign bear market in bonds. The 35-year bull market in bonds…
The Federal Reserve may need to keep interest rates lower for longer to convince investors and the public that the central bank is serious about reaching its 2-percent inflation target, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans suggested on Monday. With inflation running too low both in the United States and globally, the Fed needs to show its commitment to achieving its inflation goal “sustainably, symmetrically, and sooner rather than later,” Evans said in slides prepared for a speech in Chicago. Doing so, he said, might require “undershooting the unemployment rate (and) overshooting the inflation target.” Inflation has been running…
David A. Grogan | CNBC Jamie Dimon at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. JPMorgan Chase may need to change its timeline for an exit from the business of settling trades of U.S. government securities, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell said on Monday. Powell said JPMorgan had publicly recognized the importance of not disrupting financial markets when it leaves the business. “The timeline set for a gradual transition over the next two years should be sufficient to avoid significant dislocations,” Powell said in prepared remarks for a conference in New York on the structure of the U.S. Treasury…
Source: Adidas This Adidas shoe is made almost entirely by robots. Adidas’s robotic shoe manufacturing plant in Germany is now up and running. The athletic footwear giant shared its first shoe made almost entirely by robots late last week, building on the company’s long-term plan to add robot-staffed, custom shoemaking factories, dubbed Speed Factories, to its global supply chain. The sportswear company currently outsources the majority of its production to China and other countries in Asia, where it manufactures around 300 million shoes yearly, mostly by hand. This year, in its new robotic facility in Germany, where the company is…
Using their own blood, the ad-hoc teachers in Jharkhand have reportedly written 10, 000 letters to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on Saturday, demanding basic services. What is the problems? Ad-hoc teachers have been complaining about the behaviour of regular teachers, who are not providing them the help given by the government More than 70,000 teachers teach in the interiors of Jharkhand without any proper salary The teachers, who were appointed under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan from 2002 as Siksha Mitra (education friend) on honorarium basis, are being paid Rs 5000 Who are these teachers? Earlier, class 10 graduates…
After making Class 10 boards optional in 2010, CBSE may reintroduce them from 2018. HRD Minister Prakash Javedekar will discuss the matter with the education ministers of states and central minsters today, October 25. Speaking to India Today Education, Ruchika Chhabra, Counsellor from Ramjas School said, “It’s a good start again for education system schools children. Mass failure will reduced in class 9. It is a hope that children will start taking studies more seriously. Their attitude and seriousness will bring a drastic changes in positive way. I wish good luck to all.” Whereas Gautam Narang, a teacher of coaching…
The world of emojis on Android 7.1 is even more diverse, as Google is fully embracing the options available in the Unicode 9 update. There are a number of different male and female professions, which may add a little spark next time you want to tell someone what it is you do for a living. Examples include artist, astronaut, judge, firefighter, scientist, student, and technologist. Emojipedia New professions emoji are available in male and female genders with a variety of skin tones. When you touch and hold on any of these Emojis, you’ll then be able to select from the…
An artificial intelligence system designed to predict the outcomes of cases at the European Court of Human Rights would side with the human judges 79 percent of the time. Researchers at University College London and the University of Sheffield in the U.K., and the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S., described the system in a paper published Monday by the Peer Journal of Computer Science. “We formulated a binary classification task where the input of our classifiers is the textual content extracted from a case and the target output is the actual judgment as to whether there has been a…
Sony has started pushing out a new update to its Xperia XA smartphone. The update is hitting both single SIM as well as dual SIM variant of the phone, carrying a build number of 33.2.A.3.81 and 33.2.B.3.81, respectively. The update brings along Android security patch for the month of August. There’s, however, currently no information on what other changes (if any) are included. As is usually the case with OTA roll-outs, it may take sometime for the update to hit your device. Meanwhile, if you feel impatient, you can manually check for the update by heading to your handset’s Settings…