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Whirlpool Corporation Invites You to Experience Real Life at Home at KBIS 2024

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Whirlpool Corporation will exhibit on the KBIS show floor to highlight product innovations designed to improve life at home

BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Life at home can be messy, busy and wonderfully unpredictable. Whirlpool Corporation, a leading global major appliance company, understands the beauty of real life, and will showcase innovations designed to suit the needs of real homeowners at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) on February 27-29, 2024, in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company’s booth will be a celebration of the diverse and dynamic nature of daily life and will demonstrate how its extensive portfolio of brands delivers products that improve life at home – today, tomorrow, and every day.

“We’re excited for the opportunity to connect face-to-face with our valued customers at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show, reaffirming our commitment to the trade and the consumers they serve,” said Shannon Blakely, Vice President of North America Brand Marketing at Whirlpool Corporation. “We’re not just showcasing appliances; we’re unveiling groundbreaking technologies and solutions across our portfolio of brands that are purposefully designed to improve real life at home.”

In booth #W2201, attendees can explore products across Whirlpool Corporation’s family of brands – Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, JennAir, Gladiator, and InSinkErator. Each unique brand offers products to meet consumers’ varying needs, solving real problems at home to streamline everyday tasks, whether that be through appliance innovations or storage solutions.

“As a company deeply rooted in the fabric of American households, Whirlpool Corporation understands that life isn’t always picture-perfect,” said Rob Byrd, General Manager, Builder & Pro Sales at Whirlpool Corporation. “That’s why our commitment to innovation goes beyond creating cutting-edge appliances; it’s about crafting solutions that seamlessly integrate into and improve life at home. We’re thrilled to be showcasing on the KBIS side for the first time to demonstrate how the appliance solutions from our diverse portfolio of brands can do exactly that.”

Attendees can also expect to see new-to-market technology and purposeful appliance solutions for today’s real-life challenges, including:

Streamlining Mealtime and Cleanup

Mealtime and cleanup are part of everyday life, but with the new Whirlpool® 30-Inch Electric Range, cleanup is simple with its WipeClean™ coating. Exclusive to Whirlpool Corporation, this innovative feature makes tackling tough messes a breeze and requires just water, not harsh cleaners. Simply wet, wait five minutes, then easily wipe away sticky spills and seared-on foods.

With the Whirlpool® 1.1 Cu. Ft. Flush Mount Microwave with Turntable-Free Design, users can cook multiple meals with quick cleanup thanks to the industry-first turntable-free design, allowing them to spend more time caring for the ones they love. This appliance was designed to blend seamlessly into cabinetry with a simplified LCD display to aid in ease of use. Plus, it features an easy-to-clean exterior with Hidden Venting.

Showcasing New-to-Market Refrigeration Technology

With over 100 years of experience as a leading appliance manufacturer, Whirlpool Corporation takes a unique approach to innovation, using consumer insights to develop purposeful appliances that provide solutions to real-life challenges.

Leading the charge in industry innovation is Whirlpool Corporation’s revolutionary SlimTech™ insulation, which has been selected as a 2024 Best of KBIS Finalist. It’s the first vacuum-insulated structure (VIS) technology in a refrigerator in the North American market, representing a significant step forward in refrigeration technology. Attendees will have the opportunity to see this technology first-hand in booth #W2201 where it will debut on a JennAir® luxury 30 in. Column Panel-Ready Refrigerator. The groundbreaking insulation can reduce wall thickness by up to 66%, allowing for up to 25% more capacity inside the refrigerator. Plus, fewer compressor cycles are needed to maintain cool temperatures, meaning refrigerators with SlimTech™ insulation deliver even quieter refrigeration to not disrupt life at home. There are plans for SlimTech™ insulation to roll out across JennAir® and KitchenAid® refrigerators in the future, utilizing the technology for the entire structure.

Providing Healthy Cooking Methods

Today’s homeowners are looking for healthy cooking methods that are right at their fingertips. The KitchenAid® 30-Inch 4-Element Induction Slide-In Convection Range with Air Fry has built-in air fry functionality that helps users crisp and brown food with less oil.i The sensor-induction cooktop generates heat directly within cookware, reaching high temperatures quickly and cooling down rapidly. The oven features Even-Heat™ True Convection plus air fry mode, with an included dishwasher-safe air fry basket that aids in crisping and browning.

Tackling Pet Hair

Everyone loves their pets, but cleaning up after them can be quite a challenge, with 57%ii of pet owners spending more time and energy cleaning up pet hair than they want to. That’s why the Maytag® Pet Pro System is built to carry the load, with the industry’s first pet hair filter in the washer that removes 5Xiii more pet hair from clothes. The Pet Pro option unleashes additional water and a deep rinse to activate the Pet Pro Filter, which lifts and captures pet hair from clothes. In the dryer, the Pet Pro option lifts and traps loads of pet hair with an XL lint trap.

