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Samsung Electronics today announced that its “Coral in Focus” initiative, powered by Ocean Mode,1 an advanced camera feature on the newer Galaxy mobile phones, has received multiple awards for its contributions to coral reef conservation, including Gold in the “Best Sustainability or Conservation Initiative” category at Engage for Good’s 2026 Halo Awards. Additionally, “Coral in Focus,” a documentary tied to the initiative, received the Coastal and Island Culture Award at the 23rd International Ocean Film Festival. Samsung was separately named to Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list for its work advancing mobile innovation in environmental research. These recognitions reflect…

Cancer represents a critical threat to human survival [1]. Current clinical treatments, particularly chemotherapy, targeted therapy and photodynamic therapy, continue to rely on small-molecule drugs [2]. However, their efficacy is often limited by unfavorable physicochemical properties, inadequate pharmacokinetic profiles, and off-target distribution, which collectively complicate formulation design and reduce in vivo delivery efficiency [3], [4]. The emergence of next-generation therapeutics, such as peptide [5], proteins [6] and nucleic acids [7], has introduced additional delivery challenges, as these macromolecules often suffer from poor stability, enzymatic susceptibility, and limited membrane permeability [8]. Nanotechnology-based carriers have attempted to overcome these drawbacks by improving…

Most people who use banking apps never think about what happens behind the scenes when a transaction goes through. They tap a button, money moves, and that’s that. But for the engineers responsible for making sure those transactions work reliably, the reality is considerably more complicated particularly when bugs only reveal themselves under very specific conditions that no test environment ever anticipated. Tanvi Mittal, a software quality engineering practitioner with 15 years of experience in enterprise financial systems, knows this problem intimately. She has spent much of her career building and leading test automation frameworks for large-scale banking applications, and…

AI coding tools have gone from novelty to core infrastructure in under three years. Today, many devs use AI daily, a substantial share of new code is AI-generated, and expectations for automation are rapidly increasing. Sonar is a company specializing in analysis of code quality and security, and they recently released a new survey – the State of Code Developer Survey. The survey provides a deep examination of how developers are using AI in real production environments, and where the real-world gaps and risks still exist. Chris Grams is the CVP of Corporate Marketing at Sonar, and Manish Kapur is…

For over two decades, global Customer Experience (CX) delivery has been anchored in the core principle of cost optimization. The largest and the most effective tool enterprises have used to that end has been through offshore scale. That model is now coming under pressure from a different force altogether. And this time it isn’t technology disruption, but regulatory intent. Recent developments in the US, which include the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and the proposed Keep Call Centers in America Act (KCCAA), signal a decisive shift toward transparency, customer rights, and tighter control over CX delivery…

In terms of performance, V4 is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a huge jump from R1—and it seems to be a strong alternative to just about all the latest big AI models. On the major benchmarks, according to results shared by the company, DeepSeek V4-Pro competes with leading closed-source models, matching the performance of Anthropic’s Claude-Opus-4.6, OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, and Google’s Gemini-3.1. And compared to other open-source models, such as Alibaba’s Qwen-3.5 or Z.ai’s GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4 exceeds them all on coding, math, and STEM problems, making it one of the strongest open-source models ever released.  DeepSeek also says that V4-Pro now ranks among…

GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a “world model”) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the trajectory into virtual states so optimization is parallel across time, (2) adding stochasticity directly to the state iterates for exploration, and (3) reshaping gradients so actions get clean signals while we avoid brittle “state-input” gradients through high-dimensional vision models.

Key Takeaways Regulated industries face a communications visibility gap – fragmented tools, siloed knowledge, and legacy systems slow response times and increase compliance risk. The latest release of EngageOne RapidCX addresses this with three core advances: a Metrics-Driven Homepage, a Communication Tracker, and a governed Next Best Action AI Agent. RapidCX provides a clear modernization path away from legacy Customer Communication Management (CCM) platforms, enabling cloud-ready, compliant, high-quality customer communications. If you manage communications in industries like financial services, insurance, utilities, or the public sector, the pressure is on. Your team is responsible for sending thousands of outbound communications –…

Last week I had the honor of delivering a commencement speech at the University of Namur (uNamur) for their 2025 graduation ceremony. Standing in front of freshly minted computer science graduates, I talked about the future of software development in the age of AI. My message to them was simple: AI will not make you obsolete. We’ve seen tools evolve over the decades, from punch cards to IDEs to AI-assisted coding, but the work remains yours, not the tool’s. The developers who will thrive are those who stay curious, think in systems, communicate with precision, and take ownership of what…

A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors. Buchanan’s hacker handle “Tylerb” once graced a leaderboard in the English-language criminal hacking scene that tracked the most accomplished cyber thieves. Now in U.S. custody and awaiting sentencing, the Dundee, Scotland native…