For the First Time, Collectors Can Validate If Their Collectible Was Graded Correctly with the
World’s First Public Grading Standard 

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dynamics Inc., the leader in security and collectible technologies, today announced the publication of the Universal Public Grading Standard™, the industry’s first public collectible grading standard. For the first time, collectors can enjoy consistency in grading with the ability to confirm for themselves that an item was graded correctly.

Starting today, collectors can view the Universal Public Grading Standard™ on www.TheAuthority.com.

The first Universal Public Grading Standard introduced is the Universal Public Grading Standard for Comic Books.

“Without a public grading standard, the hobby is plagued by inconsistency, confusion, fraud, and mistrust. The dark ages of grading are coming to an end,” said Jeffrey Mullen, CEO of Dynamics Inc. “Today, The Authority introduces the industry’s first public grading standard. For the first time, everyone has access to a common standard for grading collectibles. Collectors can now independently determine, understand, and validate a collectible’s grade using a transparent and repeatable process. Confidence in grading should not depend on simply trusting someone else’s opinion. True consistency and trust can only exist when the grading standards and processes are open for everyone to see.”

The Universal Public Grading Standard is broken into three steps:

Identify the Components of the Collectible: Define the exact boundaries of each component on a collectible so each component can be independently evaluated. For the first time, collectors can understand where the spine of a comic book starts and the front cover of a comic book ends. Identify Damage and Determine Component Grade™ with Damage Tables: Different components may have different types of damage, each with their own method of quantification. Identify the damage type and use the associated damage table(s) to determine the Component Grade.Final Grade Matrix™: Once all of the Component Grades have been determined for a collectible, the final grade is found using the Final Grade Matrix. This matrix provides the final grade for each possible component combination to ensure a precise, consistent grade for each collectible.

“A comic book is historically a very difficult item to grade because of its complex, multi-material construction,” said Jeffrey Mullen. “Our goal in developing the Universal Public Grading Standard was not simply to teach a few hundred experts how to grade a collectible; it was to create a universal standard that anyone could read, understand, and apply to consistently arrive at the correct grade. We believe we have accomplished that goal.”

The Comic Book grading standard is released today as part of the Universal Public Grading Standard for Trade Paperbacks and Periodicals (Comics, Magazines, Treasuries).

Dynamics manages The Authority™, the world’s first real-time, vertically integrated, multi-category collectible e-commerce platform. The Authority™ enables users to instantly vault, purchase, encapsulate, authenticate, grade, sell, and fulfill a collectible within minutes. Dynamics is also the technical team behind the Universal Public Grading Standard™, the collectible industry’s first public grading standard.

To learn more about The Authority, visit https://www.theauthority.com/ 

About Dynamics Inc.

Dynamics has three business units – an electronics, security and safety, and collectible business unit. The Company’s electronics division has introduced market defining electronics products such as the world’s first high-volume flexible consumer devices. During the pandemic, the Company’s security and safety division worked with NIAID biodefense to be the first group in the world to inactivate SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) using optical energy. Since 2012, Dynamics has also developed collectible platforms and technologies that have managed over 500 million collectibles. Dynamics operates multiple manufacturing facilities with its Global Headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa., APAC headquarters More information on the company, its technology and applications can be found at www.dynamicsinc.com.

About the Authority™

The Authority is the world’s first real-time retailer integration, encapsulation, grading, buy/sell marketplace, and fulfillment all on a single platform. The Authority is the first trusted, vaulted marketplace for pre-authenticated trading cards, TCGs, comics, figurines, memorabilia, and associated CoAs. www.TheAuthority.com.

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RIKAZE, China, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A report from People’s Daily.

Only those who have borne the bitter cold can savour spring’s gentle warmth.

Puciren was born in 1944 in Rikaze, Xizang, and spent his boyhood under a serf owner’s roof. After the peaceful liberation of Xizang in 1951, he went to school for the first time, with a satchel on his back, and learned his first Chinese character: ren, meaning “person.” His teacher told him that its two strokes support each other—only then can a person stand upright. Now 82, he volunteers as a guide at the Memorial Hall of the Emancipation of One Million Serfs in Xizang, and serves as an off-campus moral education tutor at the primary school attached to Lasa Normal University. He shares what he lived through with children to help them better know the road that brought them here.

Qiongjie County in Shannan is home to the Jiuhe Zhuo dance. In his younger years, Nima Wangjiu was a serf, and he danced only to pay taxes. After democratic reform of Xizang in 1959, he earned his first-ever income through this dance. It dawned on him that dancing could be a dignified and joyful pursuit. Now a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Jiuhe Zhuo Dance, the octogenarian has trained more than 80 young successors, bringing the millennia-old dance out of the remote mountains and onto stages across China.

In Sangba Village, Bailang County, Rikaze, the weaving craft in Baima’s family has been passed down for three generations. In the old days, she labored from dawn to dusk alongside her mother, only receiving a small bowl of thin tsampa in return. After the peaceful liberation of Xizang, every inch the family wove belonged to them. Pulu weaving has since grown into a thriving local industry. The craft is now carried forward by Baiyang, the family’s third‑generation inheritor, who is determined to take it out of Rikaze, out of the plateau, and into the global stage.

In a nursing home in Sangri County, Shannan, 82-year-old Cideji ran her fingers over her resident ID card and hummed a folk song. Orphaned at a young age, she once had nowhere to go and huddled in a cattle pen to get through the cold nights. Now she has a home, enjoying a secure old age with guaranteed care and medical treatment. “This ID card is my certificate of happiness.” she said.

From education to food security, from employment to medical services, livelihood benefits are finding their way into the daily lives of plateau families. This warmth of spring unfurls slowly, stretching across the high plateau. 

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WESTMINSTER, Colo., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) will hold a conference call on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 8 a.m. ET to review its third quarter 2026 results. The call will be broadcast live on the web at https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/824595803. Analysts who wish to dial into the call may do so by first registering at https://events.q4inc.com/analyst/824595803?pwd=vT4bMLRX. Upon registration, dial-in details will be sent via email to the registrant.

About Trimble

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it is helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.

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