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Why this self-taught 12-year-old is set to make history this week – Golf.com

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

By: Josh Sens July 25, 2022

Pierson Huyck at the 2021 Drive, Chip and Putt finals at Augusta National.

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Age, like par, is just a number.

Thats what people say, but its not true.

In golf, anyway, age matters plenty.

Just ask any member of the over-50 circuit, or the studs who peg it in the U.S. Mid-Am, which enforces an age minimum of 25.

Better yet, get a fresh perspective from Pierson Huyck, one of 264 players whos in the mix this week at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, at Bandon Dunes.

The event is reserved for golfers 18 and under.

Pierson meets that cut off by a mile.

He just turned 12, the youngest competitor in the 74-year history of the championship.

Im excited, he says. Its a lot of fun trying to beat older kids.

I dont really take lessons or tips, Pierson says.

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A soon-to-be sixth grader from Arizona, Pierson took up golf when he was four. Before that, his sport was tennis. But one afternoon, at Phoenix Country Club, where his family belongs, he set down his racket and slipped over to the range. Before long, he was smoothing shots. His swing came naturally. No one has meddled with it since.

I dont really take lessons or tips, Pierson says. I just try to teach myself from the mistakes I make with my swing.

His ease with the game makes him different from his mother, Erika, and his older sister, Skylar, neither of whom plays. It also sets him apart from his father, Greg, a financial analyst who, like many golfers, has tried to improve at golf for years but has yet to crack the code.

As someone who has worked hard to get better, one of the things that strikes me about Pierson is that hes the epitome of a feel player, Greg says. Over the years, coaches and more mechanical players have tried to talk to him about the kinetic motion of the downswing or this or that. He just chuckles and goes back to what hes doing.

I just like how relaxed and cool he is, he says.

What Pierson does isnt just golf. He has a robust collection of remote-control cars. On weekends, he rides dirt bikes, a favorite hobby that he shares with his favorite Tour pro, Rickie Fowler. The two have never met. Pierson hopes that changes.

On the course, Pierson strives for a similar demeanor. It helps that he is seasoned beyond his years. In 2021, he competed the Drive, Chip & Putt Finals, at Augusta National, one of many highlights of a junior career that began early in grade school on the U.S. Kids Golf circuit. In those events, his dad served as his caddie while working hard to keep a healthy distance. Nearly four years ago, Greg stopped joining Pierson on the greens, leaving his son to read his own chips and putts.

Pierson counts dirt-bike riding among his favorite hobbies.

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It had come to that point where it was important for him to start taking more ownership of his game, Greg says.

Pierson punched his ticket to the Junior Amateur by way of the Big Island of Hawaii, where the Huyck (pronounced hike) family spend their summers. In mid-June, with his close friend and fellow junior golfer Blake Nakagawa on his bag, Pierson shot a two-under 70 at Hualalai Golf Course, finishing as the first alternate for the U.S. Junior after losing in a playoff to 16-year-old Luciano Conlan for the lone qualifying spot.

On July 7, the day before his 12th birthday, Pierson got the celebratory news: a space had opened for him in the event.

Pierson has never been to Bandon Dunes.

I hear its beautiful and really windy, he says.

In preparation, he and his dad spent the past two weeks seeking out the windiest conditions they could find on the Big Island. That meant lots of golf on seaside Mauna Kea, and a few bonus rounds at Nanea, a blustery redoubt that, like Bandon Dunes, is fescue-fringed and was designed by David McLay Kidd.

Now, the Huyck family is headed up to Oregon. Pierson spent the weekend familiarizing himself with the humps and bumps of Bandon. The father of a fellow junior golfer will be on his bag.

The competition kicks off with two rounds of stroke play, on Monday and Tuesday, with the 64 lowest scores moving on to match play. The field is filled with accomplished juniors, every one of whom is older than Pierson. The average age is 16.8.

In school, math is Piersons favorite subject. He can do the numbers. Hell have to post two good rounds to proceed to match play. He can hardly wait to see what happens.

Before he even tees off, hes already set a record. All thats left is to savor the experience.

First thing is, I want to make the cut, Pierson says. And then well see where it goes from there.

A golf, food and travel writer, Josh Sens has been a GOLF Magazine contributor since 2004 and now contributes across all of GOLFs platforms. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Having Any Fun Yet: the Cooking and Partying Handbook.

Why this self-taught 12-year-old is set to make history this week - Golf.com

5 Major Moments That Changed the History of Ransomware – Security Boulevard

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

5 Major Moments That Changed the History of Ransomware

Ransomware has seen a rapid rise over the last few years to become one of the most dangerous cyberthreats any business faces today. But this is not a new issue.

Indeed, ever since the first ransomware was delivered via floppy disk in the late 80s, authors of these attacks have sought to constantly evolve their tactics to evade detection and increase the chances of their victims paying out.

This may include developing more destructive strains of ransomware, adding double or triple extortion threats or targeting their attacks at organizations likely to suffer the biggest impact. Its therefore vital that organizations ensure theyre up to date with the latest trends and techniques.

However, companies can learn a lot from previous incidents about how ransomware attacks are carried out, the type of businesses they target, and the damage they can cause. Here are a few of the most consequential variants and attacks, and what theyve taught businesses.

The 2013 spread of Cryptolocker was one of the first mainstream ransomware variants, and may have been the incident that alerted many cybersecurity professionals to the threat posed. It spread as a Trojan sent via malicious emails and sought out files on infected PCs to encrypt.

It was thought to have targeted a quarter of a million devices over a period of four months, earning its authors around $3 million in the process. This therefore highlighted how lucrative ransomware could be and how many firms would be willing to pay up in order to regain access to their files.

Perhaps the most costly ransomware attack in history, the 2017 WannaCry attack was characterized by the speed and scale at which it spread. It reached over 150 countries, affecting organizations such as telecommunications companies and healthcare providers.

While the true number of victims remains unknown, its estimated to have cost the global economy more than $4 billion to fix, with the UKs National Health Service alone costing around $100 million.

The ransomware spread using a vulnerability in Windows, with older machines especially vulnerable. It therefore illustrated the importance of keeping up to date with essential cybersecurity best practices such as regularly patching equipment, as well as reminding firms just how quickly they can lose control of their systems if proper defenses arent in place.

WannaCry was far from the only major ransomware to surface in 2017, as the emergence of the Petya the year before swiftly led to the related NotPetya. In this case, it was not only files that were encrypted, but entire systems, as the malware targeted a devices Master File Table (MFT), making user access impossible.

However, while Petya required a user to open the infected file, the more serious NotPetya was able to spread on its own. Whats more, while Petya infections were recoverable with difficulty (or a payment), the damage NotPetya did to systems was permanent.

In this case, the point was disruption, with NotPetya believed to be a state-sponsored attack targeted at Ukrainian organizations. It marked a new phase of ransomware, with the techniques being used as a weapon of cyberwarfare and not just a way for criminals to make money.

The impact of ransomware outside of IT operations has been growing for some time. Attacks on public services such as local governments throughout the US have illustrated how the problem can seriously impact the lives of citizens, but the knock-on effects that can be caused to critical infrastructure can also be wide-reaching.

In 2021, this resulted in fuel shortages and panic buying up and down the east coast of the US when energy firm Colonial Pipeline came under a ransomware attack. The impact even reached areas not served by the firm as worried citizens sought to stockpile what was available. The company felt compelled to pay a $4 million ransom in order to restore operations and consumer confidence.

While this was agreed with the organizations insurance provider, and much of the money was later recovered by the FBI, it clearly indicates the severe pressure that businesses can be put under with a ransomware attack.

As ransomware has grown more profitable for hackers, the groups perpetuating these attacks have become ever-more organized, and one of the most notorious and successful ransomware groups has been REvil. Coming to attention in 2020, the Russian-based group offered a Ransomware-as-a-Service model to other criminals and favored double extortion methods that saw them exfiltrate data from targets and threaten to release it publicly unless payments were made swiftly.

At one point, around a third of ransomware infections seen by security researchers used REvils malware. One of the most noteworthy attacks was aimed at managed services provider Kaseya in 2021. This spread through the supply chain to the organizations customers, with up to 1,500 businesses affected.

