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Polars DataFrame Library Announces Seed Funding from Bain Capital Ventures

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
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Today Polars , the Rust-based DataFrame library for data scientists and engineers, announced its seed funding of US$4 million led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) with participation from individual investors.

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  • Today Polars , the Rust-based DataFrame library for data scientists and engineers, announced its seed funding of US$4 million led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) with participation from individual investors.
  • The funding will be used to expand the team, and build a compute platform to efficiently run Polars at any scale.
  • Founder Ritchie Vink started the Polars project with the goal of bringing high-performance scientific and numeric data processing to the laptop.
  • Today, Polars is one of the fastest DataFrame libraries in existence, and one of the fastest-growing data processing projects on GitHub.

Panda London Scoops a T3 Award for the Innovative Eco-Friendly Hybrid Mattress

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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Foam, Allergy, Education, Sleep, Research, Forest, Movement, Breathability, Love, Bamboo, Pet, Giant panda, Century, Skin, Furniture

Panda London, a luxury home brand known for its eco-friendly products, showcases its award-winning bamboo-based sleep products, leading the way in the textile industry's shift towards greener practices.

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  • Recently taking the mattress industry by storm, they have won the T3 award for launching the innovative breathable bamboo mattress.
  • Providing six layers of orthopaedic grade support, pressure point perfect comfort and advanced breathability, the mattress harnesses the unique powers of sustainable bamboo.
  • What T3 was notably impressed with, aside from the unique support, comfort and advanced breathability of the Hybrid Mattress, is the sustainability of their materials and production process.
  • For those who experience allergies or sensitive skin, Panda's Hybrid Bamboo Mattress will keep sleep refreshingly irritation free.

Brands Unite to Support Great Futures for America’s Youth During Back-to-School Season

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Thursday, July 27, 2023
Other Retail, Professional Services, Philanthropy, Family, African American, Consumer, Social Services, Fund Raising, Teens, Foundation, Retail, Children, Other Philanthropy, BGCA, Learning, CARS, Planet Fitness, Murphy USA, Partnership, PUMA, Life, Boys & Girls Club, Family Dollar, Hospital, Panda Express, Microsoft, Multimedia, Mentorship, Science, Leslie, Shoe Carnival, Western Wheel Works, Child, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Engineering, Water, Recreational vehicle, Cox Communications, Lenovo, Microsoft Bing, Giant panda, STEM, Research, Transport, Food, Leslie's, Character, Book, Krusteaz, Adidas, Behavior, Toy, Club

Through this campaign, Boys & Girls Clubs of America hopes to raise $10M in vital funds to support Great Futures, ensuring that every child receives the social, educational, and emotional support required to flourish.

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  • Through this campaign, Boys & Girls Clubs of America hopes to raise $10M in vital funds to support Great Futures, ensuring that every child receives the social, educational, and emotional support required to flourish.
  • This Back2School season, the Bridgestone Retail Operations Driving Great Futures partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America is continuing to make out-of-school programming more accessible to Club youth and their families by addressing transportation and technology needs.
  • From now to early September, Shoe Carnival invites their customers to round up at checkout to support Boys & Girls Clubs.
  • To support Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Back2School campaign, visit your local Shoe Carnival store.

Y China's Feature: What does pandas' home look like?

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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Rongbao, the mascot of the Chengdu FISU Games, is designed after a giant panda named Zhima (Sesame) in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

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  • Rongbao, the mascot of the Chengdu FISU Games, is designed after a giant panda named Zhima (Sesame) in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
  • Why is it chosen as the prototype of the mascot, and what does pandas' home of the Pandas look like?
  • Xingyue from Y China heads to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for close observation of the lovely creature.
  • Xingyue also interviews the mascot Rongbao's chief designer, Zang Xiaoke, who shares the inspiration and details for creating the mascot.

Y China's Feature: What does pandas' home look like?

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Giant, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Learning, Observation, Giant panda, Food delivery, Video game

Rongbao, the mascot of the Chengdu FISU Games, is designed after a giant panda named Zhima (Sesame) in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

Key Points: 
  • Rongbao, the mascot of the Chengdu FISU Games, is designed after a giant panda named Zhima (Sesame) in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
  • Why is it chosen as the prototype of the mascot, and what does pandas' home of the Pandas look like?
  • Xingyue from Y China heads to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for close observation of the lovely creature.
  • Xingyue also interviews the mascot Rongbao's chief designer, Zang Xiaoke, who shares the inspiration and details for creating the mascot.

