One Rumored Color for the iPhone 18 Pro? A Rich Dark Cherry Red
Apple may introduce a dark‑cherry red finish for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, according to a Macworld‑cited supply‑chain leak. The rumor also lists light blue, dark gray and a new silver variant as potential options. Apple’s first foldable device, tentatively called Ultra, Fold or iFlip, is expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 series in September, with a more limited color palette. Apple has not confirmed any details.
Congress to Take Up Broadband, Public Safety Bills Under Suspension-of-Rules
Congress will consider a slate of broadband and public‑safety bills under suspension of the rules during the week of April 20, 2026. House measures aim to speed federal permitting, improve emergency‑communication tracking, and reauthorize FirstNet through fiscal year 2037. The Senate will debate...
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'We Can Lose Three [Computers] and Still Ride Through’: Inside the 8-CPU Brain of NASA’s Artemis II that ‘Votes’ on...
NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission relies on an eight‑CPU architecture that runs identical flight software in parallel. The design employs a voting‑style fault‑tolerance system that can silently drop a faulty processor and even survive the loss of three...
Lone Worker Safety with UWB Tech Is Solving Blue-Collar Recruitment Crisis
Heavy‑industry plants are grappling with a severe labor shortage, intensified by safety concerns on sprawling, unmonitored floors. Deploying ultra‑wideband (UWB) real‑time location systems (RTLS) gives precise, sub‑meter tracking of lone workers, instantly alerting responders to emergencies. The technology eliminates blind...
The Human Side of Automation: What HR Teams Can Borrow From E-Commerce
The article shows HR leaders how to adopt e‑commerce automation playbooks to streamline repetitive, rule‑based tasks. It stresses that clean financial data is a prerequisite for reliable workflows, then outlines core pillars—marketing, fulfillment, support, finance—and the tools that power them....
DTE Producer Hoping For FDA Leniency, BLA Approval
The FDA announced it will exercise enforcement discretion for animal‑derived desiccated thyroid extract (DTE), allowing the product to stay on the market even though it is classified as an unapproved biologic. Producers of DTE welcomed the move, noting it preserves...
AI Trusted Less Than Social Media and Airlines, With Grok Placing Last, Survey Says
The American Customer Satisfaction Index gave AI platforms an overall trust score of 73, slightly below social media (78) and airlines (74). Google Gemini led the AI field with a 76 rating, while Grok and Perplexity tied for the lowest...
Tech Bills of the Week: Improving Maternal Health; Expanding Access for Disabled Americans; and More
Congress introduced a suite of bipartisan tech‑focused bills this week, ranging from the Tech to Save Moms Act, which expands telehealth and training for maternal health in underserved areas, to an updated 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act that...
At the World’s Most Famous Arena, New Report Says, a Complex Surveillance System Tracks Fans
Madison Square Garden (MSG) operates an extensive biometric surveillance system that goes beyond typical security, employing facial recognition to maintain internal watch lists. Executive chairman James Dolan has used the technology to bar individuals—such as a graphic‑designer activist and an...
‘The Face Thing Is Probably Going to Break’ — Sam Altman-Backed Firm Warns AI Will Soon Outgrow Facial Recognition, but...
Tools for Humanity, backed by Sam Altman, warns that AI‑generated faces will soon render traditional facial‑recognition unreliable. Its World ID system, anchored by the Orb device, has received a protocol upgrade that enables broader human‑verification use cases. The company is piloting...
My Mountain Mover Expands Into Dental with Virtual Assistants Built for Practice Operations
My Mountain Mover, a leading provider of medical virtual assistants, announced its entry into the dental market with a suite of virtual assistants trained for dental practice operations. The new offering covers reception, scheduling, billing and insurance, and practice‑management‑system simulations,...
Ondas Inc. (ONDS): Among the Best Military Drone Stocks to Buy Right Now
Ondas Inc. announced a $68 million initial order for heavy engineering vehicles under a multi‑year $140 million strategic military procurement program, to be delivered by its subsidiary INDO Earth Moving starting Q4 2026. The same month, its Sentrycs unit secured several multi‑million‑dollar contracts...
