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HIROSHIMA, Japan, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — During the press conference at the Japan Mobility Show 2025*1 today, Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) unveiled two vision models, the MAZDA VISION X-COUPE and the MAZDA VISION X-COMPACT (‘X’ pronounced as ‘cross’), both embodying the Company’s theme for this year’s exhibition: “The Joy of Driving Fuels a Sustainable Tomorrow” for 2035.

The MAZDA VISION X-COUPE is a sports coupe that embodies the further evolution of’KODO-Soul of Motion’ design language. It is powered by a plug-in hybrid system integrating a two-rotor rotary turbo engine with a motor and battery. With an output of 510 PS, the vehicle offers a driving range of 160 km in motor-only mode and up to 800 km when operating in combination with the engine. Furthermore, by combining carbon-neutral fuel derived from microalgae with Mazda’s proprietary CO2 capture technology, “Mazda Mobile Carbon Capture,” the vehicle contributes to reducing atmospheric CO2 the more it is driven.

The MAZDA VISION X-COMPACT is a model designed to deepen the bond between people and cars through the fusion of a human sensory digital model and empathetic Al. Acting like a close companion, it is capable of engaging in natural conversation and suggesting destinations, helping expand the driver’s world. This represents Mazda’s vision for the future of smart mobility, where vehicles and people form an emotional connection, much like a heartfelt relationship.

Furthermore, the All-New MAZDA CX-5 (European specification) *2,  is on display to the general public for the first time ever. Featuring a spacious interior, refined KODO design, and enhanced Jimba-ittai (oneness between driver and car) driving dynamics, this model represents the evolution of a best-selling vehicle that has sold over 4.5 million units*3 across more than 100 countries and regions. This latest model is designed with MAZDA E/E ARCHITECTURE+, the new electrical and electronic architecture offering an evolved driving experience.

Masahiro Moro, Representative Director, President and CEO of Mazda, stated: “The phrase, ‘The joy of driving fuels a sustainable tomorrow,’ expresses not only Mazda’s fundamental spirit, but also the core of its future challenges. Under the shared global mission of achieving carbon neutrality, Mazda believes that the joy of driving can be a force for positive change for society and the planet. We remain committed to fulfilling the desire of those who love cars and wish to continue driving as long as possible.”

Mazda will continue to evolve the ‘Joy of Driving’ based on the value of ‘Radically Human,’ and will aim to deliver the ‘Joy of Living’ by creating exciting mobility experiences in our customers’ daily lives.

• Overview of the MAZDA VISION X-COUPE and MAZDA VISION X-COMPACT

About Mazda North American Operations
Proudly founded in Hiroshima, Japan, Mazda has a history of sophisticated craftsmanship and innovation, and a purpose to enrich life-in-motion for those it serves. By putting humans at the center of everything it does, Mazda aspires to create uplifting experiences with our vehicles and for people. Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, California, and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Colombia through approximately 795 dealers. Operations in Canada are managed by Mazda Canada Inc. in Richmond Hill, Ontario; operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City; and operations in Colombia are managed by Mazda de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at news.mazdausa.com.

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SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent (0700.HK) today announced the top 50 finalists, coming from 12 countries and regions around the world, for its CarbonX Program 2.0 (CarbonX 2.0), a landmark initiative to accelerate next generation climate technologies and the essential capabilities needed for a net-zero world by 2050.

These innovators, selected from more than 660 applicants across 54 countries and regions, are competing for a share of RMB200 million (approximately US$28 million) in catalytic funding. Winners will also receive technical resources, expert mentorship, and opportunities to pilot their solutions in real-world environments, including in climate vulnerable regions such as Kenya, the Maldives, and Serbia.

Bridging the “Valley of Death” in Climate Innovation

The path from breakthrough discovery to real-world impact is often blocked by what experts call the ‘Valley of Death’ – the critical gap between early-stage innovation and large-scale deployment. Many climate technologies fail to progress due to limited funding, partnerships, and testing environments.

The CarbonX Program was created to close this gap. It does this by building a global ecosystem where scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders work together to accelerate the scaling of climate solutions, offering comprehensive support beyond mere financing.

“The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time and tackling it demands both bold innovation and collective action across the global ecosystem,” said Davis Lin, Senior Vice President of Tencent. “With CarbonX, we are not only investing in groundbreaking ideas, but also creating the pathways to turn them into real-world solutions. By bridging the gap between research and deployment, we aim to accelerate technologies that can store, transform, and reduce CO₂ emissions at scale, laying the foundation for a truly low-carbon future.”

