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10 years ago, a construction company was considered leading-edge if it used software for estimating, time keeping and job costing. Today, those solutions are just table stakes. The basic price of admission. Of course, those software products are still important, but they no longer represent a competitive advantage. Todays competitive advantage is found in technology solutions such as drones, robotics, automated machine controls, telematics, and leading-edge construction management software.

Here are some of todays innovative technology solutions that you have probably never heard of:

Dispatch and Scheduling Software: If you have sites that are accidentally running out of fuel or materials, its time to consider dispatch software. Or, if you have sites that are not optimized for the exact timing of equipment arrivals, equipment repairs and material deliveries, then dispatch software is again worth a look. Or, if it feels like everyone is running around every day fighting fires simply due to ongoing miscommunication, you will gain from this category of software.

Labor and equipment on a typical site runs upwards of $1,500/hour which simply means that poorly planned days are very expensive. A well-designed dispatch and scheduling software allows for proactive planning which stops errors before they happen. The leader in dispatch and scheduling software for heavy construction is Vizzn Inc.

Extra Billing Software: If you have ever missed an opportunity to bill for extra work because you either forgot to bill it or your field team missed it entirely, it might be time to start looking for an extra billing software. If you have ever tried to bill for extra work but the customer turned you down because your submission was untimely or poorly documented, this category of software will be an easy win.

A proper extra billing software empowers everyone in the company to easily document all site challenges and efficiently communicate those findings to the team members responsible for creating those extra billings. Vizzn Inc. provides the leading software of this type.

Quality Control Software: If you have ever been responsible for rework that was unfairly placed on your shoulders or have ever found yourself on the wrong side of a lawsuit that wrongfully challenged your product quality, consider quality control software. QC software handles your project from the bid to project close out by documenting the process through to the final product. Vizzn Inc. is again the leading software provider in quality control software for construction and is proven to be the best solution for helping contractors sleep better at night.

Complete the quick 20 question yes/no quiz below and find out how tech savvy your company is compared to its peers. By taking the quiz, you will receive an in-depth complementary report that breaks down your score into 10 additional subcategories and identifies leading technology solutions for you to consider. The subcategories are: Revenue Generation, Construction Management, Quality Control, Project Management, Tendering, Safety, Risk Management, Fleet Management, Communication Flow, and Document Management. Take the quiz today and begin your journey towards an indisputable competitive advantage!

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Digital solutions help Toyota incorporate sustainable fuel generation

AUSTIN, Texas, May 24, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global software and technology leader Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and Toyota Australia have collaborated to transform part of Toyota Australias operations into a commercial-grade hydrogen production, storage and refueling plant. The project, supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), adopts Emersons automation expertise to provide the control system that helps Toyota Australia demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of manufacturing hydrogen fuels, including the use of renewable solar energy.

As low and zero-emission vehicles capture an ever-greater share of the market, countries around the globe need to expand access to renewable fuels like hydrogen. Sustainable hydrogen projects are challenging because they need to integrate many data sources into one balance-of-plant system, a process thats critical for a facilitys success. For the Toyota Australia Hydrogen Center, Emersons advanced DeltaV distributed control system gathers data from the plants complex equipment, making it easier to monitor production and storage of hydrogen gas and document and validate the sustainability of operations.

"By incorporating a digital automation foundation to eliminate data silos, Toyota Australia can not only significantly reduce costs, but also gain greater visibility into system performance, making it easier to maintain and report sustainability performance and increase productivity," said Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emersons Automation Solutions business. "The data foundation Toyota has built will make it faster and easier for like-minded companies to replicate success as hydrogen refueling networks continue to expand across the continent and the globe."

Emersons DeltaV systems control operations for optimal production efficiencies and help ensure safe operations. Edge control technology from Emersons PACSystems will further reduce cost and complexity of integrating third-party systems. Rosemount flame detectors will help keep personnel and operations safe. The Toyota Australia team took advantage of pre-existing configuration libraries to reduce setup time. In addition, Emersons technologies create a platform to add future remote operations and data analytics more easily and cost effectively.

