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Samsung unfolds true productivity and flips design rules with Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4


Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 and Flip4 bring massive upgrades and make foldable phones even more desirable. Samsung has worked on the design and internal hardware upgrades to make its uniquely positioned Fold and Flip smartphones even more appealing and make them stand out from the rest of the flagship devices. Let’s have a closer look at those significant upgrades and how they translate into a superior user experience.

A reworked hinge mechanism leads to superior ergonomics

Samsung engineers have used an aluminium-based hinge that is thinner, lighter, and yet retains the toughness and durability quotient as before. The hinge’s new mechanism brings a rotational effect to a more traditionally linear motion, allowing for a compact hinge without compromising strength and durability. As a result, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 is slimmer and lighter than ever. Samsung has focussed on the idea of doing even more with the Galaxy Fold 4; they made it more compact and portable so that you can carry it anywhere you want. The device also has better weight distribution, making it feel lighter, and giving it a well-balanced feel.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 has also seen a lot of clever design changes in all the right areas. For starters, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 is lighter and more compact than ever, especially from an in-hand feel perspective. Samsung has made the hinge slimmer and narrowed down the bezels to further add to the immersive experience in the most compact form factor. If you want a compact phone that easily fits in your pocket and yet delivers a flagship experience, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 is a clear choice, and nothing else will fit the bill by a long way.

Sharper, brighter, faster and more efficient displays

The displays on both devices have also gotten smarter by using 120Hz adaptive refresh rate technology, both devices achieve power efficiency by intelligently using the high refresh rate only when needed, thus adding to overall battery life. The Cover Screen on the Samsung Galaxy Fold4 is also improved compared to its predecessor. It is wider than before, making it more impactful for content consumption and more convenient for one-handed usage. Another big (and…

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Agrivoltaics Is A Land Usage Hack For Maximum Productivity


Land tends to be a valuable thing. Outside of some weird projects in Dubai, by and large, they aren’t making any more of it. That means as we try to feed and power the ever-growing population of humanity, we need to think carefully about how we use the land we have.

The field of agrivoltaics concerns itself with the dual-use of land for both food production and power generation. It’s all about getting the most out of the the available land and available sunlight we have.

Two Things At Once

The world has limited land that is suitable for food production. Prime agricultural land is prized for its ability to grow crops at high yields. This often comes down to factors like favorable soils, readily-available water supplies, and plenty of sunlight.

As it turns out, though, agricultural land is perfect for installing solar panels, too. Solar installations want as much sun as possible, and they don’t like getting too hot. The cooler, moist conditions of farming lands make them more attractive than deserts for solar panels, as the lower temperatures help the panels remain in their most efficient operating range.

Vineyards can potentially add solar power as a revenue stream, while simultaneously reaping the benefits of less water loss due to the shade provided. Credit: SunAgri, press release

Thus, for land with plenty of sun and mild conditions, it makes sense to try and use it for both food production and power generation. The field of agrivoltaics concerns itself with finding optimum methods to achieve this.

The most important consideration is one of shade. If the solar panels are installed without due care, there will be insufficient sunlight to grow any meaningful produce. At that point, you’re just doing photovoltaics, and you’ve thrown the agriculture out the window. Typically, the trick is to raise the panels at a significant height off the ground to allow workers and machinery to access the crops below. This does add significant cost, which is the trade-off for such combined installations.

When it comes to agrivoltaics, plant choice is key. Those that grow well in shady conditions are ideal, while those that require full sun are a poor choice. Tomatoes, lettuce,…

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Dotline’s CTO Eftekhar builds the first-ever DIY productivity and security solution, Audra




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Apr 05, 2021 12:27 IST

New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI/SRV Media): Back at the start of his career ten years ago, working in the fast-growing internet services companies, Eftekhar knew deep in his mind that dependence on the internet will only rise exponentially and the millions of connected homes and businesses will be needing a practical and robust tool to get the best of internet, minus the threats and dangers it brings along.
With a deep understanding of IP networking, coupled with his sparkling talent in application networking, Eftekhar U Chy started building the 1st-ever do-it-yourself or DIY internet control and security solution — Audra (www.audra.io). The rising tech-titan and his AI/ML-powered cloud solution bring new hope for SMEs in their fearless growth.
With an on-prem appliance, tagged with machine learning backed robust AI-cloud application, which is also conveniently controlled by a mobile app, Audra is definitely THE answer to many homes and small businesses across Asia and beyond. When it comes to internet security, Audra aims to be the right fit for them.
Eftekhar now spearheads the Singapore-based technology entity Dotlines as its CTO. The group continues to bag spectacular growth across continents, with the innovations Eftekhar and his vigorous technology organization bring for the group. The group does business in more than 12 verticals, all powered by its state-of-the-art technology platforms.
“Audra is a key vertical in our group, and it offers a complete suite of solutions across the internet pyramid. It gives efficient protection for ISPs, iron-clad security for enterprises, productivity and safeguarding for small-medium businesses, parental control and threat-prevention for homes, and finally easily-done protection for personal devices”, said Eftekhar.

He informed that 80 per cent of hackers choose Asian SMEs as an easy target because they are well-unprotected. Not only that, 60 per cent of employees spend one-third of their time doing personal stuff, and thus SMEs lose a lot on the productivity side.
He then added, “Asia is…

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Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding – TechCrunch


Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding.

CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub in 2020. The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business.

They researched and surveyed sales engineers at big and small companies alike, discovering that many of these professionals were spending a lot of time doing things like “wrangling data to report to management, forcing individual contributors to enter data into a CRM (customer relationship management) system.

“Performing these kinds of mundane tasks was taking time away from them actually selling,” said Mangum. “We also came to the conclusion that technical sales professionals have been the unsung heroes of sales, behind the scenes driving enterprise.”

So they set about creating a better way for presales, solution architects and sales engineers to manage their day-to-day technical sales activities.

Then COVID hit, and obviously, as Mangum puts it, digital selling became much more real.

“That really accentuated the need for specific commercial tooling,” he said.

San Francisco-based Hub was born. The company describes its offering as a SaaS application that “securely interconnects and complements popular CRM systems and productivity applications.”

As a personalized productivity platform, Hub is designed to help individual contributors manage the sales process. By gaining greater visibility into every step, the goal is to better analyze and do more accurate forecasting so an organization can better “identify investment areas while taking corrective actions in real time,” Mangum said.

“Our tool can help them automate the mundane tasks and put the focus on high-value tasks to actually win more business,” he added.

Image Credits: Courtesy of Hub

Targeting technical sales professionals is an underserved market, according to Mangum, which presents tremendous opportunity.

Investors in the company include Tom Noonan, general partner of Atlanta-based TechOperators (and former chairman and CEO of Internet Security Systems, which was acquired in 2007 by IBM for $1.3…

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