HONG KONG, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lingnan University today, 13 April, hosted its University Assembly with guest of honour Prof Arieh Warshel, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2013 and widely recognised as one of the founding figures of computational chemistry. In his lecture Electrostatic Basis of Biological Actions, Prof Warshel shared insights from his decades of research and presented an integrated account of his life’s work, from fundamental physical principles and the laws governing electrons to the construction of the “microscopic world” of biological systems. He further extended this framework to the study and application of biomolecules, and highlighted the role of computational tools and artificial intelligence in advancing medical and pharmaceutical research.

The University Assembly was held in the Chan Tak Tai Auditorium on the Tuen Mun campus. There was an audience of around 600 people, including Lingnan’s senior management, staff, students, and young scholars.

Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science at Lingnan University, warmly welcomed Nobel Chemistry Laureate Prof Warshel, in honour of his visit to engage with Lingnan students and learn about the University’s latest developments. He said, “Leading scholars are a cornerstone of Lingnan’s competitiveness and help drive the University’s academic development and international exchange. Following Nobel Laureate in Physics Prof Samuel C.C. Ting’s joining Lingnan, we are delighted to host world-class scholar Prof Warshel at one of our signature academic events. This initiative enhances the campus internationalisation, providing faculty and students with invaluable opportunities to interact with outstanding scholars and to advance interdisciplinary inquiry. It not only inspires students to combine frontier research with societal needs, but also facilitates the translation of research outcomes into practical applications that deliver tangible benefits for society and sustainable development.”

In his lecture Electrostatic Basis of Biological Actions, Prof Warshel provided a systematic overview of more than four decades of research on biological reactions. He also shared how his interest in chemistry began. When he first entered university, he was uncertain about his academic direction. Encouraged by a friend who recognised his keen observational ability, he chose to study chemistry, a decision that sparked his lifelong passion for the field.

Prof Warshel is best known for developing multiscale molecular modelling of complex chemical systems, enabling the simulation of biomolecular systems and protein reactions at multiple levels. This work transformed the understanding of biochemical processes and led to his award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013.

Prof Warshel guided the audience from fundamental physical principles, tracing the development from classical theories such as Maxwell’s equations and energy models to modern computational approaches. He emphasised that the key to understanding the complexity of biological systems lies in translating microscopic electronic interactions into macroscopic dielectric environments. The electrostatic models he pioneered have enabled scientists to calculate electrostatic free energy within proteins with remarkable precision.

These computational approaches have advanced the understanding of enzyme catalysis and the molecular basis of cancer-related mutations. Enzymes, as highly efficient natural catalysts, accelerate reactions not primarily through mechanical strain, but through electrostatic preorganisation that lowers activation barriers. Using the Ras protein (Rat sarcoma protein) as an example, Prof Warshel explained that mutations can disrupt electrostatic balance in GTP hydrolysis (Guanosine Triphosphate hydrolysis), leading to uncontrolled cell growth and contributing to tumour formation.

The influence of electrostatic interactions extends beyond reaction rates to energy transport and macromolecular dynamics in living systems. Processes such as proton transfer within cells and ion transport across membranes are governed by electrostatics. At the molecular level, systems such as ATP synthase (Adenosine Triphosphate synthase) operate under strict electrostatic constraints. These insights have been applied to the study of complex biological processes, including protein folding and cardiac hypertrophy.

Prof Warshel concluded that the missing link between the structure and function of biological macromolecules lies in electrostatic interactions. This highlights the fundamental role of physical principles in biology and underscores the importance of electrostatics in guiding future developments in precision medicine and bioengineering.

During an in-depth discussion session with students and faculty, Prof Warshel encouraged young people to pursue excellence, and integrate knowledge and translate it into a meaningful contribution to society.

• LG presents celebratory visual tributes at New York’s Times Square, London’s Piccadilly Circus, and Seoul’s Gwanghwamun.
• The campaign highlights the major cities that have served as hubs for Paglen’s artistic practice.

SEOUL, South Korea, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A new visual asset celebrating the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award recipient Trevor Paglen will be presented in the heart of the world’s most iconic cities including New York, London, and Seoul.

