Here's How To Tell If A CR2032 Battery Is Bad
The article explains how to determine whether a CR2032 lithium button cell is still usable. It outlines voltage thresholds—new cells read 3.0‑3.3 V, usable cells 2.7‑2.9 V, and below 2.7 V signals end‑of‑life. Two inexpensive dedicated testers ($15‑$19) are recommended for quick checks, while a standard multimeter can also be used with the 20 V DC setting. Practical examples include Apple AirTags and car key fobs that rely on this battery type.
Escalating Cyber Attacks From Iran: Is Your Organization Prepared for State Sponsored Threat Groups?
Escalating geopolitical tensions have amplified Iran‑backed cyber activity, with state‑sponsored groups such as Charming Kitten, APT33, and MuddyWater intensifying spear‑phishing, zero‑day exploits, and custom malware campaigns. These actors target a broad spectrum of sectors, from US political institutions and critical...
ZTE at MWC Barcelona 2026: Advancing AI-Native Connectivity and Intelligent Computing for a Digital Future
ZTE is showcasing its "All in AI, AI for All" roadmap at MWC Barcelona 2026, unveiling eight AI‑driven breakthroughs across connectivity, cloud, smart home and devices. The company highlighted its AI‑native L4 autonomous network stack, the world’s first 6G GigaMIMO...
I Bought It Now—Don’t Wait for Next Version
"Should I buy now or wait for the next version?" If you've ever been frozen by this question, welcome to my week-long Kobo research spiral. Spoiler: I bought the thing. Want to nerd out on unverified supply chain stuff? Read on!
Blend AI and Human Creativity for Optimal Results
You don’t need to go all AI or NO AI with your creatives… leaning too far either way means wasting budget on low-quality output or falling behind brands launching faster. The smarter approach sits in the middle. We use AI as a...
Drug Discovery Bottleneck? Cell-Free Platform Screens Peptides Faster, Even in Harsh Conditions
Researchers at the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine unveiled PL‑display, a cell‑free platform that immobilizes individual peptides on magnetic beads for rapid screening. The method delivers over ten‑fold efficiency gains versus traditional cell‑based displays and can operate under high‑temperature, high‑salt, or...
Boost Leads 10x in 4 Weeks with AI
How I'd 10x leads in 4 weeks using AI, if I were starting my business from scratch.
Mystery Pipes on Ship 39 Likely Heat Exchanger
I'm still scratching my head over these pipes. They're not part of the stand. Definitely a part of Ship 39. I've heard all sorts of theories. A new Flap drive. Chill lines. Vent lines. But none of it really fits, especially...
Apple Retail Stores and Corporate Offices in UAE Temporarily Closed
Apple announced the temporary closure of its corporate offices and five Apple Store locations across the United Arab Emirates after a sharp escalation in the Middle East conflict. The shutdown aligns with new guidance from the UAE Ministry of Human...
SpaceX Launches 25 More Starlink Satellites
SpaceX successfully lofted 25 additional Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking another milestone for its broadband constellation. The Falcon 9’s first stage completed its 20th flight and returned to a drone ship in the Pacific. With 26 launches so...
Beyond the Thermostat: Decoding the Science of Comfort with HVAC Fundamentals
The article demystifies HVAC fundamentals, explaining how centralized and distributed systems shape zone‑level comfort. It highlights ASHRAE Standard 55’s 80% occupant comfort goal and why designers settle for statistical rather than universal satisfaction. Variable Air Volume (VAV) systems, delivering 55°F...
AI Auditor Uncovers up to 85% Customs Errors, Free Refunds
Flexport now allows importers to use our AI Customs Auditor to audit all the customs entries their other customs brokers have done for them. We find their mistakes and then set you up to claim refunds wherever you overpaid. ...
