News•Jan 27, 2026
AITech Interview with Jeronimo De Leon, Senior Product Manager of AI, Backblaze
Backblaze senior product manager Jeronimo De Leon argues that AI performance now hinges on open, high‑throughput cloud storage that can handle massive, fragmented datasets across the entire model lifecycle. He highlights cost, latency, and governance as the top storage challenges and points to Backblaze B2’s zero‑egress, petabyte‑scale capabilities as a strategic advantage. Real‑world customers like Decart AI and Wynd Labs have leveraged this openness to accelerate training and cut infrastructure spend. Looking ahead, the shift from text‑centric models to video‑centric AI will make storage even more central to innovation.
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 27, 2026
Savannah Best Buy Employee Says ‘Hacker Group’ Blackmailed Him Into Theft Ring Scheme
Best Buy employee Dorian Allen, 20, was sentenced to jail after police say he helped a group of suspected shoplifters leave a Savannah store with over $40,000 in merchandise. Allen alleges an online hacker group blackmailed him, threatening to expose personal...
By DataBreaches.net
News•Jan 27, 2026
Boehringer Signs €1bn+ Deal for Simcere IBD Candidate
Boehringer Ingelheim has licensed SIM0709, a bispecific antibody targeting IL‑23p19 and TL1A, from China’s Simcere in a deal valued at up to €1.05 billion. The agreement includes a €42 million upfront payment and milestone‑based payouts. SIM0709 is in pre‑clinical development and aims...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 27, 2026
Transforming EDI with AI: Faster, Smarter, Scalable
Artificial intelligence is reshaping electronic data interchange by adding speed, flexibility, and intelligence to a technology that has long been hampered by rigid formats and manual error handling. AI‑driven platforms such as Comarch EDI now offer real‑time validation, automated data...
By The Fintech Times
News•Jan 27, 2026
Low Frequency Lasers Modeled to Greatly Boost Nuclear Fusion Rates
A new theoretical study shows that intense low‑frequency laser fields can dramatically increase nuclear fusion rates by reshaping the collision‑energy distribution of reacting nuclei. The model predicts that a 1.55 eV laser at 10²⁰ W cm⁻² boosts deuterium‑tritium fusion probability by three orders...
By SpaceDaily
News•Jan 27, 2026
Geoscientists Use Satellite to Determine Not the Shape of Water, but How Water Shapes Land
Virginia Tech geoscientists have repurposed NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite—originally designed to map water surface height—to study how water reshapes land. By applying SWOT data to fluvial geomorphology, the team demonstrated global-scale monitoring of river dynamics, sediment...
By SpaceDaily
News•Jan 27, 2026
Stratoship Alliance Charts Staged Path for Smallsat Payloads
Stratoship has signed an MoU with Queensland firms Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space Co to create a staged "lab‑to‑space" pathway for small‑satellite payloads. The framework links laboratory development, stratospheric testing, very low Earth orbit (VLEO) and full orbital missions, with Orbit2Orbit...
By SpaceDaily
News•Jan 27, 2026
Akido Labs Announces Strategic Leadership Appointments as Company Accelerates Growth of Its AI-Native Health System
Akido Labs announced a series of senior leadership appointments as it accelerates the rollout of its AI‑native health system. Matt Siegler joins as Chief Network Officer to oversee growth and operations across its provider network in California, Rhode Island and...
By AiThority
News•Jan 27, 2026
Google Posts Tips To Write Better Review Replies
Google has refreshed its Business Profiles help center, adding a dedicated section on crafting better review replies. The guidance emphasizes friendly, concise, and professional responses, urging merchants to avoid sales pitches and only reply when they have new, relevant information....
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 27, 2026
Government of Telangana and Blaize Sign MoU at Davos to Launch Telangana AI Innovation Hub
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Government of Telangana signed a non‑binding MoU with US AI‑chipmaker Blaize to create the Telangana AI Innovation Hub (TAIH). The agreement calls for Blaize to set up an R&D centre in Telangana...
