How We Protected the UK and Space in February 2026
In February 2026 the UK National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC) logged 66 re‑entries, most of which were satellites, while collision alerts for UK‑licensed assets dropped to 2,117, the lowest figure of the year. The in‑orbit population rose to 33,165 objects, a net increase of 244 against the US Satellite Catalogue. No new fragmentation incidents were recorded, and space‑weather activity softened, with fewer geomagnetic storms and solar flares. All NSpOC warning and protection services remained fully operational throughout the month.
Scientists May Have Just Discovered a More Effective Hair Loss Treatment
Scientists introduced TH07, a topical blend of finasteride, minoxidil, and latanoprost, aimed at treating androgenetic alopecia. In a pilot trial of 34 men, the 23 participants receiving TH07 reported 52% dense hair growth and higher satisfaction versus groups using each...
Large Specialty Practice Uses Agentic AI to Strengthen Patient Engagement
Dermatology Partners, a large physician‑owned dermatology group, deployed EliseAI's agentic voice AI to handle its 2,000‑4,000 daily inbound calls. The system integrates with AdvancedMD and Modernizing Medicine EHR, allowing the AI to schedule appointments and capture simple clinical tasks. Early...
Nigerian Firms Embrace Kit-Based EV Assembly for Cost Savings
Nigerian firms are increasingly using kit‑based assembly to produce electric vehicles, with Saglev Micromobility partnering with China’s Dongfeng to build 18‑seat electric vans. The approach sidesteps high import duties on fully built EVs, making electric vans, minibuses and three‑wheelers more...
Swa Introduces Multi-Model AI Orchestration Platform
Swa Technology unveiled a multi‑model AI orchestration platform that unifies open‑source and commercial models under a single, secure interface, aiming to curb shadow AI in enterprises. The system automatically matches each user prompt to the model best suited for the...
Shein: ‘More than Six Hundred Sales Partners in Germany’
Shein reports more than six hundred German retailers have joined its marketplace, part of a broader network of thousands of sales partners across Europe. The Chinese fast‑fashion platform is leveraging new software integrations and a large logistics hub in Poland...
Automation, AI Reshape the Workforce
Randstad’s Workmonitor 2026 report, based on 1,752 workers, 55 employers and over a million job postings, finds AI adoption accelerating while worker confidence in technology plummets. While 98% of U.S. employers expect growth, only 55% of talent share that optimism,...
How Biometrics and QR Codes Will 'Kill the Clipboard'
CMS is piloting a new patient‑centric data exchange model that uses biometric authentication to unlock electronic health records and QR codes to transmit them securely. Amy Gleason, administrator at U.S. DOGE Service and CMS strategic advisor, outlined how the approach...
Amex Soups up Cards for Concur
American Express announced integration of its virtual‑card solution into SAP’s Concur expense management platform. The new capability lets corporate users generate single‑use card numbers, set spending limits and automatically reconcile transactions, initially rolling out to select U.S. customers with a...
Fire, EMS Departments Turn to Online Resale Market as Apparatus Costs Surge
Fire and EMS agencies are confronting soaring apparatus prices—often exceeding $1 million—and supply‑chain delays that can stretch delivery to five years. To offset costs and shorten acquisition cycles, many are turning to Garage, an online resale marketplace that connects departments nationwide...
27th Connected Banking Summit – North Africa, Egypt 2026 Powering Inclusive Digital Banking and Technology-Enabled Financial Infrastructure in North Africa
The 27th Connected Banking Summit convenes in Egypt in 2026, targeting inclusive digital banking and technology‑enabled financial infrastructure across North Africa. The agenda spotlights AI‑native payment solutions, exemplified by Pismo and Visa’s partnership with Vivi Money in Australia, and the...
Affirm Outlines Options if Economic Stress Rises
Affirm's CFO Rob O’Hare said the buy‑now, pay‑later lender could tighten its underwriting if U.S. economic stress intensifies, including dropping low‑margin loans, requiring down payments, and asking for more financial information. He emphasized these measures are hypothetical and that the...
Expedience Software Joins Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program to Deliver Copilot-Powered Proposal Automation in Microsoft Word
Expedience Software announced its entry into the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, linking its Word‑native proposal automation platform with Microsoft Copilot. The integration lets users draft, refine, and format complex RFP responses directly inside Microsoft Word while leveraging generative AI....
