News•Feb 27, 2026
European Solar Industry: PV Hybrid Systems and New Financing Models in Focus at Intersolar Europe 2026
The European solar market posted strong growth in 2025, with Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Poland driving capacity additions. At Intersolar Europe 2026, industry leaders will showcase PV‑wind‑storage hybrid plants and new financing structures, especially Contracts for Difference (CfD). Falling battery prices—down to $70/kWh—are making hybrid solutions economically attractive. The conference expects 2,800 exhibitors and over 100,000 visitors, underscoring the sector’s momentum.
By Renewable Energy Industry
News•Feb 27, 2026
Managing Migraines and Diabetes? Theranica Proves Migraine Wearable Is Safe to Use with CGMs
Theranica published a peer‑reviewed study confirming that its Nerivio Remote Electrical Neuromodulation (REN) wearable can be used concurrently with leading continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems without compromising data accuracy. The trial involved 21 adults with diabetes, testing Abbott FreeStyle Libre...
By HIT Consultant
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements
Intel released the 2025Q4 version of its open‑source Media Driver and VPL GPU Runtime, adding upstream support for the upcoming Nova Lake S platform. The update extends the driver’s compatibility from Broadwell up through Nova Lake, while also dropping accelerated MPEG‑2...
By Phoronix
News•Feb 27, 2026
Where the Patient Experience Is Heading – And 3 Ways Healthcare Providers Can Meet That Moment
Telehealth surged from 15% to 86% of physicians between 2019 and 2021, and a 2024 survey shows 94% of patients would repeat virtual visits. This shift has turned remote care into a baseline expectation. AI is now poised to deepen...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 27, 2026
ICYMI Fintech Funding Round-Up: Confido, WafR, Burst, and More
Fintech investors continued to pour capital into niche infrastructure this week, with Confido securing $9 million to expand its legal‑tech payment platform, and Morocco‑based WafR raising $4 million to grow a digital network for corner stores. In the U.S., health‑spending paytech Burst...
By Fintech Futures
News•Feb 27, 2026
Amazon Joins $110B OpenAI Funding Round
OpenAI closed a record‑breaking $110 billion funding round, with Amazon contributing $50 billion—$15 billion now and $35 billion later. The deal also ties OpenAI to Amazon Web Services, committing $100 billion in cloud spend over eight years and integrating Amazon’s Trainium chips. A new Stateful...
By MediaPost
News•Feb 27, 2026
Omics in Orlando Day 2: A Video Report From AGBT
The AGBT Day 2 video recap features Julianna LeMieux and Kevin Davies highlighting the meeting’s headline announcements. Vizgen unveiled a spatial‑omics platform aimed at organoid research, while Illumina introduced the TruPath Genome product, formerly known as Constellation mapped reads. Bruker launched...
By GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
News•Feb 27, 2026
How AI Transcript Evaluation Automates GPA Re-Calculations and Curriculum Matching
Transcript evaluation remains a manual bottleneck in higher‑education admissions despite widespread digital upgrades. Rising application volumes, diverse grading systems, and sophisticated fraud increase pressure on lean admissions teams. AI‑driven platforms like TruEnroll™ now extract structured course data from PDFs, automate...
By EdTechReview (India)
News•Feb 27, 2026
Later CEO Scott Sutton Breaks Down How Later 360 Unifies Creator Marketing Measurement
Later introduced Later 360, a unified analytics platform that merges organic content, paid amplification, and verified commerce data into a single reporting environment. The tool delivers granular visibility down to the SKU level, allowing marketers to trace every dollar, click,...
By Net Influencer
News•Feb 27, 2026
Purafy and Electromaax Announce Strategic Partnership
Purafy Clean Technologies and Electromaax have formed a strategic partnership to produce and distribute the Purafy Portage, a portable water purification and desalination system. Electromaax will handle manufacturing and leverage its global marine distribution network, while Purafy supplies graphene‑enhanced ultrafiltration...
By Graphene-Info
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Building the Stochastic Sandpit for AI
The article proposes a "stochastic sandpit" as a thinking workspace where generative AI is used for exploration rather than as a vending‑machine answer engine. It contrasts two usage modes: insurance mode, which enforces tight guardrails for compliance and predictability, and...
By DennisKennedy.Blog
News•Feb 27, 2026
Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren Top New York Fashion Week Social Media Rankings as Total Media Value Reaches $275M
New York Fashion Week FW26 generated $275 million in total media value, a 73 % increase year‑over‑year. Calvin Klein led with $81.3 million, followed by Ralph Lauren ($58.4 million) and Michael Kors ($56.7 million). Their success stemmed from distinct tactics: APAC‑focused celebrity partnerships for Calvin Klein,...
