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Kandi Technologies Group Inc. plans to work with companies including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Uber China and China Minsheng Banking Corp. to promote connected electric cars. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. and ZTE Corp. are the other companies that signed a manifesto in Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday. The companies will form a group of strategic partners to work together on areas conducive to promoting connected electric cars. Alibaba will support the initiative with its Big Data analytics and cloud computing services, ZTE will provide its wireless charging technology while Uber will contribute with its car-sharing know-how. “Traffic jams, air pollution are pushing gasoline-powered cars into a dead end,” Kandi President Hu Xiaoming said in an interview. “The development of data technologies is providing us with an enormous opportunity to make electric cars much easier to use.” The initiative takes place after the central government in July unveiled a plan to link technology companies with manufacturers under an “Internet Plus” plan to rejuvenate traditional industries through the use of services such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Promoting the use of electric cars and reducing air pollution are also national priorities, with China pouring billions into subsidies and research grants into battery development and the building of charging stations. Last month, the State Council, or cabinet, said it will add to subsidies aimed at speeding up the building of electric-car recharging stations, targeting enough infrastructure to handle 5 million plug-in vehicles by 2020. Besides manufacturing and selling EVs to consumers, Kandi also provides them for short-term hire using automated multilevel garages. It has expanded its services to more than 10 Chinese cities with over 16,000 electric cars, according to the company. Kandi, which makes cars with joint venture partner Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., announced on Tuesday it will add 200 Gleagle K17 electric cars into its rental network. BYD Co., the biggest electric carmaker in China that’s not involved in Tuesday’s agreement, fell 8.3 percent in Hong Kong trading.

The gym is not dead, but it may not be the most effective way to exercise if you want to stay slim. Gym giant Anytime Fitness has just opened its 3000th site in 13 years, becoming the world's fastest-growing franchise and outpacing McDonald's and Subway. Finally, it's fitness instead of fast food that we want to consume. Getting our fix in any way that works is great. However, thankfully, a brisk walk in the fresh air beats slogging it out at the gym. At least if your aim is to be lean. A new study has analysed the exercise patterns of people in Britain between 1999 and 2012. Although the guidelines recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise each day, it is not known whether certain exercises are better than others. Researchers from the London School of Economics looked at how regularly Britons engaged in 30 minutes or more of walking, moderate intensity exercise such as going to the gym, swimming, dancing, running and tennis, as well as heavy housework or heavy outdoor labour like chopping wood. They then compared the waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) data of the people and found that those who regularly walked were leaner. "The results thus provide an argument for a campaign to promote walking," the authors said. "Focus on physical activity is less controversial as it would not be subject to political lobbying as is the case for 'fat' tax and other policies that aim to change consumption of junk foods in a person's diet." The authors suggested that creating a policy "that 'every step counts' may be a step towards curbing the upward trend in obesity rates and beneficial for other health conditions". Every step does count but it is a stretch to say walking is more beneficial than other exercise, says Associate Professor Emmanuel Sta[CENSORED]kis​ of the University of Sydney's Faculty of Health Sciences and Charles Perkins Centre. "I would take the conclusions with a pinch of salt," Sta[CENSORED]kis says. "It is hard to define the intensity and accurate duration of activities in questionnaires." Swimming, for instance, may be splashing about or doing laps, he says, adding that people notoriously over report how long they spend exercising and the intensity. That said, if perambulation is your thing, keep on walking. "Walking has practical advantages," Sta[CENSORED]kis says. "You can build it into your everyday life. It's sustainable and there's no need to make extra time for it. You can just replace the bus trip or car trip with walking." The 10,000 step per day challenge is an "excellent first target", but walking "is not necessarily the optimal type of exercise". The "optimal" exercise involves three parts: more incidental exercise, more moderate to high intensity exercise and less sitting. "All movement is important," Sta[CENSORED]kis stresses. "All physical activity is linked with lower BMI and waist circumference."

A 74-year-old British grandfather who spent more than a year in a Saudi jail for possessing homemade wine has returned home, the British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said on Wednesday. The Briton, Karl Andree, a former oil executive who had been living in Saudi Arabia for decades, was arrested by the religious police in Jidda in August 2014 for violating the kingdom’s tough laws on alcohol. His family had been campaigning for the British government to press for his release. They feared that Mr. Andree, an asthmatic who has survived cancer, could be subject to a public flogging as part of his sentence and that he might not survive it, although there was no indication that he was about to receive that punishment. “I’m pleased that he has returned home to be reunited with his family, bringing to an end an extremely tough time for him and his family,” Mr. Hammond said in a statement, adding that the release reflected the strong ties between Britain and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is Britain’s biggest market for arms exports and its most important trade partner in the Middle East. Relations between the two countries were strained in October after the government canceled a 5.9 million pound, or nearly $9 million, deal to provide “training needs analysis” for Saudi prisons on the same day that Mr. Andree’s family made its concerns publicly known. Opponents of the deal argued that it was inappropriate given the kingdom’s human rights record, including its treatment of prisoners and those who breach the country’s harsh religious laws.

