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BURLINGTON, Mass., July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avid(Nasdaq: AVID) today announcedthe immediate availability of MediaCentral 2020,thecomprehensive media workflow platform for TV news, sports and post production operations. Innovative new features inMediaCentral2020deliver on the needs of modern newsrooms, providingjournalists withincreased efficiency, faster search options andimprovedediting as well asan enhancedbroadcast viewing experience for audiences.

MediaCentral 2020 accelerates production with a complete and scalable end-to-end media workflow platform, providing news teams with media access, workflow integration and remote collaboration to deliver breaking news as it happens. MediaCentral2020empowersglobal collaborationto connect disperse teams toshare media and create betterstoriestogether, whileleveragingbroadcastcontentand incoming feedsto breaknewsfaston digitalchannels.

Whether you are alocal news bureau,regional broadcasterorglobalnewsnetwork,the ability to deliver compelling news stories quickly and efficiently iscritical, said Colleen Smith, Vice President, Market Solutions at Avid. MediaCentral 2020 delivers the remote workflow collaboration, efficiency anddistributioncapabilitiesnews production teamsneedto break newsfirstand reach audiences across every platformonline, on social media and on air.

From information gathering that leverages powerful search capabilities to story creation, graphics integration and social media distribution, MediaCentral2020empowersteams with the tools and the workflow speed they need to break news first.Key new capabilities include:

These new functions enhance and extend the industry-standard platforms modular, scalable design and full suite of apps, services and connectors that accelerate every part of the media creation and publishing workflow.For more information on MediaCentral 2020 visit http://www.avid.com/products/mediacentral.

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Avid delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution, and consumption. Avids preeminent customer community uses Avids comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to media in the worldfrom prestigious and award-winning feature films to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the most flexible deployment and pricing options, Avids industry-leading solutions include Media Composer, Pro Tools, Avid NEXIS, MediaCentral, iNEWS, AirSpeed, Sibelius, Avid VENUE, FastServe, and Maestro. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visitwww.avid.com, connect with Avid onFacebook,Instagram, Twitter,YouTube,LinkedIn, or subscribe toAvid Blogs.

2020 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Avid, the Avid logo, Avid NEXIS, FastServe, AirSpeed, iNEWS, Maestro, MediaCentral, Media Composer, Media Composer | First, Media Composer | UltimatePro Tools, Avid VENUE, and Sibelius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Donald Trump will resume regular televised coronavirus briefings Tuesday in a possibly fraught bid to restore his standing with US voters who accuse him of badly fumbling the pandemic response.

Early in the crisis that has now left more than 140,000 people dead in the United States and triggered mass unemployment, Trump appeared almost daily in the White House briefing room.

But those primetime appearances often became rambling, combative sessions in which the president acted more like he was at a campaign rally than a briefing on a national crisis. They ended abruptly in late April after Trump was mocked for musing on the potential for injecting coronavirus patients with disinfectant.

Now, with polls showing Trump headed for election defeat against Democrat Joe Biden and more than two thirds of Americans mistrusting him on the coronavirus, he hopes to seize back control of the narrative.

The White House plan is for Trump to keep sessions brief and to the point, emphasising positive news on vaccine development and his proposals for economic recovery - without getting sidetracked into his usual monologues about enemies, the unfairness of the media, and pet medical theories.

"These will be very newsy briefings with a lot of information... the American people will hear," spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told the Fox & Friends news show on Tuesday (July 21).

In his own preview, Trump said Monday that he'd be explaining how "we're doing very well in so many different ways."

"I think it's a great way to get information out to the public," he told reporters.

The question as always with Trump - a real estate billionaire who became president in his first ever attempt at running for office - is whether he will stay on message.

It is not yet known whether he will appear alongside medical experts, particularly the renowned infectious diseases doctor Anthony Fauci, who has won widespread national trust for his straightforward assessments on Covid-19.

"You'll have to tune in to see," McEnany replied.

"They are still figuring that out," Surgeon-General Jerome Adams said Tuesday on CBS.

