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TALLYING THE VARIOUS uses of the coconut, the 20th-century agriculturist Frederic Rosengarten Jr. writes that [e]very part of the crop can be utilized for some human need. Citing the amount of protein found in one coconuts meat, the versatility of its shell and coir, and the approximate amount of lumber provided by the trunk of its tree, Rosengarten concludes that [o]ne could live almost endlessly on the coconuts products. Here, Rosengarten unwittingly tethers the long history of human-led environmental extraction to the fantasy of living forever on natures endless bounty a fantasy that, as our current environmental crisis makes clear, is antithetical to global, unbounded projects like monocropping, mineral-mining, logging, and drilling. In Vauhini Varas The Immortal King Rao, these realities confront each other, doing so by zeroing in on one resource: the coconut.

Athena, the 17-year-old narrator of Varas debut novel, rehearses the contents of Rosengartens book as she describes the childhood of her father, the titular King Rao. King Raos memories, as well as the text of Rosengartens The Book of Edible Nuts, arrive to Athenas conscious mind via an experimental technology called the Harmonica, an injectable solution that fuses the recipients brain to the internet itself, permitting Athena to seamlessly search for, condense, and save information from the web into the elastic expanse of her own mind. Yet, as Varas novel reveals in its early chapters, Athenas Harmonica has also been granted access to the entirety of her fathers memories. As the aged King Rao empties the contents of his life into his daughters consciousness, he also creates the conditions for Varas sprawling, intergenerational epic, which begins on the Rao coconut plantation in rural Kothapalli, India. Imprisoned for a crime that she did not commit, Athena is tasked with relaying not only the circumstances that led to her arrest, but also those that engendered her fathers rise to wealth, prominence, and, eventually, the restructuring of governmental order. The story of how she came into the hands of the police is not an isolated event; it is part of the larger story of her fathers emigration and his role in engineering the very government now holding her captive. Athenas plea for freedom thus entails not only a retelling of her fathers life and deeds, but also forcibly reliving his memories alongside her own.

The Immortal King Rao begins in an era of peak privatization: government first the US, then the rest of the world has been replaced by a Board of Directors. With the aid of a deific Algorithm, the Board governs its Shareholders (formerly citizens) by endowing them with Social Capital, a metric that stands in for both financial status and general social value. As society swells to its technological and capitalistic limits, so, too, does the ecological catastrophe known as Hothouse Earth. This social overhaul was borne of Kings first invention, a personal computer he called the Coconut. Inspired by the crops endless utility and aided by his wife Margarets keen instinct for business, Kings string of inventions (including the all-knowing Algorithm itself) quickly transcend their status as popular consumer goods; instead, they become the fabric of the worlds economy, sociality, and governance.

In this sense, the supposedly immortal King Rao does live almost endlessly on the coconuts products. As Athena narrates Kings rise to wealth and power, she also covertly reveals how much Kings reverence for his familial crop is entangled in a web of enterprise and environmental destruction. Varas novel, which gestures toward a number of tropes in contemporary speculative fiction technologys increasing imbrication in our social and political lives, the rise of unfettered corporatization, our careening movement toward environmental apocalypse places these consequences on a timeline that begins with a coconut plantation in Southeast India. The farming of coconuts, an enterprise that is emblematic of the deep history of imperial extraction and globalization, sits at the heart of Varas exploration of technology and capital.

Raised by her father on his isolated estate on Bainbridge Island, Athena grows up surrounded by Southeast Indian vegetation: Vara writes, None of the plants on the Raos twenty gorgeous acres of gardens were native to the Pacific Northwest; they were all tropical flora, guava and coconut trees, multicolored flowers that practically spurted from their stems, wax-like. On the harbor cruise tours that circle Bainbridge Island permitting tourists to raise their binoculars in the direction of the famous estate the tour guides quiz their passengers as to how such a feat could be possible in the rainy, cold environs of the Pacific Northwest. The correct answer forecasts one central theme in The Immortal King Rao, which is the fraught relationship between technological innovation and environmental destruction:

More often than not, some home-and-garden aficionado on board would have the answer. King and Margaret Raos secretive, private research organization, the Rao Project, had been commissioned to come up with genetically modified seeds that produced tropical trees and plants capable of growing in cooler climates like Seattles. The group was also working on inserting edible vaccines into tropical fruit eaten by the worlds poor and creating climate-adaptive produces that could withstand rising temperatures.

