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Oil palm powerhouse Presco switched ownership from long-time investor Siat N.V, based in Brussels, Belgium, which had held on to the company’s majority control for well over three decades until the start of this month. Fimave N.V., holder of 86.7 per cent of the total issued shares of Siat, which owned a 60 per cent interest in Presco, consummated a deal shifting that stake to Oak and Saffron Limited, the oil palm processor said in a regulatory note. Oak and Saffron, PREMIUM TIMES check with Corporate Affairs…

Nia Amara: My being an artist very much affects my view of the world. And it bleeds into everything, including my science. For me, science is about the search from the outside in. Whereas art is the search from the inside out. One of the connections between art and science is storytelling. One of the outstanding mysteries of star formation is how stellar nurseries are born and how they evolve. I’m Dr. Nia Amara.I'm an astrophysicist and an artist and this is how stars are born. Stellar nurseries are incredibly complex,…

From industrial warehouses to unassuming strip malls, shopping for vintage Midcentury Modern furniture in Palm Springs is a delightful treasure hunt. From industrial warehouses to unassuming strip malls, shopping for vintage Midcentury Modern furniture in Palm Springs is a delightful treasure hunt. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…

The Apple TV+ series — which also features Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Kaia Gerber, and more — premieres on March 20 Tired of being on the outside looking in, Kristen Wiig ventures over a garden wall to immerse herself in Palm Beach’s high society in the official trailer for Apple TV+‘s Palm Royale. There, among the snobbish and the snooty, people like Maxine (Wiig) and Robert, a hyper-observant club employee played by Ricky Martin, shake up the status quo.…

The impact of on-device training could be a transformation in the capabilities of neural networks. AI could be personalized to your own actions as you walk around, tapping, scrolling, and dragging. AI could learn from the environments you pass through during your daily routine, gathering signs about the world.  Also: How Apple's AI advances could make or break the iPhone 16Recent work by Apple engineers suggests the company is looking to bring larger neural networks, the "generative" kind represented by OpenAI's…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pumping $3.5 million into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting alternatives to the environmentally destructive palm oil business. The Gates grant comes alongside a $1 million check from Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit accelerator that backs climate tech “with deep community impact.” You can find palm oil pretty much everywhere — in soaps and biofuels as well as chocolates and instant ramen. While the industry’s given itself…

Two years ago, YouTube star Luan Palomera paid $1.5 million for a chic vacation home in Palm Springs.Today, he’d be lucky to get $1 million for it.As L.A. continues its crackdown on Airbnb, city officials can turn toward the desert for an example — perhaps a cautionary tale — of the potential side effects of curbing the short-term rental market. In Palm Springs, a cap on short-term rentals in specific high-demand neighborhoods has all but frozen the market in those communities. A home for sale along…

At , teased its first-ever smart deadbolt that works using a touch-free palm reading system that allows homeowners to unlock their front doors. The Philips 5000 Series Wi-Fi Palm Recognition Smart Deadbolt, will go on sale in the US early this year and will retail for $360.The deadbolt will join the Philips home security smart lock product lineup and will integrate with the Phillips Home Access app where users can remotely control the lock system through smart home assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. It’ll…

Another attractive feature of the Series 5000 is its proximity sensors on the indoor mechanism that detect when a person is approaching the doorknob to unlock itself. This means the deadbolt would automatically unlock when you approach the door handle to leave your home. Using Wi-Fi for connectivity means that users don't have to buy a separate hub to use the smart capabilities, and it's also compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Users can add up to 50 different Palm ID options, up to 100 user PIN codes,…

When LG still made phones (sigh), at one point it tried to implement a "Hand ID" unlock gimmick on the G8 ThinQ, though in our experience, there was much room for improvement. For one, you'd have to turn on the screen first to toggle hand tracking. That was dumb. Fast forward to today, Realme is bringing a similar feature back to a new phone, the GT5 Pro, with support for some seemingly practical hand gestures.Rather than using a time-of-flight camera and an infrared light, the Realme GT5 Pro utilizes its 32-megapixel…