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Emerson (NYSE: EMR), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), is a global technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets. Our Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid and discrete manufacturers maximize production, protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure. For more information visit Emerson.com.

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Toyota Motor Corporation works to develop and manufacture innovative, safe and high-quality products and services that create happiness by providing mobility for all. We believe that true achievement comes from supporting our customers, partners, employees, and the communities in which we operate. Since our founding over 80 years ago in 1937, we have applied our Guiding Principles in pursuit of a safer, greener and more inclusive society. Today, as we transform into a mobility company developing connected, automated, shared and electrified technologies, we also remain true to our Guiding Principles and many of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals to help realize an ever-better world, where everyone is free to move. In Australia, Toyota has been the best-selling automotive brand for 25 years, including the past 19 in a row.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) Trial and error, thats what many of the polling sites across Chatham County had to go through to get their precincts up and running early to start Election Day.

Some issues have been reported to us. We understand they are issues or polls being out or some varying degrees at Moses Jackson, W.W Law. the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum and the Temple of Glory, Mayor Van Johnson explained.

After speaking with several polling managers, many of the problems they encountered were technology-related and took place right at the start of the day when the polls first opened at 7 a.m.

We didnt have enough power cords to connect some of the machines, and then we had trouble with the express folds, and we had trouble with the counter. So we had it pretty rough for a while, said Shirley Stinson, polling manager at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum precinct.

While most of the polling managers WSAV spoke to reported minimal issues, were now hearing about a new problem that just happened to a member of Savannahs City Council.

Post 2 At-Large Alderwoman Alicia Miller Blakely said when she tried to cast her vote Tuesday, she was told by poll workers that she had already voted.

Now, shes searching for answers.

When I went to try and vote, unfortunately, I was told that I couldnt vote because I had already voted, and that was not the case. They said it was a glitch in the pad, in the voting pad, the processing pad, I assume, and just, I guess, the equipment itself, Blakely said.

All polling locations across Chatham County stayed open until 7 p.m.

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SAN ANTONIO, May 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, today announced the launch of Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Government. The offering which aligns with the National Institute of Standards and Technologys essential cloud characteristics of on-demand, broad access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service gives government cloud personnel the ability to access deep cloud expertise in a flexible way, without having to carefully craft a statement of work.

Government organizations and the entities that support them all have a specific purpose, a mission, a reason why they operate, said Alysia Ford, Senior Product Manager, Government Services at Rackspace Technology. The cloud is an amazing technology enabler for government, but among many questions about the cloud is the big question of who is going to do this work, followed by what, when, where and how. By making sure all the big questions are answered, Rackspace Government Services makes the cloud work for customers, so they can focus on their mission.

Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Government leverages the National Institute of Standards and Technologys definition of cloud computings five essential cloud characteristics as follows:

Rackspace Technology Government Solutions brings over 20 years of government security and compliance expertise meeting stringent government standards including FISMA, FedRAMP, DFARS, and many others. Rackspace Technology is the sole provider of a FedRAMP JAB-authorized managed security service with flexibility to support organization- or agency-specific controls at the federal, state, local, and educational levels.

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Rackspace TechnologyRackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud technology services company. we can design, build and operate our customers cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize applications, build new products and adopt innovative technologies.

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Made from FDA approved food-grade materials, SAVRpak generates an anti-mold and moisture control environment for produce to live a long life beyond harvest

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAVRpak, a food technology innovation company recognized as aFast Company World Changing Ideaand one ofTIME Magazine's Best Inventions, today announced the launch of SAVRpak Drop-In,the first-ever moisture control technology that extends the shelf-life and freshness of produce up to three times. It creates the perfect atmosphere inside the package for a longer period by eradicating a number of causes of premature molding, wilting and spoilage of peel-less and packaged produce including berries, leafy greens, grapes, mini cucumbers and others. Successful trials have been completed with Divine Flavor, Ocati, RCG Fruits, and Agrovision.