Recounting one of Kings memories, Athena narrates a scene from his first year as CEO of the Shareholder Government during which King convened a global consortium of experts to examine how science could be deployed to return the climate to historically normal conditions. The march toward Hothouse Earth, however, was already well underway, and the experts presented their report: nothing could be done to rewind the clocks on environmental destruction or, put more bluntly, you couldnt refreeze the Arctic. Disbelieving, Margaret leans in: were these experts really suggesting that humans had exhausted their potential for innovation that if something hadnt been invented yet, it never would be? While his wife remains bent on pursuing technological solutions to climate change, King changes tack. He begins inventing the Harmonica in earnest, describing it as humanitys only chance of having a future. With Hothouse Earth coming, King reasons, we needed to think about how to preserve some record of who we were. It is telling that Kings final accomplishment is only the preservation of who he was, enabling Vara to metonymically telegraph the insistent anthropocentrism that gave rise to Hothouse Earth in the first place.

Kings instinct to create a perfect record of his life is reminiscent of real-life billionaires immortality pursuits think Larry Pages interest in solving death or Elon Musks neurotechnology company Neuralink. Vara, who has worked for years as a technology correspondent for publications like The Wall Street Journal, was undoubtedly influenced by the increasing affinity between techno-billionaires and the hunt for immortality. The source of Kings wealth also resembles many a tech cofounder: The Coconut Corporations whole business was built on extracting and profiting from its users personal information, while claiming its goal was to bring people together in harmony. It is perhaps too easy to replace the phrase users personal information with natural resources here, though Varas scathing critique of the tech sphere also reminds us that what counts as a resource is as relentlessly mineable as the resources themselves.

Yet The Immortal King Rao charts a narrative whereby both King and Athena find themselves on the outer edges of the society that the Coconut Corporation helped to build. King undergoes a highly publicized fall from grace, whereas Athena finds herself aiding the Exes, a radical group that lives literally off the Algorithms grid. Moving back and forth between Kings childhood, his rise to prominence, and Athenas present, The Immortal King Rao meditates on the complex culpability of individual actors within wide and pernicious systems. The intricate, global nature of the plot only serves to underscore its core conceit: an endemic hunger for innovation is the through-line between early plantation economies and an utterly privatized world. At the end of this historical continuum is an unlivable but not unrecognizable world. The novel imagines a world where a descendent of Dalit coconut farmers finds himself at the height of technological and global power and where his daughter finds herself living in an anarchist commune bent on the destruction of everything her father built.

As such, The Immortal King Rao is not a neat allegory of environmental racism or the corrupting influence of power. However, it nevertheless insists that we pay attention to relationships between seemingly diverse commodities (coconuts on the one hand, computers on the other), and how difficult it is to wrench them from systems bent on extracting their value. Moreover, Vara adeptly threads her story with a complicated and never saccharine story of love; between father and daughter, husband and wife, and, significantly, a coalition of renegades who dream that another kind of life is possible. At just under 400 pages, The Immortal King Raos expansive reach might feel a little constrained by its length. Or, perhaps, it deftly mirrors the turbulence of its narrators mind. Athena, after all, isnt only faced with the task of digesting her fathers entire conscious experience she is up against a history of extraction so wide-reaching that it is almost impossible to know where to begin. But this is the story that, from her prison cell, she has to try her best to tell, in hopes that it might lead to her (and, maybe, humanitys) salvation.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 11, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MindMaze, a global pioneer in the development of neurotechnology, today confirms a new partnership with Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN. Through this partnership, MindMaze will expand its groundbreaking research using its MindDrive brain technology platform to bring together advanced neuroscience, state-of-the-art technology, and engineering to boost safety and human performance in motorsport.

