QCi Quantum Optimization Machine Placed on Quantum Corridor Network
Quantum Computing Inc. has installed its Dirac-3 quantum optimization machine at the Digital Crossroad Data Center in Hammond, Indiana, making it the first commercial data‑center deployment of the system. The machine connects to Quantum Corridor’s inter‑state fiber network via a 10 Gbps link protected by Toshiba’s quantum‑key‑distribution (QKD) technology. This partnership gives Midwest institutions on‑demand, quantum‑safe access to high‑performance optimization capabilities. The network’s 40 Tbps capacity and sub‑millisecond latency further amplify the service’s appeal for mission‑critical workloads.
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The author is launching a three‑week, live‑online bootcamp that teaches HR professionals how to automate tasks using Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s AI platform. The beta cohort costs $490 (future cohorts will be $990) and requires a $20‑per‑month Claude Pro subscription. Sessions...
Avery Dennison Combats Food Waste with RFID Innovation
Avery Dennison’s new report shows that roughly two‑thirds of retailers still rely on manual inventory counts, driving record meat waste. The study estimates meat waste will cost retailers $94 billion this year and rise to $103 billion by 2030. In response, Avery...
Module 3, Section 1: HitID Screens
The module introduces HitID screens, outlining key strategies for early-stage drug discovery. It references recent literature on medicinal chemistry optimization, successful hit‑to‑clinical transitions, DNA‑encoded library (DEL) approaches, ultra‑low‑molecular‑weight crystallographic screening, and fragment‑based drug discovery (FBDD). By consolidating these sources, the...
Galaxy S26 Ultra Teardown: Amazing… Until It Breaks
The YouTube video titled “Galaxy S26 Ultra Teardown: Amazing… Until It Breaks” provides a visual disassembly of Samsung’s flagship, highlighting its premium design and cutting‑edge components. While the video showcases sleek glass and metal construction, the teardown quickly reveals fragile...
Seyfarth Shaw Partner: Law Firms Should Invest in AI Training in Law Schools or Via Associate Programs
Seyfarth Shaw labor‑and‑employment partner David Baffa urges law firms to fund AI curricula in law schools and launch associate‑level training programs. He argues that current business barriers—budget constraints, legacy systems, and cultural resistance—stifle innovation. By embedding AI skills early, firms...
Meta's AGC: &Lsquo;Legal Tech Is Fundamentally Shifting the Outsourcing Paradigm'
Meta’s associate general counsel Jen Fryhling highlighted that emerging legal technology, especially AI, is fundamentally reshaping the outsourcing model for law services. She argued that client‑firm relationships will evolve from transactional engagements to strategic partnerships, driven by custom AI tools...
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options
The open‑source Mesa RADV Vulkan driver now includes low‑latency video encode and decode options, mirroring similar capabilities previously available only in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Developers can activate these modes via the RADV_PERFTEST environment variable, choosing low‑latency decode, encode, or...
How AI Is Pushing Past Hotel Guest Personas
Hotels are rapidly deploying AI for pricing, forecasting, conversion and personalization, yet many hit a ceiling because they still rely on traditional guest personas. These personas compress diverse behaviors into average profiles, stripping away the individual variation and contextual cues...
Want a Seat at the AI Builder's Table? - #120
The author, an experienced AI‑agent builder, is launching "The Builder’s Table," a bi‑monthly, invitation‑only workshop for 8‑12 solo AI developers. Participants will showcase live projects—no slides, no theory—and receive real‑time feedback. The initiative targets founders and technical builders who use...
The Next Code Paradigm, Harness, Has Arrived!
The AI field has shifted from simple chat interfaces to building full applications, exposing the limits of single‑agent designs. Anthropic’s recent paper demonstrates that a solitary AI model that self‑evaluates and delivers results is fundamentally unusable. Their controlled experiment showed...
Summary of Week 13 – March 23-27, 2026
Week 13 highlighted a wave of AI‑focused hardware announcements and strategic deals. Dell partnered with Nvidia to deliver AI‑optimized storage solutions, while Samsung and AMD deepened their collaboration on next‑generation HBM memory. Seagate introduced industry‑leading 32 TB hard drives, and IBM completed...
