This March 23, We’ll Be Introducing the Gemini Advantage in Google Marketing Platform.
Google Marketing Platform announced the "Gemini advantage" at NewFront on March 23, showcasing AI‑powered Gemini models across its entire suite. The rollout promises deeper visibility into the consumer journey, real‑time data activation, and reduced fragmentation for advertisers. Leading brands will demonstrate how the unified platform uncovers untapped value and drives higher ROI. The event will be livestreamed at 11:30 AM ET, inviting marketers to see the new capabilities in action.
Real-Time Energy Insights: A Smarter Way to Manage Bill Stress and Rising Demand
Utilities are confronting a surge in electricity demand driven by data centers, widespread electrification, and more frequent extreme weather events. To meet this pressure, they are replacing legacy meters with AMI 2.0 smart meters that deliver high‑resolution, real‑time data. A pilot...
FDA Clears Six Indications for Qure.ai's Chest X-Ray Reporting Tool
The FDA granted 510(k) Class II clearance to Qure.ai’s qXR-Detect, adding six new chest‑X‑ray detection indications. The tool now flags findings across lung, pleura, mediastinum/hila & heart, bone, hardware and other regions, expanding the company’s U.S. portfolio to 26 FDA clearances. The clearance...
Shopify Dominant Software in New Stores
ShopRank research shows Shopify powered 54% of new online stores in the Netherlands, 49% in France and 41% in Spain last year. Across seven major European markets, Shopify launched 148,044 new stores, outpacing WooCommerce’s 99,140 and PrestaShop’s 9,747. WooCommerce saw...
Researchers Aim to Visualize Brain Activity at True Speed
Johns Hopkins researchers, led by Adam Charles, secured a four‑year, $2.7 million NIH grant to build an AI‑enhanced optical imaging system that can record brain activity 20 to 50 times faster than current methods. The platform will translate voltage spikes and...
Zambian Copper Producer Selects Sandvik for Surface Fleet Replacement
One of the world’s largest copper producers in Zambia has ordered 16 Sandvik D25KX down‑the‑hole rotary drill rigs to replace its aging surface fleet and support a newly commissioned expansion. The order, booked for 2025, includes Sandvik’s Remote Monitoring Service,...
FDA Chief Backs Rare Disease Rejections, Lauds Vinay Prasad
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary defends rare disease drug rejections, Vinay Prasad "Vinay Prasad is a genius,” Makary said. “He’s on loan from UCSF. He’s published over 500 scientific peer-reviewed articles, and some of the drugs they are criticizing him for...
Debit Card Fraud Losses Rise
A Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank analysis shows debit card fraud loss rates rose between 2021 and 2023, driven primarily by card‑not‑present transactions. While online fraud increased, in‑person fraud declined on dual‑message networks but grew on single‑message networks. The report...
The Real Battle in Premium & Social Content: Reach Vs. Activation
The U.S. hosts over 202 million adult YouTube users, 177 million on Instagram and 105 million on TikTok, creating massive ad‑supported audiences for creators. While a few, like Markiplier’s promotion of *Iron Lung*, have turned social clout into box‑office hits, most creators struggle to...
Ten Near‑Term AI Predictions Shaping Healthcare
I've written so much about various details of healthcare's AI revolution that it was time to come up with a high-level overview of what we can certainly expect from AI in the next few years. 10 predictions, coming from four...
Hapi Launches Folio Finder
Hapi has launched Folio Finder, a standard API that lets hotel brands and hospitality tech providers instantly search and retrieve guest folios and invoice details across multiple property‑management systems. The tool tackles fragmented billing data by delivering real‑time access without...
Best Big Cartel Alternatives: My Top Picks in 2026
The guide reviews nine Big Cartel alternatives after 200 hours of hands‑on testing, ranking each platform on monetization options, design flexibility, product support, pricing, and scalability. Shopify emerges as the top choice for creators needing a full‑featured ecommerce stack, while...
Fiserv Appoints New Executives
Fiserv announced three senior hires this month: Lia Cao as chief revenue officer for enterprise and platforms, Robert Clarkson as chief revenue officer for small‑business and Clover POS, and Adit Gadgil as global head of business development. All three are...
UK Appoints Former Amazon Exec Doug Gurr as CMA Chair
The UK government has confirmed former Amazon executive Doug Gurr as the permanent chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Gurr, who previously led Amazon’s UK operations, had been serving in an interim capacity before his appointment. He will...
Most Detailed Spatial Atlas yet for Mapping the Pancreatic Tumor Microenvironment
An international team led by the University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Bristol Myers Squibb has produced the most detailed spatial atlas of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) to date. Using spatial transcriptomics and spatial molecular imaging...
E-Con Systems to Showcase Next-Gen Edge AI and Multi-Camera Vision Solutions at NVIDIA GTC 2026 and Embedded World 2026
e-con Systems will unveil its next‑generation edge AI and multi‑camera vision solutions at NVIDIA GTC 2026 in San Jose and Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg. The company will demo Darsi Pro, a production‑ready platform built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX that handles eight HDR GMSL...
