Sona Nanotech Inc. (CSE: SONA, OTCQB: SNANF) CEO David Regan speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive about his ambitious plans for the Canadian company's proprietary gold nanorods.
He says that Sona Nanotech is currently "building a mountain of data" to support the potential use of its technology in innovative cancer treatments, having recently announced that it had received the third set of results of an independent assessment of its nanorods from the U.S. National Cancer Institutes Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL).
Direxion, a leading provider of tradeable and thematic ETFs, today announced the launch of the Direxion HCM Tactical Enhanced US ETF (HCMT). HCMT utilizes a proprietary, quantitative investment model to attempt to minimize loss and maximize gains across all market conditions. HCMT seeks to provide enhanced returns across multiple market cycles that are broadly correlated to the US equity markets.
We believe tactical management is a powerful, straightforward solution to navigating market volatility, said Howard Capital Management CEO and Portfolio Manager, Vance Howard. Our disciplined, rules-based approach takes the emotion out of investing and allows us to be strategic and tactical with equity markets that do not think or feel.
The Direxion HCM Tactical Enhanced US ETF strives to outperform the major US equity indices during market upswings by utilizing derivatives, while seeking to minimize losses through investments in cash, or cash equivalents, during downward market trends. The tactical nature of the strategy allows HCMT to provide enhanced equity exposure during periods of market uptrends, resulting in the potential for higher risk/reward. The strategy is an aggressive, yet disciplined approach to equity investing.
Direxions expertise in providing trading tools for tactical money managers proved a natural fit for collaboration, as Howard Capital Management utilizes leveraged products within their strategies in their attempt to generate alpha, said Direxion Managing Director and Head of Sales and Alternatives, Edward Egilinsky.
About Direxion:
Direxion equips investors who are driven by conviction with ETF solutions built for purpose and fine-tuned for precision. These solutions are available for a broad spectrum of investors, whether executing short-term tactical trades, or investing in thematic strategies. Direxions reputation is founded on developing products that precisely express market perspectives and allow investors to manage their risk exposure. Founded in 1997, the company has approximately $27.5 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2023. For more information, please visit www.direxion.com.
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During each episode, hosts Ciely, senior writer for The Athletic, Meaney, Head of Media for FTN Network, and Carpenter, FTN Fantasy Analyst, will discuss fantasy football the way it should be: fun, insightful and daringly candid. The trio won't just deal takes; they will share their knowledge to help the viewer advance as a fantasy manager. Whether they need to "make a list" or debate milk before cereal, you will be laughing, as well as improving as a manager, with every show.
At FTN, we strive to be peoples go-to source for trusted, accurate and dependable fantasy football information and statistics, said Kevin Adams, CEO and Founder of FTN Network. Getting our own show on a platform like SiriusXM is an incredible opportunity to create a value-add for our diehard user base and introduce our brand and product to a massive new, and highly engaged, fantasy sports audience.
In May 2023, FTN announced its significant growth in Q1, stemming from a 54% increase in web traffic (year-over-year) across the FTN network of sites. Its 2023 subscription revenue was up 34% (year-over-year) across the FTN network of sites.
Based on the quality and value of a unified solutions proposal that CBTS presented in collaboration with Westcoastan IT distributor with nearly four decades in the U.K. marketand the subsequent win, Westcoast recognized CBTS for setting an example for other Managed Service Providers (MSP) in the channel to follow.
We thank the team at CBTS for trusting Westcoast as your HPE GreenLake distribution partner and for the commitment you have demonstrated to selling HPE GreenLake solutions, said Rayall Thompson, HPE GreenLake Business Development Manager. CBTS closed the first-ever UK channel partner deal with our client in 2019, and have gone from strength to strength since. CBTS also led and transacted the first colocation deal to go via Westcoast. This absolutely deserves recognition. We look forward to continuing our partnership and building future successes with you in the years ahead.
