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A new study using a nitrogen‑vacancy diamond sensor on a single lunar dust grain from Chang’e 5 shows that the Moon’s magnetism derives from both an ancient core dynamo and impact‑generated shock magnetization. Basaltic grains display weak, uniformly oriented fields, indicating a global magnetic field that persisted up to about two billion years ago. In contrast, breccia grains exhibit strong, randomly oriented magnetization caused by iron‑nickel alloys formed during asteroid impacts. The researchers also observed magnetic stripes along micro‑cracks, suggesting ongoing space‑weathering processes such as solar‑wind implantation.
Microsoft has launched its multi‑turn search feature in Bing for users worldwide, extending a capability first tested in the United States last year. The new interface appears as a floating box at the bottom of the results page, allowing users...
PayPal announced that board member and former HP chief executive Enrique Lores will become its new CEO and president effective March 1, replacing Alex Chriss, who has led the firm since September 2023. The board said the change reflects dissatisfaction with the company’s...
India’s Supreme Court delivered a stern rebuke to Meta, warning it cannot compromise Indian users’ right to privacy. The court questioned how WhatsApp, with over 500 million Indian users, obtains meaningful consent for data‑sharing and monetization of metadata. A ₹2.13 billion penalty...
Walmart Connect Canada has launched the Walmart Connect Canada Academy Ad Certification, a free, self‑paced program designed to teach advertisers and partners the fundamentals of retail media and Sponsored Products on its platform. The certification includes two initial courses—Retail Media...
Pfizer announced that its monthly GLP‑1 obesity drug, originated from the Metsera acquisition, achieved an average 10.5% weight reduction after six months in a late‑stage study. The therapy’s once‑monthly dosing is designed to improve patient adherence compared with weekly injectables....
SpaceX announced a pause in Falcon 9 launches following an off‑nominal condition on the rocket’s upper stage during the final deorbit burn preparation of the Feb. 2 Vandenberg mission. The stage successfully deployed 25 Starlink satellites but required passivation after the...
Sony has secured a patent for AI‑generated podcasts hosted by PlayStation characters, using synthetic voices to deliver personalized gaming news and updates. The technology can tailor content to a player’s recent sessions, exclude unwanted topics, and even include jokes aimed...
SoFi has launched the NextGen Strategy, overhauling its credit decisioning system by shifting to debt‑to‑income ratios and education‑based risk matrices. The revamp, led by senior data scientist Yihan Shi, aims to create more explainable, robust approval logic amid volatile macro‑economic...
The Everest ransomware group alleges it stole roughly 90 GB of data from legacy Polycom engineering environments, which were acquired by HP in 2022 and now operate under the HP Poly brand. Screenshots released by the gang show file directories, source‑code trees...
Google’s 2025 crawling report, presented by Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt, highlights five primary URL‑parameter issues that strain Googlebot. Faceted navigation accounts for half of the problems, followed by action parameters, irrelevant tracking strings, WordPress‑generated URLs, and miscellaneous encoding errors....
A multinational team led by Weiguang Cao, Masahito Yamazaki and Linhao Li used duality transformations to map non‑invertible symmetry‑protected topological (SPT) phases onto familiar spontaneously broken symmetry (SSB) phases. This mapping allowed them to classify non‑invertible SPT phases in arbitrary...
Widdop & Co has launched WiddopDropship.co.uk, a dropship platform that lets independent retailers list its full product range without holding inventory. The service was demonstrated at Spring Fair’s Hall 4 Village stand, highlighting a low‑risk growth model where Widdop fulfills orders...
Bunny Database launches a public preview as a managed, SQLite‑compatible service that automatically spins down when idle. It offers one‑click deployment, SDKs for multiple languages, and multi‑region replication across 41 locations, promising up to 99% latency reduction for distant users....
Comic Relief launched its first Design‑Your‑Own Red Nose on Amazon, letting the public customize the iconic red nose with personal artwork. Prices start at £2.50 and the range includes a collector pack, multipacks for groups, and Mr Doodle‑styled bucket hats...
Google’s John Mueller warned that exhaustive redirect‑chain analysis is unnecessary for most sites, noting that problematic redirects and CSP settings are usually visible in a standard browser. He emphasized that simple tools like the Redirect Path extension can surface these...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) for AstraZeneca's subcutaneous prefilled‑pen version of Saphnelo, its anifrolumab therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The CRL indicates the agency found deficiencies—primarily around additional safety and manufacturing data—requiring...