With the virus now tearing through Republican-led states like Florida and Texas, Trump's sunny and often factually challenged assessments of the Covid-19 crisis are wearing thin even among his own voters.

After months of mocking the use of masks and encouraging libertarian and Republican protesters who claim that mask rules infringe their civil liberties, Trump on Monday tweeted a picture of himself with his face covered - and called it "patriotic."

Yet Trump's pivot to appearing to take the disease more seriously has limits. Just this Sunday on Fox News, he repeated in an interview one of his favorite claims: that the virus will "disappear" by itself.

Reminded that the disease is only gaining strength, with no end in sight, Trump insisted: "I'll be right eventually."

The other question is whether Trump will resist using the live television limelight to dive into election politics - something that could backfire with Americans worried about their health.

He trails Biden in all polls and is retooling his campaign to an ever-darker message in which he tries to paint the Democrat as backed by anarchists and Venezuelan-style socialists.

Trump's Twitter feed Tuesday gave an indication of his divided attention.

On one hand there was the upbeat tweet: "Tremendous progress being made on Vaccines and Therapeutics!!!"

And on the other, the evidence-free, alarming claim - shocking for a sitting president - that the election in which he is forecast to lose will be rigged.

"Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation's History! #RIGGEDELECTION."

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DENVER, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Velocity Network Foundation, a collaborative, democratic, nonprofit foundation, led by HCM and EdTech titans, set forth to put people back in control of their career data and build the worlds network for verifiable career credentials, today announced the release of Testnet 2.0 - the Velocity Experience Center (VEC): a multi-vendor environment that demonstrates for the first time seamless interoperability across dozens of job market participants. In building the VEC, the Foundation introduces an environment that enables its members to interact with one another and show the expected real-life experiences of individuals, organizations and educational institutions in the new world of self-sovereign verifiable career credentials, in ways not demonstrated yet by other pilot and proof of concept projects.

Velocity Network Foundation is reinventing how career records are shared, empowering individuals, businesses and educational institutions through transformational blockchain technology, an initiative known as the Internet of Careers. Development of the VEC is underway now, with public demonstrations expected to begin in Fall 2020.

The first VEC engagement will focus on the U.S. healthcare industry, featuring comprehensive scenarios involving movement into and throughout the sector, including both clinical and non-clinical roles. The VEC environment will leverage detailed user and labor market data to support multiple use cases as well as a digital career credential wallet, allowing individuals to curate their credentials from a diverse set of entities. The approach will facilitate rich interaction between individuals and employers, institutions and technology vendors granting and verifying professional career records at all stages of the professional lifecycle, from job displacement to job searches, new student graduation to continuing education.

Dror Gurevich, CEO for Velocity Network Foundation, shared, Since our launch earlier this year, the Velocity Network Foundation has been making exciting progress. After conducting demonstrations to members of the U.S. federal government and T3 Innovation Network plus conversations with dozens of consortiums and organizations, we decided to expand on the traditional pilot programs usually used for showcasing new capabilities. The Velocity Experience Center will align with the markets immediate needs and will serve as a proof point of the industrys ability to come together to advance education and employment opportunities for the workforce, including veterans and underserved populations.

In addition to announcing the VEC, Velocity Network Foundation welcomed its recent member, Relias, a SaaS company that provides healthcare training and education solutions to more than 11,000 healthcare organizations and 4.5 million healthcare professionals. With unmatched education and the number one healthcare assessment in the U.S., Relias helps its clients elevate the performance of care teams to deliver better clinical and financial results. The company is part of the Bertelsmann Education Group, which also includes Udacity and HotChalk.

Mike Mutka, Chief Product Officer for Relias, shared, Were thrilled to join the Velocity Network Foundation and help build the Internet of Careers. Education is at the heart of what Relias does, and in healthcare, training improves patient outcomes and patient satisfaction. Enabling healthcare employers to verify this information in real-time through the capabilities of blockchain is compelling. When we heard about the Velocity Network Foundation, we immediately understood that this is the construct on top of which we could build a blockchain-based verifiable credentials strategy. Velocitys infrastructure, paired with Relias, will give workers the ability to update and publish their credentials. This will ensure employers can devote their training resources where they are most needed.

