03Oct/24

Digital Asset, Euroclear, and The World Gold Council Participate in a Successful Pilot to Tokenize Gilts, Eurobonds, and Gold

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Digital Asset, a leading provider of blockchain solutions, today announced that it has completed a collaborative initiative to successfully tokenize gilts, Eurobonds, and gold.
Euroclear, The World Gold Council, and global law firm Clifford Chance were among a broad group of pilot participants- which included investors, banks, CCPs, custodians, and a central securities depository. The aim was to demonstrate how tokenized assets on a blockchain can enhance collateral mobility, improve liquidity, and increase transactional efficiency. Continue reading

03Oct/24

MongoDB Announces General Availability of MongoDB 8.0

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MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, the best-performing version of MongoDB, the world’s most popular document database. Millions of developers and more than 50,000 customers—including 70% of the Fortune 100 and leading global enterprises—rely on MongoDB as a trusted operational database for applications across a wide range of use cases. MongoDB 8.0 provides significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. Continue reading

03Oct/24

India to grow consumer spending three times more than the U.S. over the next decade, EBANX shows

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India is set to surpass the impressive mark of US$ 5.4 trillion in consumer spending by 2034, up from the current US$ 1.8 trillion, according to data from the World Data Lab analyzed by EBANX, a global technology company specializing in payment services for emerging markets. It represents a growth of 12% per year, three times higher than the projection for the United States, at 4%, and more than two times higher than the global average of 5%. This boost will place India as the third-largest market in the world in consumer spending, behind only the United States and China. Continue reading

03Oct/24

One in Four CPS-Enabled Organizations Lost $1M+ from Cyber Attacks in Last Year

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Claroty, the cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection company, today released new research illuminating the significant business impacts of cyber attacks affecting CPS environments. The report, “The Global State of CPS Security 2024: Business Impact of Disruptions,” is based on a global independent survey of 1,100 infosecurity, OT engineering, clinical & biomedical engineering, and facilities management & plant operations professionals about the business impacts of cyber attacks on their organizations in the past 12 months. Continue reading

03Oct/24

GROUNDBREAKERS 2024: Prologis CEO, FedEx Chairman discuss Artificial Intelligence, company culture and tariffs

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Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), the global leader in logistics real estate, today hosted its fourth annual GROUNDBREAKERS thought leadership forum in London. GROUNDBREAKERS 2024 featured trailblazers including FedEx Chairman Fred Smith, former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair and Survival Expert Bear Grylls. Continue reading

02Oct/24

First IBM Quantum Data Center in Europe Opens; Will Include IBM’s Most Performant Quantum Systems

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Alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, senior European government officials and European-based global enterprises, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the first IBM Quantum Data Center located outside of the United States. It is the company’s second quantum data center in the world and marks a significant expansion of its fleet of advanced, utility-scale quantum systems available to global users via the cloud. Continue reading

30Sep/24

Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station

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The two crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. This is the first human spaceflight mission launched from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the space station. Continue reading

30Sep/24

$1 BILLION ANNOUNCED DURING 2024 GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL CAMPAIGN TO END EXTREME POVERTY

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The 2024 Global Citizen Festival campaign has resulted in $1 billion in commitments to defeat poverty, defend the planet and demand equity for the world’s most marginalized communities. Central Park played host to a monumental day of advocacy and action today, where 60,000 global citizens gathered to hear world leaders, philanthropists, and the private sector make historic commitments in response to their advocacy, having taken a record-breaking 3.4 million actions on Global Citizen’s platforms. Continue reading

30Sep/24

Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Raspberry Pi Launch the Raspberry Pi AI Camera

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Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) and Raspberry Pi Ltd today announced that they are launching a jointly developed AI camera. The Raspberry Pi AI Camera, which is compatible with Raspberry Pi’s range of single-board computers, will accelerate the development of AI solutions which process visual data at the edge. Continue reading