Tangerine, the home makeover solutions, designed a unique initiative where Bollywood celebrities came together to support #poseforacause campaign. Aimed at supporting the shelter homes for women and elderly, the campaign bought together celebrities supporting the cause where, for every celebrity picture, Tangerine donated ten bedsheets to NGOs like Help Age India and Urja Foundation.

Renowned Bollywood celebrities such as veteran actress Asha Parekh, Randhir Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Shahid Kapoor, Sushant Singh Rajput, Manoj Bajpai, Jackie Shroff, Esha Gupta, Harshvardhan Kapoor, SaiyamiKher, DishaPattani, Elli Avram, MandiraBedi, Manish Paul, Divya Dutta, Maria Goretti, AchlaSachdev, SaumyaTandon, AlkaYagnik, AparshaktiKhurana, Narendra Kumar, Gauri Shinde, Hansal Mehta, Kiara Advani, Mini Mathur, NishkaLulla, Pooja Hedge, Prasoon Joshi, Ramesh Sippy, Siddharth Shukla, Shaan, ShibaniKashyap, SoorajPancholi, Tanisha Mukherjee, TapseePannu came together and supported the cause.

Exchanging quaint Soho vibe for a grander Hollywood Road location (Hong Kong) TATE Dining Room and Bar, relocated from its previous Elgin Street address to a larger and more versatile reincarnation on Hollywood Road.

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The new TATE represents more than just physical relocation; it is a culmination of chef Vicky Lau’s culinary and personal journey since its inception in 2012 elevated in a more refined manner. Chef Lau has always been inspired by kaiseiki ryori since the beginning of her career and has since developed one of her signature dish, the “Zen Garden” as a nod to the cuisine that evolved around the development of the Japanese tea ceremony.

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The new TATE pays tribute freshest and the most vibrant ingredients while paying utmost attention on quality, flavor and every intricate detail; serving up wholesome yet tantalizing dishes inspired by the Japanese’s sensibility towards the four seasons. Aside from the two prix fix menus, the new TATE will also offer some vegetarian prix fix menu for the herbivores utilizing the best seasonal produce.

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Located in the heart of Sheung Wan on Hollywood Road, the new TATE location boasts a spacious 3,800 square feet space that comprises an extensive and state of the art kitchen, a dining room that can accommodate up to 30 guests, a private room that seats up to 12 guests, a private chef’s table and a bar/lounge.

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Designed by chef Vicky Lau in collaboration with James JJ Acuna of Bespoke Architect on spacious and technical aspect, the new TATE reflects palettes of soft taupe, grey, pink and gold, the plush banquette seating along with contemporary lighting fixtures.

The new TATE will also house chef Lau’s new venture on the ground floor of the Hollywood Road space- POEM PATISSERIE, delivering delectable pastries in a unique backdrop like no other.

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From its Elgin Street space to the highly-anticipated Hollywood Road location, TATE prides itself in creating a buzz in the city’s dining scene and will seamlessly deliver a truly inspiring dining experience with its unrivaled culinary mastery.

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Lucia Pica, CHANEL Global Creative Makeup and Color Designer, has developed a new Spring 2017 makeup collection for CHANEL to celebrate, reinterpret and decipher the five iconic color codes of CHANEL: red, black, gold, white and beige.

#COCO CODES. The collection is a journey into the colors that shaped the life of Gabrielle Chanel. Her use of colour was defiant, unexpected, elegant and bold – and always utterly original. Now a part of the very fabric and history of CHANEL, it is impossible to imagine the House without them. Yet in this collection, Lucia Pica has found a way to re-infuse these classic shades with her own elegant irreverence, breathing new life into these beloved colors, and challenging conventional modes of beauty. Rouge noir can now adorn the lips in Spring. White and beige are reimagined for nails. Red becomes younger, bolder, more audacious than ever. “I want to reverse beauty expectations and have women challenge themselves,” states Lucia Pica


Blogged by Deepa Srivastava Kumar

Could you use your voice to authenticate purchases or money transfers? That’s what Nuance Communications, which specializes in voice-based AI technology, feels. We can already use our fingerprints to authorize purchases on our smartphones, and Nuance believes that voice biometrics can add an additional layer of security.