"We are delighted to be working closely with the Alfa Romeo F1 team to expand our partnership. Human performance is tested to the maximum in F1, which is why the research we are conducting with team ORLEN is so important. Our goal is not only to generate and study data that benefit human performance in motorsport, but also to inform the future of innovation for universal safety features across the entire automotive industry," says MindMaze CEO Tej Tadi.

MindDrives brain technology platform is part of the companys R&D innovation division MindMaze Labs. The collaboration will include holistic research assessing both car and driver. The brain technology platform will specifically monitor human performance by capturing brain data, both on and off the racetrack. MindMazes F1 partnership represents a novel new field of study that underscores the companys objective to transform brain health by decoding the brain and harnessing its ability to accelerate recovery from injury, learn, and adapt.

Frdric Vasseur, Team Principal of Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN, added, "Innovation is at the heart of everything we do in Formula One, so Im proud to welcome MindMaze as a neurotechnology pioneer to our partner family. It is a company that has shown its research has real-world benefits, and Im looking forward to combining our deep technical competencies to see what insights we can unlock together."

MindMaze recently showcased the brain technology and its motorsport research at the Miami Grand Prix, where MindMaze was a founding partner. As part of the agreement, MindMaze will have brand sponsorship on the safety helmets of Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu for the remainder of the 2022 F1 season.

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MindMazes F1 programme is part of its growing portfolio of research in motorsport. Currently, it has a MindDrive-focused research project underway in the US with the Andretti Autosport Indycar team and its brain health ambassador, Romain Grosjean. Previous partners include F1s McLaren and Haas teams.

About MindMaze

Founded in 2012, MindMaze is a global leader in brain technology and digital neurotherapeutics solutions for brain health and recovery. Its mission is to accelerate the brains ability to recover, learn, and adapt. The company has two core divisions Healthcare and Labs working collaboratively at the intersection of neuroscience, bio-sensing, engineering, mixed reality, and artificial intelligence. MindMaze Healthcare is advancing a universal platform for brain health with breakthrough solutions to some of the worlds most challenging problems in neurology, including stroke, Parkinsons disease, and Alzheimers disease. MindMaze Labs, the companys R&D innovation hub, is focused on the future of human computing working across multiple industries to innovate and build the next generation of human-machine interfaces. The company has offices in Lausanne, Baltimore, London, Paris, and Mumbai. For more information, please visit http://www.mindmaze.com.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MindMaze, a global pioneer in neurotechnology and digital therapeutics (DTx) for neurological recovery and care, has been recognized as one of Switzerlands Best Managed Companies in 2022. This programme, sponsored by Deloitte Private, SIX Swiss Exchange, and Julius Baer, awards Swiss companies who operate at the highest level of business performance.

We are thrilled to receive this distinguished recognition for our efforts, said COO of MindMaze, Jean-Marc Wismer. As a team we are focused on innovation and quality because when it comes to developing groundbreaking technologies and therapies to treat those suffering from neurological conditions and injuries, good business practices and processes are vital to attract and retain great talent and grow sustainably.

Switzerlands Best Managed Companies Programme highlights exceptional business practices executed by Switzerlands best privately owned companies. A companys efforts, overall growth, and management abilities factor into the programmes selection. The Deloitte evaluation for these awards is based on 29 years of observed practice from the global awards programme that has been rolled out in 48 countries worldwide. Companies that are chosen for this award are upheld as examples for other businesses to follow.

The companys unique organizational model supports both rapid scalability and allows for greater flexibility in a changing environment. This model has proven to be highly effective particularly through COVID, enabling the company to seamlessly adapt its business model to balance product development, marketing and sales activities and maintain strong revenue growth with continued expansion of commercial operations across 15 countries. Deloittes recognition further validates our agile governance hierarchy, which focuses on roles instead of titles, adds Wismer. Cultivating an atmosphere of collaboration and accountability has allowed us to form efficient and ethical business practices that benefit the company, its employees, and our stakeholders.

