News•Feb 23, 2026
Why Real Estate Is Entering a Year of Cleanup, Clarity, and Course Correction in ERP
2026 is shaping up as a reset year for ERP in real‑estate firms after a period of hesitation and postponed projects. Accumulated technical debt and over‑customized legacy systems have created a gap between capability and business needs. Companies are now shifting focus from sweeping digital transformation to cleanup—simplifying custom code, rationalizing integrations, and aligning platforms with actual workflows. SaaS ERP has become the default, but tighter governance and clear operating‑model decisions are essential for long‑term resilience.
By ERP News
News•Feb 23, 2026
Could It Be We've Recieved Alien Signals in the Past and Didn't Notice? Not Bloody Likely, According to New Study
A new Bayesian study by Claudio Grimaldi at EPFL argues that Earth is unlikely to have missed alien transmissions in the past. The analysis shows that for undetected signals to have occurred, an implausibly large number of technosignatures would be...
By New Space Economy
News•Feb 23, 2026
I Plugged My Phone Into My TV and Discovered Features I Didn't Know Existed
The article explains how connecting a smartphone to a TV with a USB‑C to HDMI adapter unlocks features beyond simple casting. A wired link bypasses DRM restrictions, allowing apps like Netflix and Disney+ to play uninterrupted, and Samsung’s DeX mode...
By MakeUseOf
News•Feb 23, 2026
Flexible Force Fields Can Protect Our Return to the Moon
Lunar dust remains a critical obstacle for sustained human activity on the Moon, prompting research into flexible electrodynamic dust shields (EDS). Georgia Tech researchers demonstrated two curved‑surface EDS designs—copper‑polyimide and chemically modified reduced graphene oxide (CMrGO)—that can repel dust under...
By New Space Economy
News•Feb 23, 2026
Google, Apple Start Testing Encrypted RCS on Android and iOS 26.4
Google and Apple announced that encrypted Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging is now in beta testing between Android and iPhone devices. The feature leverages the GSMA RCS Universal Profile and provides end‑to‑end encryption, visible as a lock icon in both...
By 9to5Google
News•Feb 23, 2026
Curiosity Rover Captures Martian Spiderwebs up Close
NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months examining Martian boxwork formations—low ridges resembling spiderwebs—on Mount Sharp. High‑resolution Mastcam images reveal ridges 1‑2 meters tall with sand‑filled hollows, confirming that ancient groundwater flowed later than previously believed. Drill samples from ridge tops,...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Feb 23, 2026
Securities and Exchange Commission Schedules Roundtable to Discuss “Retailization” Of Private Securities
The SEC will host a Private Markets Roundtable on March 4, 2026 to discuss the retailization of private securities. Currently, non‑accredited investors are limited to Reg A and Reg CF, while most private offerings remain inaccessible. Pending legislation could relax accredited‑investor thresholds, adding a...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Feb 23, 2026
Palantir Deals Are a Threat to Our Data Rights as UK Citizens | Letters
Palantir Technologies, the US data‑fusion and AI firm, has secured contracts with the UK National Health Service and the Ministry of Defence. Critics argue the deals give a surveillance‑focused company access to sensitive citizen data. The firm’s platforms, already employed...
By The Guardian AI
News•Feb 23, 2026
Webb Imaged a Star Before It Went Supernova
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first infrared image of a star before it exploded as a supernova, identifying the progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637. By aligning archival Hubble data with Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam observations from 2024, astronomers...
By Behind the Black
News•Feb 23, 2026
Space Medicine Framework Can Redefine Value-Based Care Strategy
Shannon Kennedy will present a HIMSS 2026 workshop that applies space‑medicine constraints to redesign value‑based care. She introduces the "Orbital Quintuple Aim" framework, which evaluates five interdependent dimensions of health delivery under extreme resource limits. Participants act as spacecraft medical...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 23, 2026
AST SpaceMobile Wins $30 Million Contract for Military Broadband Demo
The Space Development Agency awarded AST SpaceMobile a $30 million firm‑fixed‑price contract to demonstrate its BlueBird satellite constellation can deliver resilient, low‑latency broadband directly to military radios. The "Europa" phase of the HALO program requires AST to complete a series of...
