News•Feb 20, 2026
Realbotix Appoints Eric Olsen, as Chief Operating Officer
Realbotix Corp. announced the appointment of Eric Olsen as Chief Operating Officer of its U.S. subsidiary, Realbotix LLC, based in Nevada. Olsen, formerly Director of Customer Success at Agility Robotics, will oversee operational execution, manufacturing readiness, and commercial scale‑up of the company’s AI‑powered humanoid robots. Simultaneously, Matt McMullen will take on the role of Chief Creative Officer, bolstering the firm’s executive team. Olsen received 300,000 stock options at C$0.33, vesting over three years.
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 20, 2026
Serina Therapeutics Enrols First Patient for SER-252 Trial
Serina Therapeutics has enrolled the first patient in its Phase Ib registrational trial of SER‑252 for advanced Parkinson’s disease. The study, conducted with Parkinson’s Australia and Neuroscience Trials Australia, will assess safety, pharmacokinetics, tolerability and early efficacy, with dosing slated to...
By Hospital Management
News•Feb 20, 2026
Syngene and VivaMed Collaborate on Therapeutic Programmes
Syngene International has entered a strategic collaboration with VivaMed BioPharma to advance AI‑derived drug repurposing programmes. The partnership combines Syngene’s pre‑clinical development capabilities with VivaMed’s AI‑generated therapeutic hypotheses, creating a pathway from computational hits to translational validation. Together they will...
By Hospital Management
News•Feb 20, 2026
Two Petabytes Worth Data of Israeli’s Siphoned, Says Cyber Head
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate disclosed that roughly two petabytes—equivalent to 100 National Library of Israel archives—have been exfiltrated from citizens and institutions over recent years. The breach scale eclipses prior megabyte‑ and terabyte‑level incidents, marking an unprecedented data loss. Concurrently,...
By The Cyber Express
News•Feb 20, 2026
FLYR Hospitality Now Available on Shiji Daylight PMS
Shiji announced that its cloud‑native Daylight PMS now integrates directly with FLYR Hospitality’s AI‑first commercial optimization platform. The connection lets hotel groups automate pricing, forecasting and performance analytics within their existing PMS, replacing manual spreadsheet workflows. FLYR’s Optimize and Insights...
By Hospitality Net – Technology
News•Feb 20, 2026
AuthorityStack.ai Launches to Help Brands Track and Improve Visibility in AI-Generated Search Results
AuthorityStack.ai launched an AI visibility tracking platform that monitors how large language models cite and summarize brand content. The service covers major LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, providing real‑time citation alerts and traffic attribution....
By Techpoint Africa
News•Feb 20, 2026
Researchers Uncover Signalling Pathway Behind Nitrate-Stimulated Root Growth
Researchers identified a MAPKKK called MEKK14 that activates a nitrate‑driven signalling cascade in Arabidopsis thaliana. The cascade triggers the circadian transcription factor CCA1, which in turn up‑regulates MEKK14, forming a positive feedback loop. This loop amplifies auxin signaling, leading to...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Feb 20, 2026
Salesforce Acquires Momentum
Salesforce announced the acquisition of Momentum, a San Francisco‑based conversational‑insights platform, with the purchase price undisclosed. The transaction is slated to close in the first quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027, pending standard conditions. Momentum’s technology captures and structures data from Zoom,...
By FinSMEs
News•Feb 20, 2026
PTZOptics Aims to Make Video More ‘Actionable’ with Visual Reasoning Initiative
PTZOptics announced a Visual Reasoning initiative that fuses its robotic PTZ camera systems with Moondream’s open‑source vision‑language models. The partnership enables real‑time video interpretation, powering features such as auto‑tracking, smarter search, automated indexing, and event‑driven triggers. By offering an open...
By TVBEurope
News•Feb 20, 2026
Boston Launches Curb Lab to Digitise and Coordinate Kerb Space
Boston’s Office of Emerging Technology has launched the Curb Lab, a cross‑department effort that uses artificial intelligence and open‑data assets to produce a live, citywide digital map of curb‑side parking rules. The initiative builds on a three‑year asset‑management platform and...