Cleavr Raises €1M to Develop an AI Solution for Accounts Receivable
Cleavr announced a €1 million funding round led by Kima Ventures and other investors to accelerate its AI‑driven accounts‑receivable platform. The solution automates reminders, reconciliation, dispute handling and multi‑channel communication, aiming to cut late‑payment losses for finance teams. Already deployed with...
AutoStore Launches CubeVerse and AutoStore Intelligence Platforms
AutoStore unveiled its Spring 2026 product suite, introducing the CubeVerse cloud platform and the AutoStore Intelligence suite powered by AI. The new tools unify system design, simulation, deployment, analytics and real‑time optimization, allowing existing robot grids to achieve higher throughput without...
Researchers Develop AI Framework Combining Expert Knowledge and Data to Accelerate Alloy Discovery
Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology unveiled an AI‑for‑Science framework that merges experimental alloy data, computational models, and expert knowledge extracted from scientific literature using large language models. The system fuses these evidence streams with Dempster‑Shafer theory,...
New Relationship Pairs Renon Batteries with Solis Inverters
Renon Power USA announced a partnership with Ginlong Solis to bundle its Xcellent Plus and ECube batteries with Solis hybrid inverters. The Xcellent Plus will pair with 9.6‑ to 16‑kW residential inverters, while the ECube will match 30‑ to 60‑kW commercial units....
Littlepay, Google, and Go-Ahead Launch Global First for Prepaid Transit Passes in Digital Wallets
Littlepay, Google and the Go‑Ahead Group have launched the world’s first prepaid transit passes that can be bought and used directly from Google Wallet on Brighton & Hove Buses. The solution uses Littlepay’s Card As Authority to Travel (CAATT) model,...
Embers Adrift Servers Are Back Up After Outage and Server Migration
Embers Adrift’s servers were down Tuesday after a catastrophic hardware failure, prompting the team to accelerate a planned migration. A brief 15‑minute rollback restored service, though activity between 3:00‑3:15 PM Central was lost. Players now need a small Steam patch to...
US Department of War Targets Open-Source CUs, DUs
The U.S. Department of War, through its FutureG programme, has become a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s Open Centralised Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) Ecosystem Foundation. OCUDU aims to create production‑ready, open‑source software stacks for Centralised Units (CUs) and Distributed...
NewSpace Systems Opens Africa’s Largest Commercial Space Hardware Manufacturing Facility
NewSpace Systems inaugurated a 5,200 m² manufacturing hub in Somerset West, South Africa, becoming the continent’s largest commercial space hardware facility. The plant features a 1,260 m² ISO‑14644‑1 cleanroom, six LEAN‑certified assembly lines, and dedicated labs for GNC components such as sun...
How Crumbl Leveraged CTV to Drive Mobile App Downloads
Crumbl’s inaugural connected‑TV campaign, run with Samsung Ads, delivered more than 16,000 mobile‑app downloads—213% above its goal—over a seven‑week period. The CTV‑to‑Mobile solution used machine‑learning to place ads across Samsung TV Plus, mastheads and other screen‑first environments. In the first week...
Viagogo Launches AI-Powered Tool for Artists, Teams, Venues
Viagogo unveiled Distribution Manager, an AI‑powered self‑serve platform that lets artists, sports teams and venues list official tickets directly on its global marketplace. The tool is built on Viagogo’s Open Distribution model, which has already driven an 84% year‑over‑year increase...
Why Most ERP Modernization Projects Die Before They Start
Food manufacturers recognize legacy ERP systems erode profitability, but most modernization projects stall before funding. The primary obstacle is translating operational pain points—such as manual workarounds and slow closes—into a concrete financial case that satisfies CFOs and boards. Without a...
Polish Air Traffic Authority Launches New Radars to Boost Detection
Poland's air traffic control agency PANSA activated two new radars on Thursday, one near Katowice and another near Pułtusk, to sharpen radiolocation data and operational security. The installations are part of a 1.4 billion‑zloty modernization program running from 2024 to 2029....