Coredge Selects Lightbits to Power Global AI Cloud Infrastructure
Coredge, a cloud solutions provider recently acquired by Sirius Digitech, has chosen Lightbits Labs' software‑defined storage to power its next‑generation AI cloud services. The partnership will enable a multi‑petabyte, cloud‑native infrastructure in India that leverages NVMe over TCP on commodity...
Panzura CloudFS 8.7 Cuts Infrastructure Costs, Simplifies Management, and Preps for Agentic AI Workflows
Panzura unveiled CloudFS 8.7, a hybrid‑cloud file platform tailored for AEC firms and other project‑centric enterprises. The release introduces adaptive snapshot retention, self‑service admin tools, AI‑powered threat control, and automated capacity optimization, promising lower infrastructure spend and reduced operational overhead. By...
Arcfra Launches Neutree: Bridging the Gap Between AI Experimentation and Enterprise Production
Arcfra unveiled Neutree, a Model‑as‑a‑Service platform that turns AI models into production‑grade services. The solution adds an enterprise‑grade layer to an open‑source inference manager, offering unlimited workspaces, 24/7 support, and deep integration with the Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform. Neutree’s vendor‑agnostic...
Foremay Unveils InterStellar Radiation-Hardened Space-Grade SSD
Foremay Inc. has launched the InterStellar series, a line of radiation‑hardened SSDs designed for low‑Earth orbit through deep‑space missions. The drives combine Graded‑Z shielding, which lowers a 10,000 krad exposure to a survivable 500 krad, with AI‑driven block management that maps radiation...
Eon and SentinelOne Announce Partnership to Advance Cloud Data Security and AI Resilience
Eon and SentinelOne have formed a partnership to fuse AI‑driven security with cloud‑native data resilience. The collaboration integrates SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform, including DSPM discovery and ransomware heuristics, with Eon’s Data Protection and Cloud Backup Posture Management solutions. Together they provide...
Investing Blog Roundup: Getting Used to Passkeys
The blog post urges readers to start using passkeys—cryptographic login tokens that replace passwords—by experimenting on low‑stakes sites like Target or Walmart. It explains that the user experience differs across ecosystems: Apple‑only households enjoy a seamless flow, while mixed environments...
The H2 Redemption: Why the AirPods Max 2 Is Finally a ‘Modern’ Flagship
Apple introduced the AirPods Max 2, powered by dual H2 chips that deliver adaptive audio, conversation awareness and live translation while boosting noise cancellation by 50 percent. The headset retains the original’s 20‑hour battery life, design and colour palette, but carries...
5 Useful Python Scripts for Effective Feature Selection
The article presents five open‑source Python scripts that automate key feature‑selection techniques for data‑science projects. The scripts cover variance‑threshold filtering, correlation‑based redundancy removal, statistical‑test significance testing, model‑based importance ranking, and recursive feature elimination. Each tool handles mixed data types, provides...
We're Talking About Remote Assistants
The Center for Auto Safety podcast argues that the AVSC’s definition of autonomous‑vehicle remote assistants (RAs) incorrectly claims they have no safety role, a premise the industry uses to downplay liability. In reality, RAs intervene in safety‑critical moments, making driving...
Deal Alert: Samsung 50-Inch 4K TV: $247 (Also: Best Picture Settings For Samsung TVs)
The article provides a step‑by‑step guide to optimizing picture quality on Samsung 4K TVs, recommending specific expert‑setting values for brightness, backlight, contrast, color, and motion processing. It advises using Movie or Filmmaker modes for SDR content and HDR‑specific modes for...
Aderant Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 for Onyx
Aderant announced on March 30 that its outside‑counsel guideline platform, Onyx, successfully completed a SOC 2 Type 2 audit. The examination, conducted by Schellman & Company, assessed controls for security, availability, and confidentiality over the period Nov 1 2025 through Jan 31 2026. Achieving Type...
Why Pre-Sales Determines How Well Revenue Will Scale
Advertising pre‑sales is a hidden bottleneck that determines how quickly and reliably revenue converts. Manual coordination across CRM systems, spreadsheets and email creates a structural tax on revenue capacity, leading to frequent pricing errors and proposal rework. A survey of...
