Day: December 16, 2021

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Casio lance des modèles G-SHOCK en collaboration avec la série documentaire télévisée Matchday : Inside FC Barcelona

TOKYO, 15 décembre 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Casio Computer Co., Ltd. a annoncé aujourd’hui les dernières nouveautés de sa marque de montres antichocs G-SHOCK. Le GBD-H1000BAR et le GBD-100BAR sont des modèles de collaboration célébrant Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona, un documentaire sur le monde intérieur du célèbre club de football espagnol.

GBD-H1000BAR (left), GBD-100BAR (right)

Les modèles de base des deux nouvelles montres sont le GBD-H1000 et le GBD-100, tous deux issus de la gamme G-SQUAD. Les nouveaux modèles reprennent les couleurs bleu et grenat de l’équipe du FC Barcelone. Les bracelets, conçus pour évoquer les uniformes passés et présents de l’équipe, sont imprimées de la devise du club, « Més que un club » (« Plus qu’un club ») dans la langue catalane locale. Le GBD-H1000BAR est dotée d’une lunette en métal plaqué or ionique brillant comme une coupe de trophée de vainqueur, tandis que la boucle du bracelet des deux montres arbore les quatre bandes rouges du drapeau catalan. Un emballage spécialement conçu, également aux couleurs de l’équipe du FC Barcelone, est une touche finale digne de ces montres singulières.

GBD-H1000BAR / GBD-100BAR

Les deux nouvelles montres sont équipées d’un accéléromètre pour compter les pas et suivre les distances. Le GBD-H1000BAR est également équipé d’un moniteur de fréquence cardiaque et d’un suivi GPS. Les deux nouveaux modèles offrent également des fonctions de liaison mobile qui, lorsqu’elles sont associées à une application smartphone dédiée, favorisent la gestion quotidienne de la santé en permettant aux utilisateurs de consulter les journaux de vie avec des données sur le nombre de pas et les calories brûlées, les journaux d’activité, etc. L’écran LCD à mémoire en pixels (MIP) pour une visibilité exceptionnelle et le bracelet en uréthane souple, pour une ventilation et une flexibilité exceptionnelles, offrent un confort dans toutes les situations, de l’utilisation quotidienne aux entraînements intensifs.

Special packaging (GBD-H1000BAR [left]; GBD-100BAR [right])

Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona

Une série documentaire en huit épisodes centrée sur la saison 2018-2019 de l’un des clubs de football les plus adulés au monde. Du frisson de la victoire à l’agonie de la défaite, la série offre un aperçu des joueurs, de la philosophie et de la culture du FC Barcelone.

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“Leader and People.. Nation’s Joy” cycling parade held

Manama, A cycling parade was organized on the occasion of the kingdom’s National Days, in commemoration of the establishment of the modern Bahraini State as an Arab and Muslim state, founded by Ahmed Al Fateh in 1783, and the anniversary of His Majesty the King’s Accession to the Throne.

The Bahrain Cycling Association (BCA) organised the celebratory parade in cooperation with the Northern Governorate under the slogan: “Leader and People.. Nation’s Joy”.

BCA Chairman Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Northern Governor Ali bin Al Sheikh Abdulhussein Al Asfoor and other officials attended then event.

The parade which embodied the meaning of loyalty and patriotism started at the iconic Bahrain Fort and ended at Beit Al Jasra.

BCA Chairman Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and Northern Governor Ali bin Al Sheikh Abdulhussein Al Asfoor led more than seventy cyclists who took part in the event.

Source: Bahrain News Agency

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UN talks fail to open negotiations on ‘killer robots’

GENEVA, Country officials and campaigners have expressed disappointment after United Nations talks on autonomous weapons systems known as “killer robots” stopped short of launching negotiations into an international treaty to govern their use following opposition from manufacturing states.

Unlike existing semi-autonomous weapons such as drones, fully-autonomous weapons have no human-operated “kill switch” and instead leave decisions over life and death to sensors, software, and machine processes.

But on Friday, the Sixth Review Conference of the Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) failed to schedule further talks around the development and use of the Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, or LAWS.

Countries already investing heavily in the development of LAWS attended the five-day meeting in Geneva, blocking a majority from agreeing on steps to establish legally-binding rules on machine-operated weapons.

Sources following the talks said that Russia, India, and the United States were among the countries that pushed back against a new LAWS treaty. The US has pointed to the benefits of LAWS, including precision.

“At the present rate of progress, the pace of technological development risks overtaking our deliberations,” said Switzerland’s Disarmament Ambassador Felix Baumann, voicing discontent at the outcome of the UN intergovernmental panel, which has been held for the past eight years.

Sixty-eight states have called for a legal instrument at the UN while several NGOs have been battling the unregulated spread of such weapons and pushing for new regulations.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and New Zealand’s Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control Phil Twyford have both called for the development of new international laws regulating autonomous weapons. The new government coalition agreements of Norway and Germany have promised to take action on this issue.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was among those to express disappointment in the outcome of the talks.

“It’s a real missed opportunity and not in our view what is needed to respond to the risks posed by autonomous weapons,” Neil Davison, a policy adviser in the Legal Division at ICRC, said of the outcome of the week-long talks.

Verity Coyle, the senior adviser at Amnesty International, said “the CCW has once again demonstrated its inability to make meaningful progress.”

Campaigners now believe a separate process from the long-running series of UN talks may be needed to ensure future progress on the issue.

“It’s now time that committed states to take the lead on an external process that can deliver the type of breakthrough we’ve previously seen on landmines and cluster munitions,” Coyle said, adding that the window of opportunity to regulate is getting smaller.

Richard Moyes, the coordinator at Stop Killer Robots, said governments “need to draw a moral and legal line for humanity against the killing of people by machines”.

“A clear majority of states see the need to ensure meaningful human control over the use of force. It’s time now for them to lead to prevent the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of killer robots,” Moyes said.

Source: Nam News Network

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CNN Closes US Offices to Most Workers as COVID-19 Cases Spike

CNN is closing its offices in the United States to all nonessential employees as COVID-19 cases increase, the network said on Saturday in an internal memo to staff seen by Reuters.

CNN, part of AT&T Inc’s WarnerMedia division, will close its offices to all employees who do not have work in the office, the memo said.

“We are doing this out of an abundance of caution,” CNN President Jeff Zucker said in the memo. “And it will also protect those who will be in the office by minimizing the number of people who are there.”

Employees who need to come to the office will be required to wear a mask at all times, CNN said.

The network will also make changes to its studios and control rooms to minimize the number of people at offices, according to the memo.

The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The network had set a tentative return-to-office date in January and it isn’t known if that date will move, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

CNN requires all employees to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 to come to office or to work on field with other employees.

In August, the company terminated three of its workers for coming to the office unvaccinated.

Source: Voice of America