Traffic Safety Expo Is Like SEMA For Safety Equipment, And It's Filled With Cool Tech That Keep Roads And Workers...
The American Traffic Safety Services Association’s Traffic Safety Expo in Houston showcased a suite of new safety technologies aimed at reducing fatalities in road‑construction zones, which claim 50 to 150 lives annually. Highlights included the Alpha Overwatch LiDAR‑based intrusion alarm, deformable water‑filled crash cushions, and work trucks equipped with automated debris‑clearing and cone‑setting features. Demonstrations emphasized how these tools protect both workers and drivers by detecting hazards and absorbing impacts. The expo positions these innovations as the next wave of protective infrastructure for the nation’s highways.
New ‘Android Developer Verifier’ App Coming to Phones as Google Shares Verification Timeline
Google announced the Android Developer Verifier, a system‑level service that will check whether an app is registered to a verified developer. The verifier will appear in device settings starting April 2026, with early‑access accounts for students and hobbyists opening in June...
Is Your AI System Ethical? Try This Assessment
The Prosocial AI Index introduces a 4Ts‑4Ps scorecard that expands AI evaluation beyond efficiency to fairness, trust, talent, and environmental impact. It offers executives a concrete framework to assess whether AI systems are tailored, trained, tested, and targeted for purpose,...
Alaska Sees Efficiency Gains After Adopting a New Child Support System
Alaska’s Child Support Enforcement Division replaced its 25‑year‑old case management system with the cloud‑enabled ACSESS platform, going live in October 2025 after a two‑year, on‑budget project. The solution, built by Fast Enterprises, is the first commercial‑off‑the‑shelf child‑support system in the...
Researchers Break Down the Digital Habits of Science Influencers
A recent study published in Computers in Human Behavior examined 1,200 videos from 60 science influencers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to identify the communication styles that drive engagement. The analysis found that TikTok rewards short, highly objective clips with...
Queues Don't Absorb Load — They Delay Bankruptcy
Backend teams often add a queue during traffic spikes, seeing immediate latency drops, but the queue merely postpones work. As consumer throughput lags, queue depth grows unchecked, turning milliseconds into minutes of processing delay and eventually causing memory exhaustion or...
How Marketing Leaders at Clinique and ScottsMiracle-Gro Are Meeting Consumers Where They Are Online—And in AI
Marketing heads at ScottsMiracle‑Gro and Clinique are shifting from product‑centric promotion to digital education, using AI‑driven tools to meet consumers where they research online. Scotts’ senior vice president John Sass highlighted the use of agentic AI to deliver hyper‑local gardening...
Cluster Catalyst Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Methanol at Low Heat
Researchers at Stanford and Stony Brook unveiled a platinum‑molybdenum cluster catalyst embedded in a zirconium‑based MOF that converts CO₂ to methanol at 180 °C, far below the 250 °C typical of industrial processes. The uniform single‑atom Pt sites deliver higher per‑pass yields...
Would You Share Your Phone Calls With a Company to Make Money? This Startup Is Banking on It
Neon, a new app, pays users to record and sell their phone calls for AI training, quickly rising to the top of the App Store. An early security flaw exposed call metadata and transcripts, prompting a public backlash. After securing...
Taking the Private Cloud Modernization Journey with VMware by Broadcom
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is driving a major overhaul of the company’s private‑cloud strategy. At Cloud Field Day 25, VMware showcased a shift from fragmented, VM‑centric virtualization to a unified, automated platform built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The new...
Buyers Say This Portable Power Station From Home Depot Isn't Worth Its High Price
Milwaukee's MX Fuel Portable Power Station, sold at Home Depot for $2,499, has drawn criticism for its high price and limited runtime, earning a 3.2‑star rating from 70 reviews. Customers report the battery often lasts under two hours under modest...
Bridging Worlds with Hammerspace and the Reality of Multi-Cloud Mobility
Hammerspace unveiled a Unified Global Namespace that abstracts storage across on‑prem, AWS, Azure and OCI, letting data appear locally wherever compute runs. Its policy‑driven Objective‑Based Data Orchestration moves only the required blocks, eliminating heavyweight migrations for AI and GPU‑intensive workloads....
