SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Software Motor Company (SMC) has rebranded as Turntide Technologies, Inc., effective July 20, 2020. Turntide's Smart Motor System, a hyper-efficient motor controlled precisely by sensors and software that optimizes every watt, has the potential to reduce global electricity consumption by 25%.

Motors are inside every machine with moving parts, and they consume more than half the world's electricity. Electric motors are quietly one of the world's most significant contributors to climate change. Today's dominant architecture of electric motors is the AC induction motor, patented in 1888. While elegantly designed for the mechanical age, it lacks intelligence and wastes energy. Until Turntide's design breakthroughs, higher efficiency motor designs required permanent magnets, which are environmentally destructive to source and mine.

At the heart of the Turntide Smart Motor System is a switched reluctance motor (SRM), whose basic design has been applied for decades in zero-fault tolerant environments like nuclear power plants. Precise controls run the Smart Motor System at optimal speed at all times, requiring the least possible energy to deliver the precise amount of power that is needed. Turntide's motors are also sustainably produced. Unlike permanent magnet motors, Turntide's motors contain only commodity raw materials and no rare earth metals.

"Turntide seeks to impact climate change, at scale," said Ryan Morris, Turntide Chairman and CEO. "Turntide has a technology platform that offers every business the opportunity to lower its carbon footprint with the Smart Motor System."

Turntide has adopted the new name to better acknowledge its mission of eliminating energy waste from society, so every watt is worthwhile for humanity. Carbon emissions, notwithstanding a brief pause due to coronavirus shutdowns, are accelerating. Turning the tideon carbon emissions growth requires a massive improvement in energy efficiency to complement renewable generation.

Turntide's customers, including Five Guys, Sprouts, and commercial property manager JLL, are retrofitting their old motors with the Smart Motor System, thereby reducing their HVAC motor energy consumption by 64% on average.

About Turntide TechnologiesTurntide Technologies (formerly Software Motor Company) has developed the world's most efficient and intelligent electric motor system. The revolutionary Smart Motor System is based on proven switched reluctance technology, now managed with advanced cloud software and connected to precise controls via IoT. Turntide seeks to eliminate the 25% of global electricity consumption that is wasted by legacy motors, thus accelerating the world's transition from fossil fuels. Turntide is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices in San Francisco; Arlington, Wash.; and Kennesaw, Ga. Turntide has installed Smart Motor Systems with dozens of customers, reducing their motor electricity consumption by an average of 64%, and is powering the systems of leading OEMs.

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Many Feminist Atheist Women navigate life and work by keeping our opinions on religion largely to ourselves unless we have the assurance of a safe space.

In the mid to late 2000s when the tedious subject of actively seeking nuptial associations through newspaper ads and matrimonial websites was being broached in my family, I offered my lukewarm consent to speaking to potential alliances based on a checklist of things that were core to my personal politics. Ranked very high on that list was religion, or lack of its practice thereof in a future partner. I wasnt yet out to my family as an atheist but I knew what I did not want.

(Disclaimer: I still use oh god! and omg! as exclamations out of sheer force of habit.)

Beyond the mild chiding ofbeshi barabari korona (dont overdo it),my parents were resigned to the fact that I will actively try to sabotage every potential match to escape being tied down in holy matrimony. It wasnt much of a surprise that most Bengali middle class families sought practicing Hindu daughters in law and none of the arranged attempts at matchmaking fructified into potential leads. I grew up in a Hindu family with an atheist father and a religious mother with no real restrictions on my choices. Both of them encouraged me to think independently and question everything, but also to respect the fundamental rights of others.

I grew up with the simplistic notion that, like sexual acts, religion is a deeply personal thing, practiced within the confines of ones house with enthusiastic consent of participants. Of course, with age, the nuances of religions close ties with culture, community, caste, sexuality and gendered components were clearer. What didnt change was how I and many other Feminist Atheist Women navigate life and work by keeping our opinions on religion largely to ourselves unless we have the assurance of a safe space. Mostly we do not. And in current times, a comment against religion is opening oneself up to an endless cycle of organised online harassment, state intervention in the form of FIRs, and physical violence in the form of mob attacks.

Theres a blurry, uneasy space in the backrooms of activism of change that is inhabited by this minority group whose voices are increasingly guarded in criticism of certain things. And by certain I specifically mean all things that have to do with religion. They are the irreligionists, the atheists, the rationalists, and the nones. These are the people usually at the forefront of campaigns against political intimidation of those accused of hurting religious sentiments a blanket term that can mean anything from an insulting tweet to a risqu dialogue in a film.

The Indian law vigorously protects those who practice religion. There are no similar provisions for atheists, though Article 51A (h) of the Constitution does say that it is the duty of every Indian to develop a scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform. Read in the current context, it probably means that spirit of inquiry is okay as long as it does not ruffle religious sentiments.

There, of course, is no legal recourse for hurting of scientific sentiments.

