Month: September 2022

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MORA fait son entrée en Afrique du Sud et lance ses mini-réfrigérateurs pour une vie heureuse

LE CAP, Afrique du Sud, 9 septembre 2022/PRNewswire/ — MORA, une marque pionnière d’appareils électroménagers appartenant au groupe Hisense, franchit une étape importante et fait son entrée officielle en Afrique du Sud en présentant trois mini-réfrigérateurs à ses consommateurs locaux en septembre. Un premier pas vers une vie haut de gamme : MORA met ses fonctionnalités, sa technologie et son design au service du bien-être des familles sud-africaines avec sa vision « Plein de joie, plein de vie ».

Avec une riche histoire qui remonte à 1825 en République tchèque, MORA fait ses premiers pas en Afrique du Sud pour rejoindre la marque Hisense, dans l’intention de répondre aux besoins des ménages sud-africains. En lançant une série d’accessoires indispensables avec des caractéristiques d’efficacité énergétique A+ et une fonction de réduction du bruit, notamment le M65RTS qui est déjà en magasin, ainsi que les M125RT et M125RWH bientôt sur le marché, MORA est en bonne voie pour fournir une aide précieuse et devenir la pièce maîtresse des cuisines grand public.

L’introduction des incontournables mini-réfrigérateurs fait écho à l’engagement de MORA à rendre la vie plus facile et amusante pour ses consommateurs sud-africains. Les mini-réfrigérateurs sont équipés de la fonction de réduction du bruit et de technologies d’économie d’énergie, et ils sont disponibles en plusieurs volumes et couleurs, ce qui en fait des produits polyvalents qui peuvent s’adapter à divers aspects de la vie quotidienne. Pour les particuliers vivant dans des espaces réduits ou pour les professionnels, les mini-réfrigérateurs permettent de vivre une vie agréable à de multiples égards.

Grâce aux produits MORA, les familles sud-africaines peuvent profiter de la performance, de la fiabilité, du confort et de la simplicité des produits, et ce dans de nombreux cas de figure : pour aménager une petite maison, pour décorer des suites ou encore des locaux professionnels.

L’entrée en Afrique du Sud marque un nouveau pas vers l’objectif final de MORA : permettre aux consommateurs d’accomplir leurs tâches quotidiennes tout en profitant des moments et des expériences importantes auprès de leur famille. Ses technologies de pointe révolutionnent les appareils électroménagers pour les doter de fonctions modernes, économiques et respectueuses de l’environnement.

MORA fait partie intégrante de la cuisine moderne depuis ses débuts. En partageant son expérience et ses innovations avec ses consommateurs en Afrique du Sud, MORA aidera les familles sud-africaines à mieux cuisiner chez elles et à vivre des moments de bonheur, de légèreté et d’aventure.

Les produits de MORA seront disponibles via plusieurs canaux, notamment les distributeurs et les magasins tels que OK et HNH. Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur :  https://hisense.co.za/mora/ .

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Tbay successfully held the first mid-term seminar about global gift card vendors invitation

SINGAPORE, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, the first mid-term seminar for global gift card vendors was successfully held. As one of the organizers, Tbay, the world’s leading gift card trading platform, delivered a public speech on “how to create a safe and fair gift card trading environment” and released the latest investment criteria.

Alex Lin, CEO of Tbay, said that transaction disputes caused by the uneven qualifications of different platform vendors are prevalent. As the object of direct transactions with users, how vendors ensure transaction security has always been one of the focus issues that concerns both the platform and users. In response, Tbay has now comprehensively raised the threshold for investment.

Firstly, a gift card vendor must have been operational for over 3 years, with good credit scores and no criminal records. When applying for admission, the company must pay a deposit of $30,000 and provide relevant qualification certificates. The company employ 50 personnel and have a registered capital of over $100,000 with an annual revenue of over $1,000,000. Tbay will verify information authenticity. Once the qualification information is found to be false, the company will be included in the list of untrustworthy customers.

Secondly, the vendors must sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with Tbay. Trading on other platforms is prohibited, and in the event of a breach, the violator will be subject to severe penalties from Tbay, such as permanent account bans or fines ranging from $10,000-$20,000.

Thirdly, the vendors should have a fixed office space and ensure that the space is equipped with 360° surveillance for monitoring of work operations. Tbay will arrange a on-site visit of new office space, and will conduct regular visits and inspections thereafter.

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Alex said the investment standards have received high attention from industry and users. Today, with the booming development of the gift card industry, Tbay has always been committed to the safe and fair trading and created a strict standard investment qualification and trading environment. On the second anniversary, it has won the trust of 200,000 users and has quickly become a new benchmark in the global gift card industry, supporting over 30 gift card transactions with direct payment by Naira, consistently providing users with safe and efficient services.

