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Lithium Americas Receives Conditional Commitment for $2.26 Billion ATVM Loan from the U.S. DOE for Construction of Thacker Pass

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lithium Americas Corp. (TSX: LAC) (NYSE: LAC) (“Lithium Americas” or the “Company”) has received a conditional commitment (the “Conditional Commitment”) from the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) for a $2.26 billion loan under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (“ATVM”) Loan Program (the “Loan”) for financing the construction of the processing facilities at Thacker Pass, located in Humboldt County, Nevada (“Thacker Pass” or the “Project”).

Key Points: 
  • The Loan is intended to help finance the construction of Thacker Pass, targeted to produce an initial 40,000 tonnes per year (“tpa”) of battery grade lithium carbonate (“Phase 1”).
  • Lithium Americas and its engineering, procurement and construction management (“EPCM”) contractor, Bechtel, entered into a National Construction Agreement (Project Labor Agreement) (“PLA”) with North America’s Building Trades Unions (“NABTU”) for construction of Thacker Pass.
  • Lithium Americas is committed to sustainably developing Thacker Pass, including working closely with local communities and designing the operation to reduce any potential environmental impacts.
  • Lithium Americas is currently focused on advancing detailed engineering, procurement and execution planning for the construction of Thacker Pass.

EFI Completes Life Cycle Assessment for Nozomi Digital Direct-to-Corrugated Printer

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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LONDONDERRY, N.H., March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Electronics For Imaging, Inc ., today reported it has completed a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Nozomi single-pass digital print technology in partnership with award-winning sustainability consulting firm Clean Agency .

Key Points: 
  • LONDONDERRY, N.H., March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Electronics For Imaging, Inc ., today reported it has completed a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Nozomi single-pass digital print technology in partnership with award-winning sustainability consulting firm Clean Agency .
  • According to the LCA, printing corrugated materials on an EFI Nozomi digital press reduces global warming potential (GWP) by approximately 50% when compared to analog printing technologies.
  • Because of their Nozomi investment in EFI digital printing, in 2023, Caps Cases avoided approximately 300,000 kilograms of CO2e when compared to analog methods.
  • EFI Nozomi LED inks emit virtually no volatile organic compounds (VOCs), meeting the GREENGUARD Gold standard and requiring no vapor recovery.

Navitas “Electrify Our World™” at Asia’s Premier Charging Expo

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Visitors will explore the latest advances in GaN and SiC toward a fully-electrified "Planet Navitas" and the transition from fossil fuels.

Key Points: 
  • Visitors will explore the latest advances in GaN and SiC toward a fully-electrified "Planet Navitas" and the transition from fossil fuels.
  • Many more GaNFast™ chargers will be displayed for visitors to experience the lightning speed of GaNFast charging.
  • Visitors to "Planet Navitas" (booth B57-B60) will meet experienced Navitas engineers to explore the power of next-gen power semiconductors for leading-edge applications.
  • “Our latest, advanced GaNFast and GeneSiC technologies bring revolutionary fast-charging capabilities to industry-leading Chinese customers.”
    To schedule meetings with Navitas at ACE 2024, please contact: [email protected] , or alternatively, book a meeting through Navitas’ booking calendar: https://calendly.com/navitas-asia-charging-expo-2024/meeting

Philips and AWS collaborate to scale digital pathology in the cloud, enhancing diagnostic capabilities and improving productivity

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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The collaboration unites Philips’ leadership and expertise in digitization of pathology to optimize clinical workflows and AWS’ leadership in scalable, secure cloud solutions.

Key Points: 
  • The collaboration unites Philips’ leadership and expertise in digitization of pathology to optimize clinical workflows and AWS’ leadership in scalable, secure cloud solutions.
  • Philips and AWS will advance digital pathology and help pathology labs to efficiently store, manage, and analyze growing volumes of digital pathology data and enable more pathology labs to adopt digital workflows to increase productivity.
  • Philips’ collaboration with AWS has the potential to enable large scale clinical trials, multi-institute studies, and care collaboration to address complex cases, including in cancer care.
  • Philips will use AWS HealthImaging to optimize storage, increase scale and enable AI and research across the healthcare system to advance pathology image analysis and simplify clinical workflows.

Verato names Andy Dé as Chief Marketing Officer

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Verato , the identity experts for healthcare, today announced the appointment of Andy Dé to the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

Key Points: 
  • Verato , the identity experts for healthcare, today announced the appointment of Andy Dé to the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
  • Dé will oversee the company’s go-to-market (GTM) strategy, planning and execution in his role leading the global marketing organization reporting to Clay Ritchey, Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
  • “I am humbled and honored to join Verato and bring my passion for building, transforming and growing world-class, high-performing global marketing teams to drive the continued rapid growth of adoption of Verato’s industry leading hMDM solutions,” said Andy Dé, CMO at Verato.
  • “I am thrilled to welcome Andy to the Verato team,” said Clay Ritchey, CEO of Verato.