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This tutorial will explain how to speed up your slow computer. A combination of issues may be slowing down your system and using up resources. You may be experiencing slow start-ups, and applications takes several minutes to open. Troubleshoot your computer and perform a few effortless tasks that will make your computer run faster and improve its performance. Instructions Step 1: Change your computer's BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) boot sequence to help save some start up time. Restart your computer and press the F1, F10 or ESC key to enter BIOS. Follow the onscreen instruction for navigating the BIOS menu. Choose the “Advanced BIOS” feature. Change the boot sequence, so that your hard drive is listed as the first boot device, and CDROM is the second boot device. Press the “ESC” key to save your settings and exit BIOS. Step 2: Click the “Start” button on your desktop and select “Run” from the menu list. Type “msconfig” in the run field box and press the “OK” button. Click on the “BOOT.INI” tab button. Change the default “Timeout” setting from “30” seconds to a lesser value, such as 10 or 20 seconds. Press the “OK” button. A pop up box will appear on your desktop. Click the “Restart” button to reboot your computer. Step 3: Remove and uninstall software applications that you no longer use. Click the “Start” button and select “Control Panel” from the menu list. Click on the “Add or Remove Programs” link and highlight the application that you want to remove. Click the “Remove” button. Windows will uninstall the application and delete its files on your computer. Step 4: Delete temporary files in your Windows folder. Click the “Start” button and choose “Search” from the menu list. Select “All Files and Folder” and type “*.tmp” in the field box under “All or part of the file name.” Use the drop down menu arrow to select your “Local Hard Drive,” such as (C:) and press the “Search” button. After Windows finishes listing all the files with the “.tmp” extension, highlight and delete the files that you no longer want to keep on your computer. Step 5: Remove applications and programs from the “Startup” list. Click the “Start” button and choose “All Programs” and then, select “Startup” from the menu list. Highlight the application or program that you want to remove. Right-click on your mouse and select “Delete” from the shortcut menu. Tips: Use third-party register cleaning software to remove and fix invalid registry entries. Download freeware from the Internet, such as “CCleaner,” or “SlimComputer” management tool to help speed up and optimize your computer system.

New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed by University of Exeter researchers New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed. The software, which converts digital photos to animal vision, can be used to analyze colors and patterns and is particularly useful for the study of animal and plant signalling, camouflage and animal predation, but could also prove useful for anyone wanting to measure colors accurately and objectively. New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed by University of Exeter researchers. The details are published today in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The software, which converts digital photos to animal vision, can be used to analyze colors and patterns and is particularly useful for the study of animal and plant signalling, camouflage and animal predation, but could also prove useful for anyone wanting to measure colors accurately and objectively. The software has already been used by the Sensory Ecology group in a wide range of studies, such as color change in green shore crabs, tracking human female face color changes through the ovulation cycle, and determining the aspects of camouflage that protect nightjar clutches from being spotted by potential predators. Jolyon Troscianko from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter said: "Viewing the world through the eyes of another animal has now become much easier thanks to our new software. "Digital cameras are powerful tools for measuring colors and patterns in nature but until now it has been surprisingly difficult to use digital photos to make accurate and reliable measurements of color. Our software allows us to calibrate images and convert them to animal vision, so that we can measure how the scene might look to humans and non-humans alike. "We hope that other scientists will use this open access software to help with their digital image analysis." Until now, there has been no user-friendly software programme that enables researchers to calibrate their images, incorporate multiple layers -- visible and UV channels -, convert to animal color spaces, and to measure images easily. Instead, researchers have needed to do much of this manually, including the sometimes complex programming and calculations involved. This freely available open source software now offers a user-friendly solution. color vision varies substantially across the animal kingdom, and can even vary within a given species. Most humans and old-world monkeys have eyes sensitive to three colors; red, green and blue, which is more than other mammals that are only sensitive to blue and yellow. It is impossible for humans to imagine seeing the world in more than three primary colors, but this is common in most birds, reptiles, amphibians and many insects that see in four or more. Many of them can also see into the ultraviolet range, a world completely invisible to us without the use of full spectrum cameras. So scientists studying these species need to measure UV to understand how these animals view the world. Using a camera converted to full spectrum sensitivity, one photograph taken through a visible-pass filter can be combined by the software with a second taken through an ultraviolet-pass filter. The software can then generate functions to show the image through an animal's eyes. The researchers have provided specific data on camera settings for commonly studied animals, such as humans, blue tits, peafowl, honey bees, ferrets and some fish. Flowers often look particularly striking in UV because they are signalling to attract pollinators that can see in UV, such as bees. UV is also often important for birds, reptiles and insects in their colorful sexual displays to attract mates.

