MIDDLEBURY — Rivalries and competitions are common between colleges and universities, most often through sports, but also in other collaborative and competitive ways, such as encouraging student voter turnout.

Last winter, a new student organization at Middlebury College formed to take on a friendly challenge among engineering-minded university students across the country.

It’s a first for the school, and a bit off the beaten path for a small liberal arts college in New England: The students are building a hybrid formula race car and they plan to race it in New England. Hampshire Motor Speedway in Louden, NH, This May.

Middlebury College Formula Hybrid was founded a year ago by then-junior Louis Parizeau, a computer science student who, during the pandemic, developed an interest in go-kart racing.

“I’ve always been into the mechanical stuff, working with my hands, working on mopeds, dirt bikes in my garage,” Parizeau told the Independent. “Sometimes cars, but I’m not very good at that,” he added with a laugh.

Earlier in his college career, Parizeau had considered pursuing a dual-degree mechanical engineering program, which would combine three years at Middlebury with two years at a university like Dartmouth, Columbia, or Rensselaer, and would have earned him two degrees.

In the end he decided against it, but along the way he discovered Formula Hybrid – and wanted to get involved.

Founded in 2006 at Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, Formula Hybrid is part of the Society of Automotive Engineers Collegiate Design Series. Student teams design and build a hybrid (electric and combustion engine) or electric-only race car and compete in a series of annual events at the New Hampshire circuit.

Events include acceleration (a drag race), autocross (a short race to test handling), endurance (a 44 km race with speeds exceeding 100 mph) and categories for design and project management.

“Most of the teams come from universities that have engineering departments, but Middlebury doesn’t, and I thought that might be a problem,” Parizeau said.

So he reached out to Dartmouth and the University of Vermont, which won the 2020 virtual competition, to see if he could join one of their teams.

But a friend and former student of Midd’s now at Dartmouth told him he should “try to” form his own team.

“So I tried,” he said.

TEAM EFFORT

Although Parizeau did much of the initial organization to launch the team – and he has spent the current winter term working there for a credited internship – he stressed that Middlebury College Formula Hybrid is an effort of team.

Working in a welding shop in Bicentennial Hall, a temporary arrangement, seven teams of students focused on key aspects of the car – powertrain, electrical, tires and brakes, chassis and suspension, aero, steering system and engine combustion engine — and there’s a core team of 12 students who regularly contribute to the project, Parizeau said.

The Middlebury team were able to buy a used chassis from the Dartmouth team to help get them started, and eight students from Midd took a four-week welding course at the Hannaford Career Center this winter.

“None of us have a ton of experience,” junior-Feb said. Francesca Whitecross, who looks after the outreach for the team, “but we work together through Louis, who is very meticulous and has an eye for detail.”

Parizeau created a spreadsheet to guide and track the project, she said.

“It’s all really organized with fixed deadlines and details like ‘here’s what’s going to happen’, ‘here’s the cost’, ‘here’s the parts we need to order’, ‘here’s the skills required’ and ‘here’s some videos YouTube on how to do it if you don’t know how to do it.'”

As with anything this complicated, undertaken for the first time, there were challenges.

“At one point we had these weird nuts and bolts that we couldn’t determine the measurements for,” Whitecross said.

They had been included with the parts the team had purchased from Dartmouth, and the plans were confusing. Some of the instructions were written in Italian.

“So we had to look in an Italian mechanic’s practical book,” Whitecross said. “I speak Italian so I was able to translate that, thank goodness. But when you don’t have an established program with 16 mentors, you often have to Google ‘How does it work?’ or ‘What does it mean?’

The hardest part for Parizeau was the meticulous organization, he said. But he likes to do other work.

“I’m learning a lot about electrical wiring, but not at the electrical engineering level, and about sensors and local networks,” he says.

Whitecross, who is majoring in neuroscience and Russian, doesn’t expect to become an engineer, but she’s always loved being around cars and grew up steeped in racing culture.

On the French side of his family, his grandfather was a racing driver. On the Italian side of his family, his great-uncles and great-grandparents were car racers and car collectors, and the family home in Italy is filled with car trophies and “car magazines and catalogs piled from floor to ceiling. “.

