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It usually starts with something small. You’re scrolling TikTok or Instagram, half-paying attention, when a Black Friday ad pops up. It looks like the brand you love—same logo, same photos, same “limited-time deal” language you’ve seen in real promos. The link takes you to a site that looks identical to the real one. The checkout page works. The confirmation email looks legit. Then the payment clears, and the merchant name on your bank statement doesn’t match the store at all. That moment, wait, what did I just buy from?, is becoming the defining holiday-shopping scam of 2025. This year, fake…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I’m sure the New York Times article over the weekend about e-bike injuries has caused a few arguments to erupt. Haven’t we heard of the many benefits of e-bikes — their energy efficiency, their eco-friendliness, the way they get people out of cars and exercising? Yes, those assets are not to be discounted. But what’s missing in many of the conversations about the popularity of e-bikes is the fact that they are quite different from the pedal-it-yourself bicycle you had in your youth. And don’t we need to do a…

Published on: July 9, 2025 Updated on: September 12, 2025Xcode 26 allows developers to opt-in to several of Swift 6.2’s features that will make concurrency more approachable to developers through a compiler setting called “Approachable Concurrency” or SWIFT_APPROACHABLE_CONCURRENCY. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to enable approachable concurrency, and which compiler settings are affected by it.How to enable approachable concurrency in Xcode?To enable approachable concurrency, you should go to your project’s build settings and perform a search for “approachable concurrency” or just the word “approachable”. This will filter all available settings and should show you the setting…

Millions of hours are wasted in traffic every year, and anything short of zero fatalities is unacceptable. Yet departments of transportation and cities worldwide still face a common set of obstacles in transforming Intelligent Transportation Systems to meet the needs of today and the future. At the heart of this transformation lies the ability to connect, secure, manage, and scale increasingly complex roadside infrastructure. At the recent ITS World Congress event in Atlanta, we discussed these challenges and how to overcome them. The event brought together global leaders, researchers, and industry professionals to discuss and showcase new technologies – with…

You went from making websites in middle school to creating one of Japan’s leading recipe apps. What inspired that leap and sparked the idea for DELISH KITCHEN?I’ve loved the internet since I was a kid and always dreamed of creating my own online service. After working on mobile games, I discovered the huge potential for video content on mobile. That’s when the spark for DELISH KITCHEN happened. I was working on new services related to food and saw that people were really struggling with deciding what to make every day. I felt this myself when I used to bake as it was…

CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) are well-known adjuvants that induce innate immunity, particularly dendritic cell activation, by stimulating Toll-like receptor 9. However, the stimulatory efficacy of CpG ODNs is limited by their negative charge, which causes electrostatic repulsion from the cell membrane and hinders cellular uptake. In addition, CpG ODNs are rapidly degraded by nucleases under physiological conditions. To address these challenges, various nanoparticle (NP)-based delivery systems have been developed and applied across biomedical fields. Although various types of NPs have been utilized, the relationship between their physical properties and CpG delivery efficiency remains under investigation. In this study, we selected…

Mac Tahoe (in Beta as of the time of this writing) has this new feature called Edge Light that basically puts a bright picture of an Edge Light around your screen and basically uses the power of OLED to give you a virtual ring light. So I was like, why can’t we also have nice things? I wrote (vibed, with GitHub Copilot and Claude Sonnet 4.5) a Windows Edge Light App (source code at and you can get the latest release here /releases or the app will check for new releases and autoupdate with Updatum). However, as is…

Risk has many dimensions, and different stakeholders have different threat models and risk appetites. Cybersecurity risk is no exception. For example, a vulnerability in a software library could be critical to your operations if you are using the component of the library in which the vulnerability resides, but barely relevant if you are not. The Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) methodology is a framework for different stakeholders to prioritize vulnerabilities according to their distinct risk appetites. Unlike other vulnerability categorization systems that rate on technical severity (impact on operations should the vulnerability to be exploited) or exploitability (how likely it is…

Donating money isn’t the only way you can help people. You can also give your blood.Of the approximately 62 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood, only 3 percent do so each year. But someone needs blood every few seconds in the US. While the average red blood cell transfusion is about three units, a single car accident victim can need up to 100 units of blood.Very few people eligible to donate blood do so each year. The need for blood is even greater around the holiday season. Blood has a limited shelf life and is used for many medical…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shifting from tools that predict to agents that act. That change doesn’t simply add new software to the stack; it rewires how decisions get made, how work flows across teams, and how value is created.   In that world, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is not a buyer of platforms or a keeper of uptime, instead the CIO – the Chief Intelligence Orchestrator, designs how human expertise and autonomous agents learn from each other, supervise each other, and compound value together.  Yes, business units are more involved than ever in technology buying, especially in AI. That’s healthy, demand is closest to the problem. But the center of gravity still sits with the CIO, because only the CIO…