By Cities Today
News•Feb 20, 2026
Brazil Imposes Anti-Dumping Duties on Chinese Steel
Brazil’s foreign trade committee approved five‑year anti‑dumping duties on a wide range of Chinese steel products after a 2024 investigation revealed pricing below market levels. The duties range from US$323 to US$670 per ton for cold‑rolled coil and US$285 to...
By Just Auto
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News•Feb 20, 2026
[Industry News] Second Stage Brings Innovation in Wishlist Forecasting, Attribution, and More to the Games Industry
Second Stage has launched the TRACKS platform to give PC and console game marketers precise attribution of ad spend to wishlist adds and purchases. The solution consolidates over 65 data integrations, turning fragmented reporting into a single, real‑time dashboard. Backed...
By MCV/Develop
News•Feb 20, 2026
Smile Sets Sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana
The ESA‑China SMILE spacecraft has completed its Atlantic crossing and arrived at Kourou’s Europe’s Spaceport, ready for integration with a Vega‑C launcher. A launch window from 8 April to 7 May 2026 has been set, targeting a comprehensive study of Earth’s response...
By European Space Agency News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Discover Network Shows How Sharing Data Can Turn the Tide on Fraud
Fraud is evolving into a fast‑moving, AI‑driven threat across e‑commerce, payments and identity, outpacing traditional, institution‑by‑institution defenses. Discover Network argues that sharing data through a consortium enables real‑time signal aggregation, tokenization and enhanced decisioning to spot patterns no single bank...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 20, 2026
I Tried Building My Startup Entirely on European Infrastructure
A founder rebuilt his startup using only European cloud and SaaS providers, swapping AWS for Hetzner, Scaleway, Bunny.net, Nebius, and Hanko while self‑hosting core services on Rancher‑managed Kubernetes. The migration revealed lower infrastructure costs and clear data‑residency benefits, but also...
By Hacker News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Omni Hotels & Resorts Modernizes Guest Engagement with Canary Technologies
Omni Hotels & Resorts announced it will integrate Canary Technologies’ Guest Experience Platform across its portfolio. The rollout includes AI‑powered Guest Messaging via SMS, WhatsApp and 100+ languages, plus a mobile‑friendly Digital Compendium that consolidates property information. The partnership aims...
By Hospitality Net – Technology
News•Feb 20, 2026
Middle-Market Confidence Splits in 2026 as Tariffs and Supply Chains Weigh on High-Uncertainty Firms
The 2026 Certainty Project surveyed CFOs of U.S. middle‑market firms (revenues $100 M‑$1 B) and found overall uncertainty stable, but a sharp split between goods and services sectors. Tariff policy shifts and supply‑chain exposure pushed high‑uncertainty among goods producers up 27% year‑over‑year,...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 20, 2026
Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Not Everyone Has the Same Reason.
The Wage to Wallet Index reveals that roughly 60 million hourly workers earning $50,000 or less are turning to side work, with one in five performing regular gigs. While overall job‑security sentiment is rising, financial confidence is splitting: higher‑income salaried professionals...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 20, 2026
A Great Idea for Space? EUSPA CASSINI Challenge Could Help, Jana Kominek Vecerkova
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) has opened the CASSINI Challenge to attract innovative startup ideas for upcoming EU satellite launches. The competition seeks concepts that can transition quickly from prototype to market‑ready solutions, offering participants access...
By Irish Tech News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Application Spotlight: AI-Designed Patient-Specific Spinal Implants Set for First In-Human Procedures in 2026
Nivalon, founded by Todd Hodrinsky and Marcel Janse, is preparing to launch its AI‑designed, patient‑specific spinal implant system, EvoFlex, in first‑in‑human trials slated for 2026. The implants are generated through machine‑learning algorithms that model each patient’s vertebral geometry, aiming to...
