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San Diegans Say Yes to Battery Storage—Even in Their Backyards Shannon Bresnahan   |   Press Releases New Survey Reveals Strong Local Support for Clean Energy and Battery Projects Across San Diego County   SAN DIEGO, CA, June 24, 2025 – A newly released public opinion survey finds that San Diego County residents overwhelmingly support the clean energy transition—and the battery energy storage projects needed to make it happen. The survey, commissioned by Cleantech San Diego and conducted by Probolsky Research in partnership with (W)right On Communications, polled 856 residents from all five supervisorial districts and has a ±3.5% margin of error.…

I’ve released SwiftMail today, a lightweight open-source Swift framework designed to simplify sending and receiving emails via IMAP and SMTP. For AgentCorp, my Swift-based LLM agent framework, I needed a way to enable my AI agents to read and write emails. These agents would interact with users through email—reading new messages via IMAP and sending responses via SMTP. After exploring the Swift package landscape, I found only MailCore2 (last updated in 2020) and NIO IMAP as viable contenders. MailCore2 had build issues, and NIO IMAP, although promising, required significant additional work before it could be practically used. SwiftMail bridges this…

The Aroma Trace is a global innovator in scent marketing, pioneering olfactory branding to enhance emotional connection and brand loyalty. With offices in 12 countries and a presence in more than 47 countries through franchises and distributors, its operations span a vast international footprint. The Aroma Trace’s signature scent diffusion systems can be found in luxury hotels, retail chains, corporate offices, healthcare centres and premium car dealerships around the world – delivering immersive, memory-triggering experiences at every location. To achieve this, The Aroma Trace depends on a network of connected scent diffusers – each requiring seamless, reliable global cellular connectivity…

Perhaps Apple’s AI fiasco wasn’t so much an issue with Apple Intelligence as much as it was Apple not understanding the assignment. Look at what Google has done with AI on its Pixel phones. The point of the Camera Coach is to be helpful to Pixel users who are shooting a photo or video. The Gemini AI model used will analyze the scene and will position the user to give the photo a better chance of becoming an epic shot.Examples of useful AI on the Pixel are the Camera Coach and the Magic CueThe Camera Coach will move the user…

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I’ve been on the road in Europe for the last couple of weeks, and while I was there Thoughtworks released volume 33 of our Technology Radar. Again it’s dominated by the AI wave, with lots of blips capturing our explorations of how to use LLMs and similar technology. “Agents” are the big thing these days but we’re also seeing growing movements in infrastructure orchestration, coding workflows – and the inevitable antipatterns. Many thanks to my colleagues for putting this together again.                 ❄                ❄                ❄                ❄ My trip to Europe started in Amsterdam, for a Thoughtworks event for a few of our clients there.…

Photo: Debora Mittelstaedt Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. He was born in Moscow, and he and his family came to the United States as refugees from the Soviet Union when he was six years old. After graduating from Stanford University in 2005, Simon returned to Moscow to work as a reporter for The Moscow Times, Reuters, the Associated Press and other publications. His political coverage of Russia’s descent into authoritarianism included numerous profiles of Vladimir Putin and interviews…

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping holidays of the year. Falling on the Friday and Monday after Thanksgiving, it’s safe to expect Black Friday deals on thousands of items big and small. As always, the WIRED Reviews team will be scouring the internet to find truly good deals on items we’ve actually hand-tested and would recommend to a friend. While the official sales have not yet started, there are already some great early discounts on reliable gear. Find our favorites below.Don’t miss our other recent deals roundups about the REI Holiday Sale, these Google Pixel…

Compatible Android devices (the Pixel 10 family, at present) need to update the Quick Share Extension in the Privacy and Security section of their settings. If the feature is actually secure and manages to proliferate across other Android devices, I think a lot of people — Android and iOS owners alike — will enjoy using it. Enterprise and regulatory implications IT managers will likely want to make sure it is possible to disable file-sharing through QuickShrare and Air Drop using standard device management tools on both Android and Apple devices. It should be possible on Apple’s systems, as you can…

Generative UI is a powerful capability in which an AI model generates not only content but an entire user experience. Today we introduce a novel implementation of generative UI, which dynamically creates immersive visual experiences and interactive interfaces — such as web pages, games, tools, and applications — that are automatically designed and fully customized in response to any question, instruction, or prompt. These prompts can be as simple as a single word, or as long as needed for detailed instructions. These new types of interfaces are markedly different from the static, predefined interfaces in which AI models typically render…