Software Errors Lead to Major Insulin Pump Recall—Manufacturer Shares a Fix
Medtronic is recalling 26,851 MiniMed 780G insulin pumps after identifying three software defects across versions 6.60, 6.61 and 6.62. The FDA classified the recall as Class II, indicating temporary health risks if unaddressed. Medtronic’s remedy is a firmware update to version 6.62 and a corresponding Mobile app upgrade, eliminating the need for device replacement. Patients using the Instinct sensor must also restart or re‑pair the sensor after the update to ensure continuous therapy.
Afresh Expands Platform Across Full Store as Grocery Tech Matures Into the AI Era
Afresh, a grocery‑AI startup, announced it is extending its platform beyond fresh produce to manage inventory, ordering, and replenishment across an entire supermarket. The expanded solution now handles demand forecasting, inventory control, and distribution‑center operations for produce, meat, center‑store items,...
Big Zero Show – Smaller, Better but Still Bold
The Big Zero Show returned after a year, reaffirming that the net‑zero agenda remains alive despite a fresh energy price crisis. Delegates highlighted flexibility, data‑driven AI, and battery innovations as pivotal to decarbonisation. The event underscored that transition costs are...
This Firmware Update Makes Avata 360 Ready for Real Flying
DJI has launched a day‑one firmware update (v01.00.0100) for the Avata 360, extending support to the new FPV Remote Controller 3 and enhancing the entire ecosystem, including RC 2, Goggles 3, and the Fly app. The update raises Sport mode’s top speed to 18 m/s,...
Rubedo Announces Positive Preliminary Results for RLS-1496
Rubedo Life Sciences reported positive preliminary Phase 1 data for RLS‑1496, the first human‑tested GPX4 modulator designed to clear senescent cells. The 4‑week, double‑blind study in the EU showed the drug was well‑tolerated, produced a clear dose‑response, and reduced epidermal thickness...
Stop Accepting Smart Home Downtime—Here's How I Built Mine to Never Fail
Patrick Campanale details how his smart home suffered frequent outages whenever his single Home Assistant server required maintenance. He resolved the issue by deploying a three‑node Proxmox high‑availability (HA) cluster, allowing the Home Assistant VM to migrate automatically if a...
In AI, The Loudest Bottleneck Isn’t Always The Real One
Founders often chase the most visible AI bottleneck—GPUs—while overlooking the real constraints that limit progress. The article argues that true bottlenecks are binding constraints such as power supply, data‑center logistics, or cost‑effective compute sourcing, not necessarily the headline hardware. By...
CHMP Recommends Subcutaneous Form of Sanofi's Sarclisa and Four New Drugs
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued positive opinions on five products: a subcutaneous formulation of Sanofi’s multiple‑myeloma therapy Sarclisa and four entirely new drugs pending approval. The subcutaneous version aims to simplify...
CDERLearn
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) announced that its accredited Continuing Education (CE) program is currently unable to process new applications or award CE credits, effective August 12 2025. The pause affects healthcare professionals, academics, and industry participants who...
This Ultra Rare Razer Gaming Mouse Costs $1337, but Is It Any Good?
Razer unveiled the Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition, a limited‑run collector’s mouse priced at $1,337, with all 1,337 units sold out at DreamHack UK. The mouse revives the original Boomslang silhouette in a translucent green chassis, featuring ambidextrous side buttons and...
NTIA Planning to Finish BEAD Approvals by May
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has set a May 2026 deadline to approve the remaining state broadband spending plans under the $42.45 billion BEAD program. California, Illinois and Oklahoma are the only states still awaiting approval, while 45 states...
Rapid Fusion Targets €1M Italian Expansion Through Exclusive Aivox Partnership
Rapid Fusion, a UK large‑format 3D printing firm, announced a €1 million (≈$1.09 million) expansion into Italy after signing an exclusive partnership with Aivox. The agreement gives Aivox rights to market and integrate Rapid Fusion’s LFAM platforms—including Zeus, Apollo, Medusa and the...