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 23, 2026
The Anatomy of Perfect Content: How Marketers Can Reach Consumers in the AI Era
The Expedia Group Advertising "Science of Wanderlust" study surveyed over 7,000 consumers and used eye‑tracking to pinpoint the creative elements that cut through today’s AI‑saturated content stream. It found video drives purchase intent three times more than static images, while...
By Modern Retail
News•Feb 23, 2026
Evercore Sees Microsoft Growing FCF 5% as Hyperscaler Capex Jumps 58%
Evercore ISI projects Microsoft’s free cash flow to grow 5% in 2026 while hyperscaler capital spending jumps 58% to over $700 billion. In contrast, Amazon, Google, Meta and Oracle are expected to see FCF declines, whereas Nvidia and Apple are forecast...
By Yahoo Finance – Top Financial News
News•Feb 23, 2026
Ad Tech Firm Optimizely Confirms Data Breach After Vishing Attack
Optimizely, a New York‑based ad‑tech firm, disclosed a data breach after a sophisticated voice‑phishing (vishing) attack on February 11. Threat actors accessed the company’s CRM and other internal business systems, extracting only basic contact information and not sensitive customer data. The...
By BleepingComputer
News•Feb 23, 2026
Cobalt Digital To Feature New End-to-End IPMX, ST 2110 Solutions At 2026 NAB Show
Cobalt Digital will unveil a suite of new end‑to‑end IPMX and SMPTE ST 2110 solutions at the 2026 NAB Show, including the blueCORE 1RU processor family, upgraded PACIFIC ULL‑DEC decoder with dual SDI/ST 2110 output, a factory‑installed DVB‑S/S2 demodulator, and hybrid satellite‑internet...
By TVTechnology
News•Feb 23, 2026
Supplier Profile – Fibox
Fibox Enclosure Systems, with four decades of experience, designs UL‑listed, NEMA‑rated polycarbonate enclosures that protect electrical components in harsh, chemical‑laden or high‑impact environments. The company pioneered injection‑molded polycarbonate in 1966 and now operates manufacturing sites in Finland, Korea and China,...
By AutomationDirect – The Automation Blog
News•Feb 23, 2026
Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News
Finovate’s weekly roundup highlights a flurry of fintech activity as Flywire names a new CTO, MoneyHash teams with Wayl to enter Iraq, and Payabli partners with Huntington Bank to embed payments in digital banking. Worldline launches One Commerce for omnichannel...
By Finovate
News•Feb 23, 2026
With Steam Decks Selling Out and Game Pass' Future Uncertain, How Will the Next Generation Play Games at All?
Rising RAM prices, driven by AI‑related demand, are inflating component costs for PCs, consoles and handhelds. The shortage has left Steam Decks repeatedly out of stock and forced manufacturers like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to contemplate price hikes. A recent...
By PCGamesN
News•Feb 23, 2026
Officials Build Digital Backbone for Federal Health Care Reform
The Trump administration is constructing a federal digital backbone to support the Great Healthcare Plan, focusing on interoperability, patient identity verification, and transparent prescription pricing. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are advancing a Health Technology Ecosystem that will...
By GovernmentCIO Media & Research
News•Feb 23, 2026
DDR5 RAM Gets Another Fleeting Discount, Lowest Price in Months — Corsair's 32GB Vengeance Kit Is $329 at Woot
Woot is offering Corsair’s 32 GB Vengeance DDR5‑6000 kit for $329.99, the lowest price in months. The discount follows a recent dip from $344 in January but remains far above the $92.99 price seen in early 2025. The price pressure stems...