IAB Recognizes Future Video Outcomes From Agentic
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released a whitepaper titled “AI‑Powered Video Outcomes: Agentic AI,” outlining how autonomous AI systems will reshape video planning, optimization, measurement, and creation. The report notes that 69% of analytics teams are scaling AI and 44%...
Advertisers Battling Meta Over Metrics Blast '11th-Hour' Arbitration Bid
Advertisers who sued Meta in 2018 over allegedly inflated ad‑reach metrics are now challenging the platform's last‑minute bid to force most class members into arbitration. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals must decide whether Meta waived its arbitration clause by...
AI Pushes B2B Ecommerce Toward Fewer Platforms as Budgets Shift
Artificial intelligence is prompting B2B ecommerce leaders to trim fragmented software stacks and invest in unified, AI‑enabled platforms. Redpoint Ventures reports that 45% of CIOs are redirecting spend toward AI while 54% are consolidating vendors, targeting systems that blend ecommerce,...
Aerie Doubles Down on Its No-AI Pledge in Its Latest Campaign
Aerie reaffirmed its "no AI" policy by launching a new campaign that features only real people, including Pamela Anderson, and explicitly rejects generative‑AI‑created models. The brand’s Instagram post announcing the pledge became its most‑liked content, surpassing 40,000 likes. In Q4...
Live in the Booth: AST SpaceMobile President Scott Wisniewski Talks Spectrum Strategy and Defense Potential
AST SpaceMobile President and Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski highlighted the recent launch of the BlueBird 6 satellite, a new agreement with European carrier Orange, and the company’s evolving spectrum strategy. He announced that AST secured its first Space Development Agency...
SpaceBridge Launches UniHub as Streamlined VSAT Platform
SpaceBridge unveiled UniHub, a compact all‑in‑one VSAT hub that consolidates SDR multichannel modulation, burst demodulation for up to 800 carriers, network communication center functions, QoS, and advanced waveforms like TDMA and dSCPC. The platform promises reduced footprint, lower SWaP, and...
GameChange Solar Successfully Tests Tracker for Earthquake Conditions
GameChange Solar completed the industry’s first full‑scale seismic shake‑table test of its Genius Tracker system at UC Berkeley’s Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. The test, performed to IEEE 693 standards, subjected a complete tracker with PV modules to progressively stronger earthquake...
Public Health Providers Have to Obey Strict Cyber Security Rules – so Should Private Contractors
New Zealand’s recent cyber‑security strategy follows high‑profile health data breaches that exposed over 120,000 patients’ records. The government argues that existing privacy legislation does not impose enforceable cyber standards on private IT contractors supporting public health providers. It calls for...
A LatAm Fintech’s Guide to Florida and the US Market
LatAm fintechs eyeing the U.S. market face a choice between obtaining their own state money‑transmitter license—often starting in Florida—or partnering with Banking‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS) providers. A Florida license costs roughly $10,000‑$50,000, while a national rollout can exceed $250,000 in fees and...
Autism Risk Genes Largely Shared Across Global Populations
Scientists have long identified autism risk genes mainly in European‑ancestry cohorts, leaving gaps for other populations. The GALA Consortium sequenced over 15,000 Latin American individuals, including 4,700 with autism, and found 35 genome‑wide significant risk genes. These genes show substantial...
New BLUETTI Fridge Storage System, EV Battery Innovation Updates — Top Stories of the Week
This week’s cleantech roundup spotlights a surge of battery‑focused stories, from BLUETTI’s FridgePower portable refrigeration system to a deep dive on electric‑vehicle battery innovations. U.S. lithium projects are scaling up to meet rising EV demand, while balcony‑mounted solar panels are...
Today’s Android App Deals and Freebies: DREDGE, Vohenn, Death Road to Canada, More
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale entered Day 6, featuring deep discounts on a slate of Android games and apps such as DREDGE, Death Road to Canada, and Fairy Knights. The promotion also includes an all‑time‑low price on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A11+ and...
Semi-Solid-State EV Batteries Are Now Powering up Trucks and Flying Cars
Semi‑solid‑state batteries have moved from experimental labs into mass production, with SAIC launching the MG4 as the first globally produced model using this technology. The MG4’s 53.95 kWh battery delivers a 530 km (330‑mile) CLTC range at a price of about $14,500,...
