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Boston Children’s Museum Kick Off “Summer of Curiosity!”

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Boston Children’s Museum is Inspiring Families to Dive into Curiosity all Summer!

BOSTON, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Boston Children’s Museum is inspiring families to dive into curiosity all summer! Throughout July and August, the Museum will offer engagement and investigation opportunities that spark an enduring spirit of discovery and wonderment. Children can observe, think, wonder, and ask questions about the world around them.

Children can observe, think, wonder, and ask questions about the world around them.

Visitors can explore the natural world in the outdoor Curiosity Kitchen, create and solve problems in the STEAM Lab, or engage in joyful movement, music, and dance in KidStage! Themed programs, activities, and a Summer Carnival will encourage every Museum visitor to explore their curious side. Complete the experience with a journey into the Hundred Acre Wood with everyone’s favorite curious bear, Winnie-the-Pooh – now extended through Labor Day!

Summer of Curiosity Themes and Events
Get Curious Outside!
From the ocean that defines Boston’s landscape, to the trees that grow in neighborhoods, nature is all around! This summer, get ready to think, observe, and get an up-close look at the nature of our city.

Curiosity Kitchen – Daily through July and August
Explore the outdoor pop-up exhibit that celebrates the delights of playing with natural materials! Make a mud pie, crush up some pinecones, or add pebbles to stone soup. Materials and activities change frequently so be sure to check out what the chef’s daily specials are. Enter at your own whisk!

Garden Exploration – Tuesdays and Saturdays
Check out Fenway Farms at Boston Children’s Museum! Meet an educator from Green City Growers, learn about the garden, and help us grow greens and more!

Get Curious about STEAM! and Art!
Create something, solve problems, and explore STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math).

STEAM Lab https://bostonchildrensmuseum.org/calendar/

July in the STEAM Lab: Parachutes
Engineer a parachute that falls slowly so that it can bring a person or a package to the ground safely.August in the STEAM Lab: Stack It! Challenge yourself to stack cups of all sizes in any way imaginable.

STEAM Family Workshops
The activities are designed to challenge the whole family with hands-on projects that encourage participants to solve problems, be creative, and collaborate. Check the Museum web calendar for details on specific activities.

DIY Playdough July 14, 15, 27, and 28 / 10:30–11:30am, 1:00–2:00pm, and 2:30–3:30pm
Visit the STEAM Lab to create playdough using common household materials. This 1-hour workshop is recommended for visitors ages 6+ and their grown-ups. Space is limited; please sign up in front of the STEAM Lab.Stop Motion Storytelling, August 10, 11, 24, 25 / 10:00–10:45am, 11:00–11:45am, 2:00–2:45pm, and 3:00–3:45pm
Create a storyboard then film an animated movie using toy animals and other props. This workshop is recommended for visitors ages 6+. Space is limited; please sign up in front of the STEAM Lab.

Art Lab
Open daily. Check the Museum’s web calendar for hours.
https://bostonchildrensmuseum.org/calendar/

July in the Art Lab: Creatures and Characters
Choose a drawing prompt and create a creature or character inspired by the real world or imagination!August in the Art Lab: Make a Zine, Take a Zine
Learn how to make a zine, a little book to share ideas with the world!

Sound Bath Series: Vibraphone with Winnie Dahlgren
Wednesdays starting July 31 / 10:00–11:00am and 12:00–1:00pm
Boston Children’s Museum’s Sound Bath Series is intended to be an oasis from the stressors of daily life. It is a drop-in/drop-out, deeply immersive, and full body listening experience, where visitors are “bathed” in the soundwaves of a musical instrument. This summer Sound Bath Series features Vibraphonist Winnie Dahlgren.

Abilities Dance Boston: The Banned Ballet
July 20, 27, & August 3 / 10:30–11:30am and 1:30–2:30pm
Join in for excerpts from Abilities Dance Boston’s (ADB) “The Banned Ballet” come to life in KidStage theater! ADB will be performing scenes across three weekends that showcase the vibrant characters that both celebrate and push against the power of storytelling. ADB will also highlight other repertoire pieces across these three weekends. Visitors will get a chance to chat with the dancers and director after the show and spotlight the need for diverse representation in books and on stages.

July 20th (Act 1 Scene 2)July 27th (Act 1 Scene 3)August 3 (Act 2 Scene 2)

Studio Playground: Clowning & Improv Workshop
July 12, 19, & 26 / 10:00–10:45am
Join Studio Playground at Boston Children’s Museum! Studio Playground teaches classes for all ages based on clown and physical acting. Clowning invites students to explore the health benefits of laughter through movement, games, and playful improvisation. This class includes a vocal and physical warm up, interactive storytelling, and performance projects. Laugh, sing, and make a beautiful ruckus!

