New Solar Project Will Help Power California's Most Powerful Water Plant
The California Department of Water Resources has signed a 20‑year power‑purchase agreement for the 105‑megawatt Pastoria Solar Project, located two miles from the Edmonston Pumping Plant that can draw up to 800 MW of electricity. The solar farm, paired with an 80‑MW/320‑MWh battery and a 750‑MW natural‑gas combined‑cycle plant, will supply clean power to the pumps as part of DWR’s plan to fully decarbonize water deliveries by 2035. The agreement locks in electricity at $1 per megawatt‑hour, but DWR projects a $1.5 billion cost to its water‑agency members through 2045. The initiative illustrates California’s aggressive clean‑energy push amid rising demand and shifting federal climate policy.
Scientists Say This Star-Shaped Brain Cell Holds the Key to Curing Anxiety and PTSD
Recent research reclassifies astrocytes—once dismissed as "brain glue"—as active regulators of neuronal function. A Nature study shows that stress‑induced reactive astrocytes can either shield neurons or release toxic factors, influencing neurodegenerative disease progression. Separate experiments demonstrate that manipulating astrocyte activity...
Belkasoft X Brings AI-Powered Speech Recognition To DFIR Investigations
Belkasoft X now embeds BelkaGPT, an AI assistant that automatically transcribes audio and video recordings with timestamps, supporting European, Asian and Semitic languages. The system can run speech‑to‑text on new data sources or selected items, then lets investigators query the...
How Anthropic’s Claude Design Has Already Saved Me 10 Hours of Work
Anthropic unveiled Claude Design, an AI‑powered design assistant, on Friday. Early adopters report saving roughly 10 hours per week by automating slide decks, infographics, and brand assets. The tool combines generative text and image capabilities, delivering ready‑to‑use fonts, colors, and layouts...
AI Lab Result Interpretation Gains Traction with Patients, but Raises Accuracy and Validation Concerns for Clinical Laboratories
Patients are increasingly turning to AI-driven services to translate their laboratory test results, often before seeing a physician. Startups and wellness firms offer subscription models that provide simplified explanations and suggested actions, with pricing ranging from free tiers to several...
Energy Demand Falls Globally as Solar Boom Continues
Global energy demand in 2025 slowed to a 1.3% increase, well under the decade’s average, while electricity consumption surged about 3%, driven by electrification trends. Solar photovoltaic power emerged as the top contributor to energy supply growth, accounting for more...
AI Chatbots Could Be Making You Stupider
Researchers at MIT Media Lab found that students who relied on ChatGPT for essay writing showed a 55% drop in brain activity compared with peers writing unaided. The AI‑generated essays were less memorable, less original, and participants reported lower ownership...
Admyt Launches SA’s First Card-Linked Parking Reward Benefit with Discovery Bank
South Africa’s admyt has partnered with Discovery Bank to launch the country’s first card‑linked parking reward, automatically crediting Discovery Miles each time a qualifying parking session is completed. Cardholders of Gold, Platinum, Black and Purple Suite tiers receive monthly refunds...
Sinterit’s 3D Printing Academy Makes Serious Manufacturing Education Free and Accessible
Polish 3D printer maker Sinterit has launched a free online 3D Printing Academy that delivers daily lessons across three dedicated tracks—Fundamentals, Business, and Engineers—focused on Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). The curriculum blends e‑books, videos, calculators, case studies and podcasts, culminating...
AI Optical Transceiver Market to Grow 57% to US$26bn in 2026
TrendForce projects the global AI‑focused optical transceiver market to surge from $16.5 bn in 2025 to $26 bn in 2026, a 57% year‑on‑year increase. The growth is fueled by rising demand for 800 G‑plus transceivers that link AI‑intensive server clusters in hyperscale data...
App Spotlight: Twilio Chat for Zoho CRM
Twilio Chat Messenger by Amatec integrates Twilio messaging directly into Zoho CRM, delivering real‑time, contextual chat within contact, lead and deal records. The extension stores chat history in the CRM’s Contacts and Leads modules, provides bi‑directional messaging and in‑app notifications,...
I Integrated Google Gemini Into My Daily Workflow and Saw Real Productivity Gains
Google Gemini’s new Workspace integration lets users query Docs, Drive, Gmail, Keep, Tasks, and NotebookLM from a single interface. By uploading multiple NotebookLM notebooks, the author achieved cross‑contextual research, while Gemini’s prompts in Sheets and Slides generated tables, charts, and...