Now narrow this group down to women. Narrow this further down to women who identify as feminists. Its a space filled with lifelong experiences coloured by violent patriarchy which not just policed their actions since birth but also their free thought from an age when they started to question injustice. It started with a dont ask questions, and bled into all spaces of life from being made to go to places of worship against their will to being punished for not keeping religious fasts. This, of course, is in the context of access, ableism and privilege. For women without all of this, a vocal lack of belief in god in a deeply religious family is still punishable by violence in many parts of India. Many women are brainwashed into picking up familial religious traditions from a young age. Some do it willingly, others through the force of habit-forming repetition.

Its bad enough to be a woman practicing atheism in India, its worse if were also feminist.

I do not even mean radical atheism. What most of us grow into is an atheism printed in the mellow colours of regional, cultural acceptances and reluctant observation of events tied to religion such as Durga Puja, harvest festivals, feasts and public holidays. Were basically indulging our loved ones from the outer periphery of religion, impatiently waiting for the food service to start.

Since in India religion is closely woven into ones cultural and community identities, atheist women find themselves not just a minority but also navigating multiple layered existences within caste, sexual orientation and gender identities. The protection and accumulated privileges that upper caste, cishet, practicing atheist, feminists have, will starkly differ from anyone else.

But what is most intriguing is the way this feminism plays out in this intersectional space. Especially in the performative atheism on the internet that ignores and demonises the politics of religious women as primitive versus actual allyship. And this also works the other way round.

Often religious women mothers, sisters, mothers in law, aunts and grandparents gatekeep this space for Indian women atheists. How can we protect our atheism online from a bloodthirsty religious mob and still stand in solidarity with religious feminist sisters who are under attack for other aspects of their work? How can we protect the fundamental rights of women who say anti-religious things and not face similar attacks?

I found myself writing and deleting several times an atheist response to the hounding of the two young women in the past week Hindustan Times reporter Shristi Jaiswal who made a puerile comment about a Hindu deity, and comedian Agrima Joshua who used (the statue of a) historical Hindu icon as a punchline of a joke in a standup act. I would think that both views should ideally be inconsequential to the stature of the icons in question. But as is the custom of Indias thriving industry of offense taking, both views have resulted in the two womens relentless hounding, including public rape threats. In the case of the former, the silence of women journalists who are normally quick to jump to the defense of a colleague, is bothering me. I found myself asking, does feminism not extend its benevolent safety net to those who lampoon religion? In the case of the latter, the silence was broken mainly after there was a rape threat, not because Joshuas free speech is her fundamental right if that speech isnt breaking a law and it didnt.

It is not that feminist religious women do not protest arbitrary muscle-show of religion. They often have in the past.

One does not have to be an atheist to protest injustice. But silences in the face of religious anger directed at women could stem from the following reasons i) that they too feel their own religious sentiments have been hurt and this is where they need to introspect why this makes them uncomfortable ii) they think that an adult displaying irresponsible behaviour should bear the full consequences of their action, and iii) as is mostly commonly the case, without steel-strong safety nets of judicial protection, online spaces are violent and swift in retribution to those who question the majority view, especially if the majority view is in favour of majority religion.

Navigating atheism and feminism in India with the view that most organised religion oppress women and underrepresented genders is standing up against layered structures with roots that start with ones own families, then creep into society, in schools, colleges, community gatherings, marriage, workplace, public recreational places and every structure where patriarchy has a hold in deciding what women say and read, and how they live their lives.

If there has been hesitation to put in words the sense of irony in seeing the harassment of a living person for an immature opinion, to protect a mythological character who probably does not need this protection, will be to expose oneself to similar attacks. Religion wields too much and too disproportionate a power. Especially in the absence of a clear definition of what constitutes religious sentiment. The problem is not that religions form the basis of most lived practices in our country its one of the things that makes India diverse and multicultural. The problem is that ardent followers of religions demand absolute immunity from caricature.

To be an atheist feminist in India is to increasingly expose oneself to hate but more alarmingly, to actual acts of violence in physical spaces. And the act of offering solidarity to sisters and brothers outside this space is getting increasingly difficult.

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Remember life before smartphones? What did you ever do while waiting in line without a scrolling feed of content in your hand? The same can be said of driving without traction control, navigation, and voice commands. It sounds crazy, but so many of us rely on these features that we have to ask: could you survive driving without modern safety tech?

Blind-spot detection, back-up cameras, parking assist, lane assist, adaptive cruise control and collision warnings are all designed to add safety and convenience to the driving experience. However, more often than not, these are used as crutches while folks only pay partial attention to the road ahead. They're all relatively new, yet they've become the normunless you drive a car from the previous Millenium.

Some like Nissan's rear seat alert system now warn you to check and make sure you don't leave anything like groceries, or a child, locked in a hot car. An older vehicle won't tell you thatthe full weight of responsibility falls on you without a computer-assisted safety net. And many will argue that's how it should be.

