Shark Tank Meets Military: Dragon's Lair Winner To Bring New Tech To The Battlefield
Two 82nd Airborne paratroopers have taken a modular drone case from a Dragon's Lair competition to production in just eight months. The lightweight, rigid case fits into rucksacks, shields drones on drop zones, and features quick‑deployment compartments. Development was accelerated by the Army’s Joint Innovation Outpost, which used a rapid‑procurement process to turn the prototype into a pilot within three months. The initiative exemplifies the Army’s push to embed soldier‑driven solutions into its acquisition strategy.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Series Makes AI Effortless – for Work and Play
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, embedding four AI agents—Galaxy AI, Bixby, Google Gemini, and Perplexity—to automate tasks across apps and streamline work and leisure. The Ultra model features a Snapdragon Elite Gen 5 processor delivering a 39% AI performance boost,...
How A Small Rural Hospital Is Using AI to Catch Heart Disease Sooner
Wayne General Hospital in rural Mississippi has adopted Eko Health’s AI‑powered digital stethoscope, allowing clinicians to detect cardiac conditions such as atrial fibrillation, low ejection fraction and valvular disease in real time. The AI engine combines auscultation with ECG data...
Shubman Gill Asks More From His Smartphone in Google Pixel's New Ad
Google launched a new ad for the Pixel 10 in India starring cricketer Shubman Gill and voice actor Boman Irani. The spot walks viewers through everyday uses of the phone, emphasizing AI‑driven features such as Google Gemini, the “Nano Banana”...
Practical Design Guidelines for Atom-Thin Oxide Transistors Enable Reliable 3D Chip Integration
Researchers at National Taiwan University introduced a unified analytical framework that captures how channel thickness, trap states, interface quality, and surface roughness jointly dictate the performance of atom‑thin indium‑oxide and tungsten‑doped indium‑oxide transistors. The model accurately reproduces I‑V characteristics for...
Strohm to Supply TCP Production Jumpers for Deepwater Malaysia Field Extension
Strohm has secured a contract to supply insulated thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) production jumpers for a deep‑water field extension offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The order covers two 7‑inch carbon‑fiber‑reinforced PA12 jumpers destined for installation at roughly 1,350 m water depth, with delivery...
Tolomatic Doubles Force Capacity of RSX Linear Actuators With New RSX50
Tolomatic introduced the RSX50, a new electric linear actuator that delivers 50 tons of force while occupying nearly the same frame size as the 25‑ton RSX25. The RSX series offers a hydraulic‑free alternative, featuring planetary roller screws, up to 66,000 pounds‑force capacity,...
Amazon Acquires 'Approachable' Humanoid Maker Fauna Robotics
Amazon confirmed the acquisition of Fauna Robotics, a startup that builds approachable humanoid robots, though financial terms were undisclosed. Fauna’s flagship Sprout robot sells for about $50,000, stands 3 ft 6 in tall, and targets developers and enterprise customers such as Disney and...
Sage, Orban to Demo Virtualized EAS at NAB
Sage Alerting Systems and Orban Labs will demonstrate a virtualized Emergency Alert System (EAS) at the NAB Show, using a deck‑size industrial PC to handle alerts alongside normal audio. The demo integrates AES‑67 audio output and AAC‑LC streams for live...
I Used This Milwaukee Leaf Blower for a Quick Spring Cleanup—And Still Had Time and Energy for the Gym
Popular Mechanics reviewer Jamie Sorcher tested the Milwaukee M18 cordless leaf blower during a weekend yard cleanup. Weighing 4.9 lb with battery, it delivered 120 MPH air speed, 500 CFM volume, and a 21‑minute runtime on an 18 V, 6 Ah pack. The tool’s lightweight...
Kentucky Woman Rejects $26M Offer to Turn Her Farm Into a Data Center
An unnamed artificial intelligence firm offered Kentucky farmer Ida Huddleston $26 million to sell part of her 1,200‑acre farm for a data center, but the 82‑year‑old rejected the proposal. Huddleston argued the project would not generate local jobs and raised concerns...
Exotec Rolls Out Skyfleet Program to Scale Decathlon Warehouse Automation Across Europe
Exotec has launched the Skyfleet program, rolling out standardized robotic warehouse solutions to seven Decathlon logistics sites across five European countries. Each site features 150‑200 Skypod robots, up to 200,000 items processed daily, and full automation of inbound and outbound...