For once, Oracle OpenWorld went long on substance. That's hard to do when you have so many products to discuss and Larry Ellison pontificating, but he was both under control and substantive -- though he couldn't resist taking a few shots at competitors. Oracle's team hardly ever sees SAP and IBM in deals these days, he announced, and he gave due praise to cloud pioneers NetSuite and Salesforce. Interestingly, Ellison always mentioned NetSuite, which he owns a considerable share of, before Salesforce, which he invested in back in the day, despite the fact that Salesforce is six times larger than NetSuite by revenues. Both companies are doing just fine, thank you veddy much. For once, Oracle OpenWorld went long on substance. That's hard to do when you have so many products to discuss and Larry Ellison pontificating, but he was both under control and substantive -- though he couldn't resist taking a few shots at competitors. OpenWorld's Substance Feast Oracle's team hardly ever sees SAP and IBM in deals these days, he announced, and he gave due praise to cloud pioneers NetSuite and Salesforce. Interestingly, Ellison always mentioned NetSuite, which he owns a considerable share of, before Salesforce, which he invested in back in the day, despite the fact that Salesforce is six times larger than NetSuite by revenues. Both companies are doing just fine, thank you veddy much. Beyond the product revisions and enhancements, I saw two real news items: Oracle is now (at last) a cloud company, and the company put an important marker down on improving IT security -- first things first. In the Cloud Oracle always has been in a different business than the cloud pioneers in that it has a huge customer base (420,000 customers on one sign) to bring along to the promised land compared to the pioneers that more or less invited customers to start over, in many cases, in the cloud. That reality permeated the keynotes and discussions led by Ellison in a Sunday keynote; CEO Mark Hurd on Monday; Thomas Kurian, president of product development, on Tuesday; and Ellison in another keynote Tuesday. Each man offered the view that for the next one to two decades, enterprises would operate in a hybrid -- on-premises and cloud model -- transition state. Further, Oracle would continue to develop, maintain and enhance on-premises applications during that time, each was careful to articulate. No hard date for the end of the transition was offered. It was a delicate balancing act trying to assure big enterprises considering the cloud because their deployments represent a large mass of computing that won't easily unravel overnight. Still, my thinking is that while there might be traces of on-premises applications 15 years from now, most of the transference will happen quicker for two reasons: First, cloud apps will make their users more competitive, and second, security improvements will make cloud increasingly attractive. Competitive Angle By itself, cloud is just a delivery mechanism, and there's little about it to recommend it for pure delivery. Layered on top, as most people know, there's a total-cost-of-ownership advantage to cloud systems. Even more than this, however, is the reality that when businesses transfer to new platforms, most take the time to reimagine the business and the apps. Consequently, the great cloud migration of the rest of this decade will be a moment when businesses ditch some spreadsheet apps that never worked very well so that they can achieve long-desired end-to-end process support for their businesses. This migration from transaction systems or systems of record to process-oriented systems is where the real payback for moving to the cloud will be found. It's also a real source of competitive differentiation for most companies, which will drive rapid adoption, so hang on -- it should be an interesting ride. At the same time, we need to acknowledge that when those businesses start to reimagine their business processes, it will open up many to competitive bidding for those new apps. That's no surprise and one big reason that Oracle is making a conscious effort to court customers by being with them in their moments of truth as they contemplate their next moves. That's smart, in my opinion. Let's watch how it plays out. Security: What's Old Is New Many people shook their heads when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems because they saw Sun as playing in a space that was rapidly commoditizing. Some thought it as big a folly as Carly Fiorina and HP buying Compaq, but almost instantly Ellison began inventing differentiated hardware that set new standards for in-memory operations that vastly accelerated business processing. Devices like Exadata, a storage device that leverages flash memory so that storage operations could happen at memory speeds rather than much slower disk speeds, led the parade. The new security direction of IT based on Oracle products is to encrypt all data, Ellison announced at OpenWorld. He introduced several vaults, such as a password vault that stores unique encryption/de-encryption codes that users could keep on their own machines (hopefully a machine not connected to the Internet) or online in an Oracle cloud. That was nothing, however. The bigger news was a new M7 CPU chip that offers security at the silicon level. This was instantly controversial in my circle and needs some explaining. Security in Silicon Oracle's approach to security with the M7 chip will be debated hotly -- is it just a speed bump for dedicated hackers or is there more promise? I think I am in the latter camp, though there's a huge caveat. Oracle/Ellison discusses the security debate this way: Securing IT should happen at the lowest possible level in the stack. Securing applications and data, for instance, should happen at the operating system level, which is also a logical place for hackers to do their worst. To secure everything, we need to find ways to bring security into silicon -- a place where hackers can't make changes because they can't alter chips. The M7 imposes what's basically a check-in, check-out scheme for memory. It allocates a given amount of memory to tasks, and if some piece of malware tries to occupy the memory space, overflowing the set parameters, the system easily can detect the intrusion and alert operators. Software bugs might operate the same way, so there might be a few false positives as this paradigm gets going. So what? This is a crude description, and for a more detailed explanation check out Oracle's video cache from the show to see Ellison explain it all. As good as this sounds, and also incorporating M7's very fast decompression algorithms, this security only operates on servers. It does nothing to protect desktops or handhelds. The advent of the M7 could be an incentive to hackers to turn their attention to smaller machines, which could be infected to do things on behalf of bad guys. If so, M7 technology could be coming to a [CENSORED]ure PC, laptop or smartphone On the Other Hand While OpenWorld was a good show, it