Castrol has launched a new formulation of its renowned car engine lubricant, MAGNATEC, that has been designed to meet the specific needs of Fiat GS1 and DS1-compatible engines, found in models such as the Fiat Panda and 500, Jeep Compass and Jeep Renegade, and Alfa Romeo Mito. Castrol MAGNATEC 0W-30 GS1/DS1 features a unique, patented DUALOCK Technology that provides car engines with 50% better protection from warm-up wear and re-start wear. Castrol MAGNATEC 0W-30 GS1/DS1 is designed for use across all Fiat petrol and diesel vehicles where Fiat recommends an ACEA C2 or earlier specification 0W-30 lubricant. The new product…
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For the Third Year Running, Booking.com Announces it is the Official Travel Partner of the Eurovision 2023 Song Contest Leading digital travel platform, Booking.com, is pleased to announce its renewed partnership with the European Broadcasting Union, to become the Official Travel Partner of the Eurovision 2023 Song Contest for a third year running. The song contest will be taking place between the 9th and 13th May in Liverpool, England. Whether you’re celebrating the contest in the heart of Liverpool, or from the comfort of a unique holiday home surrounded by friends and family, Booking.com has a great option for every music lover –…
NVIDIA Omniverse, a pillar of the NVIDIA Studio suite of tools and apps built for creators, helps interconnect 3D artists’ workflows by replacing linear pipelines with live-sync creation. This week’s In the NVIDIA Studio artists specializing in 3D, Gianluca Squillace and Pasquale Scionti, benefitted from just that — in their individual work and in collaborating to construct the final scene for their project, Cold Inside Diorama. The artists set out to build a Viking scene that conveyed a cold, glacial mood — uniting Squillace’s character with Scionti’s environment while maintaining their individual styles. Such a workflow, which used to require endless exports and…
CN announces the launch of a new self-service, sustainability tool, My Carbon Emissions. CN was first to launch the Carbon Calculator, 13 years ago, to give customers visibility into their estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and emissions savings using rail transportation. Now, this new tool, available on the CN One eBusiness platform, provides customers with a detailed report of their estimated GHG emissions based on all their loaded shipments moved on CN, as well as the emissions avoided by choosing rail over truck. These insights into the environmental benefits of shipping via CN’s transcontinental network empowers customers to make data…
Samsung Electronics has announced Samsung Health Stack 1.0, a breakthrough in digital health research, at the annual conference and exhibition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2023, held from April 17 to 21 in Chicago. Developed by Samsung Research and Samsung Research America,1 the Samsung Health Stack is an all-in-one open-source project that aids digital health research by enabling researchers to easily build apps, backend servers and analysis tools for wearable devices based on the Android and Wear OS operating systems. Advancements in smartphones and wearables have the potential to revolutionize healthcare research and the development of data-based…
Lay’s continues to spark joy and help deserving communities “Stay Golden” through its global program Lay’s RePlay, which creates sustainable soccer field from disposed Lay’s Potato Chip bags to drive positive outcomes for people and the planet. Today, Lay’s opened the Lay’s RePlay field in Santa Ana, Calif. The U.S. Lay’s RePlay field is made with recycled Lay’s chip bags and packaging materials that are washed, shredded and converted into an underlying layer that is designed to be recycled at the end of its 10-year lifespan. According to a study by the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, the Hispanic community was…
Apple has previewed Apple BKC, the first Apple Store in India. Located in Mumbai’s bustling Bandra Kurla Complex financial, arts, and entertainment district, Apple BKC will serve as a dynamic space where customers can come together, explore Apple products and services, enjoy exceptional service, and learn how to get more out of their devices through free Today at Apple sessions. “At Apple, our customers are at the center of everything we do, and our teams are excited to celebrate this wonderful moment with them as we open our first retail store in India,” said Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s senior vice president…
The Škoda Hispano-Suiza 25/100 KS limited series was worldwide one of the most advanced cars of its time. The prestige of the licensed vehicle was enhanced by Škoda’s uncompromising emphasis on the quality of materials and workmanship. The 6.6-litre six-cylinder engine with 100 hp (74 kW) at 1,600 rpm accelerated the two-tonne, five-meter-long car to more than 120 km/h. The professionally restored exhibit of the Škoda Museum from 1928 will be presented at the Techno Classica Essen from 12 – 16 April for the first time. With the in-line eight-cylinder Laurin & Klement FF the Mladá Boleslav-based car company entered the automotive top…
GlobalData and Huawei release a 5G voice transition white paper — Voice services are still critical to telcos GlobalData, a leading information services company, and Huawei jointly released a white paper — The 5G Voice Transition: Managing the Complexity. It describes the current challenges facing operators who run voice networks over multiple generations, and proposes building a convergent voice network that would solve network transition issues. It also points out that the high-value services supported by the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) data channel are the new development direction for voice. Voice Is Still One of Operators’ Most Important Services GlobalData surveyed…
Genetic Therapy Corrects Progressive Muscle Disorder in Mice – Investigators find at Massachusetts General Hospital People with myotonic dystrophy experience progressive muscle weakness and repeated episodes of painless muscle stiffness called myotonia. Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently used a targeted drug to restore muscle strength and correct myotonia in mice with myotonic dystrophy. The research, which is published in Nature Communications, could lead to new treatments for affected patients. Myotonia in myotonic dystrophy is caused by abnormal processing (or splicing) of the transcript created from the gene that codes for the muscle chloride channel Clcn1, a protein that controls…