Jason Stirling, SVP at Nuance Communications, believes voice biometrics should be much more popular than they are today. “In nine seconds, this technology can identify whether a person is who they claim to be,” Stirling says. He’s talking about voice print identification, a crucial aspect of voice biometrics. Basically that’s what stops the voice assistant AI from ordering a dollhouse you don’t want just because a random person asked it to.
“Voice biometrics isn’t bulletproof but it has many layers of authentication,” Stirling says. Nuance has a technology called liveness detection that basically acts as a safeguard against someone playing a recording of your voice to masquerade as you. You are asked to speak a unique pass phrase every time you log in, making it harder for fraudsters to impersonate you.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US suggested in 2016 that SMS-based two-factor authentication is not secure and should be done away with. Having it enabled is better than not having any form of two-factor authentication, but Stirling suggests it’s time online services used voice biometrics for a third layer of security, or as an alternative to app-based OTPs.

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That’s not to say that voice biometrics is the future and should immediately replace all other forms of security. It has a whole bunch of problems that need to be fixed Japan’s NEC corporation is also working on its own biometrics technology, based on video face recognition. NIST testing of the technology has been quite positive.

Video face recognition technology identifies the faces of moving subjects in real-time as they walk naturally without stopping in front of a camera. Face recognition technology has also been around for a while – you can log into some phones and Windows PCs with your face – but these aren’t foolproof.

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Using video images from standard cameras for face recognition requires highly-advanced techniques when compared to still images, NEC explains. This is because images are greatly influenced by environmental conditions, such as camera location, image quality, lighting and subject size, in addition to the behavior of a subject, including walking speed, face direction and sight line.

Inspired by Belvedere’s relearn natural philosophy, Falguni Shane Peacock create a natural installation at belvedere’s ‘urban garden party’ celebrating its summer spritz collection at Intercontinental Marine Drive, Mumbai

The designer duo Falguni and Shane Peacock, created a high-octane nature infused installation inspired by the raw materials used in Belvedere Vodka and its summer Spritz cocktail collection. The duo reinforced Belvedere’s all natural manifesto through this magnum installation. The experience is a celebration of the brand’s commitment to natural ingredients and simple low sugar cocktails.

The evening also witnessed the presence of the city’s elite crowd like Evelyn Sharma, Candice Pinto, Shibani Dandekar, Krishika Lulla, Vikram Raizada, Aanchal Kumar and Aditya Hitkari and Divya Palat.

Excited about this collaboration, designer duo Falguni and Shane Peacock said, “Our forte has always been edgy, onpoint styling and silhouettes. With this association with Belvedere, we go back to the raw natural form of all elements, creatively amalgamated with our aesthetic in a way that celebrates the coming together of fashion and nature. Evoking these emotions in our work, we drew inspiration from the ingredients used in the Belvedere summer spritz collection to create this unique installation.”

Melbourne, Ermenegildo Zegna has consistently worked to celebrate the importance of wool and incentivize growers to improve the quality of this beautiful and precious, natural fibre.

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For the 50 th year, Ermenegildo Zegna has honoured Australia’s best woolgrowers, by awarding the “Superfine Wool Trophy” and the “Vellus Aureum Trophy” during an exclusive gala dinner hosted by Paolo Zegna, Chairman of the Group.

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The inherent excellence and unique characteristics of superfine wool allows Ermenegildo Zegna to constantly evolve the beauty and performance of its products. “Ermenegildo Zegna Extrafine Wool Trophy” in 1963 (the oldest wool award in the world), followed by the “Vellus Aureum Trophy” 50 years later, when it was launched in 2002 to recognize the quest for absolute excellence by benchmarking the finest woollen fleeces in the wool production countries that measure 13.9 microns and less.

These competitions are today intended to encourage breeders and reward their commitment to quality, and are open to Australian and New Zealand woolgrowers. The winning fleeces are judged according to a strict set of criteria including fineness, style, strength, colour and evenness.

The 2017 “Superfine Wool Trophy was won by David and Angie Waters (Tarrangower Merinos – Hillgrove, NSW) 2nd were Danny and Megan Picker (Hill Creston Park – Bigga, NSW), and 3rd Philip & Jennifer Carlon (Queenlee – Uralla, NSW).

For the “Vellus Aureum Trophy”, David and Susan Rowbottom (Rowensville – St. Helens, VIC) won the 1st place, Ed and Jill Hundy (Windradeen Mudgee, Pyramul, NSW) won the 2nd place and Ross and Rebecca Blake (Allandale – Walcha, NSW) were awarded the 3rd place.

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The Porsche Design Tower Miami, has come to life, creating an unmistakable architectural and engineering masterpiece. Gil Dezer, president of Dezer Development, and Jan Becker, CEO of Porsche Design Group, commemorated the Grand Opening of the first-of-its-kind Porsche Design Tower,at Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

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