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Electronics and tech company Walton has launched its Digital Campaign Season 16. Under the campaign, customers can get cashback of up to Tk1 lakh and products on the purchase of fridges and washing machines. The announcement of Digital Campaign Season 16 was made at a programme in Dhaka Sunday (November 20, 2022) and its offers will be available till further notice. Read more: Walton laptop packaging design contest begins Also, the Hot Sale campaign of Walton fridge will continue till November 30. Walton Refrigerator CBO Tofail Ahmed said, "We are manufacturing and marketing over 200 models of refrigerators with various capacities. Prices of these fridges range from Tk14,990 to Tk1,08,990." Home Appliance CBO Al Imran said, "Walton is currently producing and marketing over 30 models of semi-automatic, automatic top and front-loading Walton washing machines. Among these, there are 11 models of semi-automatic models with price ranges from Tk10,850 to Tk18,850. Read more: Walton Orbit Y50 4G Review: Does it offer value for money "Also, 13 models of automatic top-loading system washing machines are available for Tk22,950 to Tk49,950. In the domestic market, 10 models of our automatic front-loading system washing machines are also available for Tk34,250 to Tk68,950."

Samsung has said it is improving the overall design aesthetic of smartphones while introducing a few new innovative features that make the interfaces much more private and customised with the Android 13-based One UI 5.0. The new customisation features like lock screen customisation, enhanced colour palette, and image watermark customisation make it simpler to customise the look and feel of one's smartphone, the company said. The latest One UI 5.0 represents Samsung's most personalised mobile experience yet, designed to give Samsung users multiple options for tailoring their devices exactly how they prefer and this starts with lock screen customisation. Samsung has improved the lock screen customisation with One UI 5.0. Now one can change the clock size and shape, the fonts and colours. With just a few taps, users can also trim their video to transform it into live wallpaper on their phones. Read more: Samsung make top 5 in Interbrand's Best Global Brands 2022 Also, to help users streamline mobile tasks and activities, One UI 5.0 offers new Smart suggestions for widgets. Based on the users' usage patterns and mobile activity, Smart suggestions automatically suggest apps and actions that make the mobile experience even more personalised. Samsung has added more backgrounds for customising the home and lock screens. Now users can use up to 16 different colour palettes taken from the wallpaper for a unified interface that makes the preferred wallpaper blend in seamlessly with the surrounding elements.  Also, with One UI 5.0, Samsung has added features for watermarking photos inside the camera app. Users can choose to display the shooting date and time, phone model information, and information specified on it. At the same time, people can choose the alignment between left, centre, and right. One UI 5.0 update is available to the Galaxy S22 series, Z Flip 4, and Z Fold 4 and will soon be rolled out to older flagships and entry-level devices.  Read more: Samsung's 10 innovations at the cutting edge of smartphone technologies  

NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts. It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago, and represents a huge milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight that began last Wednesday. The close approach of 81 miles (130 kilometers) occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Because of a half-hour communication blackout, flight controllers in Houston did not know if the critical engine firing went well until the capsule emerged from behind the moon, 232,000 miles (370,000 kilometers) from Earth. The capsule’s cameras sent back a picture of the world — a tiny blue orb surrounded by blackness. “Our pale blue dot and its 8 billion human inhabitants now coming into view,” said Mission Control commentator Sandra Jones. READ: 'Be careful what you wish for': Musk discusses Twitter, workload at G-20 forum The capsule accelerated well beyond 5,000 mph (8,000 kph) as it regained radio contact, NASA said. Less than an hour later, Orion soared above Tranquility Base, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969. “This is one of those days that you’ve been thinking about and talking about for a long, long time,” flight director Zeb Scoville said. Earlier in the morning, the moon loomed ever larger in the video beamed back, as the capsule closed the final few thousand miles since blasting off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, atop the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA. Orion needed to slingshot around the moon to pick up enough speed to enter the sweeping, lopsided lunar orbit. Flight controllers evaluated the data pouring back, to determine if the engine firing went as planned. Another firing will place the capsule in that elongated orbit Friday. READ: Amidst weakened revenue, Facebook owner Meta laying off 11,000 people This coming weekend, Orion will shatter NASA’s distance record for a spacecraft designed for astronauts — nearly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) from Earth, set by Apollo 13 in 1970. And it will keep going, reaching a maximum distance from Earth next Monday at nearly 270,000 miles (433,000 kilometers). The capsule will spend close to a week in lunar orbit, before heading home. A Pacific splashdown is planned for Dec. 11. Orion has no lunar lander; a touchdown won’t come until NASA astronauts attempt a lunar landing in 2025 with SpaceX’s Starship. Before then, astronauts will strap into Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024. NASA managers were delighted with the progress of the mission. The Space Launch System rocket performed exceedingly well in its debut, they told reporters late last week. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket caused more damage than expected, however, at the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. The force from the 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms) of liftoff thrust was so great that it tore off the blast doors of the elevator.

Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has kept the former president off the social media site since a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was poised to certify Joe Biden’s election victory. Musk made the announcement in the evening after holding a poll that asked Twitter users to click “yes” or “no” on whether Trump’s account should be restored. The “yes” vote won, with 51.8%. “The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted, using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people, the voice of God.” Read more: Musk gives remaining Twitter staff till Thursday to go “hardcore” or leave Shortly afterward Trump’s account, which had earlier appeared as suspended, reappeared on the platform complete with his former tweets, more than 59,000 of them. However his followers were gone, at least initially. It is not clear whether Trump would actually return to Twitter. An irrepressible tweeter before he was banned, Trump has said in the past that he would not rejoin even if his account was reinstated. He has been relying on his own, much smaller social media site, Truth Social, which he launched after being blocked from Twitter. And on Saturday, during a video speech to a Republican Jewish group meeting in Las Vegas, Trump said that he was aware of Musk’s poll but that he saw “a lot of problems at Twitter,” according to Bloomberg. “I hear we’re getting a big vote to also go back on Twitter. I don’t see it because I don’t see any reason for it,” Trump was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. “It may make it, it may not make it,” he added, apparently referring to Twitter’s recent internal upheavals. The prospect of restoring Trump’s presence to the platform follows Musk’s purchase last month of Twitter — an acquisition that has fanned widespread concern that the billionaire owner will allow purveyors of lies and misinformation to flourish on the site. Musk has frequently expressed his belief that Twitter had become too restrictive of freewheeling speech. His efforts to reshape the site have been both swift and chaotic. Musk has fired many of the company’s 7,500 full-time workers and an untold number of contractors who are responsible for content moderation and other crucial responsibilities. His demand that remaining employees pledge to “extremely hardcore” work triggered a wave of resignations, including hundreds of software engineers. Read more: 'Be careful what you wish for': Musk discusses Twitter, workload at G-20 forum Users have reported seeing increased spam and scams on their feeds and in their direct messages, among other glitches, in the aftermath of the mass layoffs and worker exodus. Some programmers who were fired or resigned this week warned that Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash. Musk’s online survey, which ran for 24 hours before ending Saturday evening, concluded with 51.8% of more than 15 million votes favoring the restoration of Trump’s Twitter’ account. It comes four days after Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2024. Trump lost his access to Twitter two days after his supporters stormed the Capitol, soon after the former president had exhorted them to “fight like hell.” Twitter dropped his account after Trump wrote a pair of tweets that the company said cast further doubts on the legitimacy of the presidential election and raised risks for the Biden presidential inauguration. After the Jan. 6 attack, Trump was also kicked off Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by Meta Platforms, and Snapchat. His ability to post videos to his YouTube channel was also suspended. Facebook is set to reconsider Trump’s account suspension in January. Throughout his tenure as president, Trump’s use of social media posed a significant challenge to major social media platforms that sought to balance the public’s interest in hearing from public officials with worries about misinformation, bigotry, harassment and incitement of violence. But in a speech at an auto conference in May, Musk asserted that Twitter’s ban of Trump was a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.” Earlier this month, Musk, who completed the $44 billion takeover of Twitter in late October, declared that the company wouldn’t let anyone who had been kicked off the site return until Twitter had established procedures on how to do so, including forming a “content moderation council.” Read more: Musk's latest Twitter cuts: Outsourced content moderators On Friday, Musk tweeted that the suspended Twitter accounts for the comedian Kathy Griffin, the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and the conservative Christian news satire website Babylon Bee had been reinstated. He added that a decision on Trump had not yet been made. He also responded “no” when someone on Twitter asked him to reinstate the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account. In a tweet Friday, the Tesla CEO described the company’s new content policy as “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” He explained that a tweet deemed to be “negative” or to include “hate” would be allowed on the site but would be visible only to users who specifically searched for it. Such tweets also would be “demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter,” Musk said.