Scaling Climate Innovation Across Borders

Building on the success of its inaugural program focused on China, CarbonX 2.0 has expanded globally to identify and support promising early-stage climate technologies. The 50 finalists represent a diverse mix of universities, research institutes, and startups working at the forefront of four key areas:

1. Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR): Supporting pilots in Kenya to accelerate scalable, cost-effective solutions for permanently removing historic CO₂ emissions, with the potential to reduce direct air capture (DAC) costs substantially. 
2. Industrial Decarbonization (CCUS for Steel): Advancing breakthrough approaches to reduce lifecycle emissions in steel production with pilots in Serbia. The focus is on developing cost-effective and scalable industrial carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) solutions for hard-to-abate industries.
3. Carbon Capture and Utilization 
   (CarbonXmade): Transforming captured carbon into chemicals, and ultimately into consumer products. This creates a circular value chain that turns waste into consumer goods, with early market adoption supported by brand premiums in China.
4. Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Providing real-world scenarios in the Maldives to refine and validate emerging technologies, to meet the growing demands of renewable energy expansion – with flow batteries showing strong promise for commercially viable, long-duration storage.

In early 2026, a global panel of multi-disciplinary experts will evaluate and select the winning teams to receive grants and other resources to pilot their technologies in those regions and create measurable impact.

CarbonX Summit 2025: Inspiring Collective Action

The announcement was made at the CarbonX Summit 2025 in Shenzhen, a convening of finalist teams and leaders from business, academia, and policy to explore how innovation ecosystems can accelerate climate action globally. The Summit spotlighted the role of catalytic finance, inclusive deployment, and multilateral collaboration in achieving the Paris Agreement targets.

“Sustainability can only be achieved through innovation,” said Hao Xu, Head of Climate Innovation at Tencent. “By supporting the world’s brightest climate entrepreneurs, we aim to harness technology as a force for good — addressing one of humanity’s most urgent challenges while creating shared value for future generations.”

For more information about CarbonX 2.0, please visit the program website.

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ist of Top 50 Finalists of CarbonX Program 2.0

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PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Hundreds of people filled Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium on Monday evening for the West Coast premiere of “Bright Harvest: Powering Earth From Space,” a new documentary chronicling a scientific dream that has leapt closer to reality: beaming solar energy from orbit to power Earth.

The film — produced by philanthropist and Caltech trustee Brigitte Bren and written, directed, and produced by Steven Reich — tells the story of three Caltech professors whose decade-long collaboration led to the world’s first successful demonstration of wireless power transmission from space to Earth in 2023.

At the heart of “Bright Harvest” is the journey of professors Harry Atwater, Ali Hajimiri, and Sergio Pellegrino, whose combined expertise in materials science, electrical engineering, and aerospace structures made possible the creation of ultra-lightweight systems capable of collecting and transmitting energy from space.

The research was made possible by a donation of more than $100 million by Mrs. Bren and her husband, Donald Bren, Chairman of Irvine Company and a lifetime member of the Caltech Board of Trustees.

Mrs. Bren told the audience that the documentary was initially intended for Caltech’s archives but soon evolved into a project with a larger mission. “When this took place, it was a major breakthrough,” she said. “Space enthusiasts knew about it, but most people didn’t. That’s when I decided we needed to do this documentary — to make people aware of this achievement.”

Following the screening, Mrs. Bren and Reich joined the three scientists on stage for a discussion about their collaboration and the future of space-based solar energy. “It’s interesting because there’s three different teams — that’s how it starts,” Pellegrino said of their multidisciplinary approach.

Atwater said the next step will require moving beyond research to commercialization. “What happens next, it has to be commercial,” he said. “It can’t be done just at Caltech.”

Mrs. Bren emphasized the importance of U.S. leadership in this emerging field. “Many countries are working on space-based solar energy research,” she said. “And then there are three professors and their students at Caltech. That’s extraordinary. I really would like to see the United States become the leader in space-based solar energy. That is the mission.”

Former California Governor Gray Davis, who attended the screening, praised the project’s potential. “This is how things start,” he said. “The power of relying on the sun for energy is so compelling. This is something that’s going to happen. And the film will hasten the process.”

As the evening concluded, Mrs. Bren reflected on the moment’s significance. “You’re taking part in the birth of a new energy — and this is really just the start.”

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A Panel Lacking Any Hindu Presence Sought to Define Hinduism After Shutting out Hindu Voices

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) strongly condemns Monday’s event, “Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism,“ at Rutgers University that has drawn bipartisan criticism from Members of Congress and widespread outrage from the Hindu community, both on and off campus

The event, framed as an academic inquiry, featured a panel that did not include a single practicing Hindu but, nevertheless, made sweeping, uninformed claims about the faith. Notably, the non-Hindu panelists labored to make an artificial and, frankly, preposterous distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva; and when practicing Hindus asked questions, they were shut down. 

The talk itself was peppered with false claims, primary among them being the denial of Hinduphobia itself. There was no mention of the seven Hindu temples that have been vandalized across the U.S. since December 2023 or of the hate crime data from states like California that show a rise in anti-Hindu hate, second only to antisemitism.

The panelists also stated, incorrectly, that the Nazi Hakenkreuz is the same as the Hindu Swastika—even though there is a growing body of evidence that Hitler called his symbol the Hakenkreuz, not Swastika. There were also broad accusations that Hindu organizations in the U.S. receive undisclosed payments from the BJP-led Indian government, thus implying they are “agents of India.”

