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Learn about the new AI features and products In Azure announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to help modernize your cloud infrastructure. In this article The cloud is more than just a platform—it’s the engine of transformation for every organization. This year at Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re showing how Microsoft Azure modernizes cloud infrastructure at global scale—built for reliability, security, and performance in the AI era. From scalable compute to resilient networks and AI-powered operations, Azure provides the foundation that helps customers innovate faster and operate with confidence. Our strategy is anchored in three key areas, each designed to help customers…

Leading off our news on scams this week, a heads-up for DoorDash users, merchants, and Dashers too. A data breach of an undisclosed size may have impacted you. Per an email sent by the company to “affected DoorDash users where required,” a third party gained access to data that may have included a mix of the following: First and last name Physical address Phone number Email address You might have got the email too. And even if you didn’t, anyone who’s used DoorDash should take note. As to the potential scope of the breach, DoorDash made no comment in its…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Finally! Waymo partnered up with Zeekr awhile back to develop custom-designed robotaxi vehicles for Waymo’s operations. It was a bit of a funny partnership, since Waymo is a US company focused on the US market and Zeekr is a Chinese EV startup. If that wasn’t odd enough in a vacuum, there has of course been the strongly anti-China stance the US has held over the past decade, with President Trump and then President Biden and then President Trump again slapping tariffs on China-produced products. At some point, I started to…

The Firebase Crashlytics SDK allows developers to receive real-time crash reports for their apps. It logs crashes and provides detailed information about their origins, enabling developers to address and resolve issues in subsequent app releases. This, in turn, enhances the app’s stability for users. In this tutorial, we will learn how to integrate the Firebase Crashlytics SDK into an iOS app using Swift. Adding Firebase SDK The first step is to add the Firebase SDK and other dependencies to our project. Follow the steps below to add the Firebase SDK to your project. Go to Firebase Console. Click on Add…

Physical AI: Intelligence that acts in the real world Physical AI differs from traditional AI by directly interacting with and manipulating the physical world. While traditional AI processes data and generates text on screens, Physical AI enables robots, self-driving cars, and smart systems to perceive, understand, and act in real multi-dimensional environments. The key difference: Physical AI understands spatial relationships and physical behavior through training on synthetic and real-world data, bridging the gap between digital intelligence and physical action. How it works: Highly accurate computer simulations create digital twins of real spaces like factories, city streets etc. where virtual sensors…

We spent the past week diving deep into sharing best practices and guidance that helps to make Android apps faster, smaller, and more stable. From the foundational powers of the R8 optimizer and Profile Guided Optimizations, to performance improvements with Jetpack Compose, to a new guide on levelling up your app’s performance, we’ve covered the low effort, high impact tools you need to build a performant app.This post serves as your index and roadmap to revisit these resources whenever you need to optimize. Here are the five key takeaways from our journey together.The single most impactful, low-effort change you can…

Since the Atomic Age of the 20th century, millions of liters of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) have been generated with the production of plutonium for the nuclear weapon programs. The same kind of HLW can also result in reprocessing the used commercial nuclear fuels, even though most of these used fuels in the US have not been reprocessed. These HLWs, mixes of liquid, sediment, and sludge, are composed of unstable nuclides that undergo spontaneous decay processes accompanied by the emission of energetic particles or photons. The various modes of decay encompass alpha, beta, gamma radiation, electron capture, proton emission, neutron…

GitHub Next has this cool project that is basically Copilot for the CLI (command line interface). You can sign up for their waitlist at the Copilot for CLI site. Copilot for CLI provides three shell commands: ??, git? and gh? This is cool and all, but I use PowerShell. Turns out these ?? commands are just router commands to a larger EXE called github-copilot-cli. So if you go “?? something” you’re really going “github-copilot-cli what-the-shell something.” So this means I should be able to to do the same/similar aliases for my PowerShell prompt AND change the injected prompt…

Dave Thomas, author of The Pragmatic Programmer, The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Programming Elixir, Simplicity, and co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about building infrastructure for eBooks. They discuss what an eBook is, the various formats, what infrastructure is needed to build them, how an author writes an book, the history of the Pragmatic Bookshelf, how they have evolved, how to handle links within eBooks, why humans are so important in the writing process and why AI can help with your writing – once you’ve written…

As an auditor of battery manufacturers around the world, University of Maryland mechanical engineer Michael Pecht frequently finds himself touring spotless production floors. They’re akin to “the cleanest hospital that you could imagine–it’s semiconductor-type cleanliness,” he says. But he’s also seen the opposite, and plenty of it. Pecht estimates he’s audited dozens of battery factories where he found employees watering plants next to a production line or smoking cigarettes where particulates and contaminants can get into battery components and compromise their performance and safety.Unfortunately, those kinds of scenes are just the tip of the iceberg. Pecht says he’s seen poorly…