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CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS URGE ACTION ON DEBT, INFLATION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE, RENEW CALLS FOR RUSSIA TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAR CRIMES

New York, Sept. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As world leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly, the Open Society Foundations is calling for bold steps to address critical worldwide crises, including:

  • A global rescue plan that sees higher-income countries committing 2% of their GDP to tackle spiraling living costs and embracing solutions such as pricing regulations, IP waivers, and windfall taxes;
  • Immediate debt relief and financial assistance to lower-income countries, including by suspending IMF/World Bank surcharges and issuing a new round of Special Drawing Rights;
  • Creation of a Loss and Damage mechanism to support countries that have already experienced irreparable or severe harm due to climate change;
  • Russian accountability for war crimes in Ukraine and an end to the war there; and
  • More open, inclusive, and effective global institutions that reflect the make-up of the world.

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow isn’t just a line from Macbeth,” said Mark Malloch-Brown, President of the Open Society Foundations. “For too long, it has also been at the heart of world leaders’ plan to tackle these mounting global challenges. That has to change.”

Malloch-Brown and other Open Society Foundations representatives will be in New York in September and are available to comment on the above:

  • Mark Malloch-Brown, President, formerly served as UN Deputy Secretary-General to Kofi Annan, led the UN Development Programme and was vice-president at the World Bank and Minister with responsibility for Africa, Asia, and the UN under UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He can speak about the global fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, debt relief, development assistance, and reform of international institutions.
  • Laura Carvalho, Director for Equity, is a leading Brazilian economist and co-founder and Director of the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequality at the University of São Paulo and has written extensively on development economics and inequality. She can speak about the global economy and the need to reduce inflationary and debt pressures in the Global South.
  • Yamide Dagnet, Director for Climate Justice, previously served as the Director of Climate Negotiations at the World Resources Institute, focusing on the equitable implementation of international climate agreements. She can speak about the need for climate action that is fair and equitable for all countries and communities.
  • Natalie Samarasinghe, Global Director of Advocacy, formerly served as CEO of the United Nations Association-UK and Speechwriter for the President of the UN General Assembly. She can speak about global crises and the need for international action, as well as UN reform.
  • Oleksandr Sushko, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine (not in New York during UNGA), was Director of the Centre for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine. He can speak about the work and needs of civil society in Ukraine and the Ukraine Democracy Fund.

The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, is the world’s leading funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.

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New version of i-PRO Active Guard turns VMSs into powerful search engines for real time alarm notifications and post-event searches

AI-based plug-in features industry’s largest number of search attributes, new UI enhancements and adds support for leading VMS

Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — i-PRO Co., Ltd., a global leader in professional security solutions for surveillance and public safety, today announced the latest version of its Active Guard plug-in. The AI-based plug-in can turn video management systems (VMS) into powerful search engines capable of real-time searches or deep forensic analysis. Already supported by leading VMSs including Genetec Security Center and i-PRO Video Insight, the latest version now adds support for Milestone Systems’ X-Protect and i-PRO’s ASM300 software, and features the industry’s largest number of search attributes and new UI enhancements.

“With the addition of Milestone X-Protect, i-PRO Active Guard is now available to the major leaders in the global VMS market and will revolutionize how Security Officers conduct real time and post event searches,” said Norio Hitsuishi, Global Head of Product Management at i-PRO. “These enhancements combined with the extension of our AI-capable camera line-up are creating a powerful end-to-end AI security ecosystem that allows businesses to take their security infrastructure to the next level. This latest announcement underscores i-PRO’s mission as a trusted next-generation partner to make AI the new standard in the security industry.”

Fast and intuitive, i-PRO Active Guard creates a more efficient and accurate AI-powered system without compromising on image quality or network performance. The plug-in integrates seamlessly into the existing UI of the VMS, appearing as just another function tab. It allows users to easily manage the AI analytics from multiple i-PRO cameras and allows users to easily set up sophisticated search parameters based on the industry’s largest number of search attributes which include gender, age, clothing color, facial characteristics, vehicle color and direction, and many more.

With Active Guard, Security Officers no longer have to spend time looking at multiple screens for persons or vehicles of interest or watch hours of recorded video to search for important events. Operators can register specific characteristics in their watch lists (for instance “male wearing a red shirt and blue pants”) and the VMS will send them a real-time alarm whenever a match is identified, a feature that is unique to i-PRO. This enhances real-time situational awareness and enables proactive security. The same process can be set up for fast data mining of events during forensic investigations.

The metadata is captured and analyzed by i-PRO AI network cameras at the edge, which use the powerful Ambarella SoC, reducing bandwidth and eliminating the need for expensive servers. i-PRO Active Guard is a light-load and unique in the industry in that the edge-processed AI data results are sent to the Active Guard server eliminating the requirement for additional on-premises servers. The metadata is then searched and presented in the Active Guard plugin on the client.

For more information, visit

https://i-pro.com/global/en/surveillance/featured-products/i-pro-active-guard

About i-PRO

i-PRO Co., Ltd., is a global leader of advanced sensing technologies in the fields of Intelligent Surveillance, Public Safety and Industrial/Medical Imaging. Established in 2019, i-PRO was built on a legacy of over 60 years of innovation with Panasonic. The company’s products, software and services extend human senses to capture moments of truth with innovations that inform and protect. In order to help create a safer world, i-PRO Co., Ltd., supports the work of professionals who protect and save lives.