While the REvil network was said to have been shut down by Russian authorities in early 2022, its tactics to put extra pressure on companies to pay up or face further consequences have been widely emulated and have made ransomware an even more dangerous threat for many businesses.

With ransomware a continually-evolving threat, cybersecurity teams cant afford to stand still. Therefore, they need to take steps to understand their risk profile, identity where weaknesses lie, and put in place strong defenses.

Coming under ransomware attack is now a case of when, not if, so its vital firms learn the lessons of the past and make sure theyre prepared.

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Wakanda Forever – the Marvel history of the war between Black Panther and Namor – Gamesradar

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever received an initial trailer during Comic-Con International: San Diego, confirming the long-held theory that actor Tenoch Huerta would be portraying a version of Namor and indeed leading his countrymen of Atlantis into battle against Wakanda as in comics.

Well, sorta. Rather than Atlantis, the MCU Namor's roots lie in a different watery realm - that of Talocan, derived from the mythical Aztec realm of Tllcn, the domain of the Aztec storm god.

Not only does this switch align with Huerta's own Indigenous Mexican ancestry, it separates Marvel's Namor from DC's Aquaman, whose solo film already brought a comic adaptation of Atlantis to the big screen.

That said, Talocan and Wakanda seem to be going to war just as Atlantis and Wakanda have done in comics - and there's a much deeper (pun intended) history between the two nations than you may realize.

Though we won't get into too much Marvel Atlantean history (especially since some of what's been shown in comics will undoubtedly change along with the MCU update of Marvel's Atlantis to Talocan), the TL:DR is that much like the real-world myth and the many versions of it you've seen everywhere from animated Disney movies to sci-fi TV shows and beyond, the Marvel Comics kingdom of Atlantis was once a scientifically advanced but decadent nation that was swept under the water but continued to thrive by adapting to life in the ocean.

There are multiple explanations of how Atlantis sank in the Marvel Universe - two of which could be particularly relevant to the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever given the preceding MCU films The Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder.

In the more common telling of the sinking of Atlantis, the Celestials are responsible for sending it beneath the waves alongside the Deviant kingdom of Lemuria during an event called the 'Great Cataclysm' when they once wiped the earth of sentient life.

In the other, Zeus and the other Olympian gods - as in the ones who just swore vengeance on "superheroes" in Thor: Love and Thunder - enlisted the Olympian Poseidon to sink Atlantis for attempting to access magic only allowed to the gods.

Either way, since they sank, Atlantis has become an on-again-off-again enemy of the so-called 'surface world,' with their most famous king, Namor the Sub-Mariner, himself acting as both ally and enemy to those who dwell on land over the years.

In fact, he's even been an Avenger - including right now, when he's recently been forced to re-team with Black Panther years after their two nations went to war, and Atlantis nearly wiped Wakanda off the map.

And since that's what we're here to talk about

Though it was hardly the first time that Namor and Atlantis had declared war on the surface world over the years, the war between Atlantis and Wakanda during the event story Avengers Vs. X-Men (opens in new tab) and its follow-up Infinity (opens in new tab) may have been the most devastating.

As it says in the title, Avengers Vs. X-Men (or AvX as it's often stylized) involves the Avengers and X-Men going to battle over the Phoenix Force, the cosmic entity of life, death, and rebirth that famously possessed Jean Grey during X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga (opens in new tab). In AvX, five X-Men - including Namor, himself considered a mutant - each gain a portion of the Phoenix's power.

During the resulting conflict, the empowered X-Men try to remake the world in their image using the power of the Phoenix.

The Avengers, not taking kindly to this idea, oppose them, and in one of their battles, Scarlet Witch gravely injures Namor.

As Wanda takes refuge in Wakanda, Namor goes against the other members of the so-called 'Phoenix Five' and launches an all-out Atlantean assault on Wakanda, using the ocean itself to flood and all but level huge portions of the hidden nation.

The Avengers rally around Black Panther, and drive back Namor's forces - but only after great losses in Wakanda.

And though the battle resulted in Namor losing his Phoenix power - and the Avengers technically kinda won the conflict - that was not the end of the war between Wakanda and Atlantis.

In the later event story Infinity, Wakanda strikes back at Atlantis amid a conflict between the Avengers, the Illuminati, and most of the world's other heroes against Thanos and the Black Order as they invade Earth to kill Thanos' secret half-Eternal, half-Inhuman son, Thane.

But while the Illuminati - of which both Namor and Black Panther were then members - are attempting to work together to stave off Thanos, Shuri, who was then ruling monarch of Wakanda, declares an attack on Atlantis to take advantage of Namor's distraction.

Wakanda lays waste to Atlantis much the same way Atlantis previously devastated Wakanda - but Namor isn't willing to take Wakanda's retaliatory attack laying down.

So when Thanos comes knocking at Atlantis' door looking for the Infinity Stone which Namor is hiding, Namor lies and sends Thanos and the Black Order to Wakanda - initiating the comic book version of the Battle of Wakanda seen in the film Avengers: Infinity War.

In the course of Infinity and the surrounding conflict between Atlantis and Wakanda, both kingdoms are destroyed by Thanos' armies.

Interestingly enough, Infinity is the same event in which the Terrigen Mists, the substance that gives Inhumans their powers when they're exposed to it, are released into Earth's atmosphere, triggering the comic book version of Kamala Khan's transformation into Ms. Marvel.

And of course, the aftermath of Infinity, in which Multiversal Incursions began threatening the entire Marvel Universe led directly to say it with us now Secret Wars, which is of course getting its own movie adaptation as Avengers: Secret Wars to close out the MCU's upcoming Phase 6.

Avengers Vs. X-Men is one of the most impactful Marvel Comics events of all time.

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The History of Dungeons & Dragons Isnt What You Think – WIRED

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

In his new book Slaying the Dragon, Ben Riggs takes a deep dive into the history of TSR, the company behind Dungeons & Dragons. The book, which draws on a wealth of insider accounts and leaked documents, presents a surprising new perspective on the downfall of TSR.

I thought the story was going to be, Wizards of the Coast made Magic: The Gathering and it just sucked all the oxygen out of the room and killed TSR,' Riggs says in Episode 521 of the Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcast. That was the story I was expecting. It was not at all the story I was told. The story I was told was one of mismanagement and mistakes and errors, and a death by a thousand cuts, and a failure to expand, and a failure to find new people to play D&D.

TSR products were lavishly illustrated, had great production values, and were affordably priced. Unfortunately, they werent all profitable. One example was the visionary Planescape campaign setting. The whole line never made any money, Riggs says. Even though its an artistic high point for the companyand maybe ever for the brand of Dungeons & Dragonsit didnt make any money.

Bizarre business decisions abounded at TSR, including a practice called factoring, in which TSR pressured retailers to lock in their orders for the entire year in January. This led to severe deadline pressures for TSR writers like Jim Ward, who was given just 10 weeks to design the Spellfire collectible card game. It made TSR incredibly inflexible, Riggs says. You couldnt take more time to make the product, because if you did youd be in contractual violation. This was a real problem, because it meant that TSR could no longer react with any degree of alacrity or fleetness to changes in the market.

Many of TSRs woes stemmed from a fundamental issue with tabletop role-playing gameshow do you make money selling a product that encourages players to use their own imaginations? I think the thing you would take away from this is that the role-playing business is a difficult business, Riggs says. If youre going to make a role-playing gamewhich is good forever, and you can play for decadeshow are the economics of that going to allow for the existence of role-playing game creators? Because we can certainly agree that role-playing games are something worthy of being created, but how are we going to make sure that the people who create them make a decent living?

Listen to the complete interview with Ben Riggs in Episode 521 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy (above). And check out some highlights from the discussion below.

Ben Riggs on Dungeons & Dragons novels:

At one point TSR claimed to be the largest publisher of fantasy fiction in North America. They claimed that there were millions of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels in print. There was a point in the 90s where the TSR fiction line was grossing about as much as all the TSR role-playing game stuff put together, and the fiction line was essentially helping to keep the company afloat. Fiction was perceived as so successful within the company that there were rumors that one day everyone would come in to work and they would no longer be making a game called Dungeons & Dragons, they would be making novels set in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, and all the game designers would now be writers, all the game editors would now be fiction editors, and that would be TSR going forward.

