Click Frenzy, Power Retail Enter Liquidation, Blaming Iran War
Click Frenzy and Power Retail, owned by Global Marketplace, entered liquidation after receivers were appointed, citing cash‑flow strain from the US‑Iran conflict. The two e‑commerce platforms together generated roughly $7 million in annual revenue and held sizable consumer bases. Wexted Advisors and RSM Australia are managing the process, and a sale of the businesses and assets is now open to interested parties. The liquidation notice assures consumers that existing travel bookings remain unaffected.
How Freedom Turns Dropship Into a Competitive Edge
Paula Mitchell, digital GM of Freedom Australia, has turned the retailer’s dropship program into a strategic growth engine, partnering with 160‑170 vendors to offer roughly 50,000 SKUs beyond the physical store footprint. The initiative lifted online sales from about 17‑18%...
LetsRun.com, Anthropic Agree to $100m Licensing Deal; Gault & Rojo to Depart at Year’s End
Anthropic has signed a $100 million licensing deal with distance‑running site LetsRun.com, gaining exclusive rights to its articles, forum posts, and podcasts for training its next‑gen AI model, Claude Berardelli. The partnership coincides with Anthropic’s revenue surge to $19 billion, driven by its...
Digital Twins Come of Age in the Warehouse
Digital twins have matured from static CAD models to AI‑driven, real‑time replicas that mirror every aisle, robot and inventory item in modern warehouses. By ingesting sensor data, WMS feeds and machine‑vision scans, these twins provide continuous ground‑truth visibility, enabling dynamic...
Productivity Solution: Moen Boosts Throughput with Automated Storage
Moen, a leading North American faucet brand, overhauled its West Coast distribution by consolidating operations into a new Las Vegas hub built with FORTNA. The facility employs an AutoStore high‑density robotic storage system and integrated warehouse execution software to streamline receiving,...
Isle of Monday, New Vintage Rental Platform, Launches
Isle of Monday, a New York‑based on‑demand rental platform for unsigned, designer and archival vintage fashion, launched after building a 30,000‑person waitlist and 15,000 beta users. The company sources 40% of its inventory outright and 60% via revenue‑sharing partnerships, offering...
High Street Banks Could Learn From Revolut’s Fee Bonanza
Revolut has introduced a steep fee increase across its premium subscription tiers, raising charges by roughly 20% and projecting an additional $150 million in annual revenue. The move follows a broader strategy to monetize value‑added services such as crypto trading, travel...
Malware Detectors Trained on One Dataset Often Stumble on Another
Researchers at the Polytechnic of Porto evaluated machine‑learning static malware detectors across six public Windows PE datasets and four external collections. Models achieved high‑90s AUC and F1 scores on in‑distribution data, but performance fell sharply on external sets, especially the...
How The U.S. Army Is Training Snipers To Evade Drones
The U.S. Army has added drone‑evasion training to its Sniper Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. Soldiers now practice concealment against thermal‑imaging and other sensors used by modern unmanned aircraft systems. The program partners with commercial drone makers to test detection...
The Role of Ethical Oversight and Algorithmic Bias in Automated Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is rapidly adopting machine learning, natural language processing, and automation to ingest, categorize, and prioritize adverse event reports, dramatically shrinking backlogs and accelerating signal detection. While these technologies deliver speed and scale, they also inherit reporting biases and can...
Sheryl Sandberg Tapped a 25-Year-Old to Run Lean In. Here’s Her Plan to Close the AI Gender Gap
Sheryl Sandberg announced that 25‑year‑old former Meta product manager Bridget Griswold will lead Lean In as its new CEO, steering the nonprofit toward closing the AI gender gap. A Lean In survey of 1,000 U.S. adults found 33% of men...
How States Are Powering America’s Clean Energy Future
In a CleanTech Talk episode, Dylan McDowell, CEO of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and Hawaii State Senator Chris Lee discuss why state‑level action is now critical to America’s clean‑energy transition. They highlight how hands‑on learning programs and legislative templates are...