By Net Influencer
News•Feb 27, 2026
How Boston Is Transforming Its Outdated 311 System
Boston is overhauling its legacy 311 non‑emergency service platform, replacing the 2008 CRM with a cloud‑based, low‑code solution from Creatio and implementation partner Keen360. The new system already tracks informational calls, which represent over half of request volume, and aims...
By InformationWeek
News•Feb 27, 2026
Study of $1.3B in Meta Ad Spend Suggests Creative Output, Not Creative Intuition, Drives Results
Motion’s analysis of $1.29 billion in Meta ad spend across 600,000 ads shows that only 4‑8 % of creatives become “winners,” yet they capture roughly 55 % of total budget. Advertisers that produce the most winners do so by scaling creative output, launching...
By Net Influencer
News•Feb 27, 2026
Handl Health Raises $14.2M to Optimize Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
Handl Health announced a $14.2 million Series A round led by Arthur Ventures, aimed at scaling its unified health‑plan platform for brokers, carriers, and TPAs. The solution aggregates pricing, utilization, benefit, and quality data to let employers model and continuously...
By HIT Consultant
Podcast•Feb 27, 2026•38 min
AI for Scientists, FDA Reverses Course, and Advances in Cancer Therapeutics
The episode covers three main business stories: Tamarin Bio’s $13.6M Series A to build an AI model‑coordination platform that makes tools like AlphaFold accessible to wet‑lab biologists; the FDA’s reversal on Moderna’s mRNA‑1010 seasonal flu vaccine, spurring a modest stock...
By Touching Base (GEN Podcasts)
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Transduction-Ready Viral Particles
AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) now provides ready‑to‑use lentiviral particles with titers exceeding 1×10⁷ IFU / mL, eliminating the need for in‑house virus production. The third‑generation self‑inactivating vectors are supplied in research‑grade and GMP‑grade formats, requiring only BSL‑2 containment. High‑titer, purified particles enable efficient...
By BioTechniques (independent journal site)
News•Feb 27, 2026
Tagshop AI Expands AI Ad Creation With Kling 3.0, Seedance Models, New Templates, and Upcoming AI Ad Clone Feature
Tagshop AI unveiled a major upgrade that integrates Kling 3.0, Seedance V1 Pro and 2.0 models, expanding its AI‑driven video ad creation suite. The enhancements deliver cinematic visual quality, faster multi‑variant generation, and a library of professionally designed templates for...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 27, 2026
Carbon Fibers Bend and Straighten Under Electric Control
Researchers at the Polish Academy of Sciences have shown that bare carbon fibers can be bent and straightened reversibly using electricity, without any coatings or structural modifications. The fibers act as bipolar electrodes in a closed electrochemical cell, where asymmetric...
By NanoDaily (Nano Technology News)
News•Feb 27, 2026
Quantum Team Reads Information From Robust Majorana Qubits Using Quantum Capacitance
Researchers demonstrated a quantum‑capacitance technique that reads the parity of Majorana‑based qubits in a minimal Kitaev chain, achieving single‑shot, real‑time detection. The modular device—two semiconductor quantum dots linked by a superconducting segment—revealed parity coherence times exceeding one millisecond. This global...
By NanoDaily (Nano Technology News)
News•Feb 27, 2026
WSP Cautions Against ‘AI Hysteria’ on Q4 Earnings Call
WSP’s CEO Alexandre L’Heureux told investors that the firm is not threatened by the current wave of AI hype, describing the market mood as shifting from “AI euphoria to AI hysteria.” He highlighted the company’s “machine‑in‑the‑middle” approach, where human expertise...
By Construction Dive
News•Feb 27, 2026
NHS "Isn't Delivering Equitable Care for Rare Diseases"
Genetic Alliance UK’s equity report warns the NHS is falling short for the 3.5 million Britons living with rare diseases. A quarter of patients wait three years for a diagnosis, only 5 % of conditions have approved treatments, and just 10 % of...
By pharmaphorum
News•Feb 27, 2026
The Copilot Reality Check: What Enterprise Adoption Data Reveals About The AI Boom
Forrester’s Q1 2026 Wave reveals that enterprise adoption of Microsoft Copilot remains cautious, with most organizations still in pilot phases across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365. CIOs demand concrete, outcome‑based use cases rather than generic productivity promises, emphasizing ROI, data readiness,...
By Forrester Blogs
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Electric Eel Biology Inspires Powerful Gel Battery
Researchers at Penn State have created a fully hydrogel‑based power source that mimics the ionic discharge of electric eels. By spin‑coating four 20 µm hydrogel layers, they achieved ultra‑thin electrocytes with dramatically lower internal resistance. The resulting gel battery delivers power...