Despite concerns about backlash and potential retribution, a group of brave Hindu students held a silent rally outside the event venue. Even though it was an officially permitted protest, they faced hostility from a supporter of the privileged panelists. “It was scary to see an adult trying to dox us,” said one Hindu student on the condition of anonymity. “So many of my peers wanted to join the rally. But they were too scared to come because Rutgers ignored the letters we sent asking for fairness and safety.”

It is not easy for students, especially from immigrant heavy minority communities, to oppose professors with institutional power and influence over their campus lives. “We were not asking Rutgers to cancel the event—only to make clear that its institutional brand does not endorse the anti-Hindu rhetoric that has already sowed fear among Hindu students and vitiated the atmosphere on-campus,” added Rutgers Hindu chaplain Hitesh Trivedi.

In the weeks leading up to the event, CoHNA led a broad campaign to raise awareness about this Hinduphobic event—enabling 10,000 emails from students, parents, and community members to the Rutgers administration, urging the university to disassociate itself from the event; 4,000 emails to state and federal lawmakers; and over 120 calls from CoHNA policy fellows to New Jersey officials.

On October 24, four members of the U.S. Congress—Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), and Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI)—sent a joint letter to the Rutgers University administration, expressing concern over both the event and the report on which it is based. The lawmakers warned that the material “misrepresents a diverse and peaceful religious community” and could “fuel further prejudice, particularly impacting Hindu students on college campuses who may feel unfairly targeted or unsafe.”

Several CoHNA members attended the event including co-founder and board member Suresh Krishnamoorthy, to see if the panelists were actually open to anything resembling the true spirit of academic debate. Unfortunately, they were not. “When others spread falsehoods about our organization, seek to malign our beliefs, call us fascists, and dismiss Hindu voices in conversations about our own religious identity, we cannot let that slide. CoHNA will always be there to stand up for our community, especially Hindu youth” said Krishnamoorthy. “We will not let Hindu hate go unchallenged.”

CoHNA reaffirms its commitment to free speech and open dialogue but emphasizes that academic freedom, in particular, comes with academic responsibility to protect viewpoint diversity and student safety. We call on universities nationwide to ensure that their campuses remain safe for students of every background—including Hindus, who continue to face rising hate incidents both online and offline.

About CoHNA

CoHNA is a grassroots-level
advocacy and civil rights organization dedicated to improving the understanding of Hinduism in North America by working on matters related to the Hindu community and by educating the public about Hindu heritage and tradition. For more information, please visit https://cohna.org or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and on Instagram.

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LOS GATOS, Calif., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno, a locally founded and privately owned brokerage, has reached a new milestone in community giving, earning the #19 position on the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Corporate Philanthropy List. This marks its highest ranking to date, and is a notable distinction among the much larger publicly traded corporations, including Adobe and Alphabet.

The recognition reflects a culture of giving that’s deeply rooted in the brokerage’s values, carried forward through the continued efforts of its agent-led Sereno 1% For Good Charitable Foundation.

Since its founding in 2012, Sereno 1% For Good Charitable Foundation has contributed over $7 million to more than 600 local nonprofits across 11 counties, advancing initiatives in five key funds: Ecosystem, Education, Equity & Access, Community Impact, and Disaster Relief.

“This recognition is an extraordinary honor for an independent, locally founded company to stand alongside some of the world’s largest corporations. It speaks directly to our founding vision of using our success to make meaningful contributions in the places we live and work,” said Ryan Iwanaga, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer. “We’re proud of our agents and staff whose generosity and community spirit make this possible.”

Kirsty Duncan, Director of Giving & Corporate Social Responsibility, added, “This incredible achievement is a direct reflection of our amazing agents, staff and leadership whose generosity and commitment to Sereno 1% For Good Charitable Foundation continue to create lasting impact in our local communities. I am beyond grateful for them and the positive impact it allows us to make.”

Through its ongoing philanthropic work, Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno continues to strengthen its impact across Northern California, supporting organizations that build thriving, resilient communities.

Learn more about Sereno 1% For Good Charitable Foundation at sereno.com/pages/social-impact.

About Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno

Founded in 2006, Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno is Northern California’s largest locally owned and operated independent brokerage, with 19 offices and more than 675 agents serving San Francisco, the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, South County, East Bay, Santa Cruz, Marin, Wine Country, Tahoe, Sierra Foothills, and the Central Coast. Projected to reach $6.5 billion in sales volume for 2025, Christie’s Sereno consistently ranks among the nation’s top five brokerages for per-agent productivity and average sales price.

Through a highly curated support platform, the company equips its agents with concierge-level marketing, world-class technology, and resources designed to elevate the client experience. Its agent-driven Sereno 1% For Good Charitable Foundation has donated more than $7 million to over 600 local organizations, creating positive impact in the communities where its agents live and work.

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