could have been better in some details. Some of the discussions of platform and infrastructure could have been helped along by video animation of some arcane points. I found myself watching demos that went on too long only to show a static screen with one thing changing in a window to indicate an infrastructure accomplishment. Oracle is long overdue for investing in more video for these events, and judging by his comments at one point, I think Ellison took undue and perverse pride in his "graphically challenged" slides, as one tweet put it. Customer Experience A couple of years ago, Oracle shrewdly ditched the CRM badge and called itself a CX, or customer experience, company, and there were enough CX announcements to make front-office people happy. However, it should be noted that the Oracle CX event will happen in April in Las Vegas, so stay tuned for that. Another post will dive deeper into CX at OpenWorld. The critique I'd offer on CX is the same I'd give to any CRM vendor today. There's a big discussion of products, but too often it revolves around point solutions for marketing automation, sales enablement, mobile computing or whatever. This represents a transaction mindset, and the front office needs to move aggressively to full end-to-end process support because that's an important marker of the cloud. My impression of all CRM vendors today is that they're selling to the lowest common denominator -- that is, aiming for the user who just wants CRM as a glorified Rolodex. That user represents about half of the market, so the orientation is understandable, but I wonder how it sits with the more advanced users. At some point, we need to flip a bit and concentrate more on processes that the first half of the market can best use. That's why I am eager to see what happens in Las Vegas in April and at other CRM vendor events next year. I'll Close Now Oracle has become a real cloud company with offerings at the software, platform and infrastructure levels. It still takes a data center-centric approach to the business, especially when trying to reassure existing customers that there's time for an orderly migration. It's a "new" cloud company in that it has thousands of successful and very reference-able customers and not tens or hundreds of thousands. Nonetheless, it is making strides and forecasts more than a billion dollars of new cloud business in the year ahead. The company's ace in the hole as it continues moving to the cloud may be its security-through-silicon approach, which still must be vetted. I might be in the minority about the security announcements, but it strikes me that locking down memory and CPU and encrypting data will enable users to starve any malware that tries to gain a foothold. Since many cloud and subscription vendors as well as enterprise customers already use Oracle DB and many are buying Exadata devices, we could see a dramatic decline in intrusions and data thefts. That won't end the problem; it might simply make the hackers focus more intently on the desktops and smart devices. I don't think the Internet of Things will take off until security is well in hand, and that will ensure that the security discussion continues.

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The Apple co-founder kicked around ideas with longtime confidant and iPod co-creator Tony Fadell. Count Steve Jobs among those curious about what an Apple car would look like. In 2008, not too long after the Apple co-founder introduced the iPhone, Jobs was considering the possibilities of a much bigger gadget. Tony Fadell, then a senior vice president at Apple, remembers talking with Jobs about the potential for an iCar. Jobs and Fadell, who had collaborated on the iPod and iPhone, swapped ideas about car designs on multiple occasions. "We had a couple of walks," Fadell said in an interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang. The pair posed hypothetical questions to each other, such as: "If we were to build a car, what would we build? What would a dashboard be? And what would this be? What would seats be? How would you fuel it or power it?" Jobs decided not to move forward at the time. The discussions took place when the American auto industry was on the verge of collapse, and Apple was busy trying to establish the iPhone as a mainstream product. "The Detroit auto industry was almost dead," Fadell made the comments on Bloomberg TV's Studio 1.0, which premieres Wednesday night at 9 p.m. in New York. "It was fun to kick those ideas around." Since Jobs's death in 2011, Detroit has rebounded, and Apple—not unlike Silicon Valley compatriots Uber and Google parent company Alphabet—has pushed closer than ever to releasing a vehicle. The company has been building a team of hundreds, including engineers and experts in battery and robotics technology, to design a car that could go into production by 2020, people with knowledge of the matter said in February. With more than $200 billion in cash and investments on its balance sheet, Apple certainly has the resources to build a car (and a spaceship). Tony Fadell, founder and chief executive officer of Nest Labs, speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 interview in San Francisco. As Fadell points out, phones and cars aren't that different. "A car has batteries; it has a computer; it has a motor; and it has mechanical structure. If you look at an iPhone, it has all the same things. It even has a motor in it," said Fadell, who's now the chief executive officer of Alphabet's Nest home appliances company. "But the hard stuff is really on the connectivity and how cars could be self-driving." The idea for a car had been bouncing around Apple even before 2008. Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, said in 2012 court testimony that executives discussed building a car even before it released the iPhone in 2007. Mickey Drexler, a former Apple board member and head of J.Crew Group, also said in 2012 that Jobs had wanted to build a car. Jobs, who drove a Mercedes, said "no" to a lot of projects, according to Fadell, who said he doesn't have firsthand knowledge of Apple's car plans. Cameras and televisions were other products the company had considered but ultimately avoided in favor of the iPhone, he said. "At the end of the day, what was the biggest one that had the biggest dramatic impact on the world?" Fadell said. "We said, 'OK, we're going to focus our energy on that. Forget all this other stuff.'" Years later, the auto industry is still ripe for a tech overhaul. Fadell said it's "early days" in the evolution of the car, especially for mass adoption of electric vehicles. He said Silicon Valley views software as its biggest advantage in a bid to upend the auto industry. "I think you're going to see some dramatic changes in the way we think about these cars and the accessibility in terms of the price points," Fadell said. "But we're still seven to 10 years away from a mass switch-over." When you consider that the iPhone came out eight years ago, a lot can happen in that time.