The fear can be quite real when you look around at modern cars sharing the road and see nothing but foreheads facing down at a screen instead of the roadway. It makes you wonder how many modern drivers would immediately wreck if they suddenly didn't have all this active safety technology looking over their shoulders.

I'm already accustomed to life without these features in my '97 GMC Sierra pickup, but I see how it affects other drivers every day. Maybe I should just be glad their cars are better drivers than they are.

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ProScan Radiology recently completed a move from 350 Thomas More Parkway to 568 Centre View Blvd. in Crestview Hills.

The office added new technology, as well.

We are excited to lead with cutting edge technology and expand our services to patients of Northern Kentucky to produce a higher quality and lower cost, independent imaging option in their neighborhood. The support that the Northern Kentucky community has shown us over the past two years has been overwhelming and this has inspired us to expand our services, said Dr. Stephen J. Pomeranz, CEO and medical director of ProScan Imaging.

ProScan is headquartered in Cincinnati and operated twenty-eight independent imaging centers throughout the U.S., twelve of which are located in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area.

The addition of a technologically advanced Northern Kentucky ProScan location is significant for the local community as patients now have another independent, low cost and easily accessible imaging option when choosing their MRI or CT provider in the Greater Cincinnati region, the firm said in a news release.

Being part of the fabric of the Northern Kentucky community has been a great experience for our organization. We are excited to continue to raise the bar of imaging care by offering additional modalities and another option for referring physicians and their patients, said Pomeranz.

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KLAMATH FALLS Oregon Institute of Technology software engineering technology student Rianna Delgado has been selected as a 2020 Grace Hopper Scholar.

The honor includes full access to the Grace Hopper Celebration and a one-year paid AnitaB.org membership. Requirements for the scholarship include being active in students communities, including being involved/supporting with campus computing/STEM clubs and working toward the advancement of women in computing.

Daughter of Oregon Tech alumni, Rianna Delgado started out in the school of technology and design at the University of Oregon. After taking some of their coding classes to fulfill some requirements, she found that subject to be very interesting and decided to come back to her hometown of Klamath Falls to attend Oregon Tech and pursue programming. She is on track to graduate in 2021 with a bachelors degree in software engineering technology.

In a recommendation letter written by computer software engineering technology department chair, professor Todd Breedlove noted that Riannas major is a degree that is typically male dominated. A lot of our female students feel isolated because of the isolation of sometimes being the only woman in a class of male students. Rianna handles this situation very well and has gained the respect of many of our students and faculty. She is a hard worker, intelligent and a great role model for our female students.

Rianna will attend the virtual conference this year on the first weekend that school begins in the Fall.

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Vita Inclinata's Caleb Carr

Vita Inclinata cofounders Caleb Carr and Derek Sikora came up with a way to stabilize helicopter lift systems, used in everything from emergency rescues to supply deliveries. In this years National Defense Authorization Act, they got the nod for millions of dollars of orders to outfit UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

Exactly how much remains to be seen during the reconciliation process. An amendment in the Senate version, proposed by Sen. Cory Gardner (Colorado-Republican) sets aside $11.09 million to outfit 39 Black Hawk helicopters in fiscal 2021. The funds will go to procurement of additional litter-attached load stability systems to be deployed on the bottom of the helicopter hoist, on 39 aircraft, the amendment states. The House version, proposed by Rep. Kendra Horn (Oklahoma-Democrat), calls for half that amount.

Carr, 25 and an alumnus of last years Forbes Under list who we profiled then, says that while the amount remains uncertain he fully expects to win the deal when the Senate and House versions are reconciled. At the very least, he says, were walking away with $5.5 million.

The win comes at an important time for Vita Inclinata. The company, founded by Carr while he was still a college student at the University of Colorado, was in the process of finalizing $150 million in contracts with a few global military suppliers at the end of last year. But with the upheavals of the coronavirus pandemic, those contracts disappeared. When the Singapore Air Show got canceled and Japan started to shut down, that was the first hit, he says. It was just, What the hell do we do?

With nothing to lose, Carr, an outgoing man and convincing salesman, decided to relocate from Colorado to Washington, D.C., on April 1, and try to finagle his way into the defense budget. Everybody said, Theres no way in Gods green earth that youll get anything in the 2021 NDAA. Its usually worked on in December, and I didnt even know about you till May 16 or 17, he says. But he kept calling, appealing to Sen. Gardner with his companys Colorado headquarters and to Rep. Horn and Sen. Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma-Republican) with the fact that military helicopters used by the Oklahoma National Guard could be made safer with his technology.

The technology that Vita has designed and developed is an elegant solution to this important challenge that is faced by a lot of rescue operations, says Horn, who notes that she originally advocated for an $11 million authorization and expects the final authorization will likely be between the House and Senate amounts. I think it is an important reminder that we as members of Congress need to take time to listen to small companies and people coming up with innovative ideas, and figure out ways to ensure that we are not brushing them off.

