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German extreme athlete Jonas Deichmann set a new world record in his 106th long-distance triathlon. The Ironman distance involves a 3.8 kilometre (2.4 mile) swim, 180 kilometres bike ride and 42 kilometres run. This comes two weeks after Germany's Laura Lindemann won the mixed triathlon relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics. What else is known about Dykeman's records? “It's a new world record of 106 days, which is incredible,” Dykeman said. The previous record was held by Britain's Sean Conway, who achieved a 105-day streak last year. “This has been my life for the past eight or nine months. I…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis' visit to Asia and Oceania in September will be a journey of religious, economic and social contrasts. The 87-year-old Pope will visit four countries from September 2 to 13, making it the longest journey of his papacy in terms of both distance traveled and number of days away from the Vatican. The journey will also take him to Muslim-majority Indonesia and Christian-majority Papua New Guinea, as well as Asia's economic powerhouse Singapore and Timor-Leste, one of the world's poorest countries. The trip was planned for September 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic put everything on…

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hurco Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HURC), a leader in CNC machine and control technology, is set to make a big impact next month at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago. At IMTS, the largest manufacturing technology trade show in North America, Hurco will showcase the results of its aggressive innovation and product development strategy. In its expanded 16,000-square-foot IMTS booth, Hurco will showcase how its unwavering focus on research and development provides cutting-edge technologies that increase productivity and profitability for customers around the world. “Being at the forefront of technological innovation is…

A new watchdog has been created to keep a close eye on major intersections in the Salt Lake Valley region.It's called “LIDAR,” short for Light Detection and Ranging. The technology uses eye-safe laser light to measure the distance and movement of cars, pedestrians and cyclists, and explores ways to make intersections safer and more efficient for everyone.Currently, only two intersections are fully operational for riders: 5900 South and State Street in Murray, and 2100 South and Redwood Road in Salt Lake City, near the Glendale Golf Course, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.But there are plans for expansion: The…

In the sprawling labs of Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters, hundreds of server racks slog through multiple aisles, performing tasks far less common than running the world's largest search engine or running workloads for millions of Google Cloud customers.Instead, they run their tests on Google's own microchip called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).Originally trained for internal workloads, Google's TPUs have been available to cloud customers since 2018. In July, Apple revealed that it was using TPUs to train the AI ​​models underlying Apple Intelligence, and Google also uses TPUs to train and run its Gemini chatbot.”There's a fundamental idea out…

I was 22 when I first went to India. It was the late 90s, and the hippie highway from Agra to Jaipur to Rishikesh was still teeming with backpackers. Germans, Israelis, and Australians were travelling around India in elephant-print harem pants and prayer beads, feasting on banana pancake breakfasts and cannabis-infused bhangrashi. My boyfriend had seriously studied the Indian subcontinent, and he came armed with maps, train schedules, and a prestigious fellowship, with a plan to experience India differently. We would dress respectably, live on a local budget (less than $5 a day), and visit places other backpackers would miss.…

I've been reviewing mobile phones for over a decade, but in 2024 I find myself doing all sorts of things I wouldn't normally do when testing a mobile device: coming up with photo ideas that don't exist yet, calling people who speak a different language and having an AI translate the conversation in real time, and lining up group photos using holographic-like digital representations of my friends even when they're not there. I'm talking about features in Google's Pixel 9 series and Samsung's Galaxy phones, which are the result of both companies aggressively building AI into their flagship products. Apple,…

Work Medical Technology Group, Inc.HANGZHOU, China, Aug. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WORK Medical Technology Group LTD (the “Company”), a Chinese medical device supplier, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 2,000,000 common shares (the “Offering”) at a public offering price of US$4.00 per common share. The common shares have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market and are expected to begin trading on August 23, 2024 under the ticker symbol “WOK.”The company expects to receive aggregate proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and other related expenses, of $8.0 million. In addition, the…

On August 6, Ukraine took the world by surprise with its bold and daring invasion of Russia's Kursk region. This surprise attack by a small country against a nuclear-armed state shattered Russian President Vladimir Putin's carefully crafted narrative of greatness and invincibility. While Western observers focused primarily on the tactical advance of the Ukrainian military, the attack also revealed deeper strategic vulnerabilities in Russia's so-called great power status. Notably, even Russia's closest allies within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — have not supported it militarily or politically, leaving Moscow isolated in the…

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