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Oracle Releases Java 22

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the availability of Java 22, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform. Java 22 (Oracle JDK 22) delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements to help developers increase productivity, drive innovation, and accelerate growth across their organizations. These include enhancements to the Java language, its APIs and performance, and the tools included in the Java Development Kit (JDK).

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  • Java 22 (Oracle JDK 22) delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements to help developers increase productivity, drive innovation, and accelerate growth across their organizations.
  • The Java 22 release is the result of continuous collaboration between Oracle and other members of the worldwide Java developer community via OpenJDK and the Java Community Process (JCP).
  • For more details on the features in Java 22, please read the Java 22 technical blog post .
  • By delivering Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM, and the Java SE Subscription Enterprise Performance Pack free of charge on OCI, Java 22 enables developers to build and deploy applications that run faster, better, and with optimized cost-performance.

PET PARTNERS LOOKING FOR SOME SPECIAL ANIMALS

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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BELLEVUE, Wash., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- It's no secret animals can have a positive impact on a person's mental and physical health. That's why every year thousands of facilities such as libraries, schools, hospitals, assisted living, and more ask Pet Partners volunteers to bring therapy animals to visit and provide comfort to their students, residents, patients, and customers. This April 30 is a special day to recognize the beneficial role therapy dogs and other therapy animals, in partnership with their human companions, play in creating happier, healthier communities.

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  • That's why every year thousands of facilities such as libraries, schools, hospitals, assisted living, and more ask Pet Partners volunteers to bring therapy animals to visit and provide comfort to their students, residents, patients, and customers.
  • Pet Partners is calling for people to volunteer with their pets as therapy animal teams to help support people in need.
  • Pet Partners is the nation's leading registry of therapy animals, and their volunteer teams can't fulfill all the requests they receive for therapy animal visits.
  • "An animal's temperament is what determines whether they might make a good registered therapy animal with Pet Partners, not any specific species or breed," said Pet Partners President and CEO C. Annie Peters.

wasmCloud 1.0 Brings the WebAssembly Component Model to Enterprise

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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`wash build` components in Python, Javascript, .NET, C++, and more

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  • `wash build` components in Python, Javascript, .NET, C++, and more
    PARIS, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, EU), Production-ready and components-first, wasmCloud 1.0 brings WASI 0.2 and the WebAssembly (Wasm) Component Model to production environments.
  • wasmCloud 1.0 comes with several standard interfaces; wasi:cli for environment, wasi:runtime for configuration and wasi:http but any 0.2 component will work perfectly in wasmCloud.
  • wasmCloud supports signing components with ed25519 keys, allowing for offline verification of component identity and issuer.
  • Adobe and BMW have been running wasmCloud in production for some time, with new industry projects emerging all the time.

Databricks and NVIDIA Deepen Collaboration to Accelerate Data and AI Workloads with the Data Intelligence Platform

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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Together, Databricks and NVIDIA will optimize data and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

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  • Together, Databricks and NVIDIA will optimize data and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Organizations are rapidly adopting Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform to build and customize generative AI solutions trained on their data and tailored to their business and domain.
  • Databricks Mosaic AI and NVIDIA are collaborating on model training and inference to advance the state of building and deploying generative AI models on Databricks' end-to-end platform.
  • For generative AI model training, Databricks Mosaic AI relies on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, which are optimized for developing LLMs.

Databricks and NVIDIA Deepen Collaboration to Accelerate Data and AI Workloads with the Data Intelligence Platform

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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Together, Databricks and NVIDIA will optimize data and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Key Points: 
  • Together, Databricks and NVIDIA will optimize data and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Organizations are rapidly adopting Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform to build and customize generative AI solutions trained on their data and tailored to their business and domain.
  • Databricks Mosaic AI and NVIDIA are collaborating on model training and inference to advance the state of building and deploying generative AI models on Databricks' end-to-end platform.
  • For generative AI model training, Databricks Mosaic AI relies on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, which are optimized for developing LLMs.

Deliverance "Banjo Boy" Actor Billy Redden the Focus of Fundraising Effort

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Saturday, March 16, 2024
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LOS ANGELES, March 16, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A Southern California-based bluegrass band is leading an effort to raise funds for Billy Redden, the one-time 15-year-old local Georgia boy who was cast as "the banjo boy" in the 1972 landmark motion picture Deliverance. Redden played the part of "Lonnie" who gets locked in a musical duel – "Dueling Banjos" – with actor Ronny Cox in one of the films enduring and iconic scenes.

