The Morning After: Nikon's new mount and new movies on Netflix

It's Thursday, August 23, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. (View in browser.) We kick off today with two incredible cameras from Nikon, a powerful smartphone that doesn’t cost the earth and plenty of game impressions from Gamescom in Germany. Xiaomi's Pocophone F1 packs a Snapdragon 845 but costs about $300. Finally, a cheap smartphone with true flagship power Xiaomi is one of the most respected smartphone brands in India, but apparently that wasn't good enough. The Chinese phone maker just launched a new sub-brand called Pocophone, which in turn revealed its new F1 smartphone. The F1 isn't an aspirational device, but it does house true flagship power in a package that should cost far less than rivals like the OnePlus 6. The phone will cost fans about $300, making the F1 one of the cheapest phones -- if not the cheapest -- out there using Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 845 chipset. The company wants in on a market that Sony's owned for years. Nikon's Z7 mirrorless camera is a full-frame 45.7-megapixel beast Nikon's worst-kept secret is here. The company revealed a duo of new mirrorless cameras, the Z6 and Z7 based on its new Z-mount body system. But here, we're going to focus on the flagship model, the Z7. This new shooter features a full-frame 45.7-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor with an Expeed 6 image processor, an ISO range of 64-25,000, a 493-point autofocus system, 9 fps continuous shooting and 4K UHD video. Basically, everything you'd want out of a top-of-the-line camera in general, not just the mirrorless kind -- and yes, it will have an adapter for popular F-mount lenses, available from day one. It could lay the groundwork for a future cloud-powered Xbox. All Access Xbox subscription could bundle games, Live and a console It hasn’t been announced at Gamescom, but a rumor from Windows Central suggests an all-inclusive Xbox One pack is in the works. The (unconfirmed) details work like this -- at $22 per month for two years, players get an Xbox One S, Xbox Live Gold and Xbox GamePass access. The potential price rises to $35 per month if you’d prefer a high-powered Xbox One X. Increasing the incentives for a subscription bundle matches up with Microsoft’s recent gaming moves, but we’ll have to wait and see when the package launches and at what eventual price. Sponsored Content by Stack Commerce uTalk helps you learn any new language for as low as $20 Destination unknown. How Ronaldo's transfer impacted The Journey in 'FIFA 19' On July 10th, 2018, fewer than three months before the release of FIFA 19, Juventus announced that it had signed soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid for $110 million. The timing made sense -- at 33, the Portuguese forward is entering his twilight years -- but the move still came as a shock to many, including Electronic Arts and the FIFA team in Vancouver, Canada. Plus a chat with iconic series director Hideaki Itsuno. ‘Devil May Cry 5’ hands-on: Fantastically familiar Ten years after the debut of Devil May Cry 4, Nero is back in the driver's seat, and he's never looked better. It's not just the haircut, either -- Devil May Cry 5 runs on the RE Engine built for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and Capcom's goal is to build a photorealistic game filled with gooey demons, witty one-liners and flashy combos. The title's first hands-on demo at Gamescom 2018 highlights these exact elements and wraps all of it up in an ichor-crusted, gorgeous package. But wait, there's more... 1. The world's first planar magnetic wireless earphones cost $900 2. New 'Overwatch' map and animated short spotlights D.Va 3. NVIDIA says the RTX 2080 GPU is twice as fast as the GTX 1080 4. Nokia will make €3 for every 5G smartphone sold 5. What's coming to Netflix in September: 'Black Panther' and 'Maniac' 6. DaVinci Resolve 15 is a free, Hollywood-grade video editor 7. I never thought I'd see Master Chief drive around Northumberland

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Editor's Pick: 5 Steps to a Riveting Company Story

5 Steps to a Riveting Company Story

Vivian Wagner Aug 22, 2018 5:00 AM PT

Telling an engaging and effective story is vitally important for the success of a business. A good story draws people in, fosters loyalty, and brings your brand alive. "It's important for brands to tell their story because story is what actually resonates with humans," said Nathan Young, storytelling communication instructor at Storytelling Consultant. "We're hardwired to remember stories." [More...]

