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Using excess electricity from grid bottlenecks offers a promising cost reduction pathway, though uncertainty and pricing risks remain Green energy concept (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Lucky Stepeps) Electricity grids need to be carefully balanced, with too low levels of electricity leading to blackouts and too high levels causing damage to grids. Due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, it is possible for specific regions (e.g. the north of Germany) to have an excess of electricity, while the power lines do not have enough capacity to transport it to higher demand regions such as cities and industrial…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced, but value realization has not  Over the past decade, insurers have steadily built the foundations for more intelligent enterprises. Modernized core systems have improved data integrity, advanced analytics have strengthened risk selection and pricing, and more recently, generative AI has accelerated how information is processed, summarized, and communicated across underwriting, claims, and servicing workflows. While the ingredients to transform workflows appear to be in place, enterprise-level value realization remains uneven.  AI is delivering measurable efficiency gains, but translating those gains into sustained operational impact remains a challenge. Work still slows at critical points in the workflow. Teams generate insights and make operational decisions, but those decisions are not always executed with the same speed, consistency, or control. The constraint is no longer intelligence; it is execution.  Insurers are encountering a structural gap between insight generation and execution within live workflows that becomes more pronounced as…

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Every AI query, every model training run, every real-time inference request has to happen somewhere. That somewhere is a data center—and the explosive growth of artificial intelligence is pushing data center infrastructure to its limits.

Researchers led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) have developed a new technique that could greatly improve how scientists study the expansion of the Universe and investigate the mysterious force known as dark energy. Published in Nature Astronomy, the research introduces a framework called CIGaRS that can extract far more information from Type Ia supernovae, the powerful stellar explosions used to measure vast cosmic distances. Unlike many current approaches, the method relies mainly on imaging data rather than expensive spectroscopic observations. The advance is expected to help astronomers take full advantage of the enormous…

Demand forecasting has always been at the center of retail and CPG planning. It shapes inventory decisions, informs production schedules, drives trade promotion investment, and sets the conditions for every S&OP conversation that follows. When the forecast is wrong, costs accumulate quickly, leading to stockouts, excess inventory, margin erosion, and downstream disruption that ripples through the supply chain and commercial teams alike.What has changed in recent years is not the importance of the forecast. It is the degree of difficulty.The Complexity Problem Has Outpaced the ToolsA decade ago, a demand planner working with a few thousand SKUs across a handful…

Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with SAP to move more of its enterprise resource planning environment to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.The agreement was concluded at the end of 2025, according to SAP. It will use the RISE with SAP Methodology, covering Nokia’s ERP processes, data, applications, and operating models.The work is part of Nokia’s existing effort to consolidate multiple ERP systems into a single SAP S/4HANA landscape. The programme covers finance, logistics, warehouse management, trade services, and order fulfilment functions.RISE with SAP is SAP’s cloud ERP transformation programme, covering methodology, migration tools, and managed services.SAP to manage S/4HANA…

Cisco Security and Splunk Security released the Findings Report from the Security Operations Center at RSAC 2026 Conference. This year marked the 10th year of the SOC at RSAC. Since 2017, the mission has stayed consistent: protect the conference network, educate attendees about what happens on an open wireless network, and innovate with new integrations, workflows, and security operations practices. The 2026 SOC was also an important step toward something bigger. We were not yet operating a fully agentic SOC at RSAC 2026, but the foundation was taking shape: integrated telemetry, automated escalation, full packet evidence, AI-protected workflows, and a…

Replacing windows in Fort Myers involves more than picking a style. Lee County sits in a 150 mph design wind speed zone under ASCE 7, which means every window on your home must meet a specific structural threshold — and that threshold must be documented, permitted, and inspected before the job is done. The right window, installed correctly with the right product approval, can reduce cooling costs by 12–25% compared to single-pane glass , qualify your home for wind mitigation insurance credits through Citizens Property Insurance, and provide real storm protection. The wrong window — or a correct window installed…

Getting a complex electronics project off the ground is never easy, but Ken Chan’s latest creation presents some unique challenges. That’s because Chan’s project is designed to literally get off the ground — way off. It is called KENSAT, and it is a 2U CubeSat that is scheduled to go into orbit around the Earth this fall. Perhaps the coolest thing about KENSAT is that it’s not being built in a NASA clean room, but in Chan’s home lab.Rather than simply collecting sensor data or acting as a communications relay, KENSAT is intended to demonstrate that modern edge AI hardware…