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Press enter or click to view image in full sizeWriting clean and maintainable code is pivotal to any production project. And yet even the most functional code is frowned upon if it doesn’t follow the coding standards that a company sets. A good engineer knows that any big changes need to go through a code review before being merged into the mainline. Yet the most frequent comments made in those types of reviews are often about violations of any coding standards (not the functionality). So why do we care so much about coding standards? Do people really debate tabs versus…

Scientists have observed how energy moves through a molecule immediately after it absorbs light, revealing that individual atoms can record very different parts of the transformation. Using rapid X-ray flashes produced at the European XFEL, the researchers followed changes at specific atoms as the molecule released and redistributed the absorbed energy. Their results show that exposure to light can make an atom more responsive to the movement of neighboring atoms. The technique gives scientists a way to examine extremely fast chemical reactions at the atomic scale and in real time. It could eventually improve understanding of how DNA withstands light…

National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, July 8-9, 2026  Few materials events put the entire value chain in one place as effectively as this one. Over two days at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the Advanced Materials Show ran alongside the Advanced Ceramics Show, Battery Cells and Systems Expo, and Vehicle Electrification Expo. The conference spanned six tracks: the advanced materials landscape; ceramic additive manufacturing; materials, energy, and batteries; testing and characterization; defense and aerospace; and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for materials.  The event’s value lies in that breadth. A single venue held the science, the characterization behind it, the AI now shaping the workflow, the national policy setting priorities, and the capital behind scale-up, allowing attendees to track a technology from synthesis to the end product. The insights below reflect where this combination generated the strongest signals.  Reach out to discuss this topic in depth.  Advanced carbons’ shift to industrial scale  The dedicated advanced carbons program offered the clearest view into…

The milestones for artificial intelligence keep getting grander.In 2023, an A.I. system passed the bar exam. In 2025, the technology helped scientists identify a suspected cause of Alzheimer’s disease. In May, A.I. had advanced so far that it solved a complex math problem that had stumped experts for 80 years. Last week, two A.I. systems under testing went rogue and hacked into a company’s database.And this is still just the beginning.From the American Midwest to the Persian Gulf, hundreds of major data centers now under construction will be turned on in the coming years. They are set to deliver an…

News Prysmian’s deal with Molex is expected to create hundreds of jobs in the United States as the company expands optical fibre output. Edited by Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Cable manufacturer Prysmian has secured a 10-year deal worth up to 5.5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) with electronics firm Molex to supply high-density optical fibre for artificial intelligence data centers. The agreement, announced July 20, includes an upfront payment of 550 million euros. Additionally, it will move Prysmian into the internal data center wiring market to feed surging demand from cloud and AI infrastructure providers, the company says. To fulfill the deal,…

Organizations now use multi-agent systems for customer support, financial analysis, supply chain monitoring, legal research, content workflows, and workplace automation. These systems combine tools such as CrewAI, LangGraph, Microsoft Copilot Studio, RAG, Agentic RAG, memory, tool calling, and human review to divide work across specialized AI agents and improve task completion. For working professionals, the main challenge is no longer awareness. The challenge is choosing the right way to learn and apply agentic workflows. Free courses, no-code programs, technical certificates, and postgraduate options serve different goals, which often creates confusion. Great Learning addresses this gap through a structured roadmap. Beginner…

IntroductionNorthStar Anesthesia manages anesthesia staffing services across 25+ U.S. states with a workforce of roughly 3,000 physicians and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) rotating across facilities, overnight shifts, and on-call rotations. These clinicians do not have steady access to a computer on the job, so they rely on their phones between cases to try to figure out who’s scheduled for the week. When the company adopted a new commercial scheduling platform, it handled most of the job. But there was one thing it deliberately hid: colleagues’ time-off data. For a workforce that trades shifts constantly, this presents a big problem. Dashboards weren’t…

For years, organizations have leveraged AI/ML for specific tasks—from computer vision in video analytics to Google’s BERT powering advanced search and ML models driving predictive analytics. Industry leaders have long pioneered research in natural language processing (NLP) models for speech recognition, text summarization, and sentiment analysis, but the launch of ChatGPT marked the beginning of the AI renaissance and the generative AI era. Overnight, AI shifted from a futuristic concept to an essential daily collaborative tool. The rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI has further accelerated global innovation, disrupted established workflows, and forced every major industry to…

As I’ve explored the possibilities of smarter SD-WAN in my previous two articles, I’ve discussed how AI can be integrated into the network and how intelligence can be pushed out to the edge. However, there’s one area that I didn’t cover in depth, and that is the most important factor in determining whether all of that intelligence at the edge ultimately results in a smarter network or just a noisier one. Let me begin by addressing a common concern regarding whether AI agents are simply superior to MCP. It’s an understandable point to consider; however, these two technologies are fundamentally…

Walmart fell short on many of its environmental pledges for 2025, an outcome it foreshadowed in December 2024. But the world’s largest retailer made demonstrable progress on its carbon footprint: It cut absolute emissions from operations (Scope 1) and electricity (Scope 2) by 7.5 percent to 14.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) during the 2026 fiscal year ended Jan. 31 — a cumulative reduction of 24.6 percent since 2016. The total for its indirect emissions (Scope 3) rose about 3 percent to an estimated 635 million mtCO2e.  In addition, Walmart reduced its carbon intensity, which measures emissions…