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NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allego, provider of the market-leading learning and readiness platform for sales and other teams, announced today it has won a Bank Insurance and Securities Association (BISA) 2020 Technology Innovation Award. This award recognizes leadership in the advancement of the financial services industry's products, services and platforms through technology innovation, and highlights companies for their commitment to advancements in technology-based solutions for the industry.

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Allego was recognized at an award ceremony that took place this morning during The 2020 BISA Annual Convention, at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida. In addition to receiving this recognition, Allego is exhibiting at the conference (booth #111) to showcase how its modern sales learning and readiness platform is enhancing adviser-client relationships, helping firms retain talent, and improving practice management efforts through video and on-demand training. Allegos experience in the financial services industry is backed by its long standing relationships with well-known brands like Global Atlantic Financial Group, Invesco, Jackson National Life Insurance, John Hancock Investments, and JP Morgan Asset and Wealth Management.

Additionally, Allego will host a demo of its groundbreaking platform at 11:15 a.m. ET today during the inaugural BISA Technology Innovation Lab, a live demo showcase taking place at the convention.

Its no secret that the banking, securities and insurance industries are constantly faced with ever-changing market shifts, complex regulations, and disruption, making it extremely difficult for organizations serving these sectors to keep their sales teams up-to-date so they can articulate compelling value for their customers, said Mark Magnacca, President and Co-Founder of Allego. Adopting a modern approach to sales learning and readiness helps ensure advisors and other customer facing employees have the skills and timely knowledge needed for every client interaction, which is why we built the Allego platform from the ground up to meet the specific needs of asset managers, wealth managers, insurance providers, retail banks and other financial services organizations.

The 2020 BISA Technology Innovation Award is yet another proof-point validating Allegos ongoing commitment to investing in technology that promotes the kind of agile learning needed to succeed in todays fast-moving financial services world. Recently, the modern sales learning and readiness platform received industry recognition from Brandon Hall Group, Best in Biz Awards and Chief Learning Officer Magazine.

For more information about how your financial services organization can benefit from working with Allego, or to learn more about Allegos modern learning and readiness platform, visit: https://www.allego.com/industries/financial-services/

About AllegoAllegos agile learning and readiness platform ensures that sales reps and other employees have the skills and timely knowledge to make the most of each selling situation or initiative. Instead of traditional onboarding and training marathonswhich are rapidly outdated and quickly forgotten enablement and training teams use Allego to deliver the fresh, bite-sized learning that employees need to close deals in todays dynamic business environment. Content is personalized and mastered through reinforcement, on-the-job coaching, and peer collaboration. More than 200,000 professionals use Allego to onboard faster, deliver consistent messaging, rapidly adopt best practices, coach and practice more frequently, and collaborate more effectively. To learn more about Allego and agile learning and readiness, please visit http://www.allego.com.

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His career in the technology sector spanned 50 years and was witness to many innovations that are now part of our daily lives.

In 1961, Larry Tesler went to study at Stanford University, which itself has been pivotal to the growth of Silicon Valley. Its where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard met before founding the company that bears their name; Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, studied there too, as did Elon Musk.

Tesler worked at some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley: Apple, Xerox, and Yahoo. He also worked briefly at Amazon.

The pioneering computer scientist believed passionately that computers needed to be easy to use, and is credited by some as having coined the phrase user-friendly.

In the 1970s, he developed the cut/copy and paste function that is now so widely used that its hard to imagine not being able to Ctrl-X/Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.

Here are some of the biggest innovations in computing the world has seen since Tesler first started at Stanford...

One of the other big computing breakthroughs of the 1970s took place at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where Tesler worked. It was the mouse. Although the initial concept for the mouse dates back to the work of Douglas Engelbart in the 1960s, the device was refined at Xerox, where the first ball-mouse was developed.

The mouse revolutionized the way people interact with computers, getting away from the purely text-driven approach and ushering in the era of the graphical user interface that we are all familiar with today.

Does your inbox get 188 million emails a minute?

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Email was invented in the mid-1960s, too, and has become one of the most ubiquitous features of modern life. Some would say a little too ubiquitous.

Every minute of every day, 188 million emails are sent and more than half of them are spam. In the early 1970s, when the @ symbol was first integrated into email addressing protocols, the only people with access to an email mailbox were users of The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). That was the first wide-area network and connected dozens of universities across the United States.

