Why Vintage Sellers Are Taking Resale Live
Vintage resale sellers are shifting from static listings to livestream auctions, with Whatnot emerging as a primary platform. Stephania Garcia’s Costura channel grew annual revenue from $25,000 to over $250,000 by hosting multiple weekly live shows. Whatnot’s fashion category now ranks among its largest, supported by a $225 million Series F round and 20 million users. Competing platforms like TikTok Shop and eBay are also expanding live‑shopping features for vintage and luxury items.
Gem AI: 10x Growth and What’s Next
Gem announced that its AI recruiting platform has delivered a 10‑fold increase in AI revenue, a 7‑fold rise in AI customers, and an 18‑fold jump in monthly AI‑assisted hires over the past year. The suite now includes real‑time search, a...
Stryker Breach Puts IT Leaders On Alert. Here’s How To Stay Safe
Medical‑technology giant Stryker disclosed an Iran‑linked cyberattack that compromised its Microsoft Intune mobile device management (MDM) platform, forcing remote wipes of thousands of laptops and smartphones worldwide. The breach, claimed by the Handala collective, showed no ransomware but highlighted the...
Estate Agents Expect AI to Transform How Buyers Find Homes
Estate agents recognize AI’s potential but see limited current impact, with only 7% reporting improved listing visibility. A GetAgent survey reveals 84% expect AI‑powered search to become the primary way buyers find homes, while 88% warn that firms ignoring AI...
Craveable Brands Has One Eye on AI, and the Other on the Project Failure Rate
Craveable Brands, the franchisor behind Red Rooster, Oporto, Chicken Treat and Chargrill Charlie’s, is exploring AI for customer loyalty and franchisee support while demanding proven ROI from vendors due to a 95% AI project failure rate. The company has unified...
Teen Discovers 1.5 Million Unidentified Space Objects Based On NASA Data
Matteo Paz, a high‑school student at Caltech’s Planet Finder Academy, built an AI system to scan NASA’s NEOWISE infrared archive. The algorithm, dubbed VARnet, processed over 200 billion detections and uncovered roughly 1.5 million previously unidentified celestial objects, ranging from binary stars...
Moglix Appoints Animesh Srivastava as Chief Technology Officer to Lead Technology and AI Charter
Moglix, a leading Asian B2B commerce platform, named Animesh Srivastava as its new Chief Technology Officer. Srivastava will steer the company’s technology charter, scaling the AI‑driven operating system Cognilix across global markets. The move comes as Moglix leverages its $40 billion...
Australia May Ban Infant Formula Advertising. Here’s What the Online Ads Actually Say
The Australian government is considering legislation to ban infant‑formula advertising as the voluntary marketing agreement expires in February 2025. Recent analysis identified 158 online ads that use health‑boosting claims to tap parental anxiety, despite breastfeeding rates falling to only 37 percent by...
New Relic to Launch Japanese Data Center to Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence
New Relic announced it will open its first Japanese data center in Tokyo, slated for July 2026. The facility will host data collection, storage and processing domestically, addressing strict data‑residency and latency requirements of Japanese enterprises. By localizing its observability platform,...
Huggies Puts Priceless Luxury Items in the Line of Fire in ‘Expensive Sh*t’ Teaser via McCann NZ + NY
Huggies, together with McCann New York and McCann New Zealand, launched the “Expensive Sh*t” campaign to showcase the blow‑out protection of its Little Snugglers diapers. The stunt features a live‑streamed hour where eighteen newborns crawl over half a million dollars of designer...
Burning Plastic Isn’t Renewable: Rethinking Waste & Power In Hawaii
The H‑POWER waste‑to‑energy plant on Oʻahu generates about 340 GWh annually, roughly 4‑5% of the island’s electricity, but emits ~0.88 tCO₂e per MWh—comparable to coal. Its feedstock is 14% plastic and up to 30% recyclable material, creating significant fossil‑carbon emissions. Solar PV...
