Castrol’s collaboration with Submer on immersion cooling gains momentum as Castrol’s fluid for immersion cooling passes Submer’s testing requirements and gains approval. Castrol, one of the world’s leading lubricant and immersion coolant brands, is working with Submer, a frontrunner in immersion cooling systems. Castrol’s cooling fluids are designed to maximise data centre cooling efficiency, offer enhanced equipment protection and can help safeguard against facility downtime by comprehensive material testing. Immersion cooling involves submerging electronic components in a non-conductive (‘dielectric’) liquid coolant. Compared to conventional cooling methods, it can help reduce the consumption of energy and water needed to cool servers…
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Emirates’ flagship A380 made a landmark touchdown at Christchurch Airport, marking the resumption of its daily service from Dubai to Christchurch via Sydney after more than three years. The special service was greeted by a crowd of spectators at the Christchurch Airport boundary, who watched as the iconic aircraft taxied through a ceremonial water canon salute, before parking in view of trade, media, and VIP guests at the international terminal. Outbound EK412 left Dubai at 10:15 local time, stopping briefly in Sydney before arriving in Christchurch at 13:55 hours the next day, New Zealand time. On board the first flight…
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Infosys Public Services (IPS), a US-based subsidiary of global next-generation digital services and consulting leader Infosys has announced the successful deployment of UNDP’s Quantum Global Digital Management System. Quantum, based on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, provides a unified and seamless platform for all UNDP business functions including human capital management, financial management, supply chain management and enterprise performance management for eight agencies of the United Nations with a user base of over 50,000 across 170 countries. The new platform replaced all legacy systems, providing a simplified digital landscape with features like Intelligent Dashboards,…
Toyota Launches the C+walk S in Japan, a New Form of Walking-Assistance Mobility Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that it will release the C+walk S, a pedestrian-mobility-assistance model that is the second in the new C+walk mobility series. The C+walk S will go on sale at Toyota automobile dealers and be offered at rental and leasing stores. In addition, Toyota has also improved the standing-type model C+walk T as well as the C+pod. The C+walk T will go on sale in May as a model that can operate on sidewalks along public roads in compliance with the revision of the Road Traffic Act that will take effect in April. C+pod…
Xiaomi has announced the highly anticipated international release of Redmi Note 12 Series. The popular lineup features four exciting devices: Redmi Note 12 Pro+ 5G, Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G, Redmi Note 12 5G, and Redmi Note 12. Building upon the incredible success of Redmi Note 11 Series, Redmi Note 12 Series once again delivers remarkable enhancements to the features that matter most to its fans. These upgrades include the camera system, battery life, charging speed and user-friendly design, all offered at an exceptional value. With the global launch of Redmi Note 12 Series, Xiaomi is demonstrating once again its…
Nestlé in the U.S. announced it is investing in Ganado solar project, owned and developed by Enel North America in Jackson County, Texas. With Nestlé’s investment, the project, which is the size of just over 600 hectares, or about 850 football fields, will add 208 megawatts of solar electricity to the U.S. power grid. It will help Nestlé advance its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its operations. In addition to its direct investment, Nestlé will purchase 100% of the renewable electricity attributes, generated by the project’s energy production. That’s estimated to be an average of 333,000 megawatt hours…
In support of its ambition to provide more ways for customers to shop more easily, Tesco has surpassed its own target for the rollout of its rapid delivery service Whoosh, which is now available from 1,000 Express stores. The online service first launched in May 2021 and is now available from half of Tesco’s estate of Express convenience stores across the UK, serving 55% of UK households, representing a significant milestone in the expansion of the service. Tesco had set a target to offer Whoosh from 800 of its stores by the end of February 2023, but has exceeded that…
Coca-Cola Invites Digital Artists to ‘Create Real Magic’ Using New AI Platform Digital creatives around the world can use a first-of-its-kind AI platform to generate original artwork with iconic creative assets from the Coca-Cola archives. Built exclusively for Coca-Cola by OpenAI and Bain & Company, “Create Real Magic” is the first platform of its kind to combine the capabilities of GPT-4, which produces human-like text from search engine queries, and DALL-E, which produces images based on text. Through the “Create Real Magic” contest, artists can download and submit their work for the opportunity to be featured on Coke’s digital billboards…
“Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service”, the second Huawei Cloud Summit Middle East & Africa brought government leaders, cloud native industry experts, and customer representatives together from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa with the aim of exploring how to optimise the cloud to boost the digital economy. H.E. Zhang Yiming, the Chinese Ambassador to UAE, gave a keynote speech on the significance of cloud computing for the digital economy saying “China is poised to partner with the UAE and countries in the Middle East and Africa in their digital cloud journey. Together, we will revitalise the industry…
Lenovo in collaboration with AMD announces the launch of a keyboard available on select devices featuring an Aotearoa New Zealand bilingual keyboard, designed to seamlessly write in the indigenous language, te reo Māori. The breakthrough approach device aims to enable Lenovo’s customers to communicate in their preferred language. The idea for the keyboard is the result of Lenovo New Zealand Country Manager, Libby Macgregor’s 8- year-old son Felix, beginning to learn te reo Māori in school and questioned why there wasn’t hardware available to support his learning. New Zealanders aged 15-34 are the most likely age group to speak more than a…