SanDisk unveiled SPRandom, an open‑source preconditioning utility for large‑capacity enterprise SSDs. The tool, contributed to the fio benchmark suite, can shrink the time required to bring a 128 TB drive to steady state from over 144 hours to roughly six hours—a reduction...
Visa and UnionPay have signed an agreement to connect Visa Direct with UnionPay’s MoneyExpress platform, allowing Visa’s global clients to send cross‑border remittances and payouts to more than 95% of debit cardholders in mainland China. The service, slated for a...
Emerge Career, a Y Combinator S22 startup, is hiring its first product designer‑engineer in New York to accelerate a tech‑powered workforce‑development platform for justice‑impacted individuals. The company’s pilot program boasts an 89% graduation rate and 92% job placement, with graduates earning an...
RapidFort Inc. announced a $42 million Series A round to accelerate its continuous remediation platform for software supply chain security. The funding, led by Blue Cloud Ventures and Forgepoint Capital, will expand go‑to‑market efforts, enhance automated container hardening, and deepen adoption in...
Consumers now pose questions directly to answer engines like ChatGPT, forcing marketers to move beyond traditional SEO and adopt Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). The guide explains how to structure pages—using explicit H1s, early TL;DR sections, question‑based headings, concise lists, and...
Toronto‑based OpenSesame, an a16z Speedrun alum, has rebranded as General Magic to specialize in agentic AI texting agents for insurers. The startup secured a large, undisclosed insurance client and claims its platform can reduce call volumes by 30% and save...
A recent IDC study, sponsored by Diebold Nixdorf, shows that over two‑thirds of Australian shoppers prefer self‑checkout, especially when alone or in a hurry. However, checkout delays, trust concerns, and rigid systems frustrate many consumers. Retailers are responding by investing in...
Kasada, a New York cybersecurity startup, raised $20 million in a funding round led by EQT and backed by existing investors including Ten Eleven Ventures and Main Sequence Ventures. The capital will fund product scaling, cloud infrastructure expansion, and entry into...
Gartner projects global IT spending to rise 10.8% to $6.2 trillion by 2026, with datacentre equipment spending surging 32% and software up nearly 15%. AI investment will total $2.52 trillion, a 44% year‑over‑year jump, driven largely by hyperscale cloud providers expanding AI‑optimized...
A new study by Oliveira‑Madureira, Leal and Azevedo maps the structural impact of genetic variability in the neuronal sodium channel NaV1.2. Using high‑resolution cryo‑EM and X‑ray crystallography, the authors detail how specific mutations and post‑translational modifications reshape the channel’s conformation...
Despite rapid growth, UK neobanks still control a small fraction of primary banking relationships, with incumbents holding roughly 94% of primary accounts. About half of UK adults now maintain at least one neobank account, up from 16% in 2018, and...
Ronnie Sheth, CEO of SENEN Group, warns that enterprises are rushing into AI without first securing data quality, a mistake that Gartner estimates costs firms an average $12.9 million per year. SENEN, which enjoys a 99.99% client repeat rate, focuses on...
The UK government will allocate a £10 million fund to cover transport costs for children and young people up to age 24 diagnosed with cancer, with the scheme rolling out by 2027. The support is universal, irrespective of household income, and...
French Connection Group announced a long‑term licensing partnership with G‑III Apparel Group to design, source, and distribute men’s and women’s apparel and accessories across North America. The deal leverages G‑III’s extensive retail relationships and supply‑chain infrastructure, giving French Connection a...
The PRX Part 2 post documents a systematic series of ablations on training a 1.2 B‑parameter text‑to‑image diffusion model. Adding representation alignment (REPA) with frozen vision teachers lowered FID by up to three points, while latent‑space alignment (REPA‑E) and the Flux2‑AE tokenizer halved...
Neuroscale AI has partnered with Carahsoft Technology Corp. to distribute its AI‑driven talent management platforms—ARBI, Athena and Aurora—through SEWP V and ITES‑SW2 contracts to U.S. federal agencies. The collaboration aligns with Executive Order 14170 and the OPM Merit‑Based Hiring Plan,...
A consortium led by Argonne National Laboratory has unveiled RADAR, an AI‑driven framework that fuses gravitational‑wave alerts with radio afterglow observations. By running on supercomputing facilities, RADAR analyzes data in situ, respects proprietary restrictions, and automates notice parsing with large...
