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Ralph Lauren Ranked Highest Earning Designer in Real Job Market    2020 saw the largest year-on-year decline in fashion and clothing sales ever with sales down a huge 25% and fashion interests shifting to loungewear and pyjamas. And it’s not just high street retailers suffering, but also the likes of big designer brands. Therefore, OnBuy Clothes Department decided to find out how much fashion designers could be earning in today’s job market based on the value of their first name only.  The results were as follows:     Male Designers  Yearly Salary  Female Designers  Yearly Salary  Ralph Lauren  £56,144  Carolina Herrera  £33,860  Stefano Gabbana  £45,215  Kate Spade  £33,825  Roberto Cavalli  £42,918  Vivienne Westwood  £31,092  John Galliano ...

Lawmakers Enlist Power of Drones, AI, to Curb COVID Spread     New York, NY, February 1, 2021— In the wake of surging COVID-19 cases following Thanksgiving gatherings, the Alabama State Senate recently adopted the Draganfly Smart Vital System and its related health safety protocols to help detect potential COVID-19 in government buildings and ensure the ongoing operation of government.   “As the current pandemic continues, we are committed to provide a safe place for our staff and visitors to ensure there is no interruption in the work that needs to be done for the citizens of Alabama,” said Pat...

Alphabet Again Exits Drones: Others Again Jump In, Reports IDTechEx     In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project, but the Chinese aerospace industry, Airbus, Boeing, and NASA are progressing them very well. Aloft for years, they will take 5G and 6G communications to everyone, perform surveillance, and more. Meanwhile, Alphabet, parent of the mighty Google, has now dumped its upper-atmosphere balloon version as well.     The Chinese even have a smaller solar...

'Airbnb of the outdoors' - $300m Hipcamp valuation points to sustained demand for rural domestic trips, says GlobalData Hipcamp’s closure of a $57m Series C funding round brings its internal value to more than $300m - more than double its value in 2019. This massive jump in the valuation of the outdoor bookings business reflects the recent global tourism trend whereby domestic trips in rural locations is driving leisure demand recovery, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Ralph Hollister, Travel and Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Many leisure travelers holidayed domestically instead of internationally in 2020. The fact...

Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Inria Strengthen their Leadership in Digital Science and AI    PARIS, January 2021 - Inria (French National Research Institute for Digital Science and Technology) and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to establish a strengthened partnership, with the creation of the "Inria Center of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris". The MoU identifies and defines the first major collaborative projects on future research topics. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is signed by Bruno Sportisse, Chairman and CEO of Inria, and Eric Labaye, President of the Institut Polytechnique...