Fervo Energy Secures More Funding for Cape Station Geothermal Project
Fervo Energy has closed a $421 million non‑recourse debt package to fund the first phase of its Cape Station enhanced geothermal project in Utah. The financing includes a $309 million term loan, a $61 million tax‑credit bridge, and a $51 million letter of credit,...
Kale’s Isha Patel: Why Fan-Powered Marketing Works Better Than Average Influencer Campaigns
Isha Patel and Luis Molina founded Kale in 2021 to turn everyday customers into a scalable, trackable marketing channel. Leveraging insights from LinkedIn’s creator ecosystem, Kale offers a fan‑advocacy platform that rewards low‑friction content and provides real‑time analytics. The company’s...
Google DeepMind Hires New AI Chief Strategy Leader, Who Plans ‘To Develop AGI Safely To Empower Humans’
Google DeepMind has hired former Yale professor and Bridgewater chief scientist Jasjeet Sekhon as its new chief strategy officer. Sekhon will work directly with CEO Demis Hassabis to steer DeepMind’s roadmap toward safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). The move follows...
Mithril Launches Flexible Reservations, Recycling Idle GPU Time Into the Mithril Spot Service
Mithril introduced Flexible Reservations, a service that redirects idle GPU capacity from reserved workloads into its Spot marketplace. The model awards the original reservation holder recoverable compute credits for every hour their unused GPUs are utilized by other customers. Industry...
Sarepta Plans FDA Run for Duchenne Exon Skippers Despite Confirmatory Trial Failure
Sarepta Therapeutics will submit a supplemental NDA to the FDA seeking to convert the accelerated approvals of its Duchenne exon‑skippers Amondys 45 and Vyondys 53 into traditional approvals, despite the confirmatory ESSENCE trial failing to improve motor function. The company bolsters its...
ZipRecruiter Launches ChatGPT App for AI-Powered Job Discovery
ZipRecruiter has launched a dedicated app for ChatGPT, embedding its job‑search engine directly into the generative‑AI platform. Users can invoke the service with an @ziprecruiter command, specifying criteria such as salary, location, or remote flexibility, and receive real‑time listings from...
Industrialising the Challenge Process: AI in Operational Risk Scenario Analysis
Banks are moving operational risk scenario analysis from a regulatory back‑stop to a core forward‑looking tool for capital planning and resilience. Patrick Naim and Nedim Baruh argue that structured modelling—exposure, occurrence, impact (XOI)—turns narrative scenarios into parameterised loss generators. Yet...
US Intelligence Elevates AI as a Top Global Threat in New Report
The U.S. intelligence community’s 2026 Worldwide Threat Assessment elevates artificial intelligence to a top global threat, highlighting its use in combat and its strategic impact across adversary nations. The report stresses China as the most capable competitor, noting its large‑scale...
#paid Partners With Pinterest to Connect Brands With Consumers Through Creator-Led Campaigns
#paid has become an official execution partner for Pinterest’s Idea Ads, linking its creator‑brand matching technology and Handraise workflow with Pinterest’s creator ecosystem. The integration enables creators to self‑select campaigns and produce Idea Ads that blend organic inspiration with paid...
Exclusive-India's Proposal to Preload National ID App Aadhaar on Phones Faced Pushback
India’s UIDAI quietly asked the IT ministry to explore pre‑installing its Aadhaar biometric ID app on all smartphones sold in the country, a move championed as a way to boost accessibility. The proposal met immediate resistance from Apple, Samsung, Google...
Building the Military Health System’s AI Ecosystem
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has launched a five‑year data strategy to create a secure, interoperable AI ecosystem for the Military Health System. Partnering with Red Hat, DHA is building cloud‑native infrastructure, data lakes, and governance frameworks that can safely scale...
Upgrade to NCAA March Madness Live App Expands Multi-Game Viewing, Enhances Second-Screen Experience
The NCAA March Madness Live app receives its most substantial upgrade yet, adding true multi‑game viewing that lets fans stream two to four games at once across mobile, desktop, and connected devices. New lock‑screen alerts, integrated men’s and women’s bracket...
“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic
Recent investigations by The 74, Mother Jones and The New York Times reveal a surge of AI‑generated videos on YouTube that masquerade as educational content for children. Roughly 21 % of the platform’s feed now consists of low‑quality AI clips, with...