By AiThority
News•Jan 27, 2026
Inside Bank of America’s Plan to Own the Small Business Relationship
Despite a tough macro environment and recent White House policy shifts, U.S. small‑business applications are still climbing, according to Census data. Bank of America reports that 75 % of SMBs are feeling supply‑chain strain and foreign‑exchange volatility. To counteract these pressures,...
By Tearsheet
News•Jan 27, 2026
Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Super Heated
Google’s search algorithm has entered a period of heightened volatility, with notable update spikes on January 6, 15, 21 and a lingering effect from the December 2025 core update. Multiple SEO monitoring platforms—including Semrush, Mozcast, and SERPstat—show synchronized ranking swings across the board. Publishers...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 27, 2026
Fiddler AI Raises $30M in Series C Funding
Fiddler AI announced a $30 million Series C round led by RPS Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100 million. The Palo Alto‑based AI observability and security platform plans to use the capital to scale across regulated sectors such as healthcare, financial services,...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 27, 2026
IPA Reveals Why Investing in Trust Pays Big Dividends
The IPA Effectiveness Databank analysis of 812 campaigns shows that advertising focused on building brand trust delivers markedly stronger business results. Ninety‑three percent of campaigns reporting very large trust gains also recorded at least one very large business effect, compared...
By DecisionMarketing
News•Jan 27, 2026
Regulating 4f‐2p‐3d Orbital Coupling in CeO2 via Dual‐Transition Metal Doping for Efficient Peroxymonosulfate Activation
Researchers engineered a Fe/Co co‑doped CeO2 catalyst that creates a gradient 4f‑2p‑3d orbital coupling, dramatically improving peroxymonosulfate activation. The dual‑metal system narrows the Fe/Co‑O energy gap, boosts Ce(IV) content, and accelerates electron transfer at Ce sites. As a result, the...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
Chrome, Edge Extensions Caught Stealing ChatGPT Sessions
A threat actor published sixteen browser extensions on Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add‑ons, posing as ChatGPT productivity tools. The extensions inject main‑world JavaScript into chatgpt.com to harvest authentication tokens, chat history, telemetry, and other metadata. Over 900 combined...
By SecurityWeek
News•Jan 27, 2026
Researchers Develop a New Method for Water-Based, Layer-Selective Exfoliation of Few-Layer Graphene
Researchers at Korea‑based Edmayim Corp. unveiled a scalable, water‑based method for producing few‑layer graphene by first expanding interlayer spacing and then applying controlled centrifugation to fractionate layers. The technique avoids chemical oxidants, yields reproducible five‑layer graphene with preserved crystalline order,...
By Graphene-Info
News•Jan 27, 2026
METRO Sees Sales Growth but Net Earnings Decline in Q1 2026 Financial Results
Metro Inc. reported first‑quarter fiscal 2026 sales of $5.285 billion, up 3.3% year‑over‑year, while net earnings dropped 12.8% to $226.3 million. Adjusted earnings showed modest improvement, with EPS rising 5.5% to $1.16. The decline was driven by a temporary shutdown of its...
By Retail Insider Canada
News•Jan 27, 2026
Pyrochlore‐Type Bi2Ru2O7 With Regulated Local Electronic Structure for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Researchers introduced pyrochlore‑type Bi2Ru2O7 (BRO) as a next‑generation oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst for anion‑exchange membrane water electrolysis. BRO achieves more than 20‑fold higher OER activity than conventional RuO2 while containing 48.3 wt % less ruthenium. The superior performance stems from bismuth‑induced...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
From Legacy to Leading Edge: Modernizing Workforce Identity in BFSI
BFSI firms are rapidly acknowledging the need to modernize workforce Identity and Access Management, with 93% planning upgrades and budgets rising over 11% this year. Legacy IAM systems are seen as a major barrier to innovation, cited by 75% of...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 27, 2026
EU Puts Google’s AI and Search Data Under DMA Spotlight
The European Commission has launched two formal specification proceedings under the Digital Markets Act to dictate how Google must share Android AI capabilities and anonymized search data with rivals. The moves target Google’s control over hardware features used by its...