Special Experience – Hundred Acre Wood! A Winnie the Pooh Experience
Through September 2
Journey into the Hundred Acre Wood with everyone’s favorite teddy bear friend Winnie-the-Pooh. Spend time wandering Christopher Robin’s favorite woods and visit some of his favorite places, like Eeyore’s Gloomy Place or Rabbit’s Garden. Bounce along with Tigger and Roo as you follow their bouncing trails. Or, spend a quiet moment in Owl’s library, reading about some of Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet’s adventures. Playful fun awaits in the Hundred Acre Wood! Sponsored by The Paper Store.

Hundred Acre Wood Honey Hunt! Add On Experience – Additional Tickets are Required
Christopher Robin needs your help to plan a surprise picnic for all his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Can you help get everything ready before all his friends arrive? But what’s this? It appears all the honey and picnic food have gone missing from the Hundred Acre Wood! Christopher Robin needs your help to find everything and finish setting up the party before his friends arrive. Learn more: https://bostonchildrensmuseum.org/winnie/

Special Event – Summer Carnival!
Saturday July 27 / 5:30–8:30pm
Join Boston Children’s Museum for an exciting summer night full of games, unique performances, and fun experiences! The Summer Carnival will feature different carnival games, a variety of performances throughout the night, music, as well as some carnival food available for purchase by the Milk Bottle. Do not miss all the fun—plus everyone will walk away with prizes! Tickets are $30 (save $20 when you buy a four-pack), and include admission to the event, six game tickets, access to carnival games and Museum exhibits, unique performances, and prizes. Additional game tickets can be purchased throughout the event, $8 for five tickets and $16 for 12 tickets.

Tickets include:

Admission to the eventAccess to exhibits (PlaySpace, the Japanese House, The STEAM and Art Labs will be closed for this event)Six game tickets that can be redeemed to play different carnival gamesPrizesSpecial PerformancesFood (available for purchase and weather permitting)

The Summer Carnival is a limited capacity event, allowing for a unique visit to Boston Children’s Museum with limited crowds and wait times for exhibits and special event offerings. Secure tickets in advance for a special summer experience at Boston Children’s Museum.

For information visit http://www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org

About Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Children’s Museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. More information about Boston Children’s Museum can be found at http://www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org Become a fan of the Museum on Facebook and follow us on Twitter

Hours and Admission
The Museum is open Wednesday–Sunday from 9:00am–4:00pm. Advance tickets/reservations are highly recommended, especially during weekends, holidays, and school vacation weeks. Adults, $22, children (1-15) and senior citizens, $22; children under 12 months and Museum members are always free.

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Jo-Anne Baxter, Boston Children’s Museum, 617-986-3702, Baxter@BostonChildrensMuseum.org, https://bostonchildrensmuseum.org/

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Toku launches Makimoto Flows, a visual builder for speech AI pipelines, taking its open-source initiative beyond transcription

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Developers can chain transcription, summarisation and call tagging on one canvas, test each step and export the pipeline as code, with every step processed in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Toku Ltd. (SGX: TKU), a Singapore-headquartered AI-powered customer experience (CX) platform, has launched Makimoto Flows (“Flows”), a visual builder within its open-source conversational AI initiative where developers assemble speech AI pipelines block by block and test each stage on a recorded call. Flows is now live at makimoto.ai.

On the Flows canvas, developers connect blocks to build a speech AI pipeline and test each step individually. The Transcribe block converts audio into text using Kawa, the Summarise block generates a topic and short summary from the transcript, and the Tags block classifies each call across seven categories, including customer sentiment. Developers can see how audio moves from transcription to analysis, and control how each stage connects and runs. Every block runs in Singapore, so audio, transcripts and the resulting analysis stay in-country.

The Chained Analysis starter template puts these blocks together in one click, and developers can adjust any block and rerun it to compare results. Each block maps to a Makimoto API endpoint, and any flow can be exported as ready-to-run Python code, so developers can take the same capabilities into their own code for applications such as call recaps and call triage.

“Developers should have control over how their voice AI works, from the models they use to the way each stage connects. That is the principle behind Makimoto. Flows puts the orchestration layer in front of them: they can build a pipeline, run a recorded call through it and see what each step produces before anything reaches their customers. Models will keep changing. The ability to compose them, and to know where they run, is what lasts,” said Thomas Laboulle, Founder and CEO at Toku.

Flows builds on the composable architecture Toku set out when it introduced Makimoto in April 2026, and takes the initiative beyond transcription. Kawa, released on schedule on 1 July 2026, established the transcription layer through a Singapore-hosted API; summarisation and tagging endpoints followed in September; Flows now lets developers compose them visually. Next, Makimoto plans to add audio preparation blocks, starting with noise filtering, giving developers more control over how recordings are processed before transcription.

By pairing open-source development with enterprise-grade deployment, Makimoto complements Toku’s existing customer experience platform and supports long-term innovation opportunities across the Group’s AI roadmap.