5 Influencer Marketing Tips Brands Use to Drive ROI
Influencer marketing generated $32.55 billion last year, with 85% of marketers rating it effective. By 2026, 72% plan to boost budgets over 50%, treating the channel like paid media. Brands now focus on performance metrics—conversion, CAC, and ROI—rather than pure reach....
Transformation Heavy Lifting over, Time to Move on with Agentic AI - Publicis Pitches a 'Head Start' Vision for a...
Publicis Groupe says its AI‑driven transformation is complete, citing a decade of data, tech and the 2017 Marcel platform. The firm reports nearly 20% organic growth, adding roughly $2.2 billion in net revenue and almost doubling EBITDA while margins rose 270...
Revolut’s Blockbuster IPO Is Two Years Out, Says Nik Storonsky
Revolut founder Nik Storonsky told Bloomberg TV the fintech’s public listing is at least two years away, pushing the IPO timeline to 2026 or later. The company recently secured a $75 bn valuation in a secondary share sale that included Nvidia’s...
AI Swarms Could Hijack Democracy without Anyone Noticing
Researchers at the University of British Columbia warn that hyper‑realistic AI‑generated personas, operating as coordinated swarms, can infiltrate social media and shape public opinion without detection. These AI swarms can instantly synchronize across thousands of accounts, run millions of micro‑experiments,...
Lumen Research Partners with Cint to Strengthen the Link Between Attention & Brand Outcomes
Lumen Research, a leader in eye‑tracking technology, has teamed up with Cint to fuse real‑world attention data with Cint’s continuous research platform. The collaboration gives advertisers and agencies a way to quantify how seconds of visual attention translate into upper‑funnel...
MIT’s VisiPrint Uses AI to Show Exactly How a 3D Print Will Look Before It’s Made
MIT researchers unveiled VisiPrint, an AI‑driven preview tool that renders a 3‑D printed object’s exact color, gloss and translucency before any material is extruded. By feeding a slicer screenshot and a single material image, two neural models generate a photorealistic...
Reti̇nal and Choroi̇dal Mi̇crovascular Changes İn Hemodi̇alysi̇s and Peri̇toneal Di̇alysi̇s: A Comparati̇ve Oct and Oct-A Study
Researchers used OCT and OCTA to compare retinal and choroidal changes in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) versus peritoneal dialysis (PD). Across 84 eyes from 46 patients, central macular thickness and subfoveal choroidal thickness decreased significantly after each dialysis session, while...
Half of the 6 Million Internet-Facing FTP Servers Lack Encryption
A Censys study found roughly 6 million internet‑facing FTP servers, with 2.45 million (about 41%) offering no encryption. While the total number of FTP hosts fell 40% since 2024, the protocol still represents 2.72% of all visible internet services. Pure‑FTPd powers the...
Meshy Closes the 3D Printing Loop With AI-to-Physical Manufacturing
Meshy.ai has integrated its generative‑AI model‑creation platform with Formlabs’ Form Now on‑demand printing service, creating the first end‑to‑end AI‑to‑physical manufacturing loop. Users can input a text prompt or image and receive a print‑ready, textured 3D model in seconds, with Meshy handling...
Logicc Secures €2.5 Million Amid Continued Momentum in Germany’s Secure AI Market
Logicc, a Hamburg‑based AI startup focused on highly regulated sectors, closed a €2.5 million (≈$2.7 million) seed round. The funding will accelerate its GDPR‑compliant, zero‑knowledge platform that aggregates models like ChatGPT and Gemini for lawyers, doctors and public institutions. Within six months...
Georgetown Engineers Pectin-Based Bone Grafts to Replace Metal Implants
Georgetown University researchers have engineered a 3D‑printed bone graft that combines pectin—a food‑grade polysaccharide—with hydroxyapatite layers to mimic natural bone architecture. The pectin matrix can be printed at room temperature, creating a porous scaffold that promotes nutrient flow and cell...
75,000 AI-Generated Tracks Now Flood Deezer Daily, Representing 44% of All New Music Uploaded to the Platform, Says Streamer
Deezer reports that it now receives roughly 75,000 AI‑generated tracks each day, accounting for 44% of all new uploads. The daily influx has risen from 60,000 in January and 50,000 in November, pushing monthly AI uploads past 2 million. While AI...