LG Corp. announced a global display of celebratory visual tributes created by the Guggenheim using the distinctive graphic identity of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative. These tributes present excerpts of landscapes perceived by machines and AI from Trevor Paglen’s practice, courtesy of the artist. These celebratory visual tributes will be displayed on LG’s prominent digital billboards at Times Square in New York, Piccadilly Circus in London, and Gwanghwamun in Seoul.

These three cities represent important landscapes in Paglen’s career. An American artist based in New York, Paglen has garnered international acclaim through major exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as London’s Barbican Centre and Tate Modern. His ties to the Korean art community are equally profound; he was previously honored with the ‘Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Award’ in 2018, and his selection as this year’s LG Guggenheim Award recipient further solidifies this enduring connection.

The commemorative display is expected to engage a global audience of approximately 30 million people throughout their duration. The tribute launched at New York’s Times Square on April 6 for an eight-week run, and will be followed by five-week displays at London’s Piccadilly Circus and Seoul’s Gwanghwamun starting April 13. This wide-reaching activation leverages the high-traffic nature of these landmark locations—averaging 250,000 daily visitors in Times Square, 300,000 in Piccadilly Circus, and 130,000 in Gwanghwamun—to bring Paglen’s visionary practice to the forefront of public consciousness.

Paglen is the fourth artist to be recognized as part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a five-year, multifaceted collaboration designed to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Selected by an international jury of leaders in contemporary art, Paglen will receive an unrestricted honorarium of $100,000 in celebration of his groundbreaking contributions to this field.

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work brings visibility to digitally invisible structures, helping audiences better understand current technologies and their underlying logic. Drawing on sustained engagements with landscape renderings, advanced technologies, and the history of photography, he reveals how power, secrecy, and surveillance influence what we see–and what remains unseen–within digital systems.

Paglen has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2019); Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (2018); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2015); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing (2015); Protocinema, Istanbul (2013); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2013); and the Vienna Secession (2010). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at leading museums such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009, 2010, and 2018); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2011); and Tate Modern, London (2010), among many others.

In recognition of his work, Paglen received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2017 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award in 2014, honoring him as a groundbreaking investigative artist. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and more.

The 2026 LG Guggenheim Award recipient Trevor Paglen will be recognized at the Young Collectors Council (YCC) Party on May 14. Paglen will deliver the lecture-performance “The Lizard People Are Here!” at Guggenheim New York on May 18. Please visit guggenheim.org/calendar/ for more information.

About the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative
Since launching in 2022, the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative has championed artists across a range of media, backgrounds, geographies, and career stages as part of a five-year collaboration between the Guggenheim and LG to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Unique in its focus and approach, the initiative represents an unprecedented investment in technology as an artistic medium. It enables the Guggenheim to broaden its investigations into this innovative field, providing essential support to the visionary artists whose work explores how technology shapes–and is shaped by–society.

About LG
LG is a technology innovator and global leader in consumer electronics, advanced materials, and automotive components. Founded in 1947, LG was a driving force behind South Korea’s modernization. The company produced South Korea’s first radio and television sets and today is a global leader in organic light-emitting displays (OLED), electric car batteries, and advanced industrial plastics. The LG group of companies operates in more than 60 countries that together generate USD 140 billion in annual revenue. LG Corporation (LG Corp.) is the holding company for industry-leading LG subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution, LG Chem, to name a few. For more information about the LG group of companies, visit lgcorp.com.

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https://lgartssponsorship.lg.co.kr/en/ 

SEOUL, South Korea, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LX Pantos, a leading global logistics company headquartered in Korea (Global CEO: Lee Yong-ho), is partnering with SK Innovation E&S to install solar power generation facilities at three of its Korean logistics centers and develop an integrated power-sharing system across them.

Recently, LX Pantos entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Innovation E&S.

Under the agreement, LX Pantos will have solar power systems installed at three of its Korean logistics centers and establish a framework for the generation, consumption, and sharing of renewable electricity among those same logistics centers. SK Innovation E&S will provide end-to-end solutions covering the investment, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the solar power facilities.