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"We saw the most amazing results in our berry trials with SAVRpak," said RCG Fruits General Director, Fernando Garibay.

The SAVRpak Drop-In is a thermodynamic, biodegradable, chemical-free pouch that is placed in produce packaging before being sealed. Within minutes, SAVRpak's Atmospheric Control and Transmission (ACT) technology begins purifyingthe atmosphere within the package to slow the aging process by targeting conditions that affect shelf-life, such as excess moisture and condensation, as well as external contaminants like bacteria. As a result, this extends the marketable shelf-life of produce by up to three times - ultimately giving consumers a longer window to enjoy produce at home while reducing waste.

"We're excited to be able to address an area of food preservation that has been unachievable to date, and that's the ability to extend the life of peel-less produce like berries and leafy greens," said SAVRpak Co-CEO Grant Stafford. "Building on our success in the foodservice delivery realm, we have successfully transformed the basic technology to address a category that lacked a solution to keep food fresh for longer while reducing food waste a top culprit of greenhouse gas emissions."

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The SAVRpak Drop-In produce solution will first roll out in the U.S. and Latin America with berry suppliers that have undergone successful trials proving the technology's efficacy in extending the shelf-life of produce. Trials took place withDivine Flavorfor table grapes,RCG Fruitsfor blackberries, Agrovisionfor blackberries, blueberries and raspberries, Agrizar for mini-cucumbers and Ocati for goldenberries.A Colombian farm-to-restaurant tech company, has also successfully tested SAVRpak's thermodynamic technology with the intent to maintain freshness of the produce it ships to restaurants throughout Latin America.

"We saw the most amazing results through our berry trials with SAVRpak," said RCG Fruits General Director, Fernando Garibay. "Blackberries, in particular, are very delicate, and often experience postharvest reddening and other changes in visual appearance and taste which reduces marketability and results in waste. This is a challenge the industry has not been able to solve, but SAVRpak proved to keep our berries' beautiful color intact and kept them fresh for longer, maintaining the quality our customers count on."

In preliminary trials, SAVRpak has proven to extend the shelf-life of golden berries by 10+ days, blackberries 7+ days, raspberries 4-5+ days, and strawberries 4+ days. Similarly, in a 2021 lab test with University of California, Davis, romaine lettuce stored with SAVRpak had significantly less condensation and moisture in the bags, and had lower water soaking, decay, and wilting scores compared to control samples. UC Davis also found that SAVRpak decreased the bacteria found in lettuce across all storage protocols and evaluation days compared to control samples.

In addition to fresh produce, SAVRpak has been fighting food waste and preserving the freshness of hot foods with the launch of its flagship product in 2021. The same innovative technology first made its debut for takeout and delivery foods, like french fries, pizza and burgers, that too often get cold and soggy in route from restaurant to home. Restaurants across the U.S. and in 21 countries have turned to SAVRpak to integrate its solution to address the number one cause of bad delivery food. A recent partnership with the global leader in product distribution to the foodservice industry Sysco is expanding SAVRpak's footprint by bringing its technology to independent and regional restaurant chains nationwide.

Similar to produce, condensation is the culprit as to why food goes bad if it sits in a container for too long. SAVRpak eradicates moisture that forms in route from restaurant to home and preserves food, so it does not deteriorate during transit. Today, SAVRpak's shelf-life extending ability not only maintains food quality longer across takeout food and produce but has large implications for food waste reduction due to extended sell-by dates.

About SAVRpakSAVRpak is a leading food technology solution that aims to eliminate food's #1 enemy: condensation. SAVRpak's Peel and Stick pad and Drop-In pouch change the environment inside a food container, removing the moisture and creating an environment to preserve the freshness and 'intended' state of the food. Named a Fast Company World Changing Idea finalist in 2022 and a TIME Magazine Best Invention in 2021, SAVRpak can be found in 41 states, 21 countries, and in takeout from hundreds of restaurants around the United States. SAVRpak is 100% chemical free, food-safe, single-use, and made of degradable plant-material. Learn more atwww.savrpak.com.

