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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $20 million in awards for the third of three programs under its new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) has selected three teams to receive FY20 funding for the ARDP’s Advanced Reactor Concepts-20 (ARC-20) program. ARDP is designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate … [Read more...] about Energy Department’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program Awards $20 million for Advanced Reactor Concepts

Canadian Pacific (TSX: CP) (NYSE: CP) announced today that it plans to develop North America's first line-haul hydrogen-powered locomotive. CP's Hydrogen Locomotive Program will retrofit a line-haul locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and battery technology to drive the locomotive's electric traction motors. Once operational, CP will conduct rail service trials and … [Read more...] about CP announces hydrogen-powered locomotive pilot project

Thales announces the creation of the Thales Speakers Bureau as a platform for its in-house experts to share their experience and demystify the innovations that will shape the world of tomorrow. With fewer possibilities for face-to-face contact, Thales proposes to create new opportunities to connect with its customers, its ecosystem and the general public, to explain complex … [Read more...] about Thales Speakers Bureau: Experts to Ponder Quantum Technology, 5G, Digital Identity, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) recognizes and applauds Canada's Federal Government and Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan, for today's launch of the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada (read here), a critical step toward realizing the goal of carbon neutrality in Canada by 2050 as part of the global fight against climate … [Read more...] about Ballard Applauds Canadian Government’s Introduction of a Progressive Hydrogen Strategy

Daimler Truck AG, IVECO, OMV, Shell and the Volvo Group today committed to work together to help create the conditions for the mass-market roll-out of hydrogen trucks in Europe. As a growing number of governments and businesses align on a common vision of a net-zero emissions energy system, the H2Accelerate participants believe that hydrogen is an essential fuel for the … [Read more...] about H2Accelerate – new collaboration for zero emission hydrogen trucking at mass-market scale

Twitter will use AWS’s industry-leading services and global infrastructure to power the real-time, global traffic and improve the experience for people who use Twitter Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has selected AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines. … [Read more...] about Twitter Selects AWS as Strategic Provider to Serve Timelines

Web engineering and digital marketing teams can unlock new capabilities and use cases working with the growing enterprise technology ecosystem Netlify, pioneer of the modern Jamstack web architecture, today announced a new enterprise technology partner directory showcasing best-of-breed software vendors that integrate with Netlify to unlock advanced use cases on the … [Read more...] about Netlify Launches Technology Partner Program to Help Enterprises Do More With the Jamstack

Alteration intended to eliminate alpha-gal sugar on surface of pigs’ cells Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs, referred to as GalSafe pigs, which may be used for food or human therapeutics. This is the first IGA in an animal that the FDA has approved for both human food … [Read more...] about FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Intentional Genomic Alteration in Line of Domestic Pigs for Both Human Food, Potential Therapeutic Uses

Citrix® Uncovers What Employees Really want in 2021 Latest research shows flexibility, agility, diversity and a superior experience will be key to attracting and retaining talent Few employees are interested in adding to the upheaval the global pandemic has created in their lives by changing jobs. But when it eventually subsides, many will be open to exploring their … [Read more...] about What Employees Really want in 2021

Deloitte TMT Predictions 2021: Growth in Cloud, Intelligent Edge, Sports Tech, Digital Reality and Telemedicine Accelerates - Global cloud spending will grow 7x faster than overall IT spend - The global market for intelligent edge computing will expand to $12 billion - The sports tech market has seen an upswing of venture capital interest, with over 3,000 global deals … [Read more...] about 2021 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions

The company built a system on a chip, demonstrating one of the cores as functional in hard disk drives Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) announced that it has designed two processors based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). One of the open standards-enabled cores is designed for high performance and the other is area-optimized. The high-performance … [Read more...] about Seagate Designs RISC-V Cores to Power Data Mobility and Trustworthiness

Best-in-class 4G LTE connectivity for enterprise users and first responders To meet the urgent need for fast, reliable internet access — virtually anywhere — Inseego (Nasdaq:INSG) today announced that its MiFi® 8000 4G LTE mobile hotspot is now available for AT&T (NYSE:T) enterprise users and first responders using FirstNet® services nationwide. “Our enterprise customers … [Read more...] about Inseego MiFi® 8000 Mobile Hotspots Provide Businesses and First Responders Internet Access “Anywhere” with AT&T and FirstNet

Dan Schulman: "Digital currencies are going to come into the mainstream… The time is now." CEO and president of PayPal, Dan Schulman, spoke about PayPal's recent decision to incorporate cryptocurrencies. "As we thought about it, digital wallets are a natural complement to digital currencies. We've got over 360 million digital wallets and we need to embrace … [Read more...] about Digital currencies are going to come into the mainstream

The world's #1 CRM, available on major public clouds Salesforce, [NYSE: CRM], the global leader in CRM, today announced Salesforce Hyperforce, a reimagination of the company's platform architecture built to securely and reliably deliver the Salesforce Customer 360, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Industries and more, on major public … [Read more...] about Introducing Salesforce Hyperforce

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a Final Safety Evaluation Report for the first of several licensing topical reports (LTRs) that have been submitted for the BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR). The LTR, which was submitted to the NRC in December 2019, forms the basis for the dramatic simplification of … [Read more...] about GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor Achieves U.S. Licensing Milestone