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Microsoft Foils Russian Attack on GOP Think Tanks Microsoft has torpedoed websites designed to steal credentials from visitors to two Republican Party think tanks. The malicious websites were among six the company took down last week. A group of hackers affiliated with the Russian military created the sites, according to Microsoft. It apparently was the same group that stole a cache of email from the DNC during the 2016 presidential campaign. [More...]

New B2B Tool Aims to Lower Overhead, Raise Profits Atlatl Software has unveiled its bCommerce Visual Configurator, which gives manufacturers access to the company's 3D Visual Configurator via Web browsers. B2B buyers can use it on manufacturers' websites to make selections and pass them on to the manufacturers' sales reps in real time. Customer and configuration information in bCommerce is captured in Atlatl's QuoteBooks Cloud. [More...]

Optymyze SVP Arturo Bentin: Give Your Salespeople Options If you want to boost sales performance, "there are a few things to think about," said Optymyze SVP Arturo Bentin. "One is, what behaviors are you trying to drive? When you're talking about sales performance, you're talking about a lot of things. You need to think about the metrics and the tools you can use to drive those specific behaviors in your salesforce." [More...]

5 Important Healthcare Cloud Security Factors to Weigh The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as research and development and collaboration. Since the cloud has been expanding so rapidly, this may be a good time to reconsider security. [More...]

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Microsoft Foils Russian Attack on GOP Think Tanks
Microsoft has torpedoed websites designed to steal credentials from
visitors to two Republican Party think tanks. The malicious websites
were among six the company took down last week. A group of hackers
affiliated with the Russian military created the sites, according to
Microsoft. It apparently was the same group that stole a cache of email
from the DNC during the 2016 presidential campaign.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85524.html

5 Important Healthcare Cloud Security Factors to Weigh
The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-
important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are
many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as
research and development and collaboration. Since the cloud has been
expanding so rapidly, this may be a good time to reconsider security.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85520.html

Nvidia's Convincing Unreality
When I read the book Ready Player One , I really got excited about the
future of virtual reality, but the movie really didn't do the book
justice. Some blockbusters have succeeded in interspersing computer
graphics with real people and making it hard to tell the difference.
Still, a totally rendered movie still looks like animation and you just
don't get the film quality you get from, well, film.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85516.html

Celebrating Cable TV and All the Wonders That Followed
One of my reporting beats is TV technology. In my lifetime I've seen
some of the most significant advances in television, and unlike many who
take it for granted, I have a very deep respect for TV. My actual
birthday is in January, but Aug. 21 is a date that is much more
momentous to me. Back in 1980, it was the date on which my family was
first connected to cable TV.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85515.html

Oracle Open-Sources GraphPipe to Support ML Development
Oracle has open-sourced GraphPipe to enhance machine learning
applications. The project's goal is to improve deployment results for
machine learning models, noted Project Leader Vish Abrams. That process
includes creating an open standard. The company has a questionable
relationship with open source developers, so its decision to open-source
GraphPipe might not receive a flood of interest.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85514.html

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ECT News Network Weekly Newsletter: Wednesday -- August 22, 2018

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

5 Steps to a Riveting Company Story
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Oracle's Bad Boy Image
(Posted 21-Aug-18)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85521.html

Don't Be So Sure AI Is Cybersecurity's Silver Bullet
(Posted 20-Aug-18)
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Oracle Confronts Lawsuit on Its Path to the Cloud
(Posted 18-Aug-18)
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Google One Paid Storage Now Open to All US Users
(Posted 17-Aug-18)
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The Two Sides of the Artificial Intelligence Coin
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Microsoft Foils Russian Attack on GOP Think Tanks
(Posted 22-Aug-18)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85524.html

5 Important Healthcare Cloud Security Factors to Weigh
(Posted 21-Aug-18)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85520.html

Nvidia's Convincing Unreality
(Posted 20-Aug-18)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85516.html

Celebrating Cable TV and All the Wonders That Followed
(Posted 17-Aug-18)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85515.html

Alexa and Cortana: Two AI Heads May Be Better Than One
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Optymyze SVP Arturo Bentin: Give Your Salespeople Options
(Posted 21-Aug-18)
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Sugar's New Shot Clock
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http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/85513.html

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Oracle Open-Sources GraphPipe to Support ML Development
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