Hyundai Prophecy Concept Teased for Geneva Show

Hyundai is reported to unveil a new electric concept car at the 2020 Geneva Motor Show. However, the automaker isn’t revealing any information about it except for a name, Prophecy.

By definition, concepts are meant to hint at automaker’s future plans and Prophecy is an apt name for a concept car. It is likely that Prophecy will be a counterpoint to Hyundai’s last Geneva concept car. The Hyundai 45 concept was a retro styled electric car meant to reference the Hyundai Pony rear wheel drive hatchback of the 1970s. It was the first car designed in house by Hyundai.

Hyundai commented with regards to the styling of the Prophecy that it will have the same Sensuous Sportiness theme as its recent production models. It is unclear whether the Prophecy will share any underpinnings with Hyundai’splanned electric production models.

In 2017, Hyundai announced a dedicated EV platform which is also expected to be used by Kia and Genesis. Hyundai has also confirmed plans to co-develop a different platform with startup Canoo recently.

Asian cancer hospitals to introduce Digital biopsies by the end of 2020

National Academy of Sciences has reported the development of a digitized biopsy, one that could be conducted in cancer clinics around the country. The scientists from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign have designed this model which is an alternative diagnostic tool.

"The advantage is that no stains are required, and both the organization of cells and their chemistry can be measured. Measuring the chemistry of tumor cells and their microenvironment can lead to better cancer diagnoses and a better understanding of the disease," said lead investigator Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering and the director of the Cancer Center at Illinois. This hybrid microscope technology will easily allow upgrading the image with better resolution.

The technique will give out infrared capabilities to the standard optical Microscope. This technique is also combined with machine learning algorithms, which will outperform the tedious and often subjective method of how the cancer diagnosis is done. The researchers hope that their innovation will allow the improvement of cancer cells. It is an intriguing invention in terms of pathology diagnoses. It could help the physicians to speed up the wait for results and will also provide an ‘all-digital’ solution for cancer pathology.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Online Gambling

Online gambling is a huge industry, with an almost infinite number of services and game types to choose from. You’ll find companies offering sports betting, casino games like poker and blackjack, traditional popular betting pastimes like horse betting, and many others. There are lots of things you might already know about online gambling, but there are some fascinating things you might not. Let’s have a look at 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about online gambling.

How Much is the Industry Worth?

It’s probably no surprise to you to learn that online gambling is worth an enormous amount of money, but just how enormous? Try almost $50 million US dollars a year. That’s not all though, it’s also growing at a really fast rate. Some analysts report year on year growth of more than 10% for online gambling, so it’s no small market.

The Random Number Generator is Everything

Apart from sports and horse betting, the traditional casino games need their machines to be simulated online. To do this, a special piece of computer code is used called a random number generator. Everything about the games needs to be random – from the cards drawn in poker or blackjack to where the virtual slot machine stops spinning and using this random number generator this is achieved.

It keeps the online casino honest too, since if everything is random, it’s not possible to cheat.

The Games Aren’t Rigged (Probably)

Gambling is mostly luck and just like in real life, this applies to online casinos too. The way casinos win is by using clever and complex mathematics to ensure they have an edge. There’s more maths involved than we can explain here, but understanding that the odds are already in the favour of the house, even when the game is legitimately using the random number generator, there isn’t really a need for the gambling site or service to cheat, so why would they? It just means they have the risk of getting found out and going out of business for being too greedy.

The Biggest Game in the Industry

Think of a regular casino and picture yourself walking through it. What game takes up most of the floor space and has the most people engaged with it? That’s right, just like traditional casinos, the biggest game in online casinos is the humble slot machine. By some accounts, it accounts for over 70% of profits made in the online gambling industry. It’s not particularly surprising given that it is accessible and easy to play.The actual technology and odds of winning are surprisingly close to its real-life counterpart too.

Choosing a Gambling Site

Research. It’s the only thing that you can do to ensure you choose a legitimate gambling site. You can also check that their merchant service is reliable which will guarantee that your payments to credit your account are processed safely. A smart online gambling site will speak to gaming experts to choose the best merchant service with advice from industry experts like the Merchant Advice Service.

Traditional Cheating Methods Don’t Work

This one might seem obvious, but most traditional ways of cheating at your local casino aren’t going to help your chances at winning with an online casino, particularly when they rely on physical pieces of a game. This is because of our friend, the random number generator.

Blackjack, for example, uses physical cards in a casino, which are periodically shuffled. This allows for adept players to know when a deck is in a promising or less promising position based on what cards have already been played, and whether to bet high or low at any time. In the electronic version, you best believe that the card stack is ‘shuffled’ using the random number generator after every hand, so counting cards isn’t going to get you anywhere.

Don’t Be Fooled by Signup Bonuses

Almost every online casino or gambling site you visit will offer you some form of signing up bonus. Of course, these bonuses, as with everything else in the gambling world, favour the house. Without going into too many complicated maths equations, just know that there will be rules in place to prevent you from taking advantage of this sign up bonus.

