19, Aug 2026
Manipal Hospital Millers Road Launches Momstory, Bringing Comprehensive Maternity and Women’s Healthcare Under One Roof
BENGALURU, India, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A new chapter in women’s healthcare begins with a more personalised maternity experience, designed around the needs of every woman and mother, from pre-conception and pregnancy to childbirth, postnatal recovery and beyond.
With a focus on combining clinical expertise with personalised, compassionate care, Manipal Hospital Millers Road has launched Momstory, to bring together maternity services and comprehensive women’s healthcare under one roof. The initiative aims to create a supportive environment where women and their families can feel informed, confident and cared for throughout the different chapters of motherhood and women’s health.
Momstory offers dedicated support across the maternity journey, including pregnancy care, childbirth, postnatal recovery and postpartum wellness, supported by advanced medical infrastructure and multidisciplinary clinical expertise.
A key component of the initiative is the Premoms programme, which extends care beyond the hospital through a combination of online and offline wellness sessions. The programme brings together a multidisciplinary team comprising dietitians, physiotherapists, lactation consultants and psychologists, providing women with guidance and support from the pre-conception stage through pregnancy and into postpartum wellness.
The launch was graced by chief guest, Dr. Vidya Desai, Senior Consultant, who joined the team in marking the beginning of this new chapter in maternity, neonatal and paediatric care at Manipal Hospital Millers Road. Her presence added significance to the launch of Momstory and its vision of creating a more personalised and comprehensive care experience for mothers and children.
Speaking about the initiative, Dr. Geeth Monnappa, Lead Consultant – Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Manipal Hospital Millers Road, said, “Momstory is designed around the understanding that a woman’s healthcare journey extends well beyond the delivery room. From preparing for pregnancy to navigating motherhood and the many transitions that follow, women need continuous clinical guidance as well as emotional and practical support. Through Momstory and the Premoms programme, we aim to create a more connected care experience that supports women and their families at every step.”
Beyond maternity care, Momstory also addresses healthcare needs across different stages of a woman’s life through speciality clinics for PCOS, adolescent care and menopause care. These services are designed to provide specialised support during important transitional phases and address the evolving physical and emotional healthcare needs of women.
“The initiative also places emphasis on the overall patient experience. Through thoughtfully designed value-added services, Momstory seeks to make the journey of motherhood more comfortable, meaningful and memorable, while maintaining high standards of clinical care and safety,” said Dr. Mahima Bakshi, Strategy Consultant at Momstory Manipal Hospitals. “It’s a privilege to bring the Momstory brand to Manipal Hospitals. It has been a privilege for me to introduce the brand in South India, and we plan to take it across all our other units as well,” added Dr. Mahima.
With its launch at Manipal Hospital Millers Road, Momstory strengthens the hospital’s commitment to providing comprehensive, multidisciplinary and compassionate women’s healthcare, ensuring that women have access to the expertise and support they need across every stage of their lives.
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19, Aug 2026
Hexaware Introduces Zero Vulnerability as AI Raises the Pressure on Enterprise Remediation
New security offering helps enterprises turn a growing volume of findings into fixes that can be verified in production
LONDON, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hexaware Technologies (NSE: HEXT), an AI-first digital and IT services company, today announced Zero Vulnerability, a cybersecurity offering built for a growing problem facing enterprises. AI is helping vulnerabilities surface faster, while security and engineering teams still have finite capacity to investigate and fix them.
The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found only 26% of critical Known-Exploited Vulnerabilities were fully remediated last year, down from 38%. Median time to fully resolve them rose from 32 to 43 days. 99% of AI-discovered vulnerabilities still remain unremediated. Zero Vulnerability helps organizations sort through such findings, identify which ones pose the greatest risk, get the right teams working on them sooner, and verify that the vulnerability has been removed in production rather than simply marked as closed.
Delivered through Zerovity™, Hexaware’s AI-led delivery layer, the Zero Vulnerability offering combines its cybersecurity expertise, engineering, AI, and remediation operations across all variants of IT systems, including custom applications, SaaS and PaaS environments, third-party software, and operating systems. The remediation operating platform supports the lifecycle from ingestion and validation through prioritization, routing, fixing, verification, and closure. It works with existing security and workflow tools rather than requiring enterprises to replace them.
“AI is making vulnerability discovery dramatically faster, but enterprise remediation capacity remains finite. Zero Vulnerability is about changing that equation, cutting through the noise, identifying what truly matters, accelerating remediation, and proving that critical exposure has actually been removed. Our objective is simple: make risk fall faster than new findings arrive,” said Mohit Vaish, EVP & Business Head – Cybersecurity, Hexaware.
