Irish SMEs Emerging as Key Force in Ireland’s Energy Transition as Solar Adoption Surges
Irish small and mid‑sized enterprises are emerging as a primary catalyst for the country’s energy transition, with solar power leading the charge. A new Flogas Sustainability Report surveyed 300 decision‑makers, revealing that 34% of mid‑size firms and 31% of small firms plan to install solar panels, and 46% of mid‑size firms intend to act this year. Upfront capital costs and ROI uncertainty remain the biggest hurdles, prompting 72% of mid‑size companies to explore Solar‑as‑a‑Service models. Sustainability is now embedded in corporate strategy for over 90% of larger firms.
ConnectWise Dismantles Asio To Build AI-Powered MSP Platform
ConnectWise announced the launch of a completely rebuilt platform that replaces its Asio suite with an AI‑native operating layer for managed service providers. The new ConnectWise Platform consolidates PSA, RMM, cybersecurity, automation, orchestration and agentic AI into a single code...
Astronergy Launches 825 W TOPCon Solar Module
Astronergy, a Chint Group subsidiary, unveiled its Astro N8 Pro series at SNEC 2026 in Shanghai. The flagship CHSM72N module delivers 800‑825 W at up to 24.4% efficiency, while the CHSM66N offers 740‑760 W with 24.5% efficiency. Built on the TOPCon 5.0+ platform, the...
AI Translation Scores Shine, Real-World Use Falters
AI translation benchmarks look great. Real-world use? Not so much. I spent a week across China testing AirPods, iFlytek's recorder, Even Realities glasses, and Apple's Translate app. The gap between lab and life is still wide. https://t.co/tNJ1Vkla09
America's Most Exposed Power Projection Platforms: Why United States Space Force Installations Must Be Treated as Warfighting Infrastructure
The article argues that United States Space Force (USSF) installations are not rear‑area support hubs but core warfighting platforms that continuously project power from fixed locations on Earth. Bases such as Peterson, Schriever, Buckley, Patrick, and Vandenberg deliver missile warning,...
Freedom Holding and Nokia Open Silicon Valley Innovation Hub for AI-Powered Infrastructure
Freedom Holding Corp. and Nokia have inaugurated a joint Silicon Valley Innovation Center near Nokia’s Sunnyvale campus, dedicated to developing AI‑powered digital infrastructure and fintech solutions. The hub will serve as a testbed for AI data‑center designs, 5G edge applications,...
STAT+: Combination of Pancreatic Cancer Drugs From Tango, Revolution Leads to High Response Rate
Revolution Medicines' KRAS G12C inhibitor daraxonrasib, already highlighted for pancreatic cancer, was paired with Tango Therapeutics' epigenetic drug vopimetostat in a new study. The early‑stage trial reported durable responses in the large majority of participants, with significant tumor reductions observed....
Dyndrite to Lead America Makes' Artificial Intelligence for Material Allowables in Additive Manufacturing Project
Dyndrite has been chosen to lead the $2 million AIM-4AM initiative, a joint effort with America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining. The project will develop an AI‑driven framework to qualify Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) materials,...
Africa’s Solar Power Pools Show Rising Synchronization Risk Under Climate Change
A new study in npj Clean Energy warns that climate‑driven solar output synchronisation is eroding the independence assumption underlying Africa’s regional power pools. Under a high‑emissions pathway, the West and Central African pools could see more than 100 low‑output days...
Disney Scales Interactive Advertising on Disney+
Disney has broadened its interactive advertising suite on Disney+ using its in‑house Disney eXperience Composer (DXC) platform. The rollout began with Gateway Go in April 2025, followed by Pause Ads, Pause+ with trivia and billboards, and most recently Ad Selector,...
Dual-Screen Monitor Can Show Two Sides of the Same Story
Philips has introduced the 24B2D5300, a dual‑sided business monitor that places a 23.8‑inch Full HD IPS panel on both the front and back of a single unit. The swivel base lets each screen face a different user, enabling simultaneous, private interactions...
Apple's Siri Overhaul Takes Center Stage
Apple is set to unveil a major Siri overhaul at its 2026 developer conference, aiming to make the assistant more conversational and tightly integrated with native apps. The redesign seeks to leverage the iPhone’s ecosystem—calendars, messages, and emails—to provide context‑rich...
