Month: September 2021

TORRANCE, CA, Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Video River Networks “the company” (OTC: NIHK TWTR: @NIHKEV), an Electric Vehicles, Battery, Robotics, Drones and Machine Learning Technology holding company, is pleased to announce it has retained the Law Office of Heskett & Heskett for assistance with its NAME and TICKER SYMBOL process with Finra (“Financial Industry Regulatory Authority”). “I’m excited to announce we’ve chosen a new name for Video River Networks, Inc. that reflects our development and commitment as a growth driven technology company. I’m looking forward to sharing it once we’ve gotten approval from Finra, and I’m grateful Heskett & Heskett has joined to assist us in that objective.” CEO Frank Igwealor. About Video River Networks, Inc. Video River Networks, Inc. is an Electric Vehicles and Battery...

CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (“XORTX” or the “Company”) (CSE: XRX) (OTCQB: XRTXF), a pharmaceutical therapeutics company focused on developing innovative therapies to treat progressive kidney disease, is pleased to announce the results of the Company’s Special Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today (the “Meeting”). A total of 72,768,832 common shares of the Company were voted at the Meeting, representing approximately 66% of the total number of issued and outstanding shares. At the Meeting, all resolutions were approved close to unanimously, with 99.7% of the shares voted in favour of the consolidation resolution and 98.8% of the shares voted in favour of the two resolutions to amend the articles of the Company to provide for the addition of an advance notice provision and a choice...

LEXINGTON, MASS., Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new study shows that the frequency of polar vortex disruptions that is most favorable for extreme winter weather in the United States is increasing, and that Arctic change is likely contributing to the increasing trend. Led by Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), University Massachusetts Lowell and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the study is published in the September 3 issue of Science. AER is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. The analysis demonstrates that a relatively obscure weak or disrupted state of the stratospheric polar vortex, where it takes on a stretched appearance rather than the more typical circular appearance, has been increasing over the satellite era (post 1979). Extreme winter weather in the US is more common when the polar vortex is stretched....

Tulsa, OK, Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — AppSwarm, Corp. (OTC: SWRM), a software development company and aggregator of mobile applications, announced plans to deploy and host Dogecoin nodes at its TulsaLabs facilities. The Company announced plans to host and deploy several full nodes to provide infrastructure support to the Dogecoin blockchain network at its TulsaLabs facilities. The main purpose of a blockchain node is to verify the validity of each succeeding batch of network transactions, called blocks.  Blockchain nodes store a complete copy of the distributed ledger and are responsible for the reliability of the stored data. Nodes are used by developers for building blockchain-based applications. A full node is a program that fully validates transactions and blocks. Almost all full nodes help the...

Result from Hibiscus North Reference is made to the stock exchange notice by BW Energy Limited on 24 August 2021 announcing an oil discovery at Hibiscus North in the Dussafu block offshore Gabon. BW Energy has now concluded the drilling and the logging of the exploration well, Hibiscus North (DHBNM-1). The well is located in a separate structure, approximately 6 km north-northeast of the Hibiscus discovery in 115 metres of water depth. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3336 metres. During the drilling operations at Hibiscus North, oil-bearing reservoir was encountered in the Upper Gamba sandstone and in the deeper Dentale formation. Wireline logging operations and fluid samplings showed lower volumes of hydrocarbons than expected. Pending further analysis, the preliminary results indicate that the field could be incorporated into...

Press ReleaseSeptember 2, 2021 – N° 23 SCOR announces changes to its Group Executive Committee SCOR today announces changes to its Group Executive Committee that reflect the importance of transformation and sustainability in the next phase of its strategic development. All internal promotions, these changes highlight the Group’s deep talent bench. The new composition, proposed by Laurent Rousseau, Chief Executive Office of SCOR, was supported by the Nominations Committee of the Board of Directors and approved by the entirety of the Board. The following Group Executive Committee members continue to serve in their current capacity:Ian Kelly, as Group Chief Financial Officer. Jean-Paul Conoscente, as Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global P&C. Brona Magee, as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global Life.The following...

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Coyote Generating Station, a jointly-owned coal plant in Beulah, North Dakota, is an important energy resource for NorthWestern Energy’s 63,900 South Dakota customers. NorthWestern Energy owns a 10% interest in the facility. On Sept. 1, Otter Tail Power Company, a 35% owner of the facility, filed an integrated resource plan with its regulatory commissions in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The plan concludes that continued operation of the plant is no longer in the best interest of Otter Tail Power’s customers and requests authorization to withdraw from ownership in 2028.   For NorthWestern Energy’s customers, the Coyote Generating Station remains a critical 24/7 on-demand generation energy source, reliable when demand is high, such as the extreme winter weather...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NexOptic Technology Corp. (“NexOptic” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE: NXO) (OTCQB: NXOPF) (FSE: E3O1), an innovator in cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) imaging unveiled the newest offering of its ALIIS™ program today—Neural Embedding AI for Imaging (“Neural Embedding”) The technology is processed on-device(s) in real-time, transforming images and videos into compact machine representations ready for use by downstream storage and processing. Immediate use-cases include applications where centrally storing, transmitting, or processing large amounts of image and video data is unfeasible but strongly desired. For example, Neural Embedding can assist in video analytics, where hundreds if not thousands of cameras produce enormous amounts of video data. Our Neural...