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Christian Breidenbach-Kaack, CEO of agnoss, says his company learned key lessons in Europe that can save American MDU owners big frustration. By Brad Randall, Broadband Communities With a playbook adapted for an efficient rollout in the US market, agnoss CEO Christian Breidenbach-Kaack says the level of services agnoss can offer to multi-dwelling units offers clear advantages as a one-stop shop for network design, construction, operation, and maintenance. The company, which has roots in Germany, is known worldwide for developing fully integrated problem solutions. Additionally, the company’s name is a play on words, short for “agnostic networks,” according to their company website.…

Creating new molecules is one of the toughest tasks in chemistry. Whether the goal is a life-saving drug or a cutting-edge material, each compound must be built through a carefully planned series of reactions. Mapping out these steps requires deep expertise and strategic thinking, which is why chemists often spend years mastering the process. A major hurdle is retrosynthesis. In this approach, chemists begin with the final molecule they want and work backward to figure out simpler starting materials and possible reaction routes. This involves many decisions, such as selecting the right building blocks, deciding when to form rings, and…

One of the things we have written a lto about on Smart Data Collective is how data analytics is changing the way people make buying decisions in everyday life. One of the ways that it helps them is with grocery shopping.A recent survey from BusinessWire found that 42% of shoppers are using big data to shop, and there are many grocery customers now relying on apps, digital coupons, purchase histories, and recommendation systems to compare prices and plan meals before they even enter a store.“We are witnessing the early stages of an industry-wide fundamental shift from search to decision,” Liz…

Whereas AWS, Google, and Microsoft are racing to make agent development a “turnkey service-layer experience for cloud-native greenfield workloads,” Red Hat is meeting customers where they live, he said. That is: In hybrid environments, private cloud footprints, regulated industries, and “long-lived” infrastructure. Red Hat serves a “fundamentally different developer” than hyperscalers do, he said. Google Cloud and AWS are optimized for organizations looking to consume agentic AI as a managed service via Gemini Enterprise, Bedrock AgentCore, or Copilot Studio, “where the platform abstracts the complexity and the customer trades control for convenience.” Red Hat’s customers, however, operate predominantly in private…

Most universities have a careers fair. At Bauman Moscow State Technical University, however, an elite group of students appear to have something rather more unusual: a direct pipeline into some of the world’s most notorious state-sponsored hacking groups.A new investigation by a consortium of journalists from The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and The Insider, amongst others, has lifted the lid on a secretive faculty inside one of Russia’s most prestigious technical universities – that has spent years grooming students to become hackers for Russian military intelligence.Reporters managed to obtain a haul of 2,000 internal documents which revealed some of…

For as long as there have been fights over greenwashing — its around four decades since the term was coined — there have been arguments over what the practice looks like. The lack of an agreed definition is actually one reason the debate continues. How can we avoid something we can’t define? Over the past few years, however, a growing number of academics have coalesced around a common approach to identifying greenwashing. The questions-based framework, published in 2022 and now cited by more than 260 studies, has been used to study greenwashing in aviation, fisheries and other industries.  Yet the…

Learn how to organize your codebase. If you are struggling with Xcode project structure, files, naming conventions, read this. Apple has so much frameworks and APIs that I don’t even know many of them. We are also living in the age of application extensions. If you are trying to create a brand new target in Xcode, you might end up scratching your head. 🤔This is great for both for developers and end-users, but after creating a few targets and platforms (your project grows and) you might ask the question:How should I organise my codebase?Don’t worry too much about it, I…

Samsung Electronics today announced the One UI 9 beta program, launching this week beginning with the Galaxy S26 series. Built on the new Android 17, One UI 9 beta delivers expanded creative tools, customization options, a more accessible mobile experience and stronger protection against potential security threats. The full experience of One UI 9 will be introduced with upcoming Galaxy flagship devices later this year, which will include advanced AI features that will make mobile interaction easy and effortless. What’s New in One UI 9 Beta One UI 9 beta introduces several updates across key areas of the mobile experience.…

Tuning Co₃Sn₂S₂’s surface switches the sign of its nonlinear transport Tangled colourful arrows (Courtesy: iStock/Adventtr) Weyl semimetals are quantum materials in which electrons behave as if they are massless, moving with a linear energy-momentum relationship similar to photons. These materials also host Weyl fermions with a built‑in chirality, meaning their spin and momentum are locked in either a left‑ or right‑handed configuration. A distinctive feature of Weyl semimetals is the presence of Fermi arcs which are surface electronic states that connect projections of bulk Weyl nodes. Because these arcs inherit the chirality of the underlying Weyl fermions, their motion is…

Open source solutions provider Red Hat today announced a significant expansion of its developer portfolio, with the general availability of Red Hat Desktop and major enhancements to the Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite. The announcement, made at the Red Hat Summit in Atlanta, addresses the disconnect between experimental local coding and deployment. By unifying the developer experience from the laptop to the cloud, Red Hat treats AI agents as enterprise applications, not merely as  experimental side projects. The centerpiece of today’s news is Red Hat Desktop, built on the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop. It provides a foundation for…