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  • XELS Positions NFT-Based Platform as Future of Corporate Climate Action Disclosure

    Corporate climate action disclosure platform Xels uses NFT-based platform to promote a greener, healthier planet. 

    Tokyo, Japan, June 20th, 2022, ZEXPRWIRE, Eco-technology platform Xels is positioning itself as the future of decentralized climate action disclosure for corporations seeking transparency in their carbon emissions reporting. Xels allows corporations to produce and maintain nft-based records of their carbon offset activities that are certified, traceable, and provide accuracy, as well as being cost-effective for the enterprise world.

    More and more corporations see managing their carbon footprint as a critical part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), driving a carbon offset market that is estimated to be valued at between $40 billion and $120 billion. Moreover, the absence of transparency in climate change and carbon emissions reporting results in customers` distrust in what companies promise, their difficulties in following through the supply chain, and a lack of investor confidence in their pledges.

    Xels is repositioning the carbon credit focussed sector of the NFT space to focus on transparent ESG reporting with tokenization as a supplementary feature. Xels believes this will remedy the acute problem of the tokenization and exchange of carbon credits in the space. 

    Speaking about the Xels platform, a spokesman for Xels commented: 

    “Many of the world’s largest companies  are pledging to take world-changing action on climate change. But the question remains as to whether these actions are verifiable and whether bold statements are misleading stakeholders such as investors. When it comes to climate change, we’re missing the bridge that links consumers, businesses, and investors in a functioning marketplace. Blockchain technology is the missing link that brings consumers, businesses, and investors together on climate change as it lets us account for carbon emissions and transfer verifiable climate action.” 

    A Step in the Right Direction

    Xels recognizes that the use of NFTs creates several issues when it comes to the exchange of carbon credits; the lack of transparency regarding minting retired credits as NFTs. This issue has also been highlighted by three of the largest carbon credit standards providers.

    Xels takes a holistic approach with its solution by weaving new connections between many distributed parties around standards and data sharing and has the potential to improve existing mechanisms. The platform not only makes use of the inherent transparency of decentralized ledger technology, but combines that with an effective reporting system which leverages satellite monitoring and AI-driven analysis to verify corporate ESG claims. Consequently, this boosts companies’ ability to defend these claims to stakeholders, including customers and other companies in the value chain.

    Corporations can also upload macroscopic information such as photos of carbon offset projects to be verified by the Xels platform, which serves to create an accessible input system for corporations without the resources of the largest in the world. Additionally, Xels’ focus on reporting sets it apart from other NFT-based carbon credit platforms. Xels allows corporations to store their full reporting cycle, meaning the platform can ensure climate action  data is up-to-date and accurate. This further increases the credibility of claims made though the platform. 

    Finally, whilst Xels intends to launch publicly on the Ethereum blockchain initially, the Xels team are quickly looking to migrate to a low-energy blockchain to address energy consumption concerts in the near future.

    About Xels

    Launched in 2018, Xels is an eco-technology platform offering a bespoke enterprise blockchain, coupled with a carbon credit-backed digital asset, for companies seeking a transparent and secure way to offset their adverse environmental impacts. The platform uses cutting-edge satellite and artificial intelligence technology to quantify the actual amount of carbon sequestered by ecological projects, including protected ecosystems and reforestation campaigns.

    Xels leverages the experience of an expert team to provide integrated end-to-end solutions to combat climate change, led by Takeshi Nojima, a veteran start-up builder, with high-level experience in software, system and game development.

    For more information about Xels and its mission to combat climate change using DLT, visit their website here

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    Media Contact Details

    Contact Name: Mitch Hammer

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    XELS is the source of this content. This Press Release is for informational purposes only. The information does not constitute investment advice or an offer to invest. 