By TCT Magazine
News•Feb 20, 2026
Accelerating Rare Disease Cures with ASOs, Gene Editing, and AI
Professor Matthew Wood, Oxford’s leading neuroscientist, heads the Oxford‑Harrington Rare Disease Centre, a partnership designed to fast‑track therapies for rare neuromuscular and genetic disorders. He outlines a vision to make antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and gene‑editing tools more modular, scalable, and...
By Labiotech.eu
News•Feb 20, 2026
LTG Infra CEO: ‘Keeping the Green Course Is More Important than Ever’
Lithuania’s railway electrification will rise from 8% to 28% by year‑end, driven by the Vilnius‑Klaipėda line upgrade and the introduction of the Baltic region’s first battery‑train charging station. CEO Vytis Žalimas highlighted that Rail Baltica will push electrification to 38%,...
By RailTech.com
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI-Empowered Cybersecurity: Key Events and Emerging Trends in 2025
In September 2025 Anthropic disclosed the world’s first autonomous AI‑driven cyberattack, where an AI system executed 80‑90% of the malicious workflow with only a handful of human interventions. The attackers masqueraded as a cybersecurity firm, using Claude Code and the Model...
By Security Boulevard
News•Feb 20, 2026
JAPANNEXT Ships 31.5-inch 6K IPS Monitor with USB-C and KVM
Japanese monitor maker JAPANNEXT has launched the JN‑IPS326K‑HSPC9, a 31.5‑inch IPS display with a native 6K resolution of 6016 × 3384 and a 60 Hz refresh rate. The panel delivers 500 nits brightness, a 1500:1 contrast ratio, full sRGB and 96 % DCI‑P3 coverage, and...
By Guru3D
News•Feb 20, 2026
Altomaxx RPAS Specialist – UAS/RPAS Pilot (Calgary AB)
Altomaxx Technologies, a Canadian drone‑service leader, is hiring experienced UAS/RPAS pilots for its Calgary field‑operations team. The role supports oil‑and‑gas inspections, ground‑penetrating radar, bathymetry, and confined‑space surveys across domestic and international projects. Candidates must hold a Transport Canada RPAS Pilot...
By sUAS News
News•Feb 20, 2026
GeForce RTX 5090 12V-2x6 Connector Melts Even Under a 500W Cap
A Mobile01 user reported that the 12V‑2x6 power connector on a Gigabyte AORUS Master ICE GeForce RTX 5090 melted despite running an aggressive 500 W power cap and a 0.9 V undervolt. The damage centered on the top row of pins on the...
By Guru3D
News•Feb 20, 2026
Japan Tracking Shows AMD Radeon RX 9000 Prices Easing After Spikes
Japanese retail monitoring shows AMD's Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards are entering a modest correction after a sharp 40% price surge in late 2025. Discounts of mid‑teens percent on the RX 9070 XT and up to 20% on the RX 9060 XT 16GB indicate softened demand...
By Guru3D
News•Feb 20, 2026
MSI Teases Frieren Anime Collaboration for a Limited Edition GeForce GPU
MSI has hinted at a limited‑edition graphics card themed around the fantasy anime *Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End*. The tease appeared on X via Ruby_Rapids and points to activity on Bilibili, but MSI has not released a model name, GPU tier,...
By Guru3D
News•Feb 20, 2026
AMD RX 9060 XT Pushed to 4.769 GHz in Record Overclock
AMD released a short clip showing a Radeon RX 9060 XT pushed to a record 4.769 GHz, far above its normal 2.5‑3.13 GHz operating range. The extreme overclock was achieved by two veteran overclockers using liquid‑nitrogen cooling, but AMD omitted details on voltage, power...
By Guru3D
News•Feb 20, 2026
Research Uses Shape Memory Alloy and Fibre-Reinforced Concrete to Strengthen Ageing Bridges
Swiss researchers at Empa have demonstrated a novel bridge‑deck strengthening technique that embeds heat‑activated iron‑based shape memory alloy (Fe‑SMA) bars within an ultra‑high‑performance fibre‑reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) overlay. Laboratory and large‑scale tests on 5 m cantilever slabs showed that the Fe‑SMA/UHPFRC system...