No Game (Other Than Card Games) Pays Out More Than Any Other

There are no games that are easier or give you a better chance of winning than any other. You can confidently play your favourite game without fear that you’re missing out on an opportunity for an easier win somewhere else.

That is, until you start playing games where some skill is involved. Poker is a good example, where a lot of what happens is luck, but a lot is also skill and deception. Blackjack too, actually might in some cases have a slightly higher win rate when played correctly.

Don’t Trust Online Advice

This is probably true for almost everything, and not only online gambling, but you should never trust the advice of anything you see or read online, particularly those that are presented as if they come from fellow players, like on a forum or message board. Casino shills are everywhere, and so are online casino competitors trying to bring down their competitors’ reputations. Rather make up your own mind or accept the advice of people you know and trust.

Is Online Gambling Safe?

Yes, online gambling is definitely safe, provided you’re using a legitimate website. There are very few scam sites online, as they get found out and word of mouth eliminates them quite quickly, but it’s always worth doing your research before fully trusting one.

These are a few of the things we found interesting about online gambling you probably didn’t know about. Online gambling in its many forms is a behemoth money-making machine, and millions of people around the world enjoy playing one or more of the games on offer, or betting on sports or similar. Provided you’re responsible about what you have to spend (and potentially lose) it’s a fun hobby that can provide a lot of entertainment.

Data Analytics for Premier Badminton League carried out by a Hyderabad based startup

The recently concluded Premier Badminton League had many new features during their broadcast than the previous editions did. Thanks to a Hyderabad based startup, Matchday AI, which specializes in sports data analytics, the viewers had more data and visuals to enjoy during the matches.

Among the many features, the two key highlights during the broadcast were the distance covered by each player and the heat map, which indicates the action area of a player. Matchday co-founder, K Harsha Vardhan, had pointed out towards the difficulty in collecting data during a sporting event and how their technologies and solutions are automating data collection. The company had sent teams in all the three cities – Chennai, Lucknow and Hyderabad – that would be present in the production room and process live video feed and generate data that went live on air.

Currently, the company’s service cover only two sports – badminton and football and hopes to add more sports events in the near future. The company is also eyeing tie-ups with training academies. The inputs given by the firm’s technology will help the players improve their game and build better strategies. Another co-founder, Ganesh Yaparala, also pointed out towards the need of capturing videos along with providing analytics to game zones and training academies. The company is currently in talks with a broadcaster in China. 

NFL Deploys High-Capacity WiFi Networks

Everyone who watched the Super Bowl 2020 has witnessed the excitement that filled the Hard Rock Stadium as the Kansas City Chiefs became this year’s champions. What wasn’t visible but was omnipresent was that WiFi connectivity in the stadium that gave the fans an enhanced experience during the game.

Be it a restaurant, hospital, library or a stadium, the Wifi scale matters. In hospitals, every day is game day. Healthcare wireless networks play a vital role in the day to day operations. Stadiums do not have game day every day but when they do, the WiFi connectivity needs to be at its best.

The Hard Rock stadium has the capacity of 65,000 while the Seattle Seahawks’ CenturyLink Field is NFL’s third busiest stadium with a 69,000 people capacity. Ensuring that the WiFi works properly for everyone is a difficult task that the NFL tackled in 2013 by using many in-stadium networking solutions including high-density WiFi connectivity, centralized network management and control, application-layer WiFi analytics, robust and intelligent switching infrastructure, WiFi carrier offload, policy-based network provisioning, and location-based services and promotions.

NFL has offered a positive game-day experience to its fan for several years now sharing important WiFi lessons that apply to other industries.

How To Leverage Your Business Growth With BPO

Running a successful company means that you must find innovative ways to bolster profits and make your business run as efficiently as possible. One effective step towards achieving this, is to outsource many of your business operations to third-party merchants through Business Process Outsourcing or BPO services.

Outsourcing began in the manufacturing industry when companies began to hire outside sources to handle the more trivial tasks that were required to create their products. This practice was incredibly successful, and today, we have seen outsourcing transition into business operations.

BPO is used in two different areas of work: back-office functions (accounting, IT services, and human resources), and front-office functions (customer support, and marketing).

BPO often outsources non-core operations and is a viable option because it allows you to devote more time to the most pressing matters, like customer relations and product development, which are at the core of your business.

For many startups, outsourcing is a must due to their limited capital and resources. For more established companies, it is done when a third-party BPO companyis shown to do the job better, and cheaper than they could do themselves.

Outsourcing allows you to play the field. Without it you are limited to what is in front of you so to speak, whereas with outsourcing, you are able to access high quality services, without as many hang-ups.

For American companies which are stricken by some of the highest corporate taxes in the world, outsourcing is a way to avoid this burden. Certain services also cost more in America than they do elsewhere. For example, an Indian software engineer gets paid anywhere from $4,000-$23,000 per year compared to American software engineers who get paid up to $100,000 or more per year.

