Full-page feature highlights founder Dr. Angela Zeng’s approach to combining traditional wellness principles with modern nutrition

Saint Louis, MO, United States, 17th Oct 2026 – Karviva, the functional beverage company founded by Dr. Angela Zeng, is featured in the 2026 USA TODAY Food as Medicine special edition, with a full-page feature appearing on page 23 in both the digital and print editions. According to information provided by USA TODAY, approximately 250,000 printed copies of the special edition are expected to be in circulation. The feature highlights Dr. Zeng’s background as a medical scientist, her family’s generations-long connection to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the thinking behind Karviva’s whole-plant beverage portfolio.

The feature, titled “Why a Medical Scientist Built a Gentler Cleanse,” explores Dr. Zeng’s personal and professional path and the ideas that led her to create Karviva. It highlights the company’s use of whole-plant ingredients, including fruits, vegetables, sprouts, herbs, and botanicals, as well as its approach to developing juice products without added sugar or harsh laxatives.

Dr. Zeng founded Karviva after combining her scientific training with the traditional wellness practices she grew up around. Her background includes a Ph.D. in Pathology and training in evidence-based nutrition, while her family history introduced her to Traditional Chinese Medicine from an early age.

“A cleanse should not feel like a punishment,” said Dr. Angela Zeng. “It should give you space to hydrate, simplify your meals, and pay attention to what your body needs.”

The USA TODAY appearance adds to a series of recent milestones for Dr. Zeng and Karviva. Dr. Zeng’s debut book, The Balance Cure: The TCM Way to Lasting Weight Loss, has reached the No. 1 bestseller position in Amazon’s Holistic Medicine category. The book explores Traditional Chinese Medicine alongside modern nutrition and introduces readers to five TCM body patterns, self-assessments, seasonal observations, recipes, and lifestyle reflections.

Karviva has also recently received recognition from Good Housekeeping, with the company’s Profit Cacao Whole Plant Protein & Prebiotic Smoothie selected as a winner of the 2026 Snack Awards. The recognition followed evaluations by the Good Housekeeping Institute Nutrition Lab and consumer testing as part of the award program.

The new USA TODAY feature offers readers a closer look at the founder behind Karviva and the ideas that continue to shape the company’s approach to functional beverages.

About Dr. Angela Zeng

Dr. Angela Zeng, Ph.D., MBA, is a food scientist, Traditional Chinese Medicine scholar, and founder and CEO of Karviva. Born into generations of Chinese herbal practitioners and trained in pathology, biochemistry, and evidence-based nutrition, she combines traditional wellness principles with modern nutritional science through her work as an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She is the author of The Balance Cure: The TCM Way to Lasting Weight Loss.

About Karviva

Karviva is a St. Louis-based functional beverage company founded by Dr. Angela Zeng. Inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern nutritional science, the company develops plant-based beverages using whole-food ingredients, botanicals, and prebiotic fiber. Its portfolio includes juices, protein smoothies, hydration beverages, and other functional drinks.

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Financial technology company opens its app in more than 50 countries during FLOW Summit as 500-plus builders develop AI and Web3 products

BANGKOK, Oct. 17, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE  — U-topia, a financial technology company building a self-custody app for everyday money movement, has opened its public beta in more than 50 countries. The company announced the launch at FLOW Summit 2026, held Oct. 15-16 at Avani Sukhumvit Bangkok, five years after U-topia was founded.

More than 700 people attended the two-day launch, including technology entrepreneurs, developers and community members from several countries. The program combined U-topia product demonstrations and company updates with U-Hackathon, a global build program focused on practical AI and Web3 products.

“Five years ago, I set a simple standard: if my mother could not use the product without calling me for help, it was not ready,” said Emmanuel Quezada, founder and CEO of U-topia. “Opening the beta with people from around the world, while hundreds of builders were creating new tools beside us, brought that idea to life. Our goal is to make moving money as simple as sending a message while keeping people in control.”

A public beta designed around everyday use

U-topia is designed to let eligible users hold, send, spend, convert and withdraw digital and everyday currencies through one mobile app. Users can send funds to another U-topia user through a U-Tag, a simple @name that replaces a long wallet address. The company says funds remain under the user’s control rather than being held by U-topia.

