Cricketer Riyan Parag Backs Industrial Solutions Startup Proxgy
Cricketer Riyan Parag has invested roughly ₹2 crore (about $240,000) in industrial‑tech startup Proxgy, joining backers Ajinkya Rahane, Nikhil Kamath, Peyush Bansal and Suhail Sameer. Proxgy, founded in 2020, creates IoT‑enabled hardware and AI‑driven software to boost safety and efficiency for blue‑collar workers. The fresh capital will support product development and scaling across India’s industrial sectors. This investment follows a $3 million Series A round announced last December.
Mikko Lavanti on How Nokia Charts the Path to the AI-Native Future
At Mobile World Congress 2026, Nokia unveiled its first agentic AI‑powered network slicing demo, drawing more than 150 visiting teams. The company outlined a rollout plan that moves from pilots to live operator trials for 5G‑Advanced slicing, bundled with its...
Shoptalk Vegas Day 1: Gap, Sephora and Wayfair Discuss Retail in the Age of AI
The 2026 Shoptalk Spring conference in Las Vegas highlighted AI as the central driver of retail transformation. Sephora unveiled a dedicated ChatGPT app to deliver conversational, personalized shopping experiences. Gap announced a partnership with Bold Metrics to use AI for...
Acumatica Targets Supply Chain Volatility With AI Workflows, Shop Floor Precision
Acumatica unveiled its 2026 R1 release, adding AI Studio—a no‑code framework for building AI‑driven workflows—alongside a Shop Floor Kiosk and enhanced omnichannel commerce tools. The upgrades target manufacturers, distributors and retailers coping with volatile demand and fragmented supply chains. Market...
Tech Update: Renaissance Unveils AI Upgrade to Its Member Platform
Renaissance, an independent agency network, launched a major AI‑enabled upgrade to its member platform, branding it the only fully integrated AI ecosystem for independent agencies. The redesign unifies data, workflows, carrier partnerships and growth services into a single, role‑based interface...
America’s New 911 Drone Is Always Ready
Police departments across the United States are scaling Drone‑as‑First‑Responder (DFR) programs, but many current drones suffer from short flight times, limited range, and connectivity gaps. BRINC’s new Guardian drone tackles these issues with an automated battery‑swap dock that delivers up...
3DMakerpro Lowers the Barrier to LiDAR-Based Metrology
3DMakerpro introduced Raven, an entry‑level LiDAR scanner that dramatically reduces cost and complexity compared with traditional metrology systems. The handheld device delivers up to 2 cm accuracy at 10 m, a 50 m detection range, and captures roughly 150 000 points per second. Weighing...
Renishaw Introduces True-Absolute Multi-DoF Encoder System for High-Performance Motion Control
Renishaw has launched a new multi-degree-of-freedom optical encoder system that delivers true‑absolute position measurement across up to six axes. The solution pairs RXMA30 1.5D scales with RESOLUTE™ absolute readheads, providing direct X and Y measurement without homing and enabling real‑time...
Kubernetes Release Cycles and Vendor Support Harbor Freedoms–And Sacrifices
Kubernetes remains the industry‑standard container orchestrator, but its upstream releases are followed by a vendor‑specific "lag gap" of two to seven months before becoming generally available on platforms. Hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP typically ship new versions within...
DJI’s Latest Deals Make Shaky Phone Footage a Thing of the Past
DJI has slashed prices on its Osmo Mobile gimbal lineup, offering the Osmo Mobile 8 for $126 (down from $149), the 7P for $99 (down from $129) and the 7 for $59 (down from $75). All three models provide 3‑axis...
Fluxa Launches to Enhance Payment Processing for UK SMEs
Fluxa, a UK‑based card payment processor founded by Paul Jones in 2026, launched a platform offering a flat 1.8% transaction fee for online merchants. The service includes a fully hosted checkout with Apple Pay, Google Pay and 3D Secure, plus a real‑time dashboard...