Samsung Electronics has recently been recognised as one of the top five best global brands of 2022 by Interbrand, a global brand consultancy, registering double-digit growth in brand value for two consecutive years. According to Interbrand, Samsung's brand value was evaluated for $87.7 billion – up by 17 percent compared to last year's growth which stood at $74.6 billion in 2021. With this, the company has been able to make it into the top five for three years in a row. Every year, Interbrand announces the names of the best global brands, taking into account several factors, including the financial performance of the company, the influence of the brand on customer purchases and brand competitiveness. read more: Samsung's 10 innovations at the cutting edge of smartphone technologies This year, Interbrand noted Samsung Electronics' "continuous efforts to restore its financial performance to near pre-pandemic levels and innovate products for enhanced customer experience." Other factors as contributing factors to Samsung's success include the creation of "the Device eXperience Division to increase synergy and provide a seamless experience to customers, the launching of the Customer eXperience-Multi Device Experience Center to strengthen its multi-device connection experience, integration of the SmartThings across its product categories for an inclusive ecosystem and a multi-device experience, introduction of Samsung's Future Generation Lab and development of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, automotive and robotics." Also, Samsung was ranked as the No. 1 mobile handset brand in Bangladesh, consecutively for four years, by the only local Brand Equity study available in Bangladesh, conducted by Bangladesh Brand Forum. The company in a statement said it is also playing the lead role in marketing top-notch consumer electronics items, such as TV, refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens and air conditioners.

Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%. The studies released Tuesday, one by a government-auto industry partnership and the other by the insurance industry, each used crash data to make the calculations. Automatic emergency braking can stop vehicles if a crash is imminent, or slow them to reduce the severity. Some automakers are moving toward a voluntary commitment by 20 companies to make the braking technology standard equipment on 95% of their light-duty models during the current model year that ends next August. Read more: 'Be careful what you wish for': Musk discusses Twitter, workload at G-20 forum A study by The Partnership for Analytics Research in Traffic Safety compared data on auto equipment with 12 million police-reported crashes from 13 states that was collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the partnership said in a statement Tuesday. The group studied forward collision warning as well as emergency braking. The group found front-to-rear crashes were cut 49% when the striking vehicle had forward collision alert plus automatic braking, when compared with vehicles that didn’t have either system. Rear crashes with injuries were cut by 53%, the study found. Vehicles with forward collision warning systems only reduced rear-end crashes by 16%, and cut rear crashes with injuries by 19%. Automatic emergency braking works well in all conditions, even when roadway, weather or lighting conditions were not ideal, the study showed. The group also looked at lane departure warning systems, and lane-keeping systems, which keep vehicles in their lanes. They reduced crashes from autos leaving the roadway by 8% and road-departure crashes that cause injuries by 7%. “These emerging technologies can substantially reduce the number of crashes and improve safety outcomes,” said Tim Czapp, senior manager for safety at European automaker Stellantis, the industry co-chair of the partnership’s board. Read more: MineHarmony enters stage of large-scale commercial use with 5G+AI In the other study, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that automatic emergency braking reduces rear crash rates for pickups by 43% and rear-end injury crashes by 42%. Yet pickups are less likely to have automatic braking than cars or SUVs despite posing more danger to other road users, the IIHS found. “Pickups account for 1 out of 5 passenger vehicles on U.S. roads, and their large size can make them dangerous to people in smaller vehicles or on foot,” the institute’s Vice President of Research Jessica Cicchino said in a statement. Mitsubishi, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler), Volkswagen and Honda have filed documents with the government this year saying they’ve made emergency braking standard on at least 90% of their models. General Motors reported that only 73% of its models had the technology at the end of the 2022 model year, but a spokesman said GM would hit the 90% target by the end of the current model year. In addition, BMW, Hyundai, Mazda, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, and Volvo passed 90% last year, according to the IIHS.

