Exclusive: Viridian Space Signs CRADA Agreement with US Air Force
Viridian Space, a California satellite startup, has signed a five‑year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force to co‑develop its air‑breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) technology for very low Earth orbit (VLEO) missions. The partnership will be based at Kirtland Air Force Base, where the Air Force will provide test facilities and Viridian will share operational data. Viridian aims to launch its first ABEP‑powered satellite within three years, targeting altitudes as low as 150 km and orbital lifetimes up to a decade. The technology promises enhanced maneuverability, higher‑resolution Earth observation, and improved communications bandwidth for both defense and commercial users.
Shows Direct Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing Dominates in Thin Layers for Photon Pairs
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have shown that direct spontaneous four‑wave mixing (SFWM) in a 10 µm‑thick lithium‑niobate layer outperforms the traditionally favored cascaded second‑harmonic generation followed by parametric down‑conversion. Using a 1030 nm femtosecond pump, they observed quadratic scaling of...
AVSS Successfully Completes Avalanche Product Validation Testing in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada
AVSS announced the completion of its first on‑mountain avalanche control test of the Precision Avalanche Management System (PAMS) in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The trial deployed SnowDart hardware and flight‑planning software to drop low‑cost, eco‑friendly explosives onto a designated avalanche...
MariaDB Discusses Database Scale and Active:active and Active:passive Architectures
MariaDB’s chief product officer Vikas Mathur explained the trade‑offs between active‑passive and active‑active database architectures. Active‑passive relies on a primary server with idle standby replicas, offering low complexity but higher cost and unused capacity. Active‑active runs multiple nodes handling reads...
Turn a Simple Shopify Pain Into a Sellable App
Renata Raya (@reraya) built a profitable Shopify app called GoRecover and sold it on @acquiredotcom. She was running a Shopify agency in Mexico City and kept seeing the same issue. Customers abandoned carts and email recovery wasn’t working. Most merchants were...
Women in STEM: Cultivating Scientific Confidence
Elisabeth Gardiner, CSO of Tevard Biosciences, warned that women remain vastly under‑represented in pharmaceutical STEM roles, occupying only 20‑30% of such positions despite comprising half of the U.S. workforce. She highlighted a "confidence paradox" where girls' interest in STEM has...
Q2 Holdings Releases 2026 Retail Banking Trends Report
Q2 Holdings released its 2026 Retail Banking Trends and Priorities report, revealing a decisive shift from external disruption to internal execution, data, and modernization. The study shows advanced technology adoption rising to 49% of banks’ priorities, while fewer than 10%...
Best Timing for Neonatal Gastrostomy with Tracheostomy
A recent clinical review evaluates the optimal timing for performing neonatal gastrostomy concurrently with tracheostomy. The authors compare outcomes of simultaneous versus staged procedures, highlighting reduced anesthesia exposure and shorter intensive care stays when both are done together. Data from...
AirX Signs Firm Order Agreement with Eve Air Mobility for Two eVTOL Aircraft
Eve Air Mobility has signed a second binding order with Tokyo‑based AirX for up to 50 eVTOL aircraft, with an initial delivery of two units slated for 2029 and an option for 48 more as demand grows. The agreement expands...
GSK Delivers in New CEO Miels' First Financial Update
Luke Miels’ first financial update as GSK chief executive shows an 8% rise in fourth‑quarter sales to £8.62 bn, lifting full‑year revenue 7% to £32.67 bn. Growth was driven by new launches such as Blenrep, Nucala and Exdensur, and a pipeline bolstered...
Robins Tharakan: The "Skip Scan" You Already Had Before V18
PostgreSQL 18 introduces a native skip‑scan operator for multicolumn B‑tree indexes, allowing the planner to jump between distinct leading‑key values instead of scanning the entire index. Earlier releases could already perform a full‑index scan when the index was smaller than...
U.S. Senate Hearing on Autonomous Vehicles to Include Testimony From Tesla, Waymo
The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on autonomous vehicles, featuring testimony from Tesla and Waymo executives, the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association chief, and a transportation law professor. Lawmakers aim to address the fragmented state‑by‑state regulatory...