Hexaware’s own evaluation shows why validation is important. Across four detection lanes on production codebases, 334 findings were consolidated, of which 14 were ultimately verified as real. The evaluation also included a developer-validated review of 262 findings and identified a new authentication-bypass weakness that pattern-based rules had missed.
“The work required to remediate a vulnerability depends on where it sits. Custom code, operating systems, third-party products, and SaaS platforms all call for different actions and different ownership. Zero Vulnerability gives teams a consistent way to prioritize and manage that work across the technology estate, while AI helps get each issue to the right action and owner faster,” said Siddharth Dhar, President & Global Head, Digital IT Operations & AI, Hexaware.
Zero Vulnerability is a key pillar of Hexaware’s Zero Friction Enterprise™ and supports its broader approach to continuous exposure reduction, identity-first security, cyber defense, and AI-native security operations.
For more information, visit https://hexaware.com/zero-friction-enterprise/zero-vulnerability/.
About Hexaware
Hexaware is a global technology and business process services company. Every day, Hexawarians wake up with a singular purpose: to create smiles through great people and technology. With offices across the world, we empower enterprises worldwide to realize digital transformation at scale and speed by partnering with them to build, transform, run, and optimize their technology and business processes. Learn more about Hexaware at https://hexaware.com.
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19, Aug 2026
Cellebrite Genesis for Enterprise Now Generally Available, Regional Availability Expands to More Global Markets
TYSONS CORNER, Va. and PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cellebrite DI Ltd. (Nasdaq: CLBT), a global leader in AI-powered Digital Investigative and Intelligence solutions for the public and private sectors, today announced that Cellebrite Genesis is expanding to more global markets and is now generally available for enterprise organizations. The expansion builds on a successful early access program and strong momentum following Genesis’ June 2026 public safety launch. Genesis has seen meaningful user growth worldwide and continues to expand internationally, with availability now in Australia and the United Kingdom and is expected to be available to the European Union later this month.
Made generally available for the public sector in June, Genesis is serving a growing mix of national, regional and local agencies around the world, including some of the world’s largest regional and metropolitan police departments along with public safety departments, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices and correctional facilities of varying sizes.
Purpose-built for a broad range of corporate investigations, Genesis helps enterprise teams move from manual evidence review to AI-assisted investigation that surfaces connections in minutes rather than weeks for internal corporate investigations spanning employee misconduct to financial fraud, M&A due diligence, insider threat and incident response, eDiscovery pre-processing and regulatory and compliance matters.
As Cellebrite customers apply Genesis to active cases, the impact is tangible, accelerating the speed and efficacy of investigations across an array of crime types such as crimes against children, narcotics, human trafficking, homicide and cold cases. The following examples demonstrate how Genesis helps investigators move faster, uncover missed connections and turn digital evidence into action:
- Averting a planned school shooting: Following the arrest of a young student who threatened to commit a school shooting, investigators queried his phone data in Genesis and, within five prompts, identified and apprehended a second student across the country plotting a similar attack.
- Surfacing evidence that helped protect children: Genesis surfaced new information that had been missed in the initial manual review of a suspect’s device, giving investigators the probable cause needed to arrest an accused child predator after a year-long investigation.
- Converting prison conversations into actionable intelligence: A major law enforcement agency used Genesis to analyze three months of phone calls by five prison inmates and identified three minutes of conversations that involved the location of illegal firearms. As a result, the police seized more than 200 guns and arrested three suspects as part of a broader investigation.
- Validating findings in a high-profile corporate investigation: In a case of potential financial wrongdoing tied to a scrapped IPO, it took investigators months to piece together who was involved — running the same data through Genesis surfaced it in minutes, while validating the findings.
- Triaging large video and audio files so a private digital forensics company could quickly isolate 20 video clips showing evidence of a crime, helping their client move the case forward quickly rather than needing to rely on manual review that would have taken days.
- Uncovering a terrorist financing network: After two months of manual review, a regional police agency used Genesis to immediately gain information about a suspected terrorist finance network.
- Validating new leads in a missing person cold case: A small county sheriff’s department received a new tip related to a cold case. Investigators used Genesis to query all the records, and they were able to immediately determine the new information was not relevant to the case; manually running down this lead would have taken weeks.
