Thailand’s celebrated elephant sanctuary to host jungle bubbles for an experiential stay

Thailand plays home to one of the world’s largest elephant sanctuaries at Anantara. Known as the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp, the huge area also has a luxurious resort which will now have two jungle bubbles in order to provide holiday goers with a truly elevated experience where they can witness the wild giant in its natural environment. The transparent bubbles will have luxurious beds and a tiny bathroom and will be available to guest at a cost in addition to their room cost.

“The bubbles are booked as an "experience" in addition to your reserved resort room for 17,700 baht (US$563) per night per couple. This means you can just pack an overnight bag and leave the rest of your belongings in your suite.Guests are picked up from the lobby just before sunset, then driven down a dirt road in an open-air jeep before taking a short walk through the resort's rice paddy to get to the bubbles,” written in a report by CNN.

The elephant sanctuary is part of an NGO that rescues the friendly beasts and gives them a home. They also invite mahouts along with their elephants to live in the grounds of the resort.

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will outfox most of the high-end gaming rigs in market

The Xbox Series X is all set to be a beast. On paper, its specs look way better than most of the gaming rigs in market.  The new console from Series X will feature an NVME SSD and AMD Zen 2 CPU; this will give it contemporary processing abilities and fast storage to significantly reduce the load times. The real star of the show is AMD RDNA2 graphics card and this component is something which the PC gamers can’t get their hands on as of now. The Xbox Series X has computing power of 12 teraflop and it is known to crunch through 12 trillion floating point operations within a second. This feature will make it twice as fast as Xbox One X, it is one of the fastest consoles that are now available in market and it is also 3 times faster than the PS4 pro.

The performance leap of the Series X is beyond remarkable and its GPU is also faster than most of the PC video cards. The high end graphic cards that PC use can’t reach the 4K benchmark reliably, Microsoft is gearing up with the launch of Series X. Meanwhile, Sony is preparing for the launch of PS5, but it is expected to be slower than Series X.

Starbucks to suspend the use of personal cups due to fear of epidemic

Since 1985, Starbucks has been following a tradition of offering a ten cent discount to environmentally conscious customers who brought in their own reusable cups in order to savor their fresh brews. Due to the looming threat of coronavirus which is causing terror all over the world, the coffee serving behemoth has resorted to suspending this service of theirs as a temporary precautionary method. For further safety, the Seattle based coffee chain has also resorted to cease all business related travel till the scare dies down.

EVP Rossann Williams said, “The Company will continue to honor its 10-cent discount for anyone who brings in a personal cup or tumbler for coffee, even though customers can't use them.We are optimistic this will be a temporary situation.We will continue to communicate with transparency and act courageously and responsibly to ensure the health and well-being of our partners and customers.Large meetings at the company's offices in the United States and Canada are being postponed or modified.”

Starbucks wasn’t clear on how long these new changes will be implemented but it is assumed that they will stay in place till the epidemic dies down. The sustainable method adopted by Starbucks in letting customers bring in their own cups has saved tons of paper cups since its implementation.

An egg a day keeps the doctor away?

Recently a study was conducted amongst 215,000 people who consumed one to five eggs a week on a regular basis. The study was conducted for a period of thirty four years and their heart health was consistently monitored in order to check for any sort of degeneration. So far the research team has not found any link between the consumption of eggs and the increase of cardiovascular disease. It has only been found that egg consumers who have type two diabetes have a higher chance of developing cardiovascular problems.

"Moderate consumption -- up to one egg per day -- is not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.On average, most people don't eat more than an egg a day. They might eat two eggs per breakfast, but only two or three times per week. So the average consumption is actually less than one egg per day.," said study author Dr. Frank Hu, who chairs the department of nutrition at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The study also found that egg consumers in Asia had lower risk of heart disease because they incorporate this nutritional powerhouse into their recipes instead of separate consumption. Eggs are a powerhouse containing all essential vitamins and minerals and moderate consumption is beneficial for health.

Free File Converters Platforms To Easily Convert Folders & Files

Sometimes finding a reliable and best file converter tool is quite a daunting task because among so many different file converter tools it becomes a lot intricate for you to pick the best one.  File converter tools are the best platform for you with which you can convert different files, images, audios, and eBook into a required format that you want it to be. Let’s check out which file converter tools are best to use:

1. Free File Convert

On the top of our list, we have the name of Free File Converter which is one of the most reliable and best platforms of file converter.  This tool is quite easy to use due to its simple features and has been placed with a wide range of popular conversion types and supportive types to make your task a lot easy to perform. This platform will be providing you to convert your files into different formats. It is supporting more than 8300 various conversions with the combination of documents, images, videos, audios, eBooks, or presentations.

To convert your required file type, you just have to choose the source file to convert by clicking on the “input file” option. Now select the type of file format you are looking for from the “output format”" box and then click on convert option! Some of the basic supported conversion types are as mentioned below:

·         Archive Converter

·         Ebook converter

·         Audio Converter

·         Font Converter

·         CAD Converter

·         Image converter

·         Document Converter

·         Vector converter

·         Presentation Converter

·         Video Converter

2. Online Convert Free

Next comes the name of the online converter free tool which is another top recommended online converter for you.  This converter has been not just best for the business professional use, but will also work best for the students as well. It can easily help you to convert your folders and files in different formats without giving you any sort of hassle.

This converter tool is sufficient enough for converting all your videos, audios, pictures and documents in different compressed files.  As you will check out this tool's official website, you will view a long checklist of different formats of file conversions available for you. It has around 100 different file formats that are completely free to use.

