LOS ANGELES, Calif. — California Safe Schools (CSS) celebrated 28 years of advocacy and environmental leadership on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, with its annual “Your Life Is Now” Environmental Enforcement and Environmental Health Forum at The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
SYDNEY, Australia — STARII TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD today announced a major update to Koozee, its AI apparel visual production platform. The update introduces Freeform Canvas, a node-based workspace for reusable, multi-step fashion content workflows, and Koozee MCP, which lets supported AI agents access Koozee’s fashion visual tools for batch image generation. The company also consolidated its preset workflows under Quick Create.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Fonelora Inc. today announced the official release of Fonelora Android Unlocker, a desktop software solution designed to help users remove Android screen locks and bypass Google Factory Reset Protection (FRP). The software offers guided workflows for users locked out of their devices due to forgotten passwords or Google account verification after a factory reset.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Nearly five decades after arriving in San Francisco as a Vietnamese refugee, David Duong returned to the city for an awards ceremony honoring “The King of Trash,” a documentary about his family’s journey from war and displacement to building a successful business in America. The film won Best Documentary and Best People Choice Film at the 13th San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival, with both awards presented November 1 at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Duong, the founder of California Waste Solutions, dedicated the film and its two awards to his parents, Jim Thu Tai Duong and Anh Thi Le.
DOVER, Del. — Virse provides creative agencies, brand teams, and design studios across the United States with a human-led AI creative system for commercial production. The workspace brings 50+ AI models, design tools, reference assets, and team collaboration onto one node-based canvas. On Virse’s Creative Canvas, every brief, moodboard, and revision stays linked as a visible node.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Seabird Investment Partners, a San Diego-based, SEC-registered investment adviser specializing in value oriented fixed income and equity investments, today announced that Craig Fletcher has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer, effective September 14, 2026. Fletcher will help scale Seabird’s operations and position the firm for accelerated growth.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — SecuGen Corporation, a leading provider of advanced fingerprint biometric technology, today announced that its Unity™ 20 MOSIP fingerprint authentication device is now live in Uganda. SecuGen has completed the setup that allows the Unity 20 MOSIP to work with Uganda’s national identity system, which is built on the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) and operated by the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA).
EDMONTON, Alberta — What if the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence could help us ask some of humanity’s oldest questions in a new way? In “The Infinity Formula: How Consciousness, AI, and Time Lead Us Back to the Source” (ISBN: 978-1834383446; released through Tellwell Publishing), author Calvin Engen explores the relationship between consciousness, time, technological acceleration, and the human search for meaning.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, and TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Chase Doors, A Senneca Brand, is proud to announce that its ColdGuard® Gen II Swing Door has received Florida Building Code (FBC) Product Approval, validating the door’s compliance with the Florida Building Code’s stringent requirements for structural integrity, wind resistance, and impact performance.
ATLANTA, Ga. — Down Payment Resource (DPR), the housing industry’s leading affordability intelligence platform, today announced that Angel Romero, housing finance agency relationship manager at DPR, has been named vice chair of the Technology Impact and Enablement (TIE) Community of Practice at the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO®). The community brings together stakeholders from across the mortgage industry to identify, evaluate and advance technology innovations and to assess how emerging technologies affect mortgage processes, data standards and interoperability.
