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HII reported FY25 revenue of $12.5 bn, an 8.2% rise year‑over‑year, driven by a 14% increase in shipbuilding throughput. Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding posted revenue gains of 11.2% and 9.0% respectively, while Mission Technologies contributed $3.0 bn, up 3.6%. Operating income climbed to $657 m, lifting the operating margin to 5.3% and EPS to $15.39. The company projects 2026 shipbuilding revenue of $9.7‑9.9 bn with margins near 6%, underscoring sustained growth momentum.
China Airlines has teamed up with Stellar Entertainment to revamp its inflight entertainment system, adding Disney+ and a refreshed premium content lineup. The partnership introduces a data‑driven, regularly refreshed catalogue that includes HBO series, new‑release Hollywood films, and improved multilingual...
In this episode of the Digital Banking Podcast, Josh DeTar talks with Derrick Aguilar, Chief Experience Officer at PenAir Credit Union, about embedding empathy into every member interaction. Aguilar explains that while digital tools and reliable services are essential, the...
Square Enix announced Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse, a summer sequel to the acclaimed horror‑mystery visual novel Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. The new title shifts the setting from gloomy urban streets to Japan’s coastal regions, introducing a diving minigame...
Thomas Countryman, chair of the Arms Control Association, warned that the New START treaty will soon expire and urged the United States to negotiate a replacement with Russia while opening consultations with China. He highlighted the loss of experienced negotiators...
Moffett Air National Guard Base will host a joint U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy flyover that will streak across the sky during the national anthem of Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8. The championship pits the Seattle Seahawks against the...
Tallio’s AI operating system has replaced the traditional EMR at Caring Seasons Health, slashing admission processing from three‑plus hours to just 68 minutes. The platform automates documentation, cutting overall paperwork time by roughly 75% and delivering near‑perfect clean claim rates....
Airbus and Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) completed the first flight demonstration of HTeaming, integrating the Flexrotor uncrewed aerial system with an H225M Super Puma helicopter. The trial, conducted in January at a Singapore airbase, showcased real‑time data...
The UK Ministry of Defence will unveil a new "segmented approach" to defence procurement on April 1, 2026, coinciding with April Fool’s Day. The model splits contracts into three tiers—major platforms within two years, upgrades within one year, and rapid commercial...
Clip introduced the Clip Total 3 point‑of‑sale terminal, a $899 device that adds order management, inventory catalog, a customer‑facing screen, high‑speed printer and dual cameras for Mexican merchants, especially restaurants. At the same time, Mexico‑based SeoSamba launched a Stripe‑powered POS app...
The episode reviews the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index, showing that the U.S. truck freight market is in a late‑cycle contraction where capacity constraints, not demand, are driving higher rates. While Q4 2025 shipments rose modestly, they remain down year‑over‑year,...
Chubb posted fourth‑quarter earnings of $7.52 per share, comfortably beating FactSet’s $6.77 consensus. The insurer’s combined ratio improved to 81.2%, well under the 84.4% estimate, driving record underwriting profitability. Investment income surged, helped by a bond‑heavy portfolio and a favorable...
Ørsted is exploring partnerships and M&A in Europe and the APAC region to sustain revenue growth after completing its 8.1 GW offshore construction portfolio by 2027. CEO Rasmus Errboe emphasized a value‑over‑volume approach, targeting fixed‑bottom schemes in core markets and reviewing upcoming...
Israel’s ambassador to India warned that any state tolerating jihadist proxies jeopardizes its own security, emphasizing the need to dismantle Hamas as part of President Trump’s 20‑point Gaza plan. The U.S.‑led "Board of Peace" now includes Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar,...
Erika Tsirikou and Josh Michalowski discuss how ongoing Red Sea tensions are forcing tankers to bypass the Suez Canal and the potential reopening of the canal by 2026. They examine the resulting pressure on clean LR1 and LR2 freight rates,...
CMS announced a roadmap to transition its quality measurement programs from eCQMs to FHIR‑based digital quality measures (dQMs). The agency released draft dQM packages covering 17 inpatient, 4 outpatient, and 49 clinician measures and opened a public comment period through...
