Multisport watch designed for endurance athletes now has LED flashlight, music and enhanced positioning precision—plus up to 150 hours of battery life in GPS mode

OLATHE, Kan. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — August 9, 2022 — Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN^[1]), today announced the Enduro^™ 2^[2] ultraperformance multisport GPS smartwatch. Purpose built for endurance athletes, the rugged yet lightweight Enduro 2 includes built-in TopoActive maps with multicontinent coverage, a superbright LED flashlight and Garmin’s exclusive SatIQ™ technology to help optimize battery performance. What’s more, enhanced solar harvesting provides up to 46 days in smartwatch mode and up to 150 hours in GPS mode¹ to outlast the longest ultra race or greatest adventure.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220809005012/en/^[3]

HERNDON, Va., Aug. 9, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —Seerist Inc., the leading augmented analytics solution for threat and security professionals, announced Seerist Federal (fka Geospark Analytics) has a new multi-year contract with the Conflict Observatory, a program managed by Esri, Inc. as the prime contractor and funded by the U.S. Department of State, to ensure future accountability for Russia-perpetrated war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine.

NEW YORK, Aug. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Planck^[1], a leading AI-powered business intelligence platform, unveiled a new risk search engine built specifically for commercial insurance research. 

Planck’s newly developed risk search engine solves for the shortcomings of traditional research methods, which are ineffective and time consuming. Relevant answers are often buried or simply do not exist in the public sphere. The proprietary solution returns real-time results mined from billions of public sources and unindexed government records. Accessible via an on-demand web application or API integration, the complete and up-to-date digital presence of a business is returned in aggregate.

“Underwriters no longer need to spend hours of valuable time reading endless pages of information meant for everyday consumers,” said Noa Kalechstain, Vice President of Product Strategy at Planck. “Planck is the only platform that provides the focused, relevant web results they need about the businesses they write—with just a single search query.”

Results can be sorted by source type, including a map outlining additional geospatial risk data. Further refinement capabilities are built-in to enable underwriters to filter within the offered results and uncover answers to their specific underwriting questions. 

“Our platform is built to understand risk and go beyond basic, firmographic business data. This streamlined access to vital information empowers insurers with a...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced a broad initiative to evolve Universal Scene Description (USD)^[1], the open-source and extensible language of 3D worlds, to become a foundation of the open metaverse^[2] and 3D internet.

Working together with USD’s inventor, Pixar, as well as Adobe, Autodesk, Siemens and a host of other leading companies, NVIDIA will pursue a multi-year roadmap to expand USD’s capabilities beyond visual effects — enabling it to better support industrial metaverse applications in architecture,^[3] engineering^[4], manufacturing^[5], scientific computing^[6], robotics^[7] and industrial digital twins^[8].

At its SIGGRAPH special address^[9], the company shared forthcoming updates to evolve USD. These include international character support, which will allow users from all countries and languages to participate in USD. Support for geospatial coordinates will enable city-scale and planetary-scale digital twins. And real-time streaming of IoT data will enable the development of digital twins that are synchronized to the physical world.

To accelerate USD development and adoption, the company also announced development of an open USD Compatibility Testing...

DETROIT, Aug. 8, 2022 — (PRNewswire) —Airspace Link, a leading provider of drone safety infrastructure, and the Lone Star UAS Center are announcing a partnership to launch the FlySafe Program, powered by AirHub, to enhance the safety and capabilities of drone operations within their local communities. Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence and Innovation (LSUASC) is a research facility dedicated to the innovation and safety of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flights throughout the United States. Lone Star UAS has been on the leading edge of planning and safety for UAS.

- Revenue of $11.5 million and billings of $12.5 million

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — August 8, 2022 — Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLDR, VLDRW), a leading lidar company known worldwide for its broad portfolio of breakthrough lidar technologies, today announced financial results for its second quarter, which ended June 30, 2022.

“We saw strong customer traction in the second quarter across all three of our target markets: industrial and robotics, intelligent infrastructure and autonomous vehicles,” said Dr. Ted Tewksbury, CEO of Velodyne Lidar. “Thanks to solid execution by our operations team, we delivered sequential revenue growth in the face of continuing supply chain headwinds.

“We remain intensely focused on our dual goals of delivering intelligent vision solutions to our customers while scaling lidar into a profitable growth business with attractive shareholder returns,” said Dr. Tewksbury. “With our growth strategy defined and well underway, we are executing on several initiatives to expand gross margin and reduce costs. These actions are necessary to align our expense structure with current revenue expectations over the next 4 to 6 quarters. In parallel, we are investing selectively in strategic products that will be key to our long-term objectives.”

Second Quarter 2022 Financial Summary...

• Total revenue was approximately $11.5 million and includes an approximately $1.0

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — August 8, 2022 — Cepton, Inc. (“Cepton”) (Nasdaq: CPTN^[1]), a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high-performance MMT® lidar solutions, today announced business updates and financials for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.

“We continue to meet our series production execution milestones,” said Jun Pei, Cepton’s Co-Founder and CEO. “In addition to achieving ASIL-B certification for our lidar engine ASIC, we expanded collaboration with Koito Manufacturing of Japan, our tier-1 partner, and selected Fabrinet as a key sub-module supplier to support anticipated scale production of our flagship automotive lidar program. Cepton remains on track to bring our lidar products to everyday vehicles.”

Second Quarter Highlights

OEM Series Production Execution

• Continued ramp of D-sample shipments for end delivery to multiple OEM vehicle manufacturing plants across multiple states

• Completed lead-OEM initial site audit of manufacturing facility in Japan

• Selected Fabrinet as key sub-module supplier to support flagship automotive lidar program

Automotive...

• Expanded relationship with Koito Manufacturing of Japan, our tier-1 partner, on collaboration efforts to include select future Cepton lidar products and go-to-market activities

• Hosted 3 Top-10 OEM technical reviews