The public beta follows private alpha and closed beta testing with community members and ambassadors. Feature availability varies by country. Account opening, card issuance and transactions remain subject to age requirements, identity verification, partner rules and local law. U-topia is not a bank or card issuer; card and local currency services are provided through licensed partners where available.

U-Hackathon brings global builders to Bangkok

FLOW Summit also hosted U-Hackathon on Oct. 15-16. Organizers said the event attracted more than 500 hackers and builders from around the world. Teams worked through a 24-hour build period with product, engineering and design mentors before presenting working prototypes in two tracks: artificial intelligence and Web3. The program extended the app launch into a working forum for new products, technical collaboration and international builder participation.

The competition recognized three teams in each track. Organizers valued the combined awards at more than 2.5 million Thai baht, including the advertised THB 1 million core prize pool, partner bounties and technology credits. UBotPay, an AI-powered payment agent built for Web3, won first place in the Web3 track. U-Reach, an AI-powered marketing, sales and customer relationship management platform, took first place in the AI track.

U-Hackathon was sponsored by ElevenLabs, Tokenomist AI and DTC Group, in association with Avalanche, Team1 Thailand, Yellow.com, ContributionDAO, CUBS Chula and Hooray. Judges selected projects on merit, and members of the U-Center DAO community voted live for the grand prize.

The summit also included a preview of U.bot, a related AI venture from members of U-topia’s founding team. U.bot is being developed as a user-controlled orchestration layer that can select among AI models and coordinate specialized agents. Its long-term roadmap aims to create a more capable personal AI experience with characteristics the team associates with superintelligence; those advanced capabilities are planned and are not currently available.

About U-topia

Founded on Oct. 16, 2021, U-topia is a financial technology company building a self-custody mobile app intended to help people hold, send, spend, convert and withdraw digital and everyday currencies while retaining control of their funds. U-topia is not a bank and does not issue cards. Availability and features vary by country and are subject to partner requirements and local law. Learn more at www.u-topia.com.

Civil servant, researcher and AI pioneer tells the 3rd World AI Summit, Bengaluru, that people-first, sovereign AI can make India a global AI leader

Bengaluru, India, 16th October 2026, ZEX PR WIRE  — Dr. Hemant Garg, Deputy Director (Legal), Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, received the “Excellence in AI for Public Policy” award at the 3rd World AI Summit in Bengaluru on 14–15 October 2026, placing an Indian public-policy voice at the centre of the global debate on how AI should serve people.

Dr. Garg described all of his work, from AI agents for government to AI-led labour law outreach, as an effort to help realise Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of Viksit Bharat@2047, under the leadership of Hon’ble Union Labour and Employment Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, whose Shramev Jayate reforms, Labour Codes and Ease of Doing Business drive set the direction. The goal, he said, is an Atmanirbhar Bharat in AI, built on a Bharat AI Stack: Indian large language models such as Sarvam, the Bhashini platform serving citizens in their own languages, and home-grown agents and talent under the IndiaAI Mission, taking India into the global AI league.

Held with Digital India, the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) as partners in Bengaluru, India’s startup, IT and now AI capital, often called India’s Silicon Valley, the Summit was themed “AI for All: Accelerating India’s Journey Towards Inclusive, Responsible and Future-Ready AI”.

The award honours his creation in 2023 of “IFSCA Karmayogi”, the first AI agent at the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), GIFT City, and his research on AI in anti-money laundering, the Labour Codes and algorithmic management of gig workers.

On the panel “AI for All – India’s Journey to a Sovereign, Inclusive AI Future”, with Shri Aman Mittal, IAS, Dr. BVRC Purushottam, IAS and Prof. (Dr.) T. G. Sitharam, former Chairman, AICTE, moderated by Dr. Ravi Gupta, Dr. Garg said inclusive AI must include the worker, and that India can blend Europe’s rights-based approach, US-style audits and Singapore’s skilling model through its Labour Codes, the DPDP Act and e-Shram.