On this project, CBTS worked with a large provider of financial software and solutions based in the United Kingdom (U.K.) to transfer their services to HPE GreenLake Primera Storage, HPE ProLiant, HPE Relocation and Migration Services, in addition to a five-year HPE GreenLake services agreement with CBTS professional, management, monitoring, advisory, and firmware services. The clients initial challenges of supporting aging infrastructure in multiple data centers, including the additional expense of doing so, were all resolved by this solution.
Our strategic relationship with HPE and the trust that we have nurtured for more than 30 years underpin our success with HPE solutions like GreenLake, said Scott Seger, Senior Vice President, Global Accounts, CBTS. When we bring our best talent to our partnership with Westcoast, its clear that we create a winning formula for our clients. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this project and a huge thank you to Westcoast for this recognition.
The exchange of the award, from left to right: Larry Smith, XaaS Sales Manager, Technology Solutions, Westcoast Limited; Simon Boyce, Account Manager, CBTS UK Sales; Omar Raja, Program Manager, CBTS Global Sales Desk; Ray Thompson, HPE GreenLake Business Development Manager, Westcoast Limited; and Alex Jones, HPE Business Development Manager, Westcoast United.
ABOUT CBTS:
CBTS serves enterprise and midmarket clients in all industries across the United States and Canada. CBTS combines deep technical expertise with a full suite of flexible technology solutionsincluding Application Modernization, Managed Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Unified Communications, and Infrastructure solutions. From developing and deploying modern applications and the secure, scalable platforms on which they run, to managing, monitoring, and optimizing their operations, CBTS delivers comprehensive technology solutions for its clients transformative business initiatives. For more information, please visit www.cbts.com.
Sapphire Technologies, developer and manufacturer of energy recovery systems for hydrogen and natural gas applications, is set to ship its largest number of turboexpanders to date, marking a key partnership milestone with leading US energy infrastructure company,Tallgrass and Evolve Energy, a leading critical infrastructure and data center service company. The delivery of the four turboexpanders marks the first out of 72 currently the largest installation of turboexpander technology in the world.
Sapphire Technologies has significantly grown its customer base in the last year and is projected to increase its turboexpander production by over 400% by the end of the year. In April, the company announced a deal with leading natural gas development, production, midstream, and technology company CNX Resources to develop a FreeSpin In-line Turboexpander solution for high-pressure service, which will harvest waste energy and generate zero-emissions electricity. Each FreeSpin system generates up to 2.6 GWh of clean energy each year and offsets 2,000 tons of CO2e from the atmosphere.
Our strategic partnerships with Tallgrass, Evolve Energy and CNX Resources are critical as each of the companies plays a major role in the continued adoption of decarbonization technologies, said Freddie Sarhan, CEO at Sapphire Technologies. We are excited to see continued growth in our partnerships. By working with major players in the energy industry we are able to leverage our turboexpander technology to reduce carbon footprint and help move us closer to reaching net zero targets.
We are thrilled to be actively working towards bringing edge-computing data centers into the realm of clean energy. This groundbreaking initiative provides mission-critical infrastructure solutions while contributing to a greener, more sustainable future. Our Strategic Partnerships enable possibilities to deploy advanced technology that intelligently adapts to varying temperatures, pressures, and flow rates throughout the natural gas pipeline network, said Tye Johnson, CEO at Evolve Energy.
This is an exciting milestone in our work with Sapphire Technologies. We look forward to installing the turboexpander technology later this year and taking an essential step towards capturing wasted energy and providing firm decarbonized power to customers. said Justin Campbell, VP – Power & Transmission at Tallgrass.
The important work we are doing with Sapphire Technologies allows us to supply new process solutions with the turboexpander technology to our existing assets to generate zero emissions electricity in the heart of Appalachia a region we have called home for nearly 160 years, said Ravi Srivastava, CNX President of New Technologies.
Sapphire Technologies rate of employee growth has increased by 220% over the past year, powering the company's investment in developing energy recovery systems and helping to reduce global carbon footprint.
