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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Canadian man is among three people who died when a plane they were in crashed over the weekend. Maryland state police identified the Canadian as 20-year-old Elad Naidik. They did not say where in Canada he was from.The other victims were identified as 26-year-old Yoav Bomrind, an Israeli national who was piloting the plane, and 19-year-old David Rabinovich, also from Israel. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story. The preliminary investigation indicates that at roughly 11:30…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size When Canadian midfielder Ismaël Koné was taken off the field on a stretcher during Canada’s World Cup match against Qatar on Thursday, photos showed him inhaling from a small green device, prompting many fans to wonder what it was. Team Canada officials confirmed the inhaler to be Penthrox, also known as methoxyflurane, a fast-acting, non-opioid pain medication that is self-administered for short-term pain relief. It is commonly known as the “green whistle.”One of the drug’s key features is that it’s administered by the patient directly: if a patient can’t hold the device…

For the past three years, “Meta” and “Ray-Ban” have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses — no Ray-Bans — in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta spokespeople, is a collaboration with socialite and reality TV star Kylie Jenner.Meta could’ve struck out on its own from the get-go, but teaming up with EssilorLuxottica and the Ray-Ban brand was a savvy move in entering the smart glasses space. Previous smart glasses looked straight out of a sci-fi flick, or…

Fleet Management connects vehicle records, driver certifications, inspections, and maintenance workflows in one platform.Automated alerts, digital inspections, and closed-loop work orders give teams the tools to support safer operations and stay ahead of compliance requirements.Insurance partners can extend risk management practices to vehicles and drivers, promoting safety and supporting compliance practices for policyholders. BUFFALO, N.Y., June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HelixIntel today announced the availability of Fleet Management within HelixCMMS, expanding the platform to support vehicles and drivers alongside the facility capabilities organizations already rely on. The result is one system for both buildings and fleets, with inspections and…

Partnership combines trusted public- and private-market data with blockchain-based accountability to support AI-driven financial systems. DETROIT, June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Inveniam Capital Partners (“Inveniam”) and TRUF.NETWORK today announced a strategic partnership to create verifiable data infrastructure for agentic finance. The partnership combines TRUF.NETWORK’s trusted public-market data infrastructure, Inveniam’s private-market data platform, and NVNM Chain’s blockchain-based accountability layer to enable AI agents to operate with verifiable information across public and private markets.   As AI systems increasingly participate in financial analysis, valuation, trading, and market operations, institutions require trusted data that can be independently verified. By anchoring attestations, proofs, and validation…

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Talkdesk®, Inc., a leader in Customer Experience Automation (CXA), today announced Talkdesk Agent Builder, a natural language-driven tool that enables both business users and technical teams to oversee the complete lifecycle of their customer service AI agents. Customer experience (CX) leaders describe the outcome they want to achieve with natural language, and Agent Builder creates, tests, diagnoses, and validates the AI agent before it ever interacts with a customer. The result is a faster path to production, lower deployment risk, and the ability to build a trusted AI workforce in hours…

STUTTGART, Germany, June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today demonstrated the first complex, production-relevant AI workloads on its photonic hardware. Q.ANT successfully demonstrated a diffusion model and a recurrent neural network on its second-generation Native Processing Unit (NPU) at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg. This proves that Q.ANT’s photonic architecture supports the full breadth of modern AI capabilities in generative image synthesis and sequential time series prediction. The ISC demonstrations build on ecosystem progress already underway. Earlier this year, independent developers at Daisytuner compiled and deployed an object detection model directly from…

FREMONT, Calif., June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Prime Day is here, and Jackery is making it the ideal time to secure reliable home backup power with a solar generator. From June 23–26, Jackery is offering its deepest discounts of the year, with up to 65% off solar generators and portable power stations – including the best selling HomePower 3600 Plus and the newly launched, next-gen expanded home backup line – at Jackery.com and on Jackery’s Official Amazon Storefront. With the U.S. power grid under increasing strain from extreme weather, rising demand, and aging infrastructure, the average household now feels the…

BOSTON, June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream®, the philanthropic program supporting food and beverage entrepreneurs nationwide, proudly announces Soul Mega as the 2026 winner of its prestigious Brewing & Business Experienceship. Now in its 15th year, the program welcomes the Washington, DC-based craft beer company into an esteemed community of innovators and changemakers in the beer industry. Each year, the Brewing & Business Experienceship offers one emerging craft brewer the chance to gain exclusive mentorship from Samuel Adams professionals, including founder and brewer Jim Koch. The winner receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit the…

ISELIN, N.J., June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 1Kosmos, a leader in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, today announced that Roger Hale has joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer. Hale brings more than two decades of executive management experience with global cybersecurity companies to 1Kosmos. He will lead the company’s internal security, compliance, customer trust and risk management programs as the company expands adoption of its identity verification and passwordless authentication platform across enterprises, public sector agencies and regulated industries. Hale previously served as Vice President and CISO at Informatica, where he led the company’s security transformation…