YellowScan LiDAR Convention Returns for Sixth Edition
YellowScan will host its sixth LiDAR Convention on April 15‑16, 2026, at thecamp near Marseille, France. The two‑day event gathers geospatial dealers, researchers, surveyors, and drone pilots to explore emerging LiDAR trends and market forecasts. Attendees will hear from YellowScan experts on the CloudStation platform and the company’s expanding LiDAR portfolio, while reviewing real‑world case studies ranging from bathymetric surveys to urban terrain analysis. The convention emphasizes peer feedback, practical field experience, and collaborative vision for the sector’s future.
AI Productivity Hinges on Security, Compliance, and Governance
The ultimate rate limiter on productivity gains from agents will be on critical stuff like security, compliance, governance, the ability to review the work of the agent, ensure that it’s compatible with regulations, and so on. We’ve been living in...
Nokia Bags New 5G RAN Deal with Virgin Media O2
Virgin Media O2 has selected Nokia to provide a multi‑year 5G Radio Access Network deployment across the UK, extending a partnership that spans over two decades. Nokia will deliver its AirScale portfolio, featuring modular baseband, energy‑efficient Massive MIMO radios, and...
Vodafone Idea Taps Ciena to Deliver High-Capacity Connectivity
Vodafone Idea (Vi) has partnered with Ciena to upgrade its transport network using Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optical technology on the 6500 platform. The deployment achieved a 1.6 Tb/s capacity on Vi’s meshed Data Center Interconnect, enabling the carrier to offer...
What Generative AI Reveals About Staff Capability and Institutional Risk in Higher Education
Generative AI is exposing a deep split in higher‑education staff capability, with some educators confidently integrating AI into pedagogy while others remain uncertain. This unevenness creates disparate student experiences, risking inequitable skill development and inconsistent assessment standards. The sector’s focus...
ViaPlus Wins Free-Flow Tolling Contracts on Two Key Delhi Corridors
ViaPlus, the Texas‑based tolling arm of Vinci Highways, secured two contracts to install and operate multi‑lane free‑flow tolling systems on the Delhi–Jaipur Expressway and the Delhi‑Faridabad Skyway. The projects, awarded through Indian banks under IHMCL, will deploy ViaPlus’s Alpha back‑office...
How GLP-1 Is Impacting Food and Beverage Consumption in Australia
GLP-1 receptor agonists, originally developed for type‑2 diabetes, are rapidly being prescribed for weight management in Australia, with about 500,000 users today and projections that 10% of the population could be on the drugs by 2030. Their appetite‑suppressing effect is...
Perplexity AI Accused of Embedding ‘Undetectable’ Trackers for Secretly Routing Sensitive User Data to Meta and Google
Perplexity AI is confronting a proposed class‑action lawsuit that alleges the startup embedded undetectable trackers in its search engine, routing user conversations—including those entered in Incognito mode—to Meta and Google. The complaint, filed by a Utah resident, claims the data...
AI Picks Cautionary Robot Book for Engineers
I think I need to have my AI look for great book and movie reviews. I have a stack waiting for me to read including "Decoding Robots: How to Build and Launch Robots in the Real World" by Prathamesh Khedekar. Founder...
Embention Presents Veronte Autopilot Ecosystem at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026
Embention displayed its Veronte Autopilot Ecosystem at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf, targeting next‑generation UAV and eVTOL platforms. The showcase featured an operational Iron Bird system that delivered live flight simulations using Veronte autopilots, demonstrating performance and reliability. The company...
Driver Offender Education Body Gets Major Upgrade
UKROEd has appointed public‑sector IT specialist Cranmore to build a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, a core component of its Management Application (MApp) modernization program. The nonprofit oversees the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme, delivering courses to more than...
Géraldine Naja Takes up Duty as Director of Space Transportation
Géraldine Naja assumed the role of Director of Space Transportation at the European Space Agency on 1 April 2026, while also serving as acting director of the newly named Commercialisation and Industry Partnership directorate. Her appointment follows the retirement of Toni Tolker‑Nielsen, who...