Consumer Confidence in AI Is Falling. Why that Matters to Mortgage Brokers
AI adoption in mortgage lending is expanding, but a new Cotality AI in Housing 2026 report shows consumer confidence plummeting. Trust in AI to help find a home fell from 30% in 2025 to just 16% in the latest survey....
Enconfund Revs up Energy Projects
Thailand’s Energy Conservation and Promotion Fund (Enconfund) is shifting from pure research support to commercial‑scale deployment, targeting projects like waste‑to‑oil and green hydrogen. The fund, financed by a 0.05 baht per litre levy, holds roughly 10 bn baht ($300 M) and spends 5‑9 bn...
L3Harris Technologies (LHX) Wins $465 Million Army Contract For Next-Generation Night-Vision System
L3Harris Technologies announced a seven‑year, $465 million contract with the U.S. Army to supply its next‑generation Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) system. The award centers on the company’s NOVA night‑vision goggles, which attach to helmets and deliver continuous situational awareness for...
AI that Gives Advisors More Time for Clients
Maximizer, a Canadian CRM provider, is hosting a May 12 webinar to show financial advisors how practical AI workflows can cut administrative burdens, support compliance, and free time for client interaction. Speakers Gabe Karkanis and Taylor Campbell will demonstrate real‑world use...
Perfect for the Beach, Pool, or Park, This Skullcandy Portable Speaker on Sale for Just $33 Right Now
Skullcandy’s Terrain Mini portable speaker is on sale for $32.99 with free U.S. shipping. The palm‑sized device boasts an IPX7 waterproof rating, Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity up to 33 feet, and up to 14 hours of battery life via USB‑C charging. It includes...
North America Just Got Its First New Kind of Lithium Refinery
Mangrove Lithium has inaugurated North America’s first commercial electrochemical lithium refinery in Delta, British Columbia, capable of processing 1,000 tonnes of lithium annually. The facility, dubbed the Single Stack Plant, can supply battery‑grade lithium for roughly 25,000 electric vehicles each...
FTC Withdraws Demand For Information From NewsGuard
The Federal Trade Commission has withdrawn its civil investigative demand (CID) for information from news‑rating service NewsGuard after reaching settlements with major ad‑holding firms Dentsu, Publicis and WPP. The agreements bar the holding companies from considering a publisher’s political or...
Observability as the Backbone of Compliance in a New Federal Cyber Era
Federal agencies are moving toward continuous compliance validation as AI adoption and a new national cybersecurity strategy raise the stakes for real‑time governance. Lee Koepping argues that observability—beyond simple uptime—must become a unified, enterprise‑wide capability that ties together telemetry, configuration...
Suite Studios & Frame.io Drive: Bringing File Streaming to Creative Teams Everywhere
Suite Studios has integrated its cloud‑native file‑streaming technology into Frame.io Drive, the new desktop application from Adobe’s Frame.io. The integration lets users view and edit media directly in macOS Finder or Windows File Explorer without downloading or syncing files. By embedding...
How Real Estate Agents Can Streamline Client Verification Processes
Real‑estate agents are facing mounting KYC and AML mandates that turn client verification from a back‑office task into a compliance imperative. Manual, fragmented processes cause delays, errors, and lost deals as prospects abandon transactions that feel disorganized. Tools such as...
Notebooks Are Now Available for Free Gemini App Users
Google has expanded the Gemini app’s notebook feature to free users, after a limited rollout to Google AI subscribers. Notebooks act as dedicated project spaces that organize chats, files, and AI outputs, and they include the full suite of Gemini...
The PBS Artemis II Documentary Is Streaming on YouTube
PBS’s NOVA series has released an hour‑long documentary, “Return to the Moon,” that chronicles NASA’s Artemis II mission. The film follows the four‑astronaut crew on their 10‑day lunar‑orbit flight, the first human deep‑space journey since Apollo. It aired on April 15 and...
Keep Operations Running During EHR Downtime
Healthcare providers now treat electronic health record (EHR) downtime as a recurring operational reality rather than a rare glitch. As core clinical and administrative workflows migrate to digital platforms, manual fallback procedures no longer sustain the speed or accuracy required....