By New Civil Engineer – Technology (UK)
News•Feb 20, 2026
E Vehicle Infrastructure Financing for High Growth
Vietnam aims to host one million electric vehicles by 2030, rising to 3.5 million by 2040, creating a clear need for 100,000‑350,000 public chargers. The paper argues that a shift from a single‑operator, brand‑specific network to an open, interoperable ecosystem will...
By Vietnam Investment Review (VIR)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Old Mutual’s Dhesen Ramsamy to Present at ITWeb AI Summit 2026
Old Mutual’s Group Chief Technology and Data Officer Dhesen Ramsamy will speak at the ITWeb AI Summit 2026 on April 22. He will argue that robust data governance and sovereignty are prerequisites for trustworthy, high‑performing AI. Ramsamy highlights South Africa’s...
By ITWeb (South Africa) – Public Sector
News•Feb 20, 2026
Apple Updates iPhones After Targeted Attacks
Apple released emergency updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS after a previously unknown memory‑corruption flaw in the dyld Dynamic Link Editor (CVE‑2026‑20700) was found being actively exploited. The vulnerability, uncovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, was used alongside two earlier...
By Silicon UK
News•Feb 20, 2026
Remitly Names Former Santander Exec Sebastian Gunningham as New CEO
Remitly announced that Sebastian Gunningham, a former senior executive at Santander, will take over as chief executive officer effective immediately. Gunningham previously led Santander’s consumer banking and digital transformation initiatives across Europe and Latin America. The appointment follows Remitly’s recent...
By Fintech Futures
News•Feb 20, 2026
Built for Speed, Designed for Scale: 6 Gig Workforce Management Leaders in Singapore and Malaysia 2025
The 2025 HR Vendors of the Year awards highlighted six platforms that are redefining gig workforce management in Singapore and Malaysia. As organisations shift from spreadsheets to purpose‑built solutions, the demand for scalable onboarding, real‑time coordination, and compliance has surged....
By Human Resources Online (Asia)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Onboarding in the Metaverse: Does VR Improve Retention?
Companies are replacing static video onboarding with immersive VR experiences to improve new‑hire retention. By building digital twins of offices, adding spatial audio, and gamifying compliance, firms create memorable, interactive training that accelerates cultural integration. Early adopters such as Accenture,...
By HR Tech Series
News•Feb 20, 2026
Security Compass Brings Policy-Driven Security and Compliance to Agentic AI Development
Security Compass unveiled SD Elements for Agentic AI Workflow, a platform that embeds policy‑driven security and compliance checks directly into AI‑assisted software development. The solution automatically generates, validates, and records evidence that both human developers and autonomous AI agents adhere to...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal
Artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, but experts argue that a fully autonomous SOC is impractical. Dan Petrillo of BlueVoyant stresses that AI should augment analysts, handling high‑volume tasks like alert triage while humans retain decision‑making authority. Real‑world constraints—noisy data,...
By Security Boulevard
News•Feb 20, 2026
Moonshot AI Sparks Investor Frenzy as Z.ai and MiniMax Reset Valuation Benchmarks
Moonshot AI is close to extending its $500 million funding round to $700 million, potentially pushing its valuation above $100 billion. The extension adds existing backers Alibaba, Tencent, 5Y Capital and Gaorong Capital, plus new investor Cathay Capital, which is making its first...
By KrASIA
News•Feb 20, 2026
Krikey AI Achieves SOC2 Compliance, Strengthening Security Assurance for Its Professional AI Animation Generator
Krikey AI announced it has earned SOC2 Type II certification and Amazon Web Services Nonprofit and Education competency badges, confirming its 3D animation generator meets rigorous security and operational standards. The certifications validate institutional‑grade data protection for enterprises, schools, and nonprofit...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI Is Different From Other Ed Tech. Here's How (Opinion)
Larry Ferlazzo’s opinion piece highlights the stark polarization surrounding AI in education, contrasting fears of runaway artificial general intelligence with skepticism about its practical value. He urges educators to claim agency rather than passively accept tech‑driven mandates. Ferlazzo proposes four...
