Autodesk appoints Janesh Moorjani as chief financial officerSAN FRANCISCO , Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the appointment of Janesh Moorjani as the company's chief financial officer, effective December 16, 2024 . Moorjani brings over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, with deep expertise in driving growth and efficiency at scale. Most recently, Moorjani served as CFO and COO of Elastic NV (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company. Reporting to chief executive officer Andrew Anagnost , Moorjani will lead and oversee Autodesk's global finance organization. Moorjani will succeed interim chief financial officer Elizabeth "Betsy" Rafael, who will serve as an advisor to the company through the end of fiscal 2025 and will continue to serve on Autodesk's Board of Directors, resuming her status as an independent director following the transition period and end of her employment by the company. "We are excited to welcome such a high-caliber and seasoned CFO in Janesh," said Andrew Anagnost , president and CEO of Autodesk. "His deep finance and software experience will be instrumental in supporting Autodesk's continued momentum with sustained growth and enhanced profitability. I look forward to partnering with Janesh to drive Autodesk's successful path forward and continue creating additional value for our stockholders. I also thank Betsy for stepping into the interim CFO role at an important time for Autodesk, and for her continued contributions both through the transition and as a qualified and experienced board member moving forward." Moorjani brings strong experience leading dynamic public software companies. He recently was CFO of Elastic since 2017 and assumed the additional responsibilities of COO in 2022. Prior to Elastic, he served in executive and leadership roles at Infoblox, VMware, Cisco, PTC, and Goldman Sachs. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cohesity, a leading AI-powered data security and data management company. "I am thrilled to join Autodesk and work with Andrew, the company's strong management team and the Board to capitalize on the compelling growth opportunities we have ahead," said Moorjani. "Autodesk has established a clear leadership position as a technology innovator by providing differentiated and connected solutions that allow customers across industries to design and make anything. I look forward to working with the team to build on Autodesk's strong financial foundation to drive continued growth, profitability and free cash flow to ultimately deliver sustainable stockholder value." ABOUT AUTODESK The world's designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Autodesk's Design and Make Platform unlocks the power of data to accelerate insights and automate processes, empowering our customers with the technology to create the world around us and deliver better outcomes for their business and the planet. For more information, visit autodesk.com or follow @autodesk. #MakeAnything Autodesk is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. 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Apple is in discussions with Tencent and ByteDance to potentially integrate AI models into iPhones sold in China, according to sources. The talks come as Apple's market share in China wanes. Regulatory barriers have prevented ChatGPT's availability, prompting Apple to seek local partnerships for AI integration. The absence of AI features in Chinese iPhones has placed Apple at a disadvantage as it competes with domestic brands. Huawei's recent AI-powered phone release has contributed to its 42% sales surge in Q3, contrasting Apple's 0.3% decline. Meanwhile, Apple's negotiations with Baidu face setbacks over technical issues. (With inputs from agencies.)'Wicked' was directed by a Bay Area restaurant kid
The Atlanta Hawks were fined $100,000 by the NBA on Tuesday after a league investigation into star guard Trae Young missing an NBA Cup game two weeks ago. The NBA found the Hawks violated the league's Player Participation Policy when the 26-year-old American missed a November 12 contest at Boston. The probe, which included a review by an independent physician, determined the Hawks held Young out of a game, in which he could have played, under the medical standard clause of the policy, which is aimed at having top NBA talent play in regular-season contests. The Hawks, who beat Boston 117-116, said Young was unavailable due to tendinitis in his right Achilles tendon. Three-time NBA All-Star Young, who has not missed another game this season, has averaged 21.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and an NBA-best 11.9 assists so far this season. At 7-11, the Hawks are 11th in the Eastern Conference. The NBA also fined Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown $35,000 for aggressively pursuing a referee during his team's 108-103 home loss to Brooklyn on Sunday. The Kings are 8-10, 12th in the Western Conference after dropping four games in a row. js/bsp