There is s strong belief in the natural health community of one disease, one cause. In other words, the body, if cleansed of toxins and given proper nutrition, will heal itself. All disease begins at a cellular level. There is also a consensus that health starts in the gut. Four things are known about migraines: they involve vessels, inflammation (nerves and vessels), low levels of serotonin, and may be caused by heavy metal toxicity. Boost serotoninOne of the symptoms common to migraine sufferers is a drop in serotonin or low levels of serotonin before a migraine. The beneficial bacteria in the gut produces 80% of the body's serotonin, therefore it stands to reason that gut health and high serotonin levels may reduce or eliminate migraines. In order to achieve this,? one must cleanse the gut of bad bacteria and Candida and repo[CENSORED]te the gut with beneficial bacteria. The diet must be rich in both prebiotic and probiotic foods. Reduce inflammationInflammation is another causal factor. To reduce or eliminate inflammation, eliminate all foods that cause an allergic response, refined and processed foods, and eat a diet high in naturally occurring omega 3 fatty acids (think raw fresh produce). Vitamins and minerals to supplementB-vitamins are essential for vascular health and for nerves and nervous tissue. Always take a B-complex vitamin rather than just taking one B vitamin for any length of time. Omega 3 oils help the body assimilate B vitamins. Vitamin C and vitamin D also aid in vascular health along with calcium, magnesium, and selenium. Heavy metal toxicityHeavy metal chelation may go a long way towards ending your battle with migraines. For many people, removal of mercury fillings has ended their susceptibility to migraines. GingerGinger is nothing short of miraculous when it comes to stopping a migraine in its tracks. Take ginger at the first sign of an impending attack (during an aura or if you don't get auras, at the first sign of pain). You can juice fresh ginger root and drink it as a shot or add it to fruit juice (carrot and apple combined is good with ginger). You can also take ginger in a variety of forms--but fresh ginger root is likely to be the most bio-available form. Ginger helps with nausea as well if the migraine is already in progress. Essential oilsLavender, peppermint, and basil essential oils have been known to help reduce the pain of migraines when inhaled. StressStress is a factor for migraines, as it is for all disease. It is important to learn how to release stress, as chronic stress does affect our biochemistry. Examine your lifestyle and decide if there are changes you want to make. If you want to make a serious impact on your stress level, learn to breathe deeply, the right way, without thinking about it. Also learn to meditate and exercise regularly. Start GroundingEMFs can intensify and even contribute to causing migraines. Spend some time earthing, connecting with the earth. Walk barefoot or sit on the ground outside. The Best and Fastest Cure for MigrainesSnort cayenne pepper. If you think this sounds too painful, you probably don't know the pain of migraines. But this will work very, very quickly. ConclusionWhether migraines are rare or frequent, the pain can be overwhelming. No one should ever have to suffer through a migraine. To fully address the actions you can take to eliminate migraines from your life, it's time to fix your diet, eliminate prescription and other drugs (even over the counter), balance your gut flora, and repair your nervous system. If you think your diet is clean and you suffer from migraines, it's time to reexamine that. The first steps to eliminating migraines are to kill Candida, and to detox the body. See the first two sources for many more migraine remedies.

We are lucky if we find one euro to the ground, but imagine for this, you find anywhere a stash of $ 600 million. The Colombian farmer Jose Mariena Cartolos just find while digging and editing his land. He just came about a number of filled container that was filled to the neck with cash. Its discovery would be part of Pablo Escobar's fortune. Unfortunately, the rule "what you find, you can keep 'not for Jose, because the money should be used to finance" social and economic projects' of the poor state of Colombia. What would you have done if you could find it in your backyard? Would you be honest enough to hand it over to the state?

