UK Drone Rules Just Got Way Easier to Understand
Grey Arrows Drone Club has integrated every UK council’s byelaw, PSPO and local policy into its Drone Scene app, creating a comprehensive map of local drone restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The update adds a traffic‑light colour system—green, yellow, red—to instantly show where recreational flights are allowed, limited or prohibited. Users can tap council boundaries for concise pop‑ups and access full FOI records, eliminating guesswork. With over 37,500 members, the platform now offers a one‑stop solution for flight planning and compliance.
The SA Director Betting Everything on AI Filmmaking
South African director Donovan Marsh, co‑founder of Dragon Studios AI, says generative AI can produce blockbuster‑level films at a fraction of traditional costs. He claims AI could cut a $40 million production like "Hunter Killer" by up to 100 times, and expects...
Here's a Thing - What if Shadow AI Is Actually Telling Us Something Useful?
Enterprises are confronting a surge of shadow AI—unauthorized, employee‑driven use of large language models and autonomous agents. As governance lags, these tools make decisions and act independently, amplifying risk beyond traditional shadow IT. Experts argue that treating employees as AI...
Standing Ovation Raises €30M to Scale Precision Fermentation Dairy Proteins Globally
Standing Ovation, a French precision‑fermentation startup, closed a €30 million Series B round (≈$32.5 million) led by the France 2030‑backed Ecotechnologies 2 fund and Crédit Mutuel Innovation, with participation from Danone Ventures, Bel Group and other investors. The financing includes €25 million in equity (≈$27 million) and...
EE Launches AI TV Search Feature
EE has introduced Smart Search, an AI‑driven feature on its EE TV platform that lets users find shows and movies by describing mood, theme, plot or a simple one‑liner. The tool pulls content from live TV, on‑demand libraries and third‑party...
RBC Prepares for the AI Era
Royal Bank of Canada has launched a standalone AI Group, headed by Bruce Ross and reporting directly to the CEO, to accelerate the bank’s artificial‑intelligence agenda across retail, wealth and capital‑markets businesses. The group builds on RBC’s decade‑long AI foundation,...
Walrus Pitches MemWal as Decentralized Storage for AI Agent Memory
Walrus Foundation, backed by Mysten Labs, launched MemWal, a developer SDK that offers decentralized, blockchain‑based storage for AI agents' long‑term memory. The service leverages the Walrus protocol on the Sui blockchain and is paid for with the $WAL token, which...
OnePlus Nord 6 Key Specifications Revealed Ahead of Launch: 50MP Sony Camera, 9,000mAh Battery Confirmed
OnePlus will debut the Nord 6 in India on 7 April at 7 PM, with sales routed through Amazon. The mid‑range flagship packs a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, a 1.5K 165 Hz AMOLED screen, IP66‑IP69K water‑dust protection, a 50 MP Sony camera, and a massive 9,000 mAh...
SheSparks 2026: How Women Leaders Are Enabling the Workforce to Build AI Skills in GCCs
At SheSparks 2026, Kyndryl’s Kush Mahajan and BT Group’s Arunima Dhiman discussed how women leaders are shaping AI adoption in Global Capability Centers (GCCs). They framed AI as an efficiency‑boosting partner that frees employees for higher‑order judgment rather than a...
Nebius to Construct 310 MW AI Factory in Finland
Nebius announced the construction of a new AI factory in Lappeenranta, Finland, with up to 310 MW of power, expected to serve customers starting in 2027. The project follows a recent 75 MW expansion in Mäntsälä and contributes to Nebius’s goal of...
Hongkong Land Foundation Launches AI for Good Hackathon
The Hongkong Land Foundation launched an "AI for Good" hackathon in partnership with the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation at PolyU, bringing together NGOs, students, and volunteers to prototype community solutions over two days. Participants used AI‑enabled design...
Robotic Online Intelligence Introduces Kubro(TM) Agents – A Toolkit For Bespoke Agentic Workflows In Market Research
Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) has launched Kubro™ Agents, a new module on its Kubro platform that lets data firms and investment research teams build fully configurable, multi‑step agentic workflows for market research. The toolkit offers more than 50 granular parameters...
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Concludes with AI Sustainability Projects
Samsung’s “Solve for Tomorrow” competition concluded in Hong Kong, drawing over 250 teams from 100 primary, secondary and tertiary schools. The contest focused on AI‑driven environmental sustainability and AI‑enabled sports/social change, with finalists presenting projects such as AquaPulse, an AI...