NASA Revives Next-Generation Flagship Earth-Observing Missions
NASA has revived its next‑generation flagship Earth‑observing program, renaming the Atmosphere Observing System to Falcon and the Surface Biology and Geology study to Eagle. The two‑satellite Eagle mission will include a high‑resolution spectrometer costing up to $310 million and a thermal...
Amity’s US$100M Raise Signals Southeast Asia’s AI Coming of Age
Thai AI group Amity announced a $100 million Series D round, the biggest generative‑AI raise in Southeast Asia, bringing its total capital to about $160 million. The funding backs a revenue run‑rate that has topped $100 million, driven largely by European operations, and fuels...
Zepto Rolls Out Pay Later Facility
Zepto has launched a suite of in‑app features, headlined by a new Pay Later option that provides up to Rs 10,000 (≈ $120) of interest‑free credit for 15 days. The service is embedded in the app, enabling one‑tap checkout without OTPs or...
Trump’s New Science Panel Is Stuffed with High-Tech Billionaires
President Donald Trump announced a new President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) dominated by high‑tech billionaires and AI specialists, naming 13 members with only one academic scientist. The roster includes Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Lisa...
7 Best Inventory Management Software in 2026
TechRepublic’s 2026 roundup identifies the top inventory management platforms for businesses of all sizes, from enterprise‑grade NetSuite to free‑tier Zoho and Odoo. The guide highlights pricing structures, core features such as demand planning, multi‑location tracking, and API/webhook support, and rates...
Gulf Business Hits Refresh with Website Overhaul
Motivate Media Group has relaunched Gulf Business with a faster, AI‑enabled website that integrates video, podcasts, newsletters and a continuous newsfeed. The overhaul, timed with the title’s 30th anniversary, emphasizes mobile performance, SEO and accessibility for senior GCC decision‑makers. Early...
Why Most Cisco Partners Leave Money on the Table at Renewal Time
Cisco partners often wait until an Enterprise Agreement (EA) is about to expire before reviewing usage, support status, and pricing, turning renewals into reactive negotiations. While 90% of Cisco EAs renew globally, many partners leave margin on the table because...
HR Perspectives by Shikha Saxena: “The Real Challenge with AI Adoption Is Not Technology—It Is Perception”
Shikha Saxena argues that the biggest obstacle to AI adoption in healthcare HR is employee perception, not the technology itself. She emphasizes hiring for learning agility, curiosity and resilience rather than static technical skills, and stresses that well‑being is a...
Trace Unites ALS Teams Behind a Target That Could Broaden Treatment Access
Trace Neuroscience, launched Nov 2024, is developing an antisense drug, TRCN‑1023, to restore UNC13A protein function in ALS patients. The target emerged from parallel discoveries at UCL and Stanford, and the company plans intrathecal delivery and biomarker‑guided trials. Leveraging lessons...
Prospecting Questions You Need to Ask Early: Part II
Prospecting success hinges on asking tough, early‑stage questions that surface intent. The article adds seven critical queries—covering past solutions, risk of inaction, timeline, historical processes, impact, personal and customer benefits—to differentiate qualified buyers from casual browsers. By probing these areas,...
Will Utah’s Proposed Ad Tax Survive in Court?
Utah lawmakers have passed a bill that taxes "targeted advertising"—digital ads that use individualized data profiles— and earmarks the proceeds for youth sports, literacy, mental‑health and foster‑care programs. Governor Spencer Cox has not yet signed the measure, and the state...
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Pulls Dollars From Search – People Aren’t Googling ‘Cream Cheese’
Philadelphia Cream Cheese, owned by Kraft Heinz, has halted paid search on Google, shifting roughly $495,000 of its digital spend to retail‑media networks and focusing on e‑commerce search placements. In 2025 the brand spent $31.8 million on U.S. digital ads, with...
Marketers Shift Growing Shares of Search Spending to GEO
Marketers are reallocating a growing share of search spend toward generative engine optimization (GEO) as AI reshapes how users discover brands. A Scribewise survey shows 55% of U.S. marketers now budget for GEO, with 70% assigning 11%‑20% of their search...
