Polar Takes on G-Shock with Its Toughest Watch yet and Adds a Garmin-Style Flashlight
Polar unveiled the Street X smartwatch, a rugged G‑Shock‑inspired device with a reinforced polymer case, 1.28‑inch AMOLED screen and MIL‑STD‑810H certification. It offers 170+ sport profiles, Training Load Pro, sleep and HRV tracking, and up to ten days of battery life or 43 hours of GPS with optical heart‑rate monitoring. A new side‑mounted LED flashlight provides white and red light modes for low‑light situations. The watch launches at $249.90 (≈£219, €250) in two standard colors with a limited‑edition Forest Green variant.
Mario’s Return to Switch 2 Has Made Me Fall in Love with Nintendo’s Console All over Again
Super Mario Bros Wonder, originally released on the Switch in 2023, has been refreshed for the upcoming Switch 2 console. The reissued version features upgraded visuals, a badge-based ability system, and new Wonder Seed transformations that keep gameplay fresh. Multiplayer now...
Segmenting by Purchased Category in Omnisend: How We Made It Work (and Keep Working)
Omnisend helped Italian ecommerce retailer Alberoshop, which sells over 15,000 crystal and home‑goods items, implement purchase‑category segmentation to boost email relevance. By using existing product Collections as dynamic segment criteria, customers are automatically placed in groups that reflect their most...
Duos Edge AI and Seimitsu Partner to Strengthen Digital Infrastructure Across Georgia
Duos Technologies Group, through its Duos Edge AI subsidiary, announced a strategic partnership with fiber provider Seimitsu to build edge computing infrastructure across Georgia. The collaboration will embed modular Edge AI nodes onto Seimitsu’s 25‑terabit low‑latency fiber network, delivering ultra‑low...
AMC Bridge Demos MCP Connector for BIM Workflows
AMC Bridge demonstrated a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector that links Autodesk Platform Services with Procore, using AI‑driven natural language to streamline BIM‑to‑field workflows. The proof‑of‑concept enables conversational queries of 3‑D models, automatic quantity‑to‑cost‑code synchronization, and contextual linking of field...
DXtrade Integrates Gold-I’s Visual Edge to Enhance Risk Management Capabilities
DXtrade, Devexperts' multi‑asset trading platform, has integrated Gold‑i’s Visual Edge risk‑management tool, giving brokers real‑time visual analytics, automated alerts and scalper detection. The addition expands DXtrade’s feature set beyond its existing MatrixNET liquidity‑management integration. Brokers can now monitor exposure, P&L...
Why CleverTap Engineers Switched From Bamboo to Semaphore and Chose It over GitHub Actions
CleverTap’s engineering team outgrew Bamboo, encountering long queues and coordination bottlenecks as their codebase expanded. They migrated to Semaphore, a cloud‑native CI/CD platform, and achieved a 75% reduction in build times. The switch also introduced self‑service pipelines and better parallel...
Aviva Pilots ChatGPT App for Home Insurance Quotes
Aviva has launched a pilot ChatGPT app that delivers instant home‑insurance quotes within minutes. The app, available through the ChatGPT App Store, asks users basic details—name, address, contact and policy type—to generate a quote for Aviva’s Signature Home Insurance product....
PossibleNOW and Convoso Announce Strategic Partnership to Align Compliance and AI-Powered Outbound Performance
PossibleNOW, a compliance‑focused SaaS provider, has entered a strategic partnership with Convoso, an AI‑driven outbound contact‑center platform. The alliance merges PossibleNOW’s Do‑Not‑Contact (DNC) governance tools with Convoso’s predictive dialing and workflow automation, allowing customers to scale outreach while mitigating TCPA...
WuXi Biologics Reports Record 2025 Annual Results, Operational Excellence Driven by Digital-Native Architecture
WuXi Biologics reported record 2025 results, with revenue up 16.7% and IFRS gross profit climbing 30.9%, lifting its gross margin to 46%. The growth was driven by expanding research, development and manufacturing contracts and tighter cost control across its global...
Approaching.ai Brings in Top Scientists to Capture AI’s Inference Boom
Approaching.ai announced the appointment of Academician Wei‑Min Zheng as Chief Scientific Advisor and Professor Yongwei Wu as Chief Scientist, bolstering its technical leadership in AI inference. Both experts bring decades of high‑performance computing and distributed systems experience, reinforcing the company’s...