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How To Identify Which LLM Is Actually Working For You [Webinar] via @Sejournal, @Hethr_campbell
Search Engine Journal is hosting a live webinar to help marketers pinpoint which large language model (LLM) actually drives conversions in specific industries. Panelists Danielle Wood of CallRail and Natalie Johnson of SweetGlow will share real‑world conversion data for ChatGPT,...
Speech Analysis for Assessing Physical Competence Under the Concept of Physical Literacy (PhD Academy Award)
A PhD thesis by Rui Si Ma demonstrates that speech characteristics can serve as reliable indicators of physical competence. Using machine‑learning and deep‑learning models, the research extracts vocal features that correlate with exercise intensity, enabling non‑invasive fitness assessment. The methodology is designed...
Sweden Orders More GAVIA AUV Systems From Teledyne
Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) placed a follow‑on order for additional GAVIA autonomous underwater vehicles and payload modules from Teledyne Marine, signed at the Navy Tech Conference in Gothenburg. The new units build on the four AUVs delivered in early...
Changhong and Grundig Form Strategic Partnership
Changhong, a leading Chinese home‑appliance maker, has secured a strategic partnership with Germany’s Grundy brand, obtaining a license to sell Grundig products across Europe (excluding Turkey), the Asia‑Pacific region, the CIS and China. The deal gives Changhong control of the...
Wildberries Reports Rising Demand for Asian Products
Wildberries, the leading Eurasian e‑commerce platform, reported a 40% jump in food sales sourced from Asian countries in 2025, with continued acceleration into 2026. Products such as Chinese soy‑based meat, Indian basmati rice, and Thai coconut milk saw multi‑fold growth,...
‘Fragmentation Is Poison’: How Microsoft Is Targeting Disparate Data to Boost AI Adoption
Microsoft unveiled Database Hub and Fabric IQ at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, extending its Fabric SaaS analytics platform to unify roughly 20 data services under a single management plane. The new Database Hub adds AI‑driven, natural‑language exploration across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and...
Google Maps Displays Non-Existent Clean Air Zone In Manchester
Google Maps mistakenly displayed a Clean Air Zone around Greater Manchester, warning drivers of potential charges for a scheme that was never implemented. The error, traced to a 2019 proposal abandoned in 2023, was reported by Transport for Greater Manchester,...
Teva Advances Biosimilars Portfolio with Ponlimsi (Denosumab) FDA Approval and Dual Omalizumab Filing Acceptance
Teva Pharmaceutical received U.S. FDA approval for Ponlimsi, a biosimilar to Amgen’s Prolia (denosumab), covering all approved indications. The approval was granted after extensive analytical and clinical studies demonstrated comparable efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity to the reference product. In parallel,...
Will California Fund or Kill Its Thriving Virtual Power Plant Program?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is weighing whether to end the four‑year‑old Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) virtual power plant program, which now supplies over 1 GW of capacity and offsets peak demand comparable to San Francisco’s load. Lawmakers and clean‑energy advocates...
Arizona Cuts Key Renewables Policy as Clean Energy Market Takes Off
Arizona’s elected Corporation Commission voted unanimously to eliminate the state’s renewable portfolio standard, which required 15% clean electricity by 2025. The repeal is justified by commissioners as a cost‑saving measure, yet utilities remain locked into long‑term renewable contracts that may...
SolasAI Launches New Solution for Proactive Model Monitoring and Auditing at Enterprise Scale
SolasAI announced Illumination, a new AI risk‑management platform that extends its Beacon suite with proactive, real‑time model monitoring and auditing. The solution combines advanced statistical drift detection, quality‑erosion alerts, and fairness‑risk scanning, while a human‑controlled agentic AI orchestrates remediation actions....
MiniV-Bat 234g, 74 Minutes Hover Bicopter
Researchers unveiled the MiniV‑Bat, a 233.7 g micro bicopter that can hover for 74 minutes, setting a new benchmark for endurance in its class. By redefining control to focus on the rotor disc rather than the vehicle’s attitude, the team eliminated non‑minimum...
Dell Polishes PowerProtect, PowerScale and PowerStore
Dell announced a suite of upgrades to its PowerProtect backup appliances, adding a unified dashboard, AI Assistant, and TLS v1.3‑enabled secure transport. The enhancements also include a 75:1 data‑reduction ratio, new analytics for Oracle RAC, and simplified Cyber Recovery deployment. Security...