A Pennsylvania truck driver voluntarily disclosed a 15‑year‑old armed‑robbery conviction during a job interview, prompting an immediate rejection. The employer argued the ban‑the‑box law didn’t apply because the information wasn’t obtained from a state agency. The Third Circuit reversed, holding...
The February 2026 KLAS report reveals that Epic’s infection prevention module, Buggy, lags behind all other Epic inpatient products with an overall performance score of 80.6, and shows a stark divide between IT (91.4) and infection preventionist (73.9) satisfaction. Key...
At Sundance 2026, Garrett Patten and industry leaders highlighted three top‑ranking locations—Santa Fe, Massachusetts, and Fort Worth—as ideal places to live and work for filmmakers. They emphasized that generous tax incentives, ranging from 25% in Massachusetts to up to 40%...
Timberborn, the beaver‑themed city‑builder praised for its innovative mechanics, will exit Early Access on March 5, 2026 with its 1.0 launch. The full release bundles an expanded tutorial, modding improvements, Steam achievements, a new map type, UI refinements, visual upgrades, translation fixes...
SAG‑AFTRA will reopen contract talks with the AMPTP on February 9, 2026, a month ahead of the current agreement’s June 30 expiration. The negotiations, now led by new union president Sean Astin and AMPTP chief Greg Hessinger, will focus on three hot‑button...
ZOMBUTCHER is an upcoming indie title that fuses shop‑keeping simulation with stealth‑action horror, casting players as a zombie butcher who sells meat to humans by day and hunts them by night. Set in a grimy Louisiana town, the game features...
Shield AI and Singapore’s ST Engineering have signed a memorandum of understanding to embed Shield’s Hivemind AI autonomy software into ST’s manned‑unmanned‑teaming operating system (MUMTOS). The integration will allow a wide range of unmanned platforms—micro‑drones, surface vessels and ground robots—to...
Safe In Our World, a mental‑health charity, has launched its sixth Fanatical charity bundle, offering 22 curated games for a minimum of £17.99. All proceeds from the bundle go directly to the charity, continuing a partnership that has already raised...
Norse Atlantic Airways began publishing its total revenue per available seat kilometer (TRASK) for January, showing a 21% year‑on‑year increase. Passenger traffic rose 36% YoY to 151,237, while capacity (ASK) grew 23% and RPKs climbed 31%. ACMI operations surged, with...
LATAM Airlines Group is expanding its use of AeroSHARK, a sharkskin-inspired drag‑reduction film developed by Lufthansa Technik and BASF Coatings, to the entire ten‑aircraft Boeing 777‑300ER fleet. The rollout adds five more shipsets, bringing the total to ten, and aims...
In his second term, President Donald Trump pushed average U.S. import tariffs to about 18%, the highest level since the Great Depression. The higher duties widened the trade deficit and contributed to persistent inflation, prompting the Federal Reserve to cut...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spent three days in Riyadh, Doha and Abu Dhabi to secure Gulf energy, investment and defence deals aimed at reducing Berlin's reliance on the United States and China. After the 2025 loss of Russian pipeline gas, Germany imported...
In this episode Barbara Stewart, CFA, explores why Stockholm has become Europe’s leading capital‑raising hub, highlighting a surge in IPOs, private‑equity activity, and corporate‑bond issuance. She attributes the durability of this flow to a deep investment culture fostered by the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping intensified his anti‑corruption and loyalty campaign by dismissing two of the People’s Liberation Army’s top commanders in January 2026. General Zhang Youxia, senior vice‑chairman of the Central Military Commission, and General Liu Zhenli, head of the...
In this talk, Alfonso Parra Rubio examines how folding—mirroring natural processes—serves as a versatile engineering tool that reshapes materials without altering their intrinsic properties. He showcases examples ranging from millimeter‑scale cellular lattices to meter‑scale corrugated structures and robotic actuators, culminating...
SkyDrive Inc. will showcase its SD-05 eVTOL passenger drone in Tokyo this February, a public demonstration that precedes a planned 2028 market launch and supports Japan’s 2030 commercial vertiport roadmap. In Ohio, six police agencies have adopted Skydio drones, fielding...
In this talk, Tuo Zhao from Princeton presents his latest work on super-modular chiral origami metamaterials, which combine auxetic planar tessellations with Kresling‑style origami columns to achieve decoupled, large‑strain actuation. The assembly can twist up to 90°, contract in‑plane by...