AI Is Becoming an Advisor, and It Is Rewriting How Buyers Find You
Professional buyers are increasingly handing the first step of vendor selection to AI chatbots, turning them into conversational advisors rather than traditional search tools. Studies show citation sources in AI answers drift dramatically—40‑60% change month‑to‑month and up to 90% over...
EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Push Leaves Room for US Hyperscalers
The European Commission unveiled its Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) as part of a broader tech‑sovereignty package, signalling a push to reduce reliance on U.S. hyperscalers. The proposal introduces four assurance levels for public‑sector cloud procurement, with the most...
Claude Mythos Forces the Conversation on Defensive AI
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, released on April 7, 2026, has dramatically accelerated offensive cyber capabilities, shrinking the time from vulnerability discovery to exploit deployment from 2.3 years in 2018 to roughly 20 hours today. The AI system can automatically identify critical zero‑days, generate...
Co-Brand Debit: The Missing Layer in Modern Loyalty
The article points out that consumers swipe debit cards over 40 times a month, yet most loyalty programs only track credit‑card spend. Co‑branded debit cards let brands capture everyday transactions, generating predictable interchange revenue and richer customer data. A playbook...
M6 Unlimited Partners with NumberEight to Extend Targeting Across Its Digital Audio Inventory
M6 Unlimited, the ad sales arm of France’s Groupe M6, has teamed up with ID‑less audience intelligence firm NumberEight to power its Smart Audio platform across the entire digital audio inventory, including RTL, RTL2 and Fun Radio. The partnership adds NumberEight’s...
Axpo Inaugurates Finland Wind Farm
Axpo has inaugurated its first Finnish wind farm, the 24 MW Lålax project in Vörå, featuring four 6.2 MW Vestas turbines. Commissioned in September 2025 after an 11‑month build, the site is expected to produce roughly 70 million kWh each year, with power marketed by...
AI Is Choosing Which Online Stores You See, and It’s Ignoring Most of Them
A Recomaze study tested 9,720 ecommerce stores with 58,320 purchase‑intent queries using Google Gemini, finding that 60% of stores received no recommendation and overall visibility was only 14%. When stores were mentioned, the recommendations were spread across more than 50,000...
Lithuanian Firm Shows Army Tech that Turns Any Car Into Robot
Lithuanian defense startup Ostara showcased its Krampus hybrid unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and a proprietary remote‑control system at the Vanguard 2026 exercise. The technology can retrofit virtually any existing military vehicle, turning it into an unmanned platform without the expense of...
RidgeBot 7.0 Automates Active Directory Attack Simulations for Security Validation
Ridge Security unveiled RidgeBot 7.0, adding automated Windows Active Directory penetration testing to its validation platform. The update lets organizations run end‑to‑end domain compromise simulations, covering enumeration, credential extraction, lateral movement and Domain Admin path validation. All simulated attacks are aligned...
Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering 'Cooldown' Before Installing New Packages
Ruby’s core team has added an optional “cooldown” filter to Bundler that blocks the installation of gem versions that have been public for fewer than a configurable number of days. The feature is opt‑in, leaving the default behavior unchanged, and...
Google Search Profiles Insights & Analytics
Google unveiled Search Profiles last week, a dedicated, shareable space for creators and publishers to showcase content across platforms directly in Google Search. The company is now testing an Insights section that reports clicks, impressions, top‑performing posts, and the countries...
From Catalogue to Conversion: Feedonomics Data Enrichment
Feedonomics launched a generative‑AI Data Enrichment service that automatically fills gaps in product catalogs, delivering structured, brand‑consistent data at scale. The platform combines LLM‑based generation, quality grading, and human review to enrich titles, descriptions, attributes, taxonomy and SEO metadata across...
Future Site: AI in Action
Analysts say 2026 marks the turning point when artificial intelligence moves from hype to practical use on UK construction sites. The industry is poised to adopt autonomous machinery, AI‑driven safety monitoring and real‑time data analytics to boost productivity. Early pilots...