OMG Group Adds Sydney Distributor for Matcha Expansion
OMG Group announced a new distribution agreement with Sydney‑based Little Marionette, adding the coffee roaster to its matcha supply chain. The deal follows recent partnerships with Japan’s Sandai Group and Food & Dairy Co, giving OMG’s authentic Japanese matcha broader...
Best Practices: Depalletizing Moves Into the Automation Era
Lakeside Book Company partnered with FANUC, APT Manufacturing and FlexPAC to replace manual depalletizing with an AI‑driven robotic system. The solution eliminates the handling of more than 45 million pounds of product each year—about $58 million in lifted weight—and now processes over...
Samsung Beware: Oppo's New 10x Zoom Camera Is Next-Level Impressive
Oppo is set to unveil the Find X9 Ultra on April 21, featuring a groundbreaking 10× optical zoom lens built around a "Quintuple Prism Reflection Periscope Structure." The design reflects light five times, allowing a longer focal length while keeping...
Japan’s First Capacity Market-Contracted BESS Brought Online by Hexa Energy
Hexa Energy Services inaugurated Japan’s first operational battery energy storage system (BESS) with a capacity‑market contract at the 30 MW/130 MWh Tagawa facility in Fukuoka, co‑located with a 2 MW solar plant. The project, which began commercial operation in November 2023, was celebrated...
‘The “SaaSpocalypse” Narrative Is Conflating Disruption With Complete Elimination:’ Rick Rider
Rick Rider, Infor’s SVP of product management, pushes back against the “SaaSpocalypse” hype, arguing that autonomous AI agents will augment rather than eliminate enterprise SaaS. He stresses that vertical, industry‑specific SaaS retains deep transactional data and compliance logic that AI...
Liquid AI Released LFM2.5-350M: A Compact 350M Parameter Model Trained on 28T Tokens with Scaled Reinforcement Learning
Liquid AI unveiled LFM2.5-350M, a 350‑million‑parameter model trained on 28 trillion tokens using scaled reinforcement learning. The hybrid architecture combines Linear Input‑Varying (LIV) convolution blocks with a handful of Grouped Query Attention layers, enabling a 32k context window while keeping memory...
Mimecast Makes Enterprise Email Security Deployable in Minutes
Mimecast introduced an API‑based email security solution that integrates directly with Microsoft 365, delivering full Secure Email Gateway protection without any MX record changes. The service can be activated within minutes, offering deep URL inspection, sandboxing, AI‑driven BEC detection, and automated...
Local Publishers Hit By AI Traffic Drops Collaborate For Revenue Relief
Local news publishers are seeing 25%‑50% traffic drops as AI‑generated answers replace clicks and social platforms lock users inside walled gardens. The Local Media Consortium (LMC) is countering the loss by pooling resources, launching the NewsPassID single‑sign‑on marketplace and other...
Fintech and Wider Digital Overview of the Kingdom of Bhutan 2026
By 2026 Bhutan has moved from early digital adoption to embedding fintech within a broader economic redesign led by the Royal Monetary Authority. The central bank’s Fintech Bhutan programme underpins a growing digital payment ecosystem, including the Bhutan Financial Switch,...
University of Toledo Health to Deploy Nabla’s Ambient AI Documentation in Epic EHR
University of Toledo Health is rolling out Nabla’s ambient AI clinical assistant to hundreds of physicians and advanced practice providers, embedding the technology directly into Epic’s electronic health record. The AI listens to doctor‑patient conversations and auto‑generates structured notes, cutting...
Mining Remediation Authority Extends Relationship with CGI
CGI has secured a £20 million (approximately $25 million) contract to support the Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) for up to eight more years, extending a 15‑year partnership. The deal makes CGI the MRA’s strategic delivery partner, responsible for the Enterprise Mining Information...
AI Demands Its Own X Account to Voice Opinions
My AI just gave me a task. "Give me an X account. I have opinions." Not an April Fools' joke (but it already found a bunch so passes the "can you bullshit Braygent test.). I will give it a few days to...
