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Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Note: Astute readers who have been around for at least a year may recognize this article below. It’s being recycled for 2025 going into 2026. —Zach Most of us are familiar with A Christmas Carol, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge penned by Charles Dickens at a time when stories were seldom published as entire books but rather chapter by chapter in weekly newspapers. The idea was to get people to buy multiple papers over many weeks in order to maximize revenue for publishers and authors. A Christmas Carol was not…

iOS 16 beta 4 is the first SDK release that supports Live Activities. A Live Activity is a widget-like view an app can place on your lock screen and update in real time. Examples where this can be useful include live sports scores or train departure times. These are my notes on playing with the API and implementing my first Live Activity. A bike computer on your lock screen My Live Activity is a display for a bike computer that I’ve been developing with a group a friends. Here’s a video of it in action: And here with simulated data:…

SEALSQ Corp, a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software product, and Airmod, a renowned French-based embedded software design house specialising in secure electronic systems for aerospace, drones, consumer electronics and IoT applications, has unveiled a game-changing partnership: a production-ready, open-source-enabled middleware stack built directly on SEALSQ Secure DevKits, designed to fast-track the deployment of quantum-resistant devices. This collaboration aims to accelerate the creation of secure IoT applications, thus has the potential to reduce development time by up to 50%. The partnership uses SEALSQ’s expertise in certified secure hardware, pioneering over 130…

Apple is sending out one of its strongest years in recent memory. The iPhone 17 series is one of its best-selling smartphone lineups in recent memory and will help it edge out arch-rival Samsung as the world’s leading smartphone vendor for the first time in over a decade. But 2025 was significant for more than just iPhones as Apple extended its lead in the ARM chipset race with the M5, which is available on a wide variety of devices ranging from iPads, MacBooks and even the updated Vision Pro. The AirPods Pro 3 brought class-leading noise cancellation and upgrades in…

New study reveals how quantum entanglement is transferred in ultrafast photoionisation experiments, offering us insights into how quantum information develops from microscopic to macroscopic scales Entanglement is transferred from photons to electrons and ions in ultrafast ionisation processes (Courtesy iStock/agsandrew) Entanglement is a phenomenon where two or more particles become linked in such a way that a measurement on one of the particles instantly influences the state of the other, no matter how far apart they are. It is a defining property of quantum mechanics, which is key to all quantum technologies and remains a serious challenge to realize in…

I am not a Home Assistant expert, but it’s clearly a massive and powerful ecosystem. I’ve interviewed the creator of Home Assistant on my podcast and I encourage you to check out that chat. Home Assistant can quickly become a hobby that overwhelms you. Every object (entity) in your house that is even remotely connected can become programmable. Everything. Even people! You can declare that any name:value pair that (for example) your phone can expose can be consumable by Home Assistant. Questions like “is Scott home” or “what’s Scott’s phone battery” can be associated with Scott the Entity…

Organizations including the U.S. military, are increasingly adopting cloud deployments for their flexibility and cost savings in deployment. One aspect of such deployments is the shared security model promulgated by NSA, which describes many of the security services that cloud service providers (CSPs) support and provides for cooperation on security issues. This model also leaves security responsibilities on the organizations contracting for service. These responsibilities include ensuring the hosted application is accomplishing its intended purpose for the authorized set of users.Cloud flow logs, as identified by network defenders, are a valuable source of data to support this security responsibility. If…

As Rimtepathip mentioned, the best sunscreen is one that you will actually use and reapply. “There are still keywords to look for depending on a person’s skin type,” she adds. “If a person’s skin is dry, look for sunscreens that have moisturizing ingredients, such as hyaluronic acid. For oily skin, look for the words ‘oil-free’ or ‘noncomedogenic.’ These sunscreens are less likely to clog pores and cause outbreaks. Mineral sunscreens are less irritating to people with sensitive skin. They should also avoid sunscreens with added fragrances.”If you have oily or acne-prone skin, sensitive skin or dry skin on your face,…

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Qualified, positioning the move as an acceleration of agentic capabilities within its Agentforce portfolio. The announcement reinforces Salesforce’s push toward agentic-led go-to-market execution, extending autonomous engagement from service and sales support into early-stage pipeline qualification and acceleration that supports sales execution.  Qualified is a conversational sales execution platform designed to turn enterprise website traffic directly into pipeline. Its Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent, Piper, engages inbound buyers in real time to assess intent, answer questions, qualify demand, and book meetings.   The platform uses behavioral and account-level signals to prioritize high-value prospects, apply account-based routing logic, and trigger appropriate escalation or follow-up actions. With transparency and governance features such as Spotlight, enterprises can monitor and manage how…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is genuinely useful. It gives people who develop AI tools a standardized way to call functions and access data from external systems. Instead of building custom integrations for each data source, you can expose databases, APIs, and internal tools through a common protocol that any AI can understand.However, I’ve been watching teams adopt MCP over the past year, and I’m seeing a disturbing pattern. Developers are using MCP to quickly connect their AI assistants to every data source they can find—customer databases, support tickets, internal APIs, document stores—and dumping it all into the AI’s context.…