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  • The Lucid Air is a luxury electric sedan with the speed and power to rival Tesla

    The Lucid Air is a luxury electric sedan with the speed and power to rival Tesla

    Lucid Motors unveiled its first vehicle, the Lucid Air electric sedan, at a virtual event from the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. The sedan will get up to 517 miles of range, can hit a quarter-mile in under 10 seconds, packs over 1,000 horsepower, and will have a base price of “under $80,000” (as long as the federal government sees fit to continue to give out tax credits to EV buyers).

    The Lucid Air is over a decade in the making. Founded as Atieva in 2007, the company got its start making high performance batteries for all the Formula E racing teams. It changed its name to Lucid Motors in 2016 with the promise to to make a midsized sedan that feels like a massive, roomy flagship vehicle. The vehicle was supposed to be unveiled at the New York Auto Show earlier this year, but got delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.

    Under direction of the former Tesla Model S lead engineer Peter Rawlinson — then Lucid Motors’ CTO, now its CEO — there is a sense in the automotive world that Lucid has the internal knowledge and technical chops to tease Tesla’s grip as maker of the ultimate electric luxury sedan.

    It feels as if we already know a lot about this car even though today is its official public debut. Heck, The Verge went for a ride in an engineering prototype back in 2017.

    But in case you haven’t been following that closely, here’s the rundown:

    • 113 kWh battery pack
    • 517 miles of range under perfect conditions
    • 20-miles of range per minute of charging (DC fast charger)
    • nearly 60 percent of range in 20 minutes of charging
    • 1,080 horsepower
    • 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds
    • a quarter-mile in 9.9 seconds
    • price range of $80,000-$169,000 before incentives, depending on the configuration
    • 280-liter frunk (front trunk)
    • 32-sensor advanced driving assistance system, including cameras, radar, ultrasonic, and LIDAR
  • Walmart begins testing drone deliveries for household goods and groceries

    Walmart begins testing drone deliveries for household goods and groceries

    Walmart has started making its first deliveries by drone, launching a small pilot program this week in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The retailer will be delivering “select grocery and household essential items” using automated drones operated by Israeli startup Flytrex.

    Each of the drones can fly at speeds of 32 mph, travel distances of 6.2 miles in a round trip, and carry up to 6.6 pounds (that’s roughly “6-8 hamburgers,” according to converted units offered on Flytrex’s own website). A demo video of the drone shows how it lowers packages to the ground from 80 feet in the air rather than having to land itself. Flytrex received approval from the FAA to test food deliveries in North Carolina last year, with caveats that its drones only fly predetermined routes in the daytime over unpopulated areas.

    Walmart has offered few details on the program, including how many drones are involved in the pilot and what checks (if any) customers need to make before receiving a delivery.

    “We know that it will be some time before we see millions of packages delivered via drone,” said Walmart senior vice president Tom Ward, in a news post. “That still feels like a bit of science fiction, but we’re at a point where we’re learning more and more about the technology that is available and how we can use it to make our customers’ lives easier.”

    Walmart has been looking into drone delivery for many years, making its first tests back in 2015 and experimenting with using drones to check inventory in its warehouses in 2016. Moving from internal tests to customer deliveries is a big step, though. Although delivery drones have been on the horizon for many years, a number of challenges, like safety regulations and high costs compared to traditional delivery, have slowed adoption.

  • Delete All Pending Comments in WordPress website

    Delete All Pending Comments in WordPress website

    What Are Pending Comments in WordPress?

    Pending comments in WordPress are the comments that are awaiting moderation.

    You’ll find them in the WordPress admin area by visiting the ‘Comments’ page and switching to the ‘Pending’ tab.

    We recommend users turn on comment moderation on all their websites to combat comment spam. This means all comments on your website will go to the Pending queue before they are approved.

    Why would anyone want to delete pending comments?

    There are many scenarios when you may need to do that. For instance:

    • Akismet anti-spam plugin got disabled on your site and suddenly all spam comments are appearing in pending.
    • You simply forgot about a website, and it gathered hundreds of comments that are no longer relevant.
    • Articles on your website generating a lot of unwanted comments
    • You forgot to turn off comments on older posts

    It can take a long time to go through and moderate each comment individually. If you are confident that there are no comments marked ‘pending’ that you want to keep, then you can simply bulk delete them all.