Heat Breaks the Rules at the Nanoscale and Scientists Used It to Their Advantage
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, together with Stanford and Purdue collaborators, demonstrated that gold‑patterned metamaterials can increase near‑field radiative heat transfer up to fourfold across nanometer‑scale gaps, as reported in Nature. By engineering microscopic structures that resonate with surface phonon...
GUEST POST: Why Membership Is Becoming Retail’s Most Valuable Customer Model
Retailers are turning membership programs into core business models, moving beyond simple loyalty discounts to create recurring revenue and deeper customer relationships. Brands such as Amazon Prime, Tesco Clubcard and Nike Membership illustrate how data, exclusive experiences and community can...
Driving Licence Validity May Be Extended Till Holder Turns 50
India's road‑transport ministry is evaluating a proposal to extend driving licence validity from the current 20‑year term to the holder's 50th birthday. The plan also seeks to shift vehicle‑ownership transfers and licence renewals to a fully online platform, eliminating the...
Traditional Leaders Back Kalungwishi Hydropower Project as Development Gains Momentum in Northern Zambia
The 247‑megawatt Kalungwishi Hydropower Project in northern Zambia is moving forward with strong backing from the government, private developer Lunzua Power Company, and a coalition of traditional chiefs. The project aims to deliver reliable electricity to the Luapula and Northern...
Defra Outlines £500m Spend This Year on Digital Service Transformation
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced a £500 million (≈$635 million) digital transformation budget for this year, part of a larger £860 million (≈$1.09 billion) technology spend slated for 2026/27. Around £460 million (≈$585 million) is earmarked for customer‑centric services, with...
Apple Investors Look for AI Overhaul to Power Next Leg of Gains
Apple investors have been urging the iPhone maker to unveil a major artificial‑intelligence upgrade, and the company is poised to deliver at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Analysts expect a refreshed Siri digital assistant and a suite of AI‑driven features...
She Paid $20,000 For Her Own Pregnancy, Then Built The Fix For Medicaid Moms
Malama Health, a Medicaid‑first maternal‑care startup, raised a $9.2 million seed round to launch a doula‑led, tech‑enabled platform for high‑risk pregnancies. The free app tracks glucose, nutrition and symptoms, linking users to a W‑2 doula‑care navigator and integrating with Epic electronic...
How CMOs Must Rethink B2B Content Strategy in the Age of AI: The DGR Interview with CMO Council’s Tom Kaneshige
B2B chief marketing officers must redesign content strategies for a new AI‑driven buyer landscape, where intelligent agents act as gatekeepers alongside human decision‑makers. The CMO Council’s Tom Kaneshige stresses that content must be highly structured, evidence‑based and context‑rich to satisfy both...
Half a Million NHS Staff Given AI Tools to Free up Times for Patients
NHS England is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, aiming to free roughly two days of administrative work per employee each month. The AI assistant, already trialed with 30,000 workers, saved an average of 43...
Mass Is the Easy Part, Coordination Is The Hard Part
Ukraine’s use of cheap, AI‑powered drones has forced the U.S. defense sector to rethink how it builds hardware, shifting from million‑dollar interceptors to mass‑produced autonomous systems. Start‑ups are accelerating development cycles, but traditional primes are still organized around multi‑year, multi‑million‑dollar...
Fishy Tales Could Set Back Hinkley Even More
EDF has already invested roughly $889 million in fish protection at Hinkley Point C, including a $64 million acoustic deterrent system. Campaign group Britain Remade warns that Natural England may block the water‑discharge licence, potentially pushing the plant’s 2030 start date further....
This AI-Generated Song Got a Very Human Makeover
Artificial intelligence has produced the soul track "Through My Soul," which entered Billboard’s Emerging Artist chart and has logged over 11 million YouTube views. Composer Adrian Younge, skeptical of AI‑only music, arranged a live band version with vocalist Loren Oden to...
Q&A: OpenCode’s Founder on How the AI Agent Went From Zero to 8 Million Users in a Year
OpenCode, an open‑source AI coding agent founded by University of Waterloo alumnus Jay V, has surged from a modest Toronto meetup debut to 8 million monthly active users in just one year. The Toronto‑based startup projects roughly $25 million in annual revenue...