Customizing the Start menu One of the most important features in Windows 10 is the Start menu. You'll use the Start menu to open apps, access commonly used folders, and a whole lot more. Because it's such a commonly used feature, you may want to customize the Start menu to suit your needs. A brief history of the Start menuIn earlier versions of Windows, such as Windows 7, the Start menu was confined to a narrow column. In Windows 8, the Start menu was replaced with the Start screen, a large, full-screen menu. However, many users complained that the Start screen was confusing and difficult to use. As a result, the Start menu was added back to Windows 10. And while it's similar to the Start menu found in earlier versions, it's also been expanded to include tiles, which were originally introduced in Windows 8. To rearrange tilesIf you don't like the way your tiles are arranged on the Start menu, you can rearrange them. To move a tile, simply click and drag it to the desired location. In this example, we'll move the Microsoft Edge tile. To make a tile bigger or smaller, right-click the tile, select Resize, then choose the desired size. Pinning and unpinning tilesIf you want to add a tile to the Start menu, you can pin it. You can also unpin tiles you don't use very often. 1. Click the Start button, then open the All apps menu. 2. Find and right-click the desired app, then select Pin to Start. In this example, we'll pin the Calculator app. 3. The app will be pinned to the Start menu. You can remove any tile by right-clicking, then selecting Unpin from Start. To turn off live tilesYou may notice that certain tiles, such as those for the News and Weather apps, are animated. These are called live tiles. However, if you find that these are too distracting, you can turn them off. To do this, right-click the desired tile, then select Turn live tile off. In this example, we'll turn off the live tile for the Photos app. Other Start menu optionsThere are a few other settings you can change for the Start menu, including viewing the Start menu in full-screen mode. To access these options, right-click the desktop, select Personalize, then choose Start. From here, you can choose to turn these options on or off.

Ever since Microsoft launched Windows 10, the company has come under fire for controversial update and deployment policies. Microsoft has been caught deploying a 6GB file download to consumers who didn’t want to download the operating system and inadvertently forced some users to upgrade earlier this year after it downloaded the files and began the installation process. The outcry from users who either didn’t want to upgrade or couldn’t, due to software incompatibilities or other W10 problems, has been significant — but that hasn’t taught Microsoft anything. According to a new blog post, the company will be shifting Windows 10 into the “Recommended” update category, which means that users who have automatic updates enabled will receive the software, well, automatically. From the blog post: Early next year, we expect to be re-categorizing Windows 10 as a “Recommended Update”. Depending upon your Windows Update settings, this may cause the upgrade process to automatically initiate on your device. Before the upgrade changes the OS of your device, you will be clearly prompted to choose whether or not to continue. And of course, if you choose to upgrade (our recommendation!), then you will have 31 days to roll back to your previous Windows version if you don’t love it. If you are on a metered connection on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, then you have the option of turning off automatic updates. We strongly discourage this in today’s connected world because of the constant risk of internet threats. This is illogical almost to the point of absurdity. Users on metered connections who may not be able to afford to download Windows 10 have to choose between manually controlling updates and paying overage charges. Meanwhile, customers who aren’t interested in the operating system will have to jump through hoops to disable the upgrade after Microsoft goes to the trouble of downloading a 6GB file for them. While the company claims users will have the option to opt-out, people who don’t know this is coming will simply get socked with it. I’m willing to admit, there’s a personal reason I dislike this change. I’ve long relied on Windows’ Automatic Update to handle security patching for friends and family who aren’t particularly computer savvy. Obviously I’m far from the only person who does this, and it’s why I’ve long said that automatic security updates aren’t the problem I have with Windows 10’s other patching behaviors. With this change, I have to choose between reconfiguring systems to leave these users unprotected or waiting until the OS actually drops and then walking them through the rejection process. The former is a bad idea, the latter is a potential minefield, particularly with people who have a tendency to click first and only call for help once something goes wrong. Microsoft is also adding a program to allow people who are running illegitimate copies of Windows to upgrade to a legitimate, licensed copy — but not for free. Learn a lesson from Google PlusThe larger problem is that Microsoft is pushing their “Windows 10 is amazing” mantra in much the same way that Google tried to push Google Plus on people. When Google unveiled Google Plus, it won early accolades for being notably different than Facebook and easier to use in several ways. It may not have set sign-up records, but I knew people who used it and didn’t mind signing up for an account myself. In the months and years that followed, Google began aggressively positioning Google Plus as the one-stop shop for everything. First it was Google Plus results in search. Then YouTube integration. Then Google Reader and other services were shut down or integrated into G+. At every step, Google declared that users were choosing to love G+, that these new requirements and features were for our own good, and that the end result would be better service. The more Google pushed G+ on people, the harder people pushed back. If Microsoft isn’t careful, it’s going to destroy the positive buzz around Windows 10 through similar means.