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  • A Southern California bluegrass band is leading an effort to compensate the former child actor for his iconic "Dueling Banjos" scene in the movie Deliverance.
  • Redden played the part of "Lonnie" who gets locked in a musical duel – "Dueling Banjos" – with actor Ronny Cox in one of the films enduring and iconic scenes.
  • We launched the fundraising campaign simply to compensate Billy for helping to create a scene that has brought so much joy to so many people."
  • "Billy Redden was largely forgotten," states musician Lance Frantzich, who has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for Redden.

Nutri-Grain® and Kroger Join No Kid Hungry to Help End Summer Hunger for Ohio Kids and Families

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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CHICAGO, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- All kids deserve a great summer, but for millions of children who rely on school meals, summer can be the hungriest time of year. That's why Nutri-Grain® is teaming up with Kroger to donate $50,000 to No Kid Hungry to make summer a time for all kids in Ohio to grow, learn and thrive. No Kid Hungry works with organizations, schools and community groups across the state including the Children's Hunger Alliance and Ohio School-Based Health Alliance.

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  • $50,000 donation to No Kid Hungry will help kids access meals over the summer.
  • That's why Nutri-Grain ® is teaming up with Kroger to donate $50,000 to No Kid Hungry to make summer a time for all kids in Ohio to grow, learn and thrive.
  • No Kid Hungry works with organizations, schools and community groups across the state including the Children's Hunger Alliance and Ohio School-Based Health Alliance.
  • Since beginning its partnership in 2013, Kellanova has helped No Kid Hungry reach more than 1.8 million kids facing hunger in this country.

Flox's New Command Line Interface and FloxHub Provide Reproducibility For Environments Across Entire Development Lifecycle

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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PASADENA, Calif., March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SCALE 21x - Flox today is announcing the general availability of its new Command Line Interface (CLI) and FloxHub to help developers define their environments with precision, use them to collaborate efficiently with others, and align them with the software they ship. The CLI is open source and FloxHub is free for anyone to use: https://flox.dev

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  • Containers are increasingly considered too rigid for modern software development because their strong isolation often results in incompatibility and inconvenience.
  • Engineers can now manage environments across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from development to build and runtime.
  • The Flox CLI helps developers manage their environments across desktops and servers, while FloxHub is a cloud service that makes it easy to share them with others using a simple command.
  • Using them, software developers can create portable environments that provide consistency across machines and projects.

Tekla 2024 Structural BIM Software Offers Enhanced User Experience and Connects Workflows Across Projects and Stakeholders

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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WESTMINSTER, Colo., March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the introduction of 2024 versions of its Tekla® software for constructible Building Information Modeling (BIM), structural engineering and steel fabrication management. Boasting an enhanced user experience, Tekla Structures 2024, Tekla Structural Designer 2024, Tekla Tedds 2024 and Tekla PowerFab 2024 let users collaborate with ease through enhanced communication for more integrated, connected workflows between all construction project stakeholders. Usability improvements make the Tekla suite of solutions ideal for experienced and new users alike, helping them to be on schedule and within budget of their projects.

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  • Boasting an enhanced user experience, Tekla Structures 2024 , Tekla Structural Designer 2024 , Tekla Tedds 2024 and Tekla PowerFab 2024 let users collaborate with ease through enhanced communication for more integrated, connected workflows between all construction project stakeholders.
  • The 2024 version of Tekla Structures provides an enhanced user experience for staying on schedule and on budget.
  • The Tekla Structures BIM software is available in a free 30-day trial version that lets users test the functionality of Tekla Structures.
  • Free trials are also available for the structural analysis and design software Tekla Structural Designer and Tekla Tedds.

Fast + Epp opens new office in Toronto, strengthening presence in Eastern Canada

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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TORONTO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Fast + Epp Structural Engineers Inc. has expanded its North American operations with the opening of a new office in Toronto, Ontario.

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  • TORONTO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Fast + Epp Structural Engineers Inc. has expanded its North American operations with the opening of a new office in Toronto, Ontario.
  • The firm's newest office will anchor project delivery in Eastern Canada, with a continued emphasis on collaboration and design excellence in various sectors, including cultural, post-secondary, sports and recreation, civic, and transportation and aviation.
  • With over 25 years of local experience, Pierre brings a wealth of knowledge to his new role at Fast + Epp.
  • He will be joined by a team of engineers and technicians, with support from Fast + Epp's North American and digital offices.