Author: Connected World

From corn to pigs, growers and producers are leveraging technology to maximize output. The amount of land available for growing and producing food is not increasing, but global population is. The need to do more with the same number of resources—or in some cases even fewer resources—is a key pain point in modern agriculture, as is dealing with the effects of climate change. One way the players in the agricultural and food value chains are not helping themselves in this regard is by wasting energy at just about every link in the chain—and this carbon output then exacerbates the climate…

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The Red Hat Summit 2023 recently wrapped up in Boston, Mass. The company showcased its ecosystem work and offered sessions on automation, hybrid cloud, and edge. Plus, there were several announcements made at the event. The two-in-one event combined the Red Hat Summit with AnsibleFest, a previously separate event focused on Red Hat’s open-source Ansible Automation Platform. Red Hat is a provider not only of automation solutions but also hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, agile integration, cloud-native application development, and management solutions. At the summit, the company announced the latest fruit from its partnership with ABB—early-access availability of ABB Ability Edgenius…

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Some people are still more cautious at work, home, and in social settings following the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies. Case in point: eating out. The good news is the restaurant business is getting an infusion of technology, as the nation is returning to pre-pandemic lifestyles. Americans are spending about $70 billion each month dining out; 34% of people come together at casual dining restaurants once a week, and 49% of food expenditures are spent on grabbing a meal away from home. To help the restaurant industry be more efficient, as the cost of food and labor skyrockets, new…

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PTC LiveWorx 2023, a live event in Boston, Mass., wrapped up last week after thousands of attendees experienced Xtropolis, the LiveWorx expo hall full of demos and interactive technology displays. It was PTC’s first LiveWorx event in four years. During those four years, PTC says it invested more than $3 billion in acquisitions and organic development, including its acquisitions of companies like Onshape, Arena, Codebeamer, and ServiceMax, as well as the launch of PTC Atlas and several SaaS (software-as-a-service) -based tools, including Windchill+, Creo+, and Kepware+. The 2023 event focused on the importance of sustainable digital transformation. In his keynote…

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