About MindMaze

Founded in 2012, MindMaze is a global leader in brain technology and digital neurotherapeutic solutions for brain health and recovery. Its mission is to accelerate the brains ability to recover, learn and adapt. The company has two core divisions Healthcare and Labs working collaboratively at the intersection of neuroscience, bio-sensing, engineering, mixed reality and artificial intelligence. MindMaze Healthcare is advancing a universal platform for brain health with breakthrough solutions to some of the worlds most challenging problems in neurology, including stroke, Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease. MindMaze Labs, the companys R&D innovation hub, is focused on the future of human computing working across multiple industries to innovate and build the next generation of human-machine interfaces. The company has offices in Lausanne, Baltimore, London, Paris and Mumbai. For more information, please visit http://www.mindmaze.com.

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OpenBCIs new platform Galea, will be combined with the cutting-edge Varjo Aero VR headset to provide developers and researchers a powerful new tool for understanding and augmenting the human mind

BROOKLYN, NY May 31, 2022 OpenBCI, a Brooklyn-based neurotechnology company, announced today that it has partnered with Varjo, the leader in professional-grade VR/XR, for the launch of Galea, OpenBCIs eagerly anticipated new product.

Galea is a hardware and software platform that merges next-generation brain-computer interface technology with head-mounted displays. Galea beta systems will come integrated with the Varjo Aero headset and will be the worlds first device that simultaneously measures the users heart, skin, muscles, eyes, and brain.

The Galea Beta Program has already received significant interest from applicants spanning consumer technology, healthcare, research, training, and gaming & interactive media. Galea beta units will come fully-integrated with the industry-leading Varjo Aero and include robust SDKs with ready-to-use building blocks for accessing the sensor data inside of Unity, Python, and several other common development environments. The Aero is Varjos newest VR headset that offers industry-leading visual fidelity, featuring true-to-life, edge-to-edge clarity across 115 degrees field of view designed for professionals and leading-edge VR users alike. By combining Galeas multi-modal sensor system, integrated software and Varjo VR hardware, users are equipped with powerful tools to help accelerate innovations within the neurotechnology industry.

For nearly a decade, OpenBCI has been at the forefront of expanding consumer access to neurotechnology. What started as a movement among makers and early-adopters, has grown into a global community of scientists, developers, educators, and increasingly, innovation teams of major technology companies. Galeas unique multi-modal sensor network and complementary software dramatically simplifies the process of collecting tightly-synchronized data from the body and unlocks new techniques for anyone looking to objectively measure user experiences and cognitive states.

Ultimately, I see the combination of neurotechnology and mixed reality as the future of personal computers, says OpenBCI founder and CEO, Conor Russomanno. Weve been watching carefully as neuroscience, BCI, and consumer technology have converged over the past several years. Varjos headsets are some of the best Ive ever experienced and I cant wait to see what our Beta users will be able to create with Galea.

Varjo is proud to join forces with OpenBCI and expand access to the highest-fidelity VR to the research and developer community looking to pioneer new understandings of the human body and mind, said Urho Konttori, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Varjo. The integration will allow Galea users to unlock the most immersive VR experience available on the market today and truly push the boundaries of innovation in a number of fields.

Pre-orders for Galea will initially be open to the thousands of companies, developers, and researchers who have already applied to the Galea Beta Program. Remaining units will be available for pre-order by the general public on July 1, 2022.

For more information on the partnership, please contact press@varjo.com.

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About Varjo:Varjo (pronounced var-yo) makes revolutionary VR/XR hardware and software that together allow you to see and experience virtual and augmented content just as clearly as you see the analog world around us. Our virtual and mixed reality headsets take you to another level of performance and emotional immersion recreating the exact feeling and conditions of real life, allowing you to perform better and learn faster.www.varjo.com

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Technology development in healthcare is a multistage process involving the invention, technical modification or evaluation of a new medical device, clinical procedure, or biological/chemical agent.

Earlier, health issues were addressed only when they had developed enough to cause trouble. But nowadays, the development and increased accessibility of medical technology has given patients a chance to treat diseases at their onset, leading to a higher chance of successful recovery.

In this article, we are going to discuss three major advancements in the medical technology sector.

mRNA technology

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Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis. It transports the genetic information that is obtained from DNA.

Recently, mRNA technology has gained attention because it is a component of the new Covid-19 vaccinations. mRNA vaccines function by giving cells the genetic information they need to build viral proteins, which the body can then use to mount an immunological defence.