Scaling Kafka Consumers: Proxy Vs. Client Library for High-Throughput Architectures
Apache Kafka’s pull‑based model excels for event‑driven microservices, but scaling consumer groups creates operational overhead, head‑of‑line blocking, and complex error handling. Large enterprises such as Wix and Uber have addressed these limits by deploying a centralized push‑based consumer proxy, achieving...
Informa TechTarget Launches Two New Content Solutions
Informa TechTarget announced two AI‑focused content solutions—the AI Visibility Audit and the GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) Topic Planner—to help B2B marketers improve brand discoverability in an AI‑driven search environment. The AI Visibility Audit evaluates how audiences encounter a brand through...
Link Between Ceramide Transport and Cell Senescence Could Inform Aging Biology Research
University at Buffalo researchers discovered that impairment of the ceramide transfer protein (CERT) blocks ER‑to‑Golgi ceramide transport, causing ceramide buildup in the endoplasmic reticulum and triggering ER stress that drives replicative senescence. Pharmacological inhibition of CERT reproduced the senescent phenotype...
ULI Arizona Trends Day 2026: Energy, Risk, and Resilience Reshaping Phoenix
At ULI Arizona’s 21st Annual Trends Day, industry leaders highlighted a fragile yet growing U.S. economy, AI‑driven tools accelerating post‑fire rebuilding, and a push toward nuclear power to meet Arizona’s soaring energy demand. John Chang projected 2.5% GDP growth in...
Drug Trials Snapshots: INLURIYO
Eli Lilly’s oral selective estrogen receptor degrader INLURIYO (imlunestrant) received FDA approval on September 25 2025 for adults with advanced ER‑positive, HER2‑negative breast cancer harboring an ESR1 mutation after endocrine therapy failure. The decision rests on the EMBER‑3 trial, which enrolled 874...
Garrett Nicholson, Google
Google has appointed Garrett Nicholson to head its Global Food Ordering Partnerships within the Search and Gemini Partnerships team. Nicholson brings 13 years of experience at Google, spanning Ads, Commerce, and Search, and a two‑year stint in sales at IAC....
LoanDepot Partners with Texas Builder for New Lender Launch
LoanDepot has launched Olive Branch Home Loans, a mortgage affiliate for West Texas builder Betenbough Cos., which sells over 2,000 homes annually across eight sales centers. The partnership gives Betenbough access to LoanDepot’s wholesale infrastructure, technology and customer‑service expertise while...
6 Biggest Cybersecurity Mistakes CEOs Make
A 2025 EY study found 84 % of organizations faced a cyber incident in the past three years, many of which were preventable with stronger leadership. CEOs often treat cybersecurity as a technical checkbox rather than a strategic priority, leading to...
Varda Flies Navigation Payload, Heat Shield Tests on Sixth Reentry Mission
Varda Space Industries launched its sixth re‑entry capsule, W‑6, aboard SpaceX’s Transporter‑16 rideshare from Vandenberg on March 30. The mission carries U.S. defense‑funded experiments, notably Rhea Space Activity’s autonomous navigation system that uses onboard cameras and the AutoNav algorithm to determine...
AutoTrader Says Fuel Crunch Puts Diesel Vehicle Sales Under Pressure As South Africans Look To Electric Alternatives
South Africa’s fuel crunch has slashed diesel‑vehicle enquiries by 18% over four weeks, while interest in battery‑electric cars surged 45% in the same period. Overall vehicle sales hit a decade high of 596,818 units in 2025, but BEV sales fell...
AI-Driven Code Surge Is Forcing a Rethink of AppSec
AI‑driven code generation is causing organizations to produce ten to twenty times more software than a year ago, overwhelming traditional application‑security tools. The surge expands the attack surface, making vulnerabilities easier for adversaries to exploit. Black Duck’s CEO Jason Schmitt...
After Missing Kezar Buyout in 2024, Tang Returns as CEO of Aurinia With $50M Offer
Kevin Tang, newly installed CEO of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, has revived his bid for Kezar Life Sciences with a $50 million offer of $6.95 per share, roughly matching Kezar’s $47 million market cap. The proposal follows Tang’s earlier, unsuccessful $1.10‑per‑share attempt made through...