Modder Boots Bartlett Lake Core 9 CPU on Z790 Using AI-Guided BIOS Mod
Enthusiast successfully booted Intel’s Bartlett Lake‑based Core 9 273PQE on an ASUS Z790‑AYW OC WIFI motherboard by flashing a custom BIOS and injecting the missing microcode. The 12‑core, performance‑only processor, normally limited to embedded platforms, was guided through the process with Claude...
Vertically Stacked Paper‐Based Microarray Device for High‐Throughput SERS Detection of Two Cancer Biomarkers
Researchers have unveiled a vertically stacked paper‑based microarray device (µAPAD) that integrates the full immunoassay workflow for high‑throughput SERS detection of cancer biomarkers. The 16‑layer wax‑patterned platform ensures uniform nanotag distribution, cutting signal variation from 36.6% to 6.69% and enabling...
How Medical Technology Is Improving the Diagnosis of Binocular Vision Problems
Medical technology is transforming how clinicians diagnose binocular vision disorders, which often hide behind generic eye‑strain complaints. Traditional eye exams focus on static acuity, missing dynamic issues like accommodative and vergence dysfunction that cause headaches, dizziness, and reading difficulty. New...
Near‐Infrared Photochemistry Harnesses Excitons for Selective Guanine Functionalization of Single‐Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Researchers have demonstrated that semiconducting single‑wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can act as their own photosensitizer under near‑infrared (NIR) illumination, producing singlet oxygen that selectively oxidizes guanine bases in the surrounding ssDNA corona. The resulting guanine peroxides react covalently with the...
Extrahepatic Gene Editing In Vivo Using Organic Solvent‐Free Lipid Nanoparticles
Researchers have unveiled a fully water‑based lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platform that eliminates cholesterol and PEG, using poly(2‑methyl‑2‑oxazoline) as a stealth polymer. The solvent‑free formulation enables efficient delivery of CRISPR‑Cas9 components, achieving robust gene editing in primary human immune cells and...
Razorpay Introduces RBI-Compliant Biometric Authentication Solution ‘Passkey’
Razorpay has launched “Passkey,” an RBI‑compliant biometric authentication solution for online card payments, developed with Mastercard and slated to integrate Visa soon. The technology leverages device‑bound fingerprints or facial scans, removing the need for one‑time passwords that cause roughly 35%...
Resource-Sharing Boosts Robotic Resilience
Researchers at EPFL’s Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory introduced a hyper‑redundancy framework that lets modular robots share power, sensing and communication resources across all units. In the Mori3 origami robot, this local resource‑sharing revived a completely dead module, allowing the four‑module system...
ROUNDUP: Non-Lithium Energy Storage System Technology Advances in US, Spain, and Scotland
The roundup highlights rapid progress in non‑lithium energy storage, with Unigrid’s sodium‑ion cells reaching 5,000 full‑depth cycles and projecting a 25‑year lifespan that matches solar PV panels. Inlyte Energy secured a domestic iron‑powder supply partnership to scale its iron‑sodium (ZEBRA)...
If OpenAI Is to Float on the Stock Market This Year, It Needs to Start Turning a Profit
OpenAI, valued at roughly $850 bn, is confronting a massive cash‑burn problem as it eyes a potential IPO before year‑end. The company plans to spend about $600 bn on compute infrastructure through 2030, yet its current annualised revenue sits near $25 bn, leaving...
Dr. Nishi Patel Discusses Modern Diagnostic Tools in Cardiology: From Echocardiograms to Cardiac MRIs
Dr. Nishi Patel outlines how echocardiography and cardiac MRI together shape modern cardiology in the United States. Echocardiograms serve as a low‑cost, widely available first‑line tool that provides real‑time functional data, while cardiac MRI delivers high‑resolution tissue characterization for complex...
BarmeniaGothaer Setzt Auf Bloomberg Und Clearwater Analytics Für Ein Zukunftssicheres Front-to-Back Kapitalanlagemanagement
BarmeniaGothaer Asset Management, overseeing more than €50 billion (≈ $55 billion) in assets, has adopted Bloomberg Buy‑Side Solutions together with Clearwater Analytics to build a unified front‑to‑back investment platform. The integration combines Bloomberg AIM, OMS and PORT risk tools with Clearwater’s cloud‑native middle‑...
Starlink to Appeal Namibia Licence Rejection
Starlink will appeal Namibia's telecom regulator decision that rejected its licence and spectrum access because the company is fully foreign‑owned, violating the country's 51% local‑ownership rule. Nigeria's communications authority has mandated that telcos compensate customers with airtime credits when service...
