News•Jan 21, 2026
DeGirum Announces Workspaces in AI Hub for Edge AI Developers
DeGirum launched Workspaces within its AI Hub, a cloud‑based environment that consolidates model zoos, a cloud compiler, PySDK integration, and ready‑made application packages for edge AI development. The platform lets developers organize projects, curate public and private models, and streamline compilation for a wide range of hardware accelerators such as Hailo, Intel, and Rockchip. Application Packages currently include a pip‑installable Face Recognition suite, with Speech Transcription slated for Q1. By centralizing these tools, DeGirum aims to cut prototyping time and simplify deployment on edge devices.
By AiThority
News•Jan 21, 2026
What a Logbook Loan Is and How It Works
A logbook loan is a UK vehicle‑secured loan where the lender holds the V5 logbook while the borrower retains use of the car. Lenders typically advance 50‑70% of the vehicle’s value and often skip credit checks, making it attractive for...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 21, 2026
Legs Made for a Mars Landing
European engineers have completed a series of full‑scale drop tests on the four‑legged ExoMars descent module at ALTEC’s Turin facility. The lightweight, shock‑absorbing legs and their touchdown sensors were evaluated on hard, soft and angled surfaces to ensure stability and...
By European Space Agency News
News•Jan 21, 2026
Currys Upgrades Profit Outlook After Strong Christmas Trading
Currys announced an upgraded profit outlook after its peak trading period, reporting a 6% like‑for‑like revenue increase. In the ten weeks to 10 January, UK‑Ireland revenue rose 3% while omnichannel sales jumped 11% year‑on‑year, and the Nordics saw a 12% revenue...
By The Retail Bulletin
News•Jan 21, 2026
Myer to Launch Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty Brands in Australia
Myer will introduce the complete Fenty Beauty portfolio—including Fenty Skin and the Australian retail debut of Fenty Eau de Parfum—across all stores and its e‑commerce platform starting in May. The rollout stems from a new partnership with Kendo Brands, the...
By Inside Retail Australia
Social•Jan 21, 2026
Robots Now Autonomously Inspect Hazardous Tight Spaces
This simulation shows what a mobile inspection robot can actually do inside a tight industrial cabinet room. In the demo, Aru performs a full inspection workflow in a constrained space. Robots like Aru are becoming practical tools for inspections in spaces that...
By Ilir Aliu
News•Jan 21, 2026
Klient Launches Klient PSA – Project Agent on Salesforce AgentExchange
Klient announced the launch of its Klient PSA – Project Agent on Salesforce AgentExchange, an AI‑driven tool designed for hybrid workforces in professional services and SaaS firms. The agent automates weekly sprint planning, time‑entry verification, resource allocation reviews, and rapid...
By AI-TechPark
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
BLOY Loyalty Alternatives: Top Picks For 2026
The episode explains why growing brands outgrow the basic BLOY Rewards app and need loyalty platforms that offer strategic guidance, deep data integration, and extensive customization. It highlights Yotpo Loyalty as the top 2026 alternative, emphasizing its dedicated eCommerce experts,...
By eCommerce Fastlane
News•Jan 21, 2026
AgiBot Claims Top Spot in Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in 2025 with More than 5,100 Units Delivered
Shanghai‑based AgiBot announced it shipped over 5,100 humanoid robots in 2025, securing roughly 39% of the global market and overtaking rivals such as Unitree and UBTech. The Omdia report shows total worldwide shipments reached about 13,000 units, highlighting rapid industry...
By Robotics & Automation News
News•Jan 21, 2026
TruVideo Introduces Video Quality Score (VQS)
TruVideo launched Video Quality Score (VQS), an AI‑driven model that grades automotive inspection videos against a benchmark for content, process, and delivery. Trained on more than 80 million service videos, VQS outperforms generic AI models by over 30 accuracy points. In...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 21, 2026
Comcast’s Universal Ads Appoints David Shaw as Head of Global Expansion to Oversee Platform’s International Rollout
Comcast’s Universal Ads has hired David Shaw, a veteran of Twitter, Snap, TikTok and Reddit, as Head of Global Expansion. Shaw will oversee the commercial rollout of the TV‑focused ad platform beyond the United States, beginning with a UK launch...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 21, 2026
Why Most Companies Don’t Know What They Spend on Software
Most companies entering the 2026 budgeting cycle cannot accurately quantify their software usage or spend, creating an operational blind spot. As tool stacks expand faster than governance processes, redundant platforms, unused licenses, and overlapping functionality proliferate. Founder Ghita El Haitmy highlights...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 21, 2026
Elastic Supercharges Performance for Serverless Offering on AWS
Elastic announced a performance upgrade for its Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS, leveraging new Graviton instances. The enhancement delivers up to 50% higher indexing throughput and 37% lower search latency, with no additional cost to users. The serverless service remains...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 21, 2026
13 Cyber Questions to Better Vet IT Vendors and Reduce Third-Party Risk
Enterprises are increasingly exposed to cyber‑risk through third‑party IT providers, as recent high‑profile breaches—Marks & Spencer’s £300 million loss, a Chinese group stealing OAuth tokens from 700 firms, and a SAP NetWeaver zero‑day—demonstrate. Attackers exploit trusted vendor pathways, bypassing traditional perimeter...