Intel Is Artificially Boosting CPU Benchmark Tests, Says Geekbench
Intel has introduced a Binary Optimization Tool that modifies instruction sequences to boost performance in specific benchmarks. When run through Geekbench 6, the tool can increase workload scores by up to 40% and overall scores by as much as 8%, but...
The Ampace Andes 1500 Is the First Power Station That Keeps Up With My Family’s Outdoor Activities
The Ampace Andes 1500 portable power station delivers 1,462 Wh of LiFePO₄‑based storage and 2,400 W continuous AC output, positioning it as a premium solution for serious outdoor enthusiasts. It charges to full capacity in just 55 minutes via AC and can replenish...
Infineon and DG Matrix Partner to Drive Solid-State Transformer Technology for AI Data Centers and Industrial Power Applications
Infineon Technologies is partnering with solid‑state transformer specialist DG Matrix to provide its latest‑generation silicon‑carbide (SiC) power devices for the Interport multi‑port platform. The collaboration boosts the efficiency, power density and reliability of DG Matrix’s SST systems, which target AI...
Geekplus Launches RoboShuttle V5 to Enable Fully Autonomous Warehouse Picking
Geekplus unveiled the RoboShuttle V5 at LogiMAT 2026, upgrading its tote‑to‑person system with a native Robot Arm Picking Station for fully autonomous warehouse picking. The solution claims 99.99% accuracy, up to 700 units per hour, and a plug‑and‑play rollout in as...
Samsung's 2026 QLED and Mini LED TVs Boast AI Soccer Mode
Samsung introduced four 2026 TV models—QLED QN80H, QN70H and Mini‑LED M80H, M70H—spanning 43‑inch to 100‑inch screens. All units, except the M70H, feature an AI‑driven Soccer Mode that automatically optimizes picture settings for live matches. The QLEDs pair mini‑LED backlighting with...
Apple Watch Series 11 Vs. Series 10: Is the New Smartwatch Worth the Upgrade?
Apple unveiled the Series 11 smartwatch, keeping the same aluminum and titanium price points as the outgoing Series 10, with base models starting at $399 and premium titanium versions at $699. While the exterior design, case dimensions and core S10 processor remain...
Uniti’s CEO Says We’re in the Early Innings of an Unprecedented Fiber Build
Uniti projects a $1.5 billion revenue opportunity from hyperscaler fiber deals over the next five years and plans to construct nearly 6,000 miles of fiber within three years, generating about $1 billion in non‑recurring cash revenue. The contracts carry an estimated 28 % internal...
Arm Shares Rise as It Forecasts Revenue Boost From In-House AI Chip
Arm Holdings announced that its newly developed in‑house artificial‑intelligence processor will drive a significant revenue uplift, prompting the company's shares to climb about 5% in early trading. The firm projects double‑digit top‑line growth for the fiscal year, positioning the chip...
ArtSound FM in Canberra Adopts DHD Consoles
ArtSound FM in Canberra has upgraded its studio infrastructure by installing two DHD SX2 mixing consoles and a compact TX2 unit, replacing three in‑house consoles from 2005. The rollout, funded in part by the Community Broadcasting Foundation and managed by...
The Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Look Great on Paper, but There's One Thing Holding Them Back
Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds 4 are priced around $180 and feature a sleek, tip‑less design that looks attractive on paper. However, the lack of silicone ear tips results in a loose fit, causing sound leakage and poor active‑noise‑cancelling performance. The higher‑priced...
Manz Asia and Epson Form Strategic Partnership
Manz Asia and Seiko Epson have formed a strategic partnership to bring advanced inkjet printing to semiconductor manufacturing. The collaboration merges Manz’s equipment engineering and software with Epson’s high‑precision printhead technology to create a lab‑to‑fab inkjet platform spanning R&D, pilot,...
PI Expands High-Performance Gantry Positioning Platform Portfolio
Physik Instrumente (PI) has launched the X‑365 Precision XY Gantry System, a modular Cartesian platform offering travel ranges from 200 × 200 mm up to 600 × 800 mm with nanometer‑class position feedback. The system combines high load capacity, rigid recirculating‑ball guides and thermally decoupled components...
