RocketReach Pricing Explained: Plans & Costs 2026
RocketReach’s pricing structure is split between Individual and Team plans, with monthly rates ranging from $80 to $300 per user for individuals and $83 to $207 per user for teams when billed annually. The service operates on a credit‑based model, charging $0.30‑$0.45 per additional lookup, while higher‑tier plans unlock mobile numbers, integrations, and advanced analytics. Enterprise options offer volume‑based pricing and unlimited lookups, but contract terms and cancellation procedures can be opaque. Prospects should scrutinize seat counts, credit allowances, and renewal policies before committing.
Perion’s AI Agent Outmax Now Available for TikTok, Delivering up to 25% Greater Media Performance in Early Results
Perion Network announced the launch of its Outmax AI agent on TikTok, reporting up to a 25% lift in media performance during early trials. The integration brings Perion’s AI‑native infrastructure to TikTok’s 1.6 billion‑user ecosystem, allowing advertisers to move beyond platform‑standard...
Are We Facing an AI Nightmare?
AI‑doom narratives have surged, amplified by Citrini’s forecast that AI could eliminate most white‑collar jobs by 2028, prompting market volatility. Raghuram Rajan argues that historical adoption frictions suggest a slower, more nuanced rollout. He identifies a policy vacuum around large‑scale,...
AirData Launches Dedicated Public Safety Program for Law Enforcement, Fire, and Emergency Response Agencies Worldwide
AirData, the world’s leading drone fleet management platform, has unveiled a dedicated Public Safety Program aimed at law‑enforcement, fire and emergency response agencies across 60 regions. The service promises a guided, self‑serve onboarding that can activate an agency’s account in...
Japan Cloud ERP Market Growth Propelled by Digital Transformation, AI
Japan’s cloud ERP market is projected to grow at a 20.1% compound annual rate through 2032, positioning the country to capture roughly one‑third of global demand. Government‑backed digital transformation programs and subsidies are accelerating adoption across manufacturing, IT, telecom, finance...
U.S. Safety Agency Seeks Comments on Zoox Petition to Deploy Steering Wheel-Less Robotaxis
U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a public comment period on Amazon‑owned Zoox’s petition to operate up to 2,500 steering‑wheel‑free robotaxis. Zoox seeks exemptions from eight federal vehicle‑safety standards designed for human‑driven cars, arguing its purpose‑built autonomous...
A Satellite Crashes Home a Bit Too Soon
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A re‑entered Earth’s atmosphere on March 10, 2026, ending a 14‑year mission that was originally slated to last until 2034. Intensified solar activity during Solar Cycle 25 heated and expanded the upper atmosphere, increasing drag and accelerating the satellite’s...
AI Data Centers Are Chugging Our Water at an Alarming Rate
A University of California, Riverside study warns that U.S. AI data centers could need up to 1.45 billion gallons of water per day by 2030, matching the consumption of a major city. Peak cooling for a single state‑of‑the‑art facility can exceed...
NVIDIA Sets March 31 Launch for DLSS 4.5 Dynamic MFG
NVIDIA announced that DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation will be released on March 31, 2026, targeting GeForce RTX 50 series owners. The new mode replaces the static frame‑generation multiplier with a real‑time adaptive system that reacts to scene complexity. Alongside the dynamic...
Cloud Attackers Now Prefer Vulnerability Exploits Over Credentials, Google Cloud Finds
Google Cloud’s H1 2026 Threat Horizons Report reveals a marked shift in attacker tactics, with software‑vulnerability exploits overtaking credential‑based attacks as the primary entry method into cloud environments. Third‑party vulnerabilities accounted for 44.5% of initial accesses in H2 2025, up from 2.9%...
Automate CRM Data Hygiene with ETL Pipelines
Clean, reliable data is the foundation of any effective CRM, yet most organizations watch their records degrade as leads flow in, updates occur, and integrations sync. Manual de‑duplication and field fixes are slow, error‑prone, and unsustainable at scale. Leveraging ETL...
159 – the Three-Digit Number that Could Stop You From Being Scammed
The three‑digit hotline 159, launched by Stop Scams UK in 2021, gives UK consumers a fast way to verify suspicious banking calls or texts. It links callers to the fraud teams of more than 99% of retail bank accounts, and over...