About CNX Resources
CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) is unique. We are a premier, ultra-low carbon intensive natural gas development, production, midstream, and technology company centered in Appalachia, one of the most energy abundant regions in the world. With the benefit of a 159-year regional legacy, substantial asset base, leading core operational competencies, technology development and innovation, and astute capital allocation methodologies, we responsibly develop our resources and deploy free cash flow to create long-term per share value for our shareholders, employees, and the communities where we operate. As of December 31, 2022, CNX had 9.81 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves. The company is a member of the Standard & Poor's Midcap 400 Index. Additional information is available at www.cnx.com.
About Tallgrass
Tallgrass is a leading energy infrastructure company focused on safely, reliably and sustainably delivering the energy and services that fuel homes and businesses and enable quality of life. We are committed to being at the forefront of efforts to decarbonize our world. An investor group led by Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, which includes Enags SA, GIC, NPS and USS, owns the outstanding equity interests in Tallgrass. Learn more at https://tallgrass.com
About Evolve Energy
Established in 2004 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Evolve specializes in the deployment of mission critical infrastructure solutions for all market verticals. The principles of Evolve have been professionally dedicated to the industry serving private and public entities across the Americas, Canada, Europe and Africa. Evolve has hundreds of years of combined expertise within their organization and has completed thousands of critical infrastructure projects with their in-house team. Since 2004, Evolves mission continues serving their clients as trusted advisors in all facets of the mission critical infrastructure lifecycle planning, design, deployment and management. For additional information visit: https://www.evolveincorporated.com/
Sapphire Technologies is driving global decarbonization through developing and manufacturing energy recovery systems that harness the power of gas expansion to produce reliable and clean electricity. Sapphire Technologies systems are designed to convert energy wasted in pressure reduction processes into electric power without interrupting operations. By recovering this wasted pressure energy, Sapphire Technologies helps customers reduce carbon emissions, meet ESG goals, offset electrical costs and achieve substantial financial returns. For additional information visit: https://www.sapphiretechnologies.com.
RangeForce,a leading provider of scalable, cloud-based cyber defense upskilling solutions, today announced the launch of the Defense Readiness Index (DRI). Integrated into RangeForces Threat Centric platform and with advanced AI underpinnings the DRI is a pioneering score which gauges an organization's readiness to effectively respond to the cyberattacks it is likely to face.
The DRI empowers organizations to pinpoint specific weaknesses in their teams cyber capabilities, enables companies to quickly assess any skills gaps and implement strategic recommendations to plug those gaps. It also informs senior management with objective metrics, providing visibility into the strength of their cybersecurity teams. And the DRI maps directly to both the MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks, so organizations can accurately measure team sophistication when responding to real-world threats.
Additionally, the DRI draws upon collaborative work with the Department of Defense and NATO. NATO runs the largest international cybersecurity exercises in the world, and defends against nation-state level attacks, said Taavi Must, co-founder and CEO, RangeForce. But we found when it came to defense even their teams needed to practice using real tools, in real-time, under stressful conditions. So we developed customized training to provide visibility into skills gaps, and to identify areas for improvement. Then we focused on scaling our platform, extending the same benefits to everyone with the launch of RangeForce. And with the launch of our enhanced Threat Centric platform, were taking the next major leap forward.
Today many companies remain unaware of their teams' true readiness to defend against attacks. According to Gartner, by 2025, lack of talent or human failure will be responsible for over half of significant cyber incidents. And increasingly, threat actors see humans as the most vulnerable point of exploitation. RangeForces DRI was created to provide organizations with data-driven metrics so managers can validate the technical and soft skills of their teams, and to see how well they perform under pressure against real-world attacks.
How RangeForces DRI Works:
The DRI ranks organizations on a scale of one to five, each with its own set of controls and practices to provide visibility into where cyber-defense teams stand in terms of competency against cyberattacks. It also provides insight into a teams mix of demonstrated skills, their capabilities to detect and disrupt threats, their ability to collaborate on investigations, where skill gaps exist, the associated costs, and more.