Vita had gone through theAir Force Accelerator Powered by Techstarsand received some $50,000 from theAir Forces innovation arm AFWERX, giving it a military seal of approval. Still, Carr says, this is the first time that a project by an AFWERX startup had gotten into the National Defense Authorization Act.

In the scheme of the entire defense budget, $11 million, the highest amount the contract could be worth, is a pittance. But for a small startup, its a huge deal both for the actual revenue and for the imprimatur of the Defense Department. For me, its mission accomplished, Carr says. Everyone is shocked that this came through. No one thought that this was even possible.

Now, Carr says, his hope is that his win can help pave the way for other startups that have gone through the AFWERX program, but are having difficulty getting noticed. Part of the idea of AFWERX, after all, was to incubate military innovations that could give the Department of Defense an edge. Yet making the connection between AFWERX and federal budgeting hasnt been so easy. Companies like Vita Inclinata and others that are innovative are really critical to our nations security, Horn says. We need to make sure we can cut the red tape on innovation.

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The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after 31 December, and they must also remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by 2027.

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision.

It follows sanctions imposed by Washington, which claims the firm poses a national security threat - something Huawei denies.

Mr Dowden said the supply ban would delay the UK's 5G rollout by a year.

The technology promises faster internet speeds and the capacity to support more wireless devices, which should be a boon to everything from mobile gaming to higher-quality video streams, and even in time driverless cars that talk to each other. 5G connections are already available in dozens of UK cities and towns, but coverage can be sparse.

Mr Dowden added that the cumulative cost of the moves when coupled with earlier restrictions announced against Huawei would be up to 2bn, and a total delay to 5G rollout of "two to three years".

"This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the UK telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and indeed in the long run," he said.

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Because the US sanctions only affect future equipment, the government has been advised there is no security justification for removing 2G, 3G and 4G equipment supplied by Huawei.

However, when swapping out the company's masts, networks are likely to switch to a different vendor to provide the earlier-generation services.

Huawei said the move was "bad news for anyone in the UK with a mobile phone" and threatened to "move Britain into the digital slow lane, push up bills and deepen the digital divide."

The action, however, does not affect Huawei's ability to sell its smartphones to consumers or how they will run.

China's ambassador to the UK said the decision was "disappointing and wrong".

"It has become questionable whether the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for companies from other countries," tweeted Liu Xiaoming.

But US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed the news, saying: "The UK joins a growing list of countries from around the world that are standing up for their national security by prohibiting the use of untrusted, high-risk vendors."

New restrictions will also apply to use of the company's broadband kit.

Operators are being told they should "transition away" from purchasing new Huawei equipment for use in full-fibre networks, ideally within the next two years.

Mr Dowden said the government would "embark on a short technical consultation" with industry leaders about this.

He explained that the UK needed to avoid becoming dependent on Nokia - which is currently the only other supplier used for some equipment - and he wanted to avoid "unnecessary delays" to the government's gigabit-for-all by 2025 pledge.

BT's Openreach division told the BBC it had in fact recently struck a deal to buy full-fibre network kit from a new supplier - the US firm Adtran - but first deliveries would only start in 2021.

The UK last reviewed Huawei's role in its telecoms infrastructure in January, when it was decided to let the firm remain a supplier but introduced a cap on its market share.

But in May the US introduced new sanctions designed to disrupt Huawei's ability to get its own chips manufactured. The Trump administration claims that Huawei provides a gateway for China to spy on and potentially attack countries that use its equipment, suggestions the company strongly rejects.

The sanctions led security officials to conclude they could no longer assure the security of its products if the company had to start sourcing chips from third-parties for use in its equipment.

The minister cited a review carried out by GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre as being the motivation for the changes.

NCSC has said Huawei products adapted to use third-party chips would be "likely to suffer more security and reliability problems".

But other political considerations are also likely to have also come into play, including the UK's desire to strike a trade deal with the US, and growing tensions with China over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and its treatment of Hong Kong.

Some backbench Tory MPs had pressed for a shorter time-span for its removal, in particular there had been calls for the 5G ban to come into effect before the next election in May 2024.

However, Mr Dowden said that "the shorter we make the timetable for removal, the greater the risk of actual disruption to mobile phone networks".

BT and Vodafone had warned that customers could face mobile blackouts if they were forced to remove all of Huawei's 5G kit in less time.

Labour's shadow technology minister Chi Onwurah said the government was incapable of sorting "this mess out on their own".

It had "refused to face reality" and been "incomprehensively negligent" in allowing matters to get to this point, she added, and a taskforce of experts now needed to be created.

Hopes on the part of government that this decision may put the Huawei issue to bed may be optimistic.

The reason that we are here again despite a decision in January is because one of the key players - the US - played a new card in the form of sanctions.