LX Pantos plans to have solar power systems installed with a combined capacity of 2 MW on the rooftops of three logistics centers: the MegaWise Cheongna Center in Incheon, the New Port Eco Logistics Center in Changwon, and the SC Yongin Center in Yongin. In addition to generating and consuming electricity on-site at each center, the company will establish an inter-center power-sharing system under which power generated at the SC Yongin Center will be supplied to the New Port Eco Logistics Center, maximizing overall energy efficiency. Upon completion, these solar power systems are forecast to allow LX Pantos to reduce its carbon emissions by 1,200 tons annually.

In fact, LX Pantos is already successfully operating a 2.5 MW solar power system at its Sihwa MTV Logistics Center. Building on this experience, the company plans to expand the deployment of solar power systems at all of its logistics centers.

Commenting upon this tremendously significant development, one LX Pantos official said, “This partnership suggests significant progress in our ESG commitment, presenting a model for transforming logistics centers into infrastructure capable of both renewable energy generation and power sharing. We will continue to advance climate action and ESG management in ways that allow the logistics industry to best serve the sustainability of both the company and the planet.”

Meanwhile, LX Pantos is accelerating the transition of its logistics infrastructure toward sustainability and actively pursuing greenhouse gas reduction initiatives.

In particular, the company is expanding the installation of solar power generation systems across its self-operated logistics centers, while also pursuing the global green building certification, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Recently, the MegaWise Cheongna Logistics Center in Incheon was awarded LEED Gold certification. Administered by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is a globally recognized green building rating system used by organizations in 186 countries worldwide. It evaluates buildings based on rigorous criteria across key environmental performance categories, including energy, water, materials, land, and indoor environmental quality.

In the international transportation sector, LX Pantos is also leading decarbonization efforts in the logistics industry by expanding cooperation with global transport partners on the use of sustainable fuels. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from air freight operations, the company has entered into agreements with major global airlines to expand the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

■ About LX Pantos

Established in 1977, LX Pantos is a leading global logistics provider headquartered in Korea. It delivers comprehensive logistics solutions across sea, air, rail, and contract logistics through a worldwide network spanning more than 40 countries.

LONDON, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Strider Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of strategic intelligence, today announced that Caroline Bellamy, former Chief Data and AI Officer at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), has joined the company as Executive Director.

Caroline brings more than 35 years of digital and data experience spanning government, industry, and most recently defence, combining deep expertise in digital, data and AI with an extensive international background including working across Five Eyes, allied partners and agencies.

In this new role, Caroline will help expand Strider’s AI capabilities to deliver an agentic data refinery that global organizations rely on to understand and navigate global competition.

“Caroline is one of the foremost leaders in applying data and AI to complex economic and national security challenges,” said Eric Levesque, President and Co-Founder of Strider Technologies. “Her experience building and operationalising advanced data capabilities across allied ecosystems aligns directly with how Strider is evolving its AI-powered strategic intelligence platform. As we continue developing our agentic AI capabilities to transform open-source data into strategic intelligence, her experience will strengthen our ability to provide clients with clearer, faster insight into nation-state risk and support more confident decision making.”

As Western nations confront growing economic security threats from strategic competitors, organisations, industry and governments face persistent hostile activity from adversarial nations seeking to access sensitive data, critical infrastructure, technology, and talent. At the same time, organisations must navigate increasing operational complexity and resource constraints while making high-stakes decisions about technology, personnel, investment, and global partnerships.

Strider’s AI-powered strategic intelligence platform analyses billions of publicly available data points to identify patterns of state-linked activity and emerging risks, enabling organisations to uncover hidden connections, assess exposure, and make quicker, more confident decisions.

“Throughout my career, I have seen first-hand how increasingly sophisticated competitors and indeed state actors exploit the openness of advanced digital and data capabilities and economies to access technology, talent, and sensitive intellectual property,” said Caroline Bellamy, Executive Director at Strider Technologies. “Economic security is one of the defining challenges of our time, and it requires the best combination of technology, data, AI, and the right people with the skills to meet it. What drew me to Strider is exactly that, a diverse team that is genuinely mission-driven and ethically motivated, working globally for the security of what we want to defend. I’m proud to join an organisation where purpose and capability go hand in hand.”

