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SumUp, one of the many European mobile card reader startups targeting small businesses — and taking advantage of Square’s continued absence to acquire users and build out a business — has taken another step designed to expand its reach by announcing a partnership with Revel Systems, a maker of iPad POS software.

Revel Systems provides iPad-based tills to more than 1,000 chain stores and restaurants throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia but it’s aiming to expand into Europe, hence the tie-up with SumUp. After launching last August, SumUp has now rolled out to 10 European markets.

Revel Systems will be using SumUp’s API, which it made available in fall last year, to process debit and credit card and cash payments in Europe. In other markets the company uses payment gateway USAePay, and says it can also integrate directly into Mercury Payment Systems.

In Europe the SumUp mobile payments app will come pre-loaded on Revel Systems tills and users will also get SumUp’s black card reader — which plugs into the iPad to take card payments. The partnership won’t bear instant fruit for SumUp on the customer acquisition front but as and when Revel Systems builds up its customer base in the region, SumUp will also make gains.

Commenting on the tie-up in a statement, Lisa Falzone, CEO of Revel Systems, said it chose to partner with SumUp to offer flexibility to its retail customers — but did not specify what it offered over and above other European mobile payments startups such as iZettle and Rocket Internet’s Payleven.

“SumUp’s technology is aligned with ours because it’s lightweight, secure, and speedy. SumUp is a natural partner for us,” she said. “We’re always looking to forge new partnerships with those businesses that aim to enhance the overall customer experience. Our users are also certain to appreciate the easy SumUp sign-up process and pay-as-you-go billing. We’re looking forward to working with SumUp as we expand to new markets.”

As with the myriad mobile payments players targeting small businesses, SumUp does not charge a monthly fee to businesses using its system but rather takes a 2.75% per card reader transaction charge. SumUp accepts Visa, Mastercard and recently added support for Amex in the majority of its markets.

The Revel Systems tie-up is not SumUp’s first b2b partnership aimed at building out its business. The company has previously announced partnerships with German taxi hailing app Taxi.de and an odd job software platform provider.

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Telenav has long been a purveyor of navigation apps for phones, web browsers, and vehicles, but today the company’s revealed Scout for Cars: Constructed In to bring those platforms together. It’s an in-dash system that provides both the form factor and UX enhanced for cars and all the attributes of the Scout for Phones app. It works using Bluetooth to link to iOS, Android, or Windows Phone devices to sync your details and let you access the mobile app’s existing map information. It also obtains your phone’s information connection, which offers users access to voice control and search and discovery functions, plus real-time weather condition and traffic updates making use of the in-dash touchscreen.

Search for Cars: Constructed In can also seamlessly hand off navigation responsibilities to the phone when you exit your vehicle– a convenient function for individuals as directionally challenged on foot as they are behind the wheel. And, if you’re bothered with getting lost ought to you forget to bring your phone, fear not, for Scout for Cars: Built In uses your phone to offer a better experience, but it’s not reliant upon it, so it still gets you where you should go on its own. The system is presently offered to automakers today, so the system should be finding its way into car dealerships sometime quickly.

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Question by Shony B: Is it possible for robots to duplicate organ systems of the body?
Are there/could there be robots that duplicate all or any of the organ systems within the human body? Do you know of any current or previous research? Where can I find information on why (or why not) robots are able to duplicate human organ systems?

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Of course it is possible, the real question is: is it practical?

#1: not really energy efficient to duplicate digestion and respiratory organs. Robots do not need to undergo digestion and respiration to get an energy source when electricity is so much easier to supply.

#2: the human nervous system (and all systems) are too complex for the masters of robotics to fully comprehend. In fact, the main goal of research in robotics is to reproduce the nervous system and muscle systems in robots. All other systems are too boring and not useful to us.

#3: not consuming material for energy implies no material for a reproductive system to use as feedstock. This means no active genetailia and no active robotic uteri. The equivalents of these are factories. Robots have family situations more like that of insect colonies than humans, one queen reproduction body and every other body is a worker.

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There’s few things more heartbreaking to gamers than an Atari 2600 whose original components have given up the ghost. UK craftsman Peter Morris must not want all that faux wood to go to waste, as he recently converted two broken 2600 systems into speaker docks for the iPad and iPhone. Both include digital amps to improve the tunes, a line-in jack and both on-device as well as remote controls. We’d love to have either of them providing the soundtrack to our Pong sessions, although pure logistics may work against us: the iPad and iPhone docks are unique examples that ship from Morris’ UK homeland at respective prices of £180 ($ 269) and £150 ($ 224). As such, there will likely be just a few Brits who’ll get to mix modern sound with their childhood Combat memories.

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And the saga continues. Just a year after Bloomberg News was apparently targeted by Chinese hackers, both The Exchange Journal and The New york city Times have separately released reports suggesting that they too are being probed. Both companies seem to think that it’s all part of a larger scheme, with Chinese hackers sifting through newsgathering systems of outlets that are stating on sensitive topics. As the Times puts it: “The attacks appear to be part of a more comprehensive pc espionage project against American information media companies that have actually reported on Chinese leaders and corporations.”

When asked about such a possibility, China’s Ministry of National Protection (unsurprisingly) rejected the allegations, noting that “to implicate the Chinese military of introducing cyberattacks without solid evidence is less than professional and baseless.” As it stands, the FBI is currently looking into various attacks of this nature, however strangely, the hacking attempts aren’t being generally deemed malicious. Paula Keve, chief spokeswoman for Dow Jones & Co., mentioned: “Proof reveals that invasion efforts target the tracking of the Diary’s insurance coverage of China, and are not an effort to obtain commercial advantage or to misappropriate client information.” As you ‘d expect, both outfits are stepping up protection in a major way in hopes of resisting any future attempts.

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