Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has partnered with the Palmdale Water District (PWD) and carbon removal startup Capture6 to design a first-of-its-kind Advanced Water Treatment (AWT) demonstration facility with novel brine management technology in Palmdale, California. The AWT demonstration facility is part of PWD’s Pure Water Antelope Valley (Pure Water AV) indirect potable reuse program, which will produce approximately 5 million gallons per day (MGD) of potable water using tertiary effluent from the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts’ Palmdale Water Reclamation Plant. Stantec is providing program management services for Pure Water AV. “Incorporating Capture6’s technology…
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Walmart Opens First Market Fulfillment Center in Arkansas as the Retailer Doubles Down on Store Fulfillment Walmart opened its first high-tech Market Fulfillment Center in Arkansas at Store 100 located at 406 S Walton Blvd in Bentonville, underlining the retailer’s strategic move toward expanding the use of its stores as fulfillment centers to enhance the shopping experience for customers everywhere. The Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) is built within the store and is powered by a proprietary storage and retrieval system – named Alphabot. Walmart believes fulfillment through digitization and connecting its store and supply chain assets end to end will transform fulfillment. And…
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), home to the top-ranked adult and pediatric hospitals in the Southeastern U.S., has announced a collaboration that aims to reduce the health system’s carbon footprint while determining a blueprint to guide industry efforts. The project is with the radiology department, where efforts will focus on measuring and addressing energy consumption of VUMC’s diagnostic imaging devices including MR, CT, ultrasound and X-ray. The two organizations plan to publish their findings with the aim of promoting knowledge exchange and enabling others in the industry to enhance their environmental…
Adidas announced it will begin selling some of the remaining inventory of adidas YEEZY products, with an initial release end of May 2023. A range of existing designs will be available exclusively through adidas.com/yeezy and the adidas CONFIRMED app. A significant amount will be donated to selected organizations working to combat discrimination and hate, including racism and antisemitism. These include but are not limited to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change. The release will mark the first time that products have been available to consumers since adidas terminated the YEEZY partnership in October…
Hyundai Motor Company’s recreated Pony Coupe Concept has made its world premiere — nearly 50 years after its original debut — in Lake Como, Italy. Originally unveiled at the 1974 Turin Motor Show, the Pony Coupe Concept is an important vehicle in the company’s history and design heritage. Hyundai Motor unveiled the rebuilt Pony Coupe Concept at the inaugural Hyundai Reunion, a heritage brand platform that reflects on Hyundai Motor’s past and its future direction. Among the representatives present at the event were Giorgetto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio Giugiaro, long time designer himself, to signal the previously announced restoration,…
A team of nature conservation experts announced that with the help of Huawei Cloud and artificial intelligence, they have identified at least five jaguars – two males, one female and two cubs – in a nature reserve in Dzilam, Yucatan, in southeast Mexico. The Tech4Nature Mexico project, launched in the Dzilam de Bravo nature reserve last year, is a flagship project of a three-year program between Huawei and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It uses an integrated and continuous monitoring system analyzing images and sound data to identify and track jaguars and their preys. The project involves partners including…
Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as drop-in fuel. “Shining sunlight on the artificial leaves and getting liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water is an amazing bit of chemistry” -Motiar Rahaman The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert CO2, water and sunlight into multicarbon liquid fuels – ethanol and propanol – in a single step. These fuels have a high energy density and can be easily stored or transported. Unlike fossil fuels, these…
Small and medium businesses in UK waste an average of 11 hours per month – the equivalent of more than three working weeks per year – submitting or managing expenses, new research by American Express reveals. However, it’s not just time these businesses are wasting; the business leaders surveyed estimated their employees collectively lose almost £300 a month due to manual errors and inefficiencies, suggesting current expense management processes aren’t fit for purpose in many SME businesses. UK business leaders said getting back lost time on expense management would allow them to focus on more value-adding activities, such as new business…
Samsung Electronics has announced the global launch of the KMC-W, an updated Windows version of the Samsung Kiosk, winner of an ISE Best of Show award from AV Technology at Integrated Systems Europe 2023. The new version of the Kiosk features an interactive 24-inch display that brings expanded software compatibility to advanced self-service display technology for the food and beverage, retail, travel and healthcare industries. The convenience of contactless technology has become critical for businesses to meet consumer demand across various industries and applications, including bill payments, drive-thru, self-ordering, smart cafés and unmanned fitting rooms. At the same time, touchscreen…
Shiseido Discovers Stretching along the Anti-Gravity System ”Dynamic Belt” Activates Arrector Pili Muscles—Key to Improving ”Sagging” Shiseido discovered that ”Dynamic Belt,” the anti-gravity system inside the skin that resists ”sagging” caused by gravitational force, is oriented in a certain direction through joint research with Dr. Kyoichi Matsuzaki, Chief of External Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at the International University of Health and Welfare, together with researchers at Jichi Medical University and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences. Moreover, it was confirmed that stretching the skin along the direction of Dynamic Belt activates the arrector pili muscles, with potential to improve…