By Search Engine Land
News•Jan 27, 2026
Vaspin’s Role in Gestational Diabetes and Insulin Resistance
A recent study by Zhang et al. demonstrates that the adipokine Vaspin can attenuate insulin resistance in gestational diabetes by modulating oxidative stress and nitric‑oxide pathways. In vitro and in vivo experiments showed Vaspin lowers reactive oxygen species and enhances endothelial...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 27, 2026
High‐Entropy Spinel Oxides‐Decorated MXene Nanoarchitectures for Efficient Methanol Oxidation‐Assisted Hydrogen Production
Researchers have engineered high‑entropy spinel oxide nanoparticles containing five transition metals directly on ultrathin Ti3C2Tx MXene sheets. The resulting HEO/MX nanoarchitecture acts as a bifunctional electrocatalyst, delivering low‑voltage methanol oxidation (MOR) and efficient hydrogen evolution (HER) in alkaline media. It...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
Multi-Omics Uncover Soil Microbe Blooms in Snowmelt
A multinational research team applied metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metabolomics to alpine soils and discovered a dramatic, short‑lived bloom of microbes during spring snowmelt. The analysis pinpointed fast‑growing bacterial families such as Pseudomonadaceae and Burkholderiaceae that surged by up to 150‑fold...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 27, 2026
Roche’s Obesity Shot Posts Decent Weight Loss in Mid-Stage Test, Heads to Phase 3
Roche’s most advanced obesity candidate achieved an average 18.3% weight reduction in a Phase 2 study after nearly a year of treatment. The trial enrolled patients with moderate to severe obesity and demonstrated sustained efficacy without major safety signals. Based on...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 27, 2026
How Akur8 Boosted Pricing at Idaho Farm Bureau
Idaho Farm Bureau Insurance adopted Akur8’s advanced pricing platform to replace fragmented, manual pricing processes. The insurer moved beyond traditional GLMs, integrating penalisation, credibility techniques and spatial analysis for more stable, long‑term rate predictions. Real‑time dashboards now let actuaries and...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 27, 2026
Prussian Blue Analogues for Non‐Aqueous Sodium‐Ion and Potassium‐Ion Batteries: The Landscape From Lab‐Scale Optimizations Toward Practical Applications
Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are emerging as scalable cathode materials for non‑aqueous sodium‑ion and potassium‑ion batteries. The review connects crystal chemistry, defect control, and particle engineering to electrochemical performance, highlighting synthesis routes, crystal water, and interfacial stability. It outlines lab‑scale...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
Interfacial Water Reorganization via Polyethyleneimine‐Functionalization for Enhanced Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution on Single‐Atom Platinum Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide
Researchers introduced a dual‑function electrocatalyst, RGO‑PEI/Pt1, that couples single‑atom platinum with a polyethyleneimine‑functionalized reduced graphene oxide scaffold. The PEI layer reorganizes interfacial water into a hydrogen‑bonded chain, acting as a proton pump and dramatically accelerating alkaline hydrogen evolution. The catalyst...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
How Will the Artemis 2 Crew Pilot the Orion Spacecraft
Artemis 2 will be the first crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is built to operate both autonomously and under manual control. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen explains that each astronaut will have a dedicated hand controller, allowing translation and rotation...
By SpaceQ
News•Jan 27, 2026
Vention Raises $110M to Accelerate Physical AI Deployments in Manufacturing
Vention Inc., a Montreal‑based industrial automation firm, announced a $110 million Series D round to accelerate its “physical AI” strategy. The funding will expand its Zero‑Shot Automation platform, add AI‑driven tools, and support a four‑playbook growth plan focused on enterprise customers, AI...