The chances are youre reading this on something other than a desktop. Everyone takes for granted the ability to take their computer with them, whether its a laptop, a tablet or even their smartphone.

The very first vision for a mobile computer dates back to the 1970s, when Alan Kay, a researcher at Xerox PARC, had an idea for something he called the Dynabook. Apart from a cardboard mock-up, nothing came of it. But in 1981, the world was introduced to the Osborne 1 the first portable computer. It had a 13cm screen that could only display 52 characters on each line of text. If you wanted one, it would have set you back $1,795.

It was basic by any modern standards, but the Osborne 1 sounded the starting pistol for the race to produce better mobile computers. By the end of the 1980s, several brands were producing their own, including Kyocera, Epson and Apple.

Apple joined the race to create the first portable computer in the 1980s

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This was a period of innovation that saw the very first touchpad it appeared on the Gavilan SC, launched in 1983 and the first computer to be referred to as a laptop.

The 1990s was the boom-decade for laptops. The chip-maker Intel designed the first processor specifically for mobile devices and many big-name computer makers started to produce laptops based on mass-produced components, such as screens, processors and circuit boards.

And then, a little over 10 years ago, the world was introduced to the ultimate in mobile computing devices the smartphone as we know it now. There are currently more than 3 billion smartphones around the world, their user-friendliness being one of the key factors in their tremendous success.

4. A super-connected future

The next big wave in technology is already lapping at our ankles: fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology, which is predicted to generate around $3.6 trillion of economic output and create 22.3 million jobs by 2035.

It will play an important role in the growth of smart cities and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It could even assist progress toward some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And over the next five years, investments in 5G networks are likely to reach $1 trillion.

The World Economic Forum was the first to draw the worlds attention to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the current period of unprecedented change driven by rapid technological advances. Policies, norms and regulations have not been able to keep up with the pace of innovation, creating a growing need to fill this gap.

The Forum established the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network in 2017 to ensure that new and emerging technologies will helpnot harmhumanity in the future. Headquartered in San Francisco, the network launched centres in China, India and Japan in 2018 and is rapidly establishing locally-run Affiliate Centres in many countries around the world.

The global network is working closely with partners from government, business, academia and civil society to co-design and pilot agile frameworks for governing new and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, blockchain, data policy, digital trade, drones, internet of things (IoT), precision medicine and environmental innovations.

Learn more about the groundbreaking work that the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network is doing to prepare us for the future.

Want to help us shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Contact us to find out how you can become a member or partner.

The UNs Sustainable Development Goal 12 calls for responsible consumption and production, to reduce waste and preserve resources. 5G is already helping cut waste in smart factories. Its role in managing smart cities, where sensors collect data on the daily hustle and bustle of city life will help reduce congestion and emissions by keeping traffic moving, too.

It also has the potential to revolutionize the provision of multiple vital services such as education and healthcare by connecting people to one another, and to devices that can gather important information. Clinicians will be able to assess a persons vital signs heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and more in real-time, no matter how far from the patient they happen to be.

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Games probably influence humankind in a number of ways, but the jury is still out on how.

In a recent issue ofE&T magazine, we looked at the way in which gaming has affected the technology industry, as well as its link to bad actors in the same space. If there is one thing that has gone alongside gaming as it continues to extend its reach, it is its tendency to attract moral panics.

Many top-selling games are not exactly renowned for their promotion of a balanced social environment. Crushing sweets doesnt come high on the socially unacceptable scale, but its easy to see why people drew links between real-world violence and first-person shooters or antisocial behaviour and games based around carjacking even if those links are tenuous at best and rule out the ability for humans to suspend disbelief in a virtual world.

The other side to gamings influence lies in whether it plays a much more positive role in development. Studies pop out every once in a while that attempt to demonstrate some sort of a link to cognitive development. To play most games, you need a certain level of attention. First-person shooters and similar high-activity games that crop up in esports tournaments seem to bear out the need for intense concentration. One glance away and you are probably on to your next life.

AsGillian Dale of Brock University and coworkers point out in a review paper for the Annals of the New York Academy of Neurosciences, games are not created equally in how they affect cognitive function. There is a question as to whether first-person shooters involve intense concentration on a single task or are more about presenting the player with a pile of distractions that they have to rapidly switch between. This is clearly different to a strategy game where much more planning is involved, although games designers will often insert distractions in order to trip the player up.