New National AI Facility Under €17 Million Research Ireland Investment
The Walton Institute at South East Technological University secured over €1 million (≈$1.1 million) as part of a €17 million (≈$18.5 million) national Research Ireland programme to build a new AI and high‑performance computing facility. The centre will expand the existing data‑centre capacity by...
PayDo Launches C2B Settlement Accounts to Accelerate Pay-by-Bank Transactions
PayDo, a UK‑licensed electronic money institution, has launched customer‑to‑business (C2B) settlement accounts that let merchants accept pay‑by‑bank payments via open banking. Funds transferred from a shopper’s banking app are settled to the merchant’s business account in under two seconds, with...
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Is a Warning: Technical Debt Is Now a National Security Risk
Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing, an AI model named Claude Mythos that can autonomously discover and chain high‑severity software vulnerabilities. The rapid rollout sparked urgent discussions among the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and major banks about the fragility of legacy...
NCSC Outlines Coordinated Plan to Boost NHS Cyber Resilience
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) unveiled a coordinated plan to strengthen cyber resilience across the NHS, built on 18 months of government‑industry collaboration. The strategy pivots on five pillars, including the Active Cyber Defence 2.0 pilot, software‑supply‑chain hardening,...
The Hidden Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches
Health‑insurance data breaches have exposed over 400 million identities since 2021, yet plan sponsors, TPAs and carriers provide no post‑breach fraud protection. HIPAA settlements can reach $25,000 per stolen identity, while remediation averages more than $13,000 per individual, creating a lucrative...
Inclusive Clinical Trials: An Oxymoron?
The author argues that mandating the inclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding women in pivotal clinical trials is driven more by sentiment than scientific rigor. He highlights that strict eligibility criteria are essential for internal validity, and adding these populations would...
Hookflash Hits the Bullseye with Darts’ Giant Digital Brief
Nodor Group, the maker of Winmau and Red Dragon darts, has hired digital agency Hookflash to overhaul its e‑commerce platform and drive direct‑to‑consumer (D2C) growth. The agency will apply a data‑driven conversion‑rate‑optimization (CRO) and experimentation framework to increase website value....
Multi-Cloud Trust Integrity-Based Security Management Architecture for Blockchain- Enhanced Secure Network Slicing Using CKBNA and SFDA
A new multi‑cloud security framework introduces a Crystals‑Kyber Bickley‑Naylor (CKBNA) key‑establishment protocol and a Struve Function‑based Dilithium (SFDA) signature scheme to protect Secure Network Slicing (SNS). The architecture leverages an IpLUEN‑LSTM model for slice prediction, Hyperbolic Growth Gazelle Optimization for...
Growing AI Power Slurpage Prompts MPs to Examine Low-Energy Computing
British MPs have launched a short‑term inquiry into low‑energy computing to curb the soaring electricity demand of AI‑driven datacentres. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is examining emerging chip designs such as neuromorphic computing and silicon photonics, which promise far...
Terra Industries Says It Is Building Africa’s Largest Drone Factory in Ghana
Terra Industries, Africa’s most‑funded defence‑tech startup, is constructing a 34,000‑square‑foot drone factory in Accra, Ghana, slated to open in June 2026. The Pax‑2 plant will more than double its Abuja footprint and aims to produce 50,000 UAVs annually by 2028,...
Phishing Attacks Concentrate on Big Tech as Identity Becomes Prime Target
Check Point Research's Q1 2026 Brand Phishing Ranking shows Microsoft remains the most impersonated brand, accounting for 22% of phishing attempts, with Apple, Google, Amazon and LinkedIn completing the top five. The four brands together represent nearly half of all phishing...
China Ramps up Satellite Production Capacity Amid Constellation Ambitions
China is constructing a massive satellite manufacturing ecosystem capable of producing up to 7,360 spacecraft annually, according to a recent industry assessment. Dozens of factories—36 operational, 16 under construction, and three planned—already contribute a theoretical capacity of 4,050 satellites, with...
Rheinmetall Kraken GmbH Launches Series Production of USV in Hamburg
Rheinmetall Kraken GmbH has begun series production of the Kraken K3 Scout unmanned surface vessel at its Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg. The 8.4‑metre, 55‑knot USV can be configured for surveillance, critical‑infrastructure protection or weapons carriage. The joint venture with Britain’s...