Europe’s Space Agencies Prepare For A Brave New NASA
During NASA’s high‑profile Ignition conference in Washington, European space agencies convened at the Munich Space Summit to gauge the implications of the U.S. agency’s new lunar‑Mars roadmap. While the summit’s main sessions barely mentioned NASA’s plans, breakout discussions revealed a...
Machine Learning Is Making Personality Tests 4x Faster
University of East London researchers have shown that machine learning can reproduce DISC personality classifications with 93% accuracy, while slashing the questionnaire from 40 to just 10 high‑information items. The streamlined test still delivers over 91% predictive power and can...
Benin Wants to Establish a Secondary National Data Center
Benin’s Ministry of Digital and Digitalization has issued a World Bank‑funded request for proposals to conduct a technical, economic and legal feasibility study on a secondary national data centre. The study, due by March 27, 2026, will explore locating the backup facility...
JWST Solves Decades-Long Mystery About Why Saturn Appears to Change Its Spin
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have produced the first high‑resolution temperature and particle density maps of Saturn’s northern aurora, revealing a self‑sustaining feedback loop that heats the atmosphere, drives winds, and powers the aurora. The loop explains why...
Acquirers Are Sitting on a Gold Mine of Data. RS2 Thinks AI Is the Key to Digging It Up
RS2, a Frankfurt‑based payment‑processing infrastructure provider, released a white paper titled “AI in Merchant Acquiring: From Fraud Mitigation to Revenue Generation.” The paper argues that merchant acquirers sit on a massive, under‑utilized data set that AI can unlock to address...
Mobile Population-Based CKD Screening Could Help Close Care Gaps
Wayne State University researchers deployed mobile health units across Detroit from July 2022 to August 2025, evaluating 5,128 adults in 5,973 encounters. The screening revealed that 44.7% had mildly decreased eGFR and 11.3% met criteria for stage‑3 or worse chronic...
A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning
Mia Mercado of The Cut tested several TikTok AI‑generated recipes, finding the cottage‑cheese breadsticks inedible, a spicy buffalo chickpea wrap tasty but clearly lifted from Minimalist Baker, and a pineapple‑cashew fettuccine that was unappetizing. The experiment highlighted how AI can...
This Capable Logitech G703 Lightspeed Is Down to £53/$60 in a Handy Amazon Discount
Logitech’s G703 Lightspeed wireless gaming mouse is now on Amazon for $60 in the United States and £53 (about $68) in the United Kingdom, its lowest price of 2026. The mouse packs a 25,600‑DPI Hero sensor, Lightspeed 2.4 GHz zero‑latency wireless,...
ByteDance Expands AI Video Generation with Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Rollout in CapCut
ByteDance has launched Dreamina Seedance 2.0, an AI‑powered audio and video generation model, within its CapCut editing app. The tool lets creators produce up to 15‑second clips from text prompts, images or reference material, and synchronizes audio automatically. The phased rollout...
This Pretzel Startup Turned a Viral TikTok Moment Into Months’ Worth of Sales—In Just Three Days
Baltimore entrepreneur Marcus Moore’s pretzel brand Moore Crunch went viral on TikTok after a news clip hit 2 million views, prompting a three‑day order volume normally seen over three to four months. The company, launched in October 2022, offers five flavors at...
Shift Happens: Auto Companies Move Beyond AI Pilots With Solution Providers
Automotive solution providers—Perficient, Kyndryl, SoftClouds and DXC—are moving AI projects from pilots to production, targeting supply‑chain visibility, predictive maintenance, multilingual documentation and next‑gen infotainment. Executives cite BCG data showing up to 25% cost reductions and 30% productivity gains, while McKinsey...
FBI Confirms Theft of Director’s Personal Emails by Iran-Linked Hacking Group
The FBI confirmed that a hacking group tied to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, operating under the name Handala, breached the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel and leaked photos and routine correspondence from 2010 and 2019....
Tapinarof Shows Early, Sustained Gains in Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis: Linda Stein Gold, MD
At the 2026 American Academy of Dermatology meeting, phase 3 ADORING 1 and 2 trials demonstrated that once‑daily tapinarof cream significantly improves rash and itch in moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, with effects evident by week 1 and sustained through eight weeks. The studies...
