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SHENZHEN, China-Wednesday 10 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hytera has launched a simple, but highly effective pandemic prevention solution for small to medium-sized organizations such as schools, enterprises, retail stores, and shopping malls. The Hytera body temperature measurement solution provides a non-contact way of detecting people's temperature for reducing the risks of infection, helping create a more secure and safe environment when people resume work.

With countries gradually coming out of lockdown, it is vitally important to detect whether any employee or visitor has an abnormal temperature when they go back to work, to school, or to visit shops. It is critical that this is done effectively and efficiently when people enter a building. Meanwhile, employees overseeing the temperature measurements must also be protected.

Manual temperature screenings using thermometers and infrared detection guns are slow, inefficient and unsafe, as ... Read more »

ZURICH-Wednesday 10 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- ABB will be hosting an investor webcast at 14:00 CEST today, June 10, at which CEO, Björn Rosengren, will be giving his initial impressions on the Group’s strategy since he joined the company at the beginning of the year, as well as details on his immediate priorities. Highlights will include:

– ABB-OS evolves into new operating model ABB Way

– Clear focus on decentralized business model and 18 fully accountable divisions

– Prioritization of stability and profitability before growth

– Active portfolio management to play key role

– Combination of COVID-19 and oil price drop will lead to challenges over the coming quarters

– Group mid-term financial targets remain in place

– Divestment of Power Grids on track to be completed end Q2, 2020

– ABB on track to deliver $500 million ABB-OS cost savings

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Remittance players join forces to increase access to remittances in Zimbabwe

CINCINNATI-Wednesday 10 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- This week, P&G Beauty convened a virtual meeting with leading global NGOs to discuss the role of the beauty industry in accelerating progress towards a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient future.

Until now, the industry has responded to consumer concerns over safety, quality, origin and sustainability with an array of claims – such as natural, organic or clean – many of which lack clear definitions and standards and are sometimes at odds with one another. The group made up of experts from various NGOs and Alex Keith, CEO, P&G Beauty, recognized that it is more vital than ever to look at these challenges as interconnected rather than individually. For the industry to become future-fit and to build business resilience, the group concluded that it must address systemic challenges through collective action, leveraging the best of science and protecting nature by purposefully brin ... Read more »

Northern Data AG update on the status of the build-out of the world's largest HPC Data Center

• Initial commissioning successfully completed / Innovative cooling and proprietary AI systems are online and running well

• Area of 40 hectares / utilization of one gigawatt is now expected by the end of 2020

• Expansion to 3.6 gigawatts planned by 2023

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany-Wednesday 10 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87), one of the world's largest providers of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, now expects to expand its new HPC data center in Texas in the first year to an operating capacity of 1,000 MW (1 gigawatt, GW). A further expansion to 3.6 GW is planned by 2023 at the latest.

"We are very proud to have successfully started up our data center in the second quarter," said Aroosh Thillainathan, CEO of Northern Data AG. "We are c ... Read more »

TOKYO-Wednesday 10 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- JEOL USA, INC., a wholly owned subsidiary of JEOL Ltd. (TOKYO:6951) (President & COO Izumi Oi), has been awarded a major contract by the US Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (DHS – CBP) for five JEOL AccuTOF™ LC-plus 4G Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers equipped with DART™ (Direct Analysis in Real Time) ion sources. These instruments will enhance the analytical capabilities of five US Customs and Border Protection laboratories across the country. Three additional labs already installed the AccuTOF™ with DART™ in recent years, bringing the total usage to eight across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico.

The AccuTOF™ systems with DART™ will be used by CBP scientists as a non-destructive, rapid means to analyze many types of forensic samples including drugs, suspected controlled substances, unknown substances, and general organic mater ... Read more »

Navy is Latest to Join Army Robotics Program, Along with U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps; New Awards Bring Total Recent Orders to Nearly 500 Mid-Sized Robots from U.S. Armed Services