After Sarepta’s Annus Horribilis, Elevidys Sales Expected To Continue Downward Spiral
Elevidys, Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, posted $110 million in fourth‑quarter sales, bringing full‑year revenue to $898.7 million—well below the $1 billion benchmark. Safety incidents in 2025 and a severe flu season have eroded confidence, prompting analysts to project 2026...
Greek Court Sentences Predator Spyware Gang
A Greek court sentenced four individuals, including two Israelis, to prison for operating the illegal Predator spyware that targeted politicians, journalists and business executives. The defendants—linked to the Israeli firm Intellexa—were convicted of breaching telephone confidentiality and illegal data access....
European Space Assets Drive Structural Transformation in Global Aviation
The European Commission’s Copernicus Observer reports that the EU Space Programme—Galileo, EGNOS, Copernicus and the upcoming IRIS²—is reshaping civil aviation by moving navigation and connectivity to orbit. Since July 2025 Galileo’s OSNMA has added cryptographic authentication, protecting flights from GNSS...
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[Comment] Impact of Adding Hormone Therapy to Postoperative Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer
Adding androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to definitive radiotherapy improves overall survival for men with high‑risk prostate cancer, but its benefit when combined with postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) after prostatectomy is less clear. Randomised trials such as GETUG‑AFU 16, SPPORT, and the RADICALS‑HD...
Can Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy Launch Boost QCOM Shares?
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, a custom‑tuned version of its flagship mobile processor designed for Samsung’s upcoming S26 Ultra worldwide and the S26+ and S26 in select markets. The chip integrates a third‑generation Oryon CPU, next‑gen Adreno GPU, Hexagon...
Connected Component Analysis: Turning Pixels Into Meaningful Objects
Turning Pixels into Meaning: Connected Components Ever wondered how computers count shapes in an image? 🖼️✨ Connected Component Analysis labels each blob in a binary image so pixels with the same label belong to the same object. From background = 0...
Covalent Organic Frameworks Assembled Inside Tumor Cells Trigger Cancer Cell Death and Immune Activation
Researchers at the University of Macau have demonstrated the first in‑situ synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) inside lysosomes of cancer cells, using acidic pH‑driven imine condensation of TAPB and DMTP. The crystalline UMCOF1 particles rupture lysosomal membranes, liberating ferrous...
FEATURE*: Augustin Friedel on How OEMs Can Succeed in SDV/AV Transformation
Augustin Friedel, a software‑defined vehicle specialist at MHP, outlines how legacy OEMs can overcome cultural inertia and restructure around product‑based P&L ownership to accelerate SDV and autonomous‑vehicle development. He argues that consolidating hardware into versatile compute domains and leveraging software...
The Contract Is the Project – It’s Time We Treated It that Way
NEC Contracts argues that the contract should be treated as the project itself, highlighting how NEC4’s collaborative framework embeds early warnings, programme management and compulsory compensation events. The firm notes that over £100 billion of work has been delivered under NEC3...
OpenAI Wants to Get the Government Hooked on ChatGPT
OpenAI is rapidly embedding its generative AI tools across the U.S. federal landscape, with 37 agencies and roughly 80,000 employees now using ChatGPT. The company is offering the technology at deep discounts and has secured a fast‑track pathway to deploy...
FDA’s One Trial Policy Not a Revolution but a Potentially Risky Evolution
The FDA announced it will default to a single pivotal trial for new drug applications, extending a practice long used in oncology and rare‑disease approvals. In 2024, 66% of new molecular entities were cleared based on one trial, signaling a...
Buyers Satisficing: Time Constraints, Not Fear, Drive Choices
It can be too easy to look at buyer research and come away with a perspective that buyers make overly-safe, incomplete, and sub-optimal decisions. Worse, it can be too easy as a marketer to see buyers as needing us to...
UAT-10027 Targets U.S. Education and Healthcare with Dohdoor Backdoor
Cisco Talos has identified a new threat cluster, UAT-10027, delivering a novel backdoor called Dohdoor that leverages DNS‑over‑HTTPS for command‑and‑control. The malware uses DLL side‑loading through legitimate Windows executables and drops a Cobalt Strike beacon that unhooks NTDLL calls to evade...
Publisher Advertising Alliance Teams up with Microsoft Ad-Buying Platform
Ozone, a coalition of more than 500 UK and US publishers, has secured its first deal to list inventory on Microsoft’s Media Marketplace, exposing over 200 million monthly users to programmatic buyers. The integration leverages Ozone’s first‑party reader data, promising more...
India's Energy Demand to Surpass US by 2040s and China by 2060s, Report Reveals
Shell India’s new scenarios sketch projects that India’s total energy demand will outpace the United States in the 2040s and overtake China by the 2060s, driven by rapid economic and population growth. The report shows the fossil‑fuel share in the...
Triple-A and Mastercard Move Join Forces to Speed Up Global Remittances for Banks and Fintechs
Triple‑A has integrated Mastercard Move’s cross‑border money‑movement network into its remittance‑as‑a‑service platform, enabling near real‑time payouts for European banks, fintechs, and telecom operators. The partnership lets institutions launch branded global remittance services without building costly infrastructure, while also opening a...