Summit Announces AirLux Studio Signaling
Summit Technology Group unveiled AirLux Studio Signaling, a network‑based on‑air light replacement that uses PoE‑powered touchscreen displays. The platform integrates natively with Axia Livewire consoles, automatically reflecting status cues such as On‑Air, Recording, or Production in Progress. A centralized web...
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SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Mar 10, 2026
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call highlighted four strategic challenges: centralizing internal meeting knowledge using vector‑database RAG, optimizing Facebook lookalike audience spend, selecting initial European markets for a B2B ad platform, and evaluating overseas acquisition targets. Participants recommended tools such as...
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SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Mar 11, 2026
The SaasRise Mastermind on March 11, 2026 delivered a deep‑dive into practical growth levers for early‑stage SaaS firms. It emphasized installing Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and Bing pixels to retarget visitors, while pairing paid ads with cold‑email outreach to secure the...
Catalyst Announces Integration with FirstNet Fusion From AT&T
Interoperability provider Catalyst Communications announced that its Catalyst Dispatch platform will be integrated into AT&T’s FirstNet Fusion MCX ecosystem, the next‑generation public‑safety broadband solution. The integration delivers native 3GPP‑compliant dispatch with built‑in LMR interworking, allowing dispatchers to operate across legacy...
Free E-Bike Lock-and-Charge Hubs Roll Out on Hawke’s Bay Trails
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, alongside Napier and Hastings councils, has launched free Locky Dock lock‑and‑charge stations on key trail locations. Backed by MBIE’s Ministry of Tourism funding and delivered with Big Street Bikers, the hubs let riders secure and charge...
To Make AI Safe, Put Women and Girls at the Heart of the Technology
In February, Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner co‑signed a statement with 60 overseas organisations condemning the surge of deepfake misuse targeting women. The piece notes that 90% of non‑consensual deep‑fake pornography depicts women and that nudification AI apps...
Proofpoint Expands AI-Driven Security Strategy While Strengthening Partner Ecosystem
Proofpoint is expanding its AI‑driven security platform to protect the emerging human‑AI workspace, adding intent‑based detection for AI‑generated phishing and modernising threat investigation tools. The company now processes roughly six trillion messages daily, covering about 45 % of global enterprise email...
How ECDB Is Bringing Transaction-Level Transparency to Global E-Commerce Trends
ECDB, founded in 2022, delivers transaction‑level e‑commerce market intelligence by processing more than 1 billion purchases each month—about 1‑2% of global online sales. Its platform normalises and enriches this data to provide near‑real‑time visibility across categories, retailers and markets. Retailers using...
Meta Disables 150,000 Accounts in Global Sting on Southeast Asian Scam Centres
Meta disabled over 150,000 accounts linked to Southeast Asian scam centres after a joint operation led by Thailand’s Royal Thai Police, the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department. The crackdown resulted in 21 arrests and highlighted the sophisticated, multilingual fraud...
The Post-Capacity Era of Satellite Connectivity
Novaspace’s eighth Capacity Pricing Trends report declares a Post‑Capacity Era for satellite connectivity, where bandwidth is no longer the primary differentiator. Starlink’s sub‑$0.30 per GB pricing is driving a structural decline in capacity costs and forcing the industry to compete...
Pentagon Seeks System to Ensure AI Models Work as Planned
The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are issuing an Area of Interest for a modular "harness" that can evaluate any AI model against mission‑specific benchmarks. The system must test isolated AI performance, human‑AI team outcomes,...
IBM, Signal, and Threema Partner to Fortify Messaging Against Quantum Threats
IBM researchers have teamed up with Signal and Threema to embed post‑quantum cryptography into their messaging platforms. The partnership pivots from classical elliptic‑curve schemes to NIST‑2024 PQC standards, tackling both content and metadata protection. IBM proposes a decentralized gatekeeper model...
Logitech Launches New ‘Charger Not Needed’ Campaign for Light-Powered Keyboard via UMM
Logitech ANZ, together with agency UMM, has launched a billboard campaign in Sydney promoting its new Signature Slim Solar+ keyboard, which runs without a charger by harvesting any light source. The ads, displayed at Wynyard and Town Hall stations, highlight...