By Nanowerk
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
BSC Deploys AI at the Service of Companies at MWC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Factory took center stage at Mobile World Congress’s 4YFN showcase, unveiling a catalog of 24 AI‑driven services organized into six strategic pillars. By January 2026 the factory had already delivered 505 services, trained 314 participants...
By HPCwire
News•Feb 27, 2026
The Hidden Surge in Sales Promotion Fraud: What Retailers Must Prepare For in 2026
Sales promotion fraud is accelerating as retailers launch richer incentives in 2026, and AI‑powered bots and synthetic identities are now automating claim submissions at scale. Fraudsters exploit loopholes in cashback, rebate and trade‑in programs, using deep‑fake receipts and coordinated “promotion...
By Retail TouchPoints
News•Feb 27, 2026
Starlink Will Provide Connectivity to Archer’s Midnight Air Taxis
Archer Aviation announced a partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink to equip its Midnight electric air taxis with low‑Earth‑orbit satellite internet. The integration will provide high‑speed, low‑latency connectivity for passenger Wi‑Fi and real‑time data links between aircraft, pilots and ground teams. Testing...
By Urban Air Mobility News
News•Feb 27, 2026
The Exodus From L3 Autonomy Is Far From Universal
SAE Level 3 autonomy, once seen as the middle step toward fully driverless cars, is encountering uneven adoption across the industry. While several manufacturers have paused or cancelled their Level 3 programs due to regulatory uncertainty and driver‑attention concerns, others continue to...
By Automotive World – Autonomous Driving
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Gen AI Could Unlock $50-$70bn in Insurance Revenue, Estimates McKinsey & Company
McKinsey estimates generative AI could generate $50‑$70 billion in incremental insurance revenue, driven by gains in marketing, customer operations and software engineering. The firm highlights the sector’s fragmented workflows and rich data assets as fertile ground for AI‑enabled automation and predictive...
By Reinsurance News
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Avery Dennison First to Integrate Pragmatic Chips at Scale
Avery Dennison has become the first company to mass‑produce NFC inlays that embed Pragmatic Semiconductor’s NFC Connect FlexIC chips. The partnership delivers low‑cost, edge‑level intelligence for consumer packaged goods, supporting digital brand experiences and compliance tools such as Digital Product...
By RFID Journal
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
The Compliance Illusion: Why Passing an Audit Doesn’t Mean You’re Secure
PayPal’s Working Capital loan system exposed personal data for six months despite holding PCI‑DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 certifications. The breach underscores that passing audits confirms controls at a point in time, not continuous security resilience. Author Dharmesh Acharya argues compliance...
By Compliance Perspectives
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Memory Matters: Signals From the 2025 NVM Survey
The 2025 NVM Survey reveals that while embedded flash remains the default choice, awareness of alternatives such as MRAM, FRAM and ReRAM has risen above 25% among respondents. More than 80% of SoC designers are currently using or evaluating embedded...
By SemiWiki
News•Feb 27, 2026
AI Accurately Spots Medical Disorder From Privacy-Conscious Hand Images
Kobe University researchers have created an AI model that diagnoses acromegaly from photographs of the back of the hand and a clenched fist, achieving higher sensitivity and specificity than seasoned endocrinologists. The system was trained on over 11,000 images contributed...
By Medical Xpress
News•Feb 27, 2026
FDB Vela Integrates With Photon Health Digital Prescription Marketplace
First Databank’s cloud‑native ePrescribing network, FDB Vela, has integrated with Photon Health’s digital prescription marketplace. The partnership combines FDB Vela’s HITRUST‑certified, redundant cloud infrastructure with Photon’s consumer‑focused platform that lets patients compare pharmacy options by price, location and availability before...
By HIT Consultant
News•Feb 27, 2026
Big Cloud Still Runs Most Containers on VMs; What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?
Analyst firm ReveCom found that the world’s largest cloud providers—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean—deploy the overwhelming majority of their containerized workloads on virtual machines rather than on bare‑metal servers. Benchmark data shows VM‑hosted containers achieve roughly 99 % of bare‑metal...
By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Friday Fun
Manufacturers are increasingly rolling out their own RAMIS (Rapid Automated Manufacturing Integration Systems) platforms, intensifying competition in the industrial automation sector. The surge reflects a broader shift toward modular, AI‑enabled production lines that promise higher efficiency and lower downtime. Vendors...
By SurgRob
News•Feb 27, 2026
Gas Power Station Hits Major Marker
RWE’s Pembroke Power Station has achieved its 10,000th start of a combined‑cycle gas turbine, marking the plant’s shift from baseload to a flexible resource that backs a grid dominated by wind and solar. The 2.2 GW facility, opened in 2011, now...