Are Biofuels Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why They’re Not the Climate Solution
Biofuels are marketed as low‑carbon alternatives, yet first‑generation crops trigger deforestation and indirect land‑use emissions that can match or surpass fossil fuels. Advanced and second‑generation biofuels aim to use waste or non‑food feedstocks, but high production costs and limited scalability...
Test Your Deal with These 3 Questions
The article warns that relying on a single contact in B2B sales creates hidden risk and outlines a three‑question framework to evaluate deal health. It stresses counting engaged stakeholders, ensuring value is quantified and agreed upon, and comparing qualification time...
REDUX How Doing Less Is Delivering More for This Business, It’s Employees and It’s Customers
Tower Paddle Boards, a San‑diego direct‑to‑consumer brand, switched to a five‑hour workday (8 am‑1 pm) in 2014. The company expected up to a 40% revenue hit but instead saw revenue jump 42% and profitability rise above 30% that year. The compressed schedule...
How AI-Washing Is Scamming Recruiters
A new article by Florian Fisch exposes how many recruitment vendors label legacy keyword‑matching tools as AI, a practice he dubs “AI‑washing.” He outlines seven common false claims—from “powered by AI” badges to bogus 99 % accuracy—backed by simple tests that...
OpenAI GrowthX Hackathon ✨
OpenAI announced its first official Codex hackathon in India, targeting over 100 experienced developers. The event, scheduled for April 16, 2026, offers a $100,000 prize pool in credits and subscriptions, plus assured API credits and a month of ChatGPT Pro....
Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop
Intel’s drm‑intel‑next tree for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel adds a new quirk to disable Panel Replay on the Dell XPS 14 Panther Lake laptop. The change addresses laggy window dragging and other performance hiccups that appear after suspend when the device’s OLED panel...
A Novel G9a Inhibitor Reduces Symptoms in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers have unveiled FLAV-27, a novel G9a histone methyltransferase inhibitor that readily crosses the blood‑brain barrier and exhibits subnanomolar potency. The compound demonstrates high selectivity for G9a over related enzymes and a favorable safety profile, addressing the limitations of earlier...
Reviewing the Aging of Heart Muscle
Researchers review the biological mechanisms behind cardiac aging, highlighting molecular changes such as mitochondrial dysfunction, non‑coding RNA activity, and cellular senescence that impair myocardial energetics and regeneration. The article links these alterations to clinical outcomes like fibrosis, hypertrophy, valve calcification,...
AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU
AMD has revived its hardware‑accelerated virtual IOMMU (vIOMMU) patches for the Linux kernel, submitting a fresh set of 22 patches after an initial RFC in 2023 and a second iteration in early 2024. The updated patches, authored by Suravee Suthikulpanit,...
Book Briefing: 'Open to Work' By Ryan Roslansky by Aneesh Raman
LinkedIn chief executive Ryan Roslansky and chief economic opportunity officer Aneesh Raman have released a new book, Open to Work, arguing that artificial intelligence’s effect on employment is not set in stone. The authors contend that fear of AI is...
My Key Takeaways From MPE 2026 in Berlin.
The 2026 Money Payments Europe (MPE) conference convened in Berlin, spotlighting AI, cross‑border payments, stablecoins, and the emerging digital euro. Panels explored agentic commerce, pragmatic innovation in payment stacks, and the next generation of tokenization aimed at eliminating PANs by...
Cyber Incidents: Share Price Response Immediate and Sustained
ISS STOXX and ISS‑Corporate analyzed cyber incident disclosures for Russell 3000 companies from 2022‑2024. They found that firms reporting significant cyber breaches underperform the market by roughly 5% on average, with the gap widening to nearly 4.9% after 250 trading...
World Back Up Day 2026 – What Are the Takeaways?
World Backup Day 2026 highlighted that backups alone no longer guarantee security. Experts from WatchGuard, KnowBe4, and Keeper urged organizations to move beyond storage and implement fully tested, recovery‑focused resilience plans. The discussion emphasized that data loss is inevitable, ransomware...
“Help Me” Doesn’t Mean “Do It for Me” — What ChatGPT Gets Wrong About Coaching
Mark Graban compares ChatGPT’s response to his own Lean Coach AI when asked to help create an A3 problem‑solving report. ChatGPT immediately generates a complete draft without probing the user’s context, while the Lean Coach asks targeted questions that force...