A second problem is the nature of the research. Some involve direct measurement, with the player wearing some kind of sensor cap that attempts to measure proxies for concentration. A lot of studies, though, tend to work on the basis of self-reporting, combined with some kind of test that is meant to tease out how much the participant is able to focus on a task. Self-reporting is always plagued with issues because there is no guarantee the person being surveyed is accurate in their answers. The tests themselves may also not be great proxies for what the researchers are trying to measure.

The results tend to be inconsistent. Some studies point to strategy games being associated with performance at school. Others, particularly those focused on older children and teenagers, did not find the same kind of link. One curious connection found by some was between video games and learning a second language. The rationale was that role-playing games tend to put more emphasis on the parts of the brain that handle communication.

There are arguments for gaming being a major influence on peoples decisions to get involved with certain sections of technology, if not computer technology as a whole. A common explanation for the greater number of men working in technology compared to women is the influence of games. The earliest programmers were mostly women men in computer science generally opted for hardware design. This reversed in the 1960s, but the 1970s saw more women go into the field, only for that to then reverse when the home-computing revolution took hold in the 1980s - much of it driven by games. It is not a huge leap to go from being a games consumer to becoming a keen computer enthusiast to end up someone working in the field.

CodinGames annual survey, released at the start of the year, found a third of developers who use the site are almost completely self-taught in software development. The majority learned computer programming at school or university, but the survey does demonstrate a significant minority of people who identify as developers picked up most of their skills from free tutorials and self-guided practice. As a place where people take part in programming challenges built around games, CodinGame does lend itself to that kind of user so the survey may overstate the numbers relative to industry.

In its survey, machine learning and AI claimed the top spot in the ranking of techniques users wanted to improve. Almost half of them wanted to learn more, with video game development and web development coming in second and third positions, respectively.

Web development is arguably the other path into technology for people without a formal education in the area. Thanks to HTML5 and Javascript, a website is much more like a program than a static collection of pages with layout commands. Although Javascript is not the best advertisement for computer languages, plenty of people have learned to apply it warts and all. Javascripts arcane syntax and traps for the unwary is perhaps a better test of concentration than taking out multiple enemies armed with a simulated gunsight.

In either case, the accessibility of the technologies involved have made it easier than ever to move from recreation to work.

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DES MOINES, Iowa, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Kemin Crop Technologies, the Kemin Industries business unit focused on providing crop protection and crop health solutions for specialty crops and commercial greenhouses, has announced a strategic partnership agreement with Laboratoire M2, a Canada-based technology and science company, to distribute THYMOX CONTROL, a thyme-oil-based biopesticide, effective immediately.

THYMOX CONTROL is an innovative, broad-spectrum, contact fungicide-bactericide concentrate designed with Laboratoire M2's breakthrough patent-pending, proprietary nano-emulsion technology. THYMOX CONTROL's unique formula delivers the highly efficient and stabilized antimicrobial power of thyme oil's active ingredient to control fungal and bacterial plant pathogens including powdery mildew, grey mold (Botrytis cinerea) and fireblight (Erwinia amylovora) via cell membrane disruption. Multiple trials have proven efficacy on a wide variety of commercial greenhouse plants and specialty crops such as apples, pears, wine grapes, cherries, hops and industrial hemp. With no re-entry interval, a zero-day pre-harvest interval and no maximal residue limit, THYMOX CONTROL offers great benefits to growers.

"We are very excited to partner with Laboratoire M2 to expand their commercial reach and offer a novel product like THYMOX CONTROL to U.S. growers," said Marsha Bro, General Manager, Kemin Crop Technologies. "At Kemin, we believe in the power of essential oils to control pests on crops. Laboratoire M2 has embraced the power of thyme oil as a very effective fungicide-bactericide with THYMOX CONTROL, making it a natural fit with our biopesticide portfolio. Based on our technical experience with horticultural oils, we are confident that U.S. growers will be able to incorporate this product seamlessly into their integrated pest management programs for disease control."

Kemin Crop Technologies will be the distributor of THYMOX CONTROL in the U.S. THYMOX CONTROL is exempt from registration with the U.S. Environmental Protection and is minimal risk FIFRA 25(b)-exempt pesticide. The product is registered and available for sale in more than 34 states in the U.S.