Target Leans Into Spirit of Adventure with Roller Rabbit Collab
Target is rolling out a limited‑time collaboration with cult‑favorite lifestyle brand Roller Rabbit on March 7, offering more than 250 items that span apparel, travel gear, home goods and new categories such as luggage and outdoor products. The collection is anchored...
The CBN Has a Plan to Make Regulation Work for Fintechs. Here Is What It Looks Like.
On Feb 2 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria published its Fintech Policy Insight Report, outlining a new regulatory playbook aimed at turning oversight into a partnership engine for the sector. The blueprint introduces a quarterly Fintech Engagement Forum, a Single Regulatory...
NASA Names Acting Leaders for Two Key Human Spaceflight Roles
NASA announced that Joel Montalbano will serve as acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate and Dana Hutcherson will become acting program manager of the Commercial Crew Program, effective immediately. Both officials previously held deputy roles and inherit...
SHINE Raises $240 Million in Funding to Advance Commercial Fusion Technology
SHINE Technologies announced a $240 million equity raise led by NantWorks, bringing its total funding above $1 billion. The round adds Dr. Patrick Soon‑Shiong to the board, linking the fusion firm with a serial biotech entrepreneur. SHINE will use the capital to...
AI Agents Let You Build Vision Apps without Coding
🚀 Building a Computer Vision app - without writing a single line of code. In this walkthrough, we used an AI coding agent to create a real-time face detection application that can blur or pixelate faces on a live...
AI Agents Turn Discovery Into a Subscription Habit
As agents improve and spread across more surfaces, discovery turns into a subscription habit, and the work of search gets delegated. https://t.co/Zupbt4bGFY via @DuaneForrester, @sejournal
How to Monitor Brand Mentions in ChatGPT
ChatGPT now influences buying decisions but offers no native analytics, forcing brands to devise a dedicated monitoring strategy. Mentions appear either from the model’s training corpus or real‑time Retrieval‑Augmented Generation searches. The guide outlines a quick manual audit using targeted...
Flexport Winter 2026 Tech Release Live at 8 Am PT
I'm presenting Flexport's Winter 2026 Tech Release at 8 am PT (in 10 minutes). Watch live at this link, and then I'll be taking live questions from the audience after the presentation: https://t.co/BNfvF8nm6x
AI Upskilling vs Deskilling: Choose Your Future Role
#TimTalk – Deskilling Vs upskilling with AI what it means and where you want to be with Matt Mishak https://t.co/yKGchqQBMZ via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #SalesEnablement #Marketing #Leadership #Tech #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureofWork
Model Context Protocols Can Serve as Healthcare AI Guardrails
FDB’s Virginia Halsey introduced Model Context Protocols, a set of contractual guardrails for healthcare AI. The protocols require AI models to achieve a predefined confidence threshold before influencing clinical decisions and restrict their behavior to approved use‑cases. By embedding these...
Speed Up Pen‑Test Remediation with PlexTrac’s Automated Workflow
(Sponsor) If pentest reporting takes weeks, remediation stalls. ⏱️ PlexTrac replaces spreadsheet tracking with a findings-to-fix workflow and exec-ready reporting. See Demo: https://t.co/NuE4kH3FXK https://t.co/DbP8Xmotdx
Doing Everything Right Isn’t Enough After Google Updates
One of the most common things I hear from site owners who were hit by Google updates: “we were doing everything right.” 🤔
Tesla Cybercab Program Manager Exits Ahead of Launch
Victor Nechita, the vehicle program manager who shepherded Tesla's purpose‑built Cybercab from concept to the first production unit at Giga Texas, has left the company. His departure follows a wave of senior program‑manager exits that have hit the Model 3, Model Y,...
ChatGPT Adds “Naughty Chats” Toggle, Edging Toward Pornification
ChatGPT's 'Naughty chats' toggle is the first step towards its pornification Code in ChatGPT app reveals an upcoming setting that allows “spicier,” adult-themed language ✅ Details - https://t.co/GLHDlhZsYT #AI #ChatGPT https://t.co/4XNDGh0aib
Structure Your Homepage: Prioritize Outcomes Over Features
That’s the problem. • Homepage speaks to every persona • CTA assumes everyone wants a demo • Hero lists features, not outcomes High-converting sites are structured. Every element has a job. Fix the weakest section first. Then the next. See the 8-part framework 👇 https://t.co/JDMlMnrHfM
FOCAS Enables Precise Site‑Specific M6A Erasure via CRISPR
m6A is the most common internal mRNA modification, but we still don't know what most m6A sites actually DO. Zhang et al. built FOCAS -- a CRISPR-based platform using dCas13b-FTO to precisely remove m6A at specific sites without touching the DNA. https://t.co/G6kSgpSSbV...
7 Content Strategies to Build Authority and Trust
7 Ways to Use Content to Build Authority and Trust in Any Niche (+ Real Examples) - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/CJYHcehmSM https://t.co/aQ6RDwYiCA
Deskilling vs Upskilling with AI—Choose Your Future
#TimTalk – Deskilling Vs upskilling with AI what it means and where you want to be with Matt Mishak https://t.co/eYE2YlGZ5p
