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SAN FRANCISCO-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Moody’s Analytics has won Best Use of AI in Banking or FinTech at the 2021 Global Achievement Awards for AI. This award recognizes the Credit Sentiment Score™ solution, an AI-powered tool to strengthen credit assessment and monitoring processes.

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Our solution uses artificial intelligence techniques to automatically identify adverse credit signals in the news. Lenders and investors, needing to evaluate the credit quality of many different companies, leverage this information when making credit decisions and as part of ongoing portfolio risk monitoring.

Signals of credit distress regularly emerge in news stories six months or even longer before major credit events. This tool creates awareness of those signals so they can factor into decision-making th ... Read more »

BEIJING-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The much anticipated archaeological excavation of Sanxingdui Ruins in southwest China's Sichuan Province is underway and multiple gold leaves have been extracted from the No.5 sacrificial pit.

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Many gold leaves were scattered on the bottom of the pit, and most of which are small and thin. The extraction work is very difficult, and needs to be done very carefully. Based on the distribution, experts speculate that those gold leaves may be related to textiles.

The gold leaves that have been successfully extracted will be measured one by one, numbered, put into the sample box and sent to the Sanxingdui Cultural Relics Restoration Center for further inspection.

The staff will scan them with hyperspectral imaging technology. The technique allows the archaeologi ... Read more »

TOKYO-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation, the Toshiba Group company specializing in the global infrastructure business (hereinafter Toshiba), has entered into a strategic business alliance with Fortem Technologies, Inc. (hereafter Fortem), and invested 15 million USD in the company. Fortem is a technology leader in counter-drone security and Toshiba, through the alliance, aims to expand its radar-based security solutions business.

Based in Utah, US, Fortem is a drone security company that has grown rapidly in recent years by supplying leading counter-drone systems, notably highly accurate small drone detection radars that are easily installed, and autonomous drones that can capture rogue drones in a net.

“Toshiba is a world-renowned technical and sales powerhouse,” said Timothy Bean, CEO of Fortem. “We are very ... Read more »

Millimeter-accurate Digital Twin Solution Combines Patented Dual-sensor Drone Technologies and Artificial Intelligence to Help Tower Companies Accelerate Rollouts and Enhance Decision-making

EXTON, Pa. -Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bentley Acceleration Initiatives today announced the availability of OpenTower® iQ, a digital twin solution “powered by iTwin” for telecom towers that provides 3D visualization, real-time decision support, and predictive design from the ground up. OpenTower iQ is the result of a digital co-venture between Bentley and Visual Intelligence, a Houston, Texas-based sensor technology company, and Aeroprotechnik, an aerial inspection engineering company based in Viseu, Portugal.

Bentley Acceleration Initiatives is Bentley Systems’ (Nasdaq: BSY) strategic investment fund and incubator initiative. Its objective is to bring together ecosystem partners in a digital co-ventures to ... Read more »

HOPKINS, Minn-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) (www.digi.com), a leading global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services, today announced the Europe, Middle East and Africa winners of its 2020 Channel Awards. The recognition is awarded to Digi’s distributors and channel partners which excelled in providing value to its customers and significantly advanced the overall IoT market throughout the duration of the year.

The 2020 Channel Awards were granted to:

EMEA Distributor of the Year – Alcom Electronics BV (Netherlands)
EMEA Demand Creation Distributor of the Year - Solid State Supplies Ltd (UK)
EMEA Reseller of the Year - nano80 Components & Systems (Austria)
Digi International recognizes these recipients as valued EMEA channel partners and congratulates them on this well-deserved award. Each honoree has played a key role in contributing to ... Read more »

BEIJING-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- From expanding the use of reusable energy and desert greening to setting a concrete target for China's CO2 emission peak, the country is making its "green development" drive crystal clear as it tops Beijing's next five-year plan.

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In east China's Fujian Province, where Chinese President Xi Jinping had spent over 17 years, locals are cashing in on tea plantations.

On Monday, President Xi revisited the area during a four-day inspection tour. He inspected an ecological tea garden in Xingcun Township in Nanping City, in the first tour after the adoption of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for national economic and social development and the long-range objectives through the year 2035.

Agricultural talents sent to villages for rural revita ... Read more »

The Rally results prove that IDEMIA’s new facial recognition technology can accurately identify people wearing face masks

Courbevoie-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, announced a top-tier finish during the 2020 Biometric Technology Rally, hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). During the Rally, IDEMIA’s overall performance significantly exceeded the original goals. The expert in biometrics demonstrated its industry-leading position by consistently ranking among the top three. IDEMIA’s algorithms achieved the best accuracy (True Identification Rate) with and without a mask (code-named West and Fray), and gave an exemplary biometric performance for throughput (Efficiency) and user experience (Satisfaction).

In the face of the pandemic, the 2020 Biometric Technology Rally challenged the biometric industry to b ... Read more »

 The Institute will construct the computer at its Quantum Research Centre labs, in collaboration with Barcelona-based Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

Work is underway to build a quantum computer in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, ushering an important milestone for the region in this breakthrough era in computing.

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the dedicated ‘applied research’ pillar of Abu Dhabi’s newly established Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today announced that its Quantum Research Centre (QRC) team led by its Chief Researcher Professor José Ignacio Latorre, will construct the quantum computer in the UAE capital, in collaboration with Barcelona-based Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech researchers.

“We are at the cusp of a new era with the advent of quantum computing,” H.E. Faisal Al Bannai, Secretary General of ATRC, said. “ ... Read more »

New Lenovo™ study shows how you need to forget the office you once knew

RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C. -Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

70 percent of global employees surveyed report higher job satisfaction and 56 percent feel more productive at home
Employees prefer the flexibility of working remotely, with 88 percent of participants from large companies wanting to work from home (WFH) or work from anywhere (WFA) at least some of the time
Management agrees with these benefits, as 83 percent of IT decision-makers (ITDMs) from businesses surveyed expect post-pandemic work to be remote at least half the time
Data security ranks as the #1 most time-consuming challenge among IT departments, study shows, with ITDMs feeling more prepared to deal with another pandemic than security threats
The majority of businesses (63 percent) surveyed are interested in Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) offerings because they free up valuable time and r ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO-Tuesday 23 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Andersen Global unifies its platform in North America as its member firms in Canada adopt the brand “Andersen,” reflecting the organization’s ability to provide a full suite of integrated services through its member and collaborating firms globally.

Formerly operating under the brand name Andersen Tax, the Canadian member firms now share the common brand “Andersen” with the U.S. member firm regionally, along with member firms globally in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. The U.S. member firm previously transitioned to the Andersen brand in 2019, which initiated the adoption globally by the organization’s member firms throughout 2020 and early 2021.

“This unification under a common brand demonstrates our shared culture, values and commitment to serving our clients in a seamless manner globally,” Andersen Global Chairman and Ande ... Read more »