"THYMOX CONTROL is built on 10-plus years of science and experience in developing and testing leading biodegradable, disinfecting and antimicrobial products," said Frank Palantoni, CEO, Laboratoire M2. "Our breakthrough nano-emulsion technology answers the growing demand for effective and alternative pesticides to reduce the use of antibiotics and underperforming chemical options. In fact, THYMOX CONTROL has demonstrated efficacy even on antibiotic-resistant plant pathogens.We are thrilled to partner with Kemin to commercialize THYMOX CONTROL in the U.S. agricultural market."

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About Kemin Industries

Kemin Industries (www.kemin.com) is a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services. The company supplies over 500 specialty ingredients for human and animal health and nutrition, pet food, aquaculture, nutraceutical, food technologies, crop technologies and textile industries.

For over half a century, Kemin has been dedicated to using applied science to address industry challenges and offer product solutions to customers in more than 120 countries. Kemin provides ingredients to feed a growing population with its commitment to the quality, safety and efficacy of food, feed and health-related products.

Established in 1961, Kemin is a privately held, family-owned-and-operated company with more than 2,800 global employees and operations in 90 countries, including manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Russia, San Marino, Singapore, South Africa and the United States.

About Laboratoire M2

Laboratoire M2, based in Sherbrooke, Canada, is a well-respected technology company, with core competencies in product innovation and expertise in environmentally sustainable, green disinfection and bio-security technology. The company currently markets a range of leading biodegradable, disinfecting and antimicrobial products under the trademark THYMOX based on their proprietary technology platform under three business units: Animal Health, Surface Disinfection and Crop Protection. Its line of animal health products includes THYMOX HOOF and THYMOX FOOTBATH which are used to protect farm animals, particularly dairy cows, from the hoof disease, digital dermatitis. Its crop protection unit now includes THYMOX CONTROL and THYMOX GRO which are used in greenhouses, orchards and vegetable farming to clean surfaces or control plant pathogen such as fungi and bacteria. Laboratoire M2 also distributes products and ingredients under private label agreements in institutional, retail, and crop protection markets.

Media Contact:Tatiana Giacinti, Product Manager, tatiana.giacinti@kemin.com, 515-559-4607

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SiLC was founded in 2018 by silicon photonics Industry veterans. Founder and CEO Mehdi Asghari was part of the executive team that led Bookham to its IPO in 2000 and later joined the leadership team at Kotura, which was acquired by Mellanox in 2013. SiLC has developed a significant body of intellectual property, as well as a proprietary process for manufacturing high-performance optical components at large scale.

"Integrating all essential functions necessary to build an FMCW chip on a cost-effective silicon platform represents the holy grail of LiDAR," said Daniel Docter, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital. "SiLC's team has over twenty years of experience and a proven track record commercializing silicon photonics solutions. After looking at more than 30 different LiDAR companies, we found SiLC to be the only company that has a viable approach for large-scale adoption of LiDAR in automotive and industrial robotics."

The announcement follows a successful showing at CES 2020, where SiLC demonstrated the industry's first fully-integrated FMCW chip and an unprecedented long-range LiDAR resolution. Utilizing its second-generation FMCW silicon photonics 4D+ Vision Chip to generate scans, SiLC was able to detect objects smaller than one and a half inches at a range of nearly 200 meters, translating to an effective resolution of around 0.01 degrees vertically and horizontally.This level of performance capability can enable a vehicle traveling at highway speed to stop or avoid objects at more than 200 meters range, a critical aspect of autonomous vehicle navigation and safety.

"This is my third startup and by far the most exciting, both at a technology level and the size of the markets it addresses. We believe we have an opportunity to transform several industries," said Mehdi Asghari, founder and CEO, SiLC. "Our 4D+ Vision Chip technology will not only make LiDAR a commercial reality but will also enable applications ranging from robotics to AR/VR to biometric scanning."

SiLC's advanced production-ready 4D+ Vision Chip exceeds the performance metrics, such as range, resolution, accuracy offered by most LiDARs in a much smaller footprint, while adding critical vector measurements such as velocity, light polarization, and reflectivity.

"SiLC enables a dramatic advancement to 4D imaging and associated LiDAR technology while enabling a much needed cost volume scaling that follows the dynamics of the semiconductor industry," said Liqing Zeng chairman of Decent Capital and co-founder of Tencent Holdings Ltd., one of China's most valuable corporations. "We see incredible growth potential for SiLC, especially considering the experience and track record of the team."

