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Echo Spot - Your best choice for your smart life

Imagine that someday you'll be awakened by your personal assistant, it helps you to arrange your daily affairs, manage home appliances and provide you useful information including weather, news, traffic condition, restaurant recommendation and so on. But this assistant doesn't exist in the reality since it's virtual. A few years ago, those only appear in the TV shows or movies, but it has come true and affects our lifestyle. Jarvis is no longer a fancy in the movie. Now we can also have our own "Jarvis" and make our lives more easily. Jarvis, the personal assistant of Iron Man We're all familiar with virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Bixby. Besides, advanced natural language chat-bot, for example, Little Ice, has been generated and introduced big changes to live entertainment. Most of the time, virtual assistants need a "home" to live, just like us. Their home could be operating systems, apps of our phones or other intelligent devic...

DPD - Drone delivering in Europe for the very first time

There are 75 million heavy e-shoppers in 20 countries. The market value of e-commerce still has enormous potential since the number continues to grow. However, the quality of products is no longer the most important and only thing that consumers care. Shipping time and return policy are becoming more and more important to customers in nowadays. Every express company is trying their best to optimize their services and become competitive. In the past, they're more likely to focus on traditional transportation methods like airplane, ship, and truck. Things changed since the emergence of drones. DPD drone delivering DPD(Deutscher Paket Dienst), an international parcel delivery, has been authorized to operate a regular commercial line in the Var department of France after two years of tests. It's the first time worldwide, a regular commercial route for drones to deliver parcels. It perfectly solves the problem of last-mile deliveries and provides great possibilities to the logist...

Belgian Beer - Having a cool summer in a glass

Tourism is always a hot topic. Even Belgium is a small country, it still has a remarkable number of tourist attractions, places to visit and cities of art. With "very high" human development index, people in Belgium cares a lot about their life quality. Differing from other places, Belgium beer is famous because of its complicated brewing process. Belgian beer history The history of beer in Belgium goes back to the age of the first crusades in the 12th century. To raise fund, local French and Flemish abbeys brewed and distributed beer under the Catholic Church's permission. At that time, the low-alcohol beer was a preferable selection than available drinking water. The traditional methods today, including artisanal brewing methods are under abbey supervision for the next seven centuries since then. Belgian Beer Style Most people only know stout(dark beer), white beer(wheat beer) and bright beer. But the type of Belgium beer is much more than three on the basis of ...

Studying abroad - how to send international package through USPS

With the economic globalization and educational internationalization, it's not unusual that more and more parents prefer to send their children to study abroad. There are many excellent colleges and universities in the United States, Havard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Standford University, etc. And that's why many parents hope their children can study in America. You might be well-educated if studying abroad, but the truth is, it's not easy to win a place in foreign countries. Thus, most overseas students decide to find a job in their own country. However, the longer you stay in some places, the more things you possess. When we decide to live the city we studied, how to deal with our belongings? Donate it? Sell it? Give it to someone else? Or just throw it away? Part of it might be possible to be dealt with by the ways above, but there is always something that we need to take it back to home. For every international student, their home must be far aw...

Track multiple parcels - How to use Full CSV in TrackingMore.com

E-commerce simplifies the shopping experience for both consumers and vendors. For consumers, they don't need to leave home and almost everything can be bought online. Especially for things which are not sold in nearby shops. Despite saving time, they're also able to research products and compare prices among retailers. For vendors, since the consumers overcome geographical barriers, they're able to send the products to consumers directly no matter where they are. Although online shopping is convenient, it's also a big challenge for both consumers and vendors to track their parcels and make sure it can be delivered on time. So we have various kinds of tracking tools to help with that. It is obvious that general consumers only have few parcels need to be tracked after shopping online. While vendors usually need to track hundreds or even thousands of parcels to make sure that all their customers can receive their product in time. And they can also do something once ther...

Things you need to know about Skincare - Sunscreen

People are paying more attention to their personal image. Skincare is no longer only for women. Men's grooming is now become an important part in cosmetics. Summer has already come, many people like to go to the beach to swim, surf or even have a sunbathing. Though the sun is beneficial in order for the human body to get its daily dose of vitamin D, unprotected excessive sunlight can cause extreme damage to the skin, or even worse, cancer. UV radiation and skin cancer We all know that sunscreen is a basic and must for us to protect our skin from sunlight. But we may feel confused when choosing the right one for ourselves, especially when salesperson is giving a kind introduction to every sunscreen product and talking about " UVA " or " UVB ". So, what is UVA/UVB? The most common reason of skin cancer is the exposure to the ultraviolet(UV) radiation. UV radiation is present in sunlight constituting about 10% of the total light output of the Sun.(https://en...