So spending time on this project and with the people who are truly passionate about it seemed like a natural extension of her own interests, she said.

STEP BY STEP

Over the next week, the Middlebury Hybrid Formula team are looking to complete an important milestone: getting the chassis rolling.

They were hoping to be done with that part by now, but they’re still waiting for some parts to arrive — an all-too-common situation given manufacturing and supply chain issues caused by the pandemic.

In addition to building the car, the team also raised money for the project, to pay for tools, car parts, safety gear for student racers, and transportation to and from the New Hampshire competition.

By Wednesday morning, their Just Giving campaign had raised $13,210 of their $15,000 goal. For more information about the campaign, visit tinyurl.com/middrace22.

During this time, the project began to attract attention on campus.

“We have a waiting list of around 130 people to drive the car,” Parizeau said.

The students are also looking for permanent housing for their hybrid formula team, which Parizeau hopes will persist after she graduates in May.

“Since there is no engineering department, there is not a lot of space to do engineering projects,” Parizeau said. “But the administration worked pretty hard to find us a good place.”

Parizeau is not yet sure what he will do after graduation, he said, and he is unlikely to pursue further studies related to racing cars.

“But I could devote some of my time to it, doing my own projects and working on it in the garage.”

For more information on Middlebury College Formula Hybrid, visit middleburyformulahybrid.com.

“This is the start of a new generation of motorsport led by some of the most talented and dynamic competitors from a wide range of motorsport and advanced air mobility backgrounds. This is just the start and we can’t wait to see Emily, Zephatali and Fabio blaze the trail to victory in the world’s first series of remotely piloted flying car racing.Electric flying car racing is the most exciting and progressive form of motorsport in the world. We’ve been proud to show the potential of our Speeders in testing, but now it’s time to get serious about pure sport competition. Our first selection from thousands of applicants reflects the breadth of the riders’ backgrounds flying electric cars.
Matt Pearson, Founder, Airspeeder and Alauda

In the summer of 2019, Alauda Aeronautics and Airspeeder founder Matt Pearson laid out a vision to create the most exciting next-generation motorsport on the planet. By doing so, we are accelerating the arrival of the flying car mobility revolution that has been promised to us for generations.

Since then, a dedicated team of engineers, technical minds and sporting rights drawn from the most famous names in motorsport, performance automotive and aviation have developed the first and only flying racing cars. fully functional electric cars in the world.

WORLD’S FIRST REMOTELY PILOTED FLYING CAR RACES:
These vehicles will soon compete in a series of ground braking races called the EXA Series. These first historic Grand Prix of flying electric cars will be contested by the best Speeder drivers in the world. They will race blade to blade at speeds of up to 300 km/h in places where racing has never happened before. This EXA series is the permanent development formula for the next airspeeder crewed electric flying car reconnaissance. As such, the competitors who have been chosen to participate will embark on an extraordinary development journey, growing from elite remote pilots to true history makers as the world’s first competitors in upcoming crewed races. Airspeeder.

READY TO RACE:
These next-generation racing machines first flew publicly in the summer of 2021 through development flights that took place at secret locations across the deserts of South Australia. As the technical team worked tirelessly to design and validate these revolutionary flying vehicles, more than 1,500 people applied to become story makers and pioneers as the world’s first electric flying car racers. Indeed, in June 2019, Matt Pearson showed up at the Agility Prime gathering of the world’s elite civilian and military pilots and announced an open invitation to pilots. It attracted the largest pool of talent ever assembled for a new form of motorsport. Thousands of people from around the world from aviation, racing, performance automotive, UAM flight and even esports have answered the call to make history as the first pilots of electric flying cars in the world.

An exhaustive selection process followed. Key attributes far beyond mere competitive instincts were evaluated in the final choices. To be part of this initial number, the raw skill of the pilot is not enough. These people were chosen because of their ability to work closely with the greatest technical minds to help develop both an entirely new form of groundbreaking technology and the very fundamentals of a sport that promises to rapidly accelerate its development. These women and men are therefore not only top competitors but have also demonstrated an extraordinary sensitivity to the technical requirements to test and refine a form of aerial motor racing built from a blank sheet of paper.