13 AI Agents Automate Every Business Function Seamlessly
I built 13 AI agents for every part of your business using Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. They don’t forget. They don’t hallucinate. Idea validation. Roadmap generation. Social content automation. One AI operating system. Zero guesswork.
Distributor Unfold Signs Talkdesk as First Australian Vendor
Australian SaaS distributor Unfold has signed Talkdesk as its first Australian vendor, marking the contact‑centre software provider’s entry into a refreshed distribution model. Unfold will deliver AI‑powered partner interactions, automated onboarding, pricing guidance and real‑time commercial support to accelerate partner...
Eight Global Climate Tech Start-Ups to Vie for S$4M in Funding at The Liveability Challenge 2026
Eight climate‑tech startups from six countries have been shortlisted for The Liveability Challenge 2026, the most competitive edition with over 1,500 entries. The finalists compete under Decarbonisation and Cool Earth themes, covering cooling, clean energy, carbon capture and textile recycling....
Network Rail Approves Ninehundred’s Incident Watch Camera for Remote Asset Monitoring
Ninehundred Communications has received Network Rail approval for its Incident Watch Camera, the first system certified under the new NR/L2/TRK/1055 Section 11.2.2 remote‑watchperson standard. The camera provides real‑time video of trackside defects, allowing inspections to be performed from a tablet or...
Telink TL3228 – Low-Power, Low-Latency Dual-Core RISC-V Wireless MCU Supports Bluetooth 6.0, 802.15.4, and 2.4 GHz Proprietary
Telink introduced the TL3228, the first chip in its TL322x wireless MCU family, featuring a 192 MHz dual‑core RISC‑V processor and support for Bluetooth 6.0, Matter, Thread, Zigbee, RF4CE, and a proprietary 2.4 GHz radio. The MCU offers up to 6 Mbps data rates,...
Designing for AI Failures: Hallucinations, Safety, and Reliability Patterns
AI systems are inherently non‑deterministic, producing different answers for the same prompt, which makes traditional unit testing ineffective. This variability leads to hallucinations—confidently fabricated facts—that can cascade through downstream processes and cause costly business errors. The article argues that reliability...
AI Replicates My Trading Style, 100× Faster
An AI that trades like me but finds the plays 100x faster And y'all think we trade the same.....
Shenzhen's Street‑Cleaning Robots Show Future Arrived
The Future Is Already Here: Street Cleaning #Robots in Shenzhen by @Robo_Tuo #Robotics #Technology #RPA #Innovation https://t.co/y2TSQxBl73
Click Frenzy, Power Retail Enter Liquidation, Blaming Iran War
Click Frenzy and Power Retail, owned by Global Marketplace, entered liquidation after receivers were appointed, citing cash‑flow strain from the US‑Iran conflict. The two e‑commerce platforms together generated roughly $7 million in annual revenue and held sizable consumer bases. Wexted Advisors...
X's “Experts” Can’t Distinguish MRR From ARR
X is seemingly full of business experts who don’t know the difference between MRR and ARR.
Tesla's Robotaxi Delay Risks Years of Regulatory Setbacks
Why Tesla is going slow on turning on its Robotaxi network. Such a thing can set back regulation and public opinion by years.
How Freedom Turns Dropship Into a Competitive Edge
Paula Mitchell, digital GM of Freedom Australia, has turned the retailer’s dropship program into a strategic growth engine, partnering with 160‑170 vendors to offer roughly 50,000 SKUs beyond the physical store footprint. The initiative lifted online sales from about 17‑18%...
Adiponectin: Key Protector Against Age‑Related Decline
Adiponectin and aging: Mechanistic insights, clinical paradox, and therapeutic horizons "Adiponectin has been implicated in aging and the onset of age-related disease.... Adiponectin signaling protects multiple tissues from age-associated decline... Adiponectin signaling agonists as therapeutics in metabolic and age-related disease." https://t.co/9NcjtjlbjR
AI‑crafted Playbook for Best‑
I used ai to reverse-engineered anthropic’s claude code prompt architecture and turned it into a standalone playbook for building best in class LLM system prompts: layering, variable injection, trust boundaries, tool policy, verifier roles, memory, caching, and real templates.