Reducing False Positives in AI Automation
Global App Testing highlights how AI‑driven test automation frequently generates false positives due to brittle UI locators, cross‑environment variability, over‑sensitive assertions, and mismatched test data. These misleading failures erode trust in CI pipelines, cause missed defects, and inflate remediation costs....
NextSTEP-3 E: Network Extension for User Continuity and Sustainability (NEXUS) Ka-Band Backward-Compatible Relay Broad
NASA announced a new Broad Agency Announcement under the NextSTEP‑3 program to fund Project NEXUS, a Ka‑band backward‑compatible relay system. The initiative aims to replace the aging Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) network with an end‑to‑end service lasting at...
US Finalizes Higher Biofuels Quota to Boost Domestic Demand
On March 27, 2026, the EPA finalized a new biofuels blending rule that obliges refiners to incorporate 25.82 billion gallons of biofuels into diesel and gasoline this year. The mandate represents an 8 % increase over the target announced in June 2025,...
Turn Any Pair of Sunglasses Into Prescription Lenses for Just $20
StickTite Bifocal Lenses let users transform any pair of sunglasses into prescription readers for just $20. The adhesive stickers attach to the inner lens surface, require only water, a press, and a 15‑minute drying time. Tested by Runner’s World’s Jeff...
MindBridge Unveils Developer Portal to Support Continuous Financial Oversight
MindBridge announced a new Developer Portal that consolidates API documentation, SDKs, and workflow guides for over 130 endpoints, giving developers a single place to integrate continuous financial oversight into existing enterprise systems. The portal is designed to bridge the "governance...
Refurbed and GoPro Announce Exclusive Partnership in Ireland
Refurbed has sealed an exclusive partnership with GoPro to sell refurbished HERO9‑11 cameras in Ireland, Denmark and Sweden. The collaboration follows a pilot that saw GoPro sales on the platform jump 195%, and reflects a 329% year‑on‑year increase in camera...
Should Contact Centers Build or Buy Voice AI?
Contact centers face a pivotal choice between building, buying, or using developer‑first platforms for voice AI. The decisive factor is whether a vendor owns the entire model pipeline or simply resells third‑party services, which impacts control, rollback capability, and compliance....
Ruxolitinib Cream Improves Repigmentation, QOL in Vitiligo, but Better Patient Education, Guidance Are Needed
Ruxolitinib cream (Opzelura) demonstrated significant facial repigmentation and quality‑of‑life gains in vitiligo patients, especially those reaching F‑VASI75/90 thresholds, according to post‑hoc analyses of the TRuE‑V trials presented at the 2026 AAD meeting. Real‑world survey data revealed that just over one‑fifth...
House Committee Approves FirstNet Reauthorization
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously (51‑0) to advance the First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act, extending FirstNet’s authority through 2037. The bill adds National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) approval authority, appoints an associate administrator, and reserves...
The New Hiring Equation: Speed, Signal, and Safeguards
AI is transforming talent acquisition by automating screening, interview scheduling, and candidate outreach, dramatically accelerating hiring cycles. At the same time, the same technologies are lowering barriers for fraudulent applicants who can manipulate AI-driven assessments and falsify credentials. Recruiters now...
AI Threatens Jobs that Can Be ‘Unbundled’
A new study by economists Luis Garicano, Jin Li and Yanhui Wu finds that jobs whose tasks can be separated—so‑called “unbundled” roles—are most vulnerable to AI automation. In contrast, occupations where tasks are tightly integrated and costly to split protect...
How Structured Content Powers AI Workflows and Automation in 2026
AI tools have matured, but their performance now hinges on the quality of the content they consume. Most enterprises still rely on unstructured documents, PDFs and siloed CMSs, which force models to infer context and lead to errors and hallucinations....
Google’s Pixel Launcher Could Take the Hard Work Out of Setting up Your Home Screen
Google is testing a new Pixel Launcher feature in Android 17 Beta 3 that can automatically populate a home‑screen page with apps and widgets based on selected Play Store categories. The early UI shows placeholder content and layout options such as...