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Intel has detailed major updates in the quest to improve performance of its ill-fated Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake processors that were released back in October. The inconsistent performance at times saw them perform slower that older models with some very questionable results, especially in games. However, it has released a long list of fixes that could improve performance by up to 30%. What were the problems with Intel's Core Ultra 200 processors? There are no fewer than eight problems identified as causes of poor performance in reviewers' test systems back in October and these have largely been addressed in recent weeks via Windows updates as well as game patches and motherboard BIOS updates. Intel claims significant performance updates are here and more are coming for its troubled Core ... [+] Ultra 200 processors In short, practically everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong in terms of launch performance with everything from increased memory latency, PCIe resizable BAR performance and its own Application Performance Optimizer (APO) all contributing to what Intel claims is a significant loss in performance as well consistency. That's certainly what reviewers saw at launch and some games such as Cyberpunk 2077 were catastrophically underperforming. The Fed’s ‘Biggest Nightmare’ Is Suddenly Coming True As Bitcoin Price Surges Elon Musk Xmail Teaser Poses New Threat For Billions Of Gmail Users Mystery Drones Saga: President Biden Calls Sightings ‘Nothing Nefarious, Apparently’ (Updated) Intel Core Ultra 200 performance updates Intel has detailed the various symptoms, causes and fixes of performance issues with its Core Ultra ... [+] 200 desktop processors The fixes actually come in four parts. Firstly, Windows 11 update KB5044384, new BIOS updates currently available for Z890 motherboards, an updated anti-cheap driver provided by Epic Games to fix stability issues and finally, another round of motherboard BIOS updates set to land in January 2025. Intel Core Ultra 200 Windows 11 update KB5044384 Fixes provided in this update impact several issues reported by Intel. Firstly the processor power management (PPM) in Windows was not fully optimized for the new Core Ultra 200 processors due to Intel releasing this update to coincide with retail availability of the products, potentially leaving reviewers with generic PPM profiles in their systems. According to Intel, missing, incomplete, or malfunctioning PPM can affect CPU frequency, core parking, C-State latency and memory latency that could contribute massively to not just lower than expected performance, but highly variable performance too. Intel estimates this affected performance anywhere from 6% to 30% and included single-threaded as well as multi-threaded performance. In addition, Intel's Application Performance Optimizer, a software-level feature that amongst other things ensures demanding tasks such as games threads are sent to higher-performing cores on a CPU, may not have been working properly. This could mean that game threads were sent to lower power E-cores or otherwise not given priority and sent to higher-performing P-cores. This issue too has apparently been fixed in update KB5044384 , which you can get via Windows Update and could add up to 14% more performance. Intel Core Ultra 200 - New BIOS updates When reviewers test CPUs, they'll usually set the correct memory frequency and make sure the CPU performance profile is correctly configured, but other settings are usually left as they are. This is on the assumption that performance-boosting settings such as PCIe resizable BAR are configured properly as standard - in the case of resizable-BAR this has been set to enabled as standard for a number of years. CPU-specific options such as compute tile ring frequency and memory controller ratio or 'gear' are also usually configured for optimate default performance. According to Intel, though, some of these settings may not have been set correctly in the BIOS, for example being disabled when they should have been enabled. It's reasonable here for any reviewer to assume that Resizable-BAR would be enabled out of the box as it usually is so it's possible some may have missed the fact it was disabled if in fact it was. The latest BIOS updates will make sure these settings are configured properly and you can get them by visiting the support page of your specific motherboard model. Intel Core Ultra 200 - January will see further fixes Intel Core Ultra 200 processors will receive additional new BIOS versions in the first half of January that will add additional performance, citing single-digit performance benefits across 35 games. The BIOS versions to watch out for are those including microcode update 0x114 with the final update including Intel CSME Firmware Kit 19.0.0.1854v2 and Windows 11 26100.2314 or newer.
