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Halfords launches exclusive line of gadgets from Scosche – Retail Times

SCOSCHE – (pronounced skōsh/skohsh) Industries, the #1 Mount Brand and a leading innovator of award-winning consumer technology, powersports and car audio products and accessories, today introduced more than a dozen new, exclusive products in Halfords stores throughout the UK and Ireland. As part of the enhanced partnership with the UK’s leading retailer of motoring and cycling products and services, Scosche is introducing a line of car mounts for smartphones, Lightning® charging cables, PowerVolt™ car chargers, along with a Bluetooth FM Transmitter, Universal Cassette Adapter, and Audio Adaptor with charging ports, available only at Halfords and halfords.com. In addition to the exclusive line of new products, Scosche is expanding their product offering at all Halfords locations. The dedicated Scosche bay will include their...

24 May 2021

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Google’s first retail store, where it will sell phones and other gadgets, to open this summer in New York

Google announced its first-ever retail store, where will sell Pixel phones, Fitbit wearables, Pixelbooks, Nest products and more. The first-ever Google store is in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, located in the building that houses Google's NYC offices and is close to an Apple Store. © Provided by CNBC Google Store in Chelsea Google announced Thursday its first-ever retail store, where it will sell Pixel phones, Fitbit wearables, Pixelbooks, Nest thermostats and speakers, and more. Load Error The first-ever Google store is in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, located in the building that houses Google's NYC offices and is close to an Apple Store.The store is expected to open this summer.Google has toyed with retail in the past, sometimes with little pop-up shops where people can browse new gadgets when they're announced....

20 May 2021

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Toshiba and Dharma Capital bid to bring quasi-quantum computing to HFT

Japanese tech giant Toshiba is joining forces with Dharma Capital to trial the use of quasi-quantum technology in financial trading. The experiment will investigate the effectiveness of high frequency trading (HFT) strategies for Japanese listed stocks based on "optimal solutions" presented by a quasi-quantum computer -Toshiba’s Simulated Bifurcation Machine.Toshiba says that by combining its computing power with conventional HFT technology, it is now possible to search statistical arbitration opportunities that have not been targeted before, with a sufficient level of low latency against market price fluctuations. More broadly, establishing trading systems that can quickly detect ever-untargeted mispricings and eliminate them is expected to further improve market efficiency and liquidity, says the...

12 May 2021

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Goldman Sachs makes quantum breakthrough

Goldman Sachs is claiming a quantum computing breakthrough, designing algorithms it says could be used on hardware that may be available in as little as five years. The bank has been working with Silicon Valley startup QC Ware for the past couple of years to investigate the use of quantum algorithms in finance, exploring how the technology will eventually outperform classical computers for finance applications.Researchers at the two firms have been looking at how quantum computing can be tapped for the Monte Carlo algorithm used to evaluate risk and simulate prices for a variety of financial instruments.Using traditional hardware, the complex calculations needed for Monte Carlo are typically executed once overnight, which means that in volatile markets, traders are forced to use...

29 April 2021

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Amazon’s Bid to Recover JEDI Cloud Computing Contract Stays Alive

WASHINGTON— Amazon. com Inc.’s bid to win back the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud computing contract stayed alive Wednesday as a federal judge rejected motions by the Defense Department and Microsoft Corp. to dismiss much of Amazon’s challenge of the contract award. Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims rejected the motions, according to a court docket entry. Her opinion and order in the case weren’t made public immediately, making the extent of the government’s legal defeat unclear. The move is significant nonetheless because it opens the door to continued protracted court battles over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract. ...

28 April 2021

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Ally partners with Microsoft Azure to prepare quantum computing-ready workforce

US fintech Ally Financial will collaborate with Microsoft on Azure Quantum solutions to develop quantum computing skills and explore how new algorithms and future quantum hardware could improve customer experience. With claims that the industry is reaching the limits of classical computing, quantum computing has become an attractive proposition. A quantum computer can perform calculations based on the probability of an object's state before it is measured - instead of just 1s or 0s and process more data compared to their traditional counterparts. Ally is collaborating with Microsoft as part of its Enterprise Acceleration Program (EAP) to resolve optimisation issues, as well as utilise available, rich data to support financial services professionals make better decisions, learn why a customer may contact a...

23 April 2021

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High-Performance Computing Market Size to Reach USD 66.46 Billion in 2028

Vancouver, British Columbia, April 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global high-performance computing (HPC) market size reached USD 41.07 Billion in 2020 and is expected to register a significant CAGR of 6.3% during the forecast period, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Major factors driving market revenue growth are rising need to streamline business processes, growing prominence of cloud computing coupled with rapid digitization trend. Another key factor further expected to augment revenue growth of the global high-performance computing (HPC) market in the near future is increasing adoption of high-performance computing in government entities. High-performance computing systems' capability to handle vast volumes of data at high speed is a key factor resulting in high deployment rate among government entities. Claim Your FREE...

19 April 2021

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How retail is being pushed towards Edge computing

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The rise of online retail and the Covid-19 pandemic are driving store closures, so retailers need to get smarter about how they use technology at the Edge. The Edge is the past, present, and future of the retail industry. While the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted the model, in-store is typically where retailers make their money, store their goods, and engage with their customers.“The retail edges are the things that drive the company's revenue and so it's very very important for them to make sure that they are able to drive revenue continuously, and not have any kind of downtime,” says Ezat Dayeh, senior systems engineer UK and Ireland at Cohesity.But, as retailers look to adapt to the difficult commercial realities of Covid-19, the Edge is becoming an opportunity to consolidate old...

12 March 2021

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