And there is still time between now and legislation coming to parliament in Autumn for others to do the same - whether Conservative backbenchers or Beijing.

In the long run, many countries will be watching carefully how China reacts.

Will it feel it needs to punish the UK in order to discourage others from following its lead on 5G? Or will it want to avoid being seen as a bully and prefer to try and influence the decision more subtly? Whatever the case, the Huawei story in the UK is not over yet.

Huawei says it employs about 1,600 people in the UK and claims to be one of Britain's largest sources of investment from China.

The firm - whose shares are not publicly traded - does not provide a regional breakdown of its earnings. But on Monday, it announced a 13% rise in sales for the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, totalling 454bn yuan ($64.8bn; 51.3bn).

The UK will have accounted for a fraction of that. The firm's UK chief recently noted that Huawei had only deployed a total of 20,000 5G base stations - the radio receiver/transmitter equipment fitted to a mast - in the UK so far. By contrast it expects to deliver a total of 500,000 globally this year.

Even so, what the firm fears and Washington hopes is that other countries will now follow Westminster's lead with bans of their own.

Despite there seeming little chance of a U-turn, Huawei said it was still urging UK ministers to reconsider.

"We will conduct a detailed review of what today's announcement means for our business here and will work with the UK government to explain how we can continue to contribute to a better connected Britain," spokesman Ed Brewster said.

Shortly before the announcement Sky News revealed that Lord Browne, Huawei's UK chairman and the ex-chief executive of BP, would be leaving the Chinese company before his term had expired. It said he had given his notice a few days ago and would formally step down in September.

Lord Browne had led efforts to improve the company's image in the UK and had tried to prevent a ban.

"He has been central to our commitment here dating back 20 years, and we thank him for his valuable contribution," said Huawei, confirming the report.

BT is set to be the telecoms operator most affected by the decision given it runs both the EE mobile network and Openreach, which provides fixed-line infrastructure to individual internet providers.

"We need to further analyse the details and implications of this decision before taking a view of potential costs and impacts," it said.

The move should, however, benefit Nokia and Ericsson, which are the two other main 5G kit vendors.

"We have the capacity and expertise to replace all of the Huawei equipment in the UK's networks at scale and speed... with minimal impact on the people using our customers' networks," said Nokia.

Ericsson added: "Today's decision removes the uncertainty that was slowing down investment decisions around the deployment of 5G in the UK... and we stand ready to work with the UK operators to meet their timetable."

However, both firms manufacture some of their 5G equipment in China, which has also caused concern in Washington.

In June, the US Department of Defense published a list of 20 companies it claimed had close ties to the Chinese military.

It included Panda Electronics - the firm with which Ericsson jointly runs a manufacturing facility in the Chinese city of Nanjing.

"A lot of companies assemble equipment or have some type of manufacturing in China," Ericsson's head of corporate communications Peter Olofsson told the BBC, when asked about this.

"Our trade compliance people have looked at this [list] and they concluded that it's not something that has an impact on Ericsson or our operations."

Ultimately Huawei believes that this was a political decision and not a business one.

And if the political winds change, then Huawei's fortunes may too.

My understanding is that a longer time frame for the removal of its 5G kit from UK networks was a relatively desirable outcome for Huawei.

So even though no new Huawei UK equipment can be bought by UK mobile carriers after the end of this year, the fact that the UK has until 2027 to remove Huawei's 5G kit from all of its network could be seen as a potential positive.

A new US administration in November could markedly change Washington's position on Huawei.

So for Huawei, playing the long game makes sense.

And one thing that was crystal clear to me from meeting Ren Zhengfei, the company's founder is that he's a fighter.

Nothing he has said indicates he is willing to give up.

For now though, the immediate impact of the UK decision will be seen as a signal that Washington's campaign on Huawei has worked.

And the Chinese firm will not want that replicated in other countries around the world.

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A British Columbia taxi company seemed to be on to something when it put GPS devices in its cabs.

After all, the technology could help drivers find their way if they got lost.

Yet the devicescould also be used to keep tabs on drivers, an angle the CBC's Ian Hanomansing explored on Prime Time Newson July 17, 1995.

"GPS is the global positioning system, a network of 24 satellites set up by the U.S. military for navigation," said Hanomansing, helpfully explaining how the system worked to viewers.

"It's now used by civilians, like boaters and even hikers."

Hanomansing explained that at Bel-Air Taxi in Coquitlam, B.C., the GPS system transmitted information about the location of a given cab.

"The dispatcher simply checks the [computer] screen to find out a cab's location and its status," he said.

The on-screen diagnostics also showed a dispatcher if the fare meter had been activated.

"It gives us the ability to track the cars wherever they are," said Darren Pottinger of Bel-Air Taxi.

Pottinger said the information the GPS provided could help the company call out so-called cheatersdrivers who saidthey were in one place, but wereactually elsewhere.