Thermochemical Energy Storage Leader Redoxblox Rebrands as Tempo
Redoxblox has rebranded as Tempo, signaling its shift from research to commercial scaling of a thermochemical energy storage platform that delivers continuous, combustion‑free heat up to 1,200 °C. The system can charge fully in four hours, allowing factories to capture low‑cost...
PubMatic & Amnet Launch the First Agentic Advertising Campaign in France Using the Claude LLM
PubMatic and trading desk Amnet have launched France’s first Agentic advertising campaign, built on PubMatic’s AgenticOS and the Claude large‑language model, for client Interbev. The video‑focused effort targets cooking enthusiasts and consumers of responsibly sourced French meat, aiming for high...
UK Seeks Views on Reshaping Cyber Laws for Downstream Gas and Electricity
The UK government, together with regulator Ofgem, has launched a consultation on revising cyber‑resilience rules for downstream gas and electricity licensees. The proposal would impose baseline cyber security requirements on all Ofgem‑licensed operators, while applying stricter standards to the most...
Schneider Electric Joins Thread Group Board of Directors
Schneider Electric, a global energy‑management leader, has been appointed to the Thread Group Board of Directors, deepening its involvement in the open‑source IoT networking protocol. The move comes as Thread surpasses 1,000 consumer products and pushes Thread 1.4 into commercial and...
STV Group and Post-Quantum Successfully Trial World’s First Quantum-Resilient Drones
STV Group and UK‑based Post‑Quantum announced the successful trial of the world’s first quantum‑resilient drones, demonstrating secure, future‑proof communications between unmanned aircraft and operators. The tests, conducted in operational environments linked to Ukraine and other allied theatres, proved the drones...
Eight More Satellites Added to IRIDE Space Programme
Italy’s IRIDE Earth‑observation programme has added eight new Eaglet II satellites, raising the total constellation to 24 assets in orbit. The launch, performed on SpaceX’s Transporter‑16 from Vandenberg, placed the satellites alongside the first batch deployed in November 2025. Each spacecraft carries...
Electrospinning Spatial Building of a Secondary S‐Scheme Heterojunction in Cs3Bi2Br9@g‐C3N4−SnO2/PAN Nanofiber for Real‐Time Monitoring Photocatalysis
Researchers have created a flexible core‑shell nanofiber (Cs3Bi2Br9@g‑C3N4–SnO2/PAN) using coaxial electrospinning that incorporates a dual S‑scheme heterojunction. The architecture widens visible‑light absorption and markedly suppresses charge recombination, delivering >97 % degradation of Rhodamine B and 99.5 % degradation of tetracycline within 50 minutes. The...
Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions and Trade Restrictions, AI Emerges as Key Driver of Global Trade Growth: McKinsey
Artificial intelligence is reshaping global commerce, with AI‑related hardware shipments surging nearly 40% in 2025 and accounting for roughly a third of worldwide trade growth. The United States emerged as the dominant demand hub, adding about half of all new...
Autonomous UXO Detection Demonstrated with Bayonet 350 AUGV
Greensea IQ demonstrated autonomous detection and classification of unexploded ordnance (UXO) using its Bayonet 350 autonomous underwater ground vehicle (AUGV) at a former military bombing range in Maine. The vehicle towed White River Technologies’ APEX three‑dimensional electromagnetic sensor and, aided by...
Countdown Begins for the Artemis-2 Mission Around the Moon
NASA initiated a two‑day countdown on April 1 for the Artemis‑2 mission, targeting a 6:24 pm Eastern launch. The flight will carry three American astronauts and a Canadian aboard the Orion capsule, propelled by the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Artemis‑2 marks...
Lenovo ThinkStation P5 Gen 2 Packs Xeon 600 and Dual RTX PRO GPUs
Lenovo unveiled the ThinkStation P5 Gen 2, a premium workstation built around Intel Xeon 600‑series CPUs with up to 48 cores and dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell‑Max‑Q GPUs. The platform supports up to 1 TB of DDR5‑6400 ECC memory, PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs up to 4 TB...
Rakuten Mobile Extends Partnership with Netcracker for AI-Enabled Digital BSS to Support Its Mobile Network in Japan
Rakuten Mobile has extended its multi‑year partnership with Netcracker to continue using the AI‑enabled, cloud‑native Digital BSS platform for its nationwide 4G and 5G network. The renewal builds on a collaboration that began when Rakuten launched in 2019 and adds...