By outsourcing you also save on office space and offer flexibility to your employees, many of whom are able to telecommute. This improves their quality of life as they are able to work from home and avoid all of the headaches that come with commuting to and from work.

How to Clean Computer Files for an Entire Company

What are the tools you can use to organize files on your company's network and individual computers? Learn how to clean computer files en masse.

Businesses in the United States spent about $3.5 million on cloud computing in the year 2018. This emerging need to store digital data virtually comes in the wake of diminishing space in most internal IT centers. You’ll admit that your work computer currently has more clutter than you necessarily need at the moment.

Even as you contemplate renting more space in the cloud for your digital data, you could start by taking a more deliberate action internally. It's time for a cleanup. Whether it's your PC or workstation laptop, knowing how to clean a computer is a critical added advantage.

Are you struggling to organize your digital files and declutter your computer? Here’s what you can do to clean your computer.

Start With Your Desktop

Saving to the desktop is most people's default way of holding onto temporary folders. But due to busy schedules or laxity, such folders and files end up appearing on your desktop longer than it was initially anticipated.

Are you looking forward to declutteringyour computer?

The best place to begin would be your desktop. If you took the time to evaluate all the random files on your desktop, it would shock you how obsolete much of this information is. Your desktop stands the risk of becoming a mess because it’s the first probable option for storage for most computer users.

You can start by sending everything you deem irrelevant to the recycle bin first. The reason you don't want to rush to permanent deletion is so that you can be sure of the relevance of some files until later. Don't be in a rush to delete everything permanently from your desktop.

Go on a Purging Offensive

Now that your computer desktop has visible signs of sanity, move to your files and folders. Your objective at this point is to purge every file, folder, or document that isn't useful. Most times, the process of purging files is limited by instances of second thoughts.

But the criteria ought to be simple. Is the file useful? If the answer is no, then it belongs to the trash side of things.

Anything you haven't used for the last six months is not worth your space. If you suspect probable usefulness in the future, then you can opt to save such files or documents on an external storage device. The most common culprits in this category include outdated screenshots, downloads, and apps.

Head Right into the Recycle Bin

You'll be surprised at how much useless data your recycle bin may have accumulated over time. Depending on your default settings, the recycle bin deletes files that have stayed beyond a specific period without use. You can review all the records in the recycle bin for the last time, before permanently deleting them

It's also recommended that you create a single folder for all the files in the recycle bin that you may be uncertain about. Such an action would make it easy to assess such files' usefulness over time and decide on the best action based on such an assessment.

Remove or Unpin Apps

You may have pinned an app or two for ease of accessibility at some point. Now imagine pinning an app each time you need to use one, but eventually, end up not unpinning or removing them once you are done. Well, this is a common mistake with most computer users.

Such accumulation of apps on the taskbar can be a real eyesore on top of causing speed-related constraints. If you want to clean computer memory, then unpinning or removing redundant apps would be an essential first step.

By now, you may have noted that your computer looks more organized. Your system may also begin to function more efficiently as you proceed with the cleanup.

Clear Your Browser and Cache

Does a browser search you did on your PC a few months ago still appear on autocomplete each time you do a similar search online? This could be an indication that your browsing history hasn't been cleared for a long time. Such clutter can affect the functionality of your Mac in a significant way.

If you have not cleared your PC's browsing history or the caches in recent times, then it would be best to schedule this critical process.

Erase All Saved Log-Ins

But before you do this, ensure that you have all your passwords and email information either written or thoroughly memorized. This is because once you have cleared the history and cache information, the likelihood of recovering any data saved is next to impossible.

For Macs, you can easily decide up to what time and date you would want to delete data. Such an option ensures that you only clean up information based on relevance and usefulness.

You have probably made numerous log-ins into personal or public accounts and systems with your PC. Each time you make such log-ins, your PC asks you to update saved log-ins. Over time these log-ins may accumulate, leading to concerns over the available memory on your Mac.

If you have noted numerous autocomplete suggestions for passwords lately, it's time to declutter the computer. But you must be wondering how to clean the device in such cases.

It would be best if you considered jotting down the relevant passwords on your PC first. Once this is done, then delete or clear the rest of the database information.

Consider a Customized Solution on How to Clean Computer

Has your Mac become overly slow in recent times? You probably need to take time off and declutter. But the trouble is you don't always have the luxury of time.

You are in luck, though.

With the CCleaner for Mac, millions of computer users can now benefit from recurrent scanning of caches, history logs, and cookies to ensure real-time deletion of useless files. The app protects your integral apps and information to ensure that the clean up only covers what’s superfluous within the system.

You can also check out CCleaner alternatives for Mac here, https://setapp.com/how-to/review-and-best-alternative-to-ccleaner-for-mac

Your Computer’s Effectiveness Depends on Frequent Decluttering

One of the reasons machines function slower than usual is due to excess clutter in your PC. Data files, folders, and PC history are some of the major culprits. But “how to clean a computer” can often be an elusive question.

This guide provides you with general tips to ensure that your Mac is always in tip-top condition.

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