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Meta announced it will retire Horizon Workrooms, its business‑focused VR collaboration app, on 16 February 2026 and cease sales of commercial Quest headsets by 20 February 2026. The move signals a strategic pivot toward artificial‑intelligence initiatives while keeping its consumer‑oriented VR lineup intact. Meta did not disclose user numbers for Workrooms, but earlier data suggested the broader Horizon platform had about 300,000 users, most of whom were on the consumer‑centric Horizon Worlds. Business customers are now advised to migrate to traditional tools such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
The article presents six essential legal and financial tips for technology enthusiasts, ranging from understanding regional legal obligations to protecting intellectual property, securing online presence, planning tech‑related investments, complying with privacy regulations, and seeking professional counsel. It stresses proactive compliance...
A new arXiv paper shows that carbon dioxide, the dominant component of Mars’ atmosphere, can serve as a viable shield gas for selective laser melting (SLM) metal 3D printing. While Argon delivers about 98% area retention, CO₂ achieves roughly 85%,...
Conduent announced the opening of an AI Experience Center at its Florham Park headquarters, offering a collaborative space where clients can explore AI and generative‑AI solutions tailored to commercial, transportation and government sectors. The showcase includes use cases in customer experience,...
Microsoft Advertising unveiled a suite of enhancements, launching an open‑beta for customer‑acquisition goals and introducing Share of Voice (SOV) metrics that surface impression and click share data. Asset‑group‑level URL options and tracking templates now let advertisers tag performance at a...
Newo.ai has teamed up with IONOS to launch an AI‑powered Receptionist that small businesses can install in as little as three minutes through the IONOS portal. The solution handles phone calls, texts, web chat and social media 24/7, aiming to...
TeqBlaze has introduced TeqMate AI, an intelligent assistant designed to automate routine AdOps workflows within its white‑label SSP platform. The chat‑based tool provides instant access to platform logic, documentation, and diagnostic recommendations, allowing teams to resolve delivery issues and auction...
An international team using the Five‑hundred‑meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), nicknamed “China Sky Eye,” has delivered the first decisive evidence that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) arise in binary stellar systems. After 20 months of monitoring the repeating source FRB 220529A,...
Inflation is eroding fiat purchasing power, prompting investors to seek new hedges beyond traditional assets. Browser‑based cashback extensions turn everyday spending into a micro‑investing engine, automatically recapturing value that would otherwise be lost. Platforms such as ReBITme extend this model...
Google Ads has moved the Manual CPC bidding option into the Conversions goal section, now labeled “Manually set bids.” Previously, advertisers had to navigate to the “Select a bid strategy directly (not recommended)” area to use Manual CPC. The UI...
Microsoft is investigating a January Windows 11 security update (KB5074109) that causes the classic Outlook desktop client to freeze for users with POP email accounts. The problem affects devices running the 25H2 and 24H2 builds, preventing Outlook from exiting cleanly and...
Google Ads has begun a limited rollout allowing select merchants to conduct A/B tests on product titles and images within Shopping Ads. The test, announced by Google Ads liaison Ginny Marvin, will provide performance data after three to four weeks....
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended 104 medicines for approval in 2025, marking the second‑highest total in the past 15 years. Of those, 38 are classified as novel drugs, a figure that trails the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
FinOps platform Ternary has partnered with autonomous BigQuery optimizer Alvin to deliver a combined solution for Google Cloud cost management. The joint offering blends Ternary’s end‑to‑end visibility, budgeting and anomaly detection with Alvin’s continuous, AI‑driven query optimization. Together they aim...
Ocugen reported that its phase‑2 ArMaDa trial of the gene therapy OCU410 achieved a 46% reduction in geographic atrophy lesion growth for medium and high doses, with the medium dose showing a 54% reduction. The data also revealed a 60%...
The TamperedChef campaign uses malvertising to deliver trojanized PDF manuals that install a backdoor-infostealer on victim networks. Researchers at Sophos observed widespread targeting across Europe, especially in Germany, the UK and France, focusing on firms that rely on specialized technical...
Haydale has completed its acquisition of Intelligent Resource Management Limited, trading as SaveMoneyCutCarbon (SMCC), after raising roughly £5.75 million in associated fundraising. The deal brings SMCC’s Impact Partner Programme and JustHeat technology under Haydale’s graphene‑enabled portfolio, creating immediate cross‑selling opportunities. SMCC’s...
