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JetStor completed an 80 PB on‑premises archive for a government agency using 132 XS3324D POD‑based storage systems. The solution packs roughly 3,200 Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC590 26 TB drives into a dual‑Fibre Channel fabric for redundant, isolated access. Modular design lets the agency scale capacity without redesigning hardware or retraining staff. High‑density drives reduce power, cooling and physical footprint, delivering a serviceable long‑term retention platform.
Alto Drones employed RIEGL’s VQ-840-G bathymetric and VUX-120 topographic LiDAR sensors on a helicopter to map Austria’s Piesting River in a single day, covering over 60 kilometers of both dry and submerged terrain. The February 2025 survey, part of a...
Researchers have fabricated a large‑scale ferroelectric ceramic wafer (PNN‑PZT) using solid‑state sintering, achieving record‑high sensitivity for self‑powered X‑ray detection. At 150 °C the detector reaches 248 µC Gy⁻¹ cm⁻² sensitivity and a detection limit of 6.76 nGy s⁻¹, surpassing commercial amorphous selenium devices. The material exhibits...
Wingtra introduced the SURVEY61 payload for its WingtraRAY drone, promising survey‑grade accuracy of up to 3 cm without using ground control points. The system leverages a post‑processed kinematic (PPK) workflow and ultra‑high‑resolution imagery to map large sites in minutes rather than...
The U.S. Department of Energy announced a goal to deliver a fault‑tolerant quantum computer by 2028, aiming for scientifically useful calculations. The Office of Science, with an $8.4 billion annual budget, will host the quantum user facility at a national laboratory....
Vodafone Idea (VIL), India’s third‑largest telecom operator, has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) to upgrade its transport network. The rollout achieved a 1.6 Tb/s capacity on a meshed Data Center Interconnect (DCI) fabric, aimed at meeting surging bandwidth demand. VIL expects the...
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has purchased advanced phone‑scanning hardware and analysis software to extract data from seized mobile devices, bolstering its electronic intelligence capabilities. The move signals a shift toward digital surveillance in tax enforcement, aligning the agency with...
Supercomputers such as LLNL’s El Capitan and ORNL’s Frontier excel at massive parallel workloads, powering climate modeling, AI, and jet‑engine analysis. Their performance is constrained by four core issues: workload scaling, data‑transfer latency, power consumption, and hardware reliability. While they can...
Ollama announced a preview that leverages Apple’s MLX framework to deliver the fastest local inference on Apple Silicon Macs. The integration taps the GPU Neural Accelerators of M5‑series chips, boosting both time‑to‑first‑token and token‑per‑second rates, especially with the Qwen3.5‑35B‑A3B model...
Sphere, an Australian full‑stack tech provider, is moving HubT autonomous drone hardware manufacturing entirely in‑house. The shift includes enclosure fabrication, electrical integration and compliance testing, enabling faster, repeatable production cycles. New trailer and skid deployment configurations reduce site preparation, while...
Desktop PCs built in the last decade often include one or more unused M.2 slots, which are wired directly to PCIe lanes. These slots can host high‑speed Ethernet adapters, USB‑C/A expansion cards, secondary GPUs, or additional NVMe SSDs, delivering noticeable...
Investors are shifting to risk‑off positions as the Iran‑Israel conflict drags on, targeting the technology sector that has outperformed recently. Micron Technology fell 9.9% on the day and slipped further in after‑hours trading. Samsung Electronics dropped nearly 5% and SK...
Chinese electric‑truck makers are rapidly establishing a foothold in Europe, with Windrose opening an assembly plant in Belgium, SuperPanther gearing up production in Austria, and BYD expanding its Hungarian facility to exceed 1,000 e‑trucks annually. Sany, leveraging its heavy‑duty heritage,...
The dashcam market is expanding, with 36% of non‑owners planning a purchase within a year. Consumer Reports evaluated dozens of units and highlighted five top models for 2026, priced between $99 and $480. All recommended cameras feature GPS, resolutions above...
Neurosurgeons at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital have begun using the Hyperfine Swoop® low‑field MRI scanner inside the operating room to obtain immediate post‑resection images. The portable 0.064‑tesla device can be wheeled into the suite, allowing scans within minutes while surgeons...
The BFI National Archive has installed a LaserGraphics Director 65, a flagship film scanner capable of handling 8 mm to 70 mm formats at up to 13.5k resolution. Funded by the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s Infrastructure Fund, the machine was...
Researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have created a quantum‑dot photodiode that can detect the spin of photons—circularly polarized light—across an ultra‑wide spectral range from ultraviolet to short‑wave infrared. By embedding a chiral layer in the...
Tech reporter Allison Murray highlights the Boox Note Air 5C e‑ink tablet, now $41 cheaper in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. The bundle adds an orange folio cover for just $10, bringing the total to $540. The device features a Pen 3 stylus...
DapuStor has released the Roealsen6 R6060, a 245.76 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD that fits in an E1.L form factor. The drive delivers up to 14 GB/s sequential reads and 2.1 million IOPS, while write speeds top out around 3.6 GB/s. Four of these units provide...
Episode 28 of 9to5Google’s The Sideload features host Will and The Verge senior reviewer Allison Johnson dissecting Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold, a premium foldable that vanished from shelves after just a few months. The duo recounts Johnson’s hands‑on experience, noting the...
University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a hyper‑flexible graphene electronic tattoo that adheres to live leaves and measures their hydration in real time. The sensor detects ion movement, updating conductance with just 23 attojoules per measurement and drawing...
Scientists at UMass Amherst and UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated chip‑scale stabilized lasers that can control trapped‑ion qubits with high fidelity, replacing bulky optical cavities with photonic chips. Published in Nature Communications, the work shows sub‑kilohertz linewidths and active drift compensation,...
Researchers at Penn State have developed a flexible pressure‑sensor array using reduced graphene oxide aerogel, creating an electronic skin capable of ultrahigh sensitivity and a broad pressure range. Each 8 mm sensor supports roughly three ounces of force and endures over...
Manifold Technologies will showcase support for 400 GbE commercial‑off‑the‑shelf FPGA accelerator cards at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The manifold CLOUD platform can now harness up to four 400 Gbps cards per server, delivering a total of 4.8 Tbps of media processing....
Enterprises are confronting soaring infrastructure costs as AI and distributed applications expand data volumes. Tintri’s adaptive tiering technology automatically shifts workloads between high‑performance NVMe, SSD, and other media, eliminating the need for manual hierarchical storage management. The solution leverages real‑time...
Members of the IEEE‑backed WAVE Consortium—AWS, Gilat Defense, and SES Space & Defense—demonstrated the first standardized cloud‑to‑gateway satellite communications virtualization using FPGA acceleration. A 10 Mbps video stream was transmitted through a DVBS‑2X modem, digitized at an SES gateway, and processed...
NAB Vice President David Layer announced an AM booster project aimed at creating a technical record for FCC rulemaking that would permit on‑channel AM single‑frequency networks. The initiative will involve lab testing, antenna research, and field trials with a full‑service...
The Current/OS Foundation and the Open Direct Current Alliance have signed an MoU to coordinate technical work on DC power distribution for data centers. Their collaboration aims to create unified standards, leveraging IEC circuit‑breaker rules and upcoming NFPA code updates,...
Milwaukee's MX Fuel Portable Power Station, sold at Home Depot for $2,499, has drawn criticism for its high price and limited runtime, earning a 3.2‑star rating from 70 reviews. Customers report the battery often lasts under two hours under modest...
Hammerspace unveiled a Unified Global Namespace that abstracts storage across on‑prem, AWS, Azure and OCI, letting data appear locally wherever compute runs. Its policy‑driven Objective‑Based Data Orchestration moves only the required blocks, eliminating heavyweight migrations for AI and GPU‑intensive workloads....
SpaceBridge unveiled UniHub, a compact all‑in‑one VSAT hub that consolidates SDR multichannel modulation, burst demodulation for up to 800 carriers, network communication center functions, QoS, and advanced waveforms like TDMA and dSCPC. The platform promises reduced footprint, lower SWaP, and...
GameChange Solar completed the industry’s first full‑scale seismic shake‑table test of its Genius Tracker system at UC Berkeley’s Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. The test, performed to IEEE 693 standards, subjected a complete tracker with PV modules to progressively stronger earthquake...
Semi‑solid‑state batteries have moved from experimental labs into mass production, with SAIC launching the MG4 as the first globally produced model using this technology. The MG4’s 53.95 kWh battery delivers a 530 km (330‑mile) CLTC range at a price of about $14,500,...
Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 and Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra 2nd‑Gen earbuds launched within weeks of each other, prompting a side‑by‑side review. The AirPods Pro 3 cost $249, offer Apple‑centric features like heart‑rate monitoring, Spatial Audio and automatic device switching, and provide eight hours of...
Lumen Technologies, a $12.4 billion telecom operator with a 500,000‑mile fiber network, faced fragmented inventory from decades of acquisitions, operating over 17 legacy systems and nearly 500 data sources. It built a unified data layer and AI‑driven digital twin, launching the...
Data centers face localized hot spots that conventional air cooling cannot efficiently address, prompting interest in microfluidic cooling that routes liquid through microscopic channels etched into silicon. Demonstrations show temperature reductions of up to 80% compared with air, promising higher...
Invences, founded in 2023 by telecom veteran Bhaskara Rallabandi, delivers autonomous, low‑cost private 5G/6G networks for small businesses, farms, factories and universities, especially in underserved areas. The Texas‑based startup leverages Open RAN, virtualized RAN, digital twins and agentic AI to...
Intramotev, a developer of autonomous freight railcars, announced a new partnership with short‑line operator R.J. Corman Railroad Company. The company’s TugVolt railcars will be deployed on Corman’s 113‑mile Memphis Line, serving 30 customers across Kentucky and Tennessee. R.J. Corman, which...
Beats has launched a limited‑edition Powerbeats Pro 2 in partnership with Nike, featuring a matte‑black and neon Volt colorway and the iconic Nike swoosh on the right earbud. The earbuds retain the standard $250 price, wireless‑charging case, and built‑in heart‑rate sensor,...
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of Qualcomm with a neutral rating and a $135 price target, citing progress in automotive, PCs and data centers but warning that its core smartphone business faces headwinds. The firm projects a 200‑basis‑point share loss to...
Industrial PCs (IPCs) have shifted from niche PLC adjuncts to mainstream panel PCs that combine a touchscreen HMI with full computer capabilities. Modern panel PCs offer Ethernet, USB, and sometimes serial ports, turning them into versatile operators rather than dedicated...
Boland Communications unveiled its QD4K315HDR10, a 31.5‑inch QD‑OLED monitor, at the 2026 NAB Show, alongside a new 27‑inch variant. The displays combine quantum‑dot and OLED technologies to deliver 1000 nits peak brightness, up to a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and 99% DCI‑P3...
Petalas, a Hong‑Kong startup, unveiled a self‑flushing litter box that automatically cleans waste and monitors feline urinary health via AI. The device uses reusable pellets, a 45‑minute rinse‑and‑flush cycle, and requires connection to water and a drain. It reads RFID...
Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones stick vacuum is now priced at $449.99, a $150 discount from its regular $599.99 list price. The ultra‑thin, sub‑four‑pound device targets quick clean‑ups, offering 55 air watts of suction and a 20‑30 minute battery life. It features...
OpenDrives will showcase its Edge hybrid‑cloud accelerator and the Atlas Platform v2.11 at NAB Show 2026, occupying two booths in the West Hall. The Edge solution automates bidirectional 4K/8K media movement between central cloud or Atlas storage and remote production...
PTZOptics is showcasing its Move 4K PTZ cameras paired with the Horizon browser‑based control platform at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The Move 4K series delivers broadcast‑grade 4K video, flexible connectivity and AI‑driven visual‑reasoning features such as auto‑tracking and event‑triggered indexing....
ASUS’s Zenbook 14 pairs a 14‑inch OLED screen with 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD, delivering vivid visuals and solid everyday performance. The RAM is soldered, limiting upgrades, while the SSD is user‑replaceable up to 2 TB. Intel Arc...
Austria has extended its Entry‑Exit System (EES) contract with German security firm secunet, raising the deal’s value from €14.6 million (≈US$16.7 million) to €22 million (≈US$25.2 million) and lengthening the term to March 2029. The increase reflects repeated delays, as the European Commission postponed the...
Butterfly Network has secured FDA clearance for an AI‑driven Gestational Age tool that operates via a blind‑sweep on its handheld ultrasound devices. The software, trained on over 21 million images, delivers gestational age estimates comparable to expert sonographers for pregnancies between...
Tieline will unveil its new ViA Duo codec at the NAB Show, positioning it as an ultra‑portable broadcast platform that unifies IP workflows for remote, commentary and off‑tube productions. The device packs HDMI video output, multiple AoIP protocol support and...