3. You Convert It

Last we have “you convert it” online free converter which is although a new file converter still it has made a massive popular name among students.  On the main top page, you will find a dialog box that will enable you to upload your file for the conversion process. You just need to upload your file and in just a few minutes of processing the file will be in front of you.  This online tool gives you a 100% guarantee to converter all your files and folders with the best quality results of conversion. With the help of this tool, you can convert images, videos, audios, Ebook and different archive documents. The whole conversion process is so much easy to perform that even the beginners can easily perform it.

5 Best Marketing Automation Platforms for 2020: Here’s the Real Deal!

If business growth is on your mind and you are running a small or medium sized business that definitely wants to do bigger things, then you have reached the right place. Now, before we actually unravel the list for marketing automation platforms for the year 2020, we would like to take you on a short journey through some insights to help you understand what marketing automation softwares should do for and deliver to your business as well as your prospects. Here’s a quick list:

Seamless Team Work

How you work for your team and how your team works for you would be the two biggest drivers on which your business success can be riding especially in the year 2020. With the multiplication of opportunities in the last decade and the expansion of competition along all niches, it would be safe to say that it would be worthwhile to cultivate a smart team more than anything else. And to equip a smart team, you would need to give them tools, resources, bandwidth and time. This would include the elimination of all monotonous tasks which is where a marketing automation platform steps in. Also, with such a platform, you would be able to do away with chaos when it comes to tasks and the allocation of the said tasks in the sale pipeline to a certain member or a number of members in the team. This would also make seamless collaboration within the team since there will be a clear signal and demarcation of when the task of one member finishes and the next member must step in. In such a case, tasks do not get missed either and duplication of efforts can also be easily avoided. 

Budget

When you have a small business that wants to make it big, the biggest constraint that you will face would be the budget - or rather, in many cases, the lack of it. But should this necessarily hold you back? We think not! With a tool like marketing automation, you can reach out to a number of prospects with a small team and make the most of it with a small investment. A marketing automation software should not be looked at as a liability or an expense, but as an investment and an asset that can help you grow with the minimum investment possible. This is due to a number of reasons. You can reach clients globally with the CRM and marketing automation integration thanks to the platform that you would be using. This is due to the fact that marketing automation toolsalso give you better reach and engagement to get to your client irrespective of the geographical location where he or she may be. And with the automation at play, a smaller number of team members and employees can easily achieve these tasks. 

Professional Front

When you are using a marketing automation platform, you can be sure that you are putting up a professional front with customized templates and features that work in your branding so that there is instant brand recall value in each and every deliverable that goes out from your side. This will make people sit up and take notice since the effort may not be much, but the look and feel makes it trustworthy and sophisticated at the very first glance. This would be helpful in building authenticity and authority in your niche so that people can relate to your brand or business as a professional one that is out to do business the absolute right way. 

Here are the top five marketing automation and CRM integrated platforms that you can use for your business growth in the year 2020, and onwards:

EngageBay

Now, this is without a doubt one of the best marketing automation software out there in the world today. The testament of this lies in the fact that Engage Bay has over 12000 happy and well serviced clients all over the world who have managed to take their business forward with the features and tools that are available on the platform. Further, with the careful integration of marketing automation as well as CRM, EngageBay has managed to create a full suite of features that leaves no stone unturned, and no corner unserviced. thanks to its all-encompassing set of features that cover social media, landing pages, email marketing, SEO, blogs, and so much more. The best part about EngageBay marketing automation is the fact that it is extremely affordable even for the smallest of businesses, easy to setup and use and even offers constant support which very few platforms have as of now.

ActiveCampaign

This is a platform that is mainly concentrated around email marketing and it provides a number of features and services that even take you into the land of template design and AB testing so that you can track the efficacy and reach of your emails to plan better campaigns for all times to come. Yet, it does not offer all the features that you can find with a platform like EngageBay since it is mainly concentrated around CRM for email marketing. 

Drip

This is another marketing automation toolthat can help you generate and nurture leads with well-designed campaigns basically for the email marketing segment. In terms of marketing automation, this can be a pretty limiting thing although in its niche segment, Drip seems to be doing pretty well. The CRM platform is also pretty robust here. 

WishPond

This is a marketing automation platform that makes use of a number of different styles of promotions like contests and giveaways but it is also mainly concentrated around email marketing which is not the most helpful when you are looking to automate all areas of your marketing and CRM operations. 

GetResponse

As one of the direct competitions of MailChimp, GetResponse can also be termed as one of the oldest players in this niche. It basically revolves all your marketing and CRM efforts around email marketing and hence the business would have to come with its own leads and data for this platform to give it successful campaigns. 

SpaceX's Starship Prototype Super- Rocket Fails during a Pressure Test

SpaceX has been recently conducting tests on its pad at the South Texas facility. During a pressure test for a prototype of SpaceX’s starship super-rocket, an explosion had occurred. Residents had captured the incident on video.

The failure occurred during the pressurization test to contain liquid nitrogen resulted in cylinders flying off the stand of the rocket, known as SN1. The rocket came down crashing and turned into a pile of stainless steel. Liquid nitrogen was being pumped into the tank of the prototype while being placed on the launch pad to test if its improved steel structure could withstand cryogenic fuels. These rockets are being designed to fly deep-space missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. The prototype Starship SN1 was a test article for the deep-space missions.

Along with the ability to carry more than 100 metric tonnes to Earth orbit, the company has designed the Starship with a fully reusable transportation system and could carry both the crew and the cargo. Additionally, SpaceX has recently won a contract with NASA to provide launch services for the agency’s a unique mission ‘The Psyche’ to search metal-rich asteroid that orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. While the Starship’s first orbital-flight is targeted for this year, the mission is planned to launch in July 2022 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon Heavy rocket.