    Deleting All Pending Comments

    If you only have a few hundred pending comments, it’s quite quick to delete them manually.

    Simply go to the ‘Comments’ page in WordPress admin area and then click on the ‘Pending’ tab to see a list of all your pending comments.

    By default, this list will show 20 pending comments at a time. To change this, click on the ‘Screen Options’ tab at the top-right corner of the page.

    Now that you have 100 comments displaying, simply check the box to the left of ‘Author’ at the top of the list of comments. This selects all the comments on the page . Then, click on the ‘Bulk actions’ dropdown and select the ‘Move to Trash’ option. Go ahead and click the Apply button to move all those comments into the trash.

    WordPress will automatically show the next 100 comments on the page. Simply repeat the process to remove these too.

  • Top 5 Star Resorts in Australia 2021

    Top 5 Star Resorts in Australia 2021

    The 5 stars Luxury resorts are a collection of best high-end resorts in Australia. They are located all over the country. In the diverse regions of the country. These resorts provide you undefined luxury which you have never experienced. It will leave a positive impact on your life. The lodges and resorts provide you 250 individual experiences which will give you the privilege to experience luxury beyond imagination. The resorts are continuously trying to enhance the experience for their clients by meeting all their comfort needs and providing the adventure the guests seeks.

    Best Resorts

    The Luxury Lodges 5 star resorts across Australia provide an experience which will be a life-changing experience for you. You will be able to enjoy luxury accommodations in the most beautiful landscapes which has the view of the ocean or the view which showcases the amazing sand dunes or rainforests. You can have a closer view of the wildlife and can know more about the Aboriginal connection and get to know the country by talking with the guides who are passionate and professional and give you a personalized excursion. At these resorts you will be able to enjoy the best food and wine and get treatment at a spa. Listed below are some 5-star resorts which will provide you the most delighted vacation you ever had before.

    • El Questro Homestead, The Kimberley: They can accommodate 18 guests and have the best tours which are headed by the local experts in the wilderness. There are thermal springs for you to relax or you can also enjoy trekking or a flight to the Purnululu National Park.
    • True North, The Kimberley: The Luxury resort is water bound and has 18 cabins in the cruise ship which gives you the best view of the gorges, waterfalls and the Aboriginal rock art of the coastline at Kimberley in Australia. The resort houses a 24-hour helicopter and 6 boats ready to go on expeditions and the team of 20 crew members who have great knowledge about the remote land. They can accommodate a maximum of 36 guests and give you the best dining experience.
    • Longitude 131°, Uluru: The resort is located near the Word heritage location Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. They are a collection of 16 luxury canopy accommodations. You can have dinner in the desert under the beautiful star-studded sky and go on excursions to discover the Aboriginal culture of the people in the desert.
    • Silky Oaks, Daintree National Park: Located in a massive 80 acres of rainforest which connects the World Heritage site Daintree National Park. The accommodations are luxury tree house which are surrounded by the birdlife in the rain forest. The yoga classes and spa will put a healing effect on you. The options of safari allow you to take tour of the rainforest and luxury trip on the private yacht which takes you to the Great Barrier Reef.
    • Spicers Peak Lodge, Scenic Rim: Located in Queensland, it is the luxury lodge in the non-alpine mountain. There are 10 suites or private lodges in this luxury resort and it provides you both.
  • Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger with Super Powers

    Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger with Super Powers

    Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger that can record transactions in a public or private peer-to-peer network. But that’s not the innovative part. It takes things to the next level by how it works. With blockchain:

    • Transactions are usually distributed across all members in the network. They’re called nodes.
    • Instead of one version, it tracks transactions in a chain of encrypted records called blocks.
    • All blocks are validated by the network. Then they are linked from the beginning to the most current—hence the name blockchain.