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DUBLIN, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Digital Intelligence Growth Opportunities" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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This research service looks at the digital intelligence solutions market, identifying particular trends, best practices, and customer decision-making factors within two significant market verticals: law enforcement and banking and financial services.

This service includes a full market analysis, including market size and forecast for the market from 2020 to 2030, segmented by customer vertical and region. This research service also identifies key growth opportunities, covering the technology solutions and capabilities that will enable further market growth and spending on digital intelligence solutions, while looking at specific regional factors and influences that could affect how regional customers or different customer verticals seek to plan for, integrate, and update their digital intelligence solutions and security operations over time.

This study analyzes how the global COVID-19 pandemic will also affect short-term spending in the market, as well as long-term perspectives on how this period could lead to suppressed short-term demand, followed by a spike in growth as the pandemic's broader effects recede.

As the security industry continues to digitize and add new devices, endpoints, sensors, systems, and software platforms to their operations, the volume of data being collected and requiring analysis by security teams has only grown exponentially. In addition, the continued siloing of business operations systems, IT security, and physical security teams each utilizing their own separate data sets leaves significant gaps in situational awareness and vulnerabilities against the more robust cyber-physical threats that are vastly becoming risks to organizations.

By implementing and utilizing a true digital intelligence solution, organizations can break down the data silos throughout the business and broaden their situational awareness, investigative efficiency, and proactively defend their organizations from threats. While many security operations teams deal with a multitude of devices, sensors, technology systems, and different types of data aggregated across their sprawling systems, teams continue to lack a centralized platform that can help them integrate these multiple data sources and systems together in a meaningful and understandable way.

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Many of the siloed security teams have relied on their own management platforms to help them achieve this goal, such as IT security teams with SIEM systems or physical security teams using SOC platforms, but these siloed solutions do not integrate meaningfully to provide a more holistic picture of an organization's threat landscape and potential vulnerabilities.

Security operators need a centralized platform solution that can help them integrate all their multi-sourced data, conduct analysis in accordance with organizational policies and current risks, prioritize potential threats, and enable immediate or proactive remediation. Digital intelligence solutions finally answer the calls that security operations teams have had to break down the data silos between IT security, business operations, and physical security and offer a truly converged platform that can provide comprehensive intelligence based on contextual analysis, historical alerts, and predictive capabilities that understand the risks organizations may face.

The various growth opportunities discussed within this research service include a definition of how the security industry shifted from fragmented, siloed security solutions to an integrated security strategy leading to the growing industry for true digital intelligence solutions.

Growth opportunities are related to how digital intelligence solutions collate and aggregate their analysis functions, provide contextual analysis to alerts or potential risk factors, and enable more efficient or proactive responses to detected incidents.

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1. Strategic Imperatives

Why Is It Increasingly Difficult to Grow?

The Strategic Imperative

The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Digital Intelligence Industry

Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine

2. Growth Opportunity Analysis

Digital Intelligence Market Scope of Analysis

Digital Intelligence Market Segmentation

Key Competitors in the Digital Intelligence Market

Digital Intelligence Regional Segmentation

Key Growth Metrics

Evolution of Digital Intelligence Solutions in Security Operations

Importance of Digital Intelligence Solutions

Mapping of Digital Intelligence Solutions

Growth Drivers in the Digital Intelligence Market

Growth Restraints in the Digital Intelligence Market

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Spending Forecast, Digital Intelligence Market

Spending Forecast by Vertical

Spending Forecast by Region

Spending Forecast Analysis

Spending Forecast Analysis by Region

Spending Forecast Analysis by Vertical

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Regional Market Share

Regional Market Share Analysis

3. Growth Opportunity Analysis, Americas

4. Growth Opportunity Analysis, Europe

5. Growth Opportunity Analysis, Asia-Pacific

6. Growth Opportunity Analysis, Middle East & Africa

7. Growth Opportunity Universe, Digital Intelligence Market

Growth Opportunity 1: Improved Open-source Data Sets for National and International Intelligence, 2021

Growth Opportunity 2: Automating Intelligence Outputs for Operator Usage, 2021

Growth Opportunity 3: Data Validation and Transparency for Security Actions, 2021

Growth Opportunity 4: Context Solutions for Security Event Timelines, 2021

Growth Opportunity 5: Hybrid Solutions for Integrated Security Operations, 2021

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During a long career at WRAL, David Crabtree has seen many changes to the technology used in newsrooms.

