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Plant factories—automated facilities that grow vegetables all year round under controlled conditions—have been in operation for several decades. Two types are in common use: automated greenhouses and more recently large-scale enclosed concerns whose environments are kept under complete control to produce high yields.

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What is important is that Pokémon Go’s success has firmly established augmented reality as the go-to paradigm for both new and re-introduced mobile gaming titles moving forward.

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Software has bugs, of course it does. Inevitably, software has bugs and this is part of the reason why a) functionality extensions and augmentations are a constant part of software application development b) patches and upgrades are an accepted part of software usage and c) why we sometimes pull our hair out when trying to use certain packages, suites, platforms and services. One firm is trying to change this model. SentinelOne is offering a cyber threat protection guarantee to provide financial protection in the event of network ransomware attacks.

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Chinese smartphone makers Oppo and Vivo, both owned by BBK Electronics, broke into the top five in the global smartphone rankings in the second quarter this year, ranking fourth and fifth, respectively, according to a report on Monday by research firm Counterpoint Technology Market Research.

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This post has two parts. If you wish to know more on the Chinese app market, I recommend you read this post as well: What ‘Pokémon GO’ Can Teach Us About China’s Mobile Market
On my previous post I explained how the western Android market you know is vastly different from the one in China. Several major factors impact this market’s complexity and I’ll outline them here at the macro level.

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