Waymo Visits Japan
Waymo held a media briefing in Tokyo to outline its autonomous‑driving progress and partnership with Japan’s Nihon Kotsu and GO. The company, which already operates more than 500,000 fully driverless trips per week across ten U.S. cities, is testing its...
The End of Stateless AI: Why Memory Will Define the Next Phase of Enterprise Systems
Enterprise AI agents are increasingly hampered by their stateless design, which forces them to forget context after each interaction. This limitation inflates compute costs, introduces latency, and erodes user confidence, especially in multi‑step workflows that span days or weeks. Recent...
A Fair Energy System Is Worth Fighting for, but without Playing the Solar and Battery Blame Game
The SwitchedOn podcast highlighted concerns that rooftop solar and battery owners may be shifting electricity costs onto non‑solar households, especially renters and low‑income families. While the argument points to perceived unfairness, it overlooks solar’s system‑wide benefits such as lower wholesale...
Scientists Turn MXene Into Tiny Nanoscrolls that Supercharge Batteries and Sensors
Researchers at Drexel University have introduced a scalable process to convert two‑dimensional MXene sheets into one‑dimensional nanoscrolls, producing up to 10 grams of material with controlled chemistry. The tubular nanostructures exhibit higher electrical conductivity and reduced ion‑transport resistance compared with flat...
TAC and Taboo Launch Road Safety Platform ‘Vanessa’s Place’
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) partnered with creative agency Taboo to launch Vanessa’s Place, a transportable tiny‑home road‑safety platform aimed at young Victorians. Inside, more than 200 behavioural nudges are hidden in everyday objects to address drink‑driving, distraction, speeding and...
Arena-Backed Green Hydrogen Plan Disappears From Queue for Federal Environmental Approval
The Edify Green Hydrogen Project (EGH2), a $137 million AUD (~$90 million USD) initiative to create a 17.6 MW electrolyser and 21 MW solar‑battery hub in Townsville, has been withdrawn from the federal EPBC environmental assessment queue after more than two‑and‑a‑half years. The project...
Advanced Nodes to Dominate 2026 SoC Shipments
Advanced nodes (5nm and below) accounted for over 50% of smartphone SoC shipments in 2025 and are projected to reach nearly 60% in 2026, according to Counterpoint Research. Samsung debuted its 2nm Exynos 2600 in the Galaxy S26, while Apple,...
The Rise of Hydrogen in Short Sea Shipping
Hydrogen fuel‑cell technology is moving from demo projects to early commercial use in short‑sea shipping, where vessels like ferries and workboats need flexible, low‑emission power. Operators are adopting on‑demand hydrogen generation to avoid large storage tanks and under‑developed bunkering infrastructure....
Philips Issues Urgent Device Correction Notice for Thousands of Imaging Units
Philips Healthcare has issued an urgent correction notice for its Allura and Azurion interventional fluoroscopy systems after discovering a foot‑switch design flaw that can prevent or intermittently enable X‑ray imaging. The U.S. FDA classified the issue as a Class 2 recall,...
Arm’s First-Ever Silicon Products Targeted at AI Data Centers
Arm Holdings has launched the Arm AGI CPU, its first production silicon product aimed at AI data‑center workloads. The chip packs up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, a 300‑watt TDP and can deliver more than twice the rack performance of...
Meloni-Backed Biofuels Project Under Scrutiny Following New Investigation
An investigation by SourceMaterial, Politico and Transport & Environment reveals that Eni’s Italian‑government‑backed Kenyan biofuels project is failing to deliver on its promise of locally grown non‑edible crops. Despite a $210 million public investment intended to support 200,000 small‑scale farmers, trade data shows...
How to Find Emails From LinkedIn URLs (5 Proven Methods)
LinkedIn hosts over a billion professional profiles, but only 15‑30 % display email addresses, prompting sales and recruiting teams to use indirect methods. The article outlines five proven techniques: checking the profile’s Contact Info, using Google search operators, guessing corporate email...
