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If you’re looking for a snapshot of the Latin American telecommunications landscape going into 2026, look no further than what’s going on in Brazil. As the largest regional economy, Brazil’s telecom market influences the direction of regional markets—and there’s a lot to take note of.

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to long-horizon tasks. We can do Reinforcement Learning (RL) based on divide and conquer, instead of temporal difference (TD) learning.

Databricks customers on Google Cloud running in Classic compute environments can already leverage Google’s C4A VMs powered by its custom Arm-based Axion processor to power their data warehousing, AI, and ETL workloads. This generally available capability delivers meaningful performance and efficiency improvements for organisations running modern, data-intensive applications today.With the combination of Axion, Titanium SSDs, and Hyperdisk balanced storage, customers can achieve ever stronger efficiency gains compared to the previous generation of general-purpose VMs, all while benefiting from the openness, governance, and scalability of the Databricks lakehouse architecture.Proven Performance for the Data + AI EraC4A VMs are purpose-built for cloud…

This week, Cisco introduced major updates designed to transform how you build, integrate, and automate across Meraki and Catalyst platforms. For developers, this means more reliable automation, significantly safer network changes, and accelerated rollouts, all accessible through the operational interfaces you already use. Here’s a closer look at what’s new and why these innovations matter. Ask for Outcomes, Not Commands The Cisco AI Assistant is now integrated into the Meraki dashboard. It intelligently summarizes issues, suggests precise fixes, and executes prebuilt Agentic Workflows. These are multi-step, Cisco-validated automations—such as “create an SSID and deploy across Meraki and Catalyst Center.” Powered…

The Windows Start menu is getting its first major redesign since 2021 and will be rolled out to everyone with the November 11 Patch Tuesday update. The Start menu is now scrollable, so you can move through your apps in one place. New Start UI with Categories view This means the “All” section sits on the main screen, and you do not need to jump to a separate page. Right now, when you open Start, you need to click on All apps to find the list of installed apps. Now, you’ve the “All” section on the homepage. The Start menu has two…

Photo by: Unsplash TORONTO — Rachel Doran, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the provincial government’s proposed repeal of sections 3-5 of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018 in the Fall Economic Statement 2025: “Without setting new tangible objectives for how Ontario will succeed in the energy transition, the province’s removal of climate targets will be a short-sighted hit to our long-term competitiveness and economic prosperity. Instead, Ontario should use this moment to regroup, not retreat, on electrification by setting tangible objectives that will benefit Ontario businesses and ratepayers and set the…

During our SwiftUI Workshop we often notice that very few people seem to know about transitions, even though they’re not very complicated and incredibly useful. Transitions happen when a view is removed from the view tree, or added to the view tree. However, if you’ve done some SwiftUI, you will have noticed that there is no actual way to add views to the view tree — there is no addSubview(_:). Instead, you can only add and remove views through the combination of a state change and using an if statement (or switch or ForEach). In other words, views are somehow…

If you find it difficult to imagine anything good coming out of the decade that gave us shag carpeting, lime green furniture, disco music, and copious body hair, then you are forgetting about personal computing. The machines of the time were odd and archaic by today’s standards, but the 1970s did give birth to now classic machines like the Apple I and Commodore PET. There was a lot more to see than just CB radios and pet rocks!The circuit board design (📷: Alexandra Bastet Stehr)Hardware hacker Alexandra Bastet Stehr is not old enough to have experienced the 1970s firsthand, but…

Charging heavyweights Baseus and UGREEN don’t sell most of their products in India, and this has led to local brands catering to the category instead. Stuffcool is the leading charging brand in India, and I used most of its power banks, chargers, and cables over the last four years.With the Giga Max, Stuffcool is embracing the latest trends in power bank design; it has a vertical design, built-in cable, goes up to 100W, and comes with an integrated panel that shows real-time charging details. It’s this last feature that makes the Giga Max a great product in my usage, and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Iron deficiency is widespread globally. Women are particularly affected, with one in five in Europe suffering from iron deficiency. The consequences are anemia, constant fatigue, chronic headaches and a weakened immune system. Researchers led by ETH professor Raffaele Mezzenga have now developed a new dietary supplement that could efficiently treat iron deficiency and anemia. This development is being co-led by Michael B. Zimmermann, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich. The preparation consists of edible oat protein nanofibrils coated with iron nanoparticles. The corresponding study has just been published in the journal Nature Food. The new iron compound…