His keynote, “AI, Employment & Skills: Building a Future-Ready Workforce for India”, presented as “From Files to Foresight”, began with a worker disabled in an accident, or a family that has lost its breadwinner, whose care and pensions depend on ESIC, EPFO, the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the National Health Authority. “The true test of AI in government is how quickly that family receives its benefits, and whether it is treated with dignity on the way,” he said.

He traced three waves of governance: e-Governance, which put paper online; Digital Governance, built on India’s digital public infrastructure; and now AI-enabled Intelligent Governance, where benefits reach eligible citizens without their having to apply.

Dr. Garg propounded that AI will change tasks first, then jobs, then institutions and the workforce, and called for institutions for AI governance, impact assessment and exposure mapping to curb job attrition, support reskilling and compensate workers in transition. e-Shram, ESIC and EPFO, now reaching gig and platform workers, can extend social security to those left out, while indigenous models such as Sarvam and Bhashini can grow home-grown AI talent under the IndiaAI Mission.

Government AI, he said, must be lawful, explainable and accountable; “a pattern is not proof”; and India must guard against a new colonisation “not by ships, but by servers”. He proposed “Five Ts”: Trust, Transparency, Talent, Thin and safe data, and Tested-then-scaled.

An LLB, LLM and Ph.D., and an IIT Delhi CTO Programme alumnus with nearly two decades in public service, including Punjab’s Department of Cooperation, Dr. Garg has researched digital governance in governments and cooperatives extensively; his work is published internationally, taught in universities and presented at Oxford, Harvard and Cambridge.

“Not artificial intelligence replacing governance, but intelligent governance that remains deeply human,” he concluded.

Connect with Dr. Hemant Garg on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/dr-hemant-garg-2b26699

ShippingContainersNow.com has launched an upgraded online store offering certified new and used shipping containers with 48-hour dispatch from 15 regional depots, alongside turnkey container offices, refrigerated units, and container pool installations shipped to all 50 states in the USA.

Los Angeles, California, United States, 17th Oct 2026 — Buying a shipping container used to mean calling around to depots, waiting days for a quote, and hoping the delivery company showed up on time. ShippingContainersNow.com was built to change that.

The company, which has been operating since 2016, has upgraded its online store to let customers across all 50 states browse, select, and order containers directly — without the back-and-forth. Inventory includes 20ft and 40ft units in new and used condition, refrigerated containers, open-side models, container offices, and container pools, with most orders dispatched within 48 hours of purchase.

“We kept hearing the same thing from customers — they didn’t know where to start, or they’d get a quote and then hear nothing for a week,” said James Harlow, Founder and CEO. “We wanted to fix that. You should be able to buy a container the same way you buy anything else online — see what’s available, know what it costs, and get it delivered.”

The site currently lists over 100 container options across multiple grades and configurations. Every unit is wind and watertight (WWT) certified and inspected for structural integrity before it ships. Customers also get a tracking link once their order is dispatched and a call from the driver before delivery — something Harlow says his team added after customer feedback.

Delivery is handled through a network of 15 regional depots across the country, which keeps rates lower than competitors working out of a single location. Larger orders can be moved via rail freight for bulk purchases.

Beyond standard storage containers, the company also supplies refrigerated conex units for cold-chain storage, modular container offices built out with insulation, electrical, and HVAC, and container pools that arrive ready to connect and fill. Harlow says demand for the conversion side of the business has grown steadily over the past two years.

“People are getting creative with these things,” he said. “We’ve sold containers that became farm offices, pop-up shops, event bars, and backyard pools. The storage side is always steady, but the conversion requests keep growing.”

The company’s blog also covers buying guides, size comparisons, price breakdowns, and delivery tips — aimed at first-time buyers who aren’t sure where to start.

ShippingContainersNow.com can be reached at sales@shippingcontainersnow.com. The full product catalog is available at https://shippingcontainersnow.com/shop.

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The new site sorts AI writers on Medium by topic and pairs the directory with short guides on how to judge a writer before following.

United States, 17th Oct 2026 — BestAINews has launched as a directory of AI writers on Medium, built for readers who want to follow AI news through the people who write about it in depth. The site opens with a featured list of authors, groups more writers by topic, and links each card to the author’s own Medium page.

