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As AI technologies advance, truly helpful agents will become capable of better anticipating user needs. For experiences on mobile devices to be truly helpful, the underlying models need to understand what the user is doing (or trying to do) when users interact with them. Once current and previous tasks are understood, the model has more context to predict potential next actions. For example, if a user previously searched for music festivals across Europe and is now looking for a flight to London, the agent could offer to find festivals in London on those specific dates.Large multimodal LLMs are already quite…

I have spent the last several years watching enterprise collaboration tools get smarter. Join a video call today, and there’s a good chance five or six AI agents are running simultaneously: transcription, speaker identification, captions, summarization, task extraction. On the product side of it, each agent gets evaluated in isolation. Separate dashboards, separate metrics. Transcription accuracy? Check. Response latency? Check. Error rates? All green. But here is what I consistently observe as a UX Researcher: users are frustrated, adoption stalls, and teams are trying to identify the root cause. Per the metrics, the dashboards look fine. Every individual component passes…

China’s cloud market is entering a new phase, shaped less by basic storage and more by who can support large AI workloads at scale. Established providers still dominate, but the list of serious contenders is starting to change. ByteDance, long tied to consumer apps like TikTok and Douyin, is now making a clearer push into enterprise AI infrastructure.Reporting by the Financial Times shows that ByteDance is expanding Volcano Engine, its cloud unit, with enterprise customers in mind. The effort is not centred on consumer-facing features. Instead, the company is putting money into its own AI models and computing capacity built…

With UK businesses facing volatile energy prices, ever-tightening sustainability targets and increasing regulatory pressure, energy wastage is no longer just a technical issue and it’s one that deserves C-suite level investment. Thankfully, making energy sustainability decisions has been made infinitely easier in recent years thanks to the introduction of smart metres that offer real-time visibility of consumption across electricity, gas and even water. This turns previously opaque overheads into actionable data. Rather than relying on manual reads and spreadsheet-driven assumptions, modern smart metering and monitoring platforms give a continuous, granular picture of what’s being used, where and when. Real-time insights…

Is your construction ERP still living in the past? For decades, construction ERP (enterprise-resource planning) systems served a clear purpose: managing financials and project controls. But as commercial contractors scale operations across multiple entities and projects, a new challenge has emerged. The documents, workflows, and approvals that drive daily execution have become just as critical as the financial data itself. The most significant shift in modern construction ERP isn’t happening in accounting modules or cost controls. It’s occurring in how these platforms handle content management, and it’s fundamentally changing how large contractors operate. Beyond Invoice Routing Most construction professionals recognize…

Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityI wouldn’t say I’m a photography purist (I shoot with a Fuji after all), but one thing that continues to draw me to using my mirrorless over all but the very best smartphone cameras is a more natural look to my pictures.It’s not that smartphones are bad by any stretch of the imagination; some smartphone cameras are absolutely brilliant. But take a closer look, and even the best handsets leave telltale signs of overprocessing; whether it’s oversharpened skin textures from the Pixel’s portrait mode or overly dark shadows in Apple’s HDR algorithm.You don’t have to take…

What if, instead of completely redesigning material composition, researchers could transform physical properties through tiny, nanoscale changes to shape? A new review tracks the progress of nano metamaterials in material design today. Study: Functional nano-architected mechanical metamaterials and devices. Image Credit: PJ_CYCLONE/Shutterstock.com Get all the details: Grab your PDF here! A recent review published in npj Metamaterials brings together a decade of research showing how nano-architected mechanical metamaterials are changing the way engineers think about strength, stiffness, and functionality. Now, instead of solely relying on chemical composition, fine-tuning nanoscale geometry can yield precisely designed architectures that unlock mechanical and multifunctional behavior…

Anyone is capable of having their caps lock key on at any given time without realizing so. Users can easily spot unwanted caps lock when typing in most inputs, but when using a password input, the problem isn’t so obvious. That leads to the user’s password being incorrect, which is an annoyance. Ideally developers could let the user know their caps lock key is activated. To detect if a user has their keyboard’s caps lock turn on, we’ll employ KeyboardEvent’s getModifierState method: document.querySelector(‘input[type=password]’).addEventListener(‘keyup’, function (keyboardEvent) { const capsLockOn = keyboardEvent.getModifierState(‘CapsLock’); if (capsLockOn) { // Warn the user that their caps…

As recently as December 2025, the SEI’s CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) documented a UEFI-related vulnerability in certain motherboard models, illustrating that early-boot firmware behavior continues to present security challenges despite requiring local physical access to exploit. UEFI is a critical element of system firmware because it initializes hardware and boots up the operating system. Tampering with UEFI can support attacks that are particularly difficult to detect and mitigate.This vulnerability is the most recent issue reported, but it is not an outlier. CERT/CC reported seven UEFI vulnerability notes in 2025. While small compared to reported vulnerabilities in other software, the consequences…

There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference, with on-stage appearances by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and even more industry executives. The big topic, unsurprisingly, was AI, with CEOs laying a vision for the technology’s transformative potential while also acknowledging ongoing concerns that they’re inflating a massive bubble. Amidst all that big-picture prognostication, they also found time to take swipes at their competitors, and even at their ostensible partners. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s…