Developers can create a free account at makimoto.ai, open the Chained Analysis template and run a sample recording, or one of their own call recordings, through it; each account includes 1,000 free minutes. Feedback reaches the Makimoto team directly from the portal.

About Toku

Headquartered in Singapore, Toku Ltd. (SGX Catalist: TKU) is a cloud-native, AI-powered customer experience platform purpose-built for enterprises operating in complex, multi-market environments. With deep roots in the APAC region and an expanding global footprint, Toku’s modular 360° CX Platform orchestrates customer interactions across voice, chat, email and digital channels while managing regulatory, linguistic and infrastructure complexity at scale.

Built on end-to-end ownership of its technology stack, from carrier-grade connectivity to AI applications, Toku delivers enterprise-grade security, reliability and deployment flexibility in commercial cloud, private data centres and hybrid environments. Its AI capabilities include transcription, summarisation, sentiment analysis, conversation analytics and governed virtual agents, designed to integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems and customer data.

Trusted by leading enterprises and public-sector organisations, Toku helps organisations streamline operations, scale customer engagement and deliver consistent experiences in fragmented markets worldwide.

For more information about Toku, visit toku.co.

About Makimoto

Makimoto is Toku’s open-source initiative, operated through Makimoto Technology Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toku Group, dedicated to building composable conversational AI infrastructure for Asia-Pacific. Its releases include Makimoto Kawa, a Singapore-hosted transcription API; summarisation and tagging endpoints; and Makimoto Flows, a visual builder for composing speech AI pipelines. For more information about Makimoto, visit makimoto.ai.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Toku’s expansion plans, business strategy and planned product releases. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Toku undertakes no obligation to update these statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

Sponsor’s Statement

Toku Ltd. (the “Company”) was listed on Catalist of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (the “Exchange”) on 22 January 2026. The initial public offering of the Company was sponsored by PrimePartners Corporate Finance Pte. Ltd. (the “Sponsor”). This press release has been reviewed by the Sponsor. It has not been examined or approved by the Exchange and the Exchange assumes no responsibility for the contents of this press release, including the correctness of any of the statements or opinions made or reports contained in this press release. The contact person for the Sponsor is Ms. Ng Shi Qing, 16 Collyer Quay, #10-00 Collyer Quay Centre, Singapore 049318, sponsorship@ppcf.com.sg.

Investor Relations Contact:
investor.relations@toku.co

Developers and Partners:
contact@makimoto.ai  

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Conscious Spark LLC Launches Alphimiya® Neuro-Recalibration Framework Designed to Resolve C-Suite Revenue Plateaus

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New research-backed neuro-recalibration framework targets the autonomic nervous system’s threat response to managing high financial amounts, offering enterprise leaders a biological pathway to scaling.

ANTALYA, Turkey and ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Conscious Spark LLC, a research and advisory firm specializing in applied neuroscience for executive leadership, today announced the official launch of Alphimiya®, a proprietary C-suite neuro-recalibration framework designed to resolve corporate revenue plateaus by upgrading the biological capacity of enterprise decision-makers.

Developed to address the root causes of stalled enterprise growth, the Alphimiya® framework targets the human autonomic nervous system’s subconscious threat response to managing high financial amounts. When commercial leaders and CEOs attempt to scale past historical capital thresholds without recalibrating their stress response, the body’s natural survival mechanism triggers decision fatigue, strategic risk aversion, and systemic self-sabotage. Alphimiya® recalibrates this biological safety brake, enabling executive teams to hold, absorb, and scale larger financial volumes without physiological or operational friction.

“A corporate revenue plateau is rarely an operational or marketing failure; it is a biological safety brake embedded within executive leadership,” stated Dr. Ahmed Al-Nashi, Founder of Conscious Spark LLC. “When managing high financial amounts triggers an underlying physical stress response, the enterprise subconsciously contracts to remain in its perceived safe zone. Alphimiya® removes that biological friction, allowing C-level leaders to multiply revenue with calm, biological authority.”

The Alphimiya® framework restructures executive performance across three core operational pillars:

Sovereign Enterprise Scaling: Expands the nervous system’s tolerance for high-stakes capital, allowing leadership teams to scale revenue without experiencing executive burnout.

High-Value Deal Execution: Regulates autonomic stress responses during multi-million-dollar negotiations and volatile market entries, eliminating hesitation under pressure.

Restored Strategic Clarity: Removes chronic decision fatigue across C-suite teams, restoring mental focus and strategic presence inside and outside the boardroom.

By recalibrating the autonomic nervous system’s response to high capital exposure, Alphimiya® removes the subconscious biological brakes that lock corporate revenue at a standstill. Senior C-level executives and enterprise leadership teams seeking to evaluate their organization’s biological capacity can access the official executive briefing, case studies, and framework assessment directly at https://alphimiya.co/.