Unleashing Powerful Cooking Techniques

From searing select cuts and succulent roasts to simmering sauces, the JennAir® RISE™ 48-Inch Dual Fuel Professional Range with Chrome-Infused Griddle offers unmistakable firepower. The JennAir Culinary Center is a step-by-step digital sous chef, with a connected probe and precision sensors, that provides guidance all the way from prep to plate. It’s WiFi-connected so owners can receive real-time notifications and control the appliance from anywhere. With the chrome-infused griddle, it maintains a mirror-like finish. It has precise, dual flames produced by precision-drilled brass burners. The 20,000 BTU dual-stacked PowerBurner can handle high-powered cooking and delicate simmering with a 1,650 BTU turndown. RISE™ design includes bold mixed metal accents and diamond-etched handles for a luxury finish.

In addition to purposeful innovations from its extensive portfolio of brands, Whirlpool Corporation also invites attendees to kick off KBIS with a housewarming party in booth #W2201. Join us on Tuesday, February 27 from 4-5 p.m. PST to celebrate with appetizers, drinks, and live music. You can RSVP to this event by visiting WhirlpoolPro.com/KBIS2024.

For more information about the company’s presence at KBIS and events at the show, visit: WhirlpoolPro.com/KBIS2024. For additional details about Whirlpool Corporation, its portfolio of brands, and other offerings for building industry professionals, visit WhirlpoolPro.com.

About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. In an increasingly digital world, the company is driving purposeful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and InSinkErator. In 2023, the company reported approximately $19 billion in annual sales, 59,000 employees and 55 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com.

i When compared to deep frying
ii Data from a survey conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Maytag from July 26 to August 2, 2022, with a panel of 2,000 dog and cat owners.
iii Comparing Normal cycle with Pet Pro Filter and option to cycle using traditional agitator without Pet Pro Filter and option. Results will vary based on fabric and type of pet hair.

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312-565-0044

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BinBase Expands 2026 BIN Dataset with Instant Payout Intelligence for iGaming, Gambling, and Cross-Border Transfers

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BinBase updates its 2026 dataset with specialized Fast Funds, Visa Direct, and Mastercard MoneySend indicators to help iGaming operators and payout platforms execute seamless, instant card disbursements.

MIAMI, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BinBase, a global provider of payment routing intelligence and card issuing data, has introduced specialized instant payout indicators as part of its upgraded 2026 BIN Database. Tailored for iGaming operators, online gambling platforms, crypto-to-fiat ramps, and payout aggregators, the updated dataset helps platform engineers streamline real-time card disbursements and Push-to-Card (P2C) transactions.

In high-velocity sectors such as online betting and gaming, instantaneous player payouts are a primary driver of customer retention. However, executing Push-to-Card transactions through protocols like Visa Direct and Mastercard MoneySend requires knowing whether the receiving card issuer supports Fast Funds for specific merchant category codes (MCCs). Attempting instant payouts on non-eligible cards leads to declined transactions, elevated processing fees, and poor user experiences.

The 2026 BinBase release solves this operational bottleneck by delivering dedicated attributes for real-time fund disbursements:

Fast Funds Eligibility: Granular indicators identifying domestic and cross-border Fast Funds support across global Visa and Mastercard ranges.Online Gambling Fast Funds (OG FF): Dedicated flags specifically identifying card ranges authorized to receive real-time gambling and betting payouts.Mastercard MoneySend & Visa Direct Indicators: Precise protocol compatibility markers (MS Ind & MT Ind) ensuring push transactions are routed only to eligible recipient cards.Direct Debit & Pull-Funds Support: Indicators for recurring collections and account-funding transactions.

“Player payouts in iGaming cannot wait for standard 2-to-3-day ACH settlements,” said a spokesperson for Damiko Inc. “By embedding our Fast Funds and Gambling FF flags into their payment engines, operators can instantly validate recipient cards before initiating a transfer, guaranteeing high success rates and instant liquidity for their users.”

Fintech engineers and payout architects can examine the full 29-field database schema and access a free 2026 sample dataset on GitHub.

To explore commercial licensing, bulk database downloads, or custom data feeds, visit BinBase at https://binbase.com.

About Damiko Inc

Damiko Inc is a US-based fintech data provider specializing in card issuer analytics, payment routing data, and global BIN database solutions. Operating through its flagship product, BinBase.com, the company supplies high-precision transaction intelligence to help merchants and payment facilitators worldwide optimize approval rates and mitigate processing fees.

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Walnut Coding’s Young Coders Serve as ‘Instructors’ at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp

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Ages 8 and 15, students showcase AI-era project-building skills from concept to working application

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Walnut Coding (the “Company”), a leading online platform for youth coding education, said two of its students – ages 8 and 15 – have joined the “instructor” lineup at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp, making them among the youngest “instructors” in the program’s history. The Company cites the pair as a prime example of how young learners can combine coding fundamentals with AI tools to turn ideas into working applications.