( MENAFN - EIN Presswire) Small Arms and Light Weapons Global market Report 2024 - Market Size, Trends, And Global Forecast 2024-2033 The Business Research Company's Early Year-End Sale! Get up to 30% off detailed market research reports-for a limited time only! LONDON, GREATER LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, December 19, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- The Business Research Company's Early Year-End Sale! Get up to 30% off detailed market research reports-limited time only! The small arms and light weapons market has seen prominent growth in recent years and is expected to continue on this upward trajectory. The market is set to grow from $13.09 billion in 2023 to $14.01 billion in 2024, resulting in a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 7.0%. This growth momentum is chiefly attributable to a rise in disposable income, emerging market growth, an increase in urban warfare, domestic violence, military expenditure, and the prevalence of drug trafficking and terrorist activities. What is the expected market size and growth of the small arms and light weapons over the next few years? The small arms and light weapons market is anticipated to witness steady growth in the foreseeable future, expanding to $17 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 5.0%. The growth in the forecast period can be credited to an uptick in defense spending and military modernization programs. For insights into the global small arms and light weapons market, request a sample report: What is the key driver for the growth of the small arms and light weapons market? Increased defense spending globally is expected to fuel the growth of the small arms and light weapons market over the forecast period. With ongoing conflicts and rivalries, countries around the world are pumping more money into their defense sectors. The seventh consecutive increase in global military spending was recorded in 2021, where total expenditure edged up to $2113 billion in real terms, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI. To pre-book the full report, follow this link: Which key industry players are driving the growth of the small arms and light weapons market? Major companies propelling the market include Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc, General Dynamics Corporation, SIG Sauer, Inc, Heckler & Koch GmbH, FN Herstal S.A., Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC, Raytheon, Thales Group, GLOCK Ges.H., and many others. Presently, the advent of polymers to make light weapons and ammunitions, design upgrades and modularity for military-style weapons, the use of 3D printing technology for producing small arms, and other similar trends are attracting a lot of market interest. How is the small arms and light weapons market segmented? The market segments under consideration in this report are categorized into: - By Type: Small Arms And Light Weapons - By Action: Manual, Semi-Automatic, Automatic - By Caliber: 14.5 mm, 9 mm, 12.7 mm, 5.56 mm, 14.5 mm, 7.62 mm - By Firing Systems: Gas-Operated, Manual, Recoil Operated - By End-User Sector: Law Enforcement, Military & Defense, Civil & Commercial How is the small arms and light weapons market distributed regionally? In 2023, Asia-Pacific emerged as the dominant region in the small arms and weapons market. Western Europe, on the other hand, is projected to experience the fastest growth in the global small arms and light weapons market during the forecast period. The regions taken into account in this report include Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. 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Getting in sync: Wearables reveal happiest times to sleep December 18, 2024 University of Michigan Research finds connections between mood and circadian rhythm disruptions in study using Fitbit data from hundreds of medical interns. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN Email Sleep schedules are often one of the first things that people choose to compromise in order to check everything off their to-do lists, especially with the end of the year approaching. But folks hoping for happy holidays should reconsider. A new study from the University of Michigan shows that when people's sleep cycles are misaligned with their internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, it can have drastic effects on their moods. Conversely, however, that means getting sleep when the body's expecting it provides a potent boost to one's emotional state and could alleviate symptoms associated with mood disorders, said senior author Daniel Forger. "This is not going to solve depression. We need to be very, very clear about that," said Forger, professor in the Department of Mathematics and director of the Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics. "But this is a key factor that we can actually control. We can't control someone's life events. We can't control their relationships or their genetics. But what we can do is very carefully look at their individual sleep patterns and circadian rhythms to really see how that's affecting their mood." The research is published in the journal npj Digital Medicine . Interns, Fitbits and questionnaires People have long known that sleep affects mood, but mostly in a