Curiosity Mars Rover: Unnatural Pattern Investigation
NASA’s Curiosity rover’s ChemCam system autonomously flagged a patch of tiny, evenly spaced parallel lines on a Martian boxwork outcrop. The pattern, described as “unnatural,” prompted the rover to target the feature for high‑resolution imaging and laser spectroscopy. Researchers are...
IT's Evolving Role in Advancing Organizational Growth
IT is transitioning from a back‑office system provider to a strategic, customer‑facing partner that drives end‑to‑end change. Leaders are urged to co‑create transformation roadmaps, adopt outcome‑based KPIs, and build modular, API‑first platforms that reduce duplication. Lightweight, proportional governance combined with...
These Smartphones Will No Longer Get Updates Or Support In 2026
A growing number of smartphones will stop receiving both feature and security updates in 2026, including Samsung’s Galaxy S21 series, Z Fold 3, Z Flip 3, and Note 20; Apple’s iPhone SE and several vintage iPhone models; Google’s Pixel 6; numerous mid‑range Samsung, Motorola and LG devices;...
Brand Persona Guide: How To Develop a Brand Persona
Authenticity is increasingly linked to purchase intent, prompting brands to seek consistent, genuine voices. Because a brand isn’t a single individual, creating a brand persona—an internal fictional character—helps translate abstract identity into concrete actions. The guide outlines a seven‑step process...
China Releases National Standards for Humanoid Robotics and Embodied AI
China has unveiled its first national standard system for humanoid robots and embodied AI, organized into six components covering everything from basic commonality to safety and ethics. The framework was drafted by more than 120 institutions under the Ministry of...
New ESA Contract Targets Small, Fast-Moving Space Junk Beyond Ground Radar Reach
The European Space Agency has signed a data‑procurement contract with Munich‑based Vyoma to receive space‑based observations of small, fast‑moving debris. Vyoma’s Flamingo‑1 satellite, orbiting at 510 km, will deliver bulk traffic data that ESA will use to validate and enhance its...
Top 10 AI Agent Platforms Every Leader Must Know
10 AI-Agent Platforms Every Business Leader Needs to Know AI agents are transforming business — here are ten key platforms leaders should understand to stay ahead in the AI era. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e3pza-hC #AI #BusinessTech #FutureOfWork #BernardMarr
One in Three Enterprise Projects Fail to Deliver ROI, Tempo Research Finds
Tempo Software’s 2026 State of Strategic Portfolio Management report finds that roughly one in three enterprise projects fail to generate meaningful ROI, based on a survey of 667 planning and PMO leaders across 43 countries. High‑performing firms achieve measurable ROI...
GoodRx Launches Employer Program to Help Subsidize High-Cost Brand Drugs
GoodRx introduced GoodRx Employer Direct, a new service allowing employers to directly subsidize the manufacturer‑sponsored price of high‑cost brand medications such as GLP‑1 drugs without adding them to health‑plan formularies. The model, first piloted with retailer Hy‑Vee, lets employers contribute...
Renewables Insulate You From Oil Market Chaos
Two different worlds entirely. With the Strait of Hormuz shut down, oil producers closing production and oil tanker insurance companies ceasing coverage in the middle east: Person with no solar & no EV: Congrats, your gas expense may soon double, your...
Breaking Down Our "Red October" Moment for AI
The article warns that the Department of War’s rush to embed frontier AI models in national‑security systems mirrors the "Red October" fiasco, where safety mechanisms were disabled and catastrophic failure followed. It argues that without a mission‑aligned, fit‑for‑purpose evaluation framework,...
ChatGPT Evolving Into a Personal Super‑assistant for Life Tasks
"From a reactive chatbot to personal super assistant." Yep, she's talking about Jarvis. :) And ChatGPT might get closer to that by the end of this year -> More from the interview with OpenAI's Fidji Simo What is the future of...
Aspen Leads Nation with Firefighting Drone Technology
Colorado is leading with practical wildfire solutions. Aspen is first in the nation using new tech to get ahead of fires and protect lives, landscapes, and communities. From tackling pine beetles to statewide wildfire mitigation, we’re keeping Colorado’s forests and people...