Senate Committee Delays Consideration of Bill to Streamline FCC Satellite Licensing
The Senate Commerce Committee delayed markup of the Satellite and Telecommunications Streamlining Act (S.3639), a bipartisan bill that would require the FCC to decide satellite and ground‑station license applications within one year. Proponents argue the measure would eliminate regulatory bottlenecks...
Wasting the Public Purse: How the CAA Litigates Against the Very Innovators the UK Government Funds
Dr Chris Crockford, a UK‑funded drone researcher, publicly resigns his CAA licences after the Civil Aviation Authority’s Safety and Airspace Regulation Group (SARG) banned him from operating drones over 250 g despite no violations. He alleges the CAA spent hundreds of thousands of...
Ask 13 Critical Questions Before Building AI Projects
Most AI projects fail before you write a single line of code. Not because the tech is hard. Because you skipped the questions that actually matter. Most teams choose tools based on hype, not requirements. They pick frameworks before understanding scope. And start building before...
Expert Intelligence Raises $4.7M to Automate Decision-Making in Laboratory Environments
Expert Intelligence announced a $4.7 million seed round to commercialize its Limited Sample Model (LSM), an AI platform that automates decision‑making in regulated laboratory environments. LSM learns from as few as 30 representative samples, enabling labs to transform raw instrument data...
The PPC Skills That Won’t Be Replaced By Automation
Automation is handling routine PPC tasks, pushing specialists toward consulting roles. The most valuable PPC experts now blend profit‑focused economics with campaign execution, moving beyond ROAS to contribution margin. They diagnose when paid search isn’t the answer, integrate cross‑channel insights,...
ClearBank and Volt Partner to Bring Open Banking Closer to ‘Card Parity’
ClearBank has teamed up with real‑time payments platform Volt to launch GBP and EUR merchant accounts powered by ClearBank’s cloud‑native infrastructure. The new accounts provide virtual IBANs, named accounts and full lifecycle features such as automated reconciliation, fund attribution and...
MomentProof Deploys Patented Digital Asset Protection
MomentProof, Inc. has deployed its patented MomentProof Enterprise platform for AXA, enabling cryptographically sealed, AI‑resilient digital assets in the insurer's claims process. The technology certifies images, video, audio and metadata at capture, providing deterministic authenticity verification. AXA reports eliminated probabilistic...
York Drops Protest of Apex’s SBIR Award
York Space Systems withdrew its protest of the Department of Defense’s $45.9 million Phase II SBIR award to Apex Space, and a federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice on Jan. 30. The motion to dismiss was filed a day before York’s planned...
Accel Doubles Down on Fibr AI as Agents Turn Static Websites Into One-to-One Experiences
Fibr AI announced a $5.7 million seed round led by Accel, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. The Boston‑based startup uses autonomous AI agents to convert static webpages into real‑time, one‑to‑one experiences for each visitor. Early adoption is picking up among large...
Why Operational Threat Intelligence Needs AI Agents Now, Not Later
Operational threat intelligence is being overwhelmed by noise and slow manual processes, prompting a shift toward AI agents. Gartner highlights that most organizations lack end‑to‑end AI integration across the intelligence lifecycle, with only 43% reporting tangible benefits. AI agents can...
Microsoft Rolls Out Native Sysmon Monitoring in Windows 11
Microsoft has begun rolling out native Sysmon functionality to Windows 11 Insider builds in the Beta and Dev channels. The built‑in service mirrors the popular Sysinternals Sysmon tool, logging process, file and clipboard events to the Windows Event Log. It remains...
Announcing the Multi-Sensor Edge-to-Cloud MatrixSpace AI Software Platform
MatrixSpace unveiled an upgraded MatrixSpace AI Software Platform that links edge‑based AiEdge sensors with AiCloud SaaS for real‑time, multi‑sensor drone detection. The solution fuses radar, Remote ID, ADS‑B and optical feeds, delivering threat assessment and early warning for both on‑site...
Former Nuance Communications Employee Facing More Charges in 2023 Geisinger Data Breach Case
Former Nuance Communications employee Max Vance has been hit with two additional false‑statement counts after a superseding indictment revealed he lied to FBI agents about downloading protected health information. The indictment follows his original charge of unlawfully accessing data belonging...