NEWS COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON. >> IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THIS CHAPTER OF YOUR CAREER COMES TO A CLOSE TOMORROW. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT. BUT FOR THE LAST MONTH THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WHAT YOU COVERED IN THE LAST 40 YEARS AND TODAY WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW YOU'VE COVERED IT AND THE WAYS TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING THE NEWS. >> IT'S JUST AMAZING TO HAVE. OF COURSE, TECHNOLOGY IS SOMETHING WE'VE ALL GROWN TO EXPECT AND DEMAND. AND IN THIS PART OF THE STATE, THE LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN IDEAS ARE AROUND ALMOST EVERY CORNER ONE CORNER IS OUR BUSINESS. THE NEWS BUSINESS WHERE HAVE WATCHED THE LATEST AND GREATEST OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS COMING. GO. AND AS WITH ANY ACHIEVEMENT, THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAILS. THE SPEED OF COMMUNICATIONS IS WONDROUS TO BEHOLD. IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT SPEED, YOU CAN MULTIPLY THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION. >> THAT WE KNOW TO BE UNTRUE. THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF A NORTH CAROLINIAN SPOKEN IN 1964, WE WANT TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT WE MEAN TO SAY. EDWARD ARMOR ON WHEN THE SPEED OF LIGHT FELT DIFFERENT. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT, QUOTE, WHAT COMES TO MIND? I THINK IT'S ONE OF THOSE IMPORTANT PIECE. IS THAT WHERE WE ARE? WE WANT TO DO THINGS QUICKLY. WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT RIGHT. PROFESSOR STEPHEN KING, PEACHES, FUTURE JOURNALIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. WE'RE BOTH AMAZED WITH THE SPEED OF THE GROWTH OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRICE WE SOMETIMES PAY CREDIBILITY OF NEWS IS REALLY IMPORTANT EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE GOING TO BE FAST, THEY HAVE TO TAKE THE PRECAUTIONS AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT DOING THE RIGHT THINGS TO GET IT RIGHT AND DO IT QUICKLY. SO THEY'RE COMPETITIVE BUT NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING FIRST IS BEING CORRECT. HIS SIGNAL TO WIN. JIM GOODMAN SIGNED THIS CONTRACT IN 2002 GRADUATIONS. I >> CAPITAL BROADCASTING MADE A COMMITMENT TO HIGH DEFINITION TECHNOLOGY. WHEN HD BARELY EXISTED, VISION THAT SEES BEYOND THE OBVIOUS. >> HERE'S WHY WRAL TV HAS LED THE PLANET AND HOW NEWS IS GATHERED AND DELIVERED. THE HISTORY INCLUDES A LONG LIST OF FIRSTS THINGS WE SOMETIMES TAKE FOR GRANTED SATELLITE TRUCKS. HEY, ROBERT. >> SKY 5. >> HELICOPTER WEBSITE HIGH-DEFINITION 4 K VIDEO IN FACT, THE FIRST HIGH DEFINITION NEWS CAST IN THE WORLD. YOU ARE WATCHING THE FIRST EVER ENTIRELY HIGH DEFINITION NEWS CAST OCTOBER 13TH 2000 FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE. FAIR. CALL IT A TIME MACHINE TO THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION. FAST FORWARD 22 YEARS. AND WE REALIZE OUR INDUSTRY HAS BEEN DISRUPTED AND TIGHTENED BY PANDEMICS OF POLITICS. CULTURE, IDENTITY AND COVID. WITH THE PANDEMIC AND COUPLING THAT WITH THE TECHNOLOGY CONTINUING TO MOVE JUST EXPONENTIALLY. >> HAS IT MADE US BETTER TO SAY THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE IT BETTER OR WORSE, I THINK IS A HARD THING TO SAY. BUT I THINK THERE ARE CASES WHERE IT'S DONE THINGS BETTER AND MADE US BETTER STORY TELLERS AND BETTER ENGAGEMENT WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND BRINGING THINGS LIKE THAT BEFORE. >> ONE MORE MERLE QUOTE, I HOPE AS JOURNALISTS AND BROADCASTERS WE NEVER FORGET THE NEWS COMPUTER CAN MERELY COMPOUND AT SPEED. THE OLDEST PROBLEM AND THE RELATIONS WITH HUMAN BEINGS AND THEN THE END, THE COMMUNICATOR WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH PROBLEM, WHAT TO SAY AND HOW TO SAY. THAT'S RIGHT. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND HOW IMPORTANT OUR WORDS OUR MASK AND HOW IMPORTANT PEOPLE ARE THAT WE'RE TELLING THE STORIES ABOUT. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BELLS AND IT. YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT. IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE HOW THEY'RE IMPACTED AND HOW WE CHOOSE TO LISTEN TO THEM. RESPOND AS A DEVIL