These 6 Self-Hostable Apps Are Working Overtime on My Raspberry Pi
The piece outlines six lightweight, self‑hostable applications that run continuously on a Raspberry Pi, demonstrating how the low‑cost board can serve as a functional home‑lab server. It covers Pi‑hole for network‑wide ad blocking, Joplin for note synchronization, Navidrome for personal music...
Apple Pro Display DR Alternative : Kuycon G32P 32-Inch 6K Monitor Priced Under $2,000
The Kuycon G32P is a 32‑inch 6K monitor positioned as a budget‑friendly alternative to Apple’s Pro Display XDR, retailing for under $2,000. It offers 6144 × 3456 resolution, 99% DCI‑P3 coverage and a ΔE of 0.63, delivering professional‑grade color accuracy. Connectivity includes...
Linux 7.1 Expected To See Nice Improvements For Reducing HRTICK Timer Overhead
A set of 48 patches targeting the Linux kernel’s HRTIMER subsystem aims to dramatically lower the overhead of the high‑resolution tick (HRTICK) timer. By streamlining deadline updates on context switches and wake‑ups, the reprogramming frequency drops from roughly 2,500 to...
ElevenLabs and Google Dominate Artificial Analysis' Updated Speech-to-Text Benchmark
Artificial Analysis released version 2.0 of its AA‑WER speech‑to‑text benchmark, ranking ElevenLabs' Scribe v2 as the most accurate model with a 2.3 % word error rate. Google’s Gemini 3 Pro follows at 2.9 % and Mistral’s Voxtral Small at 3.0 %, while OpenAI’s Whisper Large v3 sits at...
AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas
AMC announced it will no longer screen the AI‑generated short “Thanksgiving Day” after a wave of online criticism. The film, which won the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival, was slated for a two‑week national run in AMC’s pre‑show...
The Pricing Pulse: Generative AI-Assisted Review Insights From the Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey
The Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey of 53 professionals reveals a fragmented market for generative AI‑assisted review pricing. Hybrid and per‑document models each account for 28.3% of responses, while per‑GB, per‑token, subscription and outcome‑based models remain niche. When per‑document rates...
The First Phone That Nods Back
HONOR unveiled the Robot Phone at MWC Barcelona, featuring a motorized 3‑axis gimbal that can physically track subjects across a room. The 4DoF system, built around a micro‑motor 70 % smaller than previous generations, is hidden behind a sliding panel and...
System Report: VLMs Unlock Efficiencies for All World Machinery
All World Machinery Supply, a Roscoe, Illinois distributor of 15,000 machine‑part SKUs, tackled a storage crunch and labor bottlenecks by installing four Kardex vertical lift modules (VLMs) and an in‑house conveyor system. The VLMs cut the warehouse footprint by 75%...
The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 Are the Best Luxury ANC Headphones that Money Can Buy
Bowers & Wilkins’ Px8 S2 is positioned as the flagship luxury ANC headphone, retailing at $799 and featuring premium Nappa‑leather cushions, carbon‑cone drivers, and versatile USB‑C and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. The headphones deliver an airy, detailed soundstage with a warm tuning that...
Special Report: 2026 Productivity Achievement Awards
Modern's 2026 Productivity Achievement Awards recognized top performers in warehousing/distribution, innovation, and e‑fulfillment. Performance Health won Warehousing/Distribution for a streamlined distribution center, reduced packaging waste, and improved KPI tracking. Staples earned the Innovation award for its integrated robotics platform, autonomous...
Productivity Solution: Andrews Streamlines Beverage Delivery
Andrews Distributing partnered with Big Joe Forklifts to deploy the LPT40 DSD, a pallet truck that integrates a scale for delivery‑by‑weight verification. The system replaces manual case counting, cutting stop times by up to 43% and easing navigation in tight store...