China High-Speed Rail Launches "Chengdu-Hong Kong" Round-Trip Route

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Friday, June 30, 2023
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CHENGDU, China, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1st, China's high-speed railway will launch a direct route between Chengdu and Hong Kong.

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  • CHENGDU, China, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 1st, China's high-speed railway will launch a direct route between Chengdu and Hong Kong.
  • Passenger service attendants of the Chengdu section of the Chengdu-Hong Kong high-speed railway route have undergone special Cantonese training, so that the crew members can quickly master basic Cantonese.
  • Located in western China, Chengdu is well-known as a sanctuary of the endangered species of the giant panda.
  • The opening of the "Chengdu-Hong Kong" high-speed rail line may provide a new path for people to participate in this sports festival.

KX JOINS SNOWFLAKE PARTNER NETWORK

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KX , maker of kdb+ the industry's most trusted Data Timehouse™ and the KDB.AI vector database, today announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023 , that it has joined the Snowflake Partner Network .

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  • LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KX , maker of kdb+ the industry's most trusted Data Timehouse™ and the KDB.AI vector database, today announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023 , that it has joined the Snowflake Partner Network .
  • As part of the Snowflake Partner Network, KX will help joint customers, beginning with the financial services industry, get the most out of the Snowflake Data Cloud by providing fast, scalable temporal and vector data analytics for time series and AI workloads.
  • For more information, please visit https://kx.com/partners/snowflake/
    The Snowflake Partner Network unlocks the potential of the Data Cloud with a broad array of tools and partners.
  • To become a Snowflake partner and get access to Snowflake's self-service partner resources, please click here .

KX JOINS SNOWFLAKE PARTNER NETWORK

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Cloud, Data management, MLOps, Partnership, Health, Financial services, Risk management, ML, Language, Forecasting, Machine learning, Data, KX, KDB, Artificial intelligence, Anomaly, AI, Python, Tag cloud, Library, Snowflake Unified School District, Giant panda, Cryptocurrency, Video game, Medical device, Snowflake, Terrain park

LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KX , maker of kdb+ the industry's most trusted Data Timehouse™ and the KDB.AI vector database, today announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023 , that it has joined the Snowflake Partner Network .

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  • LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KX , maker of kdb+ the industry's most trusted Data Timehouse™ and the KDB.AI vector database, today announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023 , that it has joined the Snowflake Partner Network .
  • As part of the Snowflake Partner Network, KX will help joint customers, beginning with the financial services industry, get the most out of the Snowflake Data Cloud by providing fast, scalable temporal and vector data analytics for time series and AI workloads.
  • For more information, please visit https://kx.com/partners/snowflake/
    The Snowflake Partner Network unlocks the potential of the Data Cloud with a broad array of tools and partners.
  • To become a Snowflake partner and get access to Snowflake's self-service partner resources, please click here .

We're with pandas - Got some panda stories for you

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Friday, June 16, 2023
Giant, Male, Communication, Food, Interview, Giant panda, Pacific Ocean, Breeding, Collaboration, Eating, Baiyun, Research, Attention, Element, Science, Huamei, Sheep, Nature, Love, Bird, Food delivery

In the past few decades, every panda that has lived outside China has captured the attention of countless people.

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  • In the past few decades, every panda that has lived outside China has captured the attention of countless people.
  • Just right here in the Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda (the Center), many pandas live their own stories.
  • They were among the first batch of pandas that China sent to other countries for science and research cooperation.
  • Today, I learned more about cooperation on pandas' conservation and research, offering me a peek into the changes and developments in cooperation on pandas between China and other countries.

This Week in Consumer News: 13 Stories You Need to See

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Friday, June 2, 2023
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NEW YORK, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the consumer and retail industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.

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  • A roundup of the week's most newsworthy consumer and retail industry press releases from PR Newswire, including a new Revolution Beauty x Fortnite collection and Petco's new flagship store.
  • NEW YORK, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire.
  • To help journalists covering the consumer and retail industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
  • The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story.