Ben Riggs on marketing:

Ravenloft sold 50,000 copies its first year out. 50,000 is a pretty big number. Getting 50,000 new people to play Dungeons & Dragons by generating a gothic horror setting seems like a good plan. But it was not 50,000 new people buying that setting. It turns out it was mostly people that were already playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition. They were not in fact finding new fans, they were just taking their existing fanbase and chopping it up. And every setting would be another chop. You would suddenly have people go from buying 200,000 copies of Forgotten Realms to the last Forgotten Realms release, which sold 30,000 copies its first year. And every setting seemed to take their sales and cut them and cut them and cut them.

Ben Riggs on Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition:

I thought that I was going to tag 3rd Edition on as a chapter of my book. I thought that this chapter was going to be, I talked to everyone who made 3rd Edition, and they all said it was a huge hit and everybody was a genius. But it must have been just the right amount of time, because people were like, Im going to tell you the truth. Im going to tell you about how there was backstabbing and betrayal and lies in the creation of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, and how it was contentious, and how the TSR people that moved to Seattle didnt really fit in well with the Wizards people, and there was this interhouse rivalry between the TSR people and the Wizards people.

Ben Riggs on Lake Geneva:

Lake Geneva has not really leaned into their history as the birthplace of tabletop role-playing games. Initially they viewed TSR as the weird long-hairs, and 23 years later its gone, and now the fact that people feel so strongly about it that they want to come to Lake Geneva and see where these things happened hasnt quite dawned on the city elders yet. I certainly think within 50 years youre going to see a lot of these former TSR properties bought up and restored to some degree. Right now the location of the original Dungeon Hobby Shop is a Kilwins Ice Cream shop, which is fine, you can go and get an ice cream and be like, Yes, it all happened here. But man, I certainly think if you were able to get a role-playing game store in that location, it would do very, very well.

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How Accurate Is The History Of The Haywoods’ Ancestor In Nope? – Looper

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

The true story of how "Horse in Motion" came to exist is one that almost sounds like bet made in a bar.

According to Britannica, British American photographer Eadweard Muybride, who developed a means in which to take a series of photographs, was tapped by California Governor Leland Stanford, an enthusiastic horse breeder. At the time, there was great speculation regarding the question if, at any point when a horse is running, all of its hooves leave the ground simultaneously a subtlety too fast for the human eye to detect, hence the debate. Ingeniously, in 1877, Muybridge set up a series of cameras along a racetrack with wires stretched across and connected to the individual shutters. As the horse and jockey raced the span, their advance would trigger the cameras at different points, and the accumulated and staggered photographs created what was, essentially, the first motion picture.

As reported by Smithsonian Magazine, the question as to whether horses ever completely leave the ground was known as the "unsupported transit theory," but Muybridge's efforts with photography helped prove that horses do completely leave the ground. Professor Marta Braun of Ryerson University told the publication, "We have to remember that the horse was the source of all locomotion of importance. You went to war on horses, and any kind of large-scale movement was done on horses. To understand it was really very critical."

Yet, what do we know about the rider in "Horse in Motion," as opposed to the technology and the horse?

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Spurs unveil new Statement Edition Jersey honoring teams Texas history – Pounding The Rock

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

The Spurs have released another round alternate uniforms. After recently releasing new Classic Editions in the old George Gervin-era style to honor their upcoming 50th Anniversary season, now they have released their new Statement Edition uniforms meant to honor the teams history in the state of Texas.

Per the Spurs official press release:

Our new Statement Edition uniform embodies the evolution of our teams roots while celebrating fans across the entire region, said Becky Kimbro, VP of Brand Engagement for Spurs Sports & Entertainment. Through the intricate serape pattern, were blending our 50-year legacy with our vibrant culture that we celebrate on and off the court.

Down its sides, the uniform features modern patterns inspired from traditional Mexican serapes and saddle blankets. The Spurs new SATX wordmark is stitched across the jersey chest with the iconic Jordan Brand Jumpman logo on the right shoulder and the Self patch on the left. On the jerseys back center is the NBA logo embellishment. The front right cuff of the uniform shorts highlights the Texas-shaped secondary logo.

The Spurs plan on sporting five uniforms this season, including their classic White Association and Black Icon uniforms, so that leaves the City Editions, which will be unveiled later this year. Rumor has it they will be going all in on the Fiesta theme, maybe even with teal uniforms. If that is the case, does this mean the grey uniforms theyve been donning since 2012 when Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green were the youth who were assigned with modeling them are officially a thing of the past? If that is indeed the case, it seems appropriate to be moving on from a past era in a season where they truly are starting over and rebuilding from scratch.

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This Week in Bachelor Nation History: Rachel Lindsay Introduces Her Family to Bryan, Eric & Peter – Bachelor Nation

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

Heading home!

This week in Bachelor Nation history, were throwing it back to Rachel Lindsays season of The Bachelorette.

This week in 2017, Rachel took her final three men Bryan Abasolo, Eric Bigger, and Peter Kraus to meet her family in Dallas, Texas.

At the beginning of the episode, Rachel explained that they were meeting her family an episode early because her sister was eight months pregnant at the time and couldnt travel to their next location.

When arriving in Texas, Rachel says, Were home in Dallas in my beloved city with Eric, Bryan, and Peter. Im falling in love and Im excited because I see a future with these men, but Im also scared of not knowing what to do at the end.

And Rachel reminded her men, This is the last time youll get to talk to my family before the end of all of this. This is really important. Youll be meeting several members of my family.

One by one, the guys were put on the hot seat as Rachel explored what her future would be like with these potential partners.

First to meet her family was Peter, and before they went inside, Peter finally opened up to Rachel and said he was falling in love with her.

Once inside, he met the Lindsay crew, including Rachels older sister Constance, her brother-in-law Alex, her mom Kathy, her uncle Jeff, her aunt Connie, and her cousin Andrea.

Rachels dad wasnt able to meet the men, but she said she trusted her mom to ask all the important questions.

Rachels family noticed that Peter was a bit reserved with his emotions and actually didnt end up asking for Rachels hand in marriage.

He told her mom that he wasnt sure if he was going to be ready to propose at the end of the show but got her permission to date Rachel.

Next up was Eric, who shared that he was anxious because it had been around seven years since hed met a significant others family.

Eric made a good first impression on Rachels family, but her sister Constance caught onto some red flags.

Constance worried that Eric wasnt on the same page as Rachel when it came to wanting to get married and didnt have as much serious relationship experience.

Eric revealed that he had never been in love before and that his past relationship was only eight months long.

Last but not least was Bryans date, and before heading to meet the family, Rachel introduced him to two of her friends that had signed her up for The Bachelor.

Rachels friends loved Bryan and could tell quickly that they had strong feelings for each other.

Bryan told Rachels friends that he was in love with her and that he was excited to meet her family.

He said, Rachel is an amazing woman and you can tell she comes from such a great family. I want to be a part of her family one day, so I hope to make a good first impression with them and win them over.

Rachels mom Kathy was skeptical of Bryan saying he loved Rachel, and her sister Constance worried that Bryan was a charmer.

Rachel eventually got frustrated with the questioning and said that their energy was different than it was with Peter and Eric.

Eventually, Bryan won Kathy over and said, Mrs. Lindsay, I love your daughter. She has everything Ive ever wanted in a future wife. I know that I will be proposing if she picks me at the end of all this and I will be committed to that relationship. I intend for it to turn into a marriage at some point whenever we both feel ready. I would love and appreciate your blessing.

Kathy responded, I trust her judgment, so you have my blessing to take this love and build on that. Bryan appears very honest and I trust Rachel. I am open to wherever life takes her. Its exciting, but at the same time, its a little scary.

As fans know, Rachel and Bryan ended up getting engaged at the end of her season and have been together ever since.