War Department Announces Vendors Invited to Compete in Phase I of the Drone Dominance Program
The U.S. War Department unveiled the 25 companies invited to Phase I of the Drone Dominance Program, a fast‑track acquisition effort to field low‑cost, one‑way attack drones. The Phase I "Gauntlet" will start on 18 February at Fort Benning, with about $150 million in...
OpenAI Accuses Musk's xAI of Systematic Evidence Destruction in Antitrust Case
OpenAI alleges that Elon Musk’s xAI deliberately destroyed evidence by routing all business communications through auto‑deleting messaging tools, despite a legal duty to preserve documents. The claim is part of an antitrust lawsuit in which xAI and Musk’s platform X...
Perfection Paralyzes; Launch Fast, Iterate, Succeed
I'm thoroughly convinced that "perfect" is the enemy of success. It's just a fancy way to stall. And it crushes so many people. They sit around: - Tweaking fonts - Changing colors - Selecting new tools I call it "Rocking...
HREX v 1.07 George Larocque
John Sumser and George LaRocque discuss the rapid evolution of HR technology, emphasizing how market sizing, capital flow, and data-driven decision‑making are reshaping the industry. They highlight recruiting’s lack of accountability, the re‑evaluation of education’s value, and the disruptive impact...
Impulse AI Launches Autonomous Machine Learning Engineer That Outperformed 97.5% of Human ML Engineers on Kaggle
Impulse AI unveiled an autonomous machine‑learning platform that placed in the top 2.5% of a Kaggle competition, ranking 782 out of 31,791 participants. The system claims to complete the entire ML workflow—from data preparation to production deployment—in under an hour,...
Voyager Outlines Infrastructure-Led Roadmap for Long-Term US Lunar Presence
Voyager Technologies unveiled an infrastructure‑centric lunar roadmap that aligns with the White House’s Securing American Space Superiority order. The strategy emphasizes durable habitats, power, communications and autonomous logistics to support long‑term human and robotic presence on the Moon. Voyager will...
Lunar Soil Test Chamber Paves Way for Future Moon Construction
Engineers need reliable geotechnical data before building on the Moon, and a new ESA‑funded project led by Norway’s NGI has delivered a laboratory chamber that mimics lunar vacuum and temperature for cone‑penetration testing. The Environment Controlled Calibration Chamber uses lunar...
£1.85 Million Competition Launched to Counter Illegal UAS Use Around Prisons and Sensitive Sites
UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) has launched a £1.85 million competition to develop low‑collateral counter‑drone technologies for prisons and other sensitive sites. The programme, backed by the Ministry of Justice, Home Office, MOD and other security agencies, offers funding across two challenge...
ExLabs Taps SpacePilot Autonomy for Apophis Asteroid Mission
ExLabs has chosen CUS‑GNC’s SpacePilot autonomy software to guide its upcoming commercial mission to asteroid Apophis, slated for launch during the 2029 close‑approach window. The onboard guidance, navigation and control system will operate beyond 100 million kilometres from Earth, where communication...
Novartis Says Generics to Erode $4B From 2026 Sales
Novartis announced that generic competition will erode about $4 billion from its 2026 sales, primarily affecting three blockbuster drugs. The heart‑failure medication Entrezto, its top seller, will see its first generic entry in the fourth quarter of 2026. The company warned...
Google On Serving Markdown Pages To LLM Crawlers
Google’s John Mueller warned that serving raw Markdown files to large language model (LLM) crawlers poses significant technical risks. He highlighted uncertainties around link parsing, internal navigation, and whether bots even recognize Markdown as anything beyond plain text. Mueller also...
AI Anomaly Detection for Warehouse Security: Smarter Protection Beyond Cameras
AI anomaly detection is reshaping warehouse security by using machine‑learning models to learn normal movement, access and handling patterns and flagging deviations in real time. The technology fuses video, IoT sensors, RFID and WMS data, delivering precise alerts while cutting...
