American Drone Maker Skyfish 1st to Aid New Sony Electronics Extremely-Compact Digicam

September 12, 2023 Audrey

Skyfish to Demo New Sony Camera at Industrial UAV EXPO, Booth #422

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 05, 2023 (Globe NEWSWIRE) — American autonomous drone maker Skyfish, nowadays declared its support and integration of the new Sony Electronics’ Alpha series super compact, light-weight, programmable block camera. Skyfish will demo the new Sony ultra-compact digital camera at Business UAV EXPO, in Las Vegas, Booth #422.

Skyfish, who collaborates carefully with Sony Electronics Inc., leverages pictures, proprietary algorithms, and accurate metadata to build extremely specific 3D versions or electronic twins of substantial infrastructure. Customer use scenarios include precision inspection, measurement and analysis of infrastructure such as mobile towers, bridges and roadways, wind turbines, airports, power strains and electricity infrastructure, specialised land use administration and more. The Skyfish 3D/digital-twin infrastructure versions are crystal crystal clear, measurable, and precise to within 1/32 of an inch.

“Sony’s new CX90100 block digital camera is particularly designed for drones, will save pounds and is remotely programable for in-flight functions.” states Dr. Orest Pilskalns, CEO of Skyfish. “We are thrilled to assist Sony as they convey their ultra-compact block digital camera to sector, it is a game changer, a light-weight, higher resolution (approx. 61 MP), remotely controlled, inexpensive digicam with multi-lens aid, that is great for inspecting and modelling infrastructure.” He ongoing, “the superior-high quality details gathered can then be 3D modelled, seen, shared, saved, and exported in numerous formats from Skyfish’s protected, AWS-run, buyer details heart – Skyportal.”

“Skyfish’s early integration of Sony’s new CX90100 camera follows both equally companies’ shut collaboration about the past various yrs,” stated John Monti, Director Industrial Imaging Options, Sony Electronics Inc. “Skyfish proceeds to drive new point out-of-the-artwork capabilities of fantastic value to mass-scale industrial inspection and mapping applications across a broad established of critical industries,” continued Monti.

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Microsoft gets its 1st gaming union, biggest in North The usa

January 12, 2023 Audrey

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The online video activity market in North The usa just obtained its biggest labor union, composed of 306 high quality assurance employees at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax. The tech big accepted the union following a vote Tuesday, following promising last June that it would respect workers’ legal rights to unionize.

The new union is part of the Communications Staff of America, or CWA, the major communications and media labor union in the U.S., and contains all high quality assurance testers at ZeniMax across studios in Maryland and Texas. Microsoft purchased ZeniMax in 2021 for $7.5 billion, getting possession of recreation sequence like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Doom.

Quality assurance testers at ZeniMax Studios pushed to unionize, saying labor troubles these types of as lower wages and prolonged hrs drove them to arrange.

“We have people doing the job various employment to make ends satisfy, we have persons who spend two or three hours a working day commuting since they just can’t afford to pay for to dwell near the place of work in Rockville [Md.],” explained Zach Lyon, a ZeniMax senior tester. “And performing for a important AAA publisher with several studios usually means we under no circumstances truly know when the crunch ends.”

Workers who spoke to The Washington Put up estimate it took two several years to assemble adequate support for the union to go public.

“[Organizing] was our only solution,” stated Wayne Dayberry, a different ZeniMax senior tester. “Pre-Microsoft acquire, we attempted to hash things out with administration and HR and did not have any achievement there, so it form of turned our only possibility.”

Very last June, Microsoft President Brad Smith instructed The Washington Post that its labor neutrality agreement with the CWA, which has been supporting ZeniMax and other sport staff manage, meant that “we respect the suitable of our workforce to make educated selections on their own.” Microsoft is awaiting regulatory approval of its deal to receive Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. At the time, the neutrality arrangement only covered Activision Blizzard, but the CWA had claimed it intended to use the offer to advocate for other Microsoft staff members as nicely.

The following ways for the ZeniMax employees are to established a day for bargaining and assemble a bargaining committee in the coming weeks.

Microsoft spokesperson David Cuddy stated: “In light-weight of the final results of the new unionization vote, we recognize the Communications Staff of The united states (CWA) as the bargaining agent for the Quality Assurance workers at ZeniMax. We glance forward to engaging in very good religion negotiations as we do the job toward a collective bargaining arrangement.”

The game titles business has noticed a wave of unionization endeavours in recent yrs. Employees at Activision Blizzard had been some of the initial to unionize in North The us. Testers at Phone of Responsibility maker Raven Computer software won their bid to unionize previous May possibly and are at this time bargaining for a contract. In December,

BIRDLAND Announces Programming Through May 1st

April 20, 2022 Audrey

BIRDLAND Announces Programming Through May 1st

Below, you’ll find details on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running April 18 – May 1. Artists appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include Cyrille Aimée, Ashley Pezzotti with the Birdland Big Band, Jane Monheit and Meg Okura Pan Asian Jazz Ensemble.

Downstairs at Birdland Theater, you’ll find Denis Reis Quartet, Donald Vega Trio, Wycliffe Gordon and His International All-Stars, Louis Rosen and his “Almost Large Band”, Daniel Glass Trio and Steven Bernstein‘s Millennial Territory Orchestra. Regular events include David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night, Birdland Big Band and Arturo O’Farrill & The Latin Jazz Ensemble.

April 18 (Monday) 8:30 PM – Birdland Theater
Denis Reis Quartet
A proponent of Brazilian music the world over, Denise Reis possesses a beautiful spirit and a warm, soothing voice that make her original songs, as well as her renditions of both MPB (musica popular brasileira) and blues classics, a healing experience. Honored to have been invited to compose and present a song live and in person to His Holiness Dalai Lama, Reis seeks to tap into the “universal language” of music, and resists defining her sound with labels; in light of this expansive openness that characterizes her songs, she has brought her soulful voice to stages across the world, including Portugal, Ukraine, Senegal, Venezuela, Israel, Canada, Slovenia, France, Germany, and the United States. In New York City, she has performed at Birdland, City Winery, Joe’s Pub, and other distinguished venues. Her albums-Chá de Hortelã com Caviar and Alfândega-showcase her touching sound, which includes a unique and stirring use of the “mouth trumpet”: Reis can seem just with her lips to be playing a brass horn. Sure to be a special night at Birdland Theater.
$30 tables / $20 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 19-23 (Tuesday-Saturday) 7:00 & 9:30 PM (4/19-21); 8:30 & 10:30 PM (4/22-23) – Birdland Jazz Club
Cyrille Aimée
International singing sensation Cyrille Aimée possesses a spritely, joyous presence and an astounding vocal technique. Her daring, witty performances have taken her from street corners in Europe to the Apollo Theater to 1st place at both the Montreux and Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competitions. After co-starring with Bernadette Peters in a Sondheim tribute at New York’s City Center, Aimée took a deeper dive into Sondheim’s work, which led to 2019’s Move On: A Sondheim Adventure (Mack Avenue) and a GRAMMY nomination for her rendition of his “Marry Me A Little.” Cyrille has certainly become a “rising star in the galaxy of jazz singers,” as The New York Times put it; and at Birdland, where she has performed regularly for many years, she is sure to bring audiences into faraway lands and back again.
$40 tables / $30 bar + $20 food/drink minimum

April 20 (Wednesday) 5:30 PM – Birdland Theater
David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band
Inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald’s Louis