Synchronization

Music Licensing, Inc. (OTC: SONG) Achieves Historic Milestone: 77.5% Reduction in Outstanding Common Stock Shares and Acquisition of Iconic Royalty Stakes

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Outstanding Common Stock Shares Reduction:

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  • Outstanding Common Stock Shares Reduction:
    Music Licensing, Inc. has successfully completed a remarkable 77.5% reduction in outstanding common stock shares, following the earlier extraordinary reduction of authorized common stock shares by 90%.
  • The proactive management of authorized and outstanding shares positions the company for sustained growth and financial strength within the dynamic music industry.
  • Acquisition of Iconic Royalty Stakes:
    In a historic move on November 23, 2023, Music Licensing, Inc. achieved another milestone through the acquisition of substantial royalty stakes.
  • In addition to the reduction in outstanding common stock shares and the acquisition of royalty stakes, Music Licensing, Inc. is pleased to announce its future plans for a buyback program.

Keysight Enables 20 Open RAN Solution Demonstrations for AI, Sustainability, Interoperability and Test Automation at O-RAN ALLIANCE Fall 2023 Global PlugFest

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Friday, December 15, 2023

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) showcased its open radio access network (Open RAN) solutions leadership at the O-RAN ALLIANCE Fall 2023 Global PlugFest, by demonstrating test solutions for the latest concepts, features and standards that are under development within the Open RAN industry.

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  • Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) showcased its open radio access network (Open RAN) solutions leadership at the O-RAN ALLIANCE Fall 2023 Global PlugFest, by demonstrating test solutions for the latest concepts, features and standards that are under development within the Open RAN industry.
  • As wireless networks move to virtualized, disaggregated Open RAN architectures, new test requirements are constantly emerging.
  • Keysight has continued working with its pioneering industry partners to develop and validate solutions for these latest test needs.
  • "This collaboration between a reputed test vendor's solution and OAI's open source FlexRIC over the E2 interface is what we found to be particularly enriching during this O-RAN Fall 2023 Global PlugFest.

Rising Star Charlotte Sands Wins Grand Prize in 2023 Unsigned Only Music Competition

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Monday, October 2, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Unsigned Only Music Competition, renowned for celebrating the best of independent and unsigned artists, has announced the 2023 winners.

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  • Winners share in $150,000 in prizes split among 38 winners, including $20,000 (US) in cash to the overall Grand Prize winner.
  • It is with great pleasure that Unsigned Only bestows the overall Grand Prize, to Charlotte Sands for her upbeat, hit-worthy song "Dress."
  • "Her music reflects the essence of what it means to be truly exceptional in the world of unsigned, indie artists.
  • In addition to the Grand Prize winner, many other deserving artists garnered First and Second place wins in the competition.

Fireflies, brain cells, dancers: new synchronisation research shows nature's perfect timing is all about connections

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

Fireflies too know the joy of synchronisation, timing their flashes together to create a larger display to attract mates.

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  • Fireflies too know the joy of synchronisation, timing their flashes together to create a larger display to attract mates.
  • Synchronisation is important at a more basic level in our bodies, too.
  • Our heart cells all beat together (at least when things are going well), and synchronised electrical waves can help coordinate brain regions – but too much synchronisation of brain cells is what happens in an epileptic seizure.

The science of sync

    • Scientists originally became interested in sync to understand the inner workings of natural systems.
    • We have also become interested in designing sync as a desired behaviour in human-made systems such as power grids (to keep them in phase).
    • Mathematicians can analyse sync by treating the individuals in the system as “coupled oscillators”.

Synced systems are strong but hard to unravel

    • Two factors make it difficult to determine how strong the synchronisation in a set of coupled oscillators could be.
    • First, it’s rare for a single oscillator to be in charge and telling everyone else what to do.
    • This is the case in the brain, for example, where there is a complex network structure of connections between different regions.

Stronger sync comes from more wandering walks

    • The quality of sync depends on “walks” on a network, which are sequences of hops between connected oscillators or nodes.
    • If you start at one node and take two walks with randomly chosen next hops for a specific number of hops, the two walks might end up at the same node (these are convergent walks) or at different nodes (divergent walks).
    • We found that the more often paired walks on a network were convergent rather than divergent, the worse the synchronisation on the network would be.

Social networks, power grids and beyond

    • This is good news for the brain avoiding epilepsy, as its highly modular structure brings a high proportion of convergent walks.
    • We can see this reflected in the echo chamber phenomenon in social media.
    • It opens new opportunities in terms of designing network structures or interventions on networks, either to aid synchronisation (in power grids, say) or to avoid synchronisation (say in the brain).

Russia in Africa: Prigozhin's death exposes Putin's real motives on the continent

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Monday, September 4, 2023

Prigozhin, as leader of the notorious Wagner Group, had been the point man for Russia in Africa since Wagner first began operations on the continent in 2017.

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  • Prigozhin, as leader of the notorious Wagner Group, had been the point man for Russia in Africa since Wagner first began operations on the continent in 2017.
  • More than a single entity, the Wagner Group is an amalgamation of shell companies deploying paramilitary forces, disinformation and political interference in Ukraine, Syria and Africa.
  • Its leaders have been sanctioned by 30 countries for the group’s destabilising activities.
  • Prigozhin advanced Russian influence in Africa by propping up politically isolated and unpopular authoritarian leaders.

