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Future Electronics Will Host Team Building Workshop on Improv Comedy

Pointe Claire, Canada, June 19, 2024 — Future Electronics, a leading global distributor of electronic components, is excited to announce an upcoming team-building workshop—hosted by the Learning & Development department – that will focus on the benefits of improv comedy.

This innovative workshop aims to enrich the lives of employees, strengthen their interpersonal relationships, and provide an overall experience of fun for all involved.

The first session is scheduled for the afternoon of Wednesday, June 19, 2024, and will be held at Future Electronics’ headquarters in Montreal, Canada. The workshop will last approximately 90 minutes, with 15 minutes dedicated to a presentation on the benefits of improv comedy, followed by a series of engaging improv exercises.

“Our team is thrilled to participate in the improv team comedy team-building event. We believe that laughter is the best medicine, and we’re excited to strengthen our teamwork and creativity in a fun and light-hearted atmosphere,” said Future Electronics’ Corporate Vice President of Digital Marketing Georgia Genovezos.

Future Electronics’ Web Support Customer Service Advocate Lonny Goffman will share insights on how improv comedy can enhance various skills such as confidence, listening skills, quick-thinking and decision-making, empathy, problem-solving abilities, and stress relief. Lonny has been studying, performing and producing improv comedy content for over 2 years, but has been a lifelong patron and fan of the genre.

“Improv comedy reveals your inner extrovert while melting away insecurities with spontaneous fun,” said Lonny, when asked about his upcoming improv session. “I’m so excited to be offering this workshop to my Future Electronics’ Family. Performing improv comedy has changed my life for the better and I can’t wait to share this gift with the rest of the company.”

The inaugural workshop will be offered to the Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Team, with limited spaces available to the first 16 participants who sign up. Future Electronics plans to extend this initiative to other departments in the future, aiming to offer the workshop on a monthly basis.

Future Electronics is committed to fostering a positive and engaging workplace culture. By integrating improv comedy into their team building activities, the company hopes to provide employees with valuable tools that can be applied in their personal and professional lives. This initiative underscores Future Electronics’ dedication to continuous learning and development, ensuring that their teams are well-equipped to thrive in a dynamic and ever-evolving industry.

Painless Performance Products Proudly Launches All-New Website, Invites Enthusiasts to Join Newsletter

Fort Worth, TX, June 19, 2024 — Painless Performance Products, a leading provider of premium automotive wiring solutions, is excited to announce the launch of its brand-new website. Designed with user experience in mind, the revamped website offers customers enhanced navigation, intuitive interface, and seamless access to a wide range of products and resources.

The new website features an updated layout that highlights Painless Performance’s extensive product lineup, including the Pro-Series line of chassis wiring harnesses. Engineered for automotive enthusiasts seeking unrivaled customization and performance, the Pro-Series harnesses boast ample length wiring for easy customization, over 25 GM connectors for seamless integration, and innovative upgrades such as LED Smart Fuses and even heat shrink.

In addition to showcasing its cutting-edge products, Painless Performance is inviting customers to sign up for its newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest news, product releases, and exclusive offers. By joining the newsletter, enthusiasts will gain access to valuable insights and tips from industry experts, as well as special promotions and discounts.

“We are thrilled to unveil our new website,” said Tim King, Marketing Coordinator at Painless Performance Products. “Our goal is to provide automotive enthusiasts with the tools they need to bring their visions to life, and our new website is designed to make that process easier and more enjoyable than ever before.”

Product Launch of Facticity.AI and Sneak Preview of Almost Real-Time Fact-Checking Plugin

Singapore, Singapore, June 19, 2024 — GenAI LLMs are known to hallucinate and have been merged with mainstream Internet Search and need a more factual LLM like Facticity.AI to help mitigate the The Dangers of AI Hallucination. According to SMS Tan Kiat How, “The potential use of Facticity.AI is global and not just limited to Singapore.” Main Photo Caption: seer. shows a sneak preview of an almost real-time fact-checking plugin to help ordinary citizens fight fake news and scams to Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information Tan Kiat How and CEO of NLB Mr. Ng Cher Pong, and more than a thousand residents at the NLB’s S.U.R.E. roadshow.