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We are witnessing disruptive innovations in the world of wearable technology; it has taken off in areas that were once beyond our imagination such as AI in clothing. This, in turn, has started to make a massive impact on how we live and even work. However, receiving, using, and sharing data from wearable technology is core to this fundamental shift. The Indian wearable market is witnessing tremendous growth. In fact, it grew by 93.8% year-over-year (YoY) in 3Q21 (July-Sept), shipping 23.8 million units1, with smartwatches continuing to be the fastest-growing category with 4.3 million shipments in the same period.

Wearable and Health

Wearable technology has the potential to disrupt the healthcare industry. It is becoming an inherent part of our quotidian life- from fitness devices, which track our healthy habits and encourage us to achieve that set target of ten thousand steps per day, to more sophisticated AI-enabled devices that can even track previously undetectable diseases before they are clinically diagnosed. Wearable technology also enables personalized healthcare by real-time, continuous, and longitudinal health monitoring. As a result, healthcare practitioners are now beginning to adopt wearables for patient monitoring, which is handy for prediction, prevention, and timely intervention. Al-enabled wearable devices can monitor patients admitted to a hospital and measure their pulse, oxygen saturation, respiration, temperature, mobility, and other vitals.

With todays pandemic, wearable technology can play an important part in tracking the long-term impact on long-haulers- a term coined for peopleliving with the post-COVID syndrome. While we are aware of the impact of Covid 19, its long-term impact on long-haulers with chronic symptoms is more complex to measure. By using wearable devices, their vital data can be tracked in real-time and analyzed. The data tracked from wearable devices provides a unique opportunity to learn more about a disease, its evolution and offer personalized healthcare services and real-time medicine to the patients.

Data at the center

Due to the proliferation of wearable technology or devices, data is collected at an unprecedented rate today with an estimated 41.6 billion connected devices generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data in the year 20252. While wearable devices provide opportunities to improve healthcare in various settings, including rural areas and low-resource environments, robust data architecture is critical to properly capture, preserve, access, and transform this data in its journey, which is not just in cloud data centers but also at the edge, within servers, and endpoints. There is a need for high-capacity drives now reaching 20TB to store massive amounts of data at the cloud. At the endpoints, where wearables generate data, the key is to reduce network latencies and increase throughput between these layers (cloud-to-edge, edge-to-endpoints).

The Future

As telehealth and remote healthcare continue to progress, data from wearable technology can create more personalized and proactive treatments. It can be transformed into daily, monthly, and yearly trends that identify opportunities to improve health habits using data-informed decisions. However, the storage strategy must be designed to meet specific requirements. A purpose-built architecture uses devices, platforms, systems, and solutions that maximize the value of data for real-time use cases.Taking advantage of the evolving wearable data landscape means moving from storage to value creation using purpose-built data architecture. From embedded to removable flash storage solutions, it is imperative that value from that data can be extracted at every step of the data journey.