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Living Local: Bath, history and beauty – WNCT

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

BATH, N.C. (WNCT) Our latest Living Local segment takes us to Bath, the small town in Beaufort County and the home of some unique history and beautiful scenery.

The most famous of those fascinating characters is Blackbeard the pirate. Historians actually believe the town of Bath to be one of the places this notorious pirate called home. Settled in the 1690s by Europeans, the town of Bath was charted in 1705, with easy access to the river and the Atlantic Ocean. It was also the first town in North Carolina.

Bath is not only known famously as a temporary home of Edward Teach, otherwise known as Blackbeard, its also the home of the first library in the colonies, the first capital of North Carolina and the home of one of the oldest churches in the state, St. Thomas Episcopal

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Taking a walk down the streets and, in many ways, youre transported to colonial times

We are the oldest town in North Carolina, I think the first port if Im not mistaken. We hold the oldest church, home of Blackbeard some may say, some may say that his treasure is buried here, said Alex Adams, who lives in Bath.

I dont think weve had like any treasure hunters come to visit but yeah thats some of the main things people come to the town and see.

Its also believed that many of Blackbeards crew and even the woman he later married all came from right here in Bath. Blackbeards ship grounded and later sunk in 1718, and just a few months later he died in battle with the British Navy.

His ship, the Queen Annes Revenge, still lies off the coast near Beaufort, discovered nearly 300 years after its sinking. Archeologists have been working for some time to learn more about the ship.

Besides its history, youll find a lot of friendly people in the community, too. With a population of just under 250, the town of Bath is a tight-knit community, with smiles to go around and welcoming arms to visitors and guests thatll make you feel right at home.

Coming over the bridge into the town of Bath youre immediately greeted by historic buildings and signs touting the towns history. Residents are used to a quiet and peaceful life along the water, many using a golf cart to get around.

Visitors come to enjoy the views and water recreation access as well as quaint shops with unique finds.

The views, the people, and the history, Adams said. Theres just a lot to do from fishing, water sports. I would tell people to come to visit in the summer, because the sunsets are magnificent, and just the people and all the activities to do.

The Bath Preservation Society is also making tons of progress on the old high school, now home to a museum and library with additional renovations to be done to better utilize the space. They currently host a farmers market in the old gym every Saturday from 8-11 a.m.

Walking along the streets of Bath, you get a sense of what life must have been like during its founding days. Every step brings you closer to the history many have long since forgotten.

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Cloudify partners with ServiceNow for business cloud automation – ZDNet

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

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Clouds can really help your business. If, and it's a big if, you can get it to work for you. That's where companies such as Cloudify, with its open source business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, come in. Now, to make it more powerful, you can use the Cloudify infrastructure automation platform withServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM), part of the digital workflow of its Now Platform.

Cloudify enables you to trade online with your customers while fully integrating orders, pricing, product, and stock data with a range of enterprise resource planning (ERP) such as SAP, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics. It also works with warehouse and accounting back office systems. Using plugins, you can also use your existing toolchains such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes for even more advanced automation capabilities.

Put it all together, and you get what Cloudify calls'Environment As A Service' (EaaS). Nati Shalom, Cloudify's CTO and Founder sees EaaS as the next generation of DevOps. "It's all about how to drive innovation and make a lot of those distributed systems as simple as the local system," said Shalom.

Ultimately, the company claims, EaaS will let you run applications across multiple cloud or data center platforms at the click of a button for premium multicloud infrastructure orchestration and automation.

Today, the Cloudify platform has expanded its reach again. It's now available in theServiceNow Store. Using Cloudify with ITOM enables you to work with your development team to automatically remediate your cloud resource configuration.

This is done by validating resources through ServiceNow Cloud Configuration Governance (CCG).From there, you trigger remediation actions. These are then automatically executed through Cloudify. Finally, they're deployed through ServiceNow or Continous Integration/Continous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

The company claims, "Developers can enjoy a self-service experience needed to rapidly spin up and tear down dev/test environments with minimal effort, as well as simplifying change management of production environments."

The pair gives you the tools you need for an Agile-first approach to creating, sharing, and managing cloud and multi-cloud work environments for your cloud developers. On a day-to-day basis, the Now Platform acts as the workflow automation engine. At the same time, Cloudify takes care of environment creation and Day 2 management.

From a broader viewpoint, with Cloudify and ITOM, companies can speed up their provisioning and management of multi-cloud infrastructure deployments with their DevOps and IT teams working together efficiently.

Specifically, Cloudify states with the ServiceNow pairing it becomes easier to:

The result? "Developers are always being asked to move faster and push new features to production quickly," said Brian Emerson, ServiceNow's ITOM VP and GM in a press release. And this will enable them to keep up with the demand. Ariel Dan, Cloudify's CEO, added, "Now DevOps can manage heterogeneous cloud environments at scale while being in compliance with IT processes. Ultimately, this means "an organization can manage end-customer environments and internal Dev/QA/Production environments more efficiently."

And, isn't managing and getting your business cloud and its resources to work more effectively your end goal? Why, yes, yes, I think it is.

BigID Announces Industry-Leading AWS Auto Detection for Granular Insight & Automation at AWS re:Inforce – PR Newswire

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

Automatically discover discrete accounts across AWS, detect dark data, & monitor changes on the fly

NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID, the leading data intelligence platform that enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, security, and governance, today announced extended auto-detection and automated discovery for AWS accounts and data sets, making it easier than ever for organizations to automatically find the accounts and data they have, and extend data protection across the cloud.

Available via the AWS Marketplace, organizations leveraging AWS Control Tower can now automate the deployment of BigID for improved visibility of data and control across their AWS environment. These expanded capabilities reduce complexity, cost, and time to insight for organizations managing their data in AWS.

With these new capabilities from BigID, customers can automatically find sensitive data, assets, and accounts inside AWS without manual processes or configurations. Additionally, customers can automatically provision roles and permissions across their multi-account environments, saving time, cost, and automating data scanning across multiple accounts and data sources.

"Now more than ever, AWS customers need to drive their security strategies from the data first," said Eran Gewurtz, Director of Product Management, Security at BigID. "By integrating BigID into their environments, customers can automatically detect accounts and sensitive data, streamline their policy management, accelerate their data classification and labeling, and reduce risk across their environment."

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BigID's data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, security, and governance. Customers deploy BigID to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape. BigID has been recognized for its data intelligence innovation as a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, named to the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100, the 2021 Inc 5000 as the #19th fastest growing company and #1 in Security, a Business Insider 2020 AI Startup to Watch, and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner. Find out more at https://bigid.com.

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Demystifying Security Automation for University IT Teams – EdTech Magazine: Focus on K-12

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

SOAR Platforms Help Automate Cybersecurity Tasks

Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platforms are driving efforts to automate cybersecurity functions. These systems build on the information-gathering and correlation capabilities of security information and event management (SIEM) technologies by adding on automated response capabilities. When a SOAR platform detects that certain conditions are met, it can immediately trigger a playbook of activities designed to respond to those conditions.

READ MORE:Improve cybersecurity by moving from SIEM to SOAR.

For example, if an endpoint detection and response (EDR) system notifies a SOAR platform that malware was detected on an end-user device, the SOAR platform can automatically kick off a series of actions, including:

Modifying the network configuration to place that system on an isolated VLAN where it cannot communicate with any other devices, containing the damage caused by the infection

Triggering the EDR platform to remediate the malware infection, restoring the system to proper working order

Firing off a vulnerability scan that analyzes the systems configuration to confirm that it no longer poses a threat to itself or the network

Modifying the network configuration again at the completion of these tasks to restore the systems normal access

All those actions, which might previously have required hours of effort by cybersecurity professionals, can take place quickly when automated through a SOAR platform.

FIND OUT:This is what it takes to secure the cloud.

The workflows triggered by SOAR playbooks do not need to be strictly sequential in nature, either. The workflow above could be enhanced by adding conditional steps that occur based upon the results of prior steps. For example, Step 3 could be modified to take different actions depending on the results of the vulnerability scan. If the scan reveals that the system is remediated, the workflow could move on to Step 4 and automatically restore normal operations.