IRONSCALES Unveils 3 Targeted AI Agents to Boost Preemptive Email Security
IRONSCALES’ Winter 2026 release adds three specialized AI agents—Red Teaming, Phishing SOC, and Phishing Simulation—to shift its email security platform from reactive to proactive protection. The agents follow an anticipate‑investigate‑educate framework, scanning external assets, automating Level‑2 forensic analysis, and delivering OSINT‑driven...
AI Causing Information Credibility Fatigue
A PANBlast survey of 1,000 U.S. adults reveals a growing "AI credibility fatigue" as 66% of respondents feel exhausted constantly verifying AI‑generated content. Fatigue is especially acute among younger users, with 80% of Gen Z and 76% of Millennials reporting the...
The State of AI & Communications Report: From Adoption to Authority
Ragan’s Center for AI Strategy released its first benchmarking report, showing that AI experimentation is now near‑universal among communications teams as of March 2026. While AI is accelerating content production, the study finds a widening gap between usage and formal integration,...
GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps
Electronic warfare near Iran is jamming and spoofing GPS signals, causing delivery and navigation apps to misplace drivers and inflate travel times. The interference stems from low‑cost jammers and sophisticated spoofers that either drown out satellite signals or broadcast false...
Kochava Expands Certified Partners Programme
Kochava has broadened its Certified Partners Programme, adding LG Ad Solutions, InMobi, Digital Turbine, Jampp, Adikteev and AppNext to the roster that already includes Meta, Google Ads, Snapchat, TikTok, Liftoff and YouAppi. The programme, launched in December 2025, certifies partners...
Meta Hikes Fees for Advertisers to Cover Europe's Digital Taxes
Meta Platforms will begin charging advertisers a "location fee" to offset Europe’s digital services taxes, starting July 1. The fee mirrors each country’s tax rate—3% in France, Italy and Spain; 5% in Austria and Turkey; and 2% in the U.K.—and...
YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children
A New York Times probe of over 1,000 YouTube Shorts reveals that roughly 40 percent of videos recommended to toddlers are AI‑generated, often masquerading as educational alphabet or animal lessons. The platform’s algorithm favors these low‑cost, hyper‑realistic clips, pushing them ahead of...
Superior Credit Union Renews Partnership with Mahalo Banking
Superior Credit Union has renewed its long‑term partnership with Mahalo Banking, extending the use of Mahalo’s Thoughtful Banking® platform. The renewal follows measurable gains in operational efficiency and a steady rise in online banking registrations. Mahalo’s core‑centric architecture delivers real‑time...
Google Adds Automatic End Screens to Video Ads
Google Ads is rolling out automatic end screens that attach an interactive card to the end of eligible in‑stream video ads. The feature pulls app name, icon, price and install link from campaign data and is enabled by default for...
Chapman Freeborn Signs up R-BAG Group
Chapman Freeborn has appointed R‑BAG Group as its General Sales Agent for cargo charter services across Eastern Europe, effective March 1, excluding Poland where it retains a dedicated team. The partnership is designed to deepen market penetration and improve customer support...
Commercial Space Law Takes Center Stage at DC Moot Court
The American Space Law Foundation will host its inaugural moot court in Washington, D.C., on March 20‑21, where law students will argue a realistic commercial space law dispute. The hypothetical case involves Interra LLC, a fictional megaconstellation operator, challenging an...
Nova Scotia Shoots for a Renewable Grid by 2030
Nova Scotia has pledged to source 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2030, driving a massive build‑out of wind and solar capacity. The province will retire its remaining coal plants while keeping gas turbines operational to provide rotating inertia,...
Fortinet Enhances SecOps with Cloud SOC, AI Automation, and Managed Services
Fortinet unveiled a suite of SecOps upgrades, highlighted by the preview of FortiSOC—a cloud‑delivered service that fuses analytics, SIEM, SOAR and threat intel into a single platform. The company also expanded its FortiAI engine to deliver agentic automation that can...
New KadNap Botnet Hijacks ASUS Routers to Fuel Cybercrime Proxy Network
A new botnet named KadNap has infected roughly 14,000 ASUS routers and other edge devices since August 2025, forming a peer‑to‑peer network that communicates via a custom Kademlia Distributed Hash Table protocol. The decentralized architecture makes its command‑and‑control infrastructure harder...