In that sense, they are the ultimate development race pilots and will work as a vital arm of the Alauda Aeronautics engineering team to lead an approach to fine-tune the dynamic and tactical nuances that will make EXA and Airspedeer races the best. most compelling and progressive sports entities. in the world. Now, as those historic first remotely driven Grand Prix races draw near, now is the time to reveal the first drivers who will chart a course to victory and a place in the history books both from the dawn of a new sport and a bold new sport. the era of advanced air mobility.

IN PROFILE: WORLD’S FIRST ELECTRIC FLYING CAR RACERS:

EMILY DUGGAN, RACING DRIVER
“Basically, I am a runner. I join Alauda and Airspeeder in pushing the boundaries of motorsport and making history as the world’s first electric flying car driver. I am honored to be part of history developing this all new generation of motorsport. ”

Emily is Australia’s most successful current racing driver. She has been recognized as a rising female star in the sport. A career that began in the NSW Excel Racing Series quickly evolved into becoming the first female driver to race in the Australian V8 Touring Car Series. She raced at Bathurst where she set the fastest lap of the 2016 Bathurst Challenge and has since competed in both the Australian Toyota 86 Racing series and the Kumho Super3 series. Emily is a hands-on race car developer and regularly works on the mechanicals of the machines she drives. Emily has enjoyed great success on the track, earning 12 wins, 33 podiums and 2 poles in her career.

ZEPHATALI WALSH, RPAS PILOT
“Racing has always pushed the boundaries of what is possible for humans and their the creations. I am excited to demonstrate, through the competitive environment created by Airspeeder racing, a technology that will help shape future personal flying car transportation for my son’s generation.

Zephatali is a born competitor. He developed his sporting instincts as a surfer before beginning a career that saw him become one of the world’s most admired multiblade riders. He sees a natural progression between sports. “The feeling of flying fast with great precision leaves me ecstatic and in awe of the experience. I want to surf the air. He is no stranger to competitive racing in a cutting-edge sport. In 2020, Zephatali was drafted into the Drone Champions League where he competes with Raiden Racing.Like many would-be Airspeeder pilots, his experience goes hand in hand with the demands to understand the broader context of the race he will be competing in. Indeed, his journey as an environmental science student has developed a fascination with the role running plays in creating and accelerating a new revolution in clean-air mobility.

FABIO TISCHLER, FPV PILOT
“I’m an instinctive runner driven by my motto ‘stop thinking and start flying’. Joining Airspeeder and Alauda gives me the opportunity to enter the history of these incredible first flying car Grand Prix. I’m so happy to be part of a truly progressive step towards a long-promised flying car future.

Fabio is a world renowned FPV drone pilot. His work has taken him around the world capturing images from brands such as Red Bull, Toyota and Go Pro. Fabio’s path to racing is less than conventional. He gave up a career in business and a background in finance to pursue his dream of unleashing the potential of FPV drones to capture incredible content. Originally born and raised in Germany, he moved to Sydney, Australia in 2015 to pursue his dream of flying drones professionally. He quickly built a large social following through the creation of some of the most captivating cinematic content in the industry. This caught the attention of Alauda who invited him to be part of EXA, the world’s first series of remotely driven electric flying racing cars.

TESTING, DEVELOPMENT AND RACING:
This first batch of pilots will undergo a rigorous training and development process. This will include recording over 2000 collective hours in Alauda Aeronautics’ 6-DoF VR simulator, which will mimic an MK4 circuit race in an XR environment.

Alauda engineers and technical collaborators, including Telstra, AWS and NVIDIA, pilots will test the Mk3 and Mk4 vehicles inside Unreal Engine to simulate racing.

Through their training programs and racing, they will master the dynamics of a racing vehicle with the same thrust-to-weight ratio as an F16 fighter jet, but with the added ability to perform fast hairpin turns of F1 style. Through uncrewed EXA races and crewed Airspeeder races, the latest in augmented reality technology will be put to the test. This will seamlessly display the digital sky tracks that will define racetracks in some of the most remote and visually arresting landscapes in the world.