If, on the other hand, the scan reveals that the automated remediation was unsuccessful, the system could remain on the quarantined VLAN and the SOAR platform could open a ticket in the organizations IT service management platform to trigger a human investigation and response.

Once you have a SOAR platform in place, you can integrate it with many of your existing security tools to perform a variety of routine tasks. Its normally a good idea to start small and focus on efforts that have the highest potential payback in terms of time savings and pose the lowest risk to the organization. Lets take a look at three ways SOAR platforms can quickly add value to an organization.

Automate malware incident response efforts.Weve already discussed malware response as a prime example of the effectiveness of SOAR platforms. Given the burden that malware response places on security teams, automating these responses should be a high priority for any SOAR implementation effort.

Gather information for incident responders.Incident responders spend a lot of time gathering information as they attempt to triage and respond to cybersecurity events. SOAR platforms can automate much of this work by reaching into other systems and information sources to gather the basic facts before passing an event on to a human analyst for investigation. For example, if the SOAR suspects that a system is connecting to a botnet, the system can gather network traffic logs, threat intelligence data, user information and other records to prepare a dossier that analysts can use as they investigate the incident.

Process phishing messages.Every organization is deluged by phishing messages and most have a standardized workflow when users report these messages to administrators. Cybersecurity analysts might immediately remove the message from the inboxes of other users, add destination systems in links to a Domain Name System blackhole, identify systems that visited the link and run malware scans on them, block future messages from the same source, and perform other related actions. All of these tasks can be automated using SOAR technology.

LEARN MORE:Protect networks with next-generation endpoint security.

These three use cases are just starting points based on the types of automation that will benefit most organizations. As teams roll out SOAR technology, they should think about the pain points that they encounter and identify organization-specific use cases that will deliver the most value to their teams.

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How Network Communications Drive the IIoT Revolution – Automation World

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

The properties of IIoT (Industrial Internet ofThings) communications differ significantlyfrom more familiar control protocols, suchas EtherNet/IP, Profinet, and EtherCAT. So, howcan manufacturers assess the numerous communicationmethods available to them to take advantageof the IIoT?

The first step is realizing that IIoT and Industry4.0-based solutions require detailed data. IO-Linkis a standardized sensor interface, which providesaccess to detailed sensor/actuator data from thelowest field level, meets this requirement. Whiledigital switching sensors provide only individualbits, IO-Link provides access to detailed identification,diagnostic, and parameter data from asensor or actuator.

Next, take note of the fact that most automationsystems are based on a PLC that containsthe logic of the application. For applications suchas controlling a robot arm, sensor data needs tobe highly accurate and reliable. In a few milliseconds,the PLC calculates the output signals andtransfers them to actuators, such as valves andmotors. Control-based Ethernet protocols, suchas Profinet, EtherNet/IP, and EtherCAT, meetthese requirements.

Although these protocols are essentially basedon the Ethernet standard, specific properties havebeen changed to achieve the high degree of timingaccuracy and quick millisecond cycle times requiredin industrial applications. The data carried by theseprotocols can only be exchanged using special hardware,such as a PLC, and processed using specificsoftware offered by the control system manufacturers.But transferring data from the field level tohigher-tier systems, such as cloud-based systems,is a basic requirement for IIoT.

OPC UA, MQTT,and REST APIsThis is where IIoT communications such as OPCUA, MQTT, and REST APIs come in. These communicationmethods rely less on real time data inthe millisecond range and more on end-to-enddata availability across different systems fromdifferent manufacturers. IIoT is not about theindividual process data of sensors and actuators,but rather about the overall picture. The mostimportant process may be collecting conditiondata to avoid any future failures or detectingcorrelations in process parameters that have aninfluence on product quality. In these operations,real time is not a top priority.

OPC UA is an entire framework with sophisticatedsecurity mechanisms. A key advantageof OPC UA is that no specific device descriptionfiles are required. Each individual device has allthe necessary data, such as its own data structure,in a format that can be read by both people andmachines. OPC UA is especially suitable for largerIIoT projects, where devices from different manufacturersmust be combined but the network canstill be dimensioned accordingly.

While OPC UA largely operates using client/server connections, MQTT is based on the publish/subscribe mechanism (note: OPC UA alsonow supports publish/subscribe, though mostexisting installations usethe traditional client/server method). In publish/subscribe, a publisher(data provider) provides itsdata to a centrally locatedserver (often referred to asa broker) on the network.Subscribers (data consumers)can flexibly subscribeto all the publishers dataor to individually selectedtopics. Since there is nopermanent connectionbetween the publisherand each subscriber, thedata overhead for MQTTis significantly lower. Thismakes MQTT especiallysuitable in networks with limited availability orwhen information must be transmitted to severalconsumers at the same time.

An API (application programming interface)is a programming interface provided on a device.REST stands for Representational State Transferand outlines the conditions for designing the API.A REST API allows customers to create theirown applications based on the device data, wherebasic conditions are defined without obligation.The APIs for an organizations own devices arestandardized within that organization. This makesREST APIs especially suitable for applicationswhere many different devices from the samemanufacturer are used.

The key difference between IIoT communicationsand control network protocols is that IIoTcommunication methods were designed to allowfor an end-to-end and transparent data flow fromthe sensor to the cloud, enabling the huge potentialof Industry 4.0 and IIoT.

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Modula and MiR Advance Warehouse Automation with Autonomous Storage, Picking and Materials Handling Solution – Automation.com

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

Leading smart storage solution manufacturer Modula and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) developed a fully automated system that can store, pick and move items within designated areas in warehouses, production or distribution centers, with or without human intervention.

July 26, 2022 -Leading smart storage manufacturer Modula and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), the market leader for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), recently unveiled a joint partial or fully automated solution for materials handling in warehouses, production and distribution centers.

Supporting various configurations, the solution can fully or partially automate material handling processes. The configurations include:

The solution enables considerable savings in time and space, improving productivity and enhancing intralogistics. According to Modulas CEO Massimiliano Gigli, workplace safety and employee satisfaction are also among the primary benefits of Modula and MiRs joint solution.

By taking over repetitive, physically straining and otherwise dangerous tasks, this system significantly improves the working conditions in warehouses, factories and distribution centers, Gigli said. Faced with labor shortages, businesses looking to automate storage, picking and material handling stand to gain more than just greater productivity by offering their employees more valuable responsibilities and a safer work environment.

Designed for modular and quick implementation, Modula and MiRs system is highly adaptable to warehouses and distribution centers of almost any size and layout. As such, it facilitates gradual automation, allowing businesses to transform their processes at their own pace.

The system can generate a return on investment (ROI) as early as six to 18 months from installation.The system was announced at this years LogiMAT Trade Show in Stuttgart, Germany, and will first be presented in the U.S. at the Groceryshop 2022 trade show in Las Vegas Sept.19-22.Businesses can contact Modulas representatives for personalized consultation and estimates.

With over 30 years of experience, Modula is a leading manufacturer of automated storage solutions designed to optimize space and improve picking and storage operations for any industrial sector or environment.

MiR develops and manufactures the industrys most advanced range of collaborative and secure autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), which can quickly, easily and cost-effectively manage internal logistics, so that employees are free to carry out activities that create more value. Hundreds of medium-sized companies, major international enterprises, logistics centers and hospitals all over the world have installed MiRs innovative robots. As a global market leader, MiR has a global distribution network with distributors in over 60 countries and regional offices in New York, San Diego, Singapore, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai. MiR has grown quickly since it was established in 2013, and its turnover has increased significantly every year. MiR was established by experienced experts from the Danish robotics industry and its main office is in Odense, Denmark. MiR has been part of Teradyne since 2018.

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Siemens Government Technologies to Provide Building Modernization and Automation Services and Technologies under $295 Million Army Corps of Engineers…

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Siemens Government Technologies (SGT), Inc. the federally-focused U.S. arm of technology powerhouse Siemens received a Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, for projects designed to increase operational efficiencies, safety, and security throughout federal facilities. This award is a performance-based Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a period of performance of five base years, plus two additional option years, with an award ceiling of $295 million.