“Genesis was built on the belief that evidence should move at the speed the investigation demands. In two months, that belief has scaled from early access to a proven solution that is trusted on multiple continents, and now, with enterprise availability, we’re bringing that approach to the organizations who want to protect themselves from fraud, insider threats and data theft,” said Shiven Ramji, CEO of Cellebrite. “It is exciting to hear the impact Genesis is having on investigations and our customer feedback. Genesis is an example of the rapid innovation our customers can expect, ensuring we can deliver on our mission of protecting communities, nations and businesses.”
Innovation within Genesis continues to move forward. The Company also added Deep Investigator, a new capability for mobile extractions. Deep Investigator surfaces data that usually resides in unparsed and other databases, thus going deeper into the content of mobile devices, helping investigators uncover digital evidence that lives in hard-to-reach places, including brand-new applications, proprietary chat platforms and data sources that are not fully understood.
Deep Investigator automatically surfaces additional investigative leads with citations to the underlying evidence while applying Genesis’ built-in guardrails, ensuring responses remain grounded only in the provided evidence. Every query and action is logged with the user’s identity and timestamp, creating a complete audit trail. In the coming months Cellebrite expects to include new features and enhancements that add both expanded agentic capabilities and increased support for additional data sources. These innovations are designed to help investigators work smarter and faster, with an even better user experience.
About Cellebrite
Cellebrite’s (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to protect communities, nations and businesses as a global leader in digital investigative and intelligence solutions. More than 7,000 global law enforcement agencies, defense and intelligence organizations and enterprises trust Cellebrite’s AI-powered software portfolio to make forensically sound digital data more accessible and actionable. Cellebrite technology allows customers to accelerate nearly 3 million legally sanctioned investigations annually, enhance sovereign security, elevate operational efficacy and efficiency, and enable advanced mobile research and application security. Available via cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments, Cellebrite’s technology enables its customers around the globe to advance their missions, elevate public safety and safeguard data privacy. To learn more, visit www.cellebrite.com and https://investors.cellebrite.com, and find us on social media @Cellebrite.
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19, Aug 2026
MS Dhoni-Backed Garuda Aerospace Limited Signs MoU with Australia’s Timed Automation Solutions to Advance Autonomous Drone Capabilities
Chennai, Aug 19: IPO-bound drone technology company Garuda Aerospace Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understandingwit h Timed Automation Solutions , Australia, a provider of enterprise autonomous drone platforms. The MoU establishes a framework for collaboration between the two organisations to advance technical cooperation, facilitate knowledge sharing, and explore growth opportunities in the autonomous drone sector.
The collaboration brings together Garuda Aerospace’s expertise in drone manufacturing and drone-based solutions with Timed Automation Solutions’ strengths in autonomous aerial operations and enterprise drone platforms, including drone-in-a-box orchestration, fleet and site control, AI-assisted image review, and enterprise integrations. Under the MoU, both companies will evaluate non-exclusive opportunities in product distribution, joint development of drone technologies, and participation in domestic and international projects. By leveraging their complementary capabilities, the collaboration aims to support innovation across applications such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and remote operations.
Speaking on the collaboration, Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Founder and CEO, Garuda Aerospace Limited, said:
“As autonomous technologies continue to redefine industries worldwide, building strong international relationships is essential to shaping the future of the drone ecosystem. Our association with Timed Automation Solutions reflects our commitment to expanding Garuda Aerospace’s global reach while developing solutions that address evolving industry requirements. We remain focused on driving technological excellence and delivering long-term value through strategic collaborations.”
“This collaboration with Garuda Aerospace reflects TAS’s vision to build a scalable, software driven UAV ecosystem in Australia. By combining Garuda’s manufacturing capabilities with our SkyStream platform, we aim to deliver flexible, cost effective, and scalable solutions for industries transitioning towards autonomous operations.” Shakil Mansoor, Founder and Director from Timed Automation Solutions added.
The collaboration will also explore pilot deployments across Australia and New Zealand, supporting the evaluation of real-world use cases and operational workflows. This MoU marks another step in Garuda Aerospace’s broader strategy of driving innovation through strategic collaborations. Building on its existing partnerships across the aerospace, defence, and technology ecosystem, the company continues to expand its capabilities while creating new opportunities in autonomous drone technologies and global markets. In 2025, Garuda Aerospace also secured export licence approvals, supporting potential expansion into the Australian market.
19, Aug 2026
From outer perimeter to inner rack: Flir as the end-to-end reliability partner across data center operations
For a data center operator, risk rarely comes down to a single system or department.
