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Are your solar lights not working as they should be? While solar lighting is a fantastic option for your outdoor areas, you’ll likely run into an issue or two with this technology at some stage. Here are five common reasons why your solar lights aren’t working: Battery needs replacing. The pull tab for the battery. Dirty solar panel. Faulty or damaged sensor. Water ingress/intrusion. In this article, you’ll learn about each of these issues and how to remedy them so that you can confidently fix solar lights.…

What lessons can we learn from 2025, as it relates to the construction worker shortage? And how can we use this information to prepare for 2026? These are the questions we are going to answer in today’s blog. The labor challenges facing construction are well documented and as we close out 2025, they remain front and center. Across the United States, demand for labor continues to outpace supply in nearly every region and trade. According to estimates from ABC (Associated Builders and Contractors) earlier this year, the construction industry needs hundreds of thousands of new workers just to keep pace…

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Today’s NYT Strands puzzle could be tough, if you haven’t been tuned in to popular music this year. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are…

Acetaldehyde is an essential chemical building block that plays a major role in modern manufacturing. It is commonly produced using the ethylene-based Wacker oxidation process, a method that is expensive and carries significant environmental drawbacks. Converting bioethanol into acetaldehyde through selective oxidation offers a more sustainable alternative, but most existing catalysts face a familiar problem. When activity increases, selectivity often drops, leaving acetaldehyde yields below 90%. More than ten years ago, researchers Liu and Hensen demonstrated an important advance using an Au/MgCuCr2O4 catalyst. Their work revealed a specific Au0-Cu+ interaction that delivered acetaldehyde yields exceeding 95% at 250°C, while remaining…

Blender Studio is the creative arm of the Blender Foundation and it’s dedicated to producing films, games, and other projects that showcase the full potential of Blender. The studio functions as both an art and technology lab and pushes the boundaries of 3D animation through open productions. All of their assets, production files, and workflows are shared publicly, which gives artists and developers valuable resources to learn from and build upon. Most recently, Blender Studio released its second game, DOGWALK, where the playable character is a dog exploring snowy winter woods with a child. The project was built entirely with…

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every year at the Oscars, attendees leave with gift bags so elaborate they have to be reported as income to the IRS. Luxury skincare, personal training sessions, designer apples that never brown, and extravagant trips are standard issue. But in 2025, Academy Award guests also received a grimmer gift: a yearlong subscription to a white-glove disaster recovery service called Bright Harbor, which has grown popular in the wake of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles last January.If your house is destroyed in…

At a glanceExpert’s Rating Pros Likeable design Sleek companion app Good sleep tracking Choice of dock or case Cons Heart rate tracking not the best Middling battery life AI features aren’t compelling Prone to scratches Our Verdict The Luna Ring 2.0 is another great-looking smart ring that offers good tracking and an app to match. It just doesn’t quite do enough to topple the best rings out there. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Price When ReviewedFrom £269 Best Prices Today: Luna Ring Gen 2 The Luna Ring Gen…

HCLTech moves toward a future of AI-driven growth In sum – what we know: The deal – HCLTech acquires HPE’s Telco Solutions business for up to $160 million, absorbing 1,500 specialists across 39 countries and IP serving over 1 billion devices. An AI strategy – The acquisition centers on AI-led “closed-loop” network automation, enabling self-healing infrastructure to support the “telco to techco” transition. Immediate changes – While HPE pivots to high-margin segments, some analysts remain skeptical regarding the deal’s near-term value accretion for HCLTech. HCLTech is doubling down on telecom infrastructure — specifically as it relates to AI. The Indian IT services giant…

Researchers have achieved a significant step forward in quantum computing by developing a device that is almost 100 times thinner than the width of a human hair. The work, published in the journal Nature Communications, introduces a new type of optical phase modulator designed to precisely control laser light. This capability is essential for running future quantum computers that may rely on thousands or even millions of qubits — the fundamental units used to store and process quantum information. Just as important as its size is how the device is made. Instead of relying on custom-built laboratory equipment, the researchers…

Mainframes are different. They’re the largest, fastest, most capable systems on the planet, and they still run many, if not most, of the most important applications in the commercial world. One reason mainframes remain dominant? Their long history of effectively dealing with business data. In large-scale business data processing environments, a common requirement is the need to deal with many different successive sets of the same type of data. Daily files lead to weekly files, which then roll up into monthly and yearly files, all of which must be easily accessible either individually or as a group, in the desired…