In this CDFAM symposium talk, Julia Hannu of STILFOLD presents the company’s origami‑inspired manufacturing process that folds metal sheets using both straight and curved creases to create structural parts. She explains how the digital design tools and algorithms they’ve built...
E-Storage, Canadian Solar’s storage arm, and Sunraycer Renewables have signed agreements to supply and service two battery energy storage systems in Franklin County, Texas, collectively called the Lupinus projects and totaling 503 MWh. Lupinus 1 (202 MWh) will break ground in Q1 2027 and...
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On January 26 the FAA announced a sweeping reorganization aimed at consolidating all uncrewed aviation functions under a single, strategically positioned domain. The change seeks to replace the historic patchwork of waivers and scattered directorates with a unified structure that...
In this symposium talk, Rachel Azulay of TETMET presents a CAD‑integrated workflow for creating conformal lattice structures at large scale. She explains how traditional lattice tools fall short for high‑performance, manufacturable designs and demonstrates how embedding lattice generation directly into...
The episode explores Scawo3D’s Selective Paste Intrusion (SPI) 3D concrete printing method for freeform reinforced concrete staircases and the computational workflow that makes it scalable. Presenters Philip Schneider and Timo Harboe Zollner explain how traditional formwork is labor‑intensive and how...
In this five‑minute episode, the host uses a pickleball ball‑feeding machine as a metaphor to illustrate the need for a steady cadence when implementing organizational change. He explains that bombarding teams with rapid, unpredictable shifts—like the machine’s erratic, high‑speed balls—leads...
Fujifilm Biotechnologies, a subsidiary of the historic photo‑film maker, opened a 150‑acre, commercial‑scale biopharma manufacturing campus in Holly Springs, North Carolina, investing over $3.2 billion. The first phase features eight 20,000‑liter mammalian cell‑culture bioreactors, with a second phase slated to double...
Affirm announced financing for Virgin Media O2 customers, extending its buy‑now‑pay‑later (BNPL) reach into the UK mobile‑device market. The company also broadened its partnership with Wayfair, adding installment‑payment options for shoppers in Canada and the United Kingdom alongside its existing...
Airbus recorded its lowest January deliveries in a decade, handing over just 19 aircraft to 15 customers in January 2026. This marks a sharp drop from the 35 deliveries in the same month last year and well below the decade‑average...
Anthropic’s Claude legal app debuted this week, sending legal‑tech stocks sharply lower and sparking industry debate. At the same time, AI agents have launched a dedicated social network, Moltbook, and a new marketplace that lets them contract human labor. These...
German renewables developer PNE was passed over for a 2 GW offshore wind farm off Vietnam’s Binh Dinh province, with authorities selecting VinEnergo, a new Vingroup subsidiary. The $4.6 bn project is part of Vietnam’s pledge to install 6 GW of offshore wind by...
JSAUX unveiled the Double‑Decker Travel Supply Case for the Steam Deck, a charging‑friendly accessory that houses the console, power bank, charger, and cables in separate, protected layers. The case features silicone ventilation to dissipate heat, a fold‑over screen cover that...
HeavyGod, G2’s Russian rifler, emphasizes the honor of playing the anchor role, arguing any position can shine. He reflects on G2’s post‑BLAST London struggles, citing lack of stability, pressure handling, and team culture as key issues. The squad is now...
TotalEnergies is requesting up to $250 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finance its 1 GW Mirny on‑shore wind farm in Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl region. The project will install roughly 140 Sany and Envision turbines ranging from 6.5 MW to...
Voraxis is an indie deck‑builder where players act as a parasite drilling through a living planet. The game uses cards to dictate movement and tile‑eating actions, while gathering "anima" to upgrade the deck during a run. A free demo on...
The episode explores the U.S. Poison Control Center Network, tracing its history from the first center in 1953 to the modern system of 53 accredited centers serving all states. It highlights a new RAND study that quantifies the network’s value...
Tourism Jasper has opened a full‑scale, Jasper‑inspired cabin at Edmonton International Airport’s Gate 16. The rustic replica features a fireplace, Hudson’s Bay blankets, historic photos and an Adirondack chair for waiting travelers. Designed as a three‑to‑five‑year activation, the cabin will be...