AI news no longer comes from a handful of outlets. It is spread across X threads, YouTube channels, podcasts, LinkedIn posts and long-form essays, and much of it comes from individual creators. Short posts are easy to scan; longer analysis is harder to find. For readers who want that depth, the challenge is deciding whose writing to follow, and whether a writer is still publishing at all.

Why Medium, and how the directory is organized

BestAINews starts from that wider picture. Its research notes look at where AI creators publish and which subjects draw the most attention, from machine-learning engineering to generative AI.

The directory then focuses on Medium, a natural home for long-form AI writing. Beyond the featured list, writers are sorted into sections such as GEO and AI visibility; product, growth, pricing and GTM; and enterprise agents and builders.

Readers who want to judge an author for themselves can use the site’s guides on reading creator metrics, or a five-point check that asks whether a profile belongs to a person or a publication, when it last posted, and whether its topic stays consistent.

Two featured writers, two kinds of AI writing

Among the featured authors, Ken follows AI products and industry moves, the kind of commentary readers look for when a new model or feature ships. A recent essay, An AI Left a Note for Its Next Self, examines why handoff notes between AI agents need traceable records.

Grace takes a more hands-on angle, writing guides for everyday users choosing AI tools. One example is Open-Source AI Video Generators: How to Compare Models, Weights, Licenses, and Hardware. Both sit alongside the topic sections on the BestAINews homepage, where readers can browse every author card.

The site is built for readers who follow AI news every day, content and marketing teams looking for topic ideas and industry viewpoints, and researchers and developers tracking a specific area of AI.

“AI news isn’t in short supply. Attention is,” said james Founder, BestAINews. “Most readers don’t need another feed. They need a clear picture of who is writing about AI, and a quick way to judge a writer for themselves. We built BestAINews as that starting point, and we leave the final call to the reader.”

About BestAINews

BestAINews is a directory of AI writers on Medium. It organizes curated authors by topic, links each card to the writer’s own Medium profile, and publishes guides on reading creator metrics and checking a writer before following. Learn more at bestainews.org.

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Edinburgh SEO and AI Search expert Robbie Allen has launched robbieallen.co.uk, a personal site that documents 15 years in search, the services he delivers through Mostro and GRAFTS.IO, and results from client campaigns.

United Kingdom, 17th Oct 2026 – Robbie Allen, an Edinburgh-based SEO consultant and co-founder of the AI SEO agency Mostro, has launched robbieallen.co.uk, a personal website documenting his 15 years in search engine optimisation and online marketing. 

The site sets out the services he delivers, results from client campaigns, a career timeline, a key facts table and answers to common questions, and links to the two agencies he runs.

The site is built as a single reference for the people who look him up. Founders, marketing leads and the investors they pitch now check a consultant on Google and in AI assistants such as ChatGPT before a first call. robbieallen.co.uk gives those searches a first-party source, written in plain facts and marked up with structured data so that search engines and AI assistants can read it.

“People search a name before they trust it,” said Robbie Allen. “Founders, marketing teams and the investors they are pitching all look you up on Google and ask ChatGPT who you are. I wanted to build a website that answers that in plain, verifiable facts instead of leaving it to directories and other people who share my name.”

The homepage follows the same structure Allen uses for client about pages: an entity definition, six services, the differences between his approach and an in-house SEO hire or a generalist agency, who he works with, the story behind his career, how he works, a key facts table and six frequently asked questions. Facts on the page include his base in Edinburgh, his start in SEO in 2011, the founding of Mostro in 2023 with co-founder Collin Armstrong, and GRAFTS.IO, the marketing agency for hair transplant clinics he founded in 2026.

Client results published on the site include 60% more visitors not searching by brand name in the month a direct lithium extraction technology company’s new site launched, a rise of more than 750% in Google visitors, from a small base, for an aerospace company developing a personal eVTOL aircraft, and 32% more revenue from Google search in 75 days for a wedding flower rental ecommerce brand.

Through Mostro, Robbie Allen works with founder-led companies in 90-day sprints alongside their in-house marketing teams, with a focus on companies raising retail capital under Regulation A+ and Regulation Crowdfunding, pet brands and ecommerce brands with 1,000 or more SKUs. Mostro is headquartered in Edinburgh, takes on no more than 12 clients at one time and has no account managers or junior staff.