SGT works closely with federal agencies to deliver the most modern building automation systems with open and backward compatible interfaces for efficient, safe and secure buildings. We are pleased to have been selected for this worldwide contract supporting vital U.S. government infrastructure, said John Ustica, interim president and CEO of SGT.

SGT is at the forefront of providing advanced building and security technologies, which includes Siemens Desigo, a technology backbone for smart building infrastructure that is modular and flexible, capable of evolving with building management requirements of any facility over time. As the integrator of Siemens comprehensive portfolio of smart infrastructure solutions for federal customers, SGT provides federal agencies with a streamlined procurement and implementation path for improving operational efficiency, reliability, and cost-savings at installations and depots throughout the country and world.

Additional products and services under this contract include the procurement and installation and maintenance and service of Utility Monitoring and Control Systems (UMCS); Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems and other Automated Control Systems including Fire Alarm Systems (FAS),Electronic Security Systems (ESS) and force protection measures, and other Industrial Control Systems (ICS) at worldwide federally-owned buildings and facilities.

About Siemens Government Technologies

Siemens Government Technologies is the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Siemens Corporation whose mission it is to secure and modernize the largest infrastructure in the world, the U.S. Federal Government. It does so by being the leading integrator of Siemens innovative products, technologies, software and services in the areas of digital engineering and modeling, efficient and resilient energy solutions, and smart infrastructure modernization.

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Why Combine 3D Printing and Industrial Automation Applications? – 3Dnatives

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

3D printing is widely used in the field of automation such as in compression molding. Its a formative manufacturing method, currently popular in industry, that involves compressing the desired amount of molding material between two heated presses to give it its final shape. It is cost-effective compared to other production processes, allowing both small parts and large components to be designed. In addition, the base mold can be 3D printed, giving manufacturers more flexibility and geometric freedom. Thats why one electrical manufacturer has invested in several 3D printers from Flashforge, including 11 Creator 4 models. With this investment, the company was able to reduce its labor costs by 80% and cut delivery times by 50%.

Flashforge is a Chinese manufacturer that entered the 3D printing market in 2012. Since then, it has offered a wide range of solutions worldwide and caters to applications in education, healthcare, jewelry, and more. Among its wide range of 3D printers is the Creator 4, an industrial FDM machine with two independent extruders and different extrusion options to expand the range of compatible materials. Its a ideal solution for multiples industries such as automotive, medical or consumer goods. It boasts a printing volume of 400mm*350mm*500mm, a heating plate capable of reaching 130C and a closed chamber that can rise to 65C. It is a solution that offers optimal temperature control combined with production flexibility, allowing it to be combined with automation processes, such as compression molding.

The Creator 4 offers two independent extruders

One of the challenges of compression molding is the design of the hoppers and mold: each hopper must match the mold cavity exactly so that the material can flow properly. However, the molds used are not all the same shape, with different or irregular cavities, which multiplies the number of hoppers needed. Flashforges customer, which specializes in the manufacture of electrical equipment, explained: Each project involves dozens, if not hundreds, of different shaped molds. Each size requires over a hundred hoppers. So, a completed project represents tens of thousands of hoppers. In the past, we have had to hire trade experts or even outsource the order. However, whichever solution we chose, it was costly in time and money, as was post-project maintenance.

Thats where 3D printing comes in: the company relied on Flashforges Creator 4 machines to design the hoppers, freeing itself from the various shape, labor, time, and maintenance constraints of the past. As a result, the company invested in 11 machines and is now able to complete the design and production of 40 hoppers in a single day, about 10 more than before, all with only one employee on the job.

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The 3D printer is capable of creating the hoppers with an accuracy of 0.2 mm to meet the necessary requirements. In addition, the Creator 4 is compatible with a wide range of materials, allowing the company to produce stronger, more abrasion-resistant molds and hoppers. The company uses ABS, nylon, polycarbonate and other technical materials to increase the durability of parts.

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In addition to this material compatibility, Flashforge 3D printers also allow teams to better control the manufacturing process and ensure that parts meet compression molding requirements. The resulting hoppers are lighter and easier to replace in the event of a defect.

Finally, the company estimates that it saved 10% of its labor costs in the first year and increased its output by 35%. A representative concluded: Our customer orders are increasing and we will have to increase our production rate. Thanks to 3D printing, we can organize ourselves quickly and meet these growing needs. This is a real plus for us because we are able to meet demand in a flexible way. If you have any 3D printing needs in terms of automation processes, feel free to contact Flashforges team HERE.

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Global Logistics Automation Market to 2027 – Featuring 6 River Systems, BEUMER and E&K Automation Among Others – Yahoo Finance

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

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Dublin, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Logistics Automation Market, By Component (Software, Hardware-integrated Systems-integrated Systems, Services), By Function (Warehouse and Storage Management, Transportation Management), By Vertical, By Company, By Region, Forecast & Opportunities, 2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global logistics automation market is expected to witness a growth of steady CAGR in the forecast period, 2023-2027. The adoption of industry 4.0 technologies and the growing popularity of the e-commerce industry are driving the growth of the global logistics automation market.

Also, the improved efficiency and workforce safety and advancements in robotics technology are expected to create numerous growth opportunities for the market players in the forecast period.

The global logistics automation market is segmented into component, function, vertical, region, and company. Based on regional analysis, the European region is expected to hold the largest market share in the forecast period, 2023-2027, due to the ongoing industrial revolution.

The logistics automation market's growth is driven by high-end expenditures made by key companies to upgrade current technology such as automation, machine learning, and the internet of things to maximize performance. Also, the expansion of the manufacturing sector and the growing popularity of the e-commerce industry are further expected to fuel the market growth.

The major players operating in the global logistics automation market are 6 River Systems, LLC, BEUMER Group, E&K Automation Limited, ABB Ltd., Dematic Global, Falcon Autotech Private Limited, SBS Toshiba Logistics, TGW Logistics Group, Zebra Technologies, Honeywell Intelligrated, among others.

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Objective of the Study:

To analyze the historical growth in the market size of global logistics automation market from 2017 to 2021

To estimate and forecast the market size of global logistics automation market from 2022E to 2027F and growth rate until 2027F

To classify and forecast global logistics automation market based on component, function, vertical, region, and company

To identify dominant region or segment in the global logistics automation market

To identify drivers and challenges for global logistics automation market

To examine competitive developments such as expansions, new product launches, mergers & acquisitions, etc., in global logistics automation

To identify and analyze the profile of leading players operating in global logistics automation

To identify key sustainable strategies adopted by market players in global logistics automation market

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Key Topics Covered:

1. Product Overview

2. Research Methodology

3. Executive Summary

4. Impact of COVID-19 on Global Logistics Automation Market

5. Voice of Customer

6. Global Logistics Automation Market Outlook6.1. Market Size & Forecast6.1.1. By Value6.2. Market Share & Forecast6.2.1. By Component (Software, Hardware-Integrated Systems, Services)6.2.2. By Function (Warehouse and Storage Management, Transportation Management)6.2.3. By Vertical (Manufacturing, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Retail and eCommerce, 3PL, Aerospace and Defense, Oil, Gas, and Energy, Chemicals, Others (paper and printing, and textiles and clothing)6.2.4. By Region (North America; Europe; Asia Pacific; South America and Middle East & Africa) 6.2.5. By Company (2021)6.3. Product Market Map

7. North America Logistics Automation Market Outlook

8. Europe Logistics Automation Market Outlook

9. Asia-Pacific Logistics Automation Market Outlook

10. South America Logistics Automation Market Outlook

11. Middle East and Africa Logistics Automation Market Outlook

12. Market Dynamics12.1. Drivers12.2. Challenges

13. Market Trends & Developments

14. Competitive Landscape 14.1. Competition Outlook14.2. Company Profiles (Partial List of Leading Companies)14.2.1. 6 River Systems, LLC14.2.2. BEUMER Group.14.2.3. E&K Automation Limited14.2.4. ABB Ltd.14.2.5. Dematic Global 14.2.6. Falcon Autotech Private Limited14.2.7. SBS Toshiba Logistics14.2.8. TGW Logistics Group.14.2.9. Zebra Technologies 14.2.10. Honeywell Intelligrated

15. Strategic Recommendations

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Automation, more security and governance next big BI trends – TechTarget

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

Data and analytics vendors have slowly been adding automation capabilities to their platforms over the past couple of years, and in the second half of 2022, automation is likely to become a major BI trend.