Four-Month-Old Recursive Superintelligence Raises $500m
Recursive Superintelligence, a London‑based AI startup founded four months ago by UCL professor Tim Rocktäschel and former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, announced a $500 million Series A round at a $4 billion valuation. The financing was led by Google Ventures and included...
I Built an AI App with a Tiny Team. We Scaled It to Millions and Sold It to MyFitnessPal in...
Cal AI, an AI‑powered calorie‑tracking app founded by Jake Castillo and three teammates in April 2024, grew to millions in monthly revenue and was acquired by MyFitnessPal in under two years. The startup’s growth hinged on aggressive influencer marketing, signing...
OnePlus Nord CE 6, Nord CE 6 Lite India Launch Date Confirmed, Battery, Chipset and Display Details Revealed
OnePlus confirmed that the Nord CE 6 and Nord CE 6 Lite will launch in India on May 7 at noon, available through Amazon. The Nord CE 6 is powered by a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset, features a 1.5K AMOLED panel with 144 Hz refresh, an 8,000 mAh battery...
Commerce Announces Winners of EMEA Region Customer and Partner Awards
Commerce announced the 2026 EMEA Customer and Partner Award winners at its Wembley Stadium Commerce Live event, celebrating top performers on the BigCommerce and Feedonomics platforms. Customer categories highlighted growth, AI‑driven experiences, connected commerce, emerging innovation and B2B excellence, with...
Four Ways to Build a Secure and Scalable CGT Distribution Network
Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are expanding rapidly, with 34 US products approved and a projected $80 bn global market by 2029, driven largely by oncology. Successful commercialization now hinges on building secure, scalable distribution networks that protect fragile, cryogenic products...
Docplanner Expands Patient Access with Voice AI Agent Powered by Twilio
Docplanner, a leading European‑Latin American health platform, has launched Noa Booking, an AI‑powered voice agent built on Twilio’s ConversationRelay and Programmable Voice. The 24/7 agent lets patients schedule appointments, get FAQs answered and receive instant SMS/WhatsApp confirmations, eliminating traditional call‑centre...
A Talent CEO Says Data Centers Are a 'Massive Opportunity' For Office Workers to Pivot Mid-Career
Broadstaff CEO Carrie Charles says the surge in AI‑driven data center construction is creating a hiring boom for technicians and electricians. Listings for data‑center roles jumped 64% between 2023 and 2025, and the firm’s phone has never rung louder in...
Beyond IT: Cybersecurity Is a Strategic Business Risk
On November 25, 2025 the SEC censured a national securities firm and imposed a $325,000 penalty after a breach exposed the personal data of roughly 8,500 people. The regulator highlighted the firm’s weak cyber‑governance, noting missing multi‑factor authentication and absent incident‑response plans....
With AI Entering Bidding Workflows, the Estimator’s Role Isn’t Shrinking; It’s Expanding
AI is reshaping construction estimating by automating drawing analysis and quantity takeoffs, turning a traditionally manual process into a rapid, data‑driven workflow. With U.S. construction spending approaching $2.2 trillion, the sector faces a shortage of over 300,000 skilled workers, stretching estimator...
Loyalty Isn’t a Program Anymore. It’s a Payment Experience.
Retailers are moving loyalty from separate programs to the payment experience, using Marqeta’s Flexible Credentials to embed rewards, debit, credit and installment options in a single card. The platform lets shoppers choose payment modes and redeem points instantly at checkout,...
Got Wearable Data? Your Doctor Can Help You Connect the Dots
Wearable technology, now a $100 billion industry, is generating massive streams of health data from devices like smartwatches and rings. Physicians such as Dr. Lucy McBride and Dr. Sarah Benish stress that raw numbers need context to be clinically useful, turning patterns into...
Connected Data, Connected Decisions: The Real AI Advantage for Inventory Leaders
Dealers are drowning in data but lack a unified infrastructure, limiting AI’s effectiveness. Cox Automotive executives highlighted at NADA that connecting DMS, CRM, appraisal and market data transforms inventory decisions, enabling precise acquisition, channel prioritization and sharper appraisals. A case...
U.S.-based Commonplace Marketplace Eyes Expansion Into Canada
Commonplace, a U.S. marketplace that bundles payments, delivery and item inspections, is weighing entry into Canada. The platform specializes in bulky, high‑value second‑hand goods such as fitness equipment, appliances and furniture, and currently serves sellers within a 1,000‑mile radius across...