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Land Forces Have Role to Play in the Littorals
The US Army is introducing the Precision Strike Missile into its inventory, which has a reported range of more than 400km. This was among the key talking points during a panel discussion hosted by the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) All three land services are exploring how to harness the intended benefits of the AUKUS agreement. In 2023 the UK, US, and Australia signed a statement of intent identifying areas of cooperation in the months and years ahead.
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Read more at Army Technology
Stanford Medicine's DAX Copilot App Can Help Reduce Doctor-Patient Stress
DAX Copilot, developed by Nuance Communications, is expected to help shoulder much of that workload. The app harnesses ambient voice recognition technology to create a written summary that captures essential clinical details. This can be a meaningful way to allow clinicians to spend more time with their patients and reduce the burden of administrative, nonclinical work.
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Read more at Medical Xpress
ExiPay and Izwe Team Up to Launch Izwe Pay in Zambia
Unlimit, a global fintech company, has announced its entry into the Tanzanian market and its reception of a Bank of Tanzania (BOT) licence. The approval of Unlimit as an authorised payment service provider by the BOT will allow the fintech to provide a range of new offerings such as business payments, merchant services and outbound payments. Unlimit says the launch of Tanzanian operations marks an important step in its broader strategy of expanding into Africa.
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Read more at Developing Telecoms
Quaise Energy Secures $21 Million Series A1 Funding Round
Quaise Energy has just closed a $21 million Series A1 funding round. The new funding will go towards supporting the company’s field operations while product development continues with pre-existing capital. It is developing a novel technique that uses high-power microwaves in the millimeter range to vaporize rock.
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Read more at ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News
CO2 Capture Technology For Low Carbon Hydrogen Production Plant 2
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has concluded a license agreement with Kellogg Brown & Root, Ltd (KBR, Ltd) to provide CO2 capture technology for a low carbon hydrogen production plant. The project, Hydrogen Production Plant 2 (HPP2), will be constructed at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, which hosts one of the UK’s leading refineries.
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Read more at Carbon Herald
How to Fund Australian News Media
In 2023, the two biggest American tech companies operating in Australia – Google and Facebook – generated almost $11 billion selling advertising to Australian businesses. Advertisement The gross Australian operating profits of the “big two” are now more than five times those of the combined print and online revenues of the news mastheads operated by Nine Entertainment and News Corporation (roughly $2.2 billion), the two companies that bear more than 90 per cent of the cost of original news generation in this country.
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Read more at The Australian Financial Review
NAQI Logix - A Breakthrough in Human-Machine Interface Without Brain Implants
NAQI Logix is a Canadian technology company that has created a new human-machine interface that does not require brain implants. The technology is already being used to control wheelchairs, computers, robots, and even 737 flight simulators with the blink of an eye and other tiny facial gestures and movements. This sophisticated control over the digital world, including AR/VR and Metaverse, is possible without brain implants because the technology uses a non-invasive sensor that gently touches the ear.
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Read more at EIN News
How to Use Technology to Supplement Your Job
Learning to Work With Technology Employees can take specific actions to help transition to new technology and ensure its appropriate use. Knowing the capabilities, risks, and limitations of emerging technologies can help you be an effective contributor to technology products and could provide alternative job opportunities.
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Read more at TheFabricator.com
Cryo-ET - Learning Structural Heterogeneity
To better understand how molecular machines work, scientists capture snapshots of them by isolating proteins from cells and using various methods to determine their structures. This approach is exciting because it allows researchers to directly observe how and where proteins associate with each other, revealing the cellular neighborhood of those interactions within the cell.
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Read more at Technology Networks
Technology and Behavioral Health
Dr. Jacqueline Naeem, senior medical director at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, spoke to the issue of technology and behavioral health at the HIMSS24 conference in Orlando on Monday. The good news – such as it is – is that technology can be utilized to address many of these issues, and much of that technology is beginning to mature. On top of that, there are roughly 20,000 mental health apps available.
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Read more at Healthcare Finance News