These Tiny Hunter-Killers Ram Shahed Drones Right From the Sky. America Wants Them, Too.
The Bumblebee family of quadcopter drones—Ukraine’s AI‑assisted interceptor and the U.S.‑bound Bumblebee V2—use artificial‑intelligence‑guided visual tracking to collide with and destroy hostile Shahed drones. Both systems are inexpensive, lightweight and rely on a “hard‑kill” kinetic strike rather than missiles. The Pentagon’s...
Apple's Original AirTag Still Tracks Effectively, and You Can Get a 4-Pack for Its Best Price Ever
Apple’s first‑generation AirTag remains a reliable Bluetooth tracker, now available in a 4‑pack for $60 at Best Buy—a $39 discount. While the newer Gen 2 adds a louder speaker, Ultra Wideband support and longer range, the original model still covers everyday tracking...
Flawed Cisco Update Threatens to Stop APs From Getting Further Patches
Cisco's recent IOS XE update for over 200 wireless access point models adds a log that grows about 5 MB per day, eventually exhausting flash memory and blocking further patches or bricking devices. Affected models include Catalyst 9130AX, 91361, 9162x, 9164x, IW9167...
ToolWatch Adds Purchase Requests and Approval Workflow Tools
ToolWatch has introduced a Purchase Requests and Approval Workflow module to its asset‑management platform, letting users create, route, and approve procurement requests without leaving the app. The feature consolidates requests, inventory checks, and vendor details, then automatically converts approved requests...
My Meetings Now Populate Todoist Automatically (And How I Set It Up)
A productivity writer created an automation that pushes meeting action items directly into Todoist. Using a transcription service, Lindy AI parses the call, extracts the speaker’s commitments, and creates tasks with appropriate due dates and draft follow‑up emails. The workflow...
Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Emails to AI Companies
Defunct startups are monetizing their digital footprints by selling Slack messages, internal emails, and Jira tickets to AI firms. Companies like SimpleClosure have facilitated over 100 such transactions in the past year, with payouts ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per...
Dell and Nvidia Turn AI Infrastructure Into the New Power Center of Enterprise Tech
Dell Technologies and Nvidia are deepening their partnership to deliver unified AI infrastructure that blends servers, software, and models for enterprise use. The collaboration focuses on flexible, hybrid deployments that span on‑premises, edge, and cloud environments, emphasizing scalability and security....
China Plans To Double Renewable Energy By 2035. That’s The Good News.
On April 17, 2026 China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced a plan to double the country’s non‑fossil energy supply by 2035, using 2025 as a baseline. The roadmap includes massive hydropower projects in Tibet, desert‑based renewable hubs, and a...
California Boosts Mobile Power of Student Dashboard
California’s Student Pathways Dashboard, launched a year ago, has been refreshed with fully mobile capabilities, faster load times, and enhanced accessibility for vision‑impaired users. The upgrade adds an additional year of education and career outcome data, expanding the tool’s analytical...
How to Prepare Your Company for the Era of Agentic ITops
Traditional rules‑based IT operations cost enterprises hundreds of billions annually, relying on manual work to bridge automation gaps. Agentic AI promises to automate incident detection and response, but it requires unified, contextual data to be effective. BigPanda’s IT Knowledge Graph...
305 Broadcast Partners with SCMS to Strengthen LatAm Operations
305 Broadcast announced a strategic alliance with U.S.-based SCMS to boost its service capabilities across Latin America. The partnership lets 305 Broadcast tap into SCMS’s extensive inventory, logistics network, and financial execution while preserving its independent commercial platform. Clients will...
The Missing Link Between Advisory Marketing and Advisory Sales
Advisory services at accounting firms are expanding at a double‑digit 17% rate, but many firms stumble because their marketing speaks in generic terms. By mining discovery‑call transcripts, firms can capture the exact language prospects use around cash flow, margins and...
Epicor Partner Community
Epicor has unveiled its Partner Community as a strategic, long‑term growth engine rather than a simple reseller network. The program highlights partners that have evolved from startups into multi‑million‑dollar enterprises, underscoring the depth of the ecosystem. Epicor emphasizes that partners...