Becoming a computer technician is a great point of entry into the IT field, and computer hardware certifications will help demonstrate your knowledge and competency in maintaining computers, mobile devices, printers and more. These top 5 computer hardware certs can help you get your IT career off the ground. To a certain extent, the title of this article is something of a misnomer. In the interests of increased specificity, it might be more appropriate to add the words "general" or "mostly vendor-neutral," although we do include a credential from Apple in this list that focuses exclusively on Apple hardware. And in fact, it's possible to view some certifications from hardware vendors such as HP, Dell, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet and so forth as hardware focused, at and beyond the entry level. Thus, as you peruse this guide, don't forget that there are lots of other options from which you can choose if you're interested in demonstrating your knowledge and abilities with some (or any) particular vendor's products and devices. There's another misnomer involved in calling these credentials hardware certifications, too -- namely, the idea that hardware can exist or operate independently of software (or vice versa). If you dig into the curriculum for any specific hardware-related certifications in any depth, you'll quickly realize that by and large software is in control of hardware nowadays. Software comes into play for installation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting and just about any other activity you can undertake with hardware. We don't want to misrepresent the focus and coverage of these certs, so it's important to understand that the hardware label simply indicates that devices are involved, not that hardware is ALL that's involved. Table 1 lists the results of an informal job search we conducted to see how frequently the featured certs appear in actual job postings. Keep in mind that these results are a snapshot in time and vary from day to day, depending on the needs of the employment market. However, they provide a good indication of the relative po[CENSORED]rity of each cert among employers. Table 1: Job Board Search Results *The Cisco CCT certification has three tracks; the job board search was performed using only "Cisco CCT" as the search term and not a specific track. A significant change from our 2015 article is the replacement of the Certified Wireless Technology Specialist (CWTS) with the Cisco Certified Technician (CCT), which is more relevant to computer hardware and appeared more often on job boards. Also, we received some feedback after polling the TechExams.net IT community forum that the Server+ isn't as po[CENSORED]r with IT professionals as in the past. However, we kept CompTIA's Server+ in the top 5 because it is still either recommended or required by HP, Intel, and other large organizations for their technicians. Also, when conducting online job searches, Server+ consistently surfaces in employer requirements. Thanks to Trevor Smith and the TechExams.net forum members for your input on computer hardware certs -- overall, it was very useful data!

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Company adds about 2 billion euros to possible economic risk Tally of 800,000 added to estimated 11 million cars worldwide Volkswagen AG said it found faulty emissions readings for the first time in gasoline-powered vehicles, widening a scandal that so far had centered on diesel engines. Separately, the company’s Porsche unit said it’s halting North American sales of a model criticized by U.S. regulators. Volkswagen said an internal probe showed 800,000 cars had “unexplained inconsistencies” concerning their carbon-dioxide output. Previously, the automaker estimated it would need to recall 11 million vehicles worldwide -- more than Volkswagen sold last year. It was unclear how much overlap there was between the two tallies. The company said the new finding could add at least 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) to the 6.7 billion euros already set aside for fixes to the affected vehicles but not litigation, fines or customer compensation. The crisis that emerged after Volkswagen admitted in September to cheating U.S. pollution tests for years with illegal software has shaved more than one-third of the company’s stock price and led to a leadership change. Today’s revelation adds to the pressure on Volkswagen’s new chief executive officer, Matthias Mueller, who replaced Martin Winterkorn and was previously head of Porsche. Volkswagen’s supervisory board said it will meet soon to discuss further measures and consequences. “VW is leaving us all speechless,” said Arndt Ellinghorst, a London-based analyst with Evercore ISI. Volkswagen’s American depositary receipts fell 5.6 percent to $25.49 at the close in New York. They have declined 30 percent since Sept. 18, when U.S. regulators said the company admitted to the emissions cheating. Volkswagen’s Polo, Golf and Passat models are affected as well as the subcompact A1 and the A3 hatchback at the Audi premium brand, a Volkswagen spokesman said by phone. The affected models at other brands include the Skoda Octavia, the Seat Ibiza and the Seat Leon. The 1.4-liter, 1.6-liter and 2-liter TDI diesel engines account for the vast majority of affected cars. The only gasoline engine is a 1.4-liter version with cylinder head shutdown, but the number of those cars “is very limited,” the spokesman said. Most of the affected cars are in Europe and the 2 billion euros in possible costs are an initial estimate, according to the spokesman. The automaker will determine how much money to set aside once the probe has been finalized, he said. The 3.0-liter diesel motors targeted on Monday by a U.S. Environmental Protect Agency probe aren’t part of the latest finding. The company rejected allegations that its cheating on diesel-emissions tests included Porsche and other high-end vehicles. The EPA said its new investigation centers on the Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg sport utility vehicles and as well as larger sedans and the Q5 SUV from Audi. But then late Tuesday, Porsche’s North American division said it would voluntarily discontinue sales of diesel-powered Cayennes from model years 2014 to 2016 until further notice. The Atlanta-based unit’s statement reiterated that the EPA notice was unexpected and that owners can operate their vehicles normally. “We are working intensively to resolve this matter as soon as possible,” Porsche said in the statement. Watch Next: The Long Rise and Rapid Fall of Volkswagenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGEXHTBjGg Further IrregularitiesWolfsburg, Germany-based Volkswagen said the findings surfaced following a “comprehensive investigation to establish whether there were indications of further irregularities” after the initial findings rocked the company in September. “This adds to the bad news,” said Sascha Gommel, a Frankfurt-based analyst at Commerzbank AG. “You can of course argue that they pursue a rigorous approach in identifying wrongdoings in the company, but this latest news is clearly negative for the company and you will see this in tomorrow’s share price for sure.” Including today’s announcement, Volkswagen’s total liabilities might have grown to about 13.2 billion euros, said London-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Jose Asumendi. “We note that the company continues to leave no stone unturned and still enjoys a 27.8 billion euro net cash position to face the crisis,” Asumendi said in a report. ‘Painful Process’Mueller has pledged to overhaul the company’s corporate culture, which he said must change to create a more transparent environment that can discover possible faults. “This is a painful process, but it is our only alternative,” Mueller said in an e-mailed statement. VW “deeply regrets this situation” and “will stop at nothing and nobody” to get to the bottom of the matter, he said. The scandal has weighed heavily on Volkswagen’s earnings. The automaker reported its first quarterly loss last month in at least 15 years because of the reserve funds set aside to implement fixes.