The DRI provides a roadmap so companies can focus on the skills needed to move up to the next level, or to remain at the same level as the threat landscape evolves over time. Additionally, it enhances assessment and reporting mechanisms allowing organizations to see the progress their teams are making and it provides essential data to inform senior management about the objective strength of their security teams.
"Im excited to see a company like RangeForce use D3FEND to help cyber defenders better understand how their products can help them fight adversaries, said Peter Kaloroumakis, D3FEND Lead and Principal Cybersecurity Engineer MITRE Corporation. Our D3FEND community continues to grow, and through active community participation, D3FEND will become an even more effective and robust resource for cyber defenders."
Augmenting RangeForces (AR) Readiness Program:
With the addition of the DRI into RangeForces wider (AR) Readiness Program (Assess, Address, Review and Repeat), Rangeforce ensures it can deliver measurable improvements in defense readiness within just 30 days.
RangeForce now has the most robust training methodology on the market, which:
Helps organizations identify and address skill gaps within their cybersecurity teams.
Offers customers an integrated learning experience.
Ensures teams have the skills and knowledge necessary to protect against evolving cyber threats.
Empowers organizations to build stronger, more resilient cybersecurity defenses by focusing on team skills and expertise.
About RangeForce:
RangeForce empowers cyber defense readiness at scale. Refine individual and team capabilities against the latest threats with a continuous approach to cybersecurity skills development. See real threats in action and sharpen the skills needed to defend your organization with interactive modules, challenges, and team-based threat exercises that reflect the real world. Visit www.rangeforce.com to learn more.
Austin, Texas, June 21, 2023, Financial Gravity Companies, Inc. (OTC: FGCO) (Financial Gravity) Gravity welcomes Ray Rathel aboard as a Family Office Director.
Ray Rathel, EA, Certified Tax Coach, and owner of Rathels Accounting, has been an authoritative figure in the world of taxation for over 30 years. A master in the nuances of Taxes, Tax Planning, and Tax Resolution, Ray has spent over three decades standing up for clients dealing with the IRS. His deep roots in the Metro Atlanta area, where he's lived for over 50 years, ensure he understands the unique financial challenges of the community he serves.
After much research, Ray found a partner in Financial Gravity that helps clients accomplish their tax & wealth goals. This partner shares his values and uses a proprietary methodology to implement those values into holistic planning: a Taxes First, Then Math approach.
As a Family Office Director, Ray is responsible for prescribing advanced tax solutions and ensuring his network of partners fill those solutions with fidelity to his plan. He relies on the experts at Financial Gravity, Inc., who help him deliver lower costs, higher tax efficiency, more comprehensive diversification, and more transparent risk management. Ray shared, In the intricate world of taxation and investing, understanding your financial landscape is not a luxuryit's a necessity.
Financial Gravity CEO Scott Winters shared, We are thrilled to have Ray join us at Financial Gravity. We look forward to working on holistic planning together.
About Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
Financial Gravity Companies Inc., along with its subsidiary companies, provides investment and tax professionals with a turnkey family office charter. We help tax professionals evolve from the commoditized business of tax compliance to a Family Office Director that runs and manages their own multi-family office. Family Office Directors are able to leverage the Financial Gravity systems, technology, proprietary resources, and deep domain expertise to bring an elevated and holistic financial service experience to their clients that spans proactive tax planning, retirement and estate planning, wealth management, and risk mitigation. For more information about Financial Gravity Companies, Inc., please visit https://financialgravity.com.
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 22 June 2023 – ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC),a leading Singapore-based data centre provider, has announced a significant investment into a global venture with Firmus Technologies (Firmus), a leader in highly scaled immersion cooled computing platforms.
The HyperCube will be hosted within STT GDC locations globally, to deliver Sustainable AI Factories that are all at once sustainable, scalable, high performance and cost effective.