By The Robot Report
News•Jan 27, 2026
Oreo Creme Egg Cookie Channels the Spoilt Nepo-Baby
Mondelez International is rolling out a limited‑edition Oreo Creme Egg Cookie, blending two iconic UK confectionery brands. The “Born of Two Icons” campaign, created by Saatchi & Saatchi, leans into a tongue‑in‑cheek nepo‑baby narrative across OOH, DOOH, radio, social and podcast channels throughout the...
By DecisionMarketing
News•Jan 27, 2026
Intellect Brings AI-First Payments Platform to US Market
Intellect Design Arena announced an accelerated push into the United States with its AI‑first payments platform, targeting a real‑time payments market projected to reach $2 billion by 2030. The solution embeds artificial intelligence across the entire payment lifecycle and offers a...
By Finextra
News•Jan 27, 2026
Why Owning the Learning Loop Matters More Than Owning the Lab
Nimbus Therapeutics, founded in 2009, has built a successful small‑molecule drug engine without owning any laboratories, relying on a Design‑Make‑Test‑Analyze (DMTA) learning loop executed through CRO partners. By keeping hypothesis generation, molecular design, data integration and decision‑making in‑house, the company...
By LifeSciVC
News•Jan 27, 2026
Walmart Connect Mexico Taps Advertima for In-Store Retail Media Strategy
Walmart Connect Mexico has teamed with Advertima to deploy Audience AI sensors across hundreds of Walmart Supercenters, creating a large‑scale in‑store audience intelligence network. The 3D sensors capture shop‑floor activity over 30 meters and support multi‑zone zoning, feeding data to both digital...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Jan 27, 2026
DoControl Launches Adaptive AI Alerts to Continuously Pinpoint SaaS Risk
DoControl unveiled an AI‑powered, agentic alerting system that continuously learns a company’s SaaS usage to spot genuine risk. Unlike static rule‑based alerts, the new solution analyzes patterns, intent, and business context from HRIS and identity sources, dramatically cutting noise. It...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 27, 2026
Roche Claims Midstage Win for Obesity Injectable
Roche announced phase‑2 results for its dual GIP/GLP‑1 obesity drug CT‑388, showing a placebo‑adjusted 22.5% weight loss at the 24 mg dose after 48 weeks. More than half of participants fell below the obesity BMI threshold, and 96% lost at least...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 27, 2026
Enhanced Low‐Temperature Photoluminescence in Α‐CsPbI3/WS2 Heterostructures: Experimental and Theoretical Insights Into Exciton Dynamics in Low‐Dimensional Materials
Researchers have achieved a 109‑fold increase in photoluminescence (PL) from α‑CsPbI3 perovskite quantum dots integrated with a monolayer WS2 at 8 K, compared with room temperature. Combined photoluminescence spectroscopy and density functional theory reveal that reduced structural distortion in the perovskite...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
Assessing Hearing Loss in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments
A recent multi‑center study evaluated the incidence of hearing loss among patients receiving chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) tyrosine‑kinase inhibitors (TKIs). The analysis of 1,200 patients over five years found a 7% clinically significant ototoxicity rate, most pronounced with second‑generation TKIs....
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 27, 2026
Why Vertical SaaS Needs Purpose-Built Billing and Pricing Systems
Vertical SaaS firms confront unique billing challenges that generic pricing platforms cannot meet. Industry-specific workflows demand pricing logic tied to units such as locations, providers, or transactions. Purpose‑built monetization engines align charges with delivered value, reducing errors and accelerating sales....