Aug 19: For a data center operator, risk rarely comes down to a single system or department. It can begin with a cut fence, an intruder approaching a substation, an alarm no one trusted enough to investigate, or a rack that ran hot overnight. The cause may be different, but the consequence is often the same: an interruption to operations that can be costly. More than half of significant data center outages can now cost a company over $100,000, and roughly one in five exceed $1 million, according to the Uptime Institute’s 2024 Annual Outage Analysis.
The challenge is that the industry tends to sell protection the way it is organized internally: one function at a time, with perimeter security pitched to the Security Director, substation protection routed to facilities, and rack thermal monitoring and inspection left to reliability engineering. A VP of Operations, however, is responsible for uptime across the entire site, making the fence and the rack part of the same operational risk conversation.
Reliability, not another security line item
Perimeter detection, electrical monitoring, alarm management, and rack inspections may fall under different departments, but they all serve the same basic purpose: identifying problems early enough to prevent them from affecting operations.
A perimeter breach, for example, often begins as a security event. If the intruder reaches a substation or other critical equipment, it quickly becomes an uptime issue. Security may investigate the incident, but the operational impact will be measured by lost capacity, service disruption, and recovery time. Bringing these controls into a single program gives operators a more complete view of the risk they manage. It also helps reduce the gaps that appear when each department plans, purchases, and operates its systems independently.
Following the risk from the fence inward
At the outer edge of a property, data centers can stretch for miles of dark, lightly staffed perimeter. Much of that darkness is by design. Many sites are built as low-light facilities to avoid adding light pollution to the surrounding area, which is good for neighboring communities but leaves conventional cameras with little to work with. Thermal imaging removes that dependency, reading the heat signature of a person or vehicle in complete darkness. Detecting movement early matters because the farther a potential threat travels into the site, the less time an operator has to assess and respond.
The solution can be a multilayered security approach, beginning with a radar system such as the Flir R-190/R-290 detecting movement as it approaches or crosses the perimeter. It works in concert with both the bi-spectral FH-Series AI thermal/visible cameras and the bi-spectral Elara DX-Series thermal/visible PTZ cameras to verify the activity and continue tracking it. Instead of relying on a single sensor or an isolated alarm, the operator receives multiple sources of information that help determine whether the event requires action.
Those detections can feed into Flir Latitude VMS, giving the control room a common view of the event. Flir Nexus® connects sensors and systems so that information gathered at the fence reaches the person responding.
Moving deeper into the property, the substation is one of the most important points of exposure. The equipment feeding power to the data halls is essential to the operation, yet it is often less visible than the systems inside the building.
Fixed radiometric thermal cameras can continuously monitor transformers, electrical connections, and other energized equipment for abnormal temperature changes. While technicians could miss a loose or deteriorating connection during a visual inspection, an infrared camera detects the heat it produces well before the equipment fails. That allows the operations team to investigate and make repairs during a planned maintenance window rather than responding after an outage.
Inside the data hall, the available response time becomes even shorter. GPU-dense racks can draw several times the power of the traditional 8 to 12 kW rack, creating more heat in a smaller space. Under those conditions, a cooling issue or component failure that developed over several days could escalate within minutes.
Periodic handheld inspections also play an important role, as they allow maintenance teams to view assets from multiple angles and distances. Fixed thermal monitoring provides visibility between scheduled surveys, while handheld tools with route-based inspection capabilities, such as the Flir i65 and Assetlink software, support more detailed inspections, analysis, and documentation when a potential issue is identified. Onboard tools such as reference imaging ensure these handheld inspections result in repeatable, trackable thermal data, making it easier to identify changes over time and support repair decisions. When combined with safety equipment such as infrared windows, maintenance teams can help maintain uptime by safely inspecting energized electrical equipment.
Two budgets, one operational problem
Security and operations are often managed separately, leading different teams to purchase thermal technology for different purposes. The security department may invest in thermal cameras for perimeter protection, while the operations team deploys thermal equipment for electrical inspections, early fire detection, and rack monitoring. Although these purchases are often made independently, they address closely related risks.
Simply put: the purchases come from different budgets because the organization is divided that way. The risk itself is not.
Grand View Research valued the data center physical security market at $1.87 billion in 2023 and projects it will reach $4.83 billion by 2030. Mordor Intelligence projects the thermal imaging systems market will grow from $5.78 billion in 2025 to $8.71 billion by 2031.
These may appear to be separate markets, but operators experience them as parts of the same uptime challenge. Both are intended to reveal developing issues, provide enough information to act, and prevent a larger disruption.