For more information about SiLC visit http://www.silc.com.

About SiLC TechnologiesSiLC Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of highly integrated FMCW LiDAR solutions, located in Monrovia, Southern California. The company's initial focus is on its integrated 4D+ Vision Chip, which has demonstrated a range of beyond 300 meters and applicable to a wide range of applications. Founded by a group of highly experienced industry veterans with over 20 years of commercial product development and manufacturing heritage, SiLC utilizes a proprietary silicon-based semiconductor fabrication process to manufacture its chips and standard, automated IC style assembly processes, enabling robust, cost-effective and compact solutions. Please visit us at SiLC.com.

About Dell Technologies CapitalDell Technologies Capital is the global venture capital investment arm of Dell Technologies. The investment team backs passionate early stage founders who push the envelope on technology innovation for enterprises. Since inception in 2012, the team has sustained an investment pace of $150 million a year and has invested in more than 100 startups, 40 of which have been acquired and 5 have gone public. Portfolio companies also gain unique access to the go-to-market capabilities of Dell Technologies (Dell, Dell EMC, VMWare, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks). Notable investments include Adallom, Arista Networks, Cylance, Docusign, Graphcore, JFrog, MongoDB, Netskope, Nutanix, RedLock, RiskRecon, TwistLock, Wavefront and Zscaler. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Dell Technologies Capital has offices in Boston, Austin, and Israel. For more information visit http://www.delltechcapital.com.

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Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS)

What: Keysight continues to garner industry recognition for the companys advanced solutions. In February 2020, Keysight was honored with the following:

Details of each award are as follows:

Keysight will be honored during the Lightwave event at OFC for the Keysight Technologies N4891A 400GBASE FEC-Aware Receiver Test Solution in the field test equipment category

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Keysight N4891A 400GBASE FEC-aware receiver test solution provides the industrys first forward error correction (FEC) aware compliance testing system for measurement of frame loss ratio in 400G Ethernet links using FEC. It supplies one stressed lane and maintains the proper FEC striped test pattern data, without placing stress on the other lanes.

According to one of the judges: "This is a groundbreaking test platform. Historically, systems which have been able to provide stressed analog characteristics have not contained significant digital content to allow for flexible traffic. This test system arrives at a good time in the industry as more FEC and complex digital markers are being deployed in high-bit-rate optical communications."

About Lightwave

Lightwave delivers content focused on fiber optics and optoelectronics, the technologies that enable the growth, integration and improved performance of voice, data and video communications networks and services. Our experienced editorial team provides trusted technology, application and market insights to corporate executives, department heads, project managers, network engineers and technical managers at equipment suppliers, service providers and major end-user organizations. Our unique ability to inform our audiences business-critical decisions is based in our 35+ year relationship with the entire optical communitytechnology vendors, communications carriers and major enterprisesand our recognition of the interplay among its members.

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Keysight named a winner of the 2019 infoTECH Spotlight Data Center Excellence Award for Vision X Network Packet Broker

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Keysights Vision X network packet broker is designed with a modular approach that enables customers to select different functions, capabilities and speeds as their data center evolves. Network operations teams can upgrade speeds and bandwidth of their visibility solution along with their monitoring and security tool capabilities.

The infoTECH Spotlight Data Center Excellence Award recognizes the most innovative and enterprising data center vendors who offer infrastructure or software, servers or cooling systems, cabling or management applications.

"Once again, the winners of the infoTECH Spotlight 2019 Data Center Excellence Award represent the most innovative and forward-looking companies in this crowded space," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC (News - Alert). "Data centers are critical to the success of any businesses today. Small or large, every company relies on data centers to host their critical applications and data. The award recipients are leaders within this space, and we look forward to seeing their excellence and innovation in 2020 and beyond."

About infoTECH Spotlight

infoTECH Spotlight delivers daily content focused on information technology. Visitors find free industry news, communities, channels, blogs, feature articles, videos, whitepapers and other resources. The site keeps readers informed about developments across topics including software, hardware, security and networking. infoTECH Spotlight is powered by TMCnet, one of the leading communications and technology site in the world.