Maintaining Wagner without Prigozhin

    • It is no surprise that Russia would want to keep the Wagner enterprise going.
    • In Mali, Wagner is linked to more than 320 incidents of human rights abuses and hundreds of civilian deaths.
    • Wagner has also been accused of driving away local communities where it has secured mining concessions, effectively annexing African territory.
    • But this will change when it owns the repressive tactics Wagner has deployed.

Reassessments in Africa

    • Russia’s reach in Africa may be exceeding its grasp, however.
    • There is a growing awakening on the continent of how little Russia actually brings to Africa in terms of investment, trade, jobs creation or security.
    • Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal that had enabled 33 million tonnes of grain to get from Ukraine to Africa and other parts of the world.
    • This disregard, coupled with recognition that Russia offers relatively little to Africa, contributed to only 17 African heads of state attending the St. Petersburg summit.
    • Russia’s lawlessness at home and abroad is bringing into sharp focus what his world order would look like.

Tufts Medicine and Synchronous Health Partner to Improve Behavioral Health Care Access Throughout Eastern Massachusetts

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tufts Medicine is proud to announce its partnership with Synchronous Health, a leading provider of evidence and measurement-based behavioral health care services.

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  • BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tufts Medicine is proud to announce its partnership with Synchronous Health, a leading provider of evidence and measurement-based behavioral health care services.
  • Tufts Medicine and Synchronous Health make access to behavioral health care faster and easier than ever before.
  • The increased need for behavioral health care services, coupled with a scarcity of behavioral health providers, has created a crisis across the nation.
  • "We are thrilled to find a partner in Tufts Medicine that shares the same goals of both increasing access to care and innovating to improve the care that is delivered."

Hopr.co Granted Second Patent for Secure Communications Technology

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

Hopr.co , a leader in securing workloads and data-in-transit everywhere in the cloud, announced today that it has been granted US Patent 11,716,312, “ Platform for Optimizing Secure Communications ,” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)

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  • Hopr.co , a leader in securing workloads and data-in-transit everywhere in the cloud, announced today that it has been granted US Patent 11,716,312, “ Platform for Optimizing Secure Communications ,” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)
  • The patent extends Hopr’s initial “Password Hopping System'' technology to cloud machines with a new and more sophisticated feature that addresses the increased cyber risk of legacy transport security by catering to the speed and scale of cloud operations.
  • The second patent also covers improvements that:
    “We are thrilled to unveil our improved ‘Password Hopping System’ technology, as well as announce receipt of Hopr’s second patent,” said Tom McNamara, Founder and CEO, Hopr.co.
  • This effort demonstrates not only the need for Hopr’s technology within the marketplace, but its ingenuity compared to other technologies and innovations.

Reservoir Media Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2024 Results

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Recorded Music revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 was $10.4 million, an increase of 37% compared to $7.6 million in last year’s first quarter.

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  • Recorded Music revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 was $10.4 million, an increase of 37% compared to $7.6 million in last year’s first quarter.
  • In the first quarter of fiscal 2024, Recorded Music OIBDA increased 18%, to $3.5 million, compared to $3.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2023.
  • Recorded Music OIBDA margin in the first quarter decreased from 39% to 34%.
  • Reservoir maintains its previously provided financial outlook range for fiscal year 2024, and expects the financial results for the year ending March 31, 2024, to be as follows:

12th Tech Integrates Truepic Lens into S.M.A.R.T. System

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

SAN DIEGO and PORTLAND, Ore., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- 12th Tech, specializing in technology solutions for the wholesale finance audit industry, and Truepic, a provider of authenticity infrastructure for the Internet, have partnered to revolutionize the floor plan audit industry. By integrating Truepic's secure camera technology, Truepic Lens, directly into its existing mobile application, 12th Tech is the first floor plan auditing and risk software provider in the world to offer this level of security for capturing trusted images.

Key Points: 
  • By integrating Truepic's secure camera technology, Truepic Lens, directly into its existing mobile application, 12th Tech is the first floor plan auditing and risk software provider in the world to offer this level of security for capturing trusted images.
  • 12th Tech keeps its clients on the cutting edge of risk management and floor plan audit technologies by integrating Truepic Lens into its S.M.A.R.T.
  • "The integration of Truepic's controlled capture technology fits perfectly into 12th Tech's mission and promise to our clients," said Mark Abrams, CEO of 12th Tech.
  • "We are excited to integrate Truepic Lens directly into 12th Tech's wholesale finance audit system," said Craig Stack, Founder and President of Truepic.

InPlay and Azoteq Collaborate on VR Controller Reference Design

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The implementation of  Azoteq's inductive sensing technology overcomes reliability issues present in current triggers, mechanical buttons, and joystick solutions as demonstrated in this VR controller reference design.

Key Points: 
  • The implementation of  Azoteq's inductive sensing technology overcomes reliability issues present in current triggers, mechanical buttons, and joystick solutions as demonstrated in this VR controller reference design.
  • "We are excited to be working with Azoteq on this VR controller reference design," said Jason Wu, CEO of InPlay.
  • The reference design will be available to manufacturers and developers shortly,  providing a competitive solution for VR controller design and development, including the integration of inductive  sensing and wireless data transfer capabilities.
  • InPlay and Azoteq are committed to providing the VR industry with cutting-edge technology and look forward to continuing their collaboration in the future.