Meta's New Structured Prompting Technique Makes LLMs Significantly Better at Code Review — Boosting Accuracy to 93% in some Cases
Meta researchers unveiled a "semi-formal reasoning" prompting technique that structures LLM outputs as logical certificates, compelling the model to state premises, trace execution paths, and derive conclusions before answering. In benchmark tests on patch equivalence, fault localization and code Q&A,...
Max Space Thunderbird Station: Can Inflatable Habitats Replace the ISS by 2030?
Max Space plans to launch its Thunderbird inflatable station in 2029, positioning it as a full‑scale commercial habitat to replace the ISS after its 2030 retirement. The design relies on a compact launch package that expands in orbit, delivering more...
Hydrogen Trucks In China Are A Policy Side Bet, Not A Market Winner
Battery‑electric heavy trucks now command about 22% of China’s heavy‑truck market, with 230,000 units sold in 2025, while cumulative hydrogen fuel‑cell truck sales total only around 40,000 units. Battery‑swap corridors, such as CATL’s 300‑station network, cut operating costs to roughly...
AI ‘Machine Customer’ Secures Home Loan in Under 10 Minutes in New Cloudcase Demo
Cloudcase, an Australian‑origin digital origination platform, demonstrated an AI assistant completing a full home‑loan application for two borrowers in under ten minutes. The AI handled document verification, identity checks, eligibility assessment and final submission without any human‑filled forms. The workflow,...
China's Bizarre Shape-Shifting Robot Grows And Changes Like A Human
Researchers at Southern University of Science and Technology unveiled GrowHR, a 10‑pound humanoid robot that can physically expand and contract like a human limb. Its legs use inflatable chambers wrapped in fabric, allowing them to stretch up to three times...
Mercor Says It Was Hit by Cyberattack Tied to Compromise of Open Source LiteLLM Project
Mercor, an AI recruiting startup, confirmed a security incident tied to a supply‑chain attack on the open‑source LiteLLM library, which was linked to the hacking group TeamPCP and later claimed by extortion group Lapsus$. The breach may have exposed data,...
Workload IAM Vs. Secrets Management: A Practical Decision Guide
Most organizations begin non‑human identity security with a secrets manager, but exploding credential sprawl and the secret‑zero problem expose its limits. GitGuardian found 29 million secrets leaked on GitHub in 2025, a 34 percent rise, and Verizon still flags credential abuse as...
NASA Is Leading the Way to the Moon, but the Military Won't Be Far Behind
NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight near the Moon since 1972, launched from Kennedy Space Center with two Navy test pilots at the helm. The U.S. Space Force provided range safety, abort monitoring, and will recover the Orion capsule...
The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold Finally Makes Sense at $300 OFF for Amazon's Big Spring Sale
Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is now priced at $1,499 on Amazon, reflecting a $300 discount that brings the premium foldable under $1,500. The device adds notable upgrades over the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, including the first U.S.‑market IP68 rating,...
Agency CIOs Must Supply Top-Down IT Contract Information, OMB Memo States
The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo requiring chief information officers of major federal agencies to report every IT contract they approve each month from May through October, creating a centralized view of government technology spending. The directive...
Balance Control When Negotiating With Salesforce
Salesforce’s 2024 launch of Agentforce marks its shift to an AI‑first, multicloud strategy, which the analyst calls “AI gravity.” The new approach bundles AI, data and automation into larger contracts, increasing buyer reliance on Salesforce. Forrester warns that customers typically...
Equitix on Fuelling Europe’s Future
Equitix’s Achal Bhuwania argues that Europe’s clean‑energy transition and its next wave of economic growth will depend on mid‑market infrastructure projects. He stresses that these assets, sized between large‑scale utilities and small‑scale renewables, can deliver the flexibility and speed required...
How the Space Force Is Supporting NASA’s Artemis II Mission
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45 is providing extensive range support for NASA’s Artemis II crewed lunar mission, scheduled for launch on April 1. Because the Space Launch System lacks an autonomous flight‑safety system, the range will staff roughly 28...