SMW Autoblok Mechatronic Grippers Feature High Gripping Forces
SMW Autoblok has expanded its MOTIACT line with the MX‑L 335 and MX‑L 520 long‑stroke mechatronic grippers, delivering up to 40 kN of gripping force and jaw strokes of 55 mm and 99 mm respectively. The grippers feature aluminium housings, integrated absolute position sensors, and...
Integrated Metrology Solution Powers Lights-Out Aerospace Production
Acutec Precision Aerospace equipped three DMG MORI NZX 2000 nine‑axis mill‑turn centers with an inline metrology cell that combines a Mitutoyo MiSTAR 555 CMM and a FANUC robotic arm. The system moves parts directly from machining to measurement, delivering inspection results...
Reddit’s New Shopping Ads Are a Play for Beauty Brands’ Business
Reddit unveiled new Dynamic Product Ads at Shoptalk 2026, featuring Collection Ads and Reddit‑specific overlays that embed shoppable tiles within community threads. The platform reports a 40% YoY rise in high‑intent shopping conversations and a 60% surge in beauty‑related purchase discussions....
ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026: JioStar Flags Low TV-Digital Ad Overlap, Strong Incremental Reach in BARC-Nielsen Data
JioStar released a BARC‑Nielsen study of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 showing that television and digital advertising audiences overlapped by less than ten percent. The low duplication indicates that integrated TV‑digital campaigns deliver substantial incremental reach, reaching distinct...
Hormuz Is a Warning: Australia’s Oil Problem Is Its Electrification Gap
Australia’s energy security hinges on closing a massive electrification gap, with only about 21.5% of final‑energy consumption supplied by electricity. Oil still powers 654 TWh of the nation’s energy mix, especially in transport, where just 1.5% of 489 TWh is electric. The...
Engie-Backed Offshore Wind Project Begins Seabed Investigations in Gippsland Zone
Ocean Winds, the joint venture of EDP Renewables and Engie, has launched a four‑month geophysical sonar survey for its 1.3 GW High Sea Wind offshore project in Victoria’s Gippsland zone. The study will map the seabed across a 150‑square‑kilometre area 76 km...
Australia’s New Military AI Policy Comes at a Crucial Time. The Challenge Is Turning It Into Practice
Australia’s Department of Defence has issued a new policy governing the use of artificial intelligence across all military functions, from chatbots to advanced general‑purpose models. The framework sets three core requirements: compliance with Australian law and international obligations, human accountability...
As Antibiotics Fail, a New Treatment Targets the Host, Not the Bacteria
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have demonstrated that a single dose of interferon‑gamma can “train” human macrophages to more effectively kill drug‑resistant bacteria such as MRSA and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The IFN‑γ‑trained cells undergo epigenetic reprogramming, rely on glutamine metabolism, and...
OpenAI Drops Sora AI Video Tool, Ends Planned $1 Billion Disney Deal
OpenAI announced it is shutting down Sora, its AI‑powered video generation tool, effectively terminating a planned three‑year, $1 billion partnership with The Walt Disney Company. The deal, which would have given Disney access to Sora and allowed OpenAI to tap Disney’s...
It’s Go Time: Historic Moon Mission Set for Lift-Off
Artemis II is set to launch around April 1, 2026, using NASA’s new Space Launch System for a ten‑day lunar flyby. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Jeremy Hansen—will be the first woman, person of colour and non‑American to...
This Tiny Implant, Smaller than a Grain of Salt, Can Read Your Brain
Cornell researchers have unveiled the microscale optoelectronic tetherless electrode (MOTE), a neural implant barely larger than a grain of salt. The 300 µm‑by‑70 µm device wirelessly transmits brain‑wave data via infrared light and has demonstrated chronic operation in awake mice for more...
Cancer Drug Can Treat Drug-Resistant Herpes, Too
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have repurposed the FDA‑approved cancer drug doxorubicin to combat drug‑resistant herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV‑1). Using their AI‑driven platform HerpDock, they identified doxorubicin’s ability to block the PI3K‑AKT‑mTOR pathway that the virus exploits,...