A full suite of security systems will also be developed. A systems-based approach to safety integrating proven LiDAR and RADAR systems into a suite of technologies called “virtual force field” will allow pilots to compete in blade-to-blade proximity without the risk of collision.

For more information, visit https://alauda.aero/

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Taipei, December 4 (CNA) Six people, including a pregnant woman, were injured on Saturday when a car hit a crowd of spectators at a drag racing venue in Douliu, Yunlin County.

Pregnant woman suffered minor abrasions and abdominal pain when she fell, as crowds tried to disperse when a Mercedes Benz swerved during a race against a Mitsubishi to test their 0-400 kilometer per hour over a distance of 100 meters.

There was no guardrail at the site and the car struck onlookers, injuring six people, who were rushed to nearby hospitals.

One of them is said to have suffered bone fractures which required surgery. This person, along with the pregnant woman, was still in hospital, while the others had been released at the time of publication.

The crash happened near the start line, meaning the vehicles were not at full speed when the white Mercedes Benz crashed into the crowd.

The drag racing event, co-hosted by the Douliu Municipal Office and the Yunlin Visitors Association, took place in a public space, where streets had been closed and spectators allowed to congregate.

Douliu Mayor Lin Sheng-chueh (林 聖 爵), who visited the crash scene and the victims, said safety protocols were put in place before the two-day broadcast and were being broadcast on a intercom before each race.

With larger crowds than expected, however, it became difficult to maintain all security measures, said Lin, who had promoted the event in video clips before it started on Saturday.

According to Yunlin County Councilor Chiang Wen-teng (江 文 登) of the Progressive Democratic Party, the Douliu municipal office was to blame for a lack of proper organization.

Not only did the provisions put the public at risk, but they allowed noise pollution, as many vehicles were allowed to travel at high speeds on public roads, Chiang said.

The event was scheduled for December 4-5, with scheduled races and auto shows featuring imported racing cars and tuned vehicles, but following the accident, Mayor Lin announced that all races and all shows had been canceled.

Max McLaughlin. (photo by Dylan Friebel)

ALLENTOWN, PA – The 2022 VP-powered indoor auto racing series comes to life in five weeks inside the PPL Center in Pennsylvania, and Max McLaughlin will be part of the competition.

The Super DIRTcar Series driver will drive a TQ Midget owned by Frankie Caprara as the driver and owner will make their first starts in the Indoor Auto Racing Series.

The race weekend is scheduled for Jan. 7-8, and the races in Allentown will be the first since 2020, when conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic cut the season short before the final at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY

Among the drivers McLaughlin will have to beat is local favorite Briggs Danner, a native of Lehigh Valley, Pa., Who led a TQ Midget to victory at Wall Stadium in New Jersey on Saturday, November 27.

“We expect competitor interest in the TQ Midget, Champ Kart and Slingshot classes to be at an all time high as we haven’t raced at all for over a year,” said organizer of the series, Len Sammons.

TQ Midget racing cars will headline all programs competing on race tracks set on the concrete floors of three arenas. Slingshots and Champ Karts will complement the triple programs.

The most notable winner of the Indoor Auto Racing Series PPL Center TQ Midget race is Ryan Flores from Mooresville, NC

Like Danner, Flores won a race in the Turkish Derby last weekend, only his own came in a 100-lap Factory Stock race.

Flores, who works for Roger Penske’s NASCAR Cup Series organization, will be looking for her fifth victory at the PPL Center in January.

Erick Rudolph is the only other repeat winner of the event. Justin Bonsignore, Scott Kreutter and Matt Janisch each have a win.

Andy Jankowiak of Buffalo, NY was the 2020 VP TQ Midget Car indoor auto racing series champion powered by a slim margin over Rudolph.

Doors in Allentown will open at 6 p.m. and races at 7:30 p.m. Friday. On Saturdays, the doors open and a Fan Fest starts at 5 p.m., with races starting at 7 p.m.

Following Allentown, the series will head to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on January 28-29 and wrap up in Syracuse, NY at the NY State Fairgrounds Exposition Center from March 11-12.

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Alter Lake chips will begin shipping this year, first to desktop, then to mobile.