Dentsu Lab, D.A.V. Public School and Classteacher Launch AI-Powered ‘Bullying Decoder’
Dentsu Lab, D.A.V. Public School and Classteacher have launched the AI‑powered Bullying Decoder, a system that taps unused audio feeds from existing CCTV cameras to detect verbal bullying patterns in classrooms. The solution aggregates sentiment, tone and repetition data into...
Up the Ranks: Sheila Bala Now Wears the Hat of Standard Chartered Malaysia's Head of Talent Acquisition
Sheila Bala has been appointed Head of Talent Acquisition for Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia, overseeing recruitment for both the banking franchise and the Global Business Services hub. Effective March 2026, she reports to the Global Head of TA&D in Singapore...
Microsoft Marks Ingram Micro as Frontier Distributor
Microsoft has named Ingram Micro as a Frontier Distributor, the highest tier in its AI Cloud Partner Program, recognizing distributors that meet stringent performance, enablement and partner‑support standards. The Frontier Distributor label, introduced at Microsoft Ignite 2025, signals that Ingram...
Australia Is Tightening the Rules on Children’s Privacy – Here’s How It Will Work
Australia is overhauling its privacy framework with the 2024 Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act, tasking the OAIC with a new Children’s Online Privacy Code. The draft, now open for public comment until June 5, extends to all digital services that...
India Accelerates E-Bus Drive Amid Fuel Risks, New 3k Unit Tender by June
India will issue a new tender for more than 3,000 electric buses by June, following the closure of its largest e‑bus tender of over 10,000 units six months earlier. The procurement will be administered under the PM e‑bus seva scheme,...
Berkeley Lab: DL4SCI 2026 to Spotlight Discovery Through Agentic AI, Foundation Models
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and Berkeley Lab will host the 2026 Deep Learning for Science (DL4SCI) Summer School from July 20‑24. The five‑day intensive program emphasizes foundation models, reasoning‑centric workflows, and agentic AI for scientific discovery. Researchers...
Revolut in Talks to Acquire Major Asian Bank
Revolut is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire an Asian bank to secure a full banking licence and accelerate its regional push. While a takeover of DBS Group is dismissed as financially impractical, analysts point to smaller digital‑only institutions as...
Partners Aim to Improve Remote Monitoring
CHAH AI Care and Quoted Tech have formed a strategic partnership to launch the CHAD AI Support Hub, an AI‑powered remote monitoring system for seniors and medically complex patients in Canada. The first batch of 50 hubs will be deployed...
FCEL Stock Outlook for 2026: Data Centers, Korea, and Risks
FuelCell Energy (FCEL) reported FY2025 revenue of $158.2 million, split among product, generation, advanced‑technology and service streams. By early 2026, more than 80% of its commercial pipeline is linked to AI‑driven data‑center projects, while South Korea module commissioning lifted Q1 revenue...
6 UK Hospitals Partner with SickKids AI Program
Six leading UK NHS paediatric hospitals have signed a memorandum of understanding with Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to join its SKAI artificial intelligence program. The partnership creates a two‑way exchange of AI models, expertise, and clinical training aimed at...
Hawkesbury Conducts Surgery with J&J Robot
Hawkesbury and District General Hospital performed its first surgery using Johnson & Johnson’s VELYS Robotic‑Assisted Solution, led by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Simon Garceau. The system delivers millimetre‑level precision, which can lessen tissue trauma, postoperative pain and inflammation. Hospital executives highlighted...
Snap’s Joseph Darko on Why Practical AR Is Changing Behavior in Asia-Pacific
Snap’s head of AR, Joseph Darko, says practical augmented reality is shifting from experimental projects to everyday tools across the Asia‑Pacific region. Developers are building a seamless AR continuum that integrates into multiple categories, with travel leading the way through...
Saskatchewan Acquires New Perioperative System
The Government of Saskatchewan is allocating up to $5 million CAD (approximately $3.6 million USD) through eHealth Saskatchewan to deploy a fully integrated perioperative information system from Picis Clinical Solutions. The two‑year contract, beginning in fall 2026, will automate anesthesia management and...