9 New Faces for SATShow Week 2026
SATShow Week 2026 unveiled nine fresh leaders spanning investment, manufacturing, policy and operations, underscoring the event’s expanding GovMilSpace focus. Ellen Chang highlighted the need for terrestrial infrastructure financing, while Apex’s Ian Cinnamon disclosed a $400 million fundraising round to scale bus production for defense. Eutelsat’s new CEO Jean‑François Fallacher signaled tighter telecom ties and a LEO partnership with OneWeb, and senior officials from the U.S. Space Force, GSMA, SES and Bain Capital rounded out the roster. The program reflects a broader shift toward defense‑driven satellite services and integrated space‑ground ecosystems.
Samsung Pulls Trifold Phone From Market After only Three Months
Samsung announced a premium trifold smartphone in early 2024, pricing it around $1,500 and touting a tablet‑sized display that folds into a pocket‑friendly form factor. Within three months, the device failed to meet sales expectations, prompting the company to pull...
Human/AI Collective Intelligence for Deliberative Democracy: A Human-Centred Design Approach
The authors introduce Collective Intelligence for Deliberative Democracy (CI4DD), a framework that leverages AI to augment citizen deliberation. They argue that a human‑centred design approach is essential to ensure trustworthy, inclusive processes. The paper outlines a co‑design methodology that maps...
Tesla Vet Simplifies Home Batteries for Plug‑Play VPPs
Today on Volts: Kunal Girotra applied the lessons he learned from starting Tesla's home-energy business to Lunar, a startup sells simple, modular home battery & software systems. The idea is to make solar panels, smart devices, & VPPs "plug &...
LinkedIn Posts Now Surface in Google Discover for Influencers
Cool new update from Discover Snoop: Individual LinkedIn Posts are now appearing in Google Discover. This is in addition to X, Instagram, and TikTok posts already showing more frequently in there. And as @AndellDam has recently been highlighting, this appears to...
Palantir Integrates AI Into Stratospheric ISR Systems
Palantir Technologies has partnered with Ondas and World View Enterprises to build an AI‑driven, multi‑domain intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system that spans stratospheric balloons, autonomous drones and ground assets. The collaboration leverages Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform, World View’s high‑altitude...
SpaceX’s Starlink Asks Ofcom for Permission to Build Two New Earth Stations in London and Essex
SpaceX’s Starlink has applied to Ofcom for two new Ka‑band Earth stations—one in London’s Mulberry Wharf and another in Harlow, Essex—targeting early 2026 deployment. The company says its current gateway network is nearing capacity, forcing it to limit service to...
Industry Roundtable With ’10 Hottest’ Executives
A roundtable of leaders from Viasat, SpinLaunch, Voyager Technologies, ArkEdge Space and Planet highlighted three dominant themes for SATShow Week 2026: the rise of multi‑orbit and hybrid satellite networks, the growing importance of dual‑use space systems for defense and commercial...
LRZ Decommissions CoolMUC-3 Supercomputer After Almost Decade of Use
Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has retired its CoolMUC‑3 supercomputer after almost a decade of service. Deployed in 2017, the nine‑rack cluster housed Intel Xeon Phi processors and delivered roughly 400 teraflops for fluid‑dynamic research at Bavarian universities. It pioneered Megaware’s ColdCon...
Challenging a 300-Year-Old Law of Friction
Researchers at the University of Konstanz demonstrated a new type of sliding friction that arises without mechanical contact, driven solely by collective magnetic dynamics. By varying the separation between two magnetic layers, they showed friction peaks at intermediate distances where...
SD Times News Digest: SmartBear BearQ, Chainguard Agent Skills — March 18, 2026
SmartBear unveiled BearQ, an autonomous QA system that explores how applications function and adapts to code changes, positioning it as a next‑generation alternative to brittle test scripts. The launch follows a SmartBear survey showing 90% of developers use AI coding...
Machine Learning Maps Nanodiamond Nanofluid Performance on Wavy Surfaces
Researchers at Harbin Institute of Technology used a hybrid numerical‑simulation and neural‑network framework to map how nanodiamond aggregation, magnetic field strength, and surface waviness affect convective heat transfer. Aggregated nanodiamond particles lifted the Nusselt number by up to 30 % but...
Google Brings Vehicle Feeds to Search Campaigns
Google Ads now supports vehicle feed integration in Search campaigns, allowing automotive advertisers to pull inventory from Merchant Center into text ads. The update adds clickable assets that display make, model, price and images alongside standard ad copy. Users can...
Unified AI Architecture Bridges Knowing‑Doing Gap
AI is falling short because most organizations haven’t built the architecture to turn insight into action. In my latest @Forbes article, I explore why closing the gap between knowing and doing requires unified AI, data, workflows, and governance. This makes...
What Are Test Hooks in AI-Native Development?
Test hooks attach existing test and lint commands to deterministic lifecycle events in AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor. When the event fires, the command runs automatically and a non‑zero exit code blocks the agent, forcing an...