These vaccines provide an alternative to the conventional vaccine strategy because of their high effectiveness, capacity for rapid development, and potential for low production costs.

Since almost any protein may be encoded by mRNA, the same fundamental technology might also enable the development of a wide range of treatments by inducing a drug-like reaction in the body. Numerous protein-based medications, such as antibodies produced outside the body, have shown to be very efficient and expensive. Therefore, by adopting mRNA technology, the time and cost of development could be reduced by making the human body responsible for protein production.

Neurotechnology

Neurotechnology refers to a combination of techniques and tools that permit a direct link between technological elements and the neurological system. Electrodes, computers, or intelligent prosthetics are examples of these technical components. They are intended to either "translate" brain signals into technical control orders by recording them, or to alter brain activity by delivering electrical or visual stimulation.

While it seems exciting from a therapeutic standpoint, neurotechnology is still up for debate. It raises concerns about privacy and data rights. While its potential uses are not yet fully understood, neurotechnology is anticipated to increase significantly in the global healthcare market over the next several years as neurological illnesses and conditions continue to be discovered and diagnosed.

Healthcare wearables

For improved care of patients with chronic illnesses, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and neurological problems, continuous and real-time monitoring is crucial. Thanks to the development of medical wearable technology, this is now conceivable to some extent.

Devices worn on the body or clothing are referred to as wearable devices. They are made up of a transducer and a target receptor. The target analyte (a chemical substance that is the subject of chemical analysis) is recognised by a receptor, which then reacts accordingly.

Smartwatches are one of the most widespread wearable devices in the healthcare industry, with major tech giants such as Apple, Google, and Samsung, all having a share in the smartwatch market. Smartwatches have the potential to record blood pressure, sleep patterns, electrocardiograms, and oxygen saturation, depending on the model of the watch.

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Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Antano Solar, CEO, Antano & Harini Legacy Accelerators, to find out the advancements in neurotechnology that can help to fast-track personal evolution.

Neuro Tech: Advancements in emotional wellnessThere are a lot of interesting things that are happening in neurotech that can enable solutions that weren't accessible earlier, from feeling emotionally different from within to having access to a remote arm or to develop physical abilities that were impossible. There's a lot that's happening in neurotech. So over the last ten years, scientists have been able to figure out how does the brain communicate within itself and thereby how to tap into that signaling system and leverage that with external devices. And there are both invasive and non-invasive methods.

There are noninvasive methods that can stimulate what's happening in the brain, but there are also advancements when it comes to nanoscience and the interfacing with the brain. Initially, it was thought that this technology will be helpful for people who are paralyzed and for controlling other functions of the body. But the latest advancement shows that these can also be used for emotional wellness, because the entire world is recognizing that the next big advancement in science is not going to be about how to correct the body, but it's going to be about how to correct the mind. And as it happened in history all over again, humankind is turning towards machines and technology to see how that can be leveraged to correct the challenges people have with their mind, with their emotions, with their feelings. Because at some level, these are involuntary functions.

Every emotion that we have is there for a purpose, from feeling lonely to feeling low. Sometimes there's a thin line between fear and being cautious. There's a thin line between being intuitive about danger versus being suspicious. And I think that's wisdom. Now, when you isolate wisdom and you just attach a machine that would just make you confident, that just makes you happy, then what you're really doing is you're stripping out the body's natural mechanism for being intuitive about what to feel at any given point in time. So at every decade, every century, there is something that is unique for the human race to actually thrive. For there was a point in time and it was overcoming slavery and getting freedom.

They have to have a larger ecosystem of people. Now, all of these can take decades to happen, but with the right set of capabilities and personal transformation, anyone can launch a legacy within two to three years. Even if in the regular track that have taken up 20 or 30 years, it can be time compressed to two or three years excellence. Installation specialists have this capability to take an individual into a very different altered state with their eyes open, while they're still awake, where the individual has access to some of the involuntary functions that they wouldn't otherwise have in their waking state. And from that space, certain activities, games, or even a form of communication or metaphoric storytelling can have a direct impact on the deep autonomous system.