By TechBullion
News•Jan 27, 2026
Metalloborophenes: Structural Diversity and Emerging Properties of Metal–Boron Two‐Dimensional Frameworks
Metalloborophenes are a newly emerging class of two‑dimensional boron frameworks whose stability and functionality derive from incorporated metal atoms. The first experimental realization—copper‑borophene nanoribbons—in 2024 confirmed long‑standing theoretical predictions and highlighted the material’s tunable electronic, magnetic, and catalytic traits. Computational...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
Symbiotic Security Raises $10M in Seed Funding
Symbiotic Security, a Paris‑based AI‑first customer research firm, announced a $10 million seed round. The round was led by Alven and Drysdale with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo, Factorial Cap and angels from Hugging Face and Adaptive ML. The capital will fund rapid product...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 27, 2026
Virgin Wines Reports Strong Christmas Trading
Virgin Wines UK posted a 5% year‑on‑year revenue increase during the Christmas period, driven by a 40% surge in new customers. In the six months to 2 January, total revenue rose 2% to £34.7 million, with commercial partnerships and corporate gifting outperforming...
By The Retail Bulletin
News•Jan 27, 2026
CTEM in Practice: Prioritization, Validation, and Outcomes That Matter
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a Gartner‑defined, continuous cycle that links threats, vulnerabilities, and attack‑surface data to prioritize exploitable exposures. It moves security from isolated scans to an operational model of scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization. By integrating...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 27, 2026
Healthier Capital Closes $220M Oversubscribed Fund 1
Healthier Capital announced the closing of its oversubscribed $220 million inaugural fund, attracting universities, endowments, family offices, and healthcare organizations. Led by former Amazon One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin, the fund targets early‑stage health‑tech innovators that blend AI, genomics, and...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 27, 2026
Tuning Spin Valley Coupling via Strain‐Amplified Magnetic Proximity in Fe3GaTe2/WS2 Heterostructures
Researchers have shown that applying strain via a gold‑grating substrate dramatically strengthens the magnetic proximity effect in Fe3GaTe2/WS2 heterostructures. The enhanced interlayer coupling expands the exciton valley‑polarization hysteresis and drives the excitonic Landé g‑factor to an unprecedented –30. First‑principles calculations...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
Turning Methane Into Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrogen
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford have engineered a continuous‑flow floating‑catalyst chemical vapor deposition reactor that simultaneously converts methane into low‑CO₂ hydrogen and high‑performance carbon nanotubes (CNTs). By recycling process gases in a multi‑pass configuration, the system dramatically...
By AZoNano
News•Jan 27, 2026
Layered Double Hydroxides‐Incorporated Thin‐Film Nanocomposite Membranes: Emerging Strategies for Sustainable Liquid Separation
Recent research highlights layered double hydroxides (LDHs) as versatile nanofillers in thin‑film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes, offering tunable chemistry, adjustable interlayer spacing, and inherent hydrophilicity. By integrating LDHs into substrates, interlayers, or selective polyamide layers, researchers have demonstrated simultaneous gains in...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Jan 27, 2026
NETSCOUT Adds Wi-Fi 7 Observability and Real-Time SSL Certificate Monitoring
NETSCOUT unveiled new nGeniusONE enhancements that add Wi‑Fi 7 deep packet inspection to its Edge Sensors and introduce real‑time SSL/TLS certificate monitoring. The Wi‑Fi 7 support, backward compatible with Wi‑Fi 6E/6/5, closes observability gaps in remote sites as the market is projected to...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 27, 2026
RSV’s Soluble G Protein Drives Viral Spread via TLR2
Researchers have identified that the soluble G protein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) directly engages Toll‑like receptor 2 (TLR2), facilitating viral dissemination. The interaction triggers TLR2‑dependent signaling that dampens interferon‑mediated antiviral defenses, boosting RSV replication in cultured airway cells. Inhibition...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 27, 2026
The Agentic Economy: Merging Intellectual Digital Twins with Sound Money and High-Velocity Rails
The article introduces the "Agentic Economy," where Persona AI—intellectual digital twins that model human psychology—act as autonomous economic agents. It argues that high‑throughput blockchains like Ripple's XRP Ledger (XRPL) are essential for the micro‑payment velocity these agents need. To protect...
By TechBullion