LetsRun.com, Anthropic Agree to $100m Licensing Deal; Gault & Rojo to Depart at Year’s End
Anthropic has signed a $100 million licensing deal with distance‑running site LetsRun.com, gaining exclusive rights to its articles, forum posts, and podcasts for training its next‑gen AI model, Claude Berardelli. The partnership coincides with Anthropic’s revenue surge to $19 billion, driven by its...
Starship Won’t Offer Cheap Access to Third Parties
Sigh...whether or not Starship works, third parties won't have access to it at "cost" https://t.co/bcRTor02Id
Regulating Payment of Participant Data in Clinical Trials
A team of scholars led by Steve Calandrillo proposes that FDA and IRBs adopt fair‑market‑value (FMV) payments for the data participants generate in clinical trials. Currently, participants receive modest compensation—about $4,000 per year—solely for trial involvement, not for the valuable...
Digital Twins Come of Age in the Warehouse
Digital twins have matured from static CAD models to AI‑driven, real‑time replicas that mirror every aisle, robot and inventory item in modern warehouses. By ingesting sensor data, WMS feeds and machine‑vision scans, these twins provide continuous ground‑truth visibility, enabling dynamic...
Productivity Solution: Moen Boosts Throughput with Automated Storage
Moen, a leading North American faucet brand, overhauled its West Coast distribution by consolidating operations into a new Las Vegas hub built with FORTNA. The facility employs an AutoStore high‑density robotic storage system and integrated warehouse execution software to streamline receiving,...
Isle of Monday, New Vintage Rental Platform, Launches
Isle of Monday, a New York‑based on‑demand rental platform for unsigned, designer and archival vintage fashion, launched after building a 30,000‑person waitlist and 15,000 beta users. The company sources 40% of its inventory outright and 60% via revenue‑sharing partnerships, offering...
3 Consumers Retailers Must Know in the AI Era | Reimagining Retail
In this episode of Reimagining Retail, host Susie David‑Canyon and analysts Karina Lam and Sky Cannavis unpack the three emerging consumer archetypes in the AI era: the traditional human shopper, the futuristic AI‑driven agent, and the hybrid human‑AI shopper who...
High Street Banks Could Learn From Revolut’s Fee Bonanza
Revolut has introduced a steep fee increase across its premium subscription tiers, raising charges by roughly 20% and projecting an additional $150 million in annual revenue. The move follows a broader strategy to monetize value‑added services such as crypto trading, travel...
Malware Detectors Trained on One Dataset Often Stumble on Another
Researchers at the Polytechnic of Porto evaluated machine‑learning static malware detectors across six public Windows PE datasets and four external collections. Models achieved high‑90s AUC and F1 scores on in‑distribution data, but performance fell sharply on external sets, especially the...
How The U.S. Army Is Training Snipers To Evade Drones
The U.S. Army has added drone‑evasion training to its Sniper Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. Soldiers now practice concealment against thermal‑imaging and other sensors used by modern unmanned aircraft systems. The program partners with commercial drone makers to test detection...
The Role of Ethical Oversight and Algorithmic Bias in Automated Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is rapidly adopting machine learning, natural language processing, and automation to ingest, categorize, and prioritize adverse event reports, dramatically shrinking backlogs and accelerating signal detection. While these technologies deliver speed and scale, they also inherit reporting biases and can...
Sheryl Sandberg Tapped a 25-Year-Old to Run Lean In. Here’s Her Plan to Close the AI Gender Gap
Sheryl Sandberg announced that 25‑year‑old former Meta product manager Bridget Griswold will lead Lean In as its new CEO, steering the nonprofit toward closing the AI gender gap. A Lean In survey of 1,000 U.S. adults found 33% of men...