It’s not easy being Elon Musk. That was the message the new Twitter owner and billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX had for younger people who might seek to emulate his entrepreneurial success. “Be careful what you wish for,” Musk told a business forum in Bali on Monday when asked what an up-and-coming “Elon Musk of the East” should focus on. Read more: Musk's latest Twitter cuts: Outsourced content moderators “I’m not sure how many people would actually like to be me. They would like to be what they imagine being me, which is not the same,” he continued. “I mean, the amount that I torture myself, is the next level, frankly.” Musk was speaking at the B-20 business forum ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies taking place on the Indonesian resort island. He joined the conference by video link weeks after completing his heavily scrutinized takeover of Twitter. He had been expected to attend the event in person, but Indonesian government minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, who's responsible for coordinating preparations for the summit, said Musk could not attend because he's preparing for a court case later in the week. He's got plenty else to keep himself busy. “My workload has recently increased quite a lot,” he said with a chuckle in an apparent reference to the Twitter deal. “I mean, oh, man. I have too much work on my plate, that is for sure.” The businessman appeared in a darkened room, saying there had been a power cut just before he connected. Read more: Tweets with racial slurs soar since Musk takeover His face, projected on a large screen over the summit hall, appeared to glow red as it was reflected in what he said was candlelight – a visage he noted was “so bizarre.” While Musk was among the most anticipated speakers at the business forum, his remarks broke little new ground. Only the moderator was able to ask questions. The Tesla chief executive said the electric carmaker would consider making a much cheaper model when asked about lower-cost options for developing countries like India and G-20 host Indonesia. “We do think that making a much more affordable vehicle would make a lot of sense and we should do something,” he said. Musk also reiterated a desire to significantly boost the amount and length of Twitter’s video offerings, and share revenue with people producing the content, though he didn’t provide specifics. He bought Twitter for $44 billion last month and quickly dismissed the company’s board of directors and top executives. He laid off much of the rest of the company's full-time workforce by email on Nov. 4 and is now eliminating the jobs of outsourced contractors who are tasked with fighting misinformation and other harmful content. Musk has vowed to ease restrictions on what users can say on the platform. Read more: Musk says some 'dumb things' might happen, tries to reassure advertisers on Twitter  He's reaped a heap of complaints — much on Twitter itself — and has tried to reassure companies that advertise on the platform and others that it won't damage their brands by associating them with harmful content. In his appearance Monday, Musk acknowledged the criticism. “There’s no way to make everyone happy, that’s for sure,” he said.