The venture is to be based in Singapore and will see the launch of a GPU-centric Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering focused on deep learning AI and visual computing workloads, to be known as Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). SMC will deliver bare-metal-service access to high-performance AI clusters, which include some of the world's most advanced workload accelerators including GPUs and high-speed networking from NVIDIA for energy-efficient computing.
SMC will leverage Firmus' proprietary, scaled, immersion-cooled platform the 'HyperCube' hosted within global STT GDC locations, to deliver Sustainable AI Factories that are all at once sustainable, scalable, high performance and cost effective[1].
Within the HyperCube is a fleet of high-performance servers in an immersion-cooled environment. The combination of Firmus immersion-cooled computing platform paired with STT GDCs highly efficient data centre infrastructure will result in AI workloads running with a lower PUE, lower CO2 emissions and higher petaflops per watt.
Within the HyperCube, Firmus will operate a fleet of high-performance servers in its immersion-cooled environment, provided by OEM partners including Supermicro. Firmus' unlocks access to world-class AI tools and hardware in a highly available way, thanks to industry-standard uptime SLAs, provided and warranted directly by SMC to each customer.
Firmus & STT GDC are launching SMC in Singapore, India and Australia in 2023, with the Singapore AZ (SIN01) expected to be live in H2 2023.
The combination of Firmus' immersion-cooled computing platform, paired with STT GDC's highly efficient data centre infrastructure, will result in AI workloads running with a lower PUE[2], lower CO2 emissions and higher petaflops[3] per watt.
"We are delighted to have STT GDC as our partner. This venture is a world first and brings together Firmus' world-class scaled immersion-cooled computing platform with STT GDC's global footprint, based on NVIDIA's deep learning and visual computing architecture that is driving the exponential growth in AI. This offering will be underpinned by STT GDC's globally recognised and award-winning data centres," said Ted Pretty, Firmus Technologies Chairman. "The vision of Firmus' founders was to invest in a long-term solution that will break the mould of the traditional data centre model. They imagined the data centre as an entire computing platform a 'Sustainable AI Factory' and ensuring that this computing platform is best-in-class in terms of sustainability, operating and capital cost effectiveness. The vision of this venture is to combine STT GDC's strength being one of the world's largest data centre infrastructure groups with that of our HyperCube platform to deliver what we believe is a wholly unique proposition in delivering AI & visual computing at scale not seen before in Asia or Europe."
"The compound growth in forecasted energy consumption is an existential threat to the data centre sector. Data centre operators and their customers must be prepared to embrace and support new cooling solutions and expand the services they offer beyond traditional air-cooled colocation if they are to host AI GPU platforms in a sustainable manner. The evolution of the data centre into AI factories of the future will fundamentally change the way that all infrastructure operators are thinking about the design and operation of their facilities. STT GDC's foresight and long-term vision made them the ideal global partner for Firmus' highly developed solution," said Pretty.
"The future of data centres will rely on the ability to provide both exceptional performance and highly sustainable services at scale. From our beginnings in Singapore almost 10 years ago, we now have scaled the business to cover 10 geographies. We are immensely pleased to enhance our core co-location offering to include the latest GPU-based bare-metal services, empowering our customers with access to the next generation of high-performance computing which will be so critical in the AI revolution. These high-performance services are a key component of the critical infrastructure needed to support the plethora of AI use cases that will be critical to business, governments and society in years to come," said Bruno Lopez, President and Group Chief Executive, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres.
He continued, "STT GDC, in partnership with Firmus, is committed to providing sustainable and foundational compute infrastructure. Singapore was the location of choice for our first flagship installation given the city's leadership in AI and sustainability. Through our new bare-metal service, customers will have early access to cost-effective and large-scale GPU compute through Firmus' embedded AI compute platform with leading-edge liquid immersion technology. We believe that data centres are critical building blocks of computing, and our investment in Firmus' technology and computing platform will transform our assets into sustainable AI factories, enabling our customers to process demanding workloads efficiently."
After the first deployment in Singapore, the subsequent expansion will be into the India market in 2023. In 2024 and beyond, the deployment of Sustainable Metal Cloud availability zones (AZs) will be expanded across the STT GDC portfolio.