SiMa.ai Secures Funds and Readies New Generative Edge AI Platform

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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With the release of the second-generation MLSoC, SiMa.ai will unveil one software-centric platform for all edge AI .

Key Points: 
  • With the release of the second-generation MLSoC, SiMa.ai will unveil one software-centric platform for all edge AI .
  • SiMa.ai’s ‘one platform for all edge AI’ scales with customers as their AI/ML journey evolves, from computer vision, to transformers to multimodal generative AI.
  • “AI — particularly the rapid rise of generative AI — is fundamentally reshaping the way that humans and machines work together.
  • For more information on SiMa.ai’s one software-centric platform for all edge AI, please read The Next Chapter at SiMa.ai: One Platform for All Edge AI on the SiMa.ai blog.

World Chess Hall of Fame to Open New Exhibition: “Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions”

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240403895546/en/

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240403895546/en/
    World Chess Hall of Fame to Open New Exhibition: “Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions” (Photo: Business Wire)
    “Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions” explores the histories of the World Chess Championship and Women’s World Chess Championship through a display of artifacts from the collection of the WCHOF, FIDE and loans from world chess champions including World’s No.
  • and New Orleans, La., and won by Grandmaster (GM) Wilhelm Steinitz and will continue to the present world chess champion, GM Ding Liren.
  • It will also track the history of the Women’s World Chess Championship from its first winner, the legendary Vera Menchik who was the first Women's World Champion, to Ju Wenjun, the reigning women’s world chess champion.
  • Programming will include lectures about the history of the World Chess Championship, collaborations with FIDE celebrating their golden anniversary and possible collaborations with current and past champions.

NMG Provides Commercial and Operational Update upon Filing 2023 Financial Reports: Significant Progress over the Year in Advancing North America’s Mine-to-Battery-Material Graphite Production

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Leveraging this technological platform, over 4,200 samples were reviewed and prepared by the Company’s battery laboratory in 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Leveraging this technological platform, over 4,200 samples were reviewed and prepared by the Company’s battery laboratory in 2023.
  • NMG also signed a supply agreement with GM for 18,000 tpa of active anode material for an initial term of six years.
  • The Company maintains intensive commercial discussions and continued product qualification with other tier-1 battery manufacturers for the balance of its Phase-2 production.
  • Such measures reaffirm the importance of establishing a local, resilient, and ESG-compliant supply chain of graphite to support battery and EV production.

RealPage Announces New Products to Attack Rental Fraud

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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The two solutions, RealPage Identity Verification – Premium and RealPage Income Verification, offer better protection and are seamlessly integrated into the existing leasing process, making adoption easier for staff and more efficient for applicants.

Key Points: 
  • The two solutions, RealPage Identity Verification – Premium and RealPage Income Verification, offer better protection and are seamlessly integrated into the existing leasing process, making adoption easier for staff and more efficient for applicants.
  • RealPage recently announced results from its extensive fraud study that sheds light on the impact of fraud today, its increasing complexity and the need for solutions to detect fraud earlier in the leasing process.
  • “Our nationwide study revealed that often over half of rental fraud is discovered after a resident moves in, which leaves the property vulnerable to extensive damage,” said Josh Albrechtsen, RealPage SVP and GM, Front Office Solutions.
  • RealPage Identity Verification – Premium and RealPage Income Verification will be available in Q2 2024.

GM Financial Announces 2023 Auction of the Year Winners

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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GM Financial today named five regional Auction of the Year winners for 2023, one Most Valuable Auction of the Year, and for the first time, awarded a Perfect Audit Score.

Key Points: 
  • GM Financial today named five regional Auction of the Year winners for 2023, one Most Valuable Auction of the Year, and for the first time, awarded a Perfect Audit Score.
  • These prestigious awards are part of GM Financial’s annual Auction of Excellence program recognizing the nation’s highest-performing auction locations.
  • 2023 Regional Auction of the Year Winners:
    America’s Auto Auction Columbus Fair — Obetz, Ohio
    Southern Auto Auction — East Windsor, Connecticut
    Manheim Nashville — Mount Juliet, Tennessee
    2023 Most Valuable Auction of the Year:
    “Thank you for recognizing Manheim Pennsylvania with this prestigious award,” said Joey Hughes, Manheim Pennsylvania Vice President and General Manager.
  • We are grateful for our continued collaboration with GM Financial and look forward to continuing to exceed their expectations,” he said.