Many vendors have effectively enabled organizations to automate much of the cumbersome data management process. In addition, automated machine learning (autoML) has been an emphasis of late.

Before vendors like Alteryx, among others, added automated data management capabilities, data had to be manually loaded, cleansed and organized so it could eventually be analyzed and used to inform decisions. And before other vendors like Qlik added autoML capabilities, data scientists had to manually oversee every aspect of the development and training of machine learning models.

Both processes were onerous, dominating the time data engineers and data scientists spent working with data and limiting the time they could actually examine data models and conduct analysis.

Now, however, automated data management capabilities and autoML enable data workers to do more than just prepare data and train models.

Yet at the BI level when data consumers visualize and analyze their data and take subsequent actions, there remains little automation. Analysis and action remain largely a human endeavor. But BI won't remain so forever, and a trend in analytics that may emerge during the second half of 2022 is the advancement of automation at the BI level.

"Every other aspect of [information technology] has been affected by automation, and it's coming for BI now," said Donald Farmer, founder and principal of TreeHive Strategy.

Industry insiders also predict BI trends over the final months of the year will include an emphasis on data security and governance as organizations enable more employees to work with data, an acknowledgement of the importance of people analytics amid the Great Resignation, and a gulf to emerge between data-driven organizations and those that have yet to make effective use of their data.

Every other aspect of [information technology] has been affected by automation, and it's coming for BI now. Donald FarmerFounder and principal, TreeHive Strategy

Process automation leads to efficiency.

And as it relates to analytics, automation has mostly been about automating processes in order to reduce the burdens of repetitive tasks on employees and free them to do the types of analysis that lead to insight and organizational growth.

In addition to data management and machine learning, anomaly detection is another area in which automation has already gained momentum, with vendors such as Sisu automating the process of discovering anomalies in data and explaining why they occurred.

Data governance is still another part of the analytics lifecycle benefiting from automation with organizations able to program guidelines about who can access what data and to what degree they can use that data.

Beyond efficiency, process automation leads to accuracy.

While not foolproof, machines tend to reduce the risks of human error, which can mount when someone has to do the same thing over and over again and perhaps suffers a lapse in concentration.

The combination of efficiency and accuracy, meanwhile, results in cost savings. Organizations don't have to allocate resources to perform repetitive tasks and they don't have to pay the price caused by human error.

But when it comes to viewing data and making sense of it, the work largely remains a human task.

Data can be automatically uploaded into dashboards and data models, but people are the ones looking at those dashboards and models and interpreting their meaning, then using that interpretation to inform decisions that can affect their entire organization.

Eventually, that will change and at least some of the insight generation will be automated.

"The next trend that might start to get interesting is automation," Farmer said. "Automation is coming to BI, without a doubt. That's been a little slow -- and we have things like autoML -- but automation of the entire BI process is really becoming a big topic."

Some vendors are already attempting to automate analysis and insight through emerging technologies like data storytelling, which is the automated generation of narratives about data so that business users can read an interpretation that is essentially an explanation of the data they're viewing.

For example, Tableau recently released Data Stories, a tool developed as a result of Tableau's 2021 acquisition of Narrative Science. Yellowfin, meanwhile, first introduced Yellowfin Stories in 2018 and has updated its capabilities since.

But the BI trend of automation won't just stop at the generation of insights. It will progress to the next step of turning that insight into action, according to Boris Evelson, an analyst at Forrester Research.

In a 2022 report titled "The Future of Business Intelligence" he co-authored with fellow Forrester analysts Srividya Sridharan, Cinny Little and Fayzan Sabri, Evelson wrote that organizations should begin to automate operational decisions.

For example, the approval of a credit card application or insurance claim can be automated using existing technologies, he noted. Because the approval and denial of credit card applications and insurance claims are based on a specific set of data criteria, they are ripe processes for automation.

Like the analysts, Dan Sommer, senior director and market intelligence lead at Qlik, expects more automation as part of the BI process.

In particular, by enabling applications and analytics platforms to communicate via integrations, organizations will be able to automate decisions and actions.

"Application automation will add the last mile of analytics," Sommer said. "Application automation helps interweave and trigger sequences of events -- for example from your dashboard -- with or without human involvement."

For example, a Salesforce dashboard could be programmed to automatically send an email to sales representatives who need to know certain information at a certain moment.

"Those sequences and actions are only limited by your own imagination," Sommer said. "[Automation] will really help with tactical actions to close that last mile from insight to action."

While automation at the insight level is one BI trend gaining momentum as 2022 progresses, an added emphasis on data security and governance measures is another.

The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the need for analytics.

Circumstances -- both from an economic and health perspective -- suddenly started changing quickly in the months after the onset of the pandemic, requiring organizations to act and react quickly. And that led to a surge in the use of analytics that has continued as events such as the war in Ukraine and economic conditions like rising inflation and a falling stock market have resulted in continued uncertainty.

That surge in the use of analytics, however, sometimes came before organizations had a chance to put in all the safety guardrails necessary to ensure the proper use of their data.

Data governance is a critical aspect of analytics. It balances risk while enabling users to confidently work with data, and without a proper data governance framework, organizations are at risk of violating regulations and data breaches.

Many organizations are now behind schedule on data governance, and will make that an emphasis as 2022 progresses, according to Sommer.

"Largely driven by necessity, organizations needed to make drastic moves to keep the lights on," he said. "Overall, this is positive, as it's driven transformations at organizations to become more modern and data-driven while overcoming inertia, red tape and regulations. [Now,] security and compliance teams are playing catch-up, because not doing so can carry consequences."

One grocery store chain in Sweden, where Sommer resides, suffered the consequences of a lack of data security.

Coop Forum suffered a ransomware attack in 2021 and had to close 500 of its more than 800 stores for several days when the attack shut down its point-of-sale system cash registers and its self-service checkout software stopped working.

Other organizations, meanwhile, have had to pay millions of dollars for regulatory violations.

For example, Amazon paid $877 million in 2021 for violating Europe's General Data Protection Regulation, while Google, Facebook and Marriott are other organizations that have run afoul of GDPR guidelines.

"Regulations are now conflating data management, data privacy, data security, as well as identity and access management," Sommer said.

Meanwhile, a rising trend is that BI vendors are prioritizing data security and governance as well.

Data management vendors like Alation, Collibra and Informatica have long made data security and governance capabilities part of their platform. Now, with more organizations recognizing the value of self-service analytics, traditional BI vendors are adding similar capabilities.

Many have expanded beyond being strictly BI vendors and added data integration and data management tools to offer a full-featured data and analytics platform. Qlik added such capabilities through acquisitions, while others like Tableau and Tibco have done so mostly through product development.

And now, they are beginning to prioritize data security and governance.

In December 2021, Tableau's platform update featured centralized row-level security to enable data administrators to easily set parameters on individuals' access to data. Earlier in 2021, Microsoft Power BI received a security enhancement. And security and governance feature prominently on Qlik's roadmap, with the vendor aiming to provide industry-specific frameworks that will enable organizations to more easily establish security and governance guidelines.

"The more organizations embed analytics, trigger actions, and share APIs and data, the more they need to protect against [data security and governance] failures," Sommer said.

One of the surprising developments over the past couple of years has been the "Great Resignation," the higher-than-usual number of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs in search of a better quality of life.

As a result, people analytics is becoming more important than ever and will be a major BI trend throughout the latter half of 2022 as organizations attempt to hold onto key personnel and reduce overall turnover, according to Cindi Howson, chief data strategy officer at ThoughtSpot and host of The Data Chief podcast.

When making use of data, organizations generally focus on financial numbers. Less top-of-mind is data about employees and monitoring their satisfaction.

But organizations that fail to keep track of how their employees feel -- especially with events like the pandemic, social justice movement, war in Ukraine and struggling economy psychologically affecting people -- risk losing employees at higher rates than organizations that prioritize employee well-being.