By CSO Online
News•Jan 21, 2026
KNIME Appoints Trevor Kaufman as CEO as It Enters Next Growth Phase
KNIME announced that founder‑CEO Michael Berthold is stepping down and that Trevor Kaufman, a veteran SaaS executive, will take the helm. Kaufman previously grew Piano from a startup to a 570‑person, 14‑country operation serving major media and financial brands. He...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
OnePay Launches “Swipe to Finance” With Klarna, Bringing Post-Purchase BNPL Into the App
OnePay has introduced “Swipe to Finance,” a post‑purchase buy‑now‑pay‑later feature powered by Klarna that lets eligible debit‑card users convert recent purchases into fixed‑term payment plans within the app. The tool expands OnePay’s suite of flexible payment options beyond checkout, offering...
By PaySpace Magazine
News•Jan 21, 2026
The Human Brain May Work More Like AI than Anyone Expected
A new Nature Communications study finds that the human brain processes spoken language in a stepwise fashion that mirrors the layered architecture of large language models such as GPT‑2 and Llama 2. Using electrocorticography recordings while participants listened to a 30‑minute...
By Science Daily AI
Social•Jan 21, 2026
AI Agentic Browsers Redefine Online Interaction
Thank you for reading my latest article The 5 Most Powerful Agentic AI Browsers You Can Try Today. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join my network...
By Bernard Marr
News•Jan 21, 2026
Why Beginning Boutique Collabed with ‘the Most Famous Woman in Men’s Tennis’
Beginning Boutique, the Brisbane‑based e‑tailer famed for party dresses, has unveiled a 20‑piece capsule with influencer Morgan Riddle, dubbed the most important woman in men’s tennis. The collection, blending festival flair with tennis‑inspired aesthetics, launches alongside the Australian Open to...
By Inside Retail Australia
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
Content Research Guide: How To Do Content Research
The episode breaks down why content research is essential for ecommerce growth, using Sean Reyes’s Shock Surplus as a case study of how deep audience insights and educational video content drove a $25 million business. It outlines a six‑step research framework—setting...
By eCommerce Fastlane
Social•Jan 21, 2026
AI as Legal Person: Harari Warns Leaders at Davos
When AI Becomes The New Immigrant: Yuval Noah Harari’s Wake Up Call At Davos 2026 At #Davos2026, historian Yuval Noah Harari argued that AI is shifting from a tool to an #agent, a system that can #learn, #decide, #create and #manipulate....
By Bernard Marr
News•Jan 21, 2026
For Cyber Risk Assessments, Frequency Is Essential
Cyber risk assessments function like medical check‑ups, enabling organizations to detect vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. The article highlights that regular assessments uncover data exposure—one in ten cloud data sets is openly accessible—and reveal that over 99% of compromised accounts...
By CSO Online
News•Jan 21, 2026
AssetOpsBench: Bridging the Gap Between AI Agent Benchmarks and Industrial Reality
AssetOpsBench is a new benchmark that evaluates agentic AI in industrial asset‑lifecycle management using 2.3 M sensor points, 140+ curated scenarios, 4.2 K work orders and 53 structured failure modes. It scores agents across six qualitative dimensions—task completion, retrieval accuracy, result verification,...