Hence, it is of the upmost importance to help citizens determine what is fact and what is fiction. There are three key advantages that Facticity.AI, with its world-leading and patent-pending AI stack, has over its competitors, according to AI Seer Pte. Ltd. (“seer.”)’s CTO A M Shahruj Rashid:

1) Automating (away tedium): Manual fact-checking can be time consuming, and even with good transcription, it takes a lot of time to extract which parts of a speech have factual claims, then research different sources and figure out how true or false it is and explain it. seer.’s Industrial Designer who does not have a journalism background, used Facticity.AI’s premium features to unearth a US presidential candidate’s false factual claim about the Second Amendment in this video on Fact-Checking Wild Claims in 2024 by US Presidential Candidates.

2) Accessible: From automating fact-checking of public speeches by just inputting a video link or turning on a browser plugin to plain fact-checking of text or documents, Facticity.AI is applicable to all aspects of online life and will be easily integrated as a browser extension plugin soon.

3) Accurate: Facticity.AI boasts a 92% accuracy rate, higher than other LLMs (learn more about seer’s benchmarking against a competitor’s dataset at www.aiseer.co/facticity), ensuring that the facts it gives you are credible and trusted and less hallucinatory than other LLMs and fact-checking products.

seer.’s CEO Dennis Yap also gave a talk on how other LLMs tend to make factual errors, especially on their tendency towards epistemic immodesty and recently how even big tech’s popular products started to hallucinate. This is why seer.’s mission to integrate authentication into information streams to check untruths is so important in today’s world with Mal-information, Dis-information and Mis-information being super-charged by GenAI. 1.4 trillion dollars is already being lost to scams globally, with Singaporeans losing the most per capital, which is why public and private partnerships are important to ensure human safety from AI and false facts. seer. is actively exploring partnerships with the various organizations interested in AI Safety and a more Truthful world.

Recently, Tim Draper and Draper Associates has invested another 200k USD (bringing their total investment to more than 1 million USD) and Nvidia Inception is providing grant funding and technical support to this Singapore-based startup. According to Tim, “Now there is a premium on honesty. seer. comes from Singapore, perhaps the most honest country in the world, with technology that can detect the truth. I am excited about this company and all the potential applications we see for this technology.”

e1 Air Unveils Affordable and Clean On-Site Hydrogen Production and Electrical Charging for Aviation

McLean, VA, June 19, 2024 — e1 Air (www.e1air.com), a leader in sustainable aviation solutions, has reached a significant milestone in hydrogen production. Leveraging its proprietary on-site methanol-to-hydrogen production technology, the firm can offer hydrogen in reasonable quantity for less than $5 per kilogram right at the point of use. At a time when hydrogen hovers at $35 per kilogram in markets such as Southern California, e1 Air’s solution will provide economies and force price stability to accelerate aviation sector adoption.

e1 Air’s breakthrough achievement, www.e1air.com/post/e1-air-unveils-affordable-and-clean-on-site-hydrogen-production-and-electrical-charging-for-aviation, underscores the firm’s commitment to supplying clean and affordable energy solutions for the aviation industry. By converting methanol feedstock into 99.99% pure hydrogen directly and on-demand at airports, e1 Air is revolutionizing the way hydrogen is distributed for aviation markets. Using methanol and water as the hydrogen carrier bypasses the high costs of transporting gaseous or liquified hydrogen. Methanol, a simple alcohol, packs more hydrogen by volume than even liquid hydrogen. It is reformed on-site to generate hydrogen.

This e1 Air technology also allows for clean mobile electricity generation that can be used to charge airport ground service equipment. Delivery of mobile electricity generation on-demand is both novel and unique.

“This achievement represents a major step forward in our mission to transform the aviation industry,” said Michael Dyment, Chairman of e1 Air. “With hydrogen offered at below $5/kg, we are poised to make this a competitive and sustainable fuel option for aircraft and ground transportation. This is a near-term, clean, and mobile solution for airports’ overburdened electricity capacity.”

Piramal Finance Surpasses INR 50,000 Crore in Retail Loans, Aims to Double Retail AUM by FY28

Mumbai, 19th June 2024Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Ltd (herein referred to as Piramal Finance), a leading diversified financial services company and wholly owned subsidiary of Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL), today announced that it had surpassed the milestone of INR 50,000 Crore in AUM of Retail Loans.

PEL operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Ltd., under the collective customer brand Piramal Finance. Piramal Finance has built a multi-product retail business, offering products tailored to Bharat’s diverse needs and financially empowering the country’s underserved segments. Over the last three years, Piramal Finance has expanded its customer base across Bharat, positioning itself as a leading Non-Banking Financial Company- Housing Finance Company (NBFC-HFC) in the affordable lending space.