The US Is Sitting On 161 Gigawatts In Underused Wind Farm Capacity
The United States could unlock an additional 161 GW of wind capacity by repowering existing utility‑scale farms, effectively more than doubling onshore wind output to roughly 314 GW. Repowering replaces aging turbines with taller, more efficient models, boosting generation without new land...
#ACC26: Merck Touts Comparator Data for Oral Cholesterol Drug
Merck reported that its experimental oral PCSK9 inhibitor, enlici‑tide, outperformed a range of commonly prescribed cholesterol‑lowering medicines in a head‑to‑head comparator trial. The data bring the drug a step closer to becoming the first oral PCSK9 therapy on the market....
AirPods Pro 3 Vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2: I Listened to Both, and There's a Sonic Difference
Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 and Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra 2nd‑Gen earbuds launched within weeks of each other, prompting a side‑by‑side review. The AirPods Pro 3 cost $249, offer Apple‑centric features like heart‑rate monitoring, Spatial Audio and automatic device switching, and provide eight hours of...
Q&A: Hartford CIO Charisse Snipes on AI, Language Access and Building a Smart City Culture
Charisse Snipes, Hartford’s Chief Innovation Officer, says the city prioritized AI governance before rollout, embedding data ownership, security and cross‑department training into its framework. Partnering with Google Cloud, Hartford added real‑time, two‑way translation to its 311 system, supporting up to...
Mobile Payments Stall as Switzerland Clings to Cash and Debit
Switzerland’s payment landscape remains dominated by cash and debit cards, with mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Twint capturing only 17% of transactions in 2025, a slight decline from the previous year. Debit cards lead at 37% of all...
How Lumen Is Dismantling Decades of Network Complexity
Lumen Technologies, a $12.4 billion telecom operator with a 500,000‑mile fiber network, faced fragmented inventory from decades of acquisitions, operating over 17 legacy systems and nearly 500 data sources. It built a unified data layer and AI‑driven digital twin, launching the...
Walmart Mexico Extends Strategic Partnership with Vusion
Walmart de México y Centroamérica is expanding its partnership with Vusion to roll out the EdgeSense connected‑store platform across all Walmart Express locations by the end of 2026, with a subsequent rollout to its Supercenter fleet. The deployment will install...
Centivax Closes $37 Million Financing
Centivax, a clinical‑stage biotech focused on universal vaccines, closed an oversubscribed $37 million financing round led by Structure Fund. The round also attracted Meiji Seika Pharma, Sigmas Group, Kendall Capital Partners, and Stripe co‑founder Patrick Collison. The capital will fund pre‑clinical...
#AAD26 Roundup: Takeda, Alumis, Priovant and Incyte Take the Stage
At the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) meeting in Denver, Takeda, Alumis, Priovant and Incyte each unveiled late‑stage dermatology data, ranging from novel biologics to targeted small molecules. Sanofi and Biogen also presented, highlighting mixed results in eczema and lupus...
Microsoft Lets Merchants Update Store Names and Domains in Merchant Center
Microsoft Advertising now lets e‑commerce merchants edit their Merchant Center store name and domain directly, removing the need for support tickets. Store‑name changes undergo editorial review while existing ads keep running, and domain updates require ownership verification before activation. The...
HHS Launches $100M Addiction Recovery Program, Digital Health Plays Growing Role in Treatment
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a $100 million STREETS program to expand addiction treatment and housing support for people experiencing homelessness. The initiative, part of the Great American Recovery Initiative, will start in eight pilot communities and...
Is Microfluidics Ready to Cool the Next Generation of Data Centers?
Data centers face localized hot spots that conventional air cooling cannot efficiently address, prompting interest in microfluidic cooling that routes liquid through microscopic channels etched into silicon. Demonstrations show temperature reductions of up to 80% compared with air, promising higher...
Hopper’s Tech Will Power RBC’s Travel Reward Program
Hopper’s B2B arm, Hopper Technology Solutions, has secured a long‑term partnership with the Royal Bank of Canada to run the Avion Rewards Travel platform, replacing Expedia. The agreement is expected to lift Hopper’s annual revenue by hundreds of millions of...