By Tom's Hardware
News•Feb 23, 2026
SIIM Offers Opportunity for Imaging Information Champions
SIIM is expanding its educational offerings to cultivate imaging informatics champions, providing training, mentorship, and a new virtual hospital sandbox for safe IT practice. The society’s partnership with RSNA has produced a National Imaging Informatics Course, creating a standardized pathway...
By Radiology Business
News•Feb 23, 2026
Designing Scalable Measurement-Based Care Systems for Expanding Health Care Organizations
Measurement‑Based Care (MBC) uses patient‑reported outcome measures like PHQ‑9 and GAD‑7 to turn subjective symptoms into quantitative data, driving up to 95 % improvement in outcomes. As patient volumes grow, manual MBC processes become inefficient, leading to incomplete assessments, clinician burnout,...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 23, 2026
Fintech Focused Banking as a Service Is Reshaping Bank Stability and Consumer Expectations : Analysis
Cornell Law professor Dan Awrey released a working paper titled "Banking, Technology, and Instability" analyzing fintech‑driven Banking‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS). The paper argues BaaS flips traditional outsourcing, with fintechs delegating core banking functions to partner banks, creating regulatory arbitrage. This shift destabilizes...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Feb 23, 2026
One Physician's Committed Effort to Bring Virtual Kidney Care to Rural Georgia
Georgia faces a silent kidney disease crisis, with 1.2 million adults affected and only 147,000 aware of their condition. Dr. Sharica Brookins launched Remote Renal Care in 2018, the state’s first fully virtual nephrology practice, to bridge the specialist gap in...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 23, 2026
HSMAI DC Webinar to Focus on Sales Prospecting Strategies, Tactics
The Washington, D.C. chapter of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is hosting a free, one‑hour webinar on February 25 to sharpen hospitality sales prospecting strategies for 2026. The session features Bob Anderson of Star Performance Inc., who will...
By Hotel News Resource
News•Feb 23, 2026
JFK Airport’s Terminal 4 Awarded Leed® Platinum Certification
JFK International Air Terminal (JFKIAT) announced that Terminal 4 has been recertified at the LEED Platinum level for existing buildings, marking its second Platinum award. The achievement comes amid a $1.5 billion transformation that embeds energy‑efficiency, renewable energy, electric mobility and water‑conservation...
By Airport Improvement Magazine
News•Feb 23, 2026
ArianeGroup and ESA Target Spring 2026 for First Themis Reusable Launcher Hop Test
ESA and ArianeGroup are targeting a spring 2026 hop test for the Themis reusable launcher demonstrator, now installed at Esrange’s Launch Complex 3B. The test will involve the 30‑metre T1H stage powered by a 100‑ton Prometheus methane engine and equipped with...
By SatNews
News•Feb 23, 2026
Uber Autonomous Solutions Turns AV Innovation Into Real-World Operations
Uber Technologies unveiled Uber Autonomous Solutions, a turnkey suite that equips partners with data, mapping, regulatory access, financing and operational tools to commercialize autonomous vehicles worldwide. The offering bundles a high‑resolution multisensor data fleet, dynamic geospatial APIs, an AV‑first in‑car...
By Autonomous Vehicle International
News•Feb 23, 2026
Ubicquia Secures $106 Million To Scale AI Infrastructure Solutions
Ubicquia announced a $106 million Series D round led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, aimed at scaling its AI‑driven infrastructure portfolio worldwide. The company already serves more than 1,000 utilities, municipalities and commercial clients across the U.S., Latin America, Europe...
By Ventureburn
News•Feb 23, 2026
Acme Weather Is an Upgraded Dark Sky Reboot that Knows Your Weather App Sucks, Coming to Android
Acme Weather, built by the original Dark Sky team, is set to launch on Android after an iPhone debut. The app differentiates itself by displaying "alternative possible futures" that illustrate forecast uncertainty alongside the primary prediction. It also incorporates crowdsourced weather...