The Rise of Agentic Execution: Rocketlane CEO Srikrishnan Ganesan on AI’s Next Phase in Professional Services
Rocketlane has launched Nitro, the first agentic execution platform for professional services, enabling AI agents to perform repeatable implementation tasks such as configurations, data migrations, testing, and documentation. The platform promises up to a 50% reduction in delivery effort for...
AI in Science
The paper by Agrawal, McHale and Oettl frames artificial intelligence as an augmentation tool that expands scientists' ability to search combinatorial spaces, rather than fully automating research. By dissecting the knowledge‑production process into stages, the authors reveal a “jagged frontier”...
Launch of GStack Office-Hours Skill Mimics YC Guidance
I just launched /office-hours skill with gstack. Working on a new idea? GStack will help you think about it the way we do at YC. (It's only a 10% strength version of what a real YC partner can do for...
Doba Adds Walmart Marketplace Integration for Drop Shipping Sellers
Doba announced a verified integration with Walmart Marketplace, using OAuth 2.0 to automate product listings, inventory syncing, and order processing. The connection replaces legacy APIs, reducing manual errors and ensuring compliance with Walmart’s strict performance standards. Walmart ranks #2 among U.S....
SBIR Reauthorization, a Top BIO Priority, Is Passed by Congress
Congress passed the reauthorization of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs on March 17, securing five more years of federal seed funding for biotech startups. The bipartisan House vote was 345‑41 after a...
How CPAs Can Build Relevance with Continuous Upskilling
Artificial intelligence is reshaping accounting, turning routine tasks into data‑driven insights and raising expectations for analytical fluency. Jen Cryder of PICPA argues that continuous, forward‑looking upskilling is essential for CPAs to remain relevant and to convert technical expertise into strategic...
Generative AI Summit Austin, 2026
The Generative AI Summit Austin 2026 is announced by the AI Accelerator Institute, but full details are gated behind a membership portal. Prospective attendees must sign up or log in to view the agenda, speaker lineup, and registration information. The...
Blackwired’s ThirdWatch: Powering Operational Resilience with Cyber Intelligence
Blackwired’s ThirdWatch platform aims to transform cyber‑threat intelligence into actionable operational‑resilience insight for financial institutions. It addresses the systemic risk exposed by the 2023 MOVEit Transfer breach, where a single third‑party vulnerability compromised hundreds of firms. Leveraging Direct Threat Intelligence,...
The Next-Gen Admin: In Conversation With Tony Nguyen
The interview with Tony Nguyen highlights how Salesforce administrators are transitioning from traditional, fix‑it technicians to strategic stewards of data, security, and AI‑driven processes. Nguyen stresses that modern admins must master a broad skill set—including security architecture, data modeling, DevOps,...
The Next-Gen Admin: In Conversation With Ishrat Bhatti
Salesforce administrators are transitioning from ticket‑centric technicians to strategic stewards of AI‑driven enterprise systems. In a new interview series, MVP Ishrat Bhatti highlights how admins must now interpret complex data flows, govern autonomous agents, and ensure responsible AI outcomes. She...
Meta Pays Creators Up to $3K Monthly to Join Facebook
NEW: Meta is offering creators who have large followings on other platforms (but who don't regularly post on Facebook) up to $3k a month in bonuses if they start posting on Facebook, it's the company's latest plan to bring higher...
"Lost in the Middle" Replicates
A recent replication using a quantized Llama‑2 7B model confirmed the "Lost in the Middle" phenomenon reported by Liu et al. The experiment employed the multi‑document question‑answering benchmark derived from Natural Questions, testing three gold‑document positions (first, middle, last) across...
California Mercedes-Benz USA Parts Distribution Center Goes Solar
EDP Renewables North America’s Distributed Generation unit has finished a 720‑kW rooftop solar system at Mercedes‑Benz USA’s parts distribution center in Fontana, California. The build phase supported 65 construction jobs. The solar array is expected to generate more than $18,200...
Memory Chip Cycle Revives; Micron Still Cheap
Micron reports earnings tonight. The stock is up 350% in a year. And somehow, at 10.7x forward earnings, it might still be cheap. Here's why the memory chip industry is experiencing something that hasn't happened in four decades — and...
Pay‑only for AI Agent Compute with Deeplake
Agent usage is spiky so stop paying for 24/7 databases. 🚨 @Activeloop just dropped Deeplake to fix AI memory economics: → Instant sandboxed Postgres → Built for agent workflows → Handles text/vectors/video natively Only pay for the compute your agent swarm actually uses 👀
Gamer Recycles VR Roller Coaster Into Fully Motion-Enabled Elite Dangerous Cockpit
A streamer known as CMDR Wacko has transformed a discarded Chinese VR roller‑coaster platform into a fully motion‑enabled cockpit called the SimStarr. The rig tilts with joystick inputs and jolts on in‑game impacts, supporting any telemetry‑enabled racing or flight title,...
AI Revives Lost Voices From Old Recordings
You can now clone a parent's voice from old phone recordings. Upload voicemails, family videos, even Instagram clips. Pantio builds an AI persona that talks, jokes, and gives advice exactly like them. Your kids can meet grandparents they never got to know.