"A classic example of cheating is when a driver drops the fare off at the airport and then tells the computer he's actually downtown," Hanomansing explained.

"What he hopes is, by the time he gets here, he'll be at the top of the [dispatcher's] list. But sometimes the call comes when he's still 15 or 20 minutes away, leaving a customer fuming."

Sammy Hansra, a local driver, gave an obvious explanation as to why some drivers engaged in this tactic.

"We make more money by cheating," he told CBC News, though he acknowledged customers got better service if drivers didn't do that.

Looking down the road, itseemed that similar technology could be part of all cars on the road, eventually.

"The company that developed the Bel-Air Taxi system predicts that within a few years, virtually every car will have something similar," he told viewers.

Vari Ghai of Digital Dispatch Systems foresaw a world where GPS technology would let drivers make plans on the fly to meet up with friends and family.

"You might know,asyou're driving down onHighway 99,where your wife is, where your dad is, where your son is," he said.

"You can see them on the map and ... if they're close enough, you know, you may want to send them a message saying: 'Hey, maybe we can have coffee together.' I mean, that is not far-fetched."

Price-wise, Bel-Air had paid about $600 per cab to add GPSaccess to those vehicles, according to a Vancouver Sun story published a few months before the Prime Time News report aired.

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Farmers using the device (Pic: Girish Badragond)

Girish Badragond might just be a Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) holder but he is definitely the king of innovation. Based in Bijapur in Karnataka, Girish has a hoard of innovations and a bag full of awards. His tech to help visually impaired farmers make the best use of their resources is nothing short of revolutionary and Girish is confident that if other farmers use it too, it will help conserve 60 per cent water each harvesting season.

The tech is simple and state-of-the-art at the same time. "There are sensors embedded in the soil that give out information about the crops and determine water requirement as well. There is a scanner attached to a stick which the farmer can use to hover over the sensors and the speakers attached across the field will give out the information. It is seamless," said Girish. "The system also has an auto mode where the sprinklers will provide the appropriate amount of water even if the farmer is not present on the field," he added. The entire package, which costs around Rs 3 lakh, consists of a total of 16 components a digital stick to read the information, an automated irrigation system, a bird repeller, and a set of speakers.

Even though this idea was initially for the visually-impaired farmers and a few of them have already adopted the system n the fields, Girish feels that an integrated system like this will make life easy for any farmer specially-abled or not and will save a lot of water as well. "Farmers do not always understand how much water is actually needed and end up over-irrigating the corps. This results in wastage of water and depletion fo the groundwater. The levels are already quite low. This device will help them understand the exact amount of water needed and will also give additional information about their crops," he added. Girish wants to expand his research and development and is in the lookout for an investor. He is a Presidential award-winning innovator and had worked in big firms in Bengaluru.

But the corporate life did not suit him and he came back to Bijapur to do what he does best innovate. He is now working on an auto-sterilising OPD bed which will use UV rays to sterilise the sheets after every patient uses it. The tech will need no one to touch the sheets minimising the risk of spread.

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The research report on global spinal implants and surgery devices market offers extensive analysis of development drivers, aggressive landscape, recent progressions, as well as business patterns. The global research report investigates the number of distinctive prospects in the global spinal implants and surgery devices market for several financial partners as well as specialists. In addition to this, the research report is a follow-up of extensive global distribution network as well as manufacturing and flexible product capabilities. Moreover, the global spinal implants and surgery devices market report studies the market position and the potential of regional and global service providers with respect to end industries/ applications as well as product regions. In addition, the global report also covers conventional services and market strategies in order to better understand the global market scenario.

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The huge number of developments in spine surgeries technologies including the advancements of improved, safe, more efficient, simple, advanced, and easy-to-use spinal devices as well as implants, the rising incidence of spinal disorders, as well as the introduction of advanced bone grafting products are some of the major factors boosting the growth of the spinal implants and surgery devices market across the globe.

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Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday appreciated the adoption of digital and virtual hearings held in the Supreme Court, High Courts and various subordinate courts across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"During this COVID19 pandemic courts in India have rapidly adopted digital technologies. Break up of digital hearing of cases done by the Courts: Supreme Court- 7,800 cases. High Courts- 1.75 lakh cases. Subordinate Courts- 7.34 Lakh cases," the Minister tweeted.Prasad also shared a video of the same in which he shared the numbers of cases taken by courts in virtual hearings.

He said the digital infrastructure of India has helped to provide a variety of e-governance and direct transfer services during the coronavirus pandemic, with courts handling lakhs of cases through digital hearing.

With the highest single-day spike of 38,902 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India`s total COVID-19 tally on Sunday reached 10,77,618.

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Staff at BAE Systems Warton and Samlesbury sites have worked with Williams Advanced Engineering to explore how battery management and cooling technologies from the motorsport industry could offer efficiency and performance gains in the air.

Next generation combat air technologies, such as the Tempest being designed at Warton, will need high-power at low weight in order to provide long range endurance and mission success.