By 9to5Google
News•Feb 23, 2026
Examining the Size of the US Residential Broadband Opportunity for Leo Satcom
Low‑Earth‑Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband has reached roughly 3 million U.S. households, representing about 2 percent of residential subscriptions after five years. A detailed census‑block analysis shows that 6 percent of homes—dubbed broadband deserts—have no or only legacy DSL options, while 11 percent of rural...
By Via Satellite
News•Feb 23, 2026
Multiple Zero-Day Flaws in PDF Platforms Enable XSS and One-Click Attacks
Researchers at Novee Security uncovered 13 vulnerability categories and 16 zero‑day flaws across Foxit and Apryse PDF platforms, including critical XSS and OS command injection bugs. Using a human‑agent AI swarm, they rapidly identified high‑impact issues such as one‑click attacks...
By HackRead
News•Feb 23, 2026
Skynopy and Safran Space Win the SkyConnect Kenya Project to Digitize and Accelerate the Commercialization of an Antenna in Kenya
Skynopy, backed by French Ministry funding, secured the SkyConnect Kenya project to digitize the Kenya Space Agency's 4.5‑meter S/X‑Band antenna. Partnering with Safran Space, the duo will install Skynopy’s Ground Station Stack and Safran’s virtualized Nuron equipment, linking the antenna...
By Microwave Journal
News•Feb 23, 2026
Mobile Networks Face New Cellular UAV Exploitation Risks
Operation Spiderweb in June 2025 demonstrated how Ukrainian forces hijacked Russian mobile networks to control and stream data from drones, disabling about 20 aircraft. The incident exposed a growing vulnerability as 4G/5G standards now embed native drone support, allowing off‑the‑shelf...
By Telecoms Tech News
News•Feb 23, 2026
Protected: On-Demand Webinar — Using RMIS as a Strategic Enabler: How Risk Leaders Turn Information Into Better Decisions
Origami Risk hosted an on‑demand webinar titled “Using RMIS as a Strategic Enabler,” highlighting how risk leaders can turn risk‑management information systems (RMIS) data into better business decisions. The session detailed the platform’s ability to aggregate insurance, safety, and claims...
By Risk & Insurance
News•Feb 23, 2026
Axelspace to Supply Imagery Data for Japanese Defence Satellite Effort
Japanese micro‑satellite firm Axelspace secured an exclusive contract to supply optical imagery for the Ministry of Defense’s new satellite constellation. The agreement, part of a broader ¥283.1 bn project led by a consortium of Mitsubishi Electric, SKY Perfect JSAT, Mitsui &...
By Airforce Technology
News•Feb 23, 2026
Merck Reorganizes Human Health Work Into Two New Units
Merck is reorganizing its Human Health division into two distinct units—Oncology and Specialty, Pharma & Infectious Diseases—to sharpen focus as its flagship immuno‑oncology drug Keytruda approaches patent expiry. Jannie Oosthuizen, formerly head of U.S. Human Health, will lead the Oncology...
By BioSpace
News•Feb 23, 2026
Taara Unveils Taara Photonics and Taara Beam
Taara, a spin‑out from Google’s X lab, unveiled Taara Photonics—the world’s first wireless communication platform built on an optical phased‑array integrated circuit—and its inaugural product, Taara Beam. The beam‑sized device delivers up to 25 Gbps at low latency across distances of...
By Microwave Journal
News•Feb 23, 2026
FDA Unveils Pathway for Ultra-Rare Disease Therapies
The FDA released draft guidance introducing the Plausible Mechanism Framework, a new approval pathway for individualized therapies targeting ultra‑rare diseases. The framework permits sponsors to seek clearance for gene‑editing and RNA‑based treatments when traditional randomized trials are infeasible due to...