Robotic Hand Beats Human Reflexes in Speed, Precision
Faster Than Human Reflexes: A #Robotic Hand Redefining Speed and Precision by @sciencegirl #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/bVb1cWuWTx
AI Apps Generate Revenue but Struggle With Retention
AI‑powered subscription apps are generating 41% more revenue per user than non‑AI counterparts, yet they suffer markedly lower retention. RevenueCat’s State of Subscription Apps report shows AI apps retain only 21.1% of annual subscribers versus 30.7% for non‑AI apps, and...
OpenClaw Launches LinkedIn Integration, Boosting Automated Outreach
OpenClaw for LinkedIn officially launched today. - It connects with Granola, Google Drive, HubSpot, Slack, and more. - It texts you before meetings so you don’t forget. - It helps set up appointments and calls. Automated texting and outreach is going to get even...
Accessibility, Inclusivity, and AI Sovereignty Drive Global AI Governance Dialogue
Accessibility, inclusivity, and AI sovereignty lead a rapid roundtable of global stakeholders at @ITU’s online forum setting the stage for the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance at the #AIforGood Global Summit, the @UN’s leading AI event. July 7–10, 2026 @AIforGood...
When the Atom Becomes the Target: Poland’s Nuclear Research Centre Repels a Cyberattack
On March 12, 2026 Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) thwarted a cyber intrusion targeting its IT network. The breach was identified and contained before any disruption to the MARIA research reactor or ongoing scientific work. Preliminary analysis points...
MRK Unveils PD-1/VEGF Bispecific at AACR26
$MRK's PD-1 x VEGF bispecific reveal, & other key #AACR26 presentations, via @APEXONCO -> https://t.co/ob1eswxCWF $RVMD $AMGN $GILD $BCYC $SDGR
Iran War Pressures Solar Energy Development
How Solar Is Getting Squeezed in the Iran War #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/3AYDpzdzgD https://t.co/toxamsnCxs
Data Centre Capacity in India Crosses 1,500 MW: Govt
India’s data centre capacity surged to over 1,500 MW in 2025, up from 375 MW in 2020, reflecting rapid digital adoption. The bulk of this capacity is clustered in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai (790 MW), with Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi‑NCR providing the remainder....
Logarithmic-Depth Quantum Circuits Efficiently Prepare Polynomial States
New #quantumcomputing preprint with @qubit_pharma team and CERFACS: "Logarithmic-depth quantum state preparation of polynomials" Check it out: https://t.co/DWGkoTImjK
RBC Flags Revolution, Xenon, Arrowhead as Top Biotech Takeover Targets
RBC: Revolution, Xenon, Arrowhead among top #biotech takeover targets https://t.co/h1toH9szrU by @realJacobBell $ARWR $XENE $RVMD $DYNE
Quantum Pioneers Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard Win $1 Million Turing Award
IBM researcher Charles Bennett and University of Montreal professor Gilles Brassard have been awarded the 2025 ACM Turing Award, sharing a $1 million prize for their 1984 BB84 quantum key distribution protocol. Their win spotlights the urgency of quantum‑secure communications as...
5‑MeO‑DMT Shows Promise for Treatment‑Resistant Depression
Emerging evidence supports 5-MeO-DMT as a promising, ultra-short-acting psychedelic for treatment-resistant depression and other psychiatric conditions, warranting larger randomized controlled trials. https://t.co/6CcEOSat1F
Dispatch in Cowork Limits Access to Project Folders
Super confused, what's the point of dispatch in Cowork if I can't work in specific project folders? Surely I'm missing something? https://t.co/hKqkJ7i076
Electrorheoimaging Helps Manage Droplet Viscosity in Real-Time
Researchers at the University of Guelph introduced electrorheoimaging (ERI), a technique that merges electric‑field forcing, rheological measurement, and microscopic imaging to monitor droplet viscosity in real time. By adjusting the frequency of an applied electric field, they achieved instantaneous, reversible...
Grok 4.20 Impresses; Weekly Major Upgrades Continue
What are your initial impressions of Grok 4.20? Major upgrades are still landing every week.
CastDotApp Trims MCP, Favoring Leaner AI Integration
Why @CastDotApp Is Narrowing MCP’s Role for Select Agent Use Cases https://t.co/Jq0BDGaXCA AI agents don’t need more tools; they need smarter, leaner integration surfaces. #MCP #AI #AIagent #agenticAI https://t.co/e2P38yodQL
AI's Capital Cycle Mirrors Historical Patterns
I regret to inform everyone that the AI capital cycle looks like all other capital cycles in history
AI Strategies Grow From Real Experiments, Not Top‑down Plans
Seismic didn’t start with a grand AI strategy. It built one through an internal incubation team experimenting with real use cases. Instead of top-down planning, the strategy emerged from what actually worked. Maybe that’s how most AI strategies will form going forward. https://t.co/yOdAyCDOlV...