The Power Grid Runs on Decades-Old Devices — and Attackers Know It
U.S. utilities have poured over $1.3 trillion into grid infrastructure in the last ten years, with another $1.1 trillion slated for the next five, yet the underlying OT devices remain decades‑old and insecure. The shift to bidirectional, cloud‑enabled networks and the rapid...
GLP‑1/GIP Therapies Deliver Double‑Digit Weight Loss in Phase 3 Trials
Eli Lilly's retatrutide, Novo Nordisk's CagriSema, Lilly's oral Foundayo and Hengrui/Kailera's ribupatide all posted Phase 3 or late‑stage results showing double‑digit weight loss and significant blood‑sugar reductions, positioning multi‑hormone GLP‑1 therapies as potential game‑changers for obesity and type‑2 diabetes.
Monzo and Fair4All Finance Tackle UK Credit Exclusion
Monzo and the not‑for‑profit Fair4All Finance have launched a pilot of Monzo’s Flex Build credit card, using a one‑time deposit to unlock up to £250 (≈$318) of credit for customers with thin or poor credit files. Fair4All is providing a partial...
Model for Predicting Battery RUL
Researchers at Chang’an University in Xi’an have introduced a hybrid CNN‑GRU‑PF model to predict battery remaining useful life (RUL). The approach preprocesses capacity data with CEEMDAN and Pearson correlation, extracts spatial features via a 1‑D CNN, captures temporal dependencies with...
OnePlus Turbo 6X Series China Launch Confirmed for June 10
OnePlus confirmed via Weibo that its Turbo 6X and Turbo 6X Pro smartphones will debut in China on June 10, 2026. The Pro variant features a Samsung‑sourced 1.5K AMOLED display, MediaTek Dimensity 7400 Super chipset and an 8,000 mAh battery, while the standard Turbo...
MoD ‘Far Behind the Curve’ on Using Tech to Tackle Fraud
The Public Accounts Committee warned that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is "far behind the curve" in using modern technology to prevent fraud. The department spends roughly £6 million (≈ $7.6 million) a year on counter‑fraud efforts but recovers only 48 pence per pound,...
Nvidia Touts Its Contribution to UK Sovereign AI Plans
Nvidia announced that AI‑cloud specialist Nebius will roll out three new Nvidia‑powered infrastructure sites in the United Kingdom, backing a £1.7 billion (≈$2.2 billion) investment. The deployments, using Nvidia’s full‑stack AI factory platform, are slated to reach 65 MW of compute capacity by...
Arctech Solar Inks 3GW of Tracker Deals, Pushes Robotic Solutions at SNEC
Arctech Solar announced it has signed 3 GW of solar‑tracker supply contracts at the SNEC exhibition in Shanghai, including a flagship 2 GW project in the Middle East. The company unveiled its SkyLine II all‑terrain tracker and a suite of robotic cleaning, cable‑mounting,...
Biomarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN): Most Undervalued Stocks to Buy and Hold for 2 Years
BioMarin Pharmaceutical reported Q1 2026 revenue of $766 million and lifted its full‑year guidance to $3.825‑$3.925 billion, implying roughly 20% year‑over‑year growth. The company secured FDA approval for PALYNZIQ in adolescents with phenylketonuria and submitted an sNDA for VOXZOGO’s full approval. A $3.7 billion...
Will We See New iPads at WWDC 2026? Here's What History Tells Us — Plus What to Expect From iPadOS...
Apple’s WWDC 2026 will likely be a software‑only event, with iPadOS 27 as the headline tablet update. Historical launch patterns show Apple prefers unveiling new iPads in the fall, making a mid‑year hardware announcement improbable. The recent iPad Air 2026 release in March further...
The Boutique Hotel Owner’s Guide to Smarter Rooms in 2026
In 2026 boutique hotels are adopting guest room management systems to automate lighting, climate, access and service requests. The technology promises lower labor costs, energy savings and enhanced guest personalization, addressing staffing shortages and rising guest expectations. Case studies show...
AI Coach BioCoach Targets 48% Rise in At‑Home Workout Injuries
Researchers at Drexel University and Michigan State University introduced BioCoach, an AI‑powered fitness coach that monitors muscle mechanics via a smartphone camera and offers instant corrective cues. The prototype aims to curb a 48% spike in at‑home workout injuries recorded...