Caroline has spent the past six years serving as the UK Ministry of Defence’s first ever Chief Data Officer, and most recently as its Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer. Caroline led the transformation of data capabilities and AI enablement across the organisation, spearheading the first Defence Data Strategy and driving a fundamental shift in how data is governed, shared, and exploited. Her work established new policies, governance frameworks, talent and capabilities to accelerate the use of advanced technologies and analytics, delivering data-enabled insight and decision advantage across Defence. Caroline has worked extensively across the global defence data ecosystem, forging collaboration with NATO, Five Eyes partners, allied governments, and industry to strengthen collective capability and accelerate the responsible use of data and AI in Defence and national security.

Prior to the Ministry of Defence, Caroline held senior leadership roles within FTSE 100 organisations working internationally including nine years at Vodafone and eight at Centrica, where she led major data and digital capability developments and required transformation programs. She has been recognised among the Top 50 Most Influential People in UK Technology (2024) and has been named one of DataIQ’s 100 Most Influential People in Data since 2018. Caroline is a committed leader the promotion of diversity and talent and was named in top 20 Women in Data and Technology in 2019.

About Strider
Strider is the leading strategic intelligence company empowering organizations to secure and advance their technology and innovation. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology alongside proprietary methodologies, Strider transforms publicly available data into critical insights. This increased intelligence enables organizations to proactively address and respond to risks associated with state-sponsored intellectual property theft, targeted talent acquisition, and third-party partners. Strider has operations in 16 countries around the globe with offices in Salt Lake City, UT; Washington, DC; London; Tokyo; and Sydney.

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DALLAS, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) (“Cango” or the “Company”), a leading Bitcoin miner leveraging its global operations to develop an integrated energy and AI compute platform, today announced the launch of the official digital portal for its subsidiary, EcoHash Technology LLC (‘EcoHash’ or the ‘Subsidiary’). Accessible at www.ecohash.com, this platform serves as the primary interface for EcoHash’s high-performance computing (HPC) and AI inference operations. The site is designed to streamline strategic engagement with two key audiences: AI developers seeking low-latency, near-source compute, and energy-intensive compute operators pursuing modular pathways to infrastructure diversification.

Goldman Sachs Research forecasts that U.S. data center power demand could reach 700 TWh by 2030, largely driven by AI inference workloads, yet the maximum available supply remains just above 300 TWh, underscoring a structural gap of roughly 400TWH between soaring compute demand and delayed infrastructure deployment. EcoHash addresses these challenges by leveraging Cango’s global energy footprint to deploy standardized, plug-and-play compute modules, paired with its proprietary EcoLink Orchestration Platform. This integrated system unifies and schedules geographically dispersed compute capacity to deliver enterprise-grade uptime through intelligent failover. The result: elastic, low-latency compute that scales seamlessly and activates on demand.

Cango is dedicating space at its owned 50MW Georgia mining facility to this initiative. By utilizing the facility’s existing infrastructure and energy access, the site will operate full-series container models as a “living showroom”. This facility is designed not only to demonstrate real-world performance across varying thermal and power configurations but also to serve as a strategic proof-of-concept hub for industry collaborators across the digital infrastructure and mining ecosystem. By showcasing the commercial viability of these plug-and-play modules, Cango aims to invite global partners to integrate into the EcoHash network. This collaborative approach aims to build a robust, globally distributed AI power grid, replicating the Georgia model across high-potential sites both within and beyond Cango’s current network.

Jack Jin, Chief Technology Officer of EcoHash, commented, “EcoHash represents the core vehicle of our strategy to architect a future-ready platform and serve as our next growth engine, now entering a phase of accelerated commercialization. Our proprietary orchestration layer, the central nervous system of our network, is built to enable intelligent, real-time resource allocation. This connects decentralized energy assets directly to the demands of LLM inference, generative AI, and a growing spectrum of compute-intensive applications as our node infrastructure scales.”

Contact: ir@cangoonline.com