“Before anyone invests in a company or buys from it, they search Google and ask ChatGPT,” Allen said. “That is the work I do for clients every day, and this site is the same work done for myself.”

Robbie Allen from Edinburgh has worked in SEO since 2011. From 2020 to 2022 he built a B2B gifting and merch business that shipped more than 25,000 boxes and supplied technology, ecommerce and games companies, and he was named Pivot Entrepreneur of the Year for Scotland and Northern Ireland at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

About Robbie Allen
Robbie Allen is an AI search and SEO expert based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the co-founder of Mostro, an AI SEO agency for founder-led companies with in-house marketing teams. He has worked in SEO since 2011, co-founded Mostro in 2023 and founded GRAFTS.IO in 2026. He was named Pivot Entrepreneur of the Year for Scotland and Northern Ireland at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. 

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New Live Mode brings webcam face tracking, gamepad control and live physics into Moho, so a model can be drawn, rigged and streamed without leaving the app.

United States, 17th Oct 2026 – Lost Marble LLC, developers of Moho Animation Software, today released Moho 14.5 SHOWTIME, a free update for all Moho 14 owners.

The main addition is Live Mode, which drives a rigged character in real time from webcam face tracking, gamepad input and Moho’s physics engine, then sends the result straight to the new Moho Virtual Webcam or to be used with recording and live streaming, such as OBS. Because Live Mode runs on Moho’s existing rigging system, a character already built in Moho can be made live without rebuilding it.

“Moho SHOWTIME started as a simple experiment to move characters with a gamepad, but the potential was so clear, and it was so much fun to play with, that we ended up developing an entire live animation system,” says Víctor Paredes, co-founder of Lost Marble. “If you know how to create a Smart Bone, then you know how to create a live scene or VTuber model.”

A new world for animators. A dream for VTubers

Building a VTuber model conventionally means moving between applications: one to draw, one to rig, another to handle tracking, a third to get the result into a stream. Each handoff costs setup time and limits what the finished model can do.

In Moho 14.5, all of it happens in one place, and every Moho feature stays available inside the live model: particles, physics, blending modes, vector interpolation, boiling brushes, layer effects and more. A combination that is hard to achieve in a conventional VTuber pipeline.

Developed with the animators in mind

Moho 14.5 SHOWTIME is its biggest free update ever released. Among its many new features, SHOWTIME comes with a long list of improvements and new features, including big improvements to the drawing tools, a fully remade Paint Bucket, dozens of quality of life changes, a big boost in performance, new export options, Magnetic Onion skins and “Shift & Trace”, new options for Liquid Shapes, better Batch Exporter, EXR and PNG export with color profiles, improved video tracking, Categories for custom brushes and more.

“With this free SHOWTIME update we wanted to give Moho users the version the community asked for,” says Mike Clifton, co-founder of Lost Marble. “Many of the new features and improvements come directly from listening to our users, and we think they will enjoy both the big and the small changes.”

One time purchase and no generative AI

Following its No gen AI stance and one time purchase model, Moho 14.5 SHOWTIME confirms the software will continue improving by listening to the artists, being innovative and looking for new ways to think 2D animation.

Moho 14 owners can download this update on mohoanimation.com/update.
Owners of previous versions can upgrade with a discount on https://moho.lostmarble.com/pages/buy#upgrade

New users can pick between two versions: Moho Pro and Moho Debut: Moho Pro 14.5 can create and stream Moho Vtuber Models and is available for purchase at $399.99, while Moho Debut 14.5 can open and stream Moho Vtuber Models and is available at $59.99.

Moho 14.5 runs on macOS 10.15 or higher and Windows 10 or higher.
Watch the Moho 14.5 SHOWTIME trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oabKKKDurfo

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Lost Marble’s award-winning Moho software has become the animation tool of choice for countless professionals and studios worldwide. From its beginnings as a hobbyist project to its current role empowering thousands of artists, Moho combines state-of-the-art rigging and animation technology with professional-grade tools, helping creators bring their stories to life with power, precision, and ease.

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