    The blockchain acts as a single source of truth, as altering any existing transaction will break the chain.

  • What’s Up With Blockchain?

    What’s Up With Blockchain?

    Maybe you’ve just heard about blockchain, but aren’t entirely sure what it is. Maybe you have a keen understanding, but are looking for more information on how you can benefit from it. Wherever you are in your journey, we’re here to help demystify the technology and offer some perspective on where it’s going and how you can benefit. Along the way, we’ll give some examples of how companies such as IBM are collaborating to advance the technology across industries.

    It Start with Ledgers

    Doing business can involve a lot of people and organizations, especially in today’s connected world. Think about the journey simple coffee beans can make:

    • The coffee beans are harvested by growers.
    • Growers sell the coffee beans to brewers.
    • Growers and brewers work with shippers to get the beans where they need to go.
    • Brewers make delicious cups of coffee and sell them to customers.

    Growers, shippers, brewers, customers. Let’s also add in banks and certifiers and coffee critics—it’s a lot to track. And that’s where ledgers come in, to keep track of these transactions.

     

  • What is Blockchain Technology?

    What is Blockchain Technology?

    Blockchain, sometimes referred to as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), makes the history of any digital asset unalterable and transparent through the use of decentralization and cryptographic hashing.

    A simple analogy for understanding blockchain technology is a Google Doc. When we create a document and share it with a group of people, the document is distributed instead of copied or transferred. This creates a decentralized distribution chain that gives everyone access to the document at the same time. No one is locked out awaiting changes from another party, while all modifications to the doc are being recorded in real-time, making changes completely transparent.

    Blockchain is an especially promising and revolutionary technology because it helps reduce risk, stamps out fraud and brings transparency in a scaleable way for myriad uses.

    How Does Blockchain Work?

    Blockchain consists of three important concepts: blocks, nodes and miners.

    Blocks

    Every chain consists of multiple blocks and each block has three basic elements:

    • The data in the block.
    • A 32-bit whole number called a nonce. The nonce is randomly generated when a block is created, which then generates a block header hash.
    • The hash is a 256-bit number wedded to the nonce. It must start with a huge number of zeroes (i.e., be extremely small).

    When the first block of a chain is created, a nonce generates the cryptographic hash. The data in the block is considered signed and forever tied to the nonce and hash unless it is mined.

    Miners

    Miners create new blocks on the chain through a process called mining.

    In a blockchain every block has its own unique nonce and hash, but also references the hash of the previous block in the chain, so mining a block isn’t easy, especially on large chains.

    Miners use special software to solve the incredibly complex math problem of finding a nonce that generates an accepted hash. Because the nonce is only 32 bits and the hash is 256, there are roughly four billion possible nonce-hash combinations that must be mined before the right one is found. When that happens miners are said to have found the “golden nonce” and their block is added to the chain.

    Making a change to any block earlier in the chain requires re-mining not just the block with the change, but all of the blocks that come after. This is why it’s extremely difficult to manipulate blockchain technology. Think of it is as “safety in math” since finding golden nonces requires an enormous amount of time and computing power.

    When a block is successfully mined, the change is accepted by all of the nodes on the network and the miner is rewarded financially.

    Nodes

    One of the most important concepts in blockchain technology is decentralization. No one computer or organization can own the chain. Instead, it is a distributed ledger via the nodes connected to the chain. Nodes can be any kind of electronic device that maintains copies of the blockchain and keeps the network functioning.

    Every node has its own copy of the blockchain and the network must algorithmically approve any newly mined block for the chain to be updated, trusted and verified. Since blockchains are transparent, every action in the ledger can be easily checked and viewed. Each participant is given a unique alphanumeric identification number that shows their transactions.

    Combining public information with a system of checks-and-balances helps the blockchain maintain integrity and creates trust among users. Essentially, blockchains can be thought of as the scaleability of trust via technology.