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Eufy Omni C28 Robot Vacuum‑Mop Packs Premium Features at $810
The Eufy Omni C28 robot vacuum‑mop retails for £649 (about $810) and delivers high‑end specs such as 15,000 Pa suction, a self‑cleaning mop and LiDAR navigation. Its automated dock handles dust emptying, mop washing and drying, offering a full‑service cleaning solution for busy homes.
NetApp announced partnerships with Elastio and Commvault to bolster its Ransomware Resilience Service. Elastio’s agent‑less detection and Provable Recovery controls will be embedded in ONTAP snapshots to spot zero‑day ransomware and provide immutable recovery points. Together with Commvault, NetApp will combine AI‑driven Autonomous Ransomware Protection and Synthetic Recovery to automate rapid, clean data restoration across on‑prem and cloud environments. The joint solutions aim to reduce rollback windows, minimize data loss, and lower downtime costs for enterprise customers.
Maxell has introduced a wireless cassette player priced just over $80, featuring Bluetooth, USB‑C fast charging, a headphone jack, and an 11‑hour battery life. The device includes a belt clip and is sold alongside a five‑pack of blank tapes for...
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is offering steep discounts on a range of smart‑home gear, with prices slashed up to 57 percent. Flagship bundles such as the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus with Floodlight Cam are now $164.99, half their original price,...
Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has financed a new AI supercomputer for the NASK research institute, costing roughly $8.1 million. The liquid‑cooled cluster houses 96 Nvidia B200 GPUs, over 1 TB of RAM and more than 1 PB of All‑Flash NVMe storage. It...
The global drone market has accelerated from roughly $20 bn in 2020 to over $40 bn in 2025, driven by soaring defense budgets and rapid AI integration. Analysts project the sector could reach $250 bn by 2035, with patents up 45‑fold since 2012....
Fujitsu and the University of Osaka have unveiled a new technology that couples the third version of Fujitsu’s STAR quantum architecture with a novel molecular model optimization technique. The combined approach dramatically lowers the quantum resources needed for chemical energy...
South Korean startup XCENA, formerly MetisX, is commercializing CXL‑based memory pooling that embeds RISC‑V compute in its MX1 product. The company has raised roughly $50 million to date and is now pursuing a Series B round to scale deployments. MX1’s Near‑Data Processing...
EFT has teamed with Bharat Skytech Pvt Ltd (BSPL) to launch the EFT BHARAT brand, localising production of its E610P agricultural drone in India. The partnership includes the transfer of production moulds for key components, enabling ‘Make in India’ manufacturing, distribution,...
Excel Dryer’s XLERATOR Hand Dryer has been honored in the Materials category of the Sustainability in Construction Awards presented by CEES, the Ecuadorian chapter of the Green Building Council. The award recognizes the dryer’s ability to cut paper‑towel waste, lower...
Seagate’s SVP Jason Feist says the company is doubling down on areal‑density growth, leveraging its Mozaic 3 and upcoming Mozaic 4 HAMR drives that deliver 3‑4 TB per platter, rather than adding more platters like Western Digital. He notes that hyperscalers prefer higher‑density, cost‑efficient...
The British‑made HotSat‑2 satellite is set to launch on March 29 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter‑16 rideshare from Vandenberg. Equipped with a world‑leading infrared camera, it can detect thermal signatures through structures, surpassing the capabilities of NASA’s Landsat thermal sensors. Backed by roughly...
The article compares phosphor‑laser and RGB‑laser cinema projectors, explaining how each generates light and the resulting performance differences. Phosphor systems use a blue laser and a phosphor wheel, delivering up to 35,000 lumens with moderate color accuracy, while RGB units...
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is discounting the base‑model Kindle to $100, a 9% reduction, from March 25‑31, 2026. Writer Nina Raemont explains how she swapped her phone for the e‑reader to curb doomscrolling, using free or library‑rented ebooks. The low‑cost device fits...
A prototype modification called Super Switch HD gives the original Super Nintendo Entertainment System native 1080p HDMI output. Developed by Stanislav Parhomovich, the mod taps a dedicated digital video bus and performs internal upscaling, eliminating the need for external converters....
Razer’s premium Wolverine V3 Pro controller is on sale, with discounts up to 35% in the US and a price cut from £190 to £130 in the UK (≈ $166). The wired Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition also sees steep reductions,...
Alibaba unveiled the XuanTie C950, a high‑performance 64‑bit RISC‑V core built on a superscalar out‑of‑order microarchitecture. The chip can scale to eight cores running at 3.2 GHz and achieves a SPECint2006 score of about 70, a record for RISC‑V designs. It supports...
Air Arabia, the UAE‑based low‑cost carrier, has begun operating Panasonic Avionics' Ku‑band multi‑orbit inflight connectivity (IFC) solution across its Airbus A320 family fleet. The system uses Gilat’s Sidewinder electronically steerable antenna to switch between Panasonic’s geostationary satellite network and Eutelsat...
AT&T, together with Boldyn Networks, has activated cellular service in additional tunnel segments of the MTA’s 4/5 lines between Bowling Green and Fulton Street and the Crosstown G line between Bedford‑Nostrand and Hoyt‑Schermerhorn. This rollout follows earlier go‑live in the Joralemon...
China’s semiconductor sector is set to capture nearly half of global wafer‑fabrication capacity by 2028, rising to 42% from 32% in 2025. The growth is being propelled by the adoption of agentic AI, which dramatically increases inference compute needs, and...
Infinity Avionics announced the commercial launch of Aquila, a full‑high‑definition imaging system designed for small satellites. The camera streams 30 FPS video, offers interchangeable lenses, and comes in three price tiers to suit varied mission budgets. Integrated with the company’s BRAIN...