Gap Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Tools to Enhance Online Shopping
Gap Inc. announced AI‑driven enhancements for its online stores, adding Bold Metrics’ Agent Sizing Protocol for personalized fit guidance and supporting Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol to enable conversational purchases. The tools aim to eliminate sizing uncertainty, a key barrier to apparel e‑commerce, by delivering...
Behavioral Analytics in Fraud Detection: Spotlight on High-Risk Jurisdictions
Financial institutions are increasingly deploying behavioral analytics powered by AI and machine learning to pinpoint fraudulent activity across digital channels. By merging transaction data with historical fraud incidents, risk teams can assign behavior‑based risk scores and uncover hidden patterns. The...
More U.S. Homes Used LEDs Over Other Bulb Types For Indoor Lighting In 2024
The 2024 Residential Energy Consumption Survey shows that 90% of U.S. households now rely on LED bulbs for indoor lighting, with 37% using LEDs exclusively. LED adoption has surged from 4% in 2015 to 63% in 2024, while incandescent/halogen and...
Shark Tank Meets Military: Dragon's Lair Winner To Bring New Tech To The Battlefield
Two 82nd Airborne paratroopers have taken a modular drone case from a Dragon's Lair competition to production in just eight months. The lightweight, rigid case fits into rucksacks, shields drones on drop zones, and features quick‑deployment compartments. Development was accelerated...
Publicis vs TTD: Stop Crying Baby, It’s A Sign Of The Times
Publicis Groupe announced it will no longer recommend The Trade Desk after a third‑party audit alleged transparency failures, prompting The Trade Desk to defend its platform. Omnicom has launched its own audit, while WPP and Dentsu have already reduced reliance...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Series Makes AI Effortless – for Work and Play
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, embedding four AI agents—Galaxy AI, Bixby, Google Gemini, and Perplexity—to automate tasks across apps and streamline work and leisure. The Ultra model features a Snapdragon Elite Gen 5 processor delivering a 39% AI performance boost,...
GoGet Secures Gold Win for Best Recruitment Portal in Malaysia in 2025
GoGet clinched the gold award for Best Recruitment Portal at the 2025 HR Vendors of the Year Awards in Malaysia, outshining rivals with its rapid candidate matching and highly customizable solutions. The accolade underscores the platform’s ability to deliver talent...
DBT-Led Group Explores Using Post Office as Single High-Street Shopfront for Government Services and Digital Support
UK government, via a Department for Business and Trade (DBT)‑led cross‑government group, is examining whether the Post Office’s 11,600 branches could serve as a common physical front‑end for a range of state services. The consultation response identified three opportunities: consolidating...
Agentic AI and the Future of Threat Intelligence Operations - Sachin Jade - RSAC26 #2
At RSA 2026, Cyware’s Chief Product Officer Sachin Jade unveiled the company’s Agentic Fabric, an AI‑driven platform that embeds specialized agents into threat‑intelligence, detection‑engineering, and response workflows. The discussion highlighted how raw threat data can be transformed into actionable insights through STIX/TAXII...
Revolut and Nationwide Sharpen Swords in Battle to Bank Britain
Revolut has secured a full UK banking licence, positioning itself to directly challenge incumbent banks such as Lloyds. Nationwide, after acquiring Virgin Money, is gaining momentum, adding over 40,000 new customers in Q3 2025, while Lloyds continues to shed users,...
AL-S Pharma Tests How Far SOD1 Biology Extends Into Sporadic ALS
The article outlines BioCentury’s cookie policy, detailing the categories of cookies used on its website—strictly necessary, functional, marketing, advertising, and analytics. Each type is described in terms of purpose, activation status, and impact on user experience. The policy emphasizes that...
How A Small Rural Hospital Is Using AI to Catch Heart Disease Sooner
Wayne General Hospital in rural Mississippi has adopted Eko Health’s AI‑powered digital stethoscope, allowing clinicians to detect cardiac conditions such as atrial fibrillation, low ejection fraction and valvular disease in real time. The AI engine combines auscultation with ECG data...