conceptual, almost lighthearted way. For instance, we often use words like "cranky" or "fussy" when discussing this connection. Yet previous studies have consistently found links between sleep -- its duration, quality and disruption -- and serious mental health concerns, including suicide risk. "Sleep is important to us, but maybe not in the same way we care about depression," Forger said. "But there's been a tremendous amount of research coming out showing that mood affects circadian rhythms and sleep, and that circadian rhythms and sleep affect mood." This research, however, has almost exclusively been performed in controlled settings, Forger said. So he and his team set out to find these effects -- and opportunities to use them to improve moods -- in the real world. This project was made possible, in part, by the Intern Health Study, a project funded by the National Institutes of Health at the University of Michigan which works with hundreds of first-year training physicians. As part of the study, the interns complete routine mood surveys while wearing fitness trackers -- namely, Fitbits -- that monitor their heart rate, activity and sleeping habits. This study was also supported by the National Science Foundation. Forger and his team have developed algorithms to assess Fitbit data and extract quantitative information about people's circadian rhythms, their sleep cycles and how well those align. By coupling that with the Intern Health Study's daily mood surveys and also using quarterly depression screening questionnaires, the team could establish links between those alignments and real-world measures of mental health. The information from the questionnaire -- the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire, or PHQ-9, which is widely used in research and clinics -- yielded a particularly striking figure when it came to people with desynchronized rhythms. "When people start to get desynchronized, we see the PHQ-9 go up, on average, by 2.5," Forger said. "That's clinically important." But what exactly is misaligned also matters, said one of the study's lead authors, Minki Lee. "It's not just, 'If you go to bed earlier, you will be happier,'" said Lee, who is an undergraduate researcher and a 2023 Goldwater Scholar. "To some degree, that will be true, but it will be because your sleep schedule is aligning with your internal rhythms.'" The rhythms of our bodies The team was able to extract telling features, or biomarkers, of three different important patterns. There was the central circadian clock, which keeps time in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the brain. It also coordinates peripheral circadian clocks in other parts of the body. In its study, the team analyzed the peripheral clock in the heart. For a typical person, the heart knows that it needs to be ready to be more active at 2 p.m. than at 2 a.m. thanks to its peripheral clock, Forger said. The final pattern the team could measure was the interns' sleep cycles. The team found that, generally speaking, having a sleep cycle out of sync with the peripheral circadian clock -- that is, what time your heart thought it was -- had a negative effect on mood. When a person's central circadian rhythm was out of whack with respect to their sleep cycle, however, a negative effect was seen when an intern was doing shift work. That is, the misalignment between their sleep and central internal clock was driven by their occupation. And when this mismatch was affecting mood, its effect was more pronounced than in the peripheral mismatch case. "Specifically, the misalignment between the central circadian clock and sleep exhibited the strongest negative association with mood and depressive symptoms, including poor sleep, appetite issues and even suicidal thoughts," said Dae Wook Kim, another lead author of the study. Kim helped conduct the study as a postdoctoral fellow at U-M and is now an assistant professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. "These findings challenge prior assumptions about the uniform impact of circadian disruptions across different physiological clocks," Kim said. Challenging these assumptions opens up new questions about how and when these disruptions manifest in other groups of people, including students, older adults and individuals diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, Kim said. The team is already starting to bring its study methodology to some of those groups. "This shows us we have to look at different rhythms representing different parts of your body and consider them in light of your working conditions and your lifestyle in general," Lee said. It's not surprising that context matters, the researchers said. After all, students cram for exams and vacationers travel halfway around the world without having the all-nighters or jet lag significantly impair their moods. But the study shows we understand when these disruptions are impacting us and when getting some rest can remedy that using technology at our fingertips. Or, more accurately, on our wrists. "That's why this is scalable," Forger said. "That's why I think this could help tons of people." Story Source: Materials provided by University of Michigan . Original written by Matt Davenport. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference : Cite This Page :