As technology continues to unlock new possibilities, the future of healthcare can be redefined through continuous and long-term monitoring, data collection, and analysis which can play an integral role in early detection and prevention.

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Google is making an interesting and potentially controversial decision with Android 13, deploying a file system developed by Huawei.

According to Esper, Google is planning on including the Enhanced Read-Only File System (EROFS) in Android 13, making it the default read-only system. The file system was created by Xiang Gao when he was working as an engineer at Huawei. EROFS offers significant benefits over existing file systems, including space-saving compression and speed. This could lead to much faster updates and less storage space being used.

Huawei developed EROFS for inclusion in the Linux kernel, which forms the basis of Android. Despite eventually being locked out of the Android ecosystem by US-led sanctions, the file system officially became part of the Linux kernel, beginning with Linux 5.4. It has also been used on millions of Huawei devices and is being adopted by other manufacturers.

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Google now plans to make it the default file system for read-only partitions, such as those used by the core Android system. Since the system partition is usually read-only, compressing it is an appealing option to save space on files that only change when a system update is performed. Unfortunately, most compression systems have significant performance hits, a limitation that EROFS specifically addresses.

Google throwing its weight behind EROFS doesnt mean that all devices will automatically use it. The change will only impact devices that launch with Android 13 by default and only those that have Googles services built in. That means devices running AOSP (Android Open Source Project) will not use EROFS.

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Hyundai Motor said on Sunday it plans to invest $5 billion in the U.S. by 2025 to further develop mobility technologies in areas like autonomous driving, robotics, and A.I.

The investment comes alongside the automaker's recentannouncementof a plan to spend $5.54 billion to build its first dedicated electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in the U.S., located outside of Savannah, Georgia. That facility is expected to open during the first half of 2025 and is projected to have an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles.

Some $10 billion of new investment will be used to further Hyundai's "goal to provide sustainable and smart mobility solutions," the company said.

Hyundai is aiming to be one of the top three electric vehicle providers in the U.S. by 2026 and is one of several global automakers establishing new supply chains and production facilities in America to take advantage of what is expected to be adecade ahead of exponential growth for the category.

The company hadpreviously announced a planto sell 3.23 million fully electric vehicles worldwide annually by 2030.

It also dovetails with a push from the Biden administration to have companies set up electric vehicle supply chains in the U.S. as opposed to overseas. The administration announced a $3.1 billion plan earlier this month toboost the domestic manufacturing of batteries, which followed the president invoking the Defense Production Act in April toencourage domestic productionof minerals that are required to make electric vehicle batteries. The White House has set a goal of50% electric vehicle salesby 2030.

This newly announced investment from Hyundai will allow it to strengthen its partnership with "U.S. public and private entities to offer innovative products and mobility solutions to our valued customers in the U.S. while supporting global carbon neutrality efforts," Euisun Chung, executive chair of Hyundai Motor, said in a statement.

That will include areas like robotics, advanced air mobility, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving, the company said.

Hyundai Motorbought an 80% stakein robot maker Boston Dynamics from Softbank in December 2020, The company, known for its four-legged dog-like robot Spot, was valued at $1.1 billion. Boston Dynamics, which was previously financed by Google, started selling its first robot commercially in June 2020.

The automaker is also pushing into driverless technology through Motional, a venture formed with U.S.-based mobile technology company Aptive. Motional is currently testing its robotaxi service on U.S. public roads and intends to start offering commercial service in 2023, one of several efforts tobring autonomous vehicles to roads across the country.

In November, Hyundai formed Supernal, which is aiming to develop a family of electric air vehicles in the burgeoning advanced air mobility industry. The company said it plans to launch its first commercial flight in 2028.

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Hyundai plans $5 billion investment in U.S. on mobility technology such as autonomous driving and robotics - CNBC