Metformin’s Hidden Brain Pathway Revealed After 60 Years
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a brain‑based pathway that underlies metformin’s glucose‑lowering effect. The study shows that metformin suppresses the Rap1 protein in the ventromedial hypothalamus, a region critical for whole‑body glucose regulation. Mice lacking hypothalamic Rap1...
Actionable Monitoring Beats Data Overload in Cardiac Care
Health care has become better at saving people once they are already in trouble. That does not mean we have become good at catching trouble early. This episode of The Podcast by KevinMD gets at a hard truth in cardiac care: we...
Grass Valley Delivers Win with French National Lottery UHD Upgrade
Grass Valley has expanded its partnership with ImSoPROD, the production arm of France’s national lottery, by supplying LDX C98 compact UHD cameras for an 80 m² studio upgrade. The new system, installed in under two months, supports up to 14 cameras,...
Race to July 2026: Securing Your PV Safe Harbour
Regulators have eliminated the 5 % test for solar projects over 1.5 MW, making the physical‑work test the sole path to safe‑harbour compliance, with a hard deadline of 4 July 2026. Recent observations from Enertis Applus+ across 80 independent‑engineering engagements reveal on‑site issues such as...
Microsoft Hands Entra ID Users New Option for MFA
Microsoft has made External MFA for Entra ID generally available, leveraging the OpenID Connect standard to let organizations integrate third‑party MFA solutions while retaining Conditional Access controls. The feature appears as an external authentication method that admins can assign to...
Nevermined Unveils Card Delegation for AI Agents, Enabling Autonomous Payments
Nevermined introduced persistent card delegation, letting AI agents hold delegated credit cards and make real‑world payments without human approval. The feature embeds spending limits, duration controls and revocability directly into the infrastructure, mirroring corporate expense policies. By enabling continuous, automated...
Glovo CTO Shiro Theuri Is a Guardian for Benefiting From AI
Glovo’s chief technology officer, Shiro Theuri, is steering the Barcelona‑based delivery platform through a rapid AI integration across its engineering teams. She reports high AI penetration, leading to faster, higher‑quality code while instituting responsible‑AI guardrails and human‑in‑the‑loop reviews. Theuri also...
Sail Backpack Increases Speed, Stability for Downhill Cyclists
Aerodynamic Sail Backpack Boosts Speed and Stability for Downhill Cyclists by @IntEngineering #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology https://t.co/xEEaQx6zo3
LG Electronics India Inks 25-Year Solar Deals to Power Two Manufacturing Plants
LG Electronics India has entered 25‑year solar power purchase agreements with Hinduja Renewables Energy and Sunsure Energy to supply its Pune and Greater Noida manufacturing plants. The contracts cover 9.80 MWp and 11 MWp, delivering roughly 32.1 million kWh annually—enough for about 50,000...
Why JetKVM Is a Total Game-Changer for Remote Access : Full 2026 Guide
The JetKVM is a hardware‑based KVM‑over‑IP appliance that lets IT teams control computers at the BIOS level, even when they are powered off or crashed. It streams full‑HD video at 60 fps with 30‑60 ms latency and supports virtual USB and ISO...
MAXIS GBN Partners with Klarity and Workplace Options
MAXIS Global Benefits Network (MAXIS GBN) announced partnerships with Klarity and Workplace Options, adding them to its wellness technology marketplace. The marketplace offers multinational employers a suite of global wellness solutions, now expanded with Klarity’s mental‑health platform and Workplace Options’...
How GLP-1 Agonists Affect Gene Expression and Promote Pancreatic Health
Researchers at the Salk Institute identified the protein Med14 as the molecular bridge that links GLP‑1 agonist drugs to broad genomic responses that enhance pancreatic beta‑cell health. The team showed that phosphorylation of Med14 is essential for activating gene programs...
Advanced Deep Learning Interview Questions #4 - The I/O Starvation Trap
During a senior ML engineer interview at Meta, candidates are asked why training speed stalls after moving deep‑learning workloads to a large AWS GPU cluster. Although the expensive GPU instances launch correctly, the iteration rate does not improve. The hidden...
