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Enterprise deployments of IoT systems often face IoT scaling challenges if moving from pilot projects to large-scale operations, including connectivity issues. Early-stage deployments typically focus on devices and data collection. Scaling, however, requires consistent network access and cross-border operability.Industry estimates from GSMA place global IoT connections in the tens of billions, increasing the demand on connectivity infrastructure.In automotive applications, connected vehicle systems rely on continuous data exchange between vehicles and cloud services. Systems support functions like telematics and over-the-air software updates, while enabling real-time diagnostics. Maintaining connectivity in regions entails dependencies on local telecom networks and roaming agreements, plus regulatory…

Apple’s CEO transition will undoubtedly impact the whole company to varying degrees, including its services division. A new report sheds light on how John Ternus might approach the Apple TV streaming service specifically. Incoming CEO John Ternus might have bigger ambitions for Apple TV John Ternus, Apple’s incoming CEO, built his career in hardware. Though he recently took on design leadership too, Ternus’s expertise has always been hardware. As a result, fans of Apple services like Apple TV may wonder about the future of those efforts. Hollywood has long questioned whether Apple’s streaming efforts are a long-term strategy or short-term…

A preclinical mouse study found that a light-activated nanomedicine strategy helped pancreatic tumors take up more irinotecan, lowered key resistance mechanisms, and triggered broader antitumor immune activity. Study: Photodynamic Priming and Minocycline Overcome Chemoresistance by Reprogramming the Pancreatic Tumor Immune Microenvironment In Vivo. Image Credit: Saiful52/Shutterstock.com A study published in Advanced Science describes a nanotechnology-based treatment strategy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), one of the hardest cancers to treat. In mouse models, the approach combined photodynamic priming, minocycline-based tumor sensitization, and light-triggered irinotecan delivery through photoactivatable liposomes. These interventions showed successful in improving drug accumulation in tumors, reducing resistance markers,…

According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach 2025 report, the average cost of a corporate data breach in the United States was $10.22 million, up 9 percent from 2024, due to higher regulatory fines and detection and escalation costs. Data breaches disrupt operations, often resulting in loss of data, harm to organizational reputation, fines, and significant costs to restore systems and recover.Data breaches remind us of the importance of cyber resilience as an essential element of survivability and continuity of operations for all organizations, especially those operating mission-essential systems, high-value systems, and/or critical assets. Resilience is also critical to…

For years, finance organizations have industrialized operations through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) standardization and workflow tools leveraging automation, analytics, and chatbots. This improved efficiency in repeatable processes. However, a large portion of finance work remained untouched, particularly work shaped by exceptions, handoffs, approvals, policy interpretation, and follow-through.   Generative AI (gen AI) improved search, drafting, and insight generation. It made finance teams faster. However, it did not fundamentally change how finance work gets executed.  That is why the current wave of interest in agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) matters. The ambition is no longer limited to helping finance teams think faster. It is increasingly about helping them act faster.  As enterprises move from experimentation to deployment, the conversation is shifting from broad promise to practical questions: where can agentic AI create…

A new kind of political threat may be emerging, and it is far less visible than protests or traditional voter manipulation. Researchers warn that highly realistic AI-controlled personas could soon play a major role in shaping public opinion and influencing democratic systems. A recent policy forum paper published in Science describes how large groups of AI-generated personas can convincingly imitate human behavior online. These systems can enter digital communities, participate in discussions, and influence viewpoints at extraordinary speed. Unlike earlier bot networks, these AI agents can coordinate instantly, respond to feedback, and maintain consistent narratives across thousands of accounts. How…

Smart Data Collective has talked a lot about the benefits of big data and AI in marketing over the years. It is clear that brand identity services are now relying on data analytics and data mining to guide how brands present themselves to audiences. There are many ways these tools reveal patterns in customer behavior that were once hidden.How Data Analytics Strengthens Brand Identity ServicesYou can see how companies are shifting their focus from guesswork to measurable insights when building brand images. Another thing that stands out is how analytics allows agencies to refine messaging based on real-time feedback. Keep…

Picture this: A security manager sits down with a whiteboard and a mandate from leadership to finally get serious about OT security across the organization. The plan starts to take shape — dozens of security appliances spanning multiple plant sites, SPAN ports configured on every critical network segment, and a monitoring architecture that would deliver the kind of deep visibility the team has never had before. The executives are thrilled: improved maturity scores all around! It sounds perfect, it’s ambitious, it’s thorough, and it feels like real progress. But then the budget and task spreadsheet starts telling a different story:…

If you hold cryptocurrency, there’s a very simple golden rule that you should always follow. Never hand over your seed phrase.Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love – the front man of blues-hip-hop outfit G. Love & Special Sauce – has learnt that lesson the hard way.In what must have been a painful admission earlier this month, G. Love described how while setting up a new computer, he downloaded what he believed was the legitimate Ledger Live app from Apple’s official App Store.The bogus app tricked the singer into entering his seed phrase – the master key to his cryptocurrency…

Advocacy group Don’t Waste Buildings is calling on the UK government to overhaul its tax system to incentivise the reuse of empty buildings, warning that Britain is missing out on billions of pounds of potential economic growth. The group launched its report, “The Reuse Dividend: Unlocking Economic Growth from Britain’s Existing Buildings”, at a reception in the Palace of Westminster on 14 April, hosted by Labour MP Rachel Blake. The report analyses financial incentives used across eight developed economies — including France, Germany, the US and Ireland — and finds “a proven blueprint that Britain has failed to adopt”. Central…