Cybersecurity venture funding surged to $18 billion in 2025, a 26% increase over 2024 and the third‑largest total in a decade. Seven mega‑rounds of $400 million or more, highlighted by Cyera’s $940 million and Saviynt’s $700 million raises, drove the headline growth. Despite higher...
Novo Nordisk and BioMarin announced strategic partnerships to integrate artificial intelligence into their drug discovery pipelines, aiming to accelerate candidate identification and reduce development costs. Novo Nordisk highlighted a collaboration with a leading AI firm to model peptide therapeutics, while...
Remarketing lists remain a reliable lever in PPC, especially for search campaigns, by allowing advertisers to target users based on actual site interactions. The article outlines ten practical list strategies across the funnel—from video engagement and lookalike creation to bid...
In 2026 data management is moving from fragmented toolchains to unified, AI‑ready platforms. Native governance is being baked into catalog services like Unity Catalog and Snowflake Horizon, automating quality checks while retaining human decision‑making. The lakehouse architecture is consolidating storage,...
Enterprise leaders are wrestling with the promise of agentic AI that layers intelligent agents over traditional systems of record. Vendors tout a three‑tier stack—transactional applications, data platforms, and AI agents—but CIOs face a budget paradox: data teams lack funds for...
Topshop has unveiled a dedicated EU ecommerce site, eu.topshop.com, covering 23 European markets and built on Shopify for faster browsing and richer storytelling. The launch follows ASOS's 2021 acquisition of the brand after Arcadia's collapse, aiming to transform the iconic...
China has detailed coordinated plans for two solar‑system‑boundary missions, targeting the heliosphere’s head and tail with launches in 2033 and 2032 on Long March 5 rockets. Both spacecraft will carry 1 kWe nuclear heat‑pipe reactors, enabling over 30 years of operation and a mass...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Université Paris‑Saclay propose that dark matter may have been born ultrarelativistic—essentially "red hot"—during the post‑inflationary reheating era, contrary to the long‑standing belief that it must be cold from birth. Their analysis shows that such...
Researchers used atomistic simulations to show that frozen hydrogen cyanide (HCN) crystals generate intense electric fields on their facets, accelerating chemical reactions at cryogenic temperatures. The study identified surface pathways that convert HCN into its more reactive isomer, hydrogen isocyanide...
A new study shows Earth’s axial precession can drive abrupt, millennial‑scale climate swings even without ice sheets. Using high‑resolution sediment cores from China’s Songliao Basin, researchers identified 4,000‑5,000‑year humid‑arid cycles during the Late Cretaceous, a greenhouse period with CO₂ around...
NASA has launched the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table, a global competition that asks innovators to design a self‑sustaining, Earth‑independent food system for long‑duration missions to the Moon and Mars. The contest, backed by a prize pool of up...
Spire Global launched nine satellites on SpaceX’s Twilight mission, featuring its first hyperspectral microwave sounder (HyMS) and eight Myriota IoT payloads. HyMS is designed to deliver high‑resolution temperature, humidity and precipitation profiles, especially in cloudy conditions, to improve numerical weather‑prediction...
eSentire’s 2025 Year in Review reports a 389 % year‑over‑year surge in account compromise, now accounting for 55 % of all attacks. Credential theft dominates, representing 75 % of malicious activity, with Microsoft 365 as the prime target. Phishing‑as‑a‑Service (PHaaS) kits drove 63 % of...
In 2026 businesses are reverting to hardware‑centric SMS gateways to gain control, cost predictability, and reliable high‑volume messaging. Skyline emerges as the leading low‑cost provider, offering multi‑port modems that can send up to 5,440 SMS per minute and support auto‑SIM...
China’s government has ordered domestic companies to cease using cybersecurity software from U.S. and Israeli vendors, naming more than a dozen firms including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point. Most of the listed companies say they have little or no...
Japanese launch startup Interstellar Technologies announced a Series F financing round that raised 20.1 billion yen (about $130 million), nearly doubling its total capital to 44.6 billion yen. The round combined 14.8 billion yen of equity, led by Woven by Toyota, and 5.3 billion yen of...