MDA Space and Hanwha Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the use of MDA's AURORA software‑defined satellite platform for South Korea’s planned K‑LEO defense constellation. The partnership aims to deliver secure, resilient low‑Earth‑orbit communications and data services...
Base44, an AI‑powered no‑code app builder, debuted a Super Bowl commercial just a year after its launch. The platform, part of the emerging "vibe coding" movement, lets users create live apps from simple text prompts without programming. In June, website...
Workspace Group, London’s largest provider of flexible offices, studios and light‑industrial units, is leveraging technology to enhance customer service and operational efficiency. After five years of leading its connectivity programme, Head of Technology Chris Boultwood oversaw the rollout of enterprise‑grade...
Researchers have created an injectable, thermosensitive hydrogel (Bi2S3@Gel) loaded with bismuth sulfide nanorods that activates under near‑infrared light. The material delivers mild photothermal heating, amplifies reactive oxygen species, and depletes glutathione, achieving potent antibacterial action. At the same time, the...
Researchers introduced a photo‑induced electron capacitor (MKCN) by self‑assembling Ti3C2 MXene nanosheets with potassium‑ and strong‑base‑treated nitrogen‑rich carbon nitride (g‑C3N5). The hybrid functions as a dual‑electrode system where g‑C3N5 generates electrons and MXene captures them, enabling spatial charge separation and...
AI startup Airrived announced a $6.1 million seed round led by Cannage Capital, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and other investors. The company introduced Agentic OS, an operating layer that makes agentic AI a native capability for enterprise workflows, allowing...
A Regent’s University London study of 552 recruiters reveals that recent marketing and advertising graduates lack the work ethic and soft‑skill maturity employers demand. Strong work ethic, communication, decision‑making and accountability rank as the top missing competencies, while 82% of...
Recent high‑profile outages at AWS, Azure and Cloudflare have shown that cloud failures ripple far beyond compute, crippling the identity layer that underpins authentication and authorization. When shared services such as DNS, load balancers or managed databases go down, even...
Walmart has teamed with OpenAI to let Sam’s Club members shop and checkout directly inside ChatGPT, extending its Sparky AI assistant to a conversational platform. The move follows similar AI‑shopping collaborations by Shopify, Etsy, Amazon and Target, signaling a broader...
URway Holdings introduced its AI Connect Bar, a unified communications platform that harnesses conversational voice AI. The solution was demonstrated at the NRF 2026 Retail’s Big Show, highlighting its potential for contact centers. Chief engagement officer Ed Crowley and CRO...
A new Public Service Alliance report finds that state consumer‑privacy statutes fail to shield public employees from data‑broker exploitation, creating a "data‑to‑violence pipeline." The analysis of 19 laws shows no right for officials to compel redaction of personal details from...
Small retailers are replacing consumer tablets with purpose‑built POS terminals due to frequent downtime, durability issues, hidden costs, and security challenges. Internal analysis of over 10,000 merchants shows staff satisfaction rising, hardware replacements falling 41 %, and transaction completion improving after...
The research introduces glancing angle deposition (GLAD) to fabricate nanoporous La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3‑δ (LSCF) thin‑film cathodes for low‑temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT‑SOFCs). By adjusting sputtering pressure and film thickness, the team achieved a nanocolumnar structure with 21.5% porosity, cutting polarization resistance...
Researchers developed a PVDF‑HFP‑based ionogel doped with various cations, achieving a thermopower of 23.7 mV K⁻¹ and a power density of 102.8 µW m⁻² K⁻². Precise temperature‑difference control induces a nonlinear temperature‑voltage response due to dynamic ion‑concentration reconstruction. An 18‑unit ionic thermoelectric device produced 2.09 V,...
Researchers are integrating stimulus‑responsive materials into perovskite solar cells to turn external stressors—light, heat, humidity—into stabilizing actions. These operando smart‑responsive layers dynamically adjust their physicochemical state, curbing ion migration and extending device lifetimes. The review outlines recent mechanisms, from reversible...
The study presents a confined tellurization technique that uses recyclable metal‑tellurium (M‑Te) alloys as controllable tellurium sources to grow wafer‑scale metal telluride (MxTey) films. Cohesive‑energy calculations and experiments identify Au‑Te and Ag‑Te alloys as optimal, delivering steady Te flux while...