All natural sea salt? Not necessarily. A new study has made an unsavoury finding about salt. Delicious, delectable salt, it turns out is packed with plastic. Not packed in plastic, no, although it often is too. Rather, the salt we eat contains an alarming amount of microplastics. Sea salt was found to contain as much as double the amount of microplastics (550 to 681 microplastic particles per kilogram of salt) as lake salt and up to triple the amount found in rock salt, according to a study of 15 brands of salt sold in China. Plastic in Chinese salt is one thing. Does it apply to the rest of the world's salt? To ours? "Plastics have become such a ubiquitous contaminant, I doubt it matters whether you look for plastic in sea salt on Chinese or American supermarket shelves," Sherri Mason, an environmental science researcher at the State University of New York Fredonia, told Scientific American. "I'd like to see some 'me-too' studies," she added. So would Professor Emma Johnston, head of the applied marine and estuarine ecology lab at UNSW and director at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science. "It's a really interesting study. We know microplastics are widespread in the oceans," Johnston says. "One of the biggest questions for microplastic researchers is how much is a problem. It's a big unknown." The authors of the paper, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, estimate that people who follow the WHO salt guidelines of 5 grams of salt per day, ingest about 1000 microplastic particles each year. The average Australian consumes about double the recommended amount of salt. While this is the first study to show microplastics in a food source directly coming from the land, Johnston says, researchers have known for some time that microplastics affect Australian fish. "The microplastic concentration in Sydney Harbour is high and especially high in the guts of fish," she explains. "We've found [microplastic] in 100 species – including mussels, oysters and fish." It is potentially more problematic in the salt supply because very low concentrations in ocean water become much higher when condensed into sea salt. "It's of concern," Johnston says, adding that microplastic binds to metals and flame retardants. "They accumulate [up the food chain] and some are endocrine disrupters," Johnston says. "The bound contaminants release in our guts." Studies of worms and mussels that have been fed microparticles have found they can cause diseases and inflammatory responses. One study by University of California researchers exposed laboratory fish to the concentrations of microplastics they would experience in nature. "We found increased levels of flame retardants in their tissues," the paper's authors said. "Moreover, these fish showed clear signs of stress in their livers, changes in gene expression related to endocrine disruption and some had lesions or abnormalities in their livers or gonads." Despite this, Johnston does not suggest we should spill the salt. Salt is essential for life, sea salt tends to contain higher levels of trace minerals than other forms of salt and avoids nasties like anti-caking agents. It is also relatively easy on the environment to produce, compared with other salts. Additionally, the study does not contain other contaminant sources in various salts. "I think it warrants some analysis of the salt here," she adds."My prediction is our salt would have lower levels of microplastics." Where do they come from? The microplastic particles come from various sources like beads from exfoliating body washes, facial scrubs, and washing detergent. "Many clothing fibres enter through sewage from washing – there are a couple of thousand fibres per jacket per wash," Johnston explains. "Some are removed through the sludging process. There's also airborne contamination and the breakdown of macro-debris." What can we do to minimise our consumption of microplastics? We've got to keep plastic out of the ocean, Johnston says. There are various ways we can do this. - support policy change – classify plastic as hazardous, rather than inert. - Container deposit schemes – "We're doing that in NSW, which is really good." - Check out EPA's Hey Tosser campaign. - Identify the most durable and least toxic clothing. - Wash clothes less. - Reduce the amount of plastic we use. - Demand supermarkets reduce the amount of plastic we use. - Keep rubbish out of the street. - Avoid products that use plastic microbeads and instead rely on products using other types of natural exfoliants, such as sugars, salt and pumice.