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Verizon has joined AT&T in challenging T-Mobile’s aggressive switching strategy that includes promotions, pricing comparisons, and a new Easy Switch tool In sum – what to know: Escalating legal pushback – Verizon’s lawsuit over disputed $1,000 savings claims comes on the heels of AT&T’s separate challenge to T-Mobile’s Easy Switch onboarding tool. Misleading consumers? – Both suits raise questions about transparency in pricing comparisons and the use of automated systems to access customer account data. Verizon last week sued T-Mobile US, arguing that its claims of more than $1,000 in annual savings for switchers are “mathematical fiction” and that the…

Synthetic materials are widely used across science, engineering, and industry, but most are designed to perform only a narrow range of tasks. A research team at Penn State set out to change that. Led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME), the group developed a new fabrication technique that can produce multifunctional “smart synthetic skin.” These adaptable materials can be programmed to perform a wide variety of tasks, including hiding or revealing information, enabling adaptive camouflage, and supporting soft robotic systems. Using this new approach, the researchers created a programmable smart skin made from hydrogel, a…

Payment delays often appear minor at first. An invoice sits unpaid for a few extra days, or a customer asks for an extension. Over time, these small disruptions create wider financial strain that affects planning, staffing, and growth. Artificial intelligence now plays a central role in showing how late payments move through an organization and where the true costs emerge.Turning Payment Data Into Clear SignalsTraditional reporting shows overdue balances and aging summaries, but it rarely explains how delays influence the rest of the operation. AI systems analyze payment history, customer behavior, and cash flow patterns together. This approach reveals correlations…

7 p.m., end of the first day of security operations and first day of training course. My teammate and friend René Straube and I enjoy a well-deserved dinner at an Italian restaurant near the Excel conference center. This is his first time accompanying us to the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC), so naturally, we discuss his impressions. After sharing many positive things, René said to me: “You know, what’s frustrating as an XDR analyst is that very often, during an incident, we see network detections to a public IP address, but we have no idea why that connection was made because we don’t…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! China’s aluminum manufacturing CO2 emissions likely peaked in 2024, not because production collapsed or because a single policy suddenly bit, but because the structure of where aluminum is made and how it is made changed in ways that compound over time. Aluminum is a useful material to examine because it is dominated by electricity demand, geographically sensitive, and produced at a scale where relatively small structural shifts show up clearly in national emissions data. Aluminum output in China 2010 to 2040 by author…

SwiftUI TabView with .page style seems to allow user interaction to interrupt an in-flight page transition, leaving the UI in an inconsistent state. Expected: the visible page always matches the bound selection. Observed: if the user taps/drags the pager during a programmatic page change, the bound selection updates, but the visible page can remain the previous one. After that, subsequent page changes can “jump” (e.g. two pages at a time), because the visual page and selection have diverged. Here is a GIF showing the issue: In the GIF, I start with selection = 5 and page “Page 5” visible. I…

Large-scale IoT fleet migrations to the cloud represent one of the most complex technical transformations that organizations face today. While the benefits of cloud migration are clear, the path to successful implementation requires careful planning and execution. In a previous blog post we elaborated on key reasons to migrate to AWS IoT Core. In this blog post, we’ll share a proven strategy for transitioning IoT fleets with hundreds of millions of devices to AWS IoT Core, addressing common challenges, outlining a specific migration scenario, and delving into the AWS IoT Core features that facilitate complex migrations. Challenges with self-managed IoT…

No news isn’t usually good news when it comes to hardware, and the expectations for the new Apple products coming soon are somewhat underwhelming. But when it comes to software updates, sometimes less really is more. A new report says that this will be the case with iOS 27, but is that really a possibility – and would it be the right call for Apple … ? So-so hardware updates on the way Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman didn’t have much news for us in yesterday’s Power On newsletter. The iPhone 17e details he reported are in line with what we already…

Enzymes orchestrate chemical transformations with unparalleled efficiency and specificity, a prowess derived from evolutionarily optimized active sites and finely tuned microenvironments [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. Their catalytic perfection, however, is often circumscribed by inherent vulnerabilities—structural fragility, narrow operational windows (pH, temperature), and high production costs [7]. Consequently, considerable efforts have been directed toward developing biomimetic alternatives that emulate enzymatic function while enhancing robustness, substrate adaptability, and operational flexibility [8], [9], [10].Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), initially designed to mimic antibody-antigen recognition [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], have emerged as a versatile platform for this purpose. When…

Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? Do you leave stakeholder meetings with unclear directives that often seem to contradict previous conversations? You know a better understanding of user needs would help the team get clear on what you are actually trying to accomplish, but time and budget for research is tight. When it comes to asking for more direct contact with your users, you might feel like poor Oliver Twist, timidly asking, “Please, sir, I want some more.”  Article Continues…