Constellation to Sell 4.4 GW of PJM Gas Power Assets to LS Power for $5B in Regulatory Divestiture
Constellation Energy agreed to sell five PJM gas‑fired plants totaling 4.4 GW to LS Power for about $5 billion, the largest divestiture required to clear antitrust concerns from its $26.6 billion acquisition of Calpine. The assets—Bethlehem, Hay Road, York 1, York 2 and Edge Moor—are priced at...
HR Tech Partnership Roundup
HR tech firms announced multiple strategic partnerships aimed at streamlining talent acquisition and workforce planning. Vidle.com integrated LaborEdge’s ATS, allowing staffing agencies to push job orders directly to its traveler platform. Workable earned LinkedIn and Indeed Platinum Partner status, reinforcing...
DevOps Anti-Patterns: What They Are and How to Avoid Them
The article outlines common DevOps anti‑patterns that undermine speed, quality, and collaboration, such as creating a dedicated DevOps team, over‑investing in tools, and inserting manual approvals into CI/CD pipelines. It highlights cultural pitfalls like blame‑oriented environments and misapplied microservices, as...
AI Shopping Gets Simpler with Universal Commerce Protocol Updates
Google announced updates to the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) that add optional Cart, Catalog, and Identity Linking capabilities, enabling AI shopping agents to add multiple items, fetch real‑time product data, and apply loyalty benefits. Retailers can customize which features to...
K2 to Launch Its First High-Powered Satellite for Space Compute
Space startup K2 Space is set to launch Gravitas, a two‑ton, 40‑meter satellite capable of generating 20 kW of electrical power, on a Falcon 9 before month‑end. Backed by $450 million in funding and a $3 billion valuation, the mission will carry 12 customer...
Plaintiff Sold Her Cell Phone After Litigation Commenced
Ms. Jennifer L. Hernandez sold her cell phone after filing a harassment suit, despite counsel’s warning to preserve electronically stored information (ESI). The court held that all five Rule 37(e) threshold requirements were met, finding her actions unreasonable and the missing...
Marketplace Briefing: Amazon Says Customers Make Three Times More Purchases Using Alexa+ on Devices than the Original Version
Amazon announced that its generative‑AI‑enhanced Alexa+ is prompting customers to make three times as many purchases as the original Alexa voice assistant. The upgraded assistant can handle complex, conversational requests, build shopping lists, place orders, and book reservations, moving beyond...
Anbernic's New PlayStation Vita Clone Is Launching Later This Month for Under $100, but There's a Catch
Anbernic is launching two Android handhelds, the RG Vita and RG Vita Pro, that mimic the classic PlayStation Vita form factor. Pre‑orders begin March 23 at $99.99 for the base model and $139.99 for the Pro, with a $10 price hike after...
Three Ways AI Can Help CSCOs Navigate Emerging Supply Chain Cost Pressures
AI is reshaping how chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) confront rising cost pressures by exposing hidden cost‑to‑serve drivers, enabling real‑time, SKU‑level optimization, and powering scenario modeling of geopolitical disruptions. By integrating siloed procurement, logistics and planning data, AI uncovers margin...
BEUMER and Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML Launch “Enterprise Lab”
BEUMER Group has entered a three‑year strategic partnership with Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML to launch an "Enterprise Lab" dedicated to mobile robotics. The lab, located at Fraunhofer’s Dortmund site, will host five full‑time researchers working alongside...
As AI Fuels In-Housing Surge, Agency Execs Take The Entrepreneurial Path
Artificial intelligence is accelerating a wave of in‑house creative adoption, as brands seek tighter data control and faster production cycles. A recent NewtonX/Adweek survey finds 32% of brands plan to handle nearly all creative internally within the next 12 months,...
Queclink Launches High-Spec Trailer Tracking Solution
Queclink Wireless Solutions announced the GV651, a hard‑wired trailer tracker built for harsh environments. The device combines LTE Cat 1 with 2G fallback, dual‑band GNSS, and an optional external antenna for reliable positioning. Its IP67/IP69K‑rated housing, reinforced connector, and 5800 mAh backup...