Vexcel’s UltraCam Osprey Powers the City of Espoo’s Advanced 3D City Model
Graz, Austria – Vexcel Imaging highlights the City of Espoo, Finland, and its continued success in building one of Europe’s most advanced open 3D city models, powered by high-resolution nadir and oblique imagery captured with Vexcel’s UltraCam Osprey systems. Espoo’s long-term imaging strategy – implemented through service providers using UltraCam Osprey cameras since 2017 – has enabled the city to develop a consistent, scalable, highly accurate digital twin that supports planning, visualization...
D5 Introduces an AI-Powered End-to-End Workflow for 3D Design
As generative AI continues to move beyond text and images into spatial and 3D domains, one of the biggest challenges remains translating human intent into complex visual environments. Describing how a space should feel—its light, atmosphere, materials, and context—has traditionally required hours of manual setup, iteration, and technical adjustment. D5 Render has announced a new AI-driven approach to 3D design that aims to close that gap. With the release of D5 Render 3.0, the company introduces...
D5 Introduces an All-in-one AI-Driven Workflow That Redefines How Architects Design, Iterate, and Visualize
As architectural projects grow more complex and timelines continue to compress, many design teams are re-examining a long-standing assumption in their workflows: that design, visualization, and delivery must happen in separate stages, across disconnected tools. D5 has announced a unified, AI-driven design workflow that intended to eliminate this fragmentation—allowing architects to work in a continuous, iterative flow from early concept through final visualization. Rather than introducing anothe...
Cortec® Offers Solutions to Boost Concrete Longevity as Desalination Demand Grows
The rising demand for drinking water in arid regions around the globe has naturally led to steady growth in the desalination market, projected to expand at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 11.6% from 2025-3033. Many desalination projects are under way, especially in the Middle East and Africa, while facilities built one or two decades ago are shifting to the maintenance phase. In either case, the corrosiveness of seawater (average 3.5% salinity) and even higher salinity brine water is a c...
AI’s Water Demand to Surge Nearly 130% by 2050 – New Research Shows How to Build a Water-Secure AI Economy
Analysis finds AI could add 30 trillion liters of annual water demand, but targeted reuse and digital infrastructure investments can substantially offset demand and protect communities Washington, DC, (January 14, 2026) – The rapid global expansion of artificial intelligence is set to drive a 129% increase in water demand across the AI value chain by 2050, according to new research by Xylem (NYSE: XYL) and Global Water Intelligence (GWI). Watering the New Economy: Managing the Impacts of the AI...
Virtual Surveyor Adds Local Coordinate System Functionality in Latest Release of Smart Drone Surveying Software
CAD file accurately aligned to a drone orthophoto in the local coordinate system, Willow Creek. Overall User Friendliness Also Enhanced AARSCHOT, Belgium, 13 January 2026 – Virtual Surveyor has added Local Coordinate System functionality to the 10.2 release of its smart drone surveying package. This means users can easily define a local coordinate system and work with new and existing survey data in those systems. “Virtual Surveyor users can now project GPS-based drone imagery and LiDAR data dir...
Golden Software Makes Major Upgrade to Grapher Scientific Graphing Package with Enhanced Templates for Streamlined Data Exploration
The Golden Gallery offers a growing collection of polished, ready-to-use Grapher templates that make data visualization simpler, faster, and more consistent. Reimagined Template Experience with Online Library GOLDEN, Colorado, 17 December 2025 – Golden Software, a leading developer of mapping, plotting, and visualization software, has significantly enhanced the Template experience in its Grapher scientific graphing package with improved ease of use and an online Template library. The complet...
Voyant Photonics Introduces Industry’s First Fully Solid-State 4D FMCW LiDAR, Unlocking High Performance Depth Sensing and Velocity to Next-Generation Industrial and Consumer Applications
Helium™ family brings scalable, cost-effective sensing and high-resolution 4D point cloud data to the emerging era of Physical AI New York, NY – December 17, 2025 – Voyant Photonics, the leader in chip-scale frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR, today announced its Helium™ Platform of fully solid-state LiDAR sensors and modules. The solution is built on a silicon photonics chip, enabling a breakthrough architecture designed to deliver unprecedented reliability, integration, and per...
Envu™ Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Digital Tool to Help Applicators Perfect Their Tank Mix
The new “Mix Master Tool” app is now available for download on Apple® and Android™ devices [CARY, N.C., December 15, 2025] – Today, Envu announced the launch of a new, first-of-its-kind digital tool that will empower professional applicators all over the country to perfect their tank mix based on their needs. The free “Mix Master Tool” app, which is now available for download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, offers numerous features, with the flagship being the powerful tank-mix...
97% of Companies Fail to Measure AI’s Environmental Impact, New Analysis Shows, but Energy Experts Say Optimisation-Focused AI Can Solve It
AI data center (Source: Canva) Despite rapid adoption, most companies focus on AI “ethics” policies but ignore how their AI models change energy use in day-to-day operations. It is a blind spot that could be turned into real savings, especially in commercial buildings, energy efficiency experts say. The Thomson Reuters Foundation has published the first findings from its AI Company Data Initiative (AICDI), analysing AI governance disclosures from 1,000 companies across 13 sectors. Developed...
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June Issue 2026
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