Decoding Neural Population Geometry in Shared Tasks
Researchers in Nature Neuroscience reveal how neural populations encode multiple tasks using shared geometric structures. By mapping firing rates into high‑dimensional spaces, they show that tasks with latent commonalities are represented in low‑dimensional subspaces, while task‑specific components occupy orthogonal higher‑dimensional...
Missing Roadmap Turns AI Pilots Into Hallucination Hazards
A company shipped a customer-facing AI bot. It worked well enough that they felt confident putting it live. Then one day, a customer asked about a product feature. The bot answered confidently. It gave the feature name, the pricing, and...
Novo Drops, Eli Lilly Rebounds—GLP‑1 Earnings Cycle Repeats
GLP-1 earnings reports playbook: 1) $NVO: Guys, it’s not looking great for GLP-1 sellers ***$NVO and $LLY sell off*** 2) $LLY: Huh? Nah we’re good. ***$NVO stays down $LLY rips*** 3) Repeat
Google Ad Network Invalid Clicks Report: Fraud vs Accidental
Mike Ryan examined over 550 million ecommerce clicks from Q4 2025 using Google’s new “general invalid clicks” metric. He found the Google Display Network (GDN) registers the highest invalid‑click rate—nearly one in five clicks—though most are accidental. In contrast, the Search Partner...
Novartis Halts PIT565 T‑cell Engager Development
Confirmned discontinuation of $NVS PIT565, which seems to be a specifically targeted T-cell engager (also hit CD2). cf $AZN Titan platform.
Noah Taps Sumsub for Reusable KYC
Financial infrastructure firm Noah has teamed up with identity‑verification specialist Sumsub to embed a reusable KYC framework across its platform. The integration enables users verified by any of Sumsub’s 4,000+ partner institutions to onboard on Noah‑powered wallets, exchanges and payment...
SmallSat Alliance Shifts Focus From Proliferation to Coordination
The SmallSat Alliance, which spent a decade lobbying for proliferated low‑Earth‑orbit constellations, is now pivoting to coordinate those networks as a unified system. At its Miami Space Summit, the group of more than 50 members will discuss how the Space...
Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Famous Martian Meteorite
Researchers applied both X‑ray and neutron computed tomography to the Martian meteorite NWA 7034, known as Black Beauty, revealing hydrogen‑rich iron oxyhydroxide clasts that make up about 0.4 % of the scanned volume. These clasts account for roughly 11 % of the sample’s water,...
Simcardo Highlights Mobile Connectivity as Critical Infrastructure for the AI Economy
Simcardo, a global eSIM marketplace, argues that mobile connectivity is evolving into essential AI infrastructure, underpinning travel, remote work, and digital commerce. While cloud data centers dominate AI discussions, reliable real‑time mobile data remains a critical dependency for AI‑powered platforms....
Love Island Live Shopping Event via eBay Live with Toni & Cacherel
eBay is launching a one‑day live shopping event on Friday 13 February at 3 PM GMT, streaming on eBay Live and hosted by Love Island All Stars winners Toni Laites and Cacherel Mercer. The showcase will sell the exact pre‑loved designer pieces...
Lilly Beats Sales Forecasts, Plots Major Growth in 2026 in Stark Contrast to Novo
Eli Lilly reported fourth‑quarter 2025 revenue that topped analysts’ forecasts, signaling a stronger‑than‑expected performance. The company also projected a sizable revenue increase for 2026, driven by upcoming product launches and an expanding oncology pipeline. This upbeat guidance contrasts sharply with Novo Nordisk’s...
Kreios and BVI Bring AI-Driven Compliance to German Funds
Kreios and the German fund association BVI have formed a strategic cooperation to embed regulatory expertise into operational compliance using AI and rules‑based automation. Kreios will supply its REGMATIX platform, which automates document checks and applies digital validation rules, while...
PROFILE: How Beer52 Built a Community‑driven Craft Beer Empire
Beer52, launched in 2013, has become the UK’s leading craft‑beer subscription club, amassing over 200,000 members and earning a spot among the Sunday Times 100 fastest‑growing companies. For £27 a month, subscribers receive eight curated beers, snacks and the Ferment...
