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ThinkMarkets, a provider of online trading in financial markets, announced on Wednesday that it will offer bank-like level of safety of $1 million (over R14.4 million) for traders on its platform. It is the first SA provider to offer capital protection on funds invested in CFDs. This means that South African traders will benefit from up to $1 million protection on their monies in the case of ThinkMarkets.com going into administration. The insurance is underwritten by Lloyds of London, one of the world’s oldest and leading insurance and reinsurance marketplaces. This means that if both, ThinkMarkets and the insurance broker,…
Daimler Trucks is establishing the Autonomous Technology Group as a global organization for automated driving, bringing together its worldwide expertise and activities, as of June 1. The main tasks of the new unit comprise overall strategy and implementation of the automated driving roadmap, including research and development as well as setting up the required operations infrastructure and network, heading towards the series production of highly automated trucks. The newly established Autonomous Technology Group is part of Daimler Trucks’ global effort to put highly automated trucks onto the roads within a decade. “We are the pioneer for automated trucks. With the…
The BMW X7 blends lavish presence, exclusivity and spaciousness with the versatile and agile driving properties customers would expect from a Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV). The latest and largest model in the BMW X line-up uses its outstanding powertrain and chassis technology, plus generous levels of space in each of its three rows of seats, a luxurious ambience and advanced equipment features, to deliver an unparalleled driving and interior experience. The expansive exterior dimensions of the new BMW X7 take luxury to a new level. At 5,151 millimetres in length, 2,000 millimetres wide and 1,805 millimetres tall, and with a wheelbase of 3,105 millimetres, the X7…
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Remember Napster or Grokster? Both services allowed users to share computer files – usually digital music – that infringed the copyrights for those songs. Now imagine that, instead of music, you could download a physical object. Sounds like something from a sci-fi movie – push a button and there’s the item! But that scenario is already becoming a reality. With a 3D printer, someone can download a computer file, called a computer-aided design (CAD) file, that instructs the printer to make a physical, three-dimensional object. By Timothy Holbrook Because CAD files are digital, they can be shared across the internet on file-sharing…