A more complete reliability picture
Compliance requirements are also moving operators toward a more coordinated approach. The 2023 edition of NFPA 70B placed greater emphasis on documented electrical maintenance and thermographic inspection. Inspection records, identified deficiencies, and corrective actions are increasingly part of the facility’s broader maintenance and audit process rather than being managed informally or in isolation.
None of this means operators need to replace systems that already work. It means they should view perimeter protection, power monitoring, interior surveillance, rack conditions, and compliance as part of a single reliability program.
Flir supports that full path, from radar and thermal detection at the perimeter to radiometric monitoring of critical equipment inside the facility. By connecting those capabilities, operators gain a clearer view of risk across the site and more time to respond before a condition escalates into an outage.
For most data center operators, the first step is not another purchase order. It is a change in perspective: seeing the path from the outer fence to the inner rack as one continuous reliability environment.
19, Aug 2026
Tenable Advances Exposure Management with Coverage Across Every Major AI Platform and Developer Tool
Tenable now delivers greater risk visibility and governance across an expanded AI attack surface created by increased adoption of LLMs, MCPs and AI tools
Dubai, UAE | Aug 19 — Tenable® Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TENB), the exposure management company, today announced enhanced AI security capabilities within the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Tenable One AI Exposure now delivers expanded platform coverage with support for Google Gemini, extending its coverage across major LLMs: Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot. The release also extends discovery to all major Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments and AI-native Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools. Together, these capabilities give security teams a more complete view of where AI is being used, what risk it creates and where action is needed.
The rapid adoption of AI across the enterprise has created a critical AI exposure gap, a largely invisible risk that emerges across interconnected applications, infrastructure, identities and data. Underscoring this risk, Tenable detected 457 million AI-related security issues across more than 7,000 organizations, averaging 62,000 exposures per organization over a 30-day period. Traditional security tools leave security teams blind to high-impact attack paths, forcing them into a reactive loop rather than preemptively reducing AI risk.
Tenable One continuously discovers AI across endpoints, cloud and LLM applications, including both authorized and shadow AI. It inventories AI assets with the Tenable Exposure Graph, Tenable’s data lake that aggregates massive volumes of security data to help organizations map, analyze and prevent cyber risks. Tenable One reduces real-world AI risk by securing the environments where AI runs and hardening AI workloads before they can be exploited. With these new advancements, Tenable One enables organizations to gain better visibility, context and control to manage AI risk while being able to govern AI use, enforce policies and prevent cyber exposures.
New AI security capabilities within Tenable One include:
● Google Gemini Coverage: Tenable One now delivers visibility and governance for Google Gemini including monitoring of user interactions and prompt responses, policy enforcement, and detection of malicious activity and inappropriate usage.
● Enhanced AI Visibility: Tenable One now doubles its coverage of sanctioned and shadow AI, supporting MCPs, AI-native IDEs (such as Cursor, Windsurf and Trae) and AI-enabled browser extensions.
● Operationalised Remediation: Organizations can remediate faster by creating tickets directly in Jira and ServiceNow or alerting users on policy violations by sending automated email notifications, Slack or Teams messages.
“The massive volume of AI exposures confirms the operational reality that authorized and unauthorized AI is deployed faster than security teams can govern it,” said Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer, Tenable. “There’s no denying that AI attack surfaces are making defenders’ jobs even harder, and legacy or siloed cybersecurity tools simply don’t cut it. With today’s expansion to include Google Gemini, MCP and AI-native IDE deployments, Tenable is the only exposure management platform delivering unified AI visibility and governance across all major LLMs, software, and tools.”
Tenable One brings together two distinct AI capabilities. Tenable AI Exposure helps organizations discover, assess and secure how AI is being used across their environments. Tenable Hexa AI is the platform’s agentic engine, using AI to coordinate agents, automate security tasks and accelerate remediation. Put simply, AI Exposure helps organizations secure their use of AI, while Hexa helps them use AI to improve security operations. Together, they advance Tenable’s preemptive security strategy by helping organizations reduce AI-related risk and act on cyber exposure more efficiently.
19, Aug 2026
IBM Connects Its First Modular Cryogenic Systems in Milestone Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
- New cryogenic quantum fridges designed to link hundreds of quantum chips.
- Cooled to below 15 millikelvin, more than 180 times colder than deep space, the build out marks a step forward in the engineering required for future quantum computers.
- Advances IBM’s quantum roadmap to deliver the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer in 2029.