Why Crowning the Protein that Makes Jellyfish Glow Green as a Model Can Help Scientists Streamline Biology
The article proposes designating green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a model protein to standardize protein research, much like fruit flies or mice serve as model organisms. It argues that GFP’s visual read‑out makes it ideal for benchmarking AI‑generated protein designs...
March 1, 1966: Venera 3 Crashes Into Venus
On March 1 1966 the Soviet probe Venera 3 slammed into Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another planet’s surface. The mission followed a series of earlier Venera attempts, many of which failed to leave Earth orbit or transmit data. Weighing roughly...
Monjur Introduces Monjur Pilot AI-Powered Legal Assistant For MSPs
Monjur, a Texas‑based legal‑tech firm, launched Monjur Pilot, an AI‑powered legal assistant designed for managed service providers (MSPs). The solution combines large language models with a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) framework and a proprietary confidence‑scoring system to answer contract questions, redline...
Apple Readies Stores for Massive Launch-Driven Customer Surge
Apple is preparing retail stores for a major influx of customers in response to this week’s new products. Here’s what I’m expecting and details on the preparation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-01/apple-touch-screen-macbook-pro-fall-2026-details-cheap-macbook-launch-core-ai-mm7rcg48
Apple Swaps Core ML for New Core AI at WWDC
Among the new Apple AI announcements coming at WWDC this year: Replacing the Core ML development framework with a new Core AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-01/apple-touch-screen-macbook-pro-fall-2026-details-cheap-macbook-launch-core-ai-mm7rcg48
Financial Visibility: Why Small SaaS Firms Struggle to Track Revenue
Many small SaaS companies can’t clearly answer: “How much money are we actually making?” In Ep. 234 of The SaaS CFO Podcast, Helen Hastings shares why financial visibility shouldn’t be this hard. Watch 👇 https://t.co/BnQYh8fzzR #SaaS #AI #Quanta https://t.co/ftZ3u32GPX
Hire a Marketing Partner Builder Who Beats AI
If you are obsessed with OpenClaw, Claude Code/Codex and love growing businesses, we want to hire you to build the marketing partner that b2b companies will never outgrow. To apply, you just need to first beat AI. Link in first comment....
Do AI Company Employees Deserve Access to Your Chats?
Should employees at openai, anyhropic, google etc be able to continue to read your ai chats?
Large cfDNA Methylome Atlas Powers Multi‑Cancer Detection
A pan-cancer compendium of 1,294 plasma cell-free DNA methylomes and fragmentomes enabling multicancer detection https://t.co/A6gHwcEzqq https://t.co/mSMcR0a833
GenAI Pushes Tech Skills to Business, Demands Model Overhaul
"GenAI is shifting technical skills from IT teams into everyday business roles," enabling ops and CX leaders to pull insights without engineers. If skills are shifting, your operating model must shift too. #GenAI #AI #DigitalTransformation #CX https://t.co/8OLLAWNSNL
AI-Only Companies Promise Superior, Burnout-Free Customer Service
The irony of zero human companies: They'll probably have better customer service than most human-run businesses today. 24/7 response times No burnout No ego No politics Just ruthless optimization for user satisfaction. We've been training for this future every time we preferred the chatbot to waiting on...
Solar LCOE Projected to Drop 30% by 2035
Solar LCOE to fall 30% by 2035, says BloombergNEF #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/3AQL0ZML68
Bootstrapped SaaS Thrives on Trust, Not Code
Gah such a great take. I don’t invest in large SaaS plays, but on the micro end, especially for bootstrapped founders, it’s still a fantastic place to build.
Agentic AI Summit Will Challenge Conventional Wisdom
#MWC26 tech rehearsal—check. Come see me and @TelcoDR tomorrow morning at the Agentic AI Summit. Conventional wisdom will be challenged. https://t.co/p1HcTYpQLg
