Emirates Skywards partners with Dilmah Tea to offer members exclusive tea-inspired experiences Emirates Skywards, the award-winning loyalty programme of Emirates and flydubai, has partnered with Dilmah Tea to offer members an exciting opportunity to experience the lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka. Starting from today, members can bid Miles with Skywards Exclusives for a chance to win a stay at the Tea Maker’s Private Retreat. The once in a lifetime opportunity includes a tea-making masterclass, a unique culinary experience inspired by tea, food pairing experiences with tea and a visit to explore the tea fields. Ring in International Tea Day…
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The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) is celebrating the grand opening of its Global Technology Center in Bucharest, Romania. This is an important step for ELC to further improve and elevate the Company’s Information Technology function, strengthening its competitive edge through technology. The Bucharest office, together with offices in Long Island City, New York and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, embodies ELC’s global approach to technology management and innovation. The office is a demonstration of ELC’s recent investments in digital tech centers around the world, enhancing the diversity of its capabilities. Since the formation of the Bucharest office in 2021, the Information Technology…
More than a year after the military invasion of Ukraine, the needs in the country remain huge and are growing by the day as intensive attacks continue. In close co-operation with UNHCR, IKEA has during the last several months provided over 850,000 home furnishing products to support people who have been forced to leave their homes and hometowns. The donation includes more than 71,000 mattresses, 75,000 bed sheets, 86,000 blankets, 99,000 kitchen sets and 205,000 pillows. The donation, a joint effort between Inter IKEA Group and Ingka Group, has a total estimated retail value of approximately EUR 9 million. “More…
Hublot and Takashi Murakami have continued their creative dialogue with a compelling fourth collaboration. Their 13 new timepieces, each paired with an NFT, fuse watchmaking innovation and contemporary art. The watches feature the artist’s iconic smiling flower, in perfect harmony with Hublot’s renowned expertise. For this new chapter in their collaborative story, Hublot and Takashi Murakami salute the owners and collectors of previous editions of their NFTs and watches. Access to the online sale of twelve Classic Fusion watches is reserved to owners of at least one of the NFTs created as part of the third collaboration between Hublot and…
Mastercard introduced Cross-Border Services Express, a new tool that enables financial institutions to seamlessly set up international payments for their customers, including consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which have a strong need for improved cross-border payment capabilities. Increasingly, consumers and businesses are looking for ways to send money or pay vendors across the globe quickly and securely. Cross-Border Services Express delivers that completely in a digital-first experience. The service complements Mastercard’s Cross-Border Services offering. It works using a customizable and easy-to-implement digital overlay, and also provides additional tools to meet compliance and regulatory requirements. “It’s our goal to…
SenseTime hosted a Tech Day event, sharing their strategic plan for advancing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) development through the combination of “foundation models + large-scale computing” systems. Under this strategy, SenseTime unveiled the “SenseNova” foundation model set, introducing a variety of foundation models and capabilities in natural language processing, content generation, automated data annotation, and custom model training. At the event, SenseTime not only showcased their large language model’s capabilities, but also demonstrated a series of generative AI models and applications, such as text-to-image creation, 2D/3D digital human generation, and complex scenario/detailed object generation. Additionally, they introduced their AGI research…
MTN, Huawei, HIMA Cement launched Uganda’s first 5G deployment in an industry vertical Huawei, together with Ugandan telecom operator MTN and HIMA Cement Company, launched the country’s first 5G deployment in a HIMA cement plant. Offering high bandwidth, low latency, and ability to connect with a high concentration of devices, 5G will enable real-time data transmission in the production area. Harnessing edge computing, 5G will significantly improve the production efficiency of the factory. At the launch event held on April 3, MTN Uganda and Huawei demonstrated the remarkable advantages of 5G: super-fast data transmission speed and super-low latency. Huawei, together…
Netflix is excited to announce that Netflix and Lacoste are creatively coming together to release a new collection celebrating some of the extraordinary universes of the most beloved shows including Stranger Things, Bridgerton, Lupin, Money Heist, The Witcher, Sex Education, Shadow and Bone and Elite. Starting 12 April, the iconic Lacoste clothing — whether polos, sweatshirts, tracksuits and more — have been reimagined from the Upside Down to Las Encinas high school with the Lacoste crocodile dawning the costumes from these fan-favorite Netflix shows. A Collection for All Connecting cultures to culture. Netflix has given another brand carte…
Bosch BASF Smart Farming and AGCO announce joint development and commercialization of smart spraying capabilities Bosch BASF Smart Farming announced today that together with AGCO Corporation it will integrate and commercialize Smart Spraying technology on Fendt Rogator sprayers, and jointly develop additional, new features. In May 2021, the companies started the first trials of Bosch BASF Smart Farming’s innovative Smart Spraying Solution, which delivers optimal herbicide savings without compromising weed control and enables targeted spraying during day and nighttime conditions. In addition to targeted spraying, the system delivers integrated digital tools to turn the application data into actionable insights and…
Following the breakthrough expanded air transport agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Canada, Emirates is stepping up its frequency with two additional flights per week between Dubai and Toronto. From 20 April, daily flights will operate on the busy route to serve huge demand for passenger services. The move comes as bilateral relations between the United Arab Emirates and Canada have enhanced significantly, with both countries set to reap vast economic benefits across a multitude of sectors and supply chains. Hailing the development as a crucial one for the airline, Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Chief Commercial Officer, said: Emirates welcomes the…