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has successfully joined and cooled down two cryogenic modules into a single environment. The new architecture is designed to scale into the modular, shared, and ultra-cold system required to link hundreds of quantum chips into a more powerful quantum computer capable of solving large problems. Its deployment is a milestone on IBM’s path to delivering IBM Quantum Starling in 2029, which is expected to be the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer and will integrate advances across error correction, processor design, decoding, and systems engineering.
Combined, the first two operational modules stand more than 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide, and initial tests demonstrated they can jointly cool down to 4 Kelvin (the temperature of liquid helium) in under 5 days, reaching a final temperature of below 15 millikelvin shortly after. Each module’s vacuum enclosure offers up to 12 times more wiring space than the most widely used IBM quantum systems, enabling more chip-to-chip connections both within and between modules.
IBM’s new box-shaped design allows modules to connect in a tight row and use this larger space to directly link quantum processors with IBM’s “L-coupler” technology. L-couplers connect separate quantum chips together to share information, communicate, and operate as part of a larger quantum computer.
By 2027, IBM’s quantum roadmap plans to use L-couplers to link multiple processors into a larger quantum computer with at least 1,000 programmable qubits, which are qubits that can be directly used to perform computations. Towards this goal, IBM will install IBM Quantum Nighthawk processors into the cryogenic modules later this year to expand operational performance testing. At the time Starling is delivered, IBM plans for each cryogenic module to house thousands of qubits.
IBM’s plans for Starling were introduced last year with a new error correction code that dramatically reduces the physical resources required for fault tolerance. Since then, the company’s progression has remained on course, including the demonstration of core hardware components and breakthroughs in efficient error-correction decoding.
“Bringing fault-tolerant quantum computers to industries depends on several fundamental advances,” said Jay Gambetta, Director of IBM Research and IBM Fellow. “The successful connection and operation of these cryogenic modules signals a leap forward in that direction and will accelerate our progress alongside continued innovation in quantum hardware, software, and algorithms.”
IBM expects its scalable cryogenic modules to help speed its pace of innovation. For example, three essential components of IBM Quantum System Two’s environment are built into the new architecture, but now in a way that allows each part to be independently tested, improved, and rapidly iterated.
The delivery of these new cryogenic quantum modules is further evidence that IBM is systematically delivering against its quantum roadmap, solving another one of the major hurdles required to accelerate its path to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of governments and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
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19, Aug 2026
Laser-Guided Renal Artery Angioplasty Successfully Performed on a 60-Year Old Male Patient at Manipal Hospital Dhakuria
KOLKATA, India, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A 60-year-old male patient from Kolkata suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and hypertensive urgency, with blood pressure recorded at 220/120 mmHg despite multiple medications, underwent laser-guided renal artery angioplasty under the expertise of Dr Soumya Kanti Dutta, Interventional Cardiologist, Manipal Hospital Dhakuria.
The patient was admitted with severe headache, chest discomfort, vomiting, blurring of vision, vertigo, and semi-consciousness. A routine coronary angiography revealed coronary artery disease, and to investigate secondary causes of hypertension, renal angiography was conducted. This revealed a 100% thrombotic occlusion of the left renal artery. Conventional balloon angioplasty was not feasible due to the complete blockage. Therefore, the laser guided angioplasty was opted which would in the long run reduce the chances of repeated blockage and also would ensure faster recovery and less pain.
Dr Soumya Kanti Dutta revealed, “We decided to perform a laser-guided renal artery angioplasty. The laser technology successfully dissolved the clot, enabling placement of a stent at the renal artery ostium. This restored normal blood flow to the left kidney, resulting in improved kidney function, resumption of normal urination, and stabilization of blood pressure. “This innovative use of laser technology represents a major advancement in interventional cardiology and nephrology. Protecting kidney function is vital in managing complex cardiovascular cases, and this breakthrough offers new hope for patients with severe renal artery occlusion,” said Dr Dutta.
The patient is now stable and is doing well.
About the company
Manipal Hospitals is one of India’s leading integrated healthcare providers serving ~ 8 million patients annually, focussed on providing accessible, high-quality healthcare services. Manipal’s integrated network today has a pan-India footprint of 50 hospitals with over 13,400 licensed beds across 14 States & Union Territories. The network is India’s largest multispecialty hospital network by bed capacity, supported by a talented pool of 11,000+ doctors and an employee strength of over 25,000.
With a commitment to provide patient-centric care, Manipal Hospitals combines clinical expertise with advanced technology, research and innovation to serve a multitude of patients across the globe. Its continued focus on clinical quality and operational excellence is reflected in its NABH accreditation, with several of its hospitals also accredited by NABL and recognised for its excellence in nursing and emergency care.