By Hugging Face
News•Jan 21, 2026
Amagi Slides in India Debut, as Cloud TV Software Firm Tests Investor Appetite
Amagi Media Labs raised $196 million in a Bengaluru‑based IPO, debuting on Indian exchanges at a 12% discount to its ₹361 issue price before settling around ₹349. The cloud‑software firm, which helps broadcasters and streaming services monetize video, earned roughly 73%...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
News•Jan 21, 2026
Bandit: Open-Source Tool Designed to Find Security Issues in Python Code
Bandit is an open‑source Python security scanner maintained by the PyCQA community. It parses source files and flags risky patterns such as unsafe eval calls, weak cryptography, hard‑coded credentials, and insecure temporary file handling. Each finding is annotated with severity...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 21, 2026
Ziina and Lean Technologies Execute UAE’s First Live Customer-Initiated Open Finance Payment
Lean Technologies and UAE payments platform Ziina have completed the country’s first live customer‑initiated Open Finance payment. The transaction, run under the Central Bank of the UAE’s Open Finance framework, lets users move money instantly between bank accounts via regulated...
By The Fintech Times
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
Mansoor Amiji: Rare Gem and Modern-Day Polymath
Mansoor Amiji, a Tanzanian‑born nanomedicine researcher, was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in December 2025, recognizing three decades of vaccine and drug‑delivery innovations. Simultaneously, a deep‑dive review reveals 31 of his publications flagged on PubPeer for image...
By For Better Science
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
10 Topics to Cover With Your POD Order Management Provider
In this episode, Maddy Alcala outlines ten critical questions to ask a print‑on‑demand (POD) order management provider, covering everything from end‑to‑end order handling and performance under load to role‑based access, compliance, and disaster recovery. She emphasizes the importance of robust...
By eCommerce Fastlane
News•Jan 21, 2026
The 2026 State of Pentesting: Why Delivery and Follow-Through Matter More than Ever
Penetration testing has shifted from static, point‑in‑time reports to continuous, outcome‑driven programs. Modern teams now demand real‑time delivery, automated routing of findings, and closed‑loop validation to reduce risk. Platforms like PlexTrac enable centralized visibility, integration with ticketing tools, and automated...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 21, 2026
Nude by Nature Enters Walmart with Nicole Richie as Global Ambassador
Australian clean‑beauty brand Nude by Nature, now owned by Vidacorp, has entered the U.S. market through a rollout at 1,900 Walmart locations, offering 94 SKUs under $14 each. The launch is anchored by global ambassador Nicole Richie, whose Instagram video...
By Glossy
News•Jan 21, 2026
The Australian Open Wants to Be ‘the Super Bowl’ for Experiential Beauty Marketing
Australian tennis’s governing body has elevated beauty retailer Mecca to a flagship sponsor for the 2026 Australian Open, positioning the event as a hub for experiential marketing aimed at Gen‑Z. In 2025 Mecca supplied gift bags to over 800 players...
By Glossy
News•Jan 21, 2026
My Friends in Italy Are Using AI Therapists. But Is that so Bad, when a Stigma Surrounds Mental Health? |...
Italian users are turning to AI‑driven chatbots as mental‑health therapists amid chronic stigma and costly traditional care. A 2025 survey shows 81 % view mental illness as weakness and 57 % cite expense as the main barrier, while Italy invests the least...
By The Guardian AI
News•Jan 21, 2026
Security Leaders Push for Continuous Controls as Audits Stay Manual
Security and risk teams still rely heavily on manual GRC processes, spending thousands of person‑hours each year collecting evidence and preparing audits. While organizations adopt automation for policy management and evidence gathering, deeper workflow automation and continuous controls monitoring remain...
By Help Net Security
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News•Jan 21, 2026
Threat Actors Exploit LinkedIn for RAT Delivery in Enterprise Networks
A new phishing campaign is using LinkedIn private messages to deliver remote access trojans to enterprise networks. Attackers send self‑extracting WinRAR archives that contain a legitimate PDF reader, a malicious DLL, and a portable Python interpreter. The DLL is loaded...
By GBHackers On Security
News•Jan 21, 2026
This 3.2 Gigapixel Time Machine Will Change Everything We Know About the Cosmos
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, equipped with the 3.2‑gigapixel LSST Camera, will conduct the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, imaging the entire visible southern sky every few nights for a decade. Its three‑mirror design and massive convex secondary enable...
By New Space Economy
News•Jan 21, 2026
Wellness Briefing: How OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health Beta Launch Could Impact the Wellness Industry
OpenAI unveiled the ChatGPT Health beta, an AI‑driven chatbot that aggregates medical records, wearable data, and personal wellness insights into a single conversational interface. The launch coincides with Target’s plan to boost its wellness product line by 30%, and a...
By Glossy
News•Jan 21, 2026
Ocean-Based Space Launch and Recovery
Ocean‑based launch and recovery platforms are emerging as a solution to the bottleneck of limited land spaceports as the global space market races toward a $1 trillion valuation by 2040. The equatorial advantage can boost GEO payloads by up to 25%,...