Russia Showcases Lys-2 Counter-Drone Interceptor
Russia unveiled the Lys‑2 (Fox‑2) counter‑drone interceptor, a fixed‑wing UAV launched by catapult and capable of autonomous target acquisition in the terminal phase. Open‑source footage shows the system engaging aerial threats without continuous operator input. Reported specifications suggest a 15 km...
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The Struggle to Prove AI Productivity Gains
Enterprises are grappling with how to quantify AI‑driven gains in software engineering, even as boardrooms shift from mere tool adoption to demonstrable output. A Multitudes survey of 700+ engineers found 75% struggle to measure AI impact, and only 31% have...
First Innovate for Ireland National Centre Launched – ‘Decarb-AI’
Today Ireland unveiled its first Innovate for Ireland national centre, Decarb‑AI, a €5.7 million (≈$6.2 million) initiative partnered with AIB and Research Ireland to accelerate AI‑driven climate resilience. The centre will host 30 international iScholars across three intakes, each pursuing fully funded...
South Korea Targets 2,500 Community Solar Cooperatives by 2030
South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety launched the Sunlight Income Village program, aiming to create more than 2,500 community‑owned solar cooperatives by 2030. Over 500 villages will be selected this year, with installations ranging from 300 kW to 1 MW...
Orange Leaf Extract Produces Greener Antibacterial Nanoparticles
Researchers have refined a green synthesis route for copper oxide nanoparticles (CuONPs) using water extracts from dried orange (Citrus sinensis) leaves. The optimal protocol—pH 7, 10 g/L copper acetate, and calcination at 300 °C—produces 20‑30 nm particles with strong antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli...
The United Laboratories and Novo Nordisk Report P-II Trial Data on UBT251 in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Novo Nordisk and United Laboratories reported Phase‑II data for the GLP‑1 agonist UBT251 in 211 Chinese patients with type‑2 diabetes. Over 24 weeks, UBT251 achieved a 2.16 % HbA1c reduction, outperforming semaglutide’s 1.77 % and placebo’s 0.66 % from a baseline of 8.12 %....
Belgium: IPP Storm Raises €330 Million, Starts Building 1.2GWh Battery Storage Projects
Storm, a Belgian renewables IPP, secured €330 million (≈US$382 million) project finance to build two large‑scale battery energy storage systems totaling 300 MW/1,200 MWh in Ruien and Langerlo. The Ruien site, a former coal plant, will host a 200 MW/800 MWh system, while Langerlo will host...
Eckhart Tolle Now Launches Live Teaching Platform with Official AI
Eckhart Tolle and Sounds True unveiled Eckhart Tolle Now, a subscription‑based OTT platform that adds live teachings and the only official Eckhart AI. The service, built on Uscreen’s streaming tech and Delphi’s multilingual AI, aims to deepen engagement for a...
Can You Trust the Spec? The Risky Future of Agent-Compiled Software
OpenAI’s Symphony orchestrator lets developers describe software in a natural‑language specification and have AI agents compile it on demand, bypassing traditional installers. The approach echoes StrongDM Attractor’s spec‑driven workflow and promises on‑the‑fly, customized builds for each user. Critics warn that...
Gilead’s Ouro Buy, J&J/Protagonist’s Approval, Aurinia’s Revamp, ACIP Confusion, More
Gilead announced a $2.1 billion acquisition of Ouro Medicines and its T‑cell engager OM336, planning to split the deal with long‑time partner Galapagos. Johnson & Johnson and Protagonist Therapeutics secured FDA approval for Icotyde, an IL‑23 receptor blocker that becomes Protagonist’s...
Basecamp Research Unveils Trillion Gene Atlas to Boost Longevity Drug Discovery
Basecamp Research has launched the Trillion Gene Atlas, a platform that will collect and model genetic information from more than 100 million species, expanding known evolutionary diversity by roughly 100‑fold. The initiative aims to give AI models a vastly broader biological...
Willy Chavarria Teams with Zara for $530‑Range VATÍSIMO Collection
Willy Chavarria and Zara announced a partnership on March 23 to release the VATÍSIMO collection, a ready‑to‑wear line priced between $25 and $530. The line, which blends Chavarria’s Mexican‑American heritage with Zara’s fast‑fashion reach, hits stores and Zara.com on March 26, signaling...
