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White Rock, NM Named “Happiest Small Town in America”

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Monday, March 11, 2024

Los Alamos, NM, March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Travel —an online travel journal—recently named White Rock, New Mexico, the “Happiest Small Town in America” in their 2024 rankings.

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  • Los Alamos, NM, March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Travel —an online travel journal—recently named White Rock, New Mexico, the “Happiest Small Town in America” in their 2024 rankings.
  • “With a friendly atmosphere, tons of trails through and around town, beautiful dark skies, and unique local businesses, White Rock is a gem among small towns across America.”
    For those visiting White Rock, be sure to start your visit at the White Rock Visitor Center for maps and an overview of local activities.
  • White Rock Overlook Park – Grab your camera and prepare for stunning shots at White Rock Overlook.
  • To plan your visit or explore all there is to see and do in White Rock and Los Alamos, go to www.visitlosalamos.org .

Advent Technologies Participates in $12.4 Million Project to Reduce GHG Emissions in the Maritime Sector

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

This project aims to develop a maritime fuel cell system resulting in an auxiliary power unit with a total capacity exceeding 500kW.

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  • This project aims to develop a maritime fuel cell system resulting in an auxiliary power unit with a total capacity exceeding 500kW.
  • The RiverCell 3 project has a total budget of approximately $12.4 million, from which Advent’s budgeted portion is approximately $6.1 million.
  • The project commenced in January 2024 and is scheduled to conclude on December 31, 2026.
  • This strategy aims to mitigate greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions for international shipping, with a reinforced commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

A Hyperscale NAS architecture provides the best architecture for training effective models, speeding time-to-market and time-to-insight, and ultimately deriving business value from data.

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  • A Hyperscale NAS architecture provides the best architecture for training effective models, speeding time-to-market and time-to-insight, and ultimately deriving business value from data.
  • “These organizations require the performance and cost-effective scale of HPC parallel file systems and must meet enterprise requirements for ease of use and data security.
  • Hyperscale NAS is a fundamentally different NAS architecture that allows organizations to use the best of HPC technology without compromising enterprise standards.”
    The Hyperscale NAS architecture has now been proven to be the fastest file system in the world for enterprise and web-scale AI training.
  • It's the system used for training large language models (LLMs) and is now being used in businesses for computing with GPUs and training generative AI models.

Haslam Receives National Award for Accessibility, Connectivity, Inclusivity

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Founded in 1974, Insight Into Diversity magazine is the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education.

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  • Founded in 1974, Insight Into Diversity magazine is the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education.
  • Haslam will be featured, along with 27 other recipients, in its April 2024 issue.
  • "To be honored by Insight Into Diversity with this award means Clarence and his staff's efforts are having a meaningful effect in Haslam and the community the college serves.
  • Vaughn said the award validates his staff's hard work and the positive impact it has on campus and beyond.

Sunshine Health Offers $200,000 in Grants to 53 Florida Nonprofits

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Sunshine Health awarded two levels of Storm Relief and Preparation grants to 17 nonprofit organizations providing storm-related assistance to people impacted by recent storms.

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  • Sunshine Health awarded two levels of Storm Relief and Preparation grants to 17 nonprofit organizations providing storm-related assistance to people impacted by recent storms.
  • Sunshine Health also awarded $100,000 to 36 nonprofit organizations to address social and environmental factors that can impact health outcomes in underserved areas.
  • "Youths Left Behind, Corp. is grateful for the grant from Sunshine Health," said Hassan Hill, Director of the nonprofit in Tallahassee.
  • Since 2021, Sunshine Health has invested nearly $800,000 through its Community Connections grant program and continues to support local organizations that are committed to building healthy communities across Florida.

Underground nuclear tests are hard to detect. A new method can spot them 99% of the time

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Groups such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization are constantly on the lookout for new tests.

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  • Groups such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization are constantly on the lookout for new tests.
  • However, for reasons of safety and secrecy, modern nuclear tests are carried out underground – which makes them difficult to detect.

Fallout

  • For example, the US’s 1954 Castle Bravo test, conducted in secret at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, delivered large volumes of radioactive fallout to several nearby islands and their inhabitants.
  • In 1963, the US, the UK and the USSR agreed to carry out future tests underground to limit fallout.