The two students, Bolin Du, 8, and Peiqi Gao, 15, built working applications using Huawei Cloud CodeArts, an AI coding assistant, then presented the projects to the training camp themselves – walking the audience through their design choices, technical builds, and debugging process.

The move lands at a moment when AI coding tools are forcing a rethink across the education sector. Tools that can generate functioning code from a plain-language prompt have undercut the traditional argument for teaching children to program – that they need the skill to build things themselves. Walnut Coding’s answer is that the more valuable skill now is judgment – knowing what problem to solve, breaking it into parts, and determining whether an AI’s output actually works.

Gao built a travel-planning application that generates routes, itineraries, and recommendations based on user input, handling the project end to end, from requirements and design through coding and debugging. Du, the younger of the two, built an interactive calendar application, using HTML for page structure, CSS for visual design, and JavaScript for interactive features. Both students then took on an instructor’s role at the camp, presenting their project goals and technical implementation to the audience – a step Walnut Coding says separated the work from a typical classroom assignment.

These were not classroom exercises but working projects, built and presented inside a professional developer-training environment. The experience demanded more from both students than simply producing something functional – they needed to articulate their reasoning, defend technical choices, and refine the final result under scrutiny. Their participation signals a broader shift underway in what youth coding education can deliver.

AI is making code generation easier, but it is also redrawing which skills actually matter. A student who relies only on one-click generation may get a rough prototype quickly, but still struggle to spot logical flaws, judge whether the output is reliable, or turn an abstract idea into a product that actually works. Students with programming foundations, by contrast, are better positioned to define requirements, evaluate what the AI produces, correct its errors, and treat the technology as a tool rather than a shortcut to lean on.

“AI can help children generate code faster, but it cannot decide for them what problem they should solve, nor can it make the final judgment about whether the result is truly effective,” said Pengxuan Zeng, founder and CEO of Walnut Coding. “What these two students demonstrated is not just coding technique, but the ability to define needs, break down tasks, verify outcomes, and turn an idea into a working product. That is why we believe young people still need to learn programming in the AI era.”

Walnut Coding structures its courses around that thesis, pairing student-led project work with teaching-assistant guidance and AI-assisted support. According to the Company, this data is continuously fed back into its systems to refine the personalization of AI-assisted feedback — a closed-loop process linking teaching, practice, feedback, and curriculum development.

The Company frames the payoffs less around producing professional software engineers than around a broader form of literacy. As AI continues to reshape how tasks get done, the ability to understand the technology, structure problems clearly and collaborate effectively with intelligent tools may prove one of the most durable skills a young learner can develop.

Walnut Coding says it plans to keep expanding opportunities for students to build practical projects, partner with industry technology platforms such as Huawei Cloud, and develop the core capabilities needed to build with technology in the AI era.

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MOREH Showcases High-Performance LLM Inference on AMD GPUs at AMD Advancing AI 2026

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Moreh, an AI infrastructure software company, led by CEO Gangwon Jo, participated in AMD Advancing AI 2026, AMD’s flagship annual AI event held in San Francisco on July 22–23 (local time), where it demonstrated its distributed inference solution, the MoAI Inference Framework, running on AMD GPUs.

At the event, Moreh presented a live demonstration of the GLM-5.1 large language model (LLM) powered by the MoAI Inference Framework on a system equipped with 32 AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs across four nodes. Visitors experienced the chatbot firsthand, evaluating its response speed and service quality while observing performance across a range of real-world use cases.

Unlike conventional demonstrations that simply run an AI model, Moreh’s showcase displayed key inference service metrics in real time, including GPU utilization, Tokens Per Second (TPS), Time To First Token (TTFT), and Time Per Output Token (TPOT). This enabled attendees to directly verify both inference performance and GPU resource efficiency in a production-like service environment.

Global AI industry leaders and enterprise customers attending the event expressed strong interest in the system’s fast response times and stable performance. In particular, the live deployment of the computationally demanding GLM-5.1 model on AMD GPUs at production-grade service levels received positive feedback from visitors.

Moreh’s MoAI Inference Framework is widely recognized as the world’s first commercially deployed distributed inference solution built for the AMD ecosystem. Its distributed inference and heterogeneous computing technologies are designed to dramatically reduce AI service costs, enabling broader adoption of AI worldwide. The technology addresses one of the industry’s biggest challenges-the rapidly rising infrastructure and service costs caused by increasingly larger AI models-by delivering a more efficient inference infrastructure.

Moreh CEO Gangwon Jo stated, “This event provided an opportunity for global customers to verify firsthand that top-tier inference performance can be achieved on AMD GPU environments,” and added “We will continue advancing our AI infrastructure software so enterprises can operate AI services as efficiently as possible, regardless of the underlying GPU platform.”

Moreh develops its own AI infrastructure engine and has expanded its end-to-end AI capabilities through its foundation LLM subsidiary, Motif Technologies, covering both AI infrastructure and foundation models. The company is also strengthening its presence in the global AI market through strategic partnerships with leading technology companies, including AMD and Tenstorrent.

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