Future systems will also need to generate enough energy to power a small town, which can be managed safely and efficiently throughout the aircraft and its subsystems, with pilots depending on high-performance power when you need it combat air capability.

WAE is a world leader in the design and delivery of advanced battery technologies that provide durable, fast charging power capability and was recently appointed as the Gen3 exclusive battery system supplier of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Julia Sutcliffe, chief technology officer for BAE Systems Air sector, said: Working in partnership with companies like WAE is vital to drive rapid innovation at the pace the Tempest programme demands.

"Changing how we engage with wider industry and leveraging the best technologies and processes from across the global supply chain is essential in order to deliver value to the UK, our international partners and our allies.

Paul McNamara, Technical Director, Williams Advanced Engineering, said: We feel privileged to be involved in this ground breaking project and are confident that our experience in advanced battery development and cooling technologies will allow us to deliver innovative new solutions that can be applied in the defence sector.

"We have already seen a number of tangible benefits.

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By: Tech Desk | Updated: July 19, 2020 2:22:59 pm Asteroid 2020 ND has been labelled as potentially dangerous (Representational image, source: Getty/Thinkstock)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued a warning that a huge asteroid Asteroid 2020 ND will move past Earth on July 24. There is also information of two asteroids that are expected to whiz past our planet on Sunday. The two asteroids named by NASA are 2016 DY30 and 2020 ME3.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroids potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs, NASA said in a statement.

According to NASA, asteroid 2020 ND is about 170 metre-long will be as close as 0.034 astronomical units (5,086,328 kilometres) to our planet. The asteroid is travelling at a great speed of 48,000 kilometres per hour. The distance from the earth is what categories this asteroid as potentially dangerous.

2016 DY30 is headed in the direction of Earth at a speed of 54,000 kilometres per hour whereas 2020 ME3 is travelling at 16,000 kilometers per hour. The 2016 DY30 is the smaller asteroid of the two as it is 15 feet wide.

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NASAs Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has revealed that the 2016 DY30 will be as close as about 0.02306 astronomical units to Earth which translates to 3.4 million kilometres. The closest approach of the bigger asteroid will be on July 19 at 10:02 AM IST. It has been classified as an Apollo asteroid because it crosses Earths path while travelling around the sun.

The 2020 ME3 will be farther away from Earth when it reaches its closest distance to the planet at 02:51 AM IST the next day (July 21). The expected distance from Earth of the smaller asteroid is about 0.03791 astronomical units which translate to 5.6 million kilometres. It has been labelled as an Amor asteroid as it does not cross Earths path and only flies close to Earth on several occasions.

However, these asteroids two asteroids dont pose a threat to our planet.

NASA classifies objects like these as Near-Earth objects as these celestial objects get nudged by other planets gravitational attraction resulting in their proximity to our solar system.

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OPINION: Kiwi ingenuity. The No 8 Wire mentality. Working smarter, not harder. Weve all heard the local jargon bandied around about improving business innovation, productivity and efficiency here in New Zealand. But as a country were still approaching it with that other well-recognised Kiwi phrase: Shell be right.

Productivity is a topic weve researched extensively at Xero and discussed at length with industry leaders and the Government. Prior to Covid-19, New Zealands GDP per capita was about 30 per cent below the average of the top half of the OECD.

We conducted further research that concluded last month and learned that 85 per cent of Kiwi small business owners think we need to operate smarter not just harder to rebuild the New Zealand economy.

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The Detail: From lockdown to recovery - tracking a small business during Covid-19 pandemic.

Smarter means having the right tools and real-time information at your fingertips to make the best decisions for your business. It also means getting the insights into your business to take proactive action not waiting till the proverbial hits the fan because you didnt see it coming.

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Thats why at Xero, weve been talking to the Government about the opportunity for a fiscally-neutral incentive to support small businesses to implement cloud-based technology.

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Anna Curzon is the chief product officer at Xero.

To be clear, cloud simply means accessing tools, information and insights through the internet think internet banking and online accounting. In the last decade theres been a proliferation of small business orientated cloud tools that have been developed across all industries and verticals.

Cloud-based tools can be accessed anywhere, anytime and in real-time so you can collaborate and make decisions quickly. Theyre also a fraction of the price of data stored on servers under the desk. Many cloud tools are subscriber based, so theyre flexible, available from anywhere and the quality is as good, if not better, than those available to large enterprises.

But is cloud technology simply a solution looking for a problem? Not at all. Small business research studies showed that time, money and lack of information were the main barriers small businesses faced. Despite this, since Alert Level 4, nearly two-thirds of Kiwi small businesses said they wanted to increase their business productivity and 42 per cent wished their business had better processes in place before the lockdown.

So we have a clear problem to solve, and a clear and present solution - that were not fully utilising. If we can help more small businesses become technology enabled we can not only remedy our long-standing productivity problem, but also improve our chances of opening up markets internationally and small business profitability. We have an opportunity to build on the momentum that Covid-19 has clearly provided for our small business owners and tackle our productivity issues head on.