© i-PRO is a trademark of i-PRO Co., Ltd. Other trademarks used in this document may be trademarks of the manufacturers or vendors of the respective product.

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Voice-Operated Smartphones Target Africa’s Illiterate

Voice-operated smartphones are aiming at a vast yet widely overlooked market in sub-Saharan Africa — the tens of millions of people who face huge challenges in life because they cannot read or write.

In Ivory Coast, a so-called “Superphone” using a vocal assistant that responds to commands in a local language is being pitched to the large segment of the population — as many as 40 percent — who are illiterate.

Developed and assembled locally, the phone is designed to make everyday tasks more accessible, from understanding a document and checking a bank balance to communicating with government agencies.

“I’ve just bought this phone for my parents back home in the village, who don’t know how to read or write,” said Floride Jogbe, a young woman who was impressed by adverts on social media.

She believed the 60,000 CFA francs ($92) she forked out was money well spent.

The smartphone uses an operating system called “Kone” that is unique to the Cerco company, and covers 17 languages spoken in Ivory Coast, including Baoule, Bete, and Dioula, as well as 50 other African languages.

Cerco hopes to expand this to 1,000 languages, reaching half of the continent’s population, thanks to help from a network of 3,000 volunteers.

The goal is to address the “frustration” illiterate people feel with technology that requires them to be able to read or write or spell effectively, said Cerco president Alain Capo-Chichi, a Benin national.

“Various institutions set down the priority of making people literate before making technology available to them,” he told AFP.

“Our way skips reading and writing and goes straight to integrating people into economic and social life.”

Of the 750 million adults around the world who cannot read or write, 27 percent live south of the Sahara, according to UN figures for 2016, the latest year for which data is available.

The continent also hosts nearly 2,000 languages, some of which are spoken by tens of millions of people and are used for inter-ethnic communication, while others are dialects with a small geographical spread.

Lack of numbers or economic clout often means these languages are overlooked by developers who have already devised vocal assistants for languages in bigger markets.

Twi and Kiswahili

Other companies investing in the voice-operation field in Africa include Mobobi, which has created a Twi language voice assistant in Ghana called Abena AI, while Mozilla is working on an assistant in Kiswahili, which has an estimated 100 million speakers in East Africa.

Telecommunications expert Jean-Marie Akepo questioned whether voice operation needed the platform of a dedicated mobile phone.

Existing technology “manages to satisfy people”, he said.

“With the voice message services offered by WhatsApp, for example, a large part of the problem has already been solved.”

Instead of a new phone, he recommended “software with local languages that could be installed on any smartphone”.

The Ivorian phone is being produced at the ICT and Biotechnology Village in Grand-Bassam, a free-trade zone located near the Ivorian capital.

It came about through close collaboration with the government. The company pays no taxes or customs duties and the assembly plant has benefited from a subsidy of more than two billion CFA francs.

In exchange, Cerco is to pay 3.5 percent of its income to the state and train around 1,200 young people each year.

The company says it has received 200,000 orders since launch on July 21.

Thanks to a partnership with French telecommunications giant Orange, the phone will be distributed in 200 shops across Ivory Coast.

Source: Voice of America

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New York to Ramp Up Polio Vaccinations After Virus Found in Wastewater

New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a disaster emergency Friday in a bid to accelerate efforts to vaccinate residents against polio after the virus was detected in wastewater samples taken in four counties.

Hochul’s executive order followed the discovery of the virus last month in samples from Long Island’s Nassau County, bordering the New York City borough of Queens. Earlier this year the virus was found in samples from Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties, all north of the city.

In July, the first confirmed case of polio in the United States in nearly a decade turned up in an adult in Rockland County, according to the state health department.

“On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice,” State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said in a statement. “If you or your child are unvaccinated or not up to date with vaccinations, the risk of paralytic disease is real.”

Polio can cause irreversible paralysis in some cases, but it can be prevented by a vaccine first made available in 1955. While there is no known cure, three injections of the vaccine provide nearly 100% immunity.

People of all ages are under threat, though the virus primarily affects children age 3 and younger.

Officials urged inoculations for unvaccinated adults and children as young as 2 months, and they advised that vaccinated people receive a lifetime booster dose.

Hochul’s declaration authorizes paramedics, midwives and pharmacists to administer polio vaccinations, among other steps, to accelerate inoculation rates. The order also directs health care providers to update the state with data on immunizations.

The state of emergency will stay in effect until October 9. Health officials set a goal of getting 90% of residents vaccinated.

The state health department warned that people in New York City and Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Nassau counties are at the highest risk.

Orange County has the lowest vaccination rate of the counties of concern with less than 59% being immunized, according to the state health department.

Source: Voice of America