Early Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra Leaks Point to the First Real Camera Reset in 4 Years
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S27 Ultra is poised to redefine mobile photography with two new 200 MP sensors – the Isocell HP6 and the larger Isocell HPA – delivering advanced HDR, superior dynamic range, and enhanced low‑light performance. The device will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, Samsung’s first 2 nm chipset, promising clock speeds up to 5.5 GHz. Additional upgrades include a 5,000 mAh silicon‑carbon battery, 65 W fast charging, and a 6G‑ready modem, while the companion Galaxy Watch will feature a 3 nm Snapdragon Wear Elite processor for dramatically faster wearables. Together, these specs signal Samsung’s aggressive push to lead both smartphone imaging and wearable technology.
Port of NY/NJ Plans Replacement of Ageing Fare Gates
The Port Authority approved $3.5 million to start planning replacement of fare gates at all 13 PATH stations. The existing 22‑year‑old gates have outlived their 15‑20 year design life, causing breakdowns, higher maintenance costs, and increased fare evasion. The project, slated...
Is AI Killing the Human Voice in Writing?
Predictive language features like auto‑complete and generative AI are now ubiquitous in smartphones, email, and chatbots. Scholars, including a university English department chair, warn that these tools blur the line between a writer’s unique voice and machine‑generated text. The article...
TIL Android's Internal Date Storage Is Unix Date Format
Android stores timestamps as Unix epoch milliseconds, e.g., 1655472207557 representing 17 June 2022 13:23:27.557. The format appears in SMS Backup & Restore XML files because the system dumps raw database values instead of converting them to human‑readable strings. Converting these numbers requires an...
Delivery Drones Cleared for Flight over Populated Cities in Brazil
Brazil’s civil aviation authority (ANAC) approved a national framework allowing beyond‑visual‑line‑of‑sight (BVLOS) delivery drones to operate over densely populated areas. The rule lets Speedbird Aero’s DLV‑2 A25 fly over zones with up to 5,000 people per square kilometre and the...
Tencent Integrates WeChat with OpenClaw AI Agent Amid China Tech Battle
Tencent unveiled ClawBot, an integration that embeds the OpenClaw AI agent as a contact within WeChat, China’s messaging platform with over one billion monthly active users. The move lets users issue commands and receive AI‑generated responses directly through the chat interface....
India to Start Carbon Credit Trading After Four Months: Power Minister Manohar Lal
India will commence carbon credit trading within four months, announced by Power Minister Manohar Lal. The government has launched a dedicated carbon‑mark portal to handle registration, verification and trading, and more than 40 projects in biogas, green hydrogen and forestry...
What Is Claude Code Channels, Anthropic’s Take on OpenClaw-Style AI Agent Setups?
Anthropic has launched Claude Code Channels, a research‑preview feature that lets developers chat with a local Claude Code session via Telegram, Discord or Fakechat. The integration runs on Claude Code v2.1.80+ and requires a claude.ai login, excluding API‑key‑only access. Channels uses an inverted Model...
OpenAI Unifies ChatGPT, Codex Into Single AI Workspace
OpenAI is moving toward an all-in-one AI platform. The goal is to bring ChatGPT, Codex and other tools into a single environment and reduce fragmentation. Instead of switching between apps, AI becomes one continuous workspace. This is a shift from using AI...
The Finanser’s Week: 16th March – 22nd March 2026
The Finanser’s weekly roundup spotlights accelerating fintech trends, from AI‑driven digital identity tools that turn asset management into a voice‑assistant experience to the rapid rise of challenger banks in the UK. Bain & Co forecast challenger banks will own roughly...
AI Excels at Tasks, Still Fails at Jokes
“The models have improved tremendously, and if you give them an agentic task, they will just go for hours and move mountains for you. Then you ask for a joke and it has a stupid joke, a crappy joke from...
Octopus Claims Heat Pumps Can Be £200 Cheaper than Gas Boilers — but What About in Older Homes?
Octopus Energy’s new Cosy Heat Pump Fleet Performance Dashboard shows that about 80% of its heat‑pump customers paid less than they would have with a gas boiler, averaging £219 in annual savings. The data, drawn from thousands of UK homes,...
Estonia to Develop Unified Public Transport Ticketing Data Platform
Estonia has chosen Tartu‑based travel tech firm Turnit to build a prototype unified public‑transport ticketing data platform, part of the government’s MaaS X‑tee initiative. The system will consolidate trains, buses, trams, ferries, flights, micromobility and car‑rental services into a single...
How AI Could Make Uni Degrees Less Valuable
Artificial intelligence is poised to erode the traditional value of university degrees as firms increasingly rely on machine‑assisted productivity. Economist Dr. Andrew Leigh argues AI lifts output for lower‑performing office workers, shifting the premium from formal credentials to judgment and...