"People analytics historically is the forgotten child within a data and analytics team," Howson said. "In the Great Resignation, you can't do that. It's about taking care of your people. And with the social injustices of 2020 continuing, it's important to look at diversity and inclusion, not just from a point of where you stand today but the leading indicators."

Meanwhile, all the BI trends, both current trends such as enabling users to action directly from their insights and the ones that will shape the near future like automation and an emphasis on security and governance, will accelerate a growing data disparity phenomenon.

That is the increasing gap between the organizations that are truly data-driven and those that continue to rely on basic instinct to make key decision, according to Sumeet Arora, chief development officer at ThoughtSpot.

Even people analytics will play into that gap.

Organizations that use data to learn more about employee satisfaction will be able to take more proactive action to retain personnel and reduce costly turnover. Meanwhile, those that don't actively communicate with employees to understand their feelings risk having to fill positions over and over and repeatedly spend on the recruitment and training of new employees.

"As everyone gets empowered with data, inherently there will be autonomous organizations that will be differentiated from organizations that don't make the jump," Arora said. "The ones that have this are the organizations that will be more autonomous, and they'll thrive more than the others. I think that is going to really play out."

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Edge Cloud 4 Production: How Audi is revolutionizing factory automation – Automotive World

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

Centralized, not decentralized; local servers, not hundreds of industrial PCs; software, not hardware: with the local server solution Edge Cloud 4 Production, Audi is initiating a paradigm shift in automation technology. After successful testing in the Audi Production Lab (P-Lab), three local servers will take over directing workers in the Bllinger Hfe. If the server infrastructure continues to operate reliably, Audi wants to roll out this automation technology the only one of its kind in the world for serial production throughout the entire Volkswagen Group.

Henning Lser, head of Audis Production Lab, pulls the plug on a server in Ingolstadts P-Lab. Simulated production in the Bllinger Hfe keeps going without interruption. Two other servers reliably continue controlling 36 cycles during the lab test in the P-Lab in Gaimersheim. Audi wants to be the first manufacturer in the world to turn to these kinds of centralized server solutions in cycle-dependent production. In the Bllinger Hfe near Neckarsulm, the Audie-tronGT quattro1and the R8 share an assembly line. The small-scale series e produced there are particularly well suited for testing projects from the P-Lab and trying things out for large-scale series.

With the Edge Cloud 4 Production, a few centralized and local servers will take on the work of countless expensive industrial PCs. The server solution makes it possible to level out spikes in demand over the total number of virtualized clients a far more efficient use of resources. Production will save time and effort, particularly where software rollouts, operating system changes, and IT-related expenses are concerned. What were doing here is a revolution, says Gerd Walker, Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG Production and Logistics. We used to have to buy hardware when we wanted to introduce new functions. With Edge Cloud 4 Production, we only buy applications in the form of software. That is the crucial step toward IT-based production. For P-Lab boss Lser, the project is an operation at the heart of our automation technology and production management. Audi is the first manufacturer to put a centralized server solution into test operation in cycle-dependent production.

The crucial advantage of Edge Cloud 4 Production is that countless industrial PCs can be replaced along with their input and output devices and no longer need to be individually maintained. Process safety is also greatly improved. In the event of a disruption, the load can be shifted to other servers. In contrast, a broken industrial PC would have to be replaced. That takes time. On top of that, the solution reduces the workload for employees. In the future, thin clients capable of what is known as power-over-Ethernet will set the pace. These terminal devices get their electrical power via Ethernet cables and most of their computational power through local servers. They have USB ports for output devices. That enables managers directing workers to look at a monitor and see what needs to be mounted onto which vehicle. In the future, an oversized PC with processing and storage capacity will not be necessary for these tasks. Software-based infrastructures have proven themselves in data processing centers. Were convinced they will also work well in production, says Lser.

Together with the experts from the P-Lab, the IT managers around Christoph Hagmller, the Head of IT Services at Audi in Neckarsulm and co-manager for Production IT in the Bllinger Hfe, are rolling out the new solution. With its comparatively low unit and cycle numbers, the Bllinger Hfe is ideally suited to functioning as a real lab for testing the new concept in series production. Edge Cloud 4 Production has a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). This software-defined system combines all the elements of a small data processing center: storage, computing, networking, and management. The software defines functionalities like web servers, databases, and managing systems. The cloud solution can also be quickly scaled at will to adapt to changing production requirements. However, a public cloud link is out of the question due to productions stringent security requirements. Additionally, local servers make the necessary, very short latencies possible. These are the reasons why we install the servers near us. Thats also why we call the solution Edge Cloud: because its close to our shop floor environment, says P-Lab boss Lser.

The new IT concept also improves ease of maintenance and IT security. With industrial PCs, the patch cycles (the intervals between necessary updates) are usually longer. On top of that, updates can only be installed during pauses in production. With the cloud-based infrastructure, IT experts can roll out patches in all phases within a few minutes via the central servers. Moreover, IT colleagues install functionality updates in all virtual clients at the same time, such as a new operating system. Hagmller explains that the need for additional functionality will get increasingly elaborate and expensive in the future. He estimates that the cost of an update for instance, from Windows 10 to Windows 11 can be reduced by about one-third. Additionally, with the server solution, we arent dependent on loose timeframes in Production anymore. It gives ustremendous flexibility to ensure our software and operating systems are always completely up to date.

Both data processing centers in the Neckarsulm plant are slated for subsequent mass production. A fiber optic cable connects them with the Bllinger Hfe. According to Henning Lser, 5G will be relevant in the second stage. Thus far, a separate computer has been installed in every automated guided vehicle (AGV). Here too, experts must install costly security updates and new operating systems. It is conceivable that they could acquire new functionalities, but they are seldom transferable to their computers. We need a fast, high-availability network for that, says Lser. In our testing environment in the P-Lab, we have taken another step forward concerning 5G.

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Rockwell Automation Brings Smarter Drive Capabilities to More Applications – PR Newswire

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Danzig

The new PowerFlex 755TS drive is the first six-pulse drive to incorporate TotalFORCE technology from Rockwell Automation tohelp customers get the most out of their equipment. Previously only available in PowerFlex 755T drives with active front-end technology, TotalFORCE can now be used in a wider range of applications. This includestraditional fan, pump, and conveyor applications, and more advanced motor control processes that require high-performance features typically found in specialized drive solutions.

This addition brings a simplified and consistent user experience to virtually any motor control application in three key ways:

"Significantly more industrial companies can experience the benefits of TotalFORCE technology now that it's available in a traditional six-pulse drive," said Sav Papadopoulos, business manager for low voltage drives, Asia Pacific, Rockwell Automation. "No other drive on the market delivers the combined performance and intelligence capabilities of the PowerFlex 755TS drive, which helps improve operational productivity and reduce burdens on the workforce."

The PowerFlex 755TS drive is available with an option for enhanced corrosive gas protection (XT) that helps improve uptime and extend the drive's operating life in corrosive gas environments. The drive has been tested and validated in one of the most severe corrosive-environment-test protocols. These tests combine industry-leading, 30-day exposure in mixed flow gas testing per ASTM B845 Method K with additional proprietary tests that go beyond any industry standard requirement known to date.

To help strengthen cybersecurity in industrial operations, the 755TS drive is CIP Security capable. When implemented, CIP Security helps fortify a control system by providing data authenticity, integrity and confidentiality. This helps defend against the risk of someone remotely accessing a network and acting maliciously.

The 755TS drive is designed to ease migration from other PowerFlex 750 drives. The 755TS drive is also a drop-in mechanical and electrical replacement for other PowerFlex 755 drives, even using the same physical dimensions, mounting-hole and wiring locations. It also uses the same slot-based architecture that allows users to continue using I/O and safety cards from their existing 750 drives. Lastly, Premier Integration into the Logix control platform helps ease drive configuration and programming.

About Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation, Inc.(NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 25,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about how we are bringing The Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit http://www.rockwellautomation.com.

PowerFlex, Rockwell Automation andTotalFORCEare trademarks of Rockwell Automation Inc.CIPSecurity is a trademark ofODVA, Inc.

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