When we are working on conditions like autoimmune, we also take what I call personal evolution log, where we record a person a year before they come, from the time we recorded a person when they come, and a year after that, so that they can compare the difference in what's happening to them across a period of time. Because with most things that concerns the body, when a change happens, you can see it. But the better thing is what it continues to do in the months and years to come. So that's why all our methods of validation include immediate testing as well as long term documentation.

Antano & Harini Legacy AcceleratorMy fascination is artificial intelligence, data and systems, and helping people understand technology. But I was also parallely fascinated about the mind. And I always found the latest technology available to help people solve challenges with their mind, with their emotions and their feelings. But it was not even possible for me to conceive at that point in time that helping someone have a relaxed mind or helping someone to think clearly can have a physical benefit. Until one day, when someone in the US, who met with an accident approached me asking that doctors have told him that he's going to be quadriplegic and he cannot move anything below his shoulders for the rest of his life because there's a C Five fracture and a nervous cut and is there any way that I could help him regain movements. And I was like, how is it even possible that he's asking me something like this? But being who I am, I knew that just because I didn't know how to and just because medical science at that point didn't know how to doesn't mean that there is no choice for him.

Neuro Tech: Body backup mechanismThere must be some way. So I started exploring all possibilities. I wrote from the most advanced societies in medical science to all alternate therapies. And I started searching for is there someone who would have a solution for this young man who is an IED graduate and his life has just turned upside down? And that's when I discovered and it was John Grinder.

He mentored me. And I found that there are some people for whom naturally, the body has a backup mechanism. A lot of people who get paralyzed stay paralyzed for the rest of their life. But there are some people for whom naturally, the backup system in the neurology activates itself. So I started exploring.

There must be a connection between why that backup system works for some people and why for others, it doesn't work. And I stumbled upon the ability of the neurology to do something called as plasticity to take the nerves that are specifically designed for one function to learn and do the functioning of the neighboring nerves. And we were able to figure out that if you help someone with internal involuntary responses in their thinking and their emotions, and also if you're able to give accurate biofeedback to the neurology, it increases the possibility for the body to selfactivate the backup mechanisms that we are born and gifted with.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is reported to have fathered twins with Shivon Zilis, an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, last year, according to court filings obtained by Business Insider as part of an exclusive report.

The filings reportedly confirmed that the children's middle names are Zillis and last names are Musk, according to Business Insider.

CNN Business reports it was unable to independently confirmed the documents, but did obtain a Travis County, Texas court docket that showed that a name changed for the children was initially filed in April 2022 and granted in early May, which matched the dates reported by Business Insider.

Neuralink is a neurotechnology company that is aiming to develop a computer chip capable of being planted in the human brain, according to documents obtained by Business Insider.

Zilis has had professional ties to Musk since at least April 2016, when she became an advisor to OpenAl, a non-profit research laboratory which the billionaire co-founded, according to her LinkedIn.

Zillis has since worked for both Tesla and Neuralink dating back to May 2017 and currently serves as director of operations for the neurotechnology company, as well as having served as a board member at OpenAl since 2020.

The report comes weeks after Musk shared a tweet on May 24 stating "USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years," which remains pinned to his profile as of Thursday (July 7).

Musk had previously fathered twins with his first wife, Justine, in 2004, as well as triplets two years later.

The billionaire later fathered two children with musician Claire 'Grimes' Boucher, with the latter born through a surrogate in December 2021.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan, June 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stryker (:SYK) announced that it will host a conference call on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time, to discuss the Company's operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 and provide an operational update. Final operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 will be released at 4:05 p.m. that day.

To register for this conference call, please use the following link: Stryker's Q2 2022 Earnings call. After registering, a confirmation will be sent via email, including dial-in details and unique conference call access codes required for call entry. Registration is open throughout the live call. To ensure you are connected prior to the beginning of the call, the Company suggests registering a day in advance or a minimum of 15 minutes before the start of the call.

A simultaneous webcast of the call will be accessible via the Investor Relations page of the Company's website at http://www.stryker.com. For those not planning to ask a question of management, the Company recommends listening via the webcast. Please allow 15 minutes to register, download and install any necessary software.

