October 17, 2022

Triller Introduces the Metaverz: Your All-Access Pass to Global Entertainment

Triller partners with Epik and the entertainment industry’s biggest artists to create the world’s first integrated virtual music, gaming, sports and live events platform   Link to a video preview of the Metaverz here. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Triller, the leading AI-powered creator platform, is taking its creator-first approach to the metaverse. Today, […]

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Decentraland Announces 2nd Metaverse Music Festival; Returns with OZZFEST, Dillon Francis, Soulja Boy

Presented by Kraken, the second annual Metaverse Music Festival will host 15 stages with 100+ artists across every music genres; Showcasing the next frontier of metaverse experiences LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Decentraland, the world’s largest user-owned and operated virtual social world, announced today the sophomore edition of Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF), including […]

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NEUCHIPS Secures $20 Million in Series B2 Funding to Deliver AI Inference Platform for Deep Learning Recommendation

New funding will accelerate delivery of their 7nm RecAccel™ inference platform to cloud service providers. SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NEUCHIPS, a leader in AI ASIC platforms for deep learning recommendation, today announced series B2 funding of $20M. The round includes strategic investors Wistron, JAFCO Asia, Powerchip Group and new investor […]

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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

Together with the UKAEA’s world-leading researchers, General Fusion progresses its Fusion Demonstration Program General Fusion’s Plasma Injector 3 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, General Fusion and the UKAEA kick off projects to advance the commercialization of magnetized target fusion energy as part of an important collaborative agreement. With these unique […]

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Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) Embarks on Largest Expansion Project in the Company’s History

CIS – Cambridge Isotope Separation Facility TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL), the world leader in stable isotope chemistry and the separation of carbon-13 (13C), has embarked on the largest expansion in the company’s history. This strategic undertaking, which has been aptly named North Star, will significantly increase […]

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Sri Lankan Author Shehan Karunatilaka Wins 2022 Booker Prize

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize on Monday for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a dead war photographer on a mission in the afterlife. Karunatilaka received a trophy from Queen Consort Camilla at the English language literary award’s first in-person ceremony since 2019. He also gets a 50,000 pound ($56,810) prize. Set in 1990 Sri Lanka during the country’s civil war, Karunatilaka’s story follows gay war photographer and gambler Maali Almeida, who wakes up dead. Time is of essence for Maali, who has “seven moons” to reach out to loved ones and guide

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Climate Questions: How Much Has the Climate Changed Already?

Relentless drought in China, East Africa, the U.S. West and northern Mexico, devastating floods in Pakistan and Kentucky, scorching heat waves in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, destructive cyclones in southern Africa and intense hurricanes in the U.S. and Central America make up just some of the recent extreme weather events that scientists have long predicted would be more intense with a warming climate. “With just over one degree of warming since pre-industrial times, we are already seeing more extreme weather patterns,” said Elizabeth Robinson, director of the Grantham Research Institute in London. Scientists have been tracking precisely how much

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Journalists go into hiding after threats by Myanmar’s military junta

Local reporters from two media outlets in Myanmar went into hiding after the country’s ruling military junta threatened to sue the news agencies for reporting that regime troops killed three civilians and wounded 19 others near a Buddhist pagoda in Mon state last week. BBC Burmese and The Irrawaddy online news journal reported that military soldiers allegedly fired random shots into crowds at the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in Mon state, one of the most famous Buddhist sites in Myanmar, on Oct. 12.  The regime blamed the attack on an anti-junta People’s Defense Force (PDF) allied with the Karen National Liberation Army’s (KNLA) Brigade

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