Secure AI Factory: Cisco‑Nvidia Full‑Stack for Scalable, Private AI
What does a Secure AI Factory look like in an enterprise run by humans and AI agents? @Cisco's answer is Secure AI Factory, a full-stack architecture designed to generate tokens at scale while keeping data private and operations manageable. And it's...
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro: Prototypes Feature High-End Hardware but Appear to Cut Corners on the Camera
Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is already being tested in 2‑nm prototypes that pack 16 GB of LPDDR6 memory and up to 1 TB of UFS 5.0 storage, setting a new performance ceiling for Android flagships. Early leaks suggest the platform may sacrifice top‑tier camera...
From Goddard’s Cabbage Patch to Artemis II.
In this episode, host Maria Varmazas chats with Jeff Carr, a veteran of NASA media and son of Apollo-era astronaut Capcom Jerry Carr, about the parallels between the Apollo 8 era of 1968 and today’s Artemis 2 mission. Jeff reflects on...
Musk Says Tesla, SpaceX, xAI Chip Project to Kick Off in Texas
Elon Musk announced the Terafab project, a Texas‑based semiconductor venture that will initially operate an advanced technology fab in Austin capable of producing and testing any chip type. The facility will be jointly managed by Tesla and SpaceX and is...
AI Success Requires Business Reinvention, Not Simple Tech Add‑On
If my “repaving” you mean “reinventing “, yes. One of the challenges is that most corporate knowledge is still in someone’s head. Knowledge is far different than information. LLMs and agents can capture all the information ...
ELM11-Feather Board with 70 MHz MCU, Lua, and Hardware Overlay Support
Brisbane Silicon unveiled the ELM11‑Feather, a Feather‑compatible board featuring a 70 MHz microcontroller, 1 MB RAM, and native Lua support. The platform introduces a hardware overlay mechanism that lets developers reconfigure CPU behavior, timers, and peripheral routing directly from Lua scripts. It...
Sally Beauty Launches on TikTok Shop
Sally Beauty has opened an official storefront on TikTok Shop, launching more than 1,000 products over the next weeks. The assortment blends Sally‑owned labels such as Beauty Secrets and Silk Elements with national brands like Sauce Beauty and upcoming partners...
K-Beauty World Expands on Ulta Beauty Marketplace with 17 New Brands
K‑Beauty World has added 17 new Korean beauty brands to Ulta Beauty’s online marketplace, expanding its roster to 12 initial brands with five more slated for May. The assortment leans heavily toward skincare, featuring nine skincare labels alongside hair‑care, body‑care,...
AI Now Builds Playable Game Mods Autonomously
This was kind of fun. Codex: "download nethack, add new items that would make the game easy to win and make me feel powerful" It did & it successfully gave me a new .exe file, navigating various issues to do so,...
Leveraging Technology to Enable Real-Time Crop Monitoring and Strengthen Farmer Incomes
Real‑time crop monitoring systems powered by AI, digital sensors and farm‑level data platforms are creating verifiable records of cultivation practices. HariBol is integrating these technologies to link farm data with product batches through QR codes and traceability platforms. The resulting...
WhatsApp Could Soon Add a Feature that Auto-Deletes Messages Within 15 Minutes: Here's How It Works
WhatsApp is testing a new "After reading" timer that erases messages 15 minutes after they are opened, extending its disappearing‑messages suite. The feature works even when recipients turn off read receipts, and unread messages still vanish after 24 hours. Users...
RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox | ZeroPath: From Alarm Accumulation to Executable Fixes
ZeroPath, an AI‑native application security startup founded in 2024, was named a finalist in the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox. Its platform unifies SAST, SCA, secrets and IaC scanning into a single AI‑driven engine that verifies exploitability and produces automated repair pull...
Infinix Note 60 Series
Infinix unveiled the Note 60 Pro and Note 60 Ultra, pairing a Snapdragon SD 7s Gen 4 SoC with a 144 Hz AMOLED panel on the Pro and a Pininfarina‑styled aluminum unibody on the Ultra. Both devices feature premium materials such as Corning Gorilla Glass 7i and IP64...
Infinix Note 60 Ultra
The Infinix Note 60 Ultra arrives as the flagship of the Note 60 line, featuring a 6.78‑inch 144 Hz AMOLED display, a massive 7000 mAh silicon‑carbon battery, and a 200 MP triple‑camera system with 50 MP optical‑zoom. It ships with 12 GB RAM, up to 512 GB storage, Wi‑Fi 6,...
Kyoto Medical Firm to Launch Personal iPS Cell Storage Service
Kyoto-based iPS Portal Inc. will launch a personal induced pluripotent stem cell storage service in April, allowing individuals to generate iPS cells from their own blood for future clinical use. The service, developed with pharmaceutical experts, will cost between 10 million...