Estate Agents to Earn Commission From Out-of-Area Leads Under New Agreement
Homeflow has partnered with the Relocation Agent Network (RAN) to launch Homeflow Referrals, a one‑click add‑on to its Lead Manager that lets estate agents refer out‑of‑area enquiries to nearby RAN members and earn a share of the commission if the...
RIKEN and IBM Demonstrate Quantum-Centric Supercomputing at Scale
RIKEN and IBM have executed a closed‑loop hybrid workflow that couples the full capacity of Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer with an on‑premises IBM Quantum Heron processor. The integration enabled the largest and most accurate quantum chemistry simulation to date, targeting a...
2degrees Introduces Blue Chameleon to Show Kiwis Why Turning Blue Pays Off via TBWA\NZ
2degrees has launched a new integrated campaign featuring a blue chameleon to promote its "Fighting for Fair" platform and encourage Kiwis to switch for cost savings. The 60‑second hero film, directed by Matt Devine and enhanced with ALT VFX, follows...
What ChatGPT Has to Do with Robots
Robotics is entering a new era as artificial intelligence, especially large neural networks, merges with physical machines to create embodied AI capable of handling novelty. Traditional robots excel at repetitive, well‑defined tasks, but recent breakthroughs allow them to perceive, decide,...
Dementia Telehealth Company Isaac Health Adding Health Systems to Partner Mix
Isaac Health, a telehealth platform for brain health and dementia, announced a partnership with NYU Langone Health, adding a major health‑system channel to its primarily payer‑focused model. The collaboration creates an integrated referral pathway that combines virtual specialty care with...
Swarco Announces €24m Contract with Austrian Motorway Operator Asfinag
Swarco secured a €24 million long‑term contract with Austrian motorway operator Asfinag to upgrade the country’s variable message signage. Over the next ten years the company will install and service up to 2,100 LED displays, with the first units rolling out...
JIJ Europe Collaborates with ORCA Computing, Bp, and NQCC on Energy Optimization
JIJ Europe Ltd., together with ORCA Computing, bp and the National Quantum Computing Centre, has launched a SparQ‑funded project to validate a quantum‑classical hybrid workflow for the Unit Commitment problem in power generation scheduling. The approach decomposes large mixed‑integer linear...
Australians Taking Longer to Buy Cars as AI Becomes Major Influence
Australia’s Car Buyer Report 2026 shows the vehicle purchase journey is stretching, with 63% of shoppers backtracking and 34% pausing their search. Cost‑of‑living pressures are shifting priorities toward value, making “good value for money” the top driver across generations. For...
Motorola Solutions Connects Vic Search and Rescue Dog Orgs to Radio Network
Motorola Solutions donated APX 8000 portable two‑way radios to Australian Search and Rescue K9 and Search and Rescue Dogs Australia, linking them to Victoria's state radio network. The equipment enables the volunteer dog teams to communicate securely with police, ambulance and fire...
Vivid Seats Inc (SEAT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Vivid Seats reported a sharp decline in Q3 2025, with Marketplace Gross Order Value down 29% YoY to $618 million and revenue falling 27% to $136 million. A leadership change placed CFO Lawrence C. Fey as CEO and interim CFO Ted Pikus,...
‘Einstein‘ Bot Sharpens Debate over AI in the Classroom
On 23 February, start‑up Companion released Einstein, an AI bot that could access learning platforms, watch lectures, complete quizzes and submit assignments on behalf of students. The tool sparked immediate outrage from educators who labeled it a cheating device, prompting...
G-III Apparel Group Ltd (GIII) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
G‑III Apparel Group reported FY2021 net sales of $2.06 billion, a 35% decline year‑over‑year, with Q4 revenue falling 30% to $526 million. Wholesale sales dropped 23% in the quarter but gross margin improved to 35.5%, while the retail segment contracted sharply after...
Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes Retires – Where to Go From Here
The Kubernetes community announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX controller, with best‑effort maintenance ending in March 2026 and no further security updates thereafter. Fastly Security customers must decide between short‑term mitigations—such as a commercial ingress controller or Chainguard’s maintained fork—and...
