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Hamilton Spectator
25-07-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
VERSES® Featured in IEEE Spectrum
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS) (OTCQB: VRSSF) ('VERSES'' or the 'Company'), a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation agentic software systems, has been featured in IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world's largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences. The article, co-authored by VERSES CEO Gabriel René, addresses questions such as: Why does the Spatial Web matter? How, exactly, can it make the world better? These are answered with five example use cases for the Spatial Web: VERSES CEO Gabriel René said 'I am delighted to see our vision of the Spatial Web in IEEE Spectrum. These standards will make it easier for our product, Genius™, to interconnect a physical world-full of devices, phones, wearables, robots, drones, and even AI agents. For Genius customers, this can mean quicker development and deployment and lower integration costs.' The article can be found at: About VERSES VERSES® is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modeled after the wisdom and genius of Nature. Designed around first principles found in science, physics and biology, our flagship product, Genius,™ is an agentic enterprise intelligence platform designed to generate reliable domain-specific predictions and decisions under uncertainty. Imagine a Smarter World that elevates human potential through technology inspired by Nature. Learn more at , LinkedIn and X . On behalf of the Company Gabriel René, Founder & CEO, VERSES AI Inc. Press Inquiries: press@ Investor Relations Inquiries James Christodoulou, Chief Financial Officer IR@ , +1(212)970-8889
Toronto Star
25-07-2025
- Business
- Toronto Star
VERSES® Featured in IEEE Spectrum
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS) (OTCQB: VRSSF) ('VERSES'' or the 'Company'), a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation agentic software systems, has been featured in IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world's largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Scientists make major breakthrough that could unlock futuristic energy source: 'The potential savior'
Researchers have discovered a method to produce — and potentially scale — green hydrogen, according to IEEE Spectrum. Scalable green hydrogen has long eluded researchers. Historically, scientists have relied on electricity-powered electrolyzers to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel cells. Fuel cells, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, are a kind of battery. They rely on hydrogen rather than fossil fuels to run, minimizing pollution. Green hydrogen would appear to offer a neat solution, but the reality is far more complicated. Traditional electrolyzers used proton-exchange membranes, which depended on iridium (a rare metal) to function. Iridium's rarity made green hydrogen difficult to scale and sell en masse. However, researchers have found a new way to power these electrolyzers, making the process greener than before: anion-exchange membranes (AEMs). "This has long been considered the potential savior to a lot of issues with other types of electrolysis that we've been trying to scale," Lindsey Motlow, a physicist, told IEEE Spectrum. What makes AEM a "savior"? It uses cheaper, more common metals like nickel and steel. While it's worked in labs, it hasn't been scaled yet. But that's poised to change. These research teams, located in both the U.S. and France, are backed by big companies interested in the growing renewable energy market. Hydrogen fuel cells can be used to power just about anything, from light bulbs to electric vehicles. Basically, if it runs on electricity, a hydrogen fuel cell can power it, per Columbia Climate School. Not only do they reduce pollution, but they generate three times as much power as your average fossil fuel. The CEO of Ecolectro, a U.S.-based green hydrogen company, told IEEE Spectrum that they're building their first commercial-scale units. In France, Michelin is working on making AEMs more durable. While they both have a long way to go, this is definitely a solid first step. Should the U.S. invest more in battery innovations? Absolutely Depends on the project We're investing enough We should invest less Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. Join our free newsletter for weekly updates on the latest innovations improving our lives and shaping our future, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.
Time of India
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
This is the first ever picture clicked on a cell-phone!
Taking a photo today is second nature—you pull out your phone, tap the screen, and capture the moment in an instant. It's casual, seamless, and deeply woven into the fabric of everyday life. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now We don't think twice before sending a selfie, sharing a sunset, or preserving memories with a single click. But what we now take for granted is the result of years of innovation, experimentation, and a dash of tech magic. B efore smartphones and cloud storage, before Instagram and camera rolls, there was one moment—one photograph—that started it all. And it happened on June 11, 1997, in a hospital room in California. How did the first ever picture come to be? On June 11, 1997, engineer and tech entrepreneur Philippe Kahn sat in the maternity ward of Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz, California. His wife was in labor, and as he waited for their daughter to arrive, Kahn decided he didn't just want to take a photo—he wanted to share it instantly. But there were no smartphones then. No Instagram. No instant sharing. So Kahn improvised. Using a Motorola StarTAC flip phone, a Casio QV digital camera that shot low-res 320x240 pixel images, and a Toshiba 430CDT laptop, he built a system from scratch right there in the hospital. The setup was wired so that when he took a photo, it would automatically upload the image to his web server, then send out email alerts to friends and family with a link to view it online. This wasn't just a photo—it was the first time an image was captured and sent directly from a mobile phone. Kahn had already been working on a concept called 'Picture Mail', a vision for sending photos instantly via a server-based system. As he told IEEE Spectrum, he wanted to be the 'Polaroid of the 21st century,' bringing to life a digital version of the instant camera. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Still, he hadn't developed consumer-ready hardware to make the system easy to use. But time—and necessity—sparked invention. 'I had always wanted to have this all working in time to share my daughter's birth photo,' Kahn said. 'But I wasn't sure I was going to make it.' Luckily for Kahn (and not so luckily for his wife), she was in labor for 18 hours—long enough for him to put his Frankenstein rig together. He had most of the tech on hand, and what he didn't have, an assistant quickly grabbed from a local Radio Shack. As Kahn put it, 'It's always the case that if it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.' A single photo that sparked a revolution That day, the first photo ever sent from a mobile phone was shared with the world—and though it was a humble 320x240-pixel image of a newborn, it marked the beginning of a technological revolution. We've come a long way since then. Today, more than 1.8 trillion photos are taken each year, mostly from phones that are thinner than a paperback but smarter than computers from the '90s. And it all began with a father, a hospital room, and a dream to share a moment instantly. We've never looked back since.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Richard Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, dies at 97
Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News. The renowned scientist was 97 years old. A prominent scientist who advised several U.S. presidents, Garwin made contributions in nuclear weapons, physics, and in military technology, among many other areas. He published more than 500 papers and was granted 47 U.S. patents, according to The Garwin Archive maintained by the Federation of American Scientists. He was just 23 years old when he designed the first working hydrogen bomb, according to a profile written in IEEE Spectrum magazine. It was detonated in a test codenamed Ivy Mike at Enewetak Atoll in November 1952, yielding 10.4 megatons of TNT, the measurement that quantifies the force of nuclear weapons. Garwin's role had been largely unknown outside of a small circle of physicists, mathematicians, and engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, who were involved with the project until 2001, the profile said. In 2016, former President Obama awarded Garwin the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his scientific work. In the citation, Mr. Obama said Garwin,"made pioneering contributions to U.S. defense and intelligence technologies." Garwin was honored with the National Medal of Science in 2002 and was awarded the Vannevar Bush Award in 2023, which honors exceptional lifelong leaders in science and technology. "Richard Garwin is truly remarkable," Dario Gil, Chair of the Board's External Engagement Committee, said in a statement. "His continuing contributions to society, both as a scientific researcher and presidential advisor, help bolster national security and improve international collaboration." Garwin was born in Cleveland in 1928 and lived in Scarsdale, New York. His wife, Lois, of 70 years, predeceased him. The couple had three children. Sneak peek: Fatal First Date Trump teases "good news" on Russia-Ukraine war Preview: "Sunday Morning: By Design" - A Weekend in New Orleans (May 18)