A Dose of Psilocybin Helps Smokers Quit in New Study
Researchers at Johns Hopkins found a single dose of psilocybin dramatically increased smoking cessation rates compared with nicotine patches. In a randomized trial of 82 smokers, 17 of 41 participants who received psilocybin remained abstinent after six months versus four...
With New 'VIA' Strategy, General Dynamics IT Evolves How It Will Pursue Growth
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has booked $18.3 billion in new contracts since its 2023 technology‑investment rollout and is now launching the VIA (Vision, Innovation, Acceleration) strategy. The new approach builds on a $1.2 billion capital infusion to expand advanced‑manufacturing and digital...
First-of-Its-Kind Vaccine Protects Children From Deadly E. Coli Infections
Scientists announced ETVAX, the first oral vaccine that targets enterotoxigenic *E. coli* (ETEC) in children, after a large‑scale trial in The Gambia. The study involved 4,936 infants aged six to 18 months and demonstrated a 48% reduction in moderate‑to‑severe ETEC...
Get MS Office 2024 and a New Surface SE Laptop Bundle for $260
Microsoft is offering a bundled deal that pairs a lifetime license for Office 2024 Home & Business with an open‑box Surface SE 11.6‑inch laptop for $259.99, a 58% discount off the combined MSRP of $628.98. The Office suite includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and...
An AI Agent Broke Into McKinsey’s Internal Chatbot and Accessed Millions of Records in Just 2 Hours
Security startup CodeWall demonstrated that an autonomous AI agent could infiltrate McKinsey's internal generative‑AI platform, Lilli, in roughly two hours. The breach gave the agent read‑and‑write access to 46.5 million chatbot messages and 728 000 confidential client files. The exploit leveraged unauthenticated...
German Consumers Trust Banks More than Government to Safeguard Personal Data From AI Algorithms : Research
Solaris' poll of 4,000 German online‑banking users finds banks are the most trusted institution for safeguarding AI‑processed personal data, with 45.4% preferring banks over insurers and government. Trust is strongest among 18‑29‑year‑olds, where 51.5% rank banks highest. One‑third of respondents...
6 Best Robot Lawn Mowers That Make Yardwork Easy and Automated
The article reviews six top robot lawn mowers, highlighting categories such as best overall, best value, best multi‑season, best for large yards, most user‑friendly, and best remote control. Prices now range from $750 to $2,500, with rear‑wheel‑drive units covering flat...
Argentina Launches 700MW/2,800MWh BESS Tender
Argentina’s wholesale‑market operator CAMMESA announced a new battery energy storage system (BESS) tender seeking 700 MW of capacity, equivalent to 2.8 GWh of four‑hour storage. The auction opens nationwide, covering key nodes in NOA, NEA, Centro, Litoral, Cuyo and Buenos Aires (excluding the...
New Coalition Forms to Address US Electricity Demand and Grid Underutilization
A new nonpartisan coalition called Utilise has been launched to improve the utilization of the United States electricity grid, which on average runs at only about 53 % of its capacity. The coalition’s founding members—among them Google, Tesla, Carrier, and Span—aim...
Intelligo Launches the Intelligo Compliance MCP Server, Bringing Deterministic Due Diligence Into Autonomous AI Investment Workflows
Intelligo announced the launch of its Compliance MCP Server, a new infrastructure layer that embeds deterministic due‑diligence into autonomous AI investment workflows used by limited partners. The MCP server delivers verifiable, auditable risk intelligence, enabling real‑time background checks, firm‑specific thresholds,...
Debian Decides Not to Decide on AI-Generated Contributions
Debian’s developers opened a discussion in February on whether to accept AI‑assisted contributions, drafting a general resolution that would require explicit disclosure and machine‑readable tags for any LLM‑generated code. The debate highlighted divergent views on terminology, licensing, onboarding, and the...
Robots, Cameras, and Lots of Data About Garbage: Inside the Recycling Industry's New Bet
The recycling sector is turning to AI‑driven robotics to solve the chronic sorting problem that leaves billions of recyclable dollars in landfills. Waste Management has committed more than $1.4 billion to automate its facilities, while startups like AMP claim their computer‑vision...