Following the conference call, a replay will be available at (866) 813-9403 (Toll Free) or (929) 458-6194 (International). The replay passcode is 637642. An archive of the webcast will also be available on the Company's website two hours after the live call ends.

Stryker is one of the worlds leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. More information is available at %3Cu%3Ewww.stryker.com%3C%2Fu%3E.

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MegaMatcher ABISis a complete biometric solution that provides a ready-to-use interface for managing the many transaction types commonly used with identity management systems. It features fingerprint, face, iris and palm-print biometrics, and the system also includes an adjudication module and a latent fingerprint editor among other capabilities.

By supporting the MOSIP API, MegaMatcher SDK and MegaMatcher ABIS can now be used in existing and future MOSIP-based large-scale identity projects, including biometric passports, voter registration and deduplication, border control, law enforcement, social services and a wide range of other applications that rely on secure, reliable person identification.

"Two of the main differentiators of our biometric technology have always been openness to a wide range of standards and the free trials that are easily accessible to everyone from our web site" said Antonello Mincone, Business Development Director for Neurotechnology. "Being a partner with MOSIP, and making our core technology compliant with its API definitions, is simply the natural path to follow to maintain our core principles and further strengthen trust among our thousands of customers worldwide"

The MOSIP implementations for MegaMatcher SDK and MegaMatcher ABIS are available on request for government institutions and system integrators who aim to test and use Neurotechnology's capabilities through this open standard.

"We believe in collaborating with our partners to make available a variety of cutting-edge technology solutions that work seamlessly with MOSIP," said Sanjith Sundaram, Head - Biometric Ecosystem for MOSIP. "This eventually helps adopting countries in achieving their goal of inclusion in a much more efficient and cost-effective way. We look forward to working with Neurotechnology, and leveraging their expertise in the field, contributing to the common goal that we all share."

The MOSIP implementation of MegaMatcher ABIS is also available through the MOSIP Market Place, recently announced by MOSIP during ID4Africa 2022 event in Morocco.

About Neurotechnology

Neurotechnology is a developer of high-precision algorithms and software based on deep neural networks and other AI-related technologies. The company was launched in 1990 in Vilnius, Lithuania, with the key idea of using neural networks for various applications, such as biometric person identification, computer vision, robotics and artificial intelligence. Since the first release of its fingerprint identification system in 1991, the company has delivered more than 200 products and version upgrades. More than 3,000 system integrators, security companies and hardware providers in more than 140 countries integrate Neurotechnology's algorithms into their products. The company's algorithms have achieved top results in independent technology evaluations, including NIST MINEX, PFT, FRVT and IREX and Neurotechnology's solutions are used around the globe on national-scale projects, including the world's largest biometric database, India's Aadhaar ID program, and ensuring electoral integrity during the elections in Ghana and DR Congo. https://www.neurotechnology.com

About MOSIP

The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), a world-renowned technology university, is anchoring the MOSIP project as a global public good. This effort is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Norad and Omidyar Network.

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By Senad Karaahmetovic

Elon Musks $44 billion bid for Twitter (NYSE:) has attracted an investor close to a Russian tycoon, Bloomberg News reports.

Vy Capital, a Dubai-based investment firm that manages over $5 billion in assets whose single-page website shows no address nor contact details, has committed $700 million to help Tesla's (NASDAQ:) Musk finance his takeover of Twitter.

The investment makes Vy Capital the third biggest outside backer involved in the deal, alongside Sequoia Capital and Larry Ellison.

The firm was founded by Alexander Tamas, a German national who was previously linked with Russian-Israeli tycoon Yuri Milner. If the deal with Twitter goes through, Vy Capital will have financed one of the largest ever leveraged acquisitions, marking a remarkable achievement for a firm with a very small number of public records that display its funding sources.

Vy Capital also invested in Musks Boring Company and digital asset exchange ErisX, according to PitchBook. Moreover, the firms founder Tamas also backed Musks spacecraft engineering company SpaceX and neurotechnology company Neuralink, suggesting that the investor has been deepening his relationship with Musk.

In 2020, a document from the blank-check company Vy Global Growth showed that Vy Capital manages over $2 billion in assets, with that number more than doubling since.

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