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Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers. “As consumers embrace conversational experiences, they expect seamless transitions from brainstorming and research to final purchase. That means it’s critical to support real-time inventory checks, dynamic pricing, and instant transactions, all within the user’s current conversational context,” Google wrote in a blog post. According to Google, current infrastructure doesn’t support…

Ekco, one of Europe’s leading security-first managed service providers, has announced that it is opening a new office in Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean, representing an investment of €10 million over the next two years. The company’s expansion in the Caribbean will lead to the creation of 18 jobs by the end of 2027. It will enable Ekco to more than double its revenues in the region from €2 million to €5 million over the same period. This expansion builds on Ekco’s strong presence across the Caribbean over the past 12 years. The Irish-founded and headquartered company, with a…

4G connectivity is not a luxury anymore in India. It is a necessity. If you are not connected to the 4G or the 5G network in any part of India, then life really slows down for you. Everyone’s on the internet – your friends, your family, in fact the businesses like Swiggy, Zomato, and more, from which you run your regular life. But in the rural areas of the country, the incentive to invest much money isn’t there for the private telcos. While that has been changing in the last year, it still isn’t at a place where it can…

2026 is going to be an incredible year for Xbox players – you might even call it a… fabled year. To celebrate, we’re kicking it off with the fourth installment of our Developer_Direct broadcast on January 22, bringing you news, new gameplay, and insights directly from the incredible teams working on titles coming this year. Presented by the game creators themselves, Developer_Direct will once again give you an inside look at not just the games, but the studios working to bring them to life. Fittingly for Xbox’s 25th anniversary year, that includes the return of some of our most legendary…

We see this most clearly in the friction around opting out. In 2025, Microsoft and GitHub challenged developer trust by pushing Copilot deeper into core workflows without giving maintainers clean, reliable control over it. For example, two of the most upvoted GitHub Community threads in the prior 12 months were requests to block Copilot-generated issues and pull requests, and to fix the inability to disable automatic Copilot code reviews. Beyond this friction, GitHub has made ecosystem-level shifts that feel like rug pulls to integrators. In a move that shocked many, they announced a hard sunset for Copilot Extensions built as…

Reusing passwords may feel like a harmless shortcut – until a single breach opens the door to multiple accounts 08 Jan 2026  •  , 4 min. read Reusing the same password across multiple accounts may be convenient, but it sets you up for trouble that can cascade across your digital life. This (bad) habit creates the perfect opening for credential stuffing, a technique where bad actors take a list of previously exposed login credentials and systematically feed the username and password pairs into the login fields of selected online services. And if you recycle the same credentials across various accounts,…

Despite what you may have heard, the electric vehicle has not fallen out of favour.  On the contrary, global EV sales are up 23 per cent year to date so far in 2025, and it’s not just China, where sales are up 22 per cent, or Europe, up 32 per cent — it’s also the less-talked-about rest of the world, which has collectively seen a 48 per cent increase in EV sales. Indeed, it is North America that is the EV outlier with its paltry 4 per cent sales increase in 2025. And believe it or not, despite everything Trump has…

Ultrahuman is a consumer health-tech startup that provides daily well-being insights to users based on biometric data from the company’s wearables, like the RING Air and the M1 Live Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). The Ultrahuman team leaned on Gemini in Android Studio’s contextually aware tools to streamline and accelerate their development process.Ultrahuman’s app is maintained by a lean team of just eight developers. They prioritize building features that their users love, and have a backlog of bugs and needed performance improvements that take a lot of time. The team needed to scale up their output of feature improvements, and also…

Last year, researchers led by UCLA achieved a milestone that physicists had pursued for half a century. They succeeded in making radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and release photons in a controlled way, similar to how electrons behave inside atoms. The idea was first proposed by the team in 2008, and its realization is expected to open the door to a new generation of extremely precise clocks. These advances could dramatically improve navigation systems and may even help scientists test whether some of nature’s fundamental constants change over time. Despite the breakthrough, a serious limitation remained. The specific isotope required for…

As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be no shortage of marketing hype around personalization platforms, we still have very few standardized approaches for implementing personalized UX. Article Continues Below That’s where we come in. After completing dozens of personalization projects over the past few years, we gave ourselves a goal: could you create a holistic personalization framework specifically for UX practitioners? The Personalization Pyramid is a designer-centric model for standing…