Nowadays, writers and editors are facing the dilemma to choose between Google Docs and Microsoft Word, the two popular word processors. Can Google Docs offer better functionality and tools for writing? Let’s take a look at the advantages of Google Docs over MS Word. What is Google Docs?           The free word processing program Google Docs is completely compatible with Microsoft Word and is part of Google's online office suite, G Suite. Users can collaborate with coworkers in real-time while creating, viewing, and editing documents online using any device, anywhere. MS Word vs Google Docs For decades, Microsoft Word was the best word processor for writers worldwide. Since its advent as the first-ever word-processing tool in the 1980s, generations of writers have grown up with it. It’s followed them from school, to university, and even right into the newsroom as well as other workplaces. Read More: Top 10 Google Translate Alternatives But with the advancement of technology, more collaborative and freely available online tools have emerged on the market. Some new word processors offer up greater efficiency, flexibility, collaborative features, and benefits that Microsoft has simply yet to provide. For instance, Google Docs is getting huge popularity day by day. G Suite (including Google Docs) has more than two billion active monthly subscribers. This number is increasing at a great pace. Google Docs can support the writer, editor, or proofreader collaboration on the same material at a time. It mounts over the old time-consuming practice of  "back-and-forth" emailing revisions done in the case of MS Word documents. Additional tools for article authoring are available through a variety of Google Chrome extensions, which will help you further optimize your editorial workflow. Read More: Top Online Proof-reading and Editing Tools Let's examine some of the other significant advantages Google Docs can offer to a writer, proofreader, or editor's daily tasks. What are the Advantages of Google Docs over MS Word? 1. Microsoft Word Compatibility  With the help of the Chrome extension, you can quickly open and edit Microsoft Word documents right in Google Docs. Additionally, you may download your Google doc into a Word document (.docx) and vice versa without worrying about formatting changes.  2. Works Through Chrome Extensions Google Chrome extensions that you download from the Chrome Web Store can also give Google Docs new functionality. By doing so, you'll be able to customize the user experience and give your document new features and functionality. Read More: Best Free English Editing, Proofreading Courses Online 3. Ease of collaboration Teams may easily access and update the same document simultaneously with Google Docs, eliminating any doubt as to which file has the most recent version. Even without a Google account, collaborators can see and modify shared Google documents. Because of its interactive features, you may select precisely who can make changes to your work and add or delete collaborators by using the Collaborate tab. Adding a comment with "+" their email address will send them a notification, or you can interact with people from inside any document. from beginning to end a Google Doc is continuously and automatically stored during the entire process of writing and editing. Edits can be undone and viewed in time-sensitive order, comments can be accepted or refused, and all of these features are available in Google Docs. Read More: Everyday Habits to Learn English Successfully 4. Accessible from Various Devices   You don't have to worry about emailing your work to yourself and finding it later using Google Docs because everything is kept in the cloud. You can access your document at any time from any device by logging into your Google account. This increases the degree of flexibility in your style of work as well as your professional life. While on the go, you can write and edit. Examine a section on your phone while riding the train or bus, then complete it when you reach to your office computer. Additionally, the fact that files are not kept on your computer saves RAM. 5. Automated Backup You never have to worry about files disappearing again because all changes are automatically synced across devices and saved as you write or edit. In order to review previous edits to your document and who made them, you may also view its "revision history." Read More: Best Free Websites to Improve English Writing Skill 6. Diverse Useful Features. Google Docs is packed with effective tools for producing articles. For instance, voice typing (accessible via Tools > Voice typing) is a straightforward formatting feature for formatting copied and pasted text fast. It also assists the writer or editor in the selection of fonts available for import from Google Fonts, and bookmarks for less scrolling (accessible via Insert > Bookmark). These are just a few of the popular tools that Google Docs includes to support your best work. 7. Free of Cost Google Docs is a cost-free Word Processor, in contrast to other word processing programs like Microsoft Word. To use G Suite, all you need to do is create a Google account by generating a @gmail email address.  Read More: English Writing Skill: How to Start Writing and Improve Continuously How to use Google Documents -You would need to have a Google account to use Google Docs. -Depending on your device, there are a few ways to access Google Docs after signing in. The app may be needed to be downloaded from Google Play or the App Store. -Open Google Chrome if you already have an account and are using a computer. The Google Apps icon may be seen in the top right corner. - Select Google Documents from the selection menu that appears when you click the Google Apps icon. - Click on the blank page to start a new document and start writing your content! Read More: How to Think in English: Learn some effective ways Google Docs Benefits At a Glance - A free tool. - Google Cloud Storage makes the doc accessible from anywhere thanks to. - Collaborates in real-time. - The system can track document changes automatically, edit document history, and go back to any prior document version. - Auto-saving. - Work offline mode. Read More: Free English-Speaking Mobile Apps for the Non-native Speakers - Offers strong document editing options and tools. - Besides writing, it allows voice-typing - Enriched with diverse font varieties. - Tagging in the comment enables users to monitor particular changes. - Visibility is restricted to those with the proper access. Read More: Best Native American Podcast Sites to Learn English