About Firmus Technologies
Firmus Technologies was founded by a young and entrepreneurial Australian team supported by leading local investment funds. Its research facility was established in Australia, where access to renewable-based energy assisted in the development and commercialisation of its scaled immersion cooled computing platform.
From this facility Firmus developed the highly scalable system of multiple modularised 1MW HyperCubes that will now be deployed within STT GDC's data centre locations for cloud AZs, or at edge locations that enable high performance AI to exist anywhere the workload is needed.
Stand-alone, the HyperCube technology operates within a sub 1.05 PUE envelope, and thanks to its advanced cooling features, extracts up to 30% further efficiency from the compute itself. By Total Usage Effectiveness (TUE) a modern data centre metric that measures both facility and compute efficiency HyperCube is amongst the most efficient compute platform in the world, with an engineered and expected TUE of less than 1.15 in Singapore.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is one of the fastest-growing data centre providers with a global platform serving as a cornerstone of the digital ecosystem that helps the world to connect. Powering a sustainable digital future, STT GDC operates across Singapore, the UK, Germany, India, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines, providing businesses an exceptional foundation that is built for their growth anywhere. For more information, visithttps://www.sttelemediagdc.com/
Cutting-edge blockchain company, Radius, which is pioneering the trustless shared sequencing layer, has announced that it has raised a pre-seed investment of $1.7M. The funding round was led by Hashed, with participation from Superscrypt, Lambdaclass (Ergodic Fund), and Crypto.com.
As rollups become more popular choices for many applications including defi due to its scalability, properly decentralising its operation and structuring economical design has become the next major point for rollup-centric ecosystem; Shared Sequencing Layer has arisen as the ultimate solution.
Radius is dedicated to providing an economical and sustainable solution for Rollups, thereby protecting their users from harmful Miner Extractable Value (MEV). This is achieved through a groundbreaking zk scheme known as Practical Verifiable Delay Encryption (PVDE), developed by Radius. The shared sequencing layer with PVDE ensures that users are protected from harmful MEV in a truly trustless way, while still maximizing revenue for Rollups.
"Radius is committed to setting the standard for a trustless shared sequencing layer that not only maximizes revenue for Rollups but also safeguards users from the harmful effects of MEV," says AJ Ji Hoon Park. "This funding will propel us forward in achieving our goals and redefining the boundaries of what is possible in the blockchain sphere."
Radius has also recently announced a partnership with Saga, the Rollup-as-a-Service, and has joined the Celestia Ecosystem. This partnership will drive further advancements in the rollup technology and enhance the security of the blockchain ecosystem.
In addition to these achievements, Radius is in the process of building an MEV-Resistant Decentralized Exchange, known as 360. Enabled by Radius' shared sequencing layer, this new DEX is expected to significantly enhance the user experience and security in the DeFi space.
Continuing its engagement with the broader blockchain community, Radius recently hosted a conference called "Scaling 2023: The Renaissance". The event featured renowned speakers from companies such as Starkware, Flashbots and Osmosis, further solidifying Radius' position as a thought pioneer in the industry.
About Radius:
Radius is a blockchain technology company pioneering a trustless shared sequencing layer that offers an economical and sustainable solution for Rollups and protects their users from harmful MEV. With its novel approach, Radius aims to revolutionize the Rollup space and contribute to the broader adoption of blockchain technology. Radius will launch an alpha version of its sequencing layer in Q1 of 2024.
Poolbeg Pharma PLC (AIM:POLB, OTCQB:POLBF) CEO Jeremy Skillington speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive after announcing that work on the company's Oral Vaccine Programme collaboration is now set to move into a new phase. Taking place over three years, the EncOVac Consortium is funded to develop a Phase I clinical trial ready oral vaccine candidate. Skillington says "as technologies develop, we move away from injectables so we see great significant commercial opportunities in having an oral alternative." The focus of the next phase is to commence the validation of the encapsulation process.