Top 19 AI Red Teaming Tools (2026): Secure Your ML Models
The article outlines AI red teaming as a systematic approach to probe machine‑learning and generative AI models for hidden vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and bias exploitation. It lists 19 leading tools for 2026, ranging from open‑source libraries...
How Mobile Data Can Replace Third-Party Cookies
Third‑party cookies are being phased out, prompting advertisers to seek deterministic alternatives. Telecom‑based identification leverages mobile network data to match users, achieving 70% coverage of a 300,000‑user dataset within three days and delivering roughly 50% audience reach versus under 20%...
Nanobody Repairs Misfolded CFTR Inside Cells, Boosting Function in Cystic Fibrosis
Researchers at Charité‑Berlin and the Leibniz FMP have engineered a cell‑penetrating nanobody that binds the F508del mutant CFTR inside lung cells, restoring proper folding and chloride transport. In vitro, the nanobody remained bound for at least 24 hours and rescued channel...
Anthropic Mocks up Claude Design to Draft Fancy New Pink Slips for Marketing Teams
Anthropic unveiled Claude Design, a research‑preview AI service that generates visual assets from text prompts, extending its Claude Opus 4.7 model to Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise users. The announcement sent Figma’s stock down about 7%, signaling competitive pressure on existing design...
The Claude-Lash Is Here: Opus 4.7 Is Burning Through Tokens — and some People's Patience
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7, promising more intelligent, agentic responses, but the rollout sparked a wave of criticism on X and Reddit. Users flagged hallucinations, a combative tone, and higher token consumption—up to 35% more per request—compared with Opus 4.6....
Federal Cyber Leaders Urge Faster AI Adoption to Counter Evolving Threats
Federal cyber leaders warned that agencies are lagging behind the rapid evolution of AI‑driven threats and called for faster AI adoption. Keith Busby, acting CISO at CMS, emphasized the need to embed AI in security operations while preserving human decision‑making. Anil Chaudhry...
Edmonton Businesses Get Federal Funding to Automate Homebuilding, Manufacturing
The Government of Canada announced an $8.4 million CAD (≈$6.2 million USD) grant through the Regional Tariff Response Initiative to seven Edmonton‑area firms, targeting automation and AI to offset U.S. tariff pressures. Akash Homes will receive $1 million CAD (≈$0.74 million USD) to embed artificial intelligence...
All-Robot Assault in Ukraine Boosts Drone Investing Case
Ukrainian forces announced they seized a Russian position using only ground and air robots, marking a milestone in fully autonomous combat. The claim, made by President Volodymyr Zelensky, underscores the rapid evolution of drone and robotics technology on the battlefield....
A Coding Guide to Build a Production-Grade Background Task Processing System Using Huey with SQLite, Scheduling, Retries, Pipelines, and Concurrency...
The tutorial walks readers through building a production‑grade background task system using Huey with a SQLite backend, avoiding external services like Redis. It sets up a threaded consumer in a notebook, defines tasks with priorities, retries, locking, and pipelines, and...
Man Who Hacked US Supreme Court Filing System Sentenced to Probation
Nicholas Moore pleaded guilty to infiltrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic filing system, as well as the networks of AmeriCorps and the Department of Veterans Affairs, using stolen credentials. He publicly bragged about the breaches on an Instagram account, posting...
Personalized Bioelectrodes Improve Brain Signal Monitoring and Compatibility
Penn State researchers have created 3D‑printed hydrogel bioelectrodes that are customized to an individual’s brain geometry using MRI‑derived models. The honeycomb‑inspired, stretchable design conforms to cortical gyri and sulci far better than conventional stiff, one‑size‑fits‑all probes, delivering higher‑quality electrical signals....
Anthropic’s New Cybersecurity Model Could Get It Back in the Government’s Good Graces
Anthropic is attempting to repair its fraught relationship with the U.S. government by launching Claude Mythos Preview, a cybersecurity‑focused AI model. The model claims to spot vulnerabilities in major browsers, operating systems and other critical internet infrastructure, and has already...