How to Use GitLab Container Virtual Registry with Docker Hardened Images
GitLab’s Container Virtual Registry acts as a pull‑through cache for Docker Hub, Docker Hardened Images (dhi.io), Microsoft Container Registry, Quay and internal registries. It consolidates authentication to GitLab, caches images on the first pull and serves subsequent pulls locally, cutting...
Aemetis Inc (AMTX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Aemetis reported Q2 2025 revenue of $52.2 million, up $9.3 million thanks to resumed biodiesel shipments to India. The company highlighted a 30% boost in dairy RNG output, seven CARB‑approved low‑carbon pathways, and a surge in California LCFS credit prices to about...
PagerDuty Inc (PD) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
PagerDuty reported Q3 revenue of $125 million, a 5% year‑over‑year increase, and ARR of $497 million, up 3%. Non‑GAAP operating margin surged to 29% from 21% a year earlier, while GAAP net income reached $160 million aided by a one‑time tax benefit. The...
Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Nektar Therapeutics reported strong Q4 2020 results, highlighting robust progress on its cytokine platform. The IL‑2 agonist BEMPEG demonstrated a median progression‑free survival of 30.9 months in melanoma and is now enrolled in six registrational trials across melanoma, renal, bladder,...
Firms Predict an AI Productivity Boom Is Coming
A new cross‑country survey of over 5,000 senior executives shows that 69% of firms in the US, UK, Germany and Australia are already using AI, with the United States leading at 78%. While AI has had virtually no impact on...
AI-Underwriting,-a-New-Generation
Edge Focus CEO Elliott Lorenz discussed a new generation of AI underwriting that transforms asset‑backed finance. By applying advanced machine‑learning algorithms to securitisation, lenders can more accurately price and structure credit for esoteric assets such as royalties, aviation leases, and...
Daily Briefing: Vaccine-Carrying Mosquitoes Could Inoculate Bats Against Rabies
Researchers have engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to carry vaccine antigens in their saliva, successfully inoculating bats against rabies and Nipah viruses in laboratory experiments. The mosquitoes were fed vaccine‑laden blood, then transmitted the immunogen when they fed on or were...
Enable Intelligent Insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server
Red Hat introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Satellite as a Technology Preview, allowing large language models (LLMs) to query Satellite’s RHEL inventory via REST APIs. The server runs as a container, authenticates with a personal access token, and...
DNA Origami Vaccine Rivals mRNA Shots While Being Easier to Store and Manufacture
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Dana‑Farber unveiled DoriVac, a DNA origami‑based vaccine platform that delivers antigens and adjuvants on a self‑folding nanostructure. In pre‑clinical mouse studies and a human lymph‑node‑on‑a‑chip model, DoriVac generated antibody and T‑cell responses comparable to...
How 'Edutainment' Is Changing Learning Behaviors
A new K12 survey of over 1,000 parents and teachers finds that YouTube, TikTok and similar creator‑driven platforms have become a major supplemental learning ecosystem, with 73% of respondents saying their children use these videos to review school topics. Students...
Development of Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Pinned on US Military Contractor
U.S. defense contractor L3Harris, through its Trenchant surveillance‑tech division, was identified as a developer of the Coruna iOS exploit kit. Former employees disclosed that the kit, comprising roughly two dozen components originally built for a government surveillance client, has been...
Iran War to Escalate US Organizations' Cyber Risk
The escalating U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran is expected to heighten cyber threats against U.S. public finance issuers, according to Fitch Ratings. Hacktivist and state‑backed actors may increase DDoS, ransomware, and data‑wiping attacks targeting critical infrastructure. Municipalities, which traditionally lag in...
NZ Businesses Report Surge in AI-Related Security Incidents
A Kordia survey of nearly 250 New Zealand firms with 50+ employees shows a sharp rise in AI‑related security incidents. Shadow AI now ranks among the top three cyber risks for 24% of respondents, up from 16% a year earlier. Attacks...