In 2021, Piramal Finance acquired Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL), which was the first successful resolution under the IBC route in the financial services sector. It remains among the largest resolutions in value terms in the industry.

Since then, the businesses have been fully integrated and grown, with the branch network increasing from 300 to 490, spanning 26 states/UTs as of 31 March 2024, and the customer base increasing to 4.1 million. The employee strength has also increased from ~5,000 to over 13,000 today.

As a merged entity, Piramal Finance has launched multiple lending solutions for the budget Bharat customer, offering over 13 loan products, including home, business, personal, loan against securities (LAS), and used car loans. Mortgages remain the dominant part of the portfolio, accounting for 68% of the overall retail AUM, with a 38% year-on-year increase in FY24. The housing loan portfolio has continued its strong growth trajectory, disbursing an average of INR 800 crore per month in FY24, with an average ticket size of INR 19 lakh.

Speaking about the milestone achievement, Jairam Sridharan, Managing Director, Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Ltd., said, “We are delighted and humbled to have reached INR 50,000 crore in retail AUM. This scale demonstrates the massive business opportunity that exists in small-town Bharat markets. Since the acquisition of DHFL in 2021, our goal has been to build on its strong customer franchise in smaller towns. It is gratifying to see us regain our position as a leading financial services company in the affordable housing space. Our business will continue to be focused on MSMEs and small salaried individuals across Bharat, providing more people access to formal credit.”

Piramal Finance’s ‘High Tech + High Touch’ strategy is centered around a strong physical distribution – 490 branches, spanning 26 states, 625 districts, and 404 cities and towns, serving over 6,000 pin codes of the country in metro-adjacent areas and Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities. The company plans to expand its branch network with 50-100 more branches by FY25.

This is coupled with a High-Tech infrastructure that spans customer-facing assets like the website, mobile app, and WhatsApp. Tech is also deeply embedded in the company’s operations, enabling quick decision-making, AI-enabled underwriting and legal and technical processes, providing a seamless customer experience.

Piramal Enterprises Limited aims for Retail Lending to constitute 75% of the loan book. As of 31 March 2024, the total AUM stands at INR 68,845 crore, with the retail book accounting for 70%. PEL envisions growing its AUM to INR 1.5 lakh crore by FY28.

Lenskart Launches Pro-Fit by Lenskart Air and Hooper

Forget the frustration of glasses constantly slipping down because Lenskart, the eyewear innovator, has dropped its latest game-changer: The Pro-Fit range by Lenskart Air and Hooper.

For years, Eyewearers have faced a common problem: the struggle to keep their eyewear in place without interrupting their flow. The Pro-Fit range is set out to create a solution for those who are always on the move.

It is crafted from ultra-light TR90 and features Lock-Tech. The frames have temple tips that adjust to securely grip your ears, keeping your glasses firmly in place. No more mid-flow adjustments – just pure focus on whatever you’re hustling for.

Pro fit caters to everyone. Whether you’re mastering yoga poses, crushing dance routines, or casually chilling with your friends. With sleek, sporty silhouettes and classic colors accented with vibrant pops, there’s a pair in the Pro-Fit collection that complements your style and keeps your vision clear, no matter your age.

Lenskart continues to set new standards in eyewear, ensuring that those on the move can enjoy without any distractions from their glasses. Embrace the freedom of movement

Antony Starr’s Homelander Named Time Magazine’s Superhero of the Year

The launch month of Prime Video’s The Boys Season 4 is filled with diabolical surprises for the fans. Post the much-awaited season 4 premiere with the first three episodes, The Boys’ newest promotional stunt is creating a stir across the globe. Featuring Antony Starr’s egoistic avatar, Homelander, Time Magazine branded the super as the ‘Superhero of The Year’ leaving the fans awe-struck.

After getting the title of The Superhero of The Year, Homelander announced an “Ask Me Anything” panel on Reddit for all his fans, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. This takeover allowed him to present his side amidst the ongoing trial in the series, to the audiences who love him (or not).

The Boys is based on The New York Times best-selling comic of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, who also serve as executive producers, and developed by executive producer and showrunner Eric Kripke. The series, from Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, returned with the much-awaited fourth season on June 13 in English, with dubs in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam languages, only on Prime Video and will release episodes weekly till explosive finale on July 18.