Levi’s ERP Overhaul Hits 60% as Retailer Positions for AI-Driven Orchestration
Levi Strauss & Co. has completed about 60% of its global ERP modernization, a cornerstone of its shift toward AI‑driven orchestration and a data‑centric operating model. The overhaul supports the company’s ambition to grow revenue to roughly $10 billion, with direct‑to‑consumer...
Where Drivers Still Beat Autonomous Systems, and Why It Matters
Autonomous vehicles excel in repeatable, data‑rich environments but still lag behind human drivers when faced with unpredictable edge cases such as stray objects or unmarked detours. Human intuition leverages analogy and cultural cues, allowing rapid adaptation to informal traffic negotiations...
Jesse Roth, Who Advanced the Understanding of Diabetes, Dies at 91
Renowned endocrinologist Dr. Jesse Roth, who proved that diabetes stems from defective insulin receptors, died at 91. Over a 50‑year career he led groundbreaking research at the NIH, Johns Hopkins, and the Feinstein Institutes, reshaping how scientists view hormone signaling....
Switching Between Biosimilars and Their Reference Counterparts with Dr. Sarah Yim
In a recent FDA Q&A, Dr. Sarah Yim explained that the agency has now approved 50 biosimilars covering 15 reference biologics, spanning treatments from oncology to diabetes. She clarified the distinction between biosimilars and interchangeable biosimilars, noting that the latter...
China PV Industry Brief: China Adds 32.48 GW Solar as Polysilicon Prices Fall
China’s National Energy Administration reported 32.48 GW of new solar capacity installed in January‑February 2026, a 17.7% year‑on‑year decline, while total generation capacity reached 3.95 TW, with solar climbing to 1.23 TW (+33.2%). Polysilicon prices fell sharply, with weekly drops of up to...
Embedding Payments for Growth: How ISVs Can Scale Through Vertical Focus and Partnerships
Embedded finance, also called embedded commerce or integrated payments, is reshaping how Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) deliver value, with the market projected to grow from $85.8 billion in 2026 to $370.9 billion by 2036 – a 15.8% CAGR. ISVs that adopt a...
FDA Approves Update to Neffy 1 Mg Label, Removing Age Requirement
The FDA has approved an update to the neffy 1 mg epinephrine nasal spray label, eliminating the previous age minimum of four years. The only remaining eligibility criterion is a patient weight of at least 33 lb, covering children as young as...
PayNearby Introduces Integrated UPI Cash Withdrawal Solution Through Retail Network
PayNearby has become the first Business Correspondent in India to launch a fully integrated UPI cash‑withdrawal solution, allowing users to pull physical cash from nearby retail outlets. The service is built in partnership with IndusInd Bank and supported by YES...
NTT East Goes on Private 5G RIC Roll
NTT East, a unit of Japan’s NTT conglomerate, completed a landmark private‑5G laboratory trial using O‑RAN Alliance‑defined RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) with 26 vendor partners. The multi‑vendor tests achieved a 98.5% success rate across 335 device combinations, validating interoperability and...
Deals – Big Spring Sale Day 3: Lenovo Idea Tab Pro 40% Off, TCL 60 NXTPAPER $180, Snapdragon X Elite...
Day 3 of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale delivers deep discounts across tablets, smartphones, laptops and accessories. Lenovo’s 12.7‑inch Idea Tab Pro falls to $237.50, a 40% cut, while TCL’s 60 XE NXTPAPER phone starts at $180, 30% off. Microsoft’s Snapdragon X Elite Surface Laptop is...
The FCC Must Choose: Enforce the Rules or Preserve LEO Competition
The FCC faces a pivotal choice between enforcing its LEO deployment milestones and preserving competition in low‑Earth‑orbit broadband. Amazon has asked for a two‑year extension to meet its 1,618‑satellite Leo deadline, citing launch bottlenecks despite a $10 billion investment and a...
NNSA Eyes Human-Machine Teaming to Boost Mission Efficiency
The National Nuclear Security Administration is integrating artificial intelligence into its core missions through human‑machine teaming, using predictive analytics to improve equipment maintenance and cybersecurity. This approach shifts personnel from routine monitoring to higher‑value decision‑making. Simultaneously, NNSA is advancing a...