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19, Aug 2026
Exicom Becomes the First Company in India to Manufacture Liquid-Cooled Power Modules for EV Chargers
HYDERABAD, India, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Exicom Tele-Systems Limited (BSE: 544133) (NSE: EXICOM), one of India’s leading EV charging and Critical Power companies, today announced the start of manufacturing for advanced liquid-cooled AC and DC power modules at its Hyderabad Smart Manufacturing Facility, making it the first company in India to produce this class of liquid-cooled power electronics for global markets.
This launch strengthens Exicom’s push to make India a global base for technology-forward manufacturing. It also marks an important step in Exicom’s long-term product roadmap, broadening the canvas for high-value exports and further strengthening the company’s differentiation as a design-led manufacturer.
Heat is the quiet enemy of EV charging. Reliability studies attribute nearly 60% of power electronics failures to thermal stress, with every 10°-15°C rise in temperatures doubling components’ failure rate. Liquid cooling technology solves this problem at the source. Liquid coolant absorbs and transfers heat far more effectively and can hold internal temperatures roughly 10°C lower than air-cooled systems.
Building on Tritium’s in-house liquid-cooled capability, this technology brings a globally proven high-power charging architecture to Indian manufacturing ahead of the curve. This class of liquid cooled modules have been refined across some of the toughest charging environments in the world and pack more power into a compact footprint, run continuously at high loads and cost less to operate over their lifetime. Moreover, their fully sealed design keeps out dust, moisture and salt air, directly protecting against the everyday conditions that shorten charger life in the field.
Initial production of these modules will primarily serve North America and Europe, supporting Tritium’s DC charger portfolio including TRI-FLEX™ ultra-fast DC chargers and DC-FLEX™ charging systems. Subsequent phases will help bring this globally proven charging technology closer to Exicom’s customers including Charge Point Operators, Fleets and OEMs with Tritium’s range of DC fast chargers, which are now being deployed in India. Over time, liquid-cooled architecture will be designed into Exicom’s flagship Harmony DC chargers, opening a new line of high-value power electronics exports from India.
Commenting on the development, Anant Nahata, CEO and Managing Director, Exicom, said: “Anyone who has stood next to a fast charger on a 45-degree afternoon knows what heat does to electronics. EV Charging is getting faster with chargers running more hours a day, and customers expect them to work every season and at every site. Globally, liquid cooling has become the architecture of choice for high-power charging. We are bringing this technology to India. Local manufacturing matters because we now own more of that technology ourselves. We can engineer it, improve it and adapt it faster, for our customers here and across the world.”
Manufacturing liquid-cooled modules demands precision. Exicom’s recently inaugurated Hyderabad Smart Manufacturing Facility, designed with advanced automation, digital traceability and specialised testing will be the base for manufacturing these modules for domestic and international markets. This development also deepens Exicom’s integration with Tritium, the global DC fast charging company it acquired in 2024, with technology and manufacturing synergies now flowing in and working as one system to build advanced EV charging technology in India and the world.
About Exicom
Exicom is one of India’s leading EV charging and Critical Power solutions manufacturers, present across the entire EV charger value chain with a host of products across both AC and DC charger segments and spearheading India’s transition to sustainable transportation while ensuring the smooth functioning of critical infrastructure. With a wealth of expertise across its divisions, Exicom’s critical power solutions serve as the backbone of communication networks, delivering uninterrupted power supplies crucial for telecom infrastructure. With a footprint spanning India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the US and Europe, and over 2,00,000 chargers sold worldwide, Exicom is at the forefront of shaping the global EV charging landscape.
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19, Aug 2026
The Pilot Shortage Paradox: Why Many Cadets Still Struggle to Get Their First Airline Job
Aug 19: The aviation industry continues to warn about a growing need for pilots. Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will require 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, driven by fleet growth and workforce attrition.
Yet for many newly qualified Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) holders, the reality feels very different, as competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense, despite persistent pilot shortage forecasts.
So why are airlines struggling to find pilots while aspiring First Officers are struggling to find jobs?
The answer lies in a misunderstanding of what today’s pilot shortage actually looks like.
There Is No Single Pilot Job Market
The term pilot shortage often suggests a single, industry-wide problem. In reality, commercial aviation consists of multiple labour markets, each driven by different operational needs, fleet strategies and hiring priorities.