Dropzone AI announced an explosive 2025 performance, scaling its annual recurring revenue eleven‑fold and securing a $37 million Series B round led by Theory Ventures. The company now serves over 300 enterprises, achieving 370% net revenue retention and expanding into regulated sectors...
Oxbow Partners, a specialist insurance strategy consultancy, has opened its first North American office in New York, marking a strategic US expansion. The new location will deliver corporate advisory services such as commercial due diligence, post‑acquisition strategy, and integration support....
Researchers at Mass General Brigham unveiled an autonomous, agentic AI system that scans routine clinical notes to flag early cognitive impairment. The platform, built from five specialized LLM agents, demonstrated 98% specificity and 91% sensitivity in balanced testing, though real‑world...
Vixio, a RegTech platform launched in 2006, now serves financial services, gambling and payments firms by automating regulatory change management with AI‑enhanced technology and human expertise. It monitors 200+ jurisdictions, 1,400 authorities and over four million data points, offering tools...
OpenAI has launched a four‑city Nonprofit Jam tour in India to move artificial‑intelligence pilots into full‑scale deployments for social‑sector organisations. The program, partnered with Karya and Wadhwani AI, targets NGOs serving rural communities and showcases use cases such as health‑triage, auto‑grading...
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) closed a $700 million acquisition of Coastal Cloud, a leading pure‑play Salesforce consultancy in the United States. The deal adds roughly 400 Salesforce consultants and over 3,000 multi‑cloud certifications to TCS, bolstering its Agentforce 360 AI platform. Together...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1 2025, is making its final public appearance via a Virtual Telescope Project livestream on Jan 16 2026. After a bright perihelion on Oct 29 2025 and a close Earth flyby on Dec 19 2025, the comet will swing past Jupiter in March 2026...
WHSmith North America Media Network has teamed with In‑Store Marketplace (ISM) to launch a retail media network across U.S. airports. The collaboration merges more than 700 digital screens and audio assets into a single programmatic ecosystem, leveraging Mood Media’s hardware...
Fintechs Bilt and Affirm are rolling out new credit products as political pressure mounts on traditional bank‑issued cards. Bilt introduced three cards with a 10% APR cap for the first year, while Affirm is preparing a rent‑pay‑later offering with real‑time...
Quantiphi has secured a USPTO patent for the AI-driven three-way comparison engine embedded in its Dociphi platform. The patented system enables simultaneous visual validation of multiple document versions, highlighting entity differences and routing discrepancies through a secure Human-in-the-Loop workflow. Designed...
Dialpad announced the launch of its full suite of real‑time AI communication tools in Japan, partnering with SoftBank to accelerate adoption across enterprises and SMBs. The offering includes Japanese transcription, AI‑generated Recaps with action items, and live coaching, all powered...
Vinted Pay, the payments arm of Europe’s leading second‑hand marketplace, has partnered with AMLYZE to embed advanced AML/CFT compliance technology as it rolls out across new markets. AMLYZE will provide real‑time transaction monitoring and customer risk assessment tools, leveraging its...
The 2026 review evaluates five leading e‑signature platforms—pdfFiller, Scrive, OneSpan, Adobe Sign, and DocuSign—tailored for financial institutions. It outlines each solution’s core features, compliance focus, and pricing structures, highlighting pdfFiller’s low‑cost integration and OneSpan’s bank‑grade security. The analysis shows how...
EDETEK Inc. unveiled Ensemble, an AI‑managed service that operationalizes validated, human‑supervised artificial intelligence across the clinical development lifecycle. The offering combines best‑fit large language and multimodal models, agentic automation, and domain experts to deliver production‑grade outputs such as SAP, SDTM,...
Ascot Group, after acquiring AmFed, modernized its workers' compensation platform to enable online insurance services. VP of IT Brenda Van Velkinburgh led a shift from a 30‑year legacy system to the OutSystems low‑code platform, delivering quoting, policy administration, claims, and client...
Nevado AI has launched an autonomous, agent‑orchestrated platform tailored for financial services and insurers, aiming to replace cumbersome legacy systems. The solution bundles compliance, human oversight, and deep industry context into a unified AI‑native environment. By automating workflow orchestration and...
In early 2025 LinkedIn altered its feed algorithm, introducing proxy bias that dramatically reduced visibility for women founders and other protected groups. Controlled experiments showed female accounts reaching as low as 0.6% of their audience, while comparable male accounts achieved...