Security on a Budget: The Arlo Essential Pan Tilt Camera Offers Dependable Protection
The Arlo Essential Pan Tilt Security Camera provides renters with an affordable, indoor‑focused surveillance solution that combines 360‑degree motion, 12× digital zoom and color night vision. Reviewers praised its real‑time alerts, two‑way audio and a subscription‑based emergency response that can...
Japanese Telco Bags Lease for Poro Point Cable Station
Japanese telecom operator InfiniVAN has signed a long‑term lease to develop the Poro Point Cable Landing Station in La Union as an open gateway for international subsea cables. The station, part of the Luzon Bypass Infrastructure—a 240‑km fiber corridor linking Baler to...
Arm Is Releasing the First In-House Chip in Its 35-Year History
Arm Holdings announced its first internally designed processor, the Arm AGI CPU, aimed at AI inference workloads. The chip, built on the Neoverse IP and co‑engineered with Meta, is already available for order with Meta as the inaugural customer. Arm...
SparkPNT Enters the Next Chapter with Facet FP
SparkPNT announced the Facet FP, a high‑precision GNSS receiver delivering centimeter‑level positioning. The device features multi‑band, multi‑constellation support, a waterproof cast‑aluminum housing and built‑in LoRa, Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. It runs fully open‑source firmware and uses SparkPNT’s modular Flex system,...
Moog Taps Redwire to Provide Solar Arrays for Meteor
Redwire secured a $12.8 million contract from Moog to supply its Extensible Low‑Profile Solar Array (ELSA) for the Meteor satellite bus. ELSA delivers roughly 50 % more power per unit volume than conventional arrays, targeting mass‑manufactured satellites. The arrays will be designed,...
Ditch Monthly Cloud Storage Fees: Powerful UGREEN NAS Now on Sale — Build Your Own Streaming Server Today
UGREEN’s DH4300 Plus 4‑bay NAS is now $379.99, a $60 discount from its $439.99 launch price, while the 2‑bay DH2300 is $199.99. The diskless enclosure supports up to 120 TB of storage, 8 GB LPDDR4X RAM and a 2.5 GbE port for fast...
Move & Connect Taps KORE’s eSIM Platform to Streamline Multi-Country IoT Rollouts Across Europe
Move & Connect has partnered with KORE Group to offer European IoT operators a single‑contract, API‑driven eSIM platform that spans more than 190 countries. The alliance merges Move & Connect’s on‑the‑ground deployment expertise with KORE’s global connectivity footprint, promising unified...
Linux-Powered PinePhone Might Not Get a Sequel, and postmarketOS Is One Reason
The PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, pioneering Linux‑based smartphones, are unlikely to see a successor as Pine64 cites chip shortages and high financial risk. The mobile Linux community is increasingly focusing on porting Linux to inexpensive Android devices through projects like...
LECOM Radio Deploys Ecreso
LECOM Radio has installed the first 2 kW Ecreso FM AiO transmitter in the Americas at its WVIJ station in Port Charlotte, Florida, replacing a 2005 solid‑state unit. The all‑in‑one 3RU, 50‑pound chassis delivers 83% PA efficiency and 95% power‑supply efficiency,...
This 11-in-1 DeWalt Multi-Tool Can Do Everything - and It's Under $30
DeWalt’s MT21 11‑in‑1 multitool bundles pliers, screwdrivers, cutters, saw, and more into a 4‑inch folded device, targeting both professionals and DIY enthusiasts. Amazon’s Big Spring Sale reduces the price by 25%, bringing the tool to $30, the lowest point this...
Skip the RTX 50-Series: This $7 App Does What DLSS 4.5 Promises
Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 introduces a second‑generation transformer model and dynamic multi‑frame generation, promising near‑RTX 4090 performance on lower‑end cards. A $7 Steam app called Lossless Scaling can replicate many of DLSS’s upscaling and frame‑generation benefits across any GPU, extending the life of...
Can An Electric Snowmobile Become The Tesla Of Winter Tourism?
Taiga Motors, a Canadian firm, has launched three electric snowmobile models aimed at European ski resorts seeking to cut greenhouse‑gas emissions. To date, the company has shipped roughly 2,000 units across France, Norway and other Alpine markets. While the upfront...
Laser Communications and the Rise of Orbital Data Centers
The space sector faces a data‑transport bottleneck as satellite constellations generate more information than RF links can downlink. Industry leaders are transitioning from isolated spacecraft to distributed orbital data centers, where satellites act as networked nodes processing and sharing data...