By Education Week (Technology section)
News•Feb 20, 2026
The CISO View of Fraud Risk Across the Retail Payment Ecosystem
In a Help Net Security interview, Paul Suarez, VP and CISO of Casey’s, explains that fuel‑payment hardware receives the same disciplined patching and modernization approach as other retail technology. He warns that QR‑code payment methods create fresh fraud opportunities, prompting...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 20, 2026
Quote of the Day: Futurist Ray Kurzweil on AI — ‘...will Be No Distinction, Post-Singularity, Between Human and Machine’
Futurist Ray Kurzweil reiterates his long‑standing prediction that the coming Singularity will erase the line between human and machine, a theme he expands in his 2024 book *The Singularity is Near*. He emphasizes that post‑Singularity reality will merge physical and virtual...
By Mint AI
News•Feb 20, 2026
NVIDIA Releases Dynamo v0.9.0: A Massive Infrastructure Overhaul Featuring FlashIndexer, Multi-Modal Support, and Removed NATS and ETCD
NVIDIA unveiled Dynamo v0.9.0, a major overhaul of its distributed inference platform. The update eliminates NATS and ETCD, swapping them for a ZeroMQ‑based Event Plane and native Kubernetes discovery, cutting operational overhead. It adds full multi‑modal support with an Encode/Prefill/Decode split,...
By MarkTechPost
News•Feb 20, 2026
Meet The People Launches MTP Intelligence, A Proprietary AI-Enabled Platform Unifying Creative, Media and Commerce
Meet The People (MTP) has launched MTP Intelligence, a proprietary AI‑enabled platform that consolidates creative, media, commerce and analytics into a single environment for its ten agency brands. Powered by its own data firm RADaR Analytics, the platform orchestrates end‑to‑end...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 20, 2026
KNOREX Launches Agentic AI-Ready Ads API to Power Cross-Channel Advertising Automation
KNOREX announced the launch of its agentic AI‑ready Ads API, a unified infrastructure layer designed to automate cross‑channel advertising workflows. The API, compatible with Amazon Ads MCP and the open Advertising Common Protocol, enables AI agents to manage campaigns on...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 20, 2026
Leica Launches CM1950 Cryostat with DualEcoTec Cooling System
Leica Biosystems, a Danaher subsidiary, unveiled the Leica CM1950 cryostat equipped with DualEcoTec cooling. The device cools specimens up to three times faster and chambers up to twice as fast, slashing setup and case times. It employs a near‑zero global...
By Medical Design & Outsourcing
News•Feb 20, 2026
The Value of Circular Steel in Modern Construction
7 Steel UK is scaling a fully domestic, circular steel model that turns the UK’s 8 Mt of annual scrap into low‑carbon billets using an electric arc furnace. By keeping scrap in‑country, the company shortens supply chains, boosts material traceability and cuts embodied...
By New Civil Engineer – Technology (UK)
News•Feb 20, 2026
South Africa’s Dynamic Spectrum Breakthrough
Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) was demonstrated in South Africa’s KwaZulu‑Natal region, delivering 5G speeds up to 200 Mbit/s over more than 4 km in both Ntuzuma and Ixopo. The trials, led by regulator Icasa, CSIR and local Wisps, proved that the 3.8‑4.2 GHz...
By TechCentral (South Africa)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Applying Green Energy Tax Policies to Improve Cybersecurity
Governments are proposing to mirror green‑energy tax incentives to boost cybersecurity, pairing financial rewards with a digital trust label similar to ENERGY STAR. The model would grant tax credits or rebates to firms that achieve the label, encouraging security‑by‑design across...
By Help Net Security