We are delighted to have Relias on board as we prepare to launch the Velocity Experience Center, says Gurevich. With over 52 million course completions to date, Relias joins other titan HCM and Education trailblazers, participants of the Velocity Network, in championing blockchain-based verifiable career credentials as the next gen labor market infrastructure. Its an employment market imperative that is recognized by industries and governments worldwide and is now promoted even more diligently due to the effects of COVID-19 on the global job market and the need to get people back to work. We are excited to see many organizations that are in the process of joining us in this work over the coming months.

About the Velocity Network FoundationThe Velocity Network Foundation is a nonprofit organization established by Velocity Career Labs, a developer of innovative blockchain technology. The Foundation exists to govern the use of the Velocity Network by all involved parties; continuously build the rulebook, a common framework that ensures operational consistency and legal clarity for every transaction; promote global adoption and support among stakeholders and constituents; guide the development of the decentralized protocols; and support research and development of applications and associated services, fostering a community of open-source developers.

For more information about Velocity Network Foundation and the Velocity Network, please visit us at http://www.velocitynetwork.foundation.

About ReliasFor more than 11,000 healthcare organizations and 4,500,000 caregivers, Relias continues to help clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by reducing variation in care. Our platform employs performance metrics and assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with targeted, personalized and engaging learning. We help healthcare organizations, their people, and those under their care, get better. Better at identifying problems, addressing them with better knowledge and skills, and better outcomes for all. Let us help you get better: http://www.relias.com.

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First and Only Digitally-Connected Automated No Touch UV Light Solution Designed to Improve the Cleaning and Disinfecting of Portable Medical Equipment

High UV-C Dose Provides Reliable Pathogen Kill in 60 Seconds

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., and DUBLIN, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UV-Concepts Inc., an infection control and prevention company, announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Hytech Ireland to distribute across Ireland and the United Kingdom the Companys UV-C Enclosure (UVE), the first and only digitally-connected automated no-touch UV-C enclosure purpose-built for large portable medical equipment designed to improve manual cleaning and disinfecting.

Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is a disinfection method that uses short-wavelength ultraviolet light (UV-C) to kill or inactivate microorganisms. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a growing concern worldwide, and evidence shows that high-touch surfaces on portable medical equipment such as wheelchairs, stretchers, and infusion pumps are a potential vector for transmission of bacteria and viruses.

The concern for cleaning and disinfecting high-touch surfaces in the healthcare environment has grown exponentially due to COVID-19, said Jeremy Starkweather, President & Co-Founder, UV-Concepts Inc. Were very pleased to partner with Hytech Ireland and make the UVE available for healthcare institutions globally to help protect patients, healthcare workers, and visitors from harmful bacteria and viruses.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate about 700,000 patients are diagnosed with an HAI each year in the United States, and of those, 70,000 die during their acute care hospitalization. While progress has been made to reduce and, in some cases, eliminate HAIs, the market is constantly seeking new and improved disinfection solutions.

We were impressed with the broad clinical applications of the easy-to-use UVE, said Rodney Cadden, microbiologist and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hytech Ireland. Our partnership with UV-Concepts allows us to offer this product to the infection control healthcare community, as well as other early adopter sectors such as the hospitality and leisure industries that can benefit from the products differentiated use and modality.

About UVEThe UVE is an automated no-touch UV-C enclosure purpose-built for large portable medical equipment and is digitally-connected to real-time equipment indicator tags and a cloud-based platform to ensure protocol adherence. The UVE is designed to optimize the key principles of UV-C light disinfection effectiveness (intensity, proximity, and line of sight) by surrounding items inside of a fully-enclosed, highly-reflective space. This produces a high UV-C dose in 60 seconds for a controlled environment leading to consistent results. The UVE is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, Product Registration No. 92890-DV-1).

