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iOS 27 is officially here in beta, and it adds a new Apple Calendar feature I’ve wanted for years: natural language support when creating events. Natural language now supported for Apple Calendar event creation in iOS 27 I’ve used Apple’s Calendar app for years, but there’s one feature that’s been at the top of my wishlist for as long as I can remember: natural language support. The excellent third-party app Fantastical has had a robust natural language feature for years. Fantastical lets you type all the details about a new event in a single line, just the way you might…

Every software project starts with a practical question: how should the client and the development team work together? The answer depends on more than the idea itself. Budget, timeline, team size, technical requirements, expected deliverables, and the client’s role in decision-making all affect the choice. For some projects, it makes sense to hand over the whole development process to an outsourcing partner. Others need extra software engineers to support an in-house team, or a dedicated team that can stay with the product for months or years. The right engagement model helps define responsibilities, keep communication clear, and avoid problems with…

A new roll-based printing method could help turn fragile nanowire forests into dense, aligned, flexible electronic layers for wearable sensors, UV photodetectors, and next-generation device platforms. Image credit: AI-generated with ChatGPT/OpenAI, adapted from Christou et al., npj Flexible Electronics (2026), CC BY 4.0.  A paper recently published as an ‘Article in Press’ in the journal npj Flexible Electronics proposed a roll-contact printing methodology for the deterministic assembly of ultradense, aligned nanowire (NW) arrays for large-area, high-performance flexible electronics. The Need for Deterministic Assembly Semiconductor NWs are advancing several research domains simultaneously. The combination of mechanical flexibility and high carrier mobility…

The critical raw materials conversation has settled into a familiar script about supply concentration, permitting delay, and disclosure. For research leaders in advanced chemicals and materials, that script describes the operating environment and misses the part that lands on the bench.   The sustainability requirements attached to critical raw materials are migrating into the design target itself. Recyclability, substitutability, and verifiable provenance are becoming objectives that sit beside yield and performance in the discovery problem, and each one is a distinct chemistry challenge carrying its own cost. The strategic decision for Research & Development (R&D) is how early to absorb that wider objective into the pipeline.  Reach out to discuss this topic in depth.   The specification is acquiring new mandatory…

The following article originally appeared on Paolo Perrone’s The AI Engineer Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission.Your team picks LangGraph for a customer support chatbot. Three weeks in, you’ve got 14 nodes in a state graph, a custom checkpointer writing to Redis, and retry logic for tool calls that fail once a week. The agent answers refund questions. It calls one API. A 50-line script on the OpenAI SDK with two MCP servers would have done the same thing. But nobody mapped which layers the problem actually needed.In November 2024, Letta published an AI agents stack…

1 A Samsung executive told RCR Wireless News that the technology could improve the quality and reliability of FWA services while supporting applications that depend on real-time data transfers In sum – what to know: Late-2027 commercialization – Samsung told RCR Wireless News that it expects technologies similar to the demonstrated 3Tx 5-layer uplink configuration to be commercialized around late 2027, requiring network software upgrades. FWA and AI gains – Samsung said the technology has the potential to double maximum uplink throughput on FR1 bands for FWA devices while improving cloud and AI services. No new spectrum – According to…

3 Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $30 billion for AI computing powerThe $920 million-a-month contract runs through June 2029. (NYT $)+ Google will use about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs owned by SpaceX. (CNBC)+ It comes days after Anthropic struck a SpaceX data center deal. (WSJ $) 4 AI is set to make everyday life more expensiveIts insatiable thirst for resources is likely to push up inflation. (WP $)+ We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. (MIT Technology Review) 5 Europe is accelerating its withdrawal from US Big TechNew analysis reveals dozens of moves to alternative providers. (Wired $) +…

GitHub Copilot’s Pricing Shift: Why AI Coding Assistants Are Entering Their Unit Economics Era GitHub Copilot’s June 1 pricing change turned a predictable monthly subscription into a metered compute bill. The developer backlash was immediate. More important than the noise, though, is what the backlash signals: AI coding assistants can no longer hide infrastructure-level costs behind simple SaaS subscriptions. GitHub Moved Copilot From Requests to AI Credits Before June 1, 2026, Copilot users consumed “premium request units” tied to their plan tier. Starting June 1, all Copilot usage runs on GitHub AI Credits, where 1 AI Credit equals $0.01 and…

The shape of enterprise traffic has changed in ways legacy WAN architectures were never designed to absorb. A single AI agent invocation no longer hits one server and returns one response; it triggers a multi-hop workflow that may span graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters in two public clouds, neo clouds, large language models (LLMs),  software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms across regional providers, and on-premises data behind a branch firewall. Each cloud boundary compounds latency, each manual configuration step widens the security gap, and each backhauled flow taxes infrastructure sized for a different era. This shift demands a fundamental rethinking of the WAN—not…

Security teams today manage increasingly complex environments in which threats such as ransomware, advanced persistent threats, and supply chain attacks evolve