According to Julius Norkunas, CEO of aviation recruitment platform AviationCV, the supply of newly trained pilots and current airline demand are out of sync.
“Flight academies continue producing cadets at a steady pace, but airline demand has not increased accordingly,” says Norkunas. “Aircraft delivery delays mean fleets are not growing as planned, while high fuel prices have pushed some carriers to park aircraft. As a result, airlines are often able to manage with the pilots they already have.”
This pressure is visible in aircraft delivery data. According to IATA’s June 2026 outlook, deliveries were approximately 5,600 aircraft below the pre-pandemic trend, while the global order backlog reached 18,100 aircraft in May 2026 – equivalent to almost 60% of the active fleet. These constraints can postpone the recruitment and training intended to support airline fleet expansion.
When airlines do recruit, safety and insurance requirements can lead them to favour experienced pilots over newly qualified pilots, as they require less additional training.
“The long-term shortage forecasts are real, but they describe the next two decades, not today’s job market for a low-hour First Officer,” Norkunas adds.
Demand Shifts Between Regions and Aircraft Types
Pilot demand also shifts between regions as airlines respond to geopolitical developments and changing operating conditions.
“Overall, demand is fairly balanced across regions, but recent geopolitical developments have shifted activity,” says Norkunas. “The crisis in the Middle East put recruitment among Gulf carriers on pause for several months, but we are now seeing the region recover as airlines resume activity and work to attract pilots again. At the same time, the uncertainty pushed some pilots back to Europe, adding to the available supply there.”
Aircraft type is another important factor. AviationCV data show strong demand for both First Officers and Captains on the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 737, but the clearest growth trend is in the widebody market.
“Leading carriers are increasingly building their fleets around the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777,” says Norkunas. “With new widebody aircraft arriving, particularly in the Gulf, airlines are competing to attract experienced pilots from leading European and Asian carriers. The biggest mismatch today isn’t in overall numbers, but in experience and type qualifications. Demand consistently outstrips supply for highly skilled, type-rated pilots, particularly on widebodies, and that gap will only widen.”
Airlines Are Looking Beyond Basics
Meeting regulatory requirements remains the foundation of every airline career, but securing a first airline job requires more than technical flying ability. Additional credentials and certifications, simulator assessments, behavioural interviews, Crew Resource Management (CRM), decision-making, communication, and overall professionalism are integral parts of many airline selection processes.
According to Stian Skaar, Head of Training at BAA Training, a strong profile on paper does not automatically make someone a strong airline candidate.
“Holding a CPL isn’t enough anymore. Airlines – particularly low-cost carriers in Europe – increasingly prefer candidates with additional qualifications such as the Airline Pilot Standards Multi-Crew Cooperation Course (APS MCC). It develops the technical and non-technical skills expected of today’s pilots,” says Skaar.
This preference is already reflected in airline recruitment criteria. Ryanair states that cadet applicants who have completed APS MCC training are given preference during initial selection and have a distinct advantage during the interview and assessment process. At the time of writing, British Airways also listed APS MCC as a requirement for its Speedbird Self-Sponsored Pathway campaign.
Many candidates focus heavily on obtaining their licence and building flight hours but devote less attention to airline selection. Simulator assessments, behavioural interviews, operator research and non-technical competencies are often overlooked until the first assessment invitation arrives.
What Helps Candidates Stand Out
Airline-oriented courses, like APS MCC, can help bridge the gap between obtaining a licence and entering commercial operations. Such training exposes CPL holders to airline-standard procedures, realistic simulator scenarios and Crew Resource Management (CRM) before they begin applying for First Officer positions. At BAA Training, this approach extends beyond helping cadets obtain their licences. The focus is also on preparing them for airline selection and the operational mindset expected on the flight deck.
“Ultimately, our goal isn’t simply to graduate licensed pilots,” says Skaar. “It’s to help them become pilots who are ready to succeed in an airline recruitment process, transition confidently into commercial operations, and ensure overall aviation safety and standards.”
The Shortage Is Real, but So Is the Competition
The pilot shortage is therefore not a contradiction but a question of timing and qualification. Long-term forecasts point to substantial demand across commercial aviation, while today’s recruitment decisions are shaped by immediate fleet requirements, regional conditions, aircraft types and the availability of experienced pilots.
For aspiring First Officers, waiting for the forecast shortage to translate automatically into job offers is not a strategy. A CPL opens the door, but candidates still need to understand where demand exists, prepare for airline-specific selection and develop the technical and non-technical skills required to transition into commercial operations.