About UV-Concepts, Inc.UV-Concepts, an infection control and prevention company, is focused on collaborating with healthcare institutions willing to challenge existing paradigms with regards to the cleaning and disinfecting of portable medical equipment. For more information, please visitwww.uvconcepts.com.

About Hytech IrelandHytech Ireland was formed in June 2016 to control healthcare-associated infections in Irish private and public health systems as well as cross-contamination in other industries. Working with buying influences in Europe, Middle East and Australia, Hytech offers sustainable route to market in different continents on UV device applications. Hytech offers both passive and reactive technologies, along with a full team to validate the efficacy in UK/ IRE.

For more information, please visit http://www.hytech.ie.

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Ex-U.S. Contact:Rodney Cadden, CEOHytechTel: 353 (0)86 3828054E-mail: rodney@hytech.ie

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Nokia 5G standalone private wireless network selected by Sandvik to advance digital transformation in mining

21 July 2020

Espoo, Finland Nokia today announced that Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology will deploy a Nokia 5G SA industrial-grade private wireless network at its test mine in Tampere, Finland.

Based on Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC), the 5G standalone (SA) network will be used to enhance communications and connectivity at the facility, a real-life mining environment where Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology tests, develops and prototypes mining solutions for its customers worldwide.

The network will enable fast, reliable and secure voice and video communications in a mining setting, which presents highly challenging deployment conditions. Its 5G capability will also be used for automated mining processes, enabling remote machine operations over 4K video links between deep underground and the surface control center.

Patrick Murphy, President, Rock Drills and Technologies, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology said: By deploying a Nokia 5G SA private wireless network with Nokia Digital Automation Cloud, we can trial and showcase an entirely new range of game-changing products and capabilities here in our Tampere test mine.

As we work with our customers to help them leverage technology to digitalize their operations, the introduction of 5G opens the door to new opportunities in robotics, remote and autonomous operations, full-fleet automation, analytics and enhanced safety. As such, it comprises a breakthrough in the digital transformation of mining.

Stephan Litjens, General Manager, Nokia Digital Automation Cloud said: Its an honor to work with a world-class company such as Sandvik on leading-edge digital automation solutions for the mining industry. With 5G SA, its high speed, low latency performance and edge computing, the nextsteps on this journey can be taken.

Through our plug-and-play Nokia DAC platform were supporting Sandvik to realize not only its own digital transformation goals, but also those of the wider industry as it continues to deliver value to mining customers worldwide.

Scalable according to needs, Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) an industrial-grade digital automation service platform that provides a reliable, secure, and high-performance private wireless network. A compact, plug-and-play system, it comprises network equipment and a cloud-based operation monitoring system. With Nokia DAC, users can securely collect, process and host all generated proprietary data on site.

Established in 1972, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology test mine provides the opportunity to test and demonstrate Sandvik equipment and solutions in a realistic environment that comprises several kilometers of underground tunnels. It offers in-house training, provides a forum for knowledge and technology development, supports customers with product testing and performs failure analysis.

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Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is a Business Area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, services and technical solutions for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, crushing and screening, loading and hauling, tunneling, quarrying and breaking and demolition. In 2019, sales were approximately 45 billion SEK with about 14,000 employees in continuing operations.

Sandvik is a world leader in Automation. AutoMine covers all aspects of automation, from remote and autonomous operation of a single piece of equipment, to multi-machine control and full-fleet automation using automatic mission and traffic control capabilities. OptiMine is the most comprehensive solution for optimizing underground hard rock mining production and processes. It integrates all assets and people - including Sandvik and non-Sandvik equipment - delivering descriptive and predictive insights to improve operations.

About NokiaWe create the technology to connect the world. Only Nokia offers a comprehensive portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing opportunities across the globe. With our commitment to innovation, driven by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, we are a leader in the development and deployment of 5G networks.

Our communications service provider customers support more than 6.4billion subscriptions with our radio networks, and our enterprise customers have deployed over 1,300 industrial networks worldwide. Adhering to the highest ethical standards, we transform how people live, work and communicate. For our latest updates, please visit us online http://www.nokia.com and follow us on Twitter @nokia.

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