By Becker’s Hospital Review
News•Feb 23, 2026
Bringing Quantum Ideas to the Messy World of Disordered Proteins
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDRs) make up roughly 79 % of human cancer‑associated proteins and defy traditional structure‑based drug design. Akshay Uttarkar’s team introduced QuPepFold, a Python package that translates short peptide sequences onto a tetrahedral lattice and uses a CVaR‑optimized...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Feb 23, 2026
Faster Cancer Screening? New AI System Offers a Better Way to Detect Abnormal Cells
Researchers unveiled Whole‑Slide Edge Tomography, an AI‑driven 3D scanning platform that digitizes every cell on a cytology slide and classifies abnormalities with near‑human accuracy. In tests on cervical samples, the system recorded AUC scores from 0.84 for early changes up...
By Medical Xpress
News•Feb 23, 2026
Northern California Legacy Award Winner Randy Iwasaki: Always on the Move
Randy Iwasaki, the 2024 ENR West Northern California Legacy Award winner, has spent four decades driving technology adoption in California’s transportation sector. From leading Caltrans’ shift to all‑digital design to creating the 2,100‑acre GoMentum Station for autonomous‑vehicle testing, he has...
By Engineering News-Record (ENR)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Technics' Newest Turntable Is a Work of Art – and I've Seen It in Person
Technics unveiled its new SL‑1500CS turntable, priced at £1,099 and slated for a March 2026 release. The model brings high‑end features such as the proprietary ΔΣ‑Drive, a built‑in phono equaliser, and an aluminium die‑cast chassis that dampens vibrations. By incorporating...
By T3
News•Feb 23, 2026
Made Smarter Funding Supports AFD Systems Digital Enhancements for Expertise Growth
AFD Systems secured a £20,000 Made Smarter grant to acquire a high‑precision 3D laser scanner, launching a dedicated metrology and reverse‑engineering team. The new capability integrates scanning data into design, simulation and additive‑manufacturing workflows, enabling faster part development. AFD aims...
By CompositesWorld
News•Feb 23, 2026
Northwest Legacy Award Winner David Baska: How to Stand Firm on Shaky Ground
David Baska, a Northwest Legacy Award recipient, has spent over four decades shaping geotechnical earthquake engineering through research, practice, and mentorship. His career spans seminal work such as co‑authoring the NRCS Seismic Analysis Manual for Dams and guiding the seismic...
By Engineering News-Record (ENR)
News•Feb 23, 2026
As Data Centers Look to Rural New England, Maine Considers a Moratorium
Maine is weighing a moratorium on large data‑center projects as towns like Wiscasset and Lewiston pause or reject high‑cost proposals. State legislators introduced LD 307, which would form a coordination council and could halt developments over 20 megawatts until mid‑2028. The move...
By Route Fifty — Finance (section)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Researchers Baked 3x Inference Speedups Directly Into LLM Weights — without Speculative Decoding
Researchers from Maryland, Livermore Lab, Columbia and TogetherAI introduced a multi‑token prediction (MTP) technique that embeds a special token into existing LLM weights, eliminating the need for separate drafting models. The method uses a self‑distillation student‑teacher training loop to...
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 23, 2026
Waterloo Sparkling Water Names Dentsu Creative Social AOR as Brand Expands
Waterloo Sparkling Water has appointed Dentsu Creative as its social agency of record, coinciding with the rollout of new flavors Banana Berry Bliss, Melon Medley and a year‑round Lemon Italian Ice. The partnership is timed to the opening of the...
By Marketing Dive
News•Feb 23, 2026
The Windows Control Panel Is One Step Closer to Death as Account Rename Option Makes Its Way to Windows 11's...
Microsoft is accelerating the retirement of the legacy Control Panel in Windows 11, moving more settings into the modern Settings app. The user‑account rename function, long housed in Control Panel, now appears in Settings in build 26300.7877, though the feature is...
By Windows Central
News•Feb 23, 2026
Automation Alley Expands Industrial 3D Printing Access for SMEs
Automation Alley’s Project DIAMOnD has opened its Digital Transformation Center to companies outside its membership. The DTC now offers fee‑based access to industrial‑grade polymer and metal 3D printing technologies, including powder‑bed fusion, large‑format FFF/MEX, and directed energy deposition. SMEs can...
By 3D Printing Industry – News