The Best Screen Recording Software in 2026
Zapier’s 2026 roundup identifies the seven leading screen‑recording applications for Windows, macOS, Linux, and mobile platforms. The list includes Loom, Camtasia, OBS Studio, Descript, Screen Studio, Tella and Zappy, each evaluated on recording flexibility, webcam overlay, audio capture, editing tools,...
STAT+: Novo Nordisk Is Warned by the FDA for Failing to Report Side Effects Tied to GLP-1 Drugs
Novo Nordisk received an FDA warning letter on March 5, 2026 for failing to report suspected side effects of its GLP‑1 medicines. The violations were uncovered during a 2025 inspection of the company’s facilities and were described as “serious.” The agency warned...
Buildout Launches CRM, Completing the Industry’s First AI-Powered End-to-End Deal Engine for CRE
Buildout Inc. has launched Buildout CRM, the final component of its AI‑powered, end‑to‑end deal engine for commercial real‑estate brokerages. The new CRM integrates with the existing Buildout Suite, creating a single shared workflow and data layer that spans the entire...
Spain’s VLC Photonics and Hitachi High-Tech America Announce Strategic Collaboration in North America
VLC Photonics, a Spanish fabless photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design house, has entered a strategic collaboration with Hitachi High‑Tech America to expand its North American footprint. The partnership leverages VLC’s multi‑platform PIC expertise and Hitachi’s equipment sales and global commercial...
IAB Tech Lab Announces CoMP Framework to Ensure LLMs Have Commercial Agreements with Publishers Before Content Crawling
The IAB Tech Lab released the Content Monetization Protocol (CoMP) Specification v1.0, a standardized framework that requires AI systems to secure commercial agreements with publishers before crawling content. The draft is open for public comment until April 9, 2026, inviting...
Envestnet, WealthStream Unveil Tech to Facilitate Planning Conversations
Envestnet introduced Dash, a lightweight widget embedded in MoneyGuide, to capture five key client inputs and feed them directly into full financial plans, reducing friction for prospect onboarding. WealthStream launched an AI‑driven advice intelligence platform that layers on existing advisory...
Integral AI, Founded by Former Google Researchers, Targets Japan’s Robotics Industry
Integral AI, founded by former Google researchers, is developing AI models that let industrial robots learn tasks by watching demonstrations and using natural‑language commands. The startup has partnered with Japanese auto parts maker Denso since 2021 and is in talks...
Scientists Head Underground to Measure Effects of Gamma Rays on Superconducting Qubits
Scientists placed a four‑qubit superconducting chip 350 feet underground at Fermilab’s NEXUS lab to study how gamma rays generate correlated charge noise. By toggling a lead shield around the dilution refrigerator, they isolated gamma‑induced charge bursts from cosmic‑ray background, marking the...
Power and Capital Constraints May Drive Shift to Modular Cooling, Smaller Data Centers
Limited grid capacity and an 18% rise in industrial electricity rates are lengthening power‑connection timelines to five years in key data‑center markets, forcing developers to seek onsite microgrids, generators and batteries. JLL warns that power availability now drives site selection...
RAAS LAB & The Trade Desk Partner to Bring Real-Time Relevance to Programmatic Advertising
RAAS LAB announced a partnership with The Trade Desk, integrating its AI‑driven contextual intelligence into the demand‑side platform. The joint solution lets advertisers evaluate tone, sentiment and placement environment at the impression level, backed by URL‑level reporting. Brands and agencies...
The Hidden Cost of Every Card Swipe – Understanding Interchange Fees
Interchange fees are the charges that a merchant’s bank pays to the card‑issuing bank for each card transaction, typically ranging from 0.2% to 2% of the purchase amount. In the European Economic Area, regulation caps these fees at 0.2% for...
Dify Secures $30M Series Pre-A to Power Enterprise-Grade Agentic Workflows
Dify announced a $30 million Series Pre‑A round at a $180 million valuation, led by HSG with participation from GL Ventures, Alt‑Alpha Capital, 5Y Capital, Mizuho Leaguer Investment and NYX Ventures. The open‑source platform enables enterprises to design, deploy and operate production‑grade AI...