Digital Transformation

Munich – September 21, 2026 -- Manifold Tech Limited has partnered with FARO INSIGHT, a business of AMETEK, Inc., to launch Rovi i.1, a mobile reality capture device that feeds directly into FARO's Sphere XG Digital Reality Platform.

Rovi i.1 combines real-time localization with 3D Gaussian Splatting for field data capture

The device merges real-time localization, geometry, imagery and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) technology to generate spatial datasets and photorealistic 3D environments from a single field workflow. It is designed as a mobile, everyday-use tool rather than a standalone capture instrument.

Beverly, Mass. – September 21, 2026 -- Axcelis Technologies (NASDAQ: ACLS) will exhibit at the 23rd International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2026), targeting a silicon carbide device market Yole Group projects to reach $11 billion by 2031, expanding at a 20% compound annual growth rate from 2025 to 2031.

Nashville, Tenn. – September 21, 2026 -- Hopper Healthcare, developer of the intelligent healthcare operating system hopperOS, is opening a new office in Nashville, Tennessee, a market with more than 900 healthcare companies. The office, located at 501 Corporate Centre Drive, Suite 300, Franklin, TN 37067, will officially open in October 2026.

Hopper Healthcare currently supports more than two million lives across 33 states and 16 countries

The company's platform serves more than 60 hospitals, health systems and ambulatory surgery centers, plus four specialty hospitals. hopperOS is built to connect clinical, operational and financial systems across the care continuum, unifying data and workflows for provider organizations.

Alexandria, Va. – September 21, 2026 -- The Water-AI NexusTM Center of Excellence marked its first anniversary by adding Veolia, WaterISAC, the Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturer's Association, and the Rural Community Assistance Partnership to its Advisory Council, bringing the total of 2026 additions to 20 organizations.

The Center was founded by the Water Environment Federation (WEF), Amazon, The Water Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and Leading Utilities of the World to address competing pressures between AI infrastructure water demand and municipal utility resilience.

Providence, R.I. – September 21, 2026 -- Nabsys 2.0, LLC has published the first study combining CRISPR/Cas9 with its proprietary Electronic Genome Mapping (EGM) technology, demonstrating a method to both evaluate CRISPR/Cas9 activity and direct EGM to target specific genomic regions rather than only genome-wide analysis.

The preprint, titled 'CRISPR/Cas9 Optimization Using Electronic Genome Mapping: Potential Role for Studying Human Genetic Disease,' was led by John F. Thompson, Ph.D., Principal Application Scientist at Nabsys, and posted on bioRxiv.

Tokoname, Japan – September 21, 2026 -- Tencent Esports Competition Solution (ECS) is providing end-to-end technical support across all 11 esports events at the 20th Asian Games, running September 22 to October 2 at Hall D of the Aichi Sky Expo in Japan.

Esports Programme Spans Six Game Categories and Multiple Publishers

The 20th Asian Games features esports' largest programme in the event's history, with 11 events across six game categories requiring coordination across different game engines, version management systems and device formats. ECS was built to give referees, competition operations staff and monitoring teams a consistent technical framework across this fragmented environment, covering pre-match equipment checks, real-time match monitoring and post-match review.

Las Vegas – September 21, 2026 -- IGT and Everi will present a combined portfolio of slot games, casino management systems and FinTech products at the 2026 Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas, running Sept. 28 through Oct. 1, at booth 4455.

New titles debut on RISE32 and RISE55 cabinets

IGT will launch Lightning Rails and Split 'N' Win Link Boost on its RISE32 cabinet, both offering player-selectable denomination configurations. The RISE55 cabinet will host premium evolutions Money Gong Divine and Tiger and Dragon Power Sphere, alongside Piggz Link base games Frankenswine and Prince of Porkness, and Triple Coin Link themes Grand Buddha and Grand Cat.

Jupiter, Fla. – September 21, 2026 -- Bloomberg Television will broadcast a new episode of "Advancements with Ted Danson" on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. ET, featuring four segments on construction technology, food packaging recyclability, continuous healthcare, and industrial automation.

Construction industry adopts AI and automation to accelerate megaproject delivery

The episode opens by examining how demand for semiconductor fabrication plants, clean energy projects, and transportation infrastructure is pushing the construction sector to build faster and at greater scale. The segment features Bechtel and shows how artificial intelligence, automation, and project data tools are being deployed to support craft professionals, engineers, and project managers.

Hong Kong – September 21, 2026 -- Yeahka Limited (9923.HK) announced that YeahPay, its international payment arm, has expanded online merchant acquiring to seven markets through infrastructure built on Stripe. Businesses incorporated in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States can now be onboarded directly by YeahPay for online acquiring in their home market.

YeahPay unifies online and in-store payment acceptance for the first time

The company already provides in-store payment acceptance in Hong Kong SAR and Singapore. The latest expansion merges those in-store capabilities with online acquiring on a single integration, drawing on more than a decade of experience building payment acceptance for small and medium merchants across mainland China.

Shanghai – September 21, 2026 -- Huawei has launched its Fintelligent AI Solution worldwide, targeting the security, scalability, and sustainability barriers that have limited large-scale AI deployment across the global financial industry.

The announcement came at the Global Finance Summit held during HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, where Jason Cao, CEO of Huawei's Digital Finance BU, delivered a keynote titled "Owning Your AI, Advancing Agentic Banking." Cao told financial customers that competition in financial AI is shifting from model capability to enterprise-wide AI system capability, and that institutions must be able to choose, operate, replicate, and evolve their AI independently rather than relying on isolated applications or single vendor models.