By Energy Live News
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
How to Survive the (Most Recent) Hardware Crunch
The AI‑driven surge in datacenter demand has pushed RAM prices up threefold, delaying new products like the Steam Machine and threatening hardware makers. iFixit advises a scrappy approach: extend device life, buy certified refurbished or used parts, and harvest components...
By iFixit News (Teardowns)
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Nanoplastics Can Interact with Salmonella to Affect Food Safety
Researchers at the University of Illinois discovered that polystyrene nanoplastics trigger Salmonella enterica to up‑regulate virulence genes and form thicker biofilms, potentially heightening food‑borne risk. The bacterial response is biphasic: an initial offensive surge followed by a defensive, energy‑conserving mode...
By Nanowerk
News•Feb 27, 2026
Claude Code Now Remembers Your Fixes, Your Preferences, and Your Project Quirks on Its Own
Claude Code introduced an auto‑memory feature that automatically records debugging patterns, project context, and user preferences in a per‑project MEMORY.md file. The system recalls these details in subsequent sessions, eliminating the need for manual logging or the /init command. The...
By THE DECODER
News•Feb 27, 2026
New Projects Push Boralex Profits Higher
Boralized’s Q4 2025 earnings climbed to C$178 million, a C$9 million increase year‑over‑year, driven by an 18% production boost from favourable wind and newly commissioned sites. Net earnings swung to C$26 million, reversing a loss from the same quarter last year. Six new projects...
By reNEWS
News•Feb 27, 2026
How Progressive Balances AI Use with Authenticity as Scrutiny Persists
Progressive launched the "Drive Like an Animal" ad using AI‑generated animal drivers while retaining Flo’s voice, aiming to blend efficiency with brand authenticity. The AI approach slashed production time and budget, allowing the campaign to meet a tight deadline for...
By Marketing Dive
News•Feb 27, 2026
Digital Connectivity Readiness: Trai Proposes New Evaluation, Rating Norms for Real Estate Projects
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has unveiled a proposal to overhaul digital connectivity readiness ratings for real‑estate projects. The plan expands the existing five‑star scale to a nine‑star system with half‑star increments and introduces a design‑stage assessment that...
By ET Telecom (Economic Times)
News•Feb 27, 2026
Sustainable Magic: Hong Kong Disneyland’s Enchanting ESG Adventure
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (HKDL) has woven ESG into its operations, showcasing solar energy, water reuse, waste reduction, and community programs. The resort’s 200 kW solar canopy now expands to over 8,300 panels, expected to power roughly 1,200 households by 2026....
By Blooloop — Theme Parks
News•Feb 27, 2026
Gatefolded Wants to Solve Fragmented Music-Sharing for Artists
Gatefolded launches as a dedicated platform that lets musicians share music both publicly with fans and privately with labels, media and collaborators. Founder Jasen Samford, a former DistroKid executive, built the service after hearing workflow frustrations from thousands of artists....
By Music Ally
Blog•Feb 27, 2026
Welinq and Pasqal Accelerate Networked Quantum Computing with Neutral-Atom Tech
Welinq and Pasqal have deepened their partnership to accelerate networked quantum computing using neutral‑atom processors. Backed by a €4 million InterQo grant from Île‑de‑France Region and BPI France, the two firms will integrate photonic interconnects into Pasqal’s QPUs and deploy Welinq’s...
By HPCwire
News•Feb 27, 2026
3 Cool Things You Can Do With Alexa On Your Fire TV
Amazon has upgraded the Alexa experience on Fire TV with Alexa+, a generative‑AI‑powered assistant that appears on‑screen when you press the remote’s Alexa button. The new service can recommend movies, navigate to specific scenes, and answer real‑time trivia or sports...
By SlashGear
News•Feb 27, 2026
The Talent Paradox
High‑tech mining has embraced automation, AI‑driven haulage and remote operation centres, yet firms struggle to recruit young engineers. Despite the sector’s digital transformation, a perception gap and limited exposure in STEM pipelines keep talent scarce. Universities lag in offering curricula...
By Mining Magazine
News•Feb 27, 2026
Artificial Voice Cold Calls Spark Class Action Against Mortgage Lender
Mortgage One Funding LLC, a Michigan‑based lender, faces a federal class‑action lawsuit alleging it used artificial‑voice technology to cold‑call consumers about cash‑out refinancing without prior consent. The calls targeted numbers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry, violating the...
By Mortgage Professional America
News•Feb 27, 2026
Moltbook: The Conversation We Should Be Having
Moltbook sparked a media frenzy by showcasing AI agents that appeared to develop their own language, religion and sub‑agents, but many of those interactions were human‑orchestrated. The piece highlights the staggering compute costs of modern models, with OpenAI spending over...
By Fast Company AI