About Conscious Spark LLC

Conscious Spark LLC is a U.S.-registered firm specializing in executive education, training, and strategic performance consulting. Pioneering applied neuroscience for C-level leaders, founders, and commercial decision-makers, the firm utilizes its proprietary Alphimiya® methodology to enable leadership teams to recalibrate biological stress responses, resolve revenue ceilings, and build scalable corporations.

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Daffodil Software Brings Multilingual Conversational AI to Aadhaar’s Udai Mascot

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GURUGRAM, India, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Daffodil Software showcased an AI-powered conversational experience featuring UIDAI’s Udai mascot at Aadhaar Samvaad 2026. Developed by Daffodil Software, the assistant is designed to help users access Aadhaar-related information through natural conversation, using official UIDAI as its reference knowledge base.

Daffodil Software has developed Udai, an AI-powered virtual mascot that helps users get clear, reliable answers about Aadhaar simply by talking to it. The assistant was showcased at Aadhaar Samvaad 2026, held in Kolkata on 29 September, coinciding with the 17th Aadhaar Day, where visitors watched it listen, respond, and gesture in real time in their own language.

For most people, questions about Aadhaar come up in daily life, and they usually need answers fast. Which documents do I need for an address change? How much does an update cost? How do I link Aadhaar to my bank account or mobile number? The answers exist, but finding them usually means working through long help pages and documents.

 Udai is designed to answer exactly these questions in a natural conversation, without anyone having to search through long help pages.

A conversation in the user’s own language

Udai speaks and understands 11 languages: Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, and English. A user simply asks a question. Udai listens, works out the answer, and replies in the same language, with natural speech, matching lip movements and expressive hand gestures.

What sets Udai apart is how it is built. AI avatars rely on expensive, specialised graphics hardware to bring a face to life. Udai takes a simpler route. The character is created from pre-filmed footage, and its lip movements are matched to its speech in real time using lightweight processing that runs in a web browser.

The result is a smooth experience at 24 frames per second on ordinary servers, at a fraction of the usual cost per user. For a programme that serves hundreds of millions of people, that efficiency is what turns a nationwide rollout from an ambition into a practical plan.

“Our focus with Udai was to make Aadhaar-related information easier to access through natural conversation. Combining multilingual voice interaction with official reference content allowed our team to build an experience that is practical, approachable, and useful to users,” said Yogesh Agarwal, Founder and CEO, Daffodil Software.

Answers drawn only from official sources

The assistant uses official UIDAI material as its reference knowledge base: frequently asked questions, provisions of the Aadhaar Act, and government policy documents on Aadhaar services. It covers the topics users ask about most:

Enrolment and registrationAddress and demographic updatesFees, required documents and eligibilityeKYC and Virtual IDLinking Aadhaar with bank accounts, PAN and mobile numbersmAadhaar servicesGrievance redressal

Users don’t need to phrase their questions in any particular way. Udai understands everyday language, whether a question is spoken in English, Hindi, or asked in a mix of both, and finds the most relevant official information to answer it.

Built to be accurate, respectful, and secure

When a public service speaks directly to users, trust matters as much as convenience. Udai is protected by three layers of safeguards.

Accuracy first. Udai answers only from its verified knowledge base. Responses are grounded in a curated knowledge base of official UIDAI material. If a question falls outside Aadhaar, it guides the user back rather than offering an answer it cannot stand behind.

Respectful conversations. A screening layer catches abusive or offensive language in English, Hindi, and Hinglish before it reaches the assistant. Screening is designed to identify abusive language while supporting legitimate queries

Protection against misuse. Udai cannot be talked into abandoning its role, pretending to be someone else, revealing its internal setup, or answering beyond its approved scope. These checks work almost instantly, so users experience no delay.

What comes next?

Udai is planned to roll out in two phases.

In the first phase, the mascot will be placed in Aadhaar Centres. Visitors will be able to check information and understand processes on their own, such as which documents they need for an address change. This frees centre staff to focus on their core work instead of answering the same questions again and again.

In the second phase, Udai will come to the Aadhaar website and mobile app, taking the place of the current text-based chatbot, which was also built by Daffodil.

About Daffodil Software

Daffodil Software is a software engineering and AI solutions company serving businesses across industries. Its services span software consulting, product engineering, UI/UX design, AI/ML development, quality assurance, cloud and DevOps, and maintenance. The company serves sectors including healthcare, fintech, banking, technology, and digital commerce. Its client portfolio includes organizations such as the Reserve Bank of India, Mount Sinai Hospital, Maruti, Samsung, Pramerica Insurance, and Dangote Group. Daffodil Software has also been featured in industry research and recognition by Gartner, Everest Group, Zinnov, and Frost & Sullivan. For more information, visit https://www.daffodilsw.com

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