Keysight has been named a winner, Next Gen, Network Security and Management in the Cyber Defense InfoSec Awards

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For more than 20 years, TMC has been honoring technology companies with awards in various categories. These awards are regarded as some of the most prestigious and respected honors in the communications and technology sector worldwide. Winners represent prominent players in the market who consistently demonstrate the advancement of technologies. Each recipient is a verifiable leader in the marketplace.

"Keysight embodies three major features the judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrows threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help stop the next breach," said Gary S. Miliefsky, publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

About Cyber Defense Magazine

With over 5 Million monthly readers and growing, and over 17,000 pages of searchable online infosec content, Cyber Defense Magazine is a premier source of IT Security information. It is managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Its mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.3B in fiscal year 2019. More information is available at http://www.keysight.com.

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A piece of Hilton Head Island history will soon be getting a major upgrade, with a goal of continuing to help save lives. The town is tearing down its last of six original fire stations and will be building a new one in its place.Hilton Head Fire Station 2 has been an icon on the island for 45 years. It is located in Sea Pines off Lighthouse Road. The fire chief for Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue, Brad Tadlock, said the building has undergone several expansions and renovations over the years, and it's time for a new one. The town is committed to upgrading and making the fire stations resilient. When we come back from a storm, we have to be able to operate and get the town back open and operating," said Tadlock.While the new building is under construction, the department's personnel will operate out of a temporary location next to the Sea Pines Resort Fitness Center. It is located in the Shoppes at Sea Pines Center. Tadlock said,"This location will ensure that response times and service delivery standards are maintained to that area of the Island until the project is completed."The town said the old station will be replaced with a new 8,500 square foot fire station that will have sleeping facilities for six firefighters, a weight room, and three bays for fire apparatus and ambulances. Town officials said construction is expected to take one year, depending on weather and other factors. The nearly $3.8 million project is part of the town's capital improvement program. Tadlock said construction will stop during the RBC Heritage Golf Tournament and start back up following the event.Construction is expected to start on the new station next week.

A piece of Hilton Head Island history will soon be getting a major upgrade, with a goal of continuing to help save lives.

The town is tearing down its last of six original fire stations and will be building a new one in its place.

Hilton Head Fire Station 2 has been an icon on the island for 45 years. It is located in Sea Pines off Lighthouse Road. The fire chief for Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue, Brad Tadlock, said the building has undergone several expansions and renovations over the years, and it's time for a new one.

The town is committed to upgrading and making the fire stations resilient. When we come back from a storm, we have to be able to operate and get the town back open and operating," said Tadlock.

While the new building is under construction, the department's personnel will operate out of a temporary location next to the Sea Pines Resort Fitness Center. It is located in the Shoppes at Sea Pines Center.

Tadlock said,"This location will ensure that response times and service delivery standards are maintained to that area of the Island until the project is completed."

The town said the old station will be replaced with a new 8,500 square foot fire station that will have sleeping facilities for six firefighters, a weight room, and three bays for fire apparatus and ambulances.

Town officials said construction is expected to take one year, depending on weather and other factors.

The nearly $3.8 million project is part of the town's capital improvement program.

Tadlock said construction will stop during the RBC Heritage Golf Tournament and start back up following the event.

Construction is expected to start on the new station next week.

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From Brexit to Trump: technology, particularly social media, is in the firing line when it comes to the perceived departure from political norms. But there is much more to it than that, according to new research from think tank Chatham House.

Ten years ago, the media bubble was flush with the notion that the burgeoning popularity of social media and smartphones was good for democracy. "The role of social media in the Arab Spring... seemed to confirm this view of digital technology as a liberating force," the report, titled "The Future of Democracy in Europe" (PDF), said.

"It was hoped that social media would 'enable greater access to information, facilitate collective organizing, and empower civil society'. Social media has indeed enabled much greater participation in politics, particularly by young people."

A following decade overwhelmed by snark, trolling and cat gifs has dampened the feeling somewhat. "Optimism has given way to pessimism as utopian thinking about digital technology has been replaced by dystopian thinking," said the nonprofit, which dates back to 1919.

"In particular, since the decision by the British people to leave the EU and the election of Donald Trump as US president in 2016, technology has become widely seen as a threat to democracy.

"The way that social media undermines the ability of mainstream media organizations to control the flow of ideas and information which in the early 2010s was identified as a positive change is now widely seen as a problem."