How to spot an atom bomb


During this period there were substantial international efforts to figure out how to monitor nuclear testing. The competitive nature of weapons development means much research and testing is conducted in secret. Groups such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization today run global networks of instruments specifically designed to identify any potential tests. These include:

A needle in a haystack

  • First are body waves, which travel outwards in all directions, including down into the deep Earth, before returning to the surface.
  • As a result, monitoring underground tests is like searching for a potentially non-existent needle in a haystack the size of a planet.

Nukes vs quakes

  • If an event occurs far from volcanoes and plate tectonic boundaries, it might be considered more suspicious.
  • Alternatively, if it occurs at a depth greater than say three kilometres, it is unlikely to have been a nuclear test.
  • This outcome underlines the importance of using multiple independent discrimination techniques during monitoring – no single method is likely to prove reliable for all events.

An alternative method

  • As a result, we were able to take advantage of fundamental differences between the sources of explosions and earthquakes to develop an improved method of classifying these events.
  • We tested our approach on catalogues of known explosions and earthquakes from the western United States, and found that the method gets it right around 99% of the time.


Mark Hoggard works for the Australian National University. He receives funding from Geoscience Australia and the Australian Research Council.

Ease Capital Provides $32 Million in Bridge Financing for the Acquisition and Renovation of a 318-Unit Garden-Style Multifamily Property in Virginia Beach, VA

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

In addition to the acquisition, the Ease loan will fund a $3.2 million capex program to renovate 155 units and make upgrades throughout the community.

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  • In addition to the acquisition, the Ease loan will fund a $3.2 million capex program to renovate 155 units and make upgrades throughout the community.
  • “We are excited to provide financing to the experienced team at CIG for their acquisition of Dove Landing Apartments,” said Charlie Oshman, Co-Founder of Ease Capital.
  • Ease Capital is a technology-enabled commercial mortgage lender that provides the simplest way to finance multifamily real estate.
  • Ease provides borrowers flexible financing solutions from $5 million to $50+ million on multifamily and mixed-use multifamily assets across the country.

Normal Computing Unveils the First-ever Thermodynamic Computer

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Normal Computing , a deep tech AI startup founded by former Google Brain and Alphabet X engineers to develop full-stack applications with enterprise reliability, today unveiled the world’s first thermodynamic computer.

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  • Normal Computing , a deep tech AI startup founded by former Google Brain and Alphabet X engineers to develop full-stack applications with enterprise reliability, today unveiled the world’s first thermodynamic computer.
  • And new approaches like with probabilistic AI add even more scaling complexity, particularly for GPUs, but may be thousands of times more efficient on a thermodynamic computer as indicated in Normal’s latest research paper.
  • The thermodynamic paradigm is more near term, relying on standard semiconductor fabrication and operating at room temperature.
  • Our goal is to unlock a step change in AI capabilities and efficiency through our novel thermodynamic stack,” said Patrick Coles, Chief Scientist at Normal Computing and former head of Quantum Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

DARPA Advances PsiQuantum to Second Phase of Utility-Scale Quantum Computing Program

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

This program was envisioned by DARPA to include an escalating engagement over a multi-phase, multi-year effort.

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  • This program was envisioned by DARPA to include an escalating engagement over a multi-phase, multi-year effort.
  • The year-long government diligence effort determined that PsiQuantum’s photonic approach is worthy of elevating to the next phase of the US2QC program.
  • As the quantum computing industry has matured, it has become widely acknowledged that “utility-scale” commercially useful quantum computing requires large-scale systems and error correction.
  • As the PsiQuantum effort moves to the next phase, the focus will shift to PsiQuantum’s design for a fault-tolerant prototype.

Advent Technologies Secures Funding from Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program for Innovative R&D Project

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADN), an innovation-driven leader in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology space, is delighted to announce that its subsidiary, Advent Technologies, A/S, has secured funding approval for its latest research and development project from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (“EUDP”).

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  • Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADN), an innovation-driven leader in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology space, is delighted to announce that its subsidiary, Advent Technologies, A/S, has secured funding approval for its latest research and development project from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (“EUDP”).
  • Advent's next-generation HT-PEM fuel cell applications are built on the groundbreaking Ion-Pair™ Membrane Electrode Assembly (“MEA”) technology.
  • Manufacturing of these fuel cell systems will take place in Kozani, Greece, as part of the EU-approved Green HiPo IPCEI Project.
  • Collectively, we strive for the successful completion of this project, taking us a step closer to a future where HT-PEM fuel cell technology sets the standard in fuel cell usage.”