Brooklyn SolarWorks has completed the first residential battery energy storage system (BESS) installation inside New York City, situating a 19.6‑kWh battery beneath a solar canopy in Chinatown. The system uses Briggs & Stratton’s AccESS storage, the only rooftop‑approved residential ESS under...
Belkin’s original Charging Case for the Nintendo Switch 2, featuring a 10,000 mAh powerbank, has dropped to $59.49 on Amazon, a steep discount from its near‑$100 price. The newer Pro model retails for $99.99 and adds a detachable powerbank that doubles as...
SEPTA is installing ten solar‑powered, e‑paper arrival displays at high‑traffic bus stops and trolley stations, each priced at roughly $5,000. The pilot, slated to begin by the end of May, aims to gauge device reliability and rider satisfaction as part...
AirPods Max 2 SNAGGED ✅ (Disgruntled there’s no trade in for Gen 1 AirPods Max)
Bold Laser Automation has launched the LPCl1820UV, a Class 1 industrial laser system that uses a 349 nm Q‑switched UV source delivering up to 120 µJ per pulse for precision surface cleaning. The platform integrates nanosecond laser processing, high‑accuracy motion control, advanced beam...
Raymond Corporation will showcase its end‑to‑end intralogistics portfolio at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta, featuring new electric lift trucks, automated Courier trucks, and the iWAREHOUSE intelligent‑warehouse suite. The booth will host six 10‑minute "Material Handling Moments" sessions that deliver actionable solutions...
Swissbit AG announced at RSA Conference 2026 that its iShield Key 2 hardware security key now integrates HID Seos credential technology for physical access and will soon support face‑biometric verification with liveness detection. The company also unveiled an early‑stage iShield Key PQC...
Aewin Technologies announced a new line of AI‑focused infrastructure at the 2026 RSA Conference in San Francisco. The portfolio includes high‑performance network appliances, tailored servers and a two‑phase direct liquid cooling system built around Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors. Flagship...
Halter, the New Zealand‑founded AI cattle‑collar company backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, closed a $220 million Series round, lifting its valuation to $2 billion. The funding will fuel expansion into Australia and the United States and underscores venture capital’s appetite for deep‑tech...
Phison Electronics announced the EU-wide rollout of its Pascari portfolio at CloudFest 2026, showcasing new Gen5 PCIe SSDs designed for AI and high‑performance computing. The company highlighted partnerships with platform makers AIC and InWin to broaden distribution of its Pascari...
A Chinese startup reportedly demonstrated a flexible robotic arm prototype for on‑orbit fuel transfer, but the available sources contain no disclosed details, leaving the scope and impact of the test uncertain.
Toshiba Electronics Europe will showcase petabyte‑scale, high‑performance storage solutions at CloudFest 2026, featuring live demos of 2 PB and 1 PB HDD‑based systems. The displays, built with partners Ugreen, Promise Technology and Microchip, highlight scalable NAS, AI‑optimized servers, and ZFS‑powered clusters. A...
Arm is betting its future on its own AI chip. The company expects a major revenue boost as it moves beyond licensing designs into building more of its own technology stack. That shift could reshape how it captures value in the...
On-device AI keeps promising to matter. HP IQ is the most enterprise-credible attempt yet, but ecosystem homogeneity is still the unsolved problem all PC vendors face. Piece is up, testing will follow. https://t.co/IMD3ERgRSI
Pegatron unveiled a new high‑performance, liquid‑cooled server portfolio at CloudFest 2026, aimed at accelerating AI‑ready data centers across Europe. The flagship MS101‑2A1 combines dual AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs in a 1OU, 2‑node design, while the AS402‑2T1‑8H2 and RA4800‑64H2 deliver up...
Beyond TSMC: Colley Hwang reveals Taiwan's massive US$3 trillion tech ecosystem at AI Expo https://t.co/W55Qnfzgze
Akai Professional just dropped the MPC XL, a standalone production powerhouse with an 8-core processor, 16GB RAM, 3D-sensing pads, and enough I/O to drive an entire studio. No computer required. https://t.co/RjwCb8ja0d
A recent IBM paper extends post‑silicon validation to the memory management unit (MMU) using Cadence’s Threadmill bare‑metal exerciser. The method generates multi‑threaded, constraint‑driven tests that run indefinitely on first silicon, stressing TLB walks, page‑table updates, context switches and migrations. In...
Ok, class, listen up. Your homework today is to come up with scenarios where TurboQuant is negative to memory demand and scenarios where it may actually boost memory demand.
The OnePlus 15T is now official, but there's speculation the company will revert to a China-only mode. https://t.co/sc5wZgC5mE
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems excel at tracking design, manufacturing and service data, yet they often lack a reliable link to the physical product. Embedding RFID tags on components provides a permanent, unique identifier that can be read without line‑of‑sight....
Intel is launching its Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" processors for commercial PCs at the end of March, positioning the chips as a comeback vehicle against AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 line. The 18 nm design promises double‑digit performance gains and industry‑leading battery life—up...
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) and electric‑vehicle (EV) infrastructure are expanding in both the United States and Europe, but growth patterns diverge sharply. Europe benefits from consistent, long‑term government incentives that keep EV adoption and grid‑scale storage on an upward...
Pixel Watch support for Google's fantastic Calling Cards could be just around the corner Google has updated its support page for creating a Calling Card, adding a section for compatible Wear OS devices ✅ More details - https://t.co/qTHWL9f8t4
Basler AG and Chinese robotics specialist Orbbec have formed a strategic partnership to develop industrial 3D vision solutions for logistics and factory automation. Their first joint product, the Basler Stereo mini camera, will debut at LogiMAT 2026 and targets autonomous mobile...