Intel Alder Lake processors are coming soon with rumors hinting at a November 4 launch. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker has been promoting the chip for some time now, especially its “hybrid” architecture. The idea is to offer a combination of performance (codenamed Golden Cove) and efficiency (Gracemont) of x86 cores, instead of simple powerful next-gen processor cores, for a mix of power when needed. and efficiency during less demanding tasks. Intel has already unveiled a full line of chips from 9W to 125W that would use the new hybrid model, meaning Alder Lake is much more ambitious than last year’s Lakefield chip.

As it should be, because the competition is only getting stronger. Intel isn’t the only company taking the hybrid route for lean computing. Arm’s big.LITTLE and DynamicIQ technologies have been around for over a decade. They serve as models for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips that power the majority of Android smartphones on the market today and Apple’s A-series chips for iPhone. Perhaps even more relevant to this comparison, Cupertino’s M1 chip for Mac has just received a big refresh with M1 Pro and M1 Max, both of which feature eight high-performance, over-efficient cores.

Read also | ‘One Size Can’t Fit All’: Intel’s Prakash Mallya Explains Why Chipmaker Now Making Discrete GPUs

Needless to say, a lot will depend on how Intel’s Alder Lake chips turn out when they start shipping this year – desktops first, followed by mobiles. Financial Express Online sat down with Intel’s Prakash Mallya to understand some of the key points of Alder Lake, its importance to the business in times of increasing competition and the larger situation of the semiconductor industry, that is ie the global shortage of chips and when I tend. Extracts.

EF | Tell us about Alder Lake, its feature set and improvements over the last generation.

Prakash Mallya | Look, this is a fantastic product. It is a mixture of powerful and efficient cores. The Efficient Core is a highly scalable x86 microarchitecture to meet compute requirements across the spectrum of our customers’ needs, from low-power mobile applications to multi-core microservices. It was designed for throughput, enabling scalable multithreaded performance for modern multitasking. Compared to Skylake, the Efficient core offers 40% more performance at equal power, or the same performance while consuming less than 40% of the power.

When you look at the performance core, this x86 core is not only the highest performing processor core ever built by Intel, but it also offers a step function in the performance of the processor architecture that will lead the next one. decade of calculation. It was designed for the speed, low latency, and performance of single-threaded applications.

This high-performance hybrid approach is further enhanced by Intel Thread Director, a technology engineered in Alder Lake that helps the operating system make smarter, more informed decisions about the location of running threads. It uses real-world hardware telemetry to guide operating systems to the right workload, which can be guided to the right hearts at the right time. Thread Director is fully dynamic, adaptive, and autonomous from a static, deterministic, and software-only approach.

EF | How does your hybrid model compare to the competition and what are some of its advantages?

Prakash Mallya | Our Alder Lake design approach begins with delivering incredible performance that ranges from ultra-portable laptops to hobbyist and commercial desktops. We are introducing two completely new microarchitectures for Alder Lake and both are high performance in themselves and complement each other. The conventional “hybrid” approach today in the industry is often focused on getting the most hours of use from a battery, which often requires a trade-off between performance and efficiency. energetic.

A good analogy is to think of conventional hybrid cars that focus on getting maximum miles on a tank of gas compared to Formula 1 racing cars that use hybrid technology to achieve maximum performance. detonate them when cornering with acceleration. Alder Lake is the high performance hybrid we designed for IT.

It will be Intel’s first processor based on the Intel 7 process and will serve as the foundation for leading desktop and mobile processors that deliver smarter, faster, and more efficient computing in the real world in a variety of form factors. . It will start shipping this year and we said the desktop will be mobile tracked. We’ll have more details to share later.

I will say however, when people have said that PCs are a mature category, in my opinion PC innovation is at its highest level that I have ever seen. I have been with the company for 21 years and am constantly impressed with the amount of innovation brought together on PC and Alder Lake is a prime example.

EF | What will its use case be? Is there a category that will “specifically” benefit from these new chips?