And if youre still left wondering, here are a few examples of where cloud technology can help right now.

Focus on cashflow

There are few things more critical to a small business than cashflow. However, during lockdown, only 12 per cent of New Zealand small businesses leveraged the cloud-based cashflow tools available to them. That meant that at a time when managing cashflow was crucial to survival, they were walking in the dark.

For those not on the cloud, their business information was literally in lockdown on premise leaving them and their adviser without real-time cashflow forecasting to know if theyd be able to pay overheads and expenses and have insights to make informed business decisions.

Nearly four-fifths of Kiwi small businesses said they would have made better business decisions with access to real-time, accurate information about their business.

Even in more positive economic times purpose-built small business tools that can be accessed anywhere and anytime are one of the most important areas of investment. A growing business needs to know what cash it will have on hand, because if they cant measure it, they cant manage it.

Tighten up on inefficiencies

Many businesses waste countless hours manually transferring data.

Whether filing information from bills and receipts, inputting employee leave balances into payroll, or collating information for a bank loan, manual data entry is an inefficient way to work and could lead to errors and inconsistencies. At the very least its taking them away from something more important, or interesting.

If a small business owner has to manually import or collate data to run any aspect of their business, they are probably missing out on a piece of technology that can help.

Scenario-plan with your adviser

Working smarter requires a bespoke business strategy that is malleable to changing operating environments and economic circumstances.

For 60 per cent of small businesses owners Covid-19 helped them realise their business would benefit from time to create or update their business plan. There are thousands of resources to help develop business plans. The most important thing is to use accurate business information to inform decisions.

An accountant or bookkeeper who knows the business is best placed to help find the opportunities to build out a scenario plan for the ups and downs that will inevitably lie ahead.

As a nation, weve navigated Covid-19 so far with a strong strategy and by playing our individual part. Surviving the ongoing economic and wellbeing impact for our small businesses requires the same approach.

Lets throw out our shell be right attitude when it comes to tackling productivity and use every lever we can to give our small businesses the best chance of success through this time. Cloud-based technology is just one lever of many, but its only valuable if we all stare into this opportunity and take action.

No-one is coming to save us; well have to design our way out of this ourselves by making some big bets as a business community, with the support of the Government. My big bet on New Zealands small business future is that if we work together to become the most tech-enabled nation, well also become the most productive nation.

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HONOLULU (KHON2) One of the key steps to ensuring COVID-19 cases remain low in the state after lifting the mandatory 14-day quarantine is having a thorough screening process set up at the airports.

The state announced on Thursday, July 16, that it selected NEC Corporation of America to provide thermal temperature screening equipment at airports across the state. The companys included $23.3 million for equipment installation and a 10-year maintenance plan of $1.42 million annually. The total contract amount is $37.5 million.

The Hawaii Department of Transportation said new thermal screening equipment will be installed immediately at five airports across the state. These airports are Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Kahului Airport, Lihue Airport, Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole, and Hilo International Airport.

This is all part of phase one of the states plan to set up screening. In phase one, thermal scanners will be placed at gates for arriving trans-Pacific flights. In phase two, the scanners will be installed at interisland arrival gates. NEC Corporation said these two phases should be completed by mid-August.

The thermal screeners look similar to cameras, but there are two lenses. One camera lens works as a thermal screener, and the other works to detect faces and bodies.

A total of 116 thermal cameras will be rolled out once the project is completed. John Wise, an NEC Corporation of America spokesman said about 50 percent of the cameras will be installed in Honolulu, since the largest number of arrivals occur there.

Wise said using the screeners is simple.

When they disembark, theyll basically encounter an area with signage that says, Thermal screenings taking place here, and they just proceed at normal, said Wise.

If a persons temperature is 100.4 degrees or over, an operator monitoring the cameras will be alerted.

At that point, the person whos operating the system will locate the individual who should be standing right there and notify them of the temp reading. Basically, they will be taken to a location where they will have a secondary screening, said Wise.

The facial monitoring system has raised some concerns with privacy.

The data is temporary. So, passengers, after theyre scanned.their data is only retained if their temperature reads at 100.4 or greater and at that point, its only retained for 30 minutes, said Wise.

He said the scanners dont record any other information, such as the passengers name or their flight ticket. They will be anonymous.

The final phase of the project will be rolled out by December 31. Wise said during this phase additional facial imaging equipment will be added so that they wont need as many operators.

The anticipation is, as theres more and more people that start traveling againthe peopletheyll need to proceed a little more into the building before theyre intercepted to go in for screening, said Wise. Part of the reasoning is the health and safety of not only passenger but of airport staff and employees, so they dont have to be in close quarters with infected passengers.

In a press release on Thursday, July 16, Hawaii Governor David Ige said:

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