UK Commits £1 Billion to Accelerate Electric Commercial Vehicle Rollout
The UK government has unveiled a £1 billion (≈$1.25 billion) package to accelerate the adoption of electric delivery vans and trucks. The Zero Emissions Truck and Van scheme will subsidise up to 40 % of vehicle purchase costs, offering grants of up to...
Hachette Pulls Horror Novel "Shy Girl" Over AI‑Generated Text Claims
Hachette Book Group has cancelled the US publication and discontinued the UK edition of Mia Ballard’s horror novel "Shy Girl" after AI‑detection tools flagged the majority of its prose as machine‑generated. The move marks the first known instance of a major...
63% Upside For This European Space Play
An investment note spotlights a European space‑focused vehicle that could deliver a 63% upside, tying together the booming space‑data market and rising defence spending. Satellites now underpin global logistics, conflict monitoring, and high‑value analytics, making space a critical economic layer....
TSA Rolls Out Touchless PreCheck ID at 65 Airports, Starting with Milwaukee
The Transportation Security Administration has begun deploying its Touchless PreCheck ID service at 65 airports, with Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport as the first site. The facial‑recognition system lets eligible PreCheck members verify identity without a physical ID, a move designed...
The Man Who Wired Africa
Dare Okoudjou, a Benin‑born telecom engineer, founded MFS Africa—now rebranded as Onafriq—to build the continent’s underlying payments rail. The network interconnects more than 500 million mobile wallets and 200 million bank accounts across 40 African nations, turning a fragmented ecosystem into a...
5 Benefits of Combining Social Data with Search Data
Combining social listening with search analytics lets brands spot intent formation before demand peaks, turning casual conversation into actionable insight. The fusion reveals the full competitive landscape, showing who shapes narratives and who captures demand. It also validates target audiences...
Walmart, Vizio Unveil Integrated TV Platform Merging Streaming and Shopping
Walmart and its newly acquired Vizio have rolled out a joint platform that lets users log into Vizio smart TVs with a single Walmart account, delivering premium streaming content alongside shoppable product placements. The move positions Vizio TVs as a...
Merck Nears $6B All‑Cash Deal for Terns Pharma to Boost Oncology Portfolio
Merck & Co. is in advanced talks to acquire Terns Pharmaceuticals in an all‑cash transaction valued at about $6 billion. The deal would add a promising rare‑cancer therapy to Merck’s portfolio and could be announced as early as Wednesday.
Private Energy Market Deal Unlocks New Solar
UrbanChain has signed the first generation power purchase agreement within its private energy market, securing an 8 MW solar project in Devon that will generate about 9 GWh annually and start operating by summer 2026. A UK financial institution is providing project finance...
Arm Launches First Production‑ready AGI CPU for Next‑gen AI Infrastructure
Arm introduced its first production‑ready AGI CPU, positioning the chip as a fresh platform for building scalable AI services. The company did not disclose performance metrics, pricing or rollout timeline, leaving CTOs to await further specifics.
Consultants Grapple with Scaling Dependable AI for Fortune‑50 Firms
Anil Pantangi, a senior partner at a leading management‑consulting firm, outlined how consulting teams are tackling the architecture, data‑governance and talent challenges of deploying dependable AI across Fortune‑50 enterprises. He stressed that the biggest friction points are legacy systems, risk‑averse...
Mada Media Offers Investment Opportunity for 21 Digital Unipoles in Dubai
Mada Media has issued tender MM/COM/26-0010 for 21 premium digital unipole billboards along Sheikh Zayed Road in Jebel Ali, Dubai. Licensed out‑of‑home advertisers must submit technical proposals by 16 April 2026 and financial proposals by 23 April 2026. The assets target high‑traffic commuters, offering...
YY Group Appoints Arros AI Co‑founder Kai Yang as Chief AI Scientist
YY Group Holding Limited announced the appointment of Arros AI co‑founder Kai Yang as its first Chief AI Scientist, effective April 1, 2026. The hire is tied to the company’s push to embed AI‑driven recruiting tools into its YY Circle platform as...