Metrobloks Announces Plans for Three-Building Data Center Campus in Kansas City, Missouri
Metrobloks announced a $1.4 billion investment to build a three‑building, 568,800 sq ft data‑center campus on 29 acres in Liberty, Missouri. The first 177,000 sq ft building has secured planning permission, and the project will create about 30 high‑skill jobs. Metrobloks, backed by equity partners...
Cerebras Plans Data Center in Manitoba, Canada
Cerebras announced plans for a new data center in Manitoba, Canada, expanding its North American footprint after securing tenancy in a 300 MW Bell Canada facility in Saskatchewan. The Manitoba site may align with Bell’s Buzz AI cloud unit, which is...
Meta Partners With Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon
Meta announced a partnership with Arm to co‑develop a new class of data‑center CPUs, branded the Arm AGI CPU, aimed at accelerating AI training and inference. The first generation promises significantly higher performance per rack and better power efficiency than...
Nvidia’s Craig Weinstein: Groq AI Racks Will Become A Channel Play ‘Over Time’
Nvidia unveiled its Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 AI racks, emphasizing ultra‑low‑latency inference for trillion‑parameter models. Channel chief Craig Weinstein says these systems will gradually become a channel play as enterprises scale token‑based workloads. Early feedback from Lenovo and partners suggests limited...
Microsoft Agrees to Lease 700MW at Crusoe's Data Center in Abilene, Texas - Report
Microsoft has signed a lease for roughly 700 MW of data‑center capacity at Crusoe’s Abilene, Texas campus. The deal follows Oracle and OpenAI’s decision to scale back their planned 2 GW expansion at the site to 1.2 GW. With two buildings already operating,...
Ultrahuman’s New Ring Pro Is Finally Available in the US
Ultrahuman has launched the Ring Pro in the United States, ending a year‑long absence caused by an Oura patent dispute. Pre‑orders are open with a tiered pricing model that begins at $349 for the first 1,000 units and climbs to...
Source: OnePlus May Shut Down in Global Markets as Early as April
OnePlus is preparing to cease smartphone sales in most global markets, with a potential shutdown as early as April 2026, while concentrating on China and entry‑mid‑range offerings in India. The move follows the departure of India CEO Robin Liu and...
Building Superconducting and Neutral Atom Quantum Computers
Google Quantum AI announced the launch of a neutral‑atom quantum computing program to complement its decade‑long superconducting qubit effort. While superconducting chips have demonstrated millions of gate cycles and aim for tens of thousands of qubits, neutral‑atom arrays already scale...
There Were 1,000 Internet Devices in 1984, 1 Million in 1992, by 2025 that Figure Reached...
By 2025 the global Internet of Things surpassed 40 billion connected devices, up from just 1,000 in 1984. The surge accelerated after 2009, reaching 10 billion in 2020 and adding over 5 billion new units in 2024 alone. Analysts now project between 48 billion...
L3Harris Ramps VAMPIRE Drone-Killer System Production
L3Harris has launched high‑volume production of its VAMPIRE counter‑UAS system at a new Huntsville, Alabama facility to satisfy growing demand from the United States and allied forces. The system, combat‑proven since 2023 in European conflicts including Ukraine, detects, tracks and...
Dual RGB-Laser Projector Promises Lights-On Viewing up to 300 Inches
Hisense unveiled the XR10 tri‑laser projector at CES 2026, offering 6,000 ANSI lumens and a 300‑inch diagonal image. The device pairs dual RRGB laser sources with a 17‑element glass optics system, delivering up to 6,000:1 native contrast and support for Dolby Vision,...
The Budget Apple Watch SE 3 Just Got Cheaper Ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
Apple’s budget-friendly Apple Watch SE 3 has hit its lowest price point ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, with the 40mm cellular model now $249.99 (down $50) and the 44mm version $299 (down $30). The SE 3, launched in September,...
Hughes Offers Multi-Orbit, Beam Satellite Modem
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar subsidiary, introduced the HM400, a software‑defined satellite modem that can operate on both medium‑Earth‑orbit (MEO) and geosynchronous‑Earth‑orbit (GEO) constellations. The modem leverages artificial‑intelligence to automatically switch between satellite beams, delivering continuous connectivity for manned and...