The report cited the development of "post-truth" politics as a worrying influence of technology. Politicians seem free to repeat long-debunked ideas but are endlessly amplified online until some people at least believe them.

Along with post-truth, social media was also criticised for polarising political opinion. People only listen to information that supports their own opinions and only take the views of their own "tribe" seriously.

"However, though these arguments about social media polarization have become widely accepted, they are based on limited evidence... Recent research challenges the idea of echo chambers and argues that social media actually increases exposure to alternative views. Some even argue that 'the "echo chambers" narrative' has itself been 'amplified and distorted in a kind of echo chamber effect'."

The report went on to say that there is little evidence social media helped Trump win the presidential election in 2016 or that it necessarily promotes populist or illiberal ideas.

The US Black Lives Matter movement has also successfully exploited social media, the report argued. "It is far from clear that social media particularly benefits populists more than other actors."

Although the influence of AI on individual decision-making and knowledge may act to undermine democracy in the future, making predictions is difficult.

If technology is driving populism, the response should not be to limit democracy but to deepen it further as part of a "democratization of democracy".

The report advocates deliberative democracy. Citizen assemblies are an example of this in action. The idea is to deliberate on issues face-to-face in groups of around 100 in meetings chaired by academics or judges.

Whatever the future holds for democracy, political commentators are more likely to hype technology and then scapegoat it in endless cycles as least as far as The Register can see.

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Ozdemir will tell viewers about how Exros technology improves the speed, torque and energy efficiency of electric motors

Inc () (OTCMKTS:EXROF) CEO Sue Ozdemir will appear on national television to talk about the firms electric motor technology.

The segment, part of Business TV-News, will air over the weekend on Canadas BNN Bloomberg network and in the US on the Biz Television Network on March 15.

Ozdemir will tell viewers about how Exros technology improves the speed, torque and energy efficiency of electric motors. "Our objective is to tell investors, manufacturers and the public around the world about our remarkable technology, which is now being commercialized," shesaid in a release.

"We want to share this made-in-Canada technology with sectors where electric motors are essential - automotive, wind energy, recreational and last-mile vehicles, agriculture, public transportation and many others.

"Exro unlocks the full potential of electric motors, to make them faster, stronger and greener."

The Vancouver-based company is now commercializing its electric motor technology for the automotive, energy, agricultural and recreational sectors.

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It depends on the way sex is determined in the first place

Mar 7th 2020

WOMEN LIVE longer than men. And, more generally, female mammals live longer than male ones. This might be put down to the fact that males live more dangerous lives than femalescompetition for the affections of those females being an ingrained part of malehood. Such competition leads either to dangerous fights, or to the growing of showy-offy but physiologically expensive and thus life-limiting accoutrements, or both. All of which would make perfect sense were it not also true that male birds, which cede nothing to their mammalian counterparts in the fighting and showing-off departments, nevertheless manage, on average, to outlive their respective females. Male spruce grouse (pictured), for example, live for 13 years; females for five.

A long-standing hypothesis holds the sex chromosomes to blame. Male mammals are, in the jargon, heterogametic. They have X and Y chromosomes, whereas females have a pair of Xs. In birds, it is the females which are heterogametic. In both groups, the sex-determining chromosome is a stubby thing that is missing many of the genes on its counterpart. It therefore cannot cover for its partners genetic deficiencies by providing working copies of genes which are mutated in that partner. (In humans, haemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and colour-blindness are all caused this way.) As a result, the heterogametic sex is less resilient and dies earlier.

It is a plausible idea. But two sample points (mammals and birds) do not prove it. So Zoe Xirocostas and her colleagues at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia have looked further. As they describe in Biology Letters, they searched the literature for animals where both the relative longevity of the sexes and the nature of any heterogameticity are known.

Adding reptiles, amphibians, sharks, bony fish, arachnids and insects to the list, they confirmed that the relationship between longevity and heterogameticity does indeed hold up in other groups of animals. But there is a twist. When males are heterogametic the sex difference in lifespan averages 20.9%. Despite extreme examples like the spruce grouse, however, when females are heterogametic the average difference is only 7.1%. These numbers suggest that fighting and showing off are involved in determining longevity differences, too.

This article appeared in the Science and technology section of the print edition under the headline "Which is really the weaker sex?"

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Which really is the weaker sex? - The Economist