Category-Defining Casual Sports Game for 5 Billion Fans, Now Available at challenge.matchday.com

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matchday, a developer and publisher of casual video games for football’s 5 billion fans, has officially launched the trivia and match prediction game Matchday Challenge: FIFA Women’s World Cup AU∙NZ∙2023™ Edition, in advance of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ fast approaching on July 20, and by far the largest women’s football tournament to date. Free to play and accessible on any device with an internet connection globally, Matchday Challenge gives players the opportunity to unlock exclusive digital cards of their favorite FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ stars by testing their fan knowledge, predicting the winning teams and players and competing for glory against their friends and fellow fans.

“At Matchday, we’ve been hard at work building football-themed ... Read more »

SHANGHAI - Monday, 10. July 2023

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- At the sixth World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), UNIDO, Huawei, and other partners officially launched on 6 July 2023 the “Global Alliance on Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Manufacturing” (AIM Global). Led by UNIDO, AIM Global will integrate public and private partners to foster the use of and innovation around AI in industry and manufacturing.

Addressing the WAIC audience during the opening ceremony, Mr. Gerd Müller UNIDO Director General, said: “It is our shared responsibility to ensure that advancements in the field of AI are made in a manner that is safe, ethical, sustainable and inclusive. AIM Global recognizes the importance of bridging the digital divide between nations and industries, and ensuring that no one is left behind in the AI revolution. AIM Global will be at the forefront of shaping the AI landscape. Let us work collaboratively to build a future where AI is a ... Read more »

2017–2022 High-Resolution Maps in Esri's ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World are Now More Temporally Consistent

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Land-use/Land-cover (LULC) maps contextualize and quantify the impacts of earth processes and human activity on the environment. Organizations around the world are now using these tools to inform policy and land management decisions around issues like sustainable development. In continued support of these users and their goals, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in partnership with Impact Observatory, has released a global land-use/land-cover map of the world based on the most up-to-date 10-meter Sentinel-2 satellite data for every year since 2017. Following the latest 2022 data released earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) model for classification has been improved, making the maps more temporally consistent.

Year-over-year changes detected in the LULC time series maps can be key indicators for analys ... Read more »

Making Climate Data Accessible Key Topic for Esri UC Press Event

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, today announced the lineup for its press conference at the company’s 2023 User Conference. The event will be accessible both in-person and via live stream.

Who:

Jack Dangermond, Esri Founder and President

Dr. Richard Spinrad, NOAA Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator

Richard Bevan, UK Met Office Chief Technology Officer

Where:

Hilton Bayfront, San Diego. 1 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101 Cobalt 500;
or via live stream – request link by emailing media.help@esri.com

When:

Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 11:15 am PDT

Why:

Tackling climate change at a national scale requires enormous mobilization of ready-to-use data, resources, and tools that communities at all levels can apply to current and ... Read more »