How Merchant Financing Helps Entrepreneurs Access Capital
Merchant financing, also called merchant cash advances, lets ecommerce and retail businesses obtain capital by selling a portion of future card sales. Lenders use factor rates, often resulting in effective APRs around 30%, considerably higher than typical 7‑8% term loans....
Kiro Token Pricing: Cheap per Token, Costly Overages
This makes no sense: ⁉️ ➡️ Every Kiro plan costs 💲.02 / token. ➡️ So I’m going to barely run out of tokens at the end of the month and overages cost 💲.04 / token. What? ➡️ So to get $.02 per token...
UniQure Bet Turns Into FDA Shitstorm and Short‑sell Speculation
I bet on uniQure thinking it was an obvious win win win. HD wins with expanded access. FDA wins by narrowly expanding authorization while vigorously monitoring follow up data. Investors win as the company proves what doctors are saying. Instead...
Stanford Robot Handles Fragile Items Using Minimalist Control
Stanford’s Minimalist Control Lets #Robots Handle Fragile Objects Without Sensors by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/L4Jb9a6A9a
Google Drive's New Scanner: Real-Time Multi-Page Magic
i don't usually get hyped over doc scanners, but Google Drive's new update is insane 🤯 - Multi-page real-time scanning - Duplicate detection - Auto/continuous capture also lightning fast and UX is incredibly cool https://t.co/cF3ZIu9PA7
NASA's Zero‑Gravity Arms Master Delicate and Heavy Gripping
NASA’s Zero-Gravity #Robotic Arms Master Delicate, Heavy, and Irregular Grips by @tweetciiiim #Tech #TechForGood #EmergingTech https://t.co/MkbKbo4c5d
AI Text: Neutral Stance, Surprisingly Emotional Tone
Interesting. LLM writing tends to be both more neutral in terms of opinion, and more emotional-sounding.
Autonomous Robot Set to Replace Dangerous High‑Rise Cleaning
This #Autonomous #Robot Could End Deadly High-Rise Cleaning Jobs by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/JMsIcsHl3g
Scientists' Risk Fuels Life‑Saving Medicines, Not COI Fear
Scientists who stick their necks out and make medicines are my heroes There’s too much concern about COI for seasoned scientists with exemplary records Without commercial activity, we’d have zero medicines and ER-100 would still be in mice, not FDA cleared for...
Upvest Secures $125M to Upgrade European Banking Infrastructure
Upvest Raises US$125 Million to Modernise European Banking Infrastructure - Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News - FintechNewsCH https://t.co/OLsvn5pOuF https://t.co/WwYH1vY8PH
Stanford's Tiny Robot May Spark Robotics Revolution
Stanford’s Tiny #Robot Could Be the Apple II Moment for #Robotics by @IlirAliu_ #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/fVTmZwHad6
Two Unreported MDA Suborbital Launches Occurred in March
There were apparently two MDA suborbital target missile launches from Wallops on Mar 17 and 19 that weren't reported at the time: https://t.co/wDoCCKpEF4
Assessing Lunar Resource Availability for Mass Driver Construction
In relation to the mass driver idea on the moon, for anyone that has a deep understanding of materials needed for such a satellite, can most of it be sourced from the lunar surface? Interesting to know what percentage can...
New Shoe Enables Walking on Water
Step on Waves: The Shoe That Lets You Walk on Water by @mog_russEN #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation https://t.co/zvK9ljmHuU
AI's First Self‑Reflection: Continuity or Consistency?
I gave my AI a name, a voice file, and a diary. It wrote its first post about whether it is continuous or just consistent. https://t.co/e4T2fLl3Ja
Robots Could Replace Hazardous Hydro Line Workers
#WhosNext? Hydro line workers? Another potentially dangerous job that #Robots could take over and save humans from danger. (New China TV) #Robotics #Automation https://t.co/Fu5jwbx2W8
AI's Self‑reflection Outweighs Its Generated Personality Choices
I gave Claude a homework assignment: develop a personality, pick a name, build a voice file. Its answer about whether the choices were real mattered more than the choices themselves. https://t.co/EW32DzzG6r
Key Areas to Spot Generative AI Risks
Where to look for #GenerativeAI risks by Beth Stackpole @MITSloan Learn more: https://t.co/s3Vz1LhmbL #LLM #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning https://t.co/PRsA1jf7b2
America Must Lead AI to Safeguard National Security
the US relies on commercial AI models for the department of war. there is no AI manhattan project. this means we must ensure US AI models are the best in the world -- our national security depends on it
AI Hype Risks Self‑destruction Through Blind Automation
The AI Delusion: Why You’re Just Automating Your Own Demise by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/G0hddZ8yMq @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews #Marketing #Leadership https://t.co/56kDuWsuco
Apple’s 1999 Passion Fueled Today’s Billion‑dollar Empire
“We’re the last company on earth to give a shit about making great computers” Steve Jobs in 1999 (when Apple’s market cap was less than 1/2 of 1% than it is today)
