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Vincent Anguch Release date: 23 July 2024 12:00 (EAT) Moses Mbetsa, CEO of Numerical IOT, at the launch of TransitTAG. Local technology company Numeral IOT has unveiled a new solution to address safety concerns of parents and schools across the country. The real-time school bus monitoring system, named TransitTAG, is set to revolutionize child transportation and set new standards for child safety. TransitTAG consists of a wearable wrist tag for children, a live camera feed, and AI-driven analytics that monitor driver attentiveness and child behavior, allowing parents and schools to track the bus’s location in real time to ensure children…

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, July 23, 2024, Chainwire Sui joins exclusive list of AWS-integrated blockchain The Sui Foundation, an organization working to advance and adopt the Layer-1 blockchain of the same name, today announced that it has integrated Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) blockchain node runner into Sui, providing developers with a self-managed node deployment solution. This integration enables Sui builders to easily set up and deploy Sui full nodes within the AWS environment, benefiting from the high availability, scalability, and reliability of AWS’ robust cloud infrastructure. AWS Blockchain Node Runners simplifies the process of running a blockchain node, enabling users…

Company’s CISO named BostonCISO ORBIE Awards Corporate Winner and 2024 SaaS Awards Finalist for second consecutive year BOSTON, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Appfire, a leading global provider of software that powers, extends and connects the world’s leading platforms, today announced recent recognition for cybersecurity excellence. These recognitions highlight Appfire’s top priority for security both internally and on behalf of its customers and partners. Appfire’s Chief Information Security Officer, Doug Kersten, was recognized in the Enterprise category for outstanding cybersecurity leadership at the Boston CISO ORBIE® Awards. The company was also named a finalist for Best SaaS Product for Communications,…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been a longtime supporter of basic income, perhaps because it helps justify his vision of a future in which artificial intelligence will displace millions of jobs and push much of the working-age population out of the workforce. Now, a new study funded by Altman finds that basic income probably wouldn’t actually achieve what the tech mogul had hoped. Altman has long been a financial supporter of Open Research, an organization that on Monday released the first findings from a multiyear effort to study the impact of basic income on underrepresented groups. From November 2020 to…

Aidan Gomes, co-founder and CEO of Cohere Inc., attends a panel session on the first day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCohere, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Google AI researchers and backed by Nvidia, cut about 20 jobs on Tuesday, CNBC confirmed.The company says it has about 400 employees, but the cuts come after it closed a $500 million funding round from investors including AMD, Salesforce, Oracle and Nvidia, valuing the company at $5.5 billion, more than double what it was last year.Despite the…

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 June 2024 – ASUS IoT, a global AIoT solution provider, today announced the launch of the PE2100N Series Edge AI System powered by NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Orin, and the PE1101N Series powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX or NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano modules at Computex 2024. Powered by the comprehensive NVIDIA Jetson Orin lineup delivering up to 275 TOPS of AI performance, the new series provides AI developers with streamlined, easily configurable systems to satisfy a range of industrial applications including machine vision, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and intelligent…

Biotechnology companies are increasingly contributing to the economy with their latest advancements and innovations in areas such as healthcare, agriculture, environment, industrial manufacturing, etc. Their activities are rapidly expanding from the lab into people’s lives, providing ample growth opportunities for the biotechnology industry. Given the industry’s robust outlook, investors may want to consider investing in high-risk, high-reward biotech stocks United Therapeutics Corporation (UTHR), Entrada Therapeutics (TRDA), and Exelixis (EXEL). Last year, the FDA, including the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), approved 80 new products, setting a new record for…

Vayu, a robotics and AI specialist, today unveiled One, a new delivery robot designed to navigate autonomously in stores and on roads at speeds of up to 20 mph. The company also received its first order for a fleet of robots for commercial operation. Vayu Robotics is a team of engineers and business leaders focused on implementing next-generation AI technologies in the autonomous delivery sector to contribute to a more sustainable and connected world. According to the company’s website, “Vayu” comes from Sanskrit and represents “the intelligence that enables all movement in the universe and all the movement of energy.”…

After two decades working on leading robotics and autonomous software, the trio concluded that the only way to realize large-scale robotics applications like robotic delivery was to invent a new technology stack that included lower-cost hardware and more robust software. “At Vayu, we have developed a unique technology that allows us to solve problems that have plagued delivery robots for the last decade, finally creating a solution that can be deployed at scale in real life to cheaply transport goods anywhere,” Gopalan said.The company is said to have recently signed a major commercial deal with a major e-commerce company to…

Philips and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) have issued a security advisory about potential vulnerabilities associated with older versions of the vendor’s Vue PACS software. The company said in its advisory that a security vulnerability was found in Vue PACS versions prior to 12.2.8.410. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow unauthorized persons or processes to adversely affect the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system by eavesdropping, viewing or modifying data, accessing the system, executing code, installing unauthorized software, or affecting the integrity of system data,” CISA wrote in its cybersecurity advisory. To date, Philips has not…