By New Space Economy
News•Jan 21, 2026
What Amazon’s Proposed Big-Box Store Could Mean for Walmart
Amazon has filed plans for a 225,000‑square‑foot big‑box store in Orland Park, a Chicago suburb, that will combine groceries, general merchandise and dining, directly rivaling the average Walmart Supercenter. The concept marks Amazon’s first attempt at a full‑scale supercenter format, a...
By Modern Retail
News•Jan 21, 2026
The Email Insider Threat Has Evolved in the Era of Generative AI
The article warns that generative AI is reshaping email insider threats, turning everyday tools like grammar checkers into vectors for intellectual property loss. Attackers now use AI‑crafted phishing emails and malicious attachments that bypass traditional filters, while browser extensions silently...
By Security Magazine (Cybersecurity)
Podcast•Jan 21, 2026•1 min
Mysteries of Molten Metal
In this episode, researchers discuss groundbreaking experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station that explore the behavior of supercooled molten metal oxides in microgravity. They explain how eliminating Earth's gravity allows the metal to solidify without convection, revealing previously hidden...
By Innovation Now
News•Jan 21, 2026
Behind Pacsun’s Strategy for Keeping a Pulse on the Changing Tastes of Gen Z
Pacsun has launched a Youth Advisory Council and published its first Youth Report, gathering insights from 6,000 Gen‑Z and Gen‑Alpha respondents. The data fueled the creation of the PS Community Hub, a shoppable app that lets users curate purchases and...
By Modern Retail
Social•Jan 21, 2026
New Interfaces Needed to Visualize Multi‑Agent Workflows
🚨 Stop what you're doing inside Claude Code right now. Everyone needs to build new interfaces to manage their multi-agent systems. Here is a simulation of THE COCKTAIL PARTY, a new multi-agent simulation I built based on my mom's research in...
By Allie Miller
Podcast•Jan 21, 2026•1h 4m
Risky Business #821 -- Wiz Researchers Could Have Owned Every AWS Customer
In episode #821 of Risky Business, hosts Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau, joined by BBC World Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy, dissect a week of cyber news ranging from alleged U.S. attacks on Venezuela’s power grid to a major AWS console...
By Risky Business
News•Jan 21, 2026
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking: A 1.2B Parameter Reasoning Model That Fits Under 1 GB On-Device
Liquid AI unveiled LFM2.5-1.2B‑Thinking, a 1.17 billion‑parameter reasoning model that occupies roughly 900 MB and runs fully on‑device. Designed for structured reasoning, the model emits internal thinking traces, enabling tool use, math, and multi‑step planning without cloud reliance. Benchmarks show it outperforms...
By MarkTechPost
Podcast•Jan 21, 2026•29 min
The AI Capabilities Overhang
In this episode the hosts unpack the concept of an AI capabilities overhang – the widening gap between what current AI systems can already achieve and how little of that potential is being deployed. They argue that bridging this gap...
By The AI Breakdown
Social•Jan 21, 2026
Master Databricks Agent Skills with Gavita’s Tutorial
Checkout this video of how to use Agent Skills in Databricks. 👩🏽🔬 Gavita does a great job in this video.
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Jan 21, 2026
Real AGI Requires Safe, Embodied Cooking—Still Years Away
New definition of AGI: can your AI cook dinner while embodied in a robot over an open flame without setting the house on fire? Five years away. Minimum. The world models, even those from Google or @worldlabs aren't ready. Until AI...
By Robert Scoble
News•Jan 21, 2026
A Coding Guide to Anemoi-Style Semi-Centralized Agentic Systems Using Peer-to-Peer Critic Loops in LangGraph
The post walks readers through building a semi‑centralized Anemoi‑style multi‑agent system using LangGraph, where a Drafter and a Critic negotiate drafts without a supervising manager. It provides a complete Colab notebook, installs LangGraph and LangChain, defines a typed shared state,...
By MarkTechPost
News•Jan 21, 2026
Fifth Third Says New Banking App Drives Engagement, Originations
Fifth Third Bancorp reported record net interest income and strong operating leverage in Q4, driven by aggressive branch expansion and digital upgrades. The bank added 50 new branches in 2025, including its 200th in Florida and 100th in the Carolinas,...
By PYMNTS
Social•Jan 21, 2026
OpenAI Shows U.S. Can Lead AI Through
OpenAI's work here is proof that America can win the AI race and invest in the communities that house the infrastructure to make American AI exceptional.
By Reid Hoffman