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job. Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. But many of those content watchdogs have now headed out the door, first when Twitter fired much of its full-time workforce by email on Nov. 4 and now as it moves to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs. Melissa Ingle, who worked at Twitter as a contractor for more than a year, was one of a number of contractors who said they were terminated Saturday. She said she’s concerned that there’s going to be an increase in abuse on Twitter with the number of workers leaving. Read more: Twitter Blue signups unavailable after raft of fake accounts “I love the platform and I really enjoyed working at the company and trying to make it better. And I’m just really fearful of what’s going to slip through the cracks,” she said Sunday. Ingle, a data scientist, said she worked on the data and monitoring arm of Twitter’s civic integrity team. Her job involved writing algorithms to find political misinformation on the platform in countries such as the U.S., Brazil, Japan, Argentina and elsewhere. Ingle said she was “pretty sure I was done for” when she couldn't access her work email Saturday. The notification from the contracting company she’d been hired by came two hours later. “I’ll just be putting my resumes out there and talking to people," she said. “I have two children. And I’m worried about being able to give them a nice Christmas, you know, and just mundane things like that, that are important. I just think it’s particularly heartless to do this at this time.” Content-moderation expert Sarah Roberts, an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who worked as a staff researcher at Twitter earlier this year, said she believes at least 3,000 contract workers were fired Saturday night. Twitter hasn't said how many contract workers it cut. The company hasn't responded to media requests for information since Musk took over. At Twitter's San Francisco headquarters and other offices, contract workers wore green badges while full-time workers wore blue badges. Contractors did a number of jobs to help keep Twitter running, including engineering and marketing, Roberts said. But it was the huge force of contracted moderators that was “mission critical” to the platform, said Roberts. Cutting them will have a “tangible impact on the experience of the platform,” she said. Read more: Musk says Twitter blue tick being revamped Musk promised to loosen speech restrictions when he took over Twitter. But in the early days after Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in late October and dismissed its board of directors and top executives, the billionaire Tesla CEO sought to assure civil rights groups and advertisers that the platform could continue tamping down hate and hate-fueled violence. That message was reiterated by Twitter's then-head of content moderation, Yoel Roth, who tweeted that the Nov. 4 layoffs only affected “15% of our Trust & Safety organization (as opposed to approximately 50% cuts company-wide), with our front-line moderation staff experiencing the least impact." Roth has since resigned from the company, joining an exodus of high-level leaders who were tasked with privacy protection, cybersecurity and complying with regulations.

Huawei recently announced the successful integration of 5G+AI in its special operating system for mines; now this integrated operating system (OS) can facilitate large-scale commercial use. MineHarmony OS is a joint innovation by Huawei and China Energy Investment Corporation. The system has been deployed on 3,300 sets of equipment in 13 mines and one coal washery. In particular, the system has been deployed throughout the entire Wulanmulun (also known as Ulan Moran) Mine in Inner Mongolia, where significant progress has been made in connectivity, interface, and data access. Read: Specialised knowledge-sharing centre: Huawei Bangladesh Academy launched in Dhaka "The operating system covers a multitude of innovative scenarios, including smart control of equipment, the auto patrol of fixed sites, and online upgrade of equipment, the time for which has been shortened from one day to just four minutes," Huawei said in a media statement. On the way to digitalisation and smart mining transformation, the first challenge for any mine is establishing the interconnectivity and interoperability of equipment and inaccessibility of data. The key to this is to find the most suitable network technologies. "MineHarmony not only provides unified protocols for different equipment but also simplifies operations with unattended inspections. Also, 5G+AI video stitching technologies have enabled remote and precise control of mining machines, which in turn allows people working in offices to remotely control underground operations, thereby improving their work environment as well as mining safety," Huawei said. Read: Huawei launches all-band 5G solution series "It can ensure 24/7 intelligent monitoring, in addition to cutting the number of underground inspection personnel by 20 percent." Underground coal mines are fitted with all kinds of devices and equipment running on different protocols, and finding a way to connect them all is a major challenge. So, the Huawei Mine Team and China Energy teamed up with over 30 partners to develop MineHarmony, "the first Internet of Things operating system in the mining sector, in just three months."