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London, UK – Research released by global edge cloud platform, Fastly, Inc. finds that more than three quarters (76%) of organisations in the UK and Ireland are increasing their cybersecurity spending to protect themselves against future risks. This is despite three in five already feeling their budget is sufficient to protect against the modern threat landscape. 

Google Support Services LLC, Reston, Virginia (HQ003423D0017), is awarded a hybrid (firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity) contract with a ceiling of $9,000,000,000. No funds are being obligated at the time of award; funds will be obligated on individual orders as they are issued.

San Jose, United States – Microland, a global digital transformation provider, announced a partnership with Dynatrace in which the Dynatrace Software Intelligence platform will become a core component of Microland’s Intelligeni AutomatedOps platform for assisted and augmented IT operations to maintain reliable Quality of Service (QoS) across the enterprise infrastructure estate. 

Paignton, United Kingdom – Spirent Communications plc, the provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, announced availability of SimORBIT, the high-accuracy orbital modelling software solution specifically developed for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite simulation.

Los Angeles, United States – Pearl, the global provider in dental AI solutions, and Straine Dental Management, a dental service organisation bringing DSO-level managerial excellence to dentist-owned practices, announced that Pearl has been selected as the group’s preferred artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider.

Mountain View, United States – Kodiak Robotics, Inc., a self-driving trucking company, announced it has been awarded a [$49.9 million (€47.54 million)], 24-month United States Department of Defense (DoD) agreement to help automate future U.S. Army ground vehicles led by the Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program. This effort will be in support of vehicles designed for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other high-risk missions.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Space Commission announces the launch of its Saudi Space Accelerator Program in line with the Kingdom’s vision of becoming a global hub of innovation by 2030. The program seeks to enhance the national Space sector through the development of its infrastructure and enabling local entrepreneurs and businesses to advance innovative Space solutions.

Boston, United States – MicroEJ, the provider of software containers for IoT and embedded devices, and Au-Zone Technologies Inc, a provider in edge AI, announce their partnership to accelerate AI adoption at the edge.

Delaware Imaging Network, a division of RadNet, Inc. has announced that it has started implementation of its new Enhanced Breast Cancer Detection service, which works in concert with a patient’s annual breast screening regimen.

ABB officially opened its fully automated and flexible robotics factory in Kangqiao, Shanghai, China. The 67,000m² production and research facility represents a [$150 million (€143.42 million) (1.1 billion RMB)] investment by ABB and will deploy the company’s digital and automation technologies to manufacture next generation robots enhancing ABB’s robotics and automation leadership in China.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world specialist in advanced memory technology, and NAVER Corporation, a global internet company with top-notch AI technology has announced a wide-reaching collaboration to develop semiconductor solutions tailored for hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI) models. Leveraging Samsung’s memory technologies like computational storage, processing-in-memory (PIM) and processing-near-memory (PNM), as well as Compute Express Link (CXL), the companies intend to pool their hardware and software resources to dramatically accelerate the handling of massive AI workloads.

HERE Technologies announced that HERE Workspace is expanding to give enterprises more ways to integrate spatial intelligence into their business operations, supply chains and fleets.

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach to help international healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution provider Nexus FrontierTech has announced its partnership with Microsoft Azure, allowing clients to utilise the Azure marketplace for quick deployment of AI solutions within their organisations.

Southlake, Texas – Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences, a medical technology company focused on saving lives by making an ECG (also known as an EKG) a far more valuable screening tool through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), announced that it has entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement with Rutgers University (Rutgers), the America’s public research universities.

RetinAI Medical AG, a provider in developing software solutions for image processing and artificial intelligence in Ophthalmology, to launch Discovery CORE with AI for retinal fluid and layer segmentation. Discovery CORE and its AI models have been designed to accelerate data analysis and help clinical and academic researchers collaborate in real time, with their peers, on medical and imaging datasets.

London, UK. 5 December 2022 – Bitwarden, the open source password manager trusted by millions, has unveiled a new passwordless authentication feature. This aims to make it easier and faster for users to access their Bitwarden vaults. This announcement reinforces the Bitwarden commitment to help customers protect sensitive information at every point of their passwordless experience. 

Tokyo, Japan – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its development of a quantum artificial intelligence (AI) technology that automatically designs and optimises inference models to downsize the scale of computation with quantum neural networks. The new quantum AI technology can be integrated with classical machine learning frameworks for diverse solutions.

Hong Kong – Taoping Inc. announced two new pilot projects for the Company’s smart rest station products in high profile areas on the Shenzhen Baywalk and the Dasha River Ecological Corridor (Guangzhou). The new pilot projects reflect a continued commercialisation and acceleration of growth.

Cape Canaveral, United States – Sidus Space, Inc., a space-as-a-service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, has secured U.S. regulatory approval to provide global data services from its upcoming LizzieSat-1 mission through a Tier 1 license granted by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Vancouver, Canada – Wishpond Technologies Ltd., a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions is announcing that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Brax.io, has launched Braxy, a new and easy to use AI-powered advertising solution for businesses.

Louisville, United States – The University of Louisville (UofL) College of Business announced the launch of a initiative that will enable students to forecast the labor market value of earning a graduate business degree. In collaboration with Seattle-based data science startup AstrumU, the UofL College of Business is pioneering the use of a new machine learning tool to offer insight into the professional outcomes that a UofL MBA degree holder can expect to see upon graduation.

Denver, United States – TTEC Holdings, Inc., the customer experience (CX) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, announced that VoiceFoundry, a TTEC Digital company, has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Conversational AI Competency. This designation recognises VoiceFoundry for its expertise in developing high quality, highly effective chatbot, virtual assistant, and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions.

TEL AVIV, Israel. 6 December 2022 – Variscite, a worldwide designer and manufacturer of System on Modules (SoMs) has announced the official launch of the Variscite Python API developer centre. The Variscite Python API, also known as pyvar, simplifies the development of machine learning and multimedia applications for devices built on Variscite’s i.MX8-based SoMs. With the API, building and programming embedded systems and smart/edge devices for AI/ML is faster and easier, even for beginners.

Intel unveiled research fueling its innovation pipeline for keeping Moore’s Law on track to a trillion transistors on a package in the next decade. At IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2022, Intel researchers showcased advancements in 3D packaging technology with a new 10x improvement in density; novel materials for 2D transistor scaling beyond RibbonFET, including super-thin material just 3 atoms thick; new possibilities in energy efficiency and memory for higher-performing computing; and advancements for quantum computing.

Micropsi Industries has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI)-based software MIRAI is now compatible with numerous robots produced by FANUC, a supplier of robotics and factory automation in Japan, and its U.S. subsidiary FANUC America. With MIRAI, FANUC customers can now add valuable hand-eye coordination to multiple FANUC industrial and collaborative robots (cobots) to handle difficult-to-automate functions such as cable plugging and assembly.

Quantiphi, an AI-first Digital Engineering company, launched the Qollective.CX platform that leverages AI to simplify experience management for enterprise customers.