Orange Subsidiary W-HA Enables M-Payments with 5G Slicing at Local Carnival
Orange’s fully owned subsidiary W‑HA partnered with the Orange 5G Lab in Rennes to pilot mobile payments at Granville’s five‑day carnival. The trial leveraged Orange’s 5G+ network slicing to create a dedicated “Tap to Pay Contodeo” channel that turned smartphones...
So Thomson Reuters Is Betting on Legal LLM's, Here's a Calculation What It Means...
Thomson Reuters announced a $500 million investment to develop a proprietary legal large‑language model (LLM) aimed at automating research and drafting tasks. The company projects the new AI‑driven service could generate $1.2 billion in revenue by 2029, leveraging its existing data assets...
The Future of System Design: Emerging Patterns
The article outlines five emerging system‑design patterns—edge‑native AI placement, WebAssembly as a universal runtime, eBPF‑driven observability, AI‑native service meshes, and sustainability‑aware scheduling—that together redefine distributed architecture. These patterns replace traditional CDN caching, container‑based services, manual instrumentation, rule‑based routing, and carbon‑agnostic...
Sivers Targets Frontier 5G-A, 6G Transmitters with New Beamforming IC
Sivers Semiconductors announced the general availability of its Daybreak 0715 beamforming integrated circuit. The chip operates in the FR3 band from 7 GHz to 15 GHz, bridging the gap between sub‑6 GHz and mmWave spectra. Designed for 5G‑Advanced and future 6G networks, it delivers...
Pharma Pulse: A Call for U.K. Pricing Reform and the Latest FDA-Approved Biosimilar for Bone Health
Eli Lilly is urging the United Kingdom to overhaul its drug‑pricing framework, warning that persistently low prices could deter future investment and calling for outcomes‑based reimbursement models, especially for obesity therapies. At the same time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
DevOps Digital Transformation: From Maintenance Trap to Market Speed (2026) – Shopify
Engineering teams devote 60‑80% of their time to maintaining infrastructure, leaving little capacity for customer‑facing innovation. While DevOps promises faster delivery, many enterprises add layers of pipelines and tooling without addressing the underlying maintenance burden, causing initiatives to stall. The...
How Ben & Jerry’s Turned TikTok Fans Into DoorDash Orders
Ben & Jerry’s leveraged DoorDash Offsite Ads, powered by Symbiosis, to turn its highly engaged TikTok audience into same‑day delivery orders. By pairing TikTok’s targeting tools with DoorDash’s first‑party retail data, the brand delivered shoppable ads that linked directly to...
Macra Declares Advances Towards Tower Deployment Through DMAP
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) announced that the Digital Malawi Acceleration Project (DMAP) is moving forward with plans to procure service providers for more than 90 new communication towers across the country. DMAP has pledged to deliver 100 towers,...
AWOL Vision Aetherion – A 4K Ultra Short Throw RGB Laser Projector with VRR and 3300 ISO Lumens (Crowdfunding)
AWOL Vision launched the Aetherion, an ultra‑short‑throw 4K Android TV projector available in Pro (2,600 ISO lumens) and Max (3,300 ISO lumens) models. It uses a triple‑RGB laser source, PixelLock optics, and a MediaTek MT9655 SoC with 8 GB RAM, 128 GB storage, and...
Vodafone Spain Inks Wholesale Deal with Avanza Fibra
Vodafone Spain, now owned by Zegona, signed a wholesale agreement with regional MVNO Avanza Fibra. The deal will shift Avanza from the MasOrange network to Vodafone’s infrastructure across seven provinces in southeastern Spain. Avanza will gain access to Vodafone’s 5G,...
This VR Treadmill Lets You Walk, Run & Jump Inside Virtual Worlds
Virtuix unveiled the Omni One, a VR treadmill that lets users walk, run, jump and crouch in virtual environments using a low‑friction base and specially designed shoes. The system translates real‑world foot movements into precise in‑game locomotion, eliminating the need...
Calculated Vs. Streaming Insights in Data Cloud: Choosing the Right Engine
Salesforce Data Cloud offers two distinct engines—Calculated Insights (CI) and Streaming Insights (SI)—that differ in timing, data scope, and cost. CI runs scheduled batch jobs across the full Data Cloud, delivering durable, multi‑object metrics for segmentation and scoring. SI processes...