Prakash Mallya | Due to the hybrid nature of the platform, it meets a variety of needs and all of those needs are critical. You can say that a need is commercial applications. If you’re building a business laptop or business desktop, you need great performance, great battery life, great screen quality, and a flexible design. . Can Alder Lake do this? Yes he can. Likewise, for consumer or commercial desktops, this can be a game-changer, as the performance threshold has a big impact on the performance of any application. I cannot say that one segment will be better served than the other. Alder Lake will dramatically change the way people think of PC computing.

EF | What is Thread Director’s role in all of this?

Prakash Mallya | One of the main reasons for Intel’s success over the past 52 years is the level of software innovation we do with the ecosystem. We don’t do it alone. A lot of the technology that we built on Centrino that was wireless was power management and we brought the elements of that together with industry. Ultrabooks were the evolution we did a few years ago that again had different elements, one of them was software and then design, form factor, and screen elements. When you look again today, the activation that we do on software on all platforms – not just at Alder Lake – people have a seamless experience on Intel x86 platforms for this reason. Now, I’m going to tell you specifically about Thread Director, since it is a hybrid architecture and is dynamic in nature, its flexibility being able to run multithreaded, single-threaded on a dynamic basis, Because of the telemetry that happens dynamically, it is very powerful and the kind of work we will do with the software ecosystem and continue in the future will have a big impact on the experience we make for consumers, owners. company, players or others.

EF | How crucial is software to improving the capabilities of silicon?

Prakash Mallya | OpenVINO as a cutting edge AI inference track is a great example of what software can do to really open up functionality and drive value for people building cutting edge inference-based applications. It is a software toolkit. The type of work we do on the network, whether it’s the software stack we’ve built and the benchmark platforms we’ve built, that enables telecom service providers or solution providers in the telecommunications space to bring to life the feature sets that are built into silicon, be it the N SKUs, which are the Xeon SKUs, which when combined with the software really accelerate the charging performance of the device. network work. Software work happens in every part of our architecture and with Intel Innovation what our CEO Pat Gelsinger is signaling to the industry is that software is going to be hugely important. The software is going to be very important and hardware for the strategy of the company.

EF | What is Intel’s position on the current global semiconductor shortage? How are you doing, what are you doing to speed up manufacturing and when will this crisis end?

Prakash Mallya | Technology has never been more important than it is today. Lockdowns and work-from-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically increased the need for laptops, game consoles, IoT devices and more. This has caused an explosive growth in semiconductors that has strained the global supply chain. It will take a few years to address the shortages of foundry capacity, substrates and components.

We are actively working with our supply chain partners to increase the availability of third-party materials and components to further improve the performance of our processors and to support the broader PC ecosystem. We have increased our capacity to meet demand and as a result we plan to increase our annual double-digit client processor supply year over year compared to 2020.

We are expanding our advanced chip manufacturing capability by investing $ 20 billion in two plants in Arizona. We plan to expand our presence in the United States and Europe to ensure a sustainable and secure semiconductor supply chain for the world. We remain focused on supporting our customers and will continue to work to increase the offer to meet their needs.

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Dubai – Acronis, the world leader in cyber protection, is once again at GITEX Global this year (Hall 1 – Stand 4) and did not come alone. Indeed, Acronis partner #CyberFit Sports, Airspeeder, is also present. Airspeeder, the first series of electric flying racing cars is present for the first time in the United Arab Emirates with its prototype, hosted by Etisalat at Zabeel Hall 1. Etisalat, one of the world’s leading telecoms groups in emerging markets, meets the best innovative sports technology. Etisalat allows the impossible, proving it once again today by being the first to bring Airspeeder to this side of the world.

Airspeeder electric racing series, created by performance electric flying car maker Alauda, ​​receives cyber protection backing from Acronis, with some of the services provided by Acronis #CyberFit Delivery Partner, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions , Teknov8. Acronis solutions protect real-time Airspeeder data, including analysis of battery performance and key systems. From this information, engineers define a strategy to find a competitive advantage in a sport where every bit of data is essential for performance.

“Airspeeder creates an innovation-driven aerial motorsport. Backed by Acronis which has already achieved technological success with Formula 1 and Formula E teams, it represents a significant affirmation of the vision to accelerate the next great mobility revolution through sports competition, ”said Jack Withinshaw , Airspeeder’s Commercial Director. Acronis’ cyber protection solutions provide data security for revolutionary LiDAR and Machine Vision technology that will deliver close but safe races through the creation of virtual force fields around each racing vessel, named “Speeders”, which will culminate at speeds of up to 130 km / h. Airspeeder is the racing series designed by the performance electric flying car brand Alauda. Elite pilots from aviation, motorsport and even eSports will sail electrically governed courses above some of the most visually striking places in the world.

Etisalat and Acronis to help make the UAE’s digital space the best

The Etisalat brand helps drive the digital future to empower companies by building the network of tomorrow, today.

Acronis cyber protection helps sports teams avoid downtime, data breaches, and mitigate security breaches. Airspeeder has partnered with Acronis to ensure its operations are not compromised and that terabytes of data shared between speeders and the technical teams that support them will remain fully secure. The partnership is supported by Teknov8, a managed service provider, helping Acronis deliver cyber protection solutions in the most effective and efficient manner.

The need for both effective data protection and cybersecurity has become dominant in everyday life. Businesses rely on the continued availability and integrity of their data, while individuals around the world send and receive large volumes of sensitive information over remote connections. Cybercriminals, in response, have escalated the scale and complexity of their attacks – and with advances in the automation of these threats, no one is “too small to be targeted.” “The past two years have changed the industry landscape for good, any business or user is a potential target,” said Peter French, Acronis Managing Director for MEA. “Combining cybersecurity and backup is the only way to truly protect critical data and protect our digital spaces. “

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About Etisalat

Etisalat Group is one of the world’s leading telecoms groups in emerging markets. With consolidated net sales of AED 51.7 billion and consolidated net profit of AED 9.0 billion for 2020, its high credit ratings reflect the company’s strong balance sheet and proven performance at long term.

Based in Abu Dhabi, Etisalat was established more than four decades ago in the United Arab Emirates as the country’s leading telecommunications service provider. A leading organization, Etisalat Group provides innovative solutions and services to 156.1 million subscribers in 16 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Etisalat is ranked the strongest brand across all categories in the Middle East and Africa by Brand Finance, and is the world’s fastest mobile network by Ookla® Speedtest® in 2021 for the second year in a row.

About Acronis

Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated and automated cyber protection that solves the security, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that meet the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications and systems through innovative solutions for virus protection management, backup , disaster recovery and next-generation endpoints powered by AI. With advanced anti-malware powered by cutting-edge machine intelligence and blockchain-based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment – from cloud to hybrid to on-premises – at a low cost. and predictable.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis today has more than 1,700 employees at 34 sites in 19 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 businesses, as well as leading professional sports teams. Acronis products are available from more than 50,000 partners and service providers in more than 150 countries and 25 languages.

About Airspeeder

www.airspeeder.com

Airspeeder and Alauda Aeronautics are truly global operations. The technical sports headquarters are located in Adelaide, South Australia, in close proximity to the perfect proving grounds for a new form of air mobility.
The company’s commercial, communications and administrative headquarters are located in London, England, and are headed by Commercial Director, Jack Withinshaw. This gives Airspeeder direct proximity to leaders in motorsport, rights management and regulation.
Alauda Aeronautics designs, designs and builds the racing craft that participate in all Airspeeder racing events.
The Airspeeder EXA series is Airspeeder’s first racing series. This is where remote pilots take control of the world’s first large-scale electric flying cars. It will serve as a technical and pilot testing ground for the world’s first crewed electric flying car races.
Airspeeder is the next round of crewed races. It will travel around the world in 2022.

AIRSPEEDER | ABOUT THE FOUNDER: MATTHEW PEARSON

Matt Pearson is the founder and visionary of Alauda and Airspeeder. Togetherwith a team of engineers, designers and business minds spanning Australia, New York and London, he is accelerating the development of electric flying vehicles through the white heat of athletic competition.

Beyond his role as a defining voice in the future of mobility, Matt leads the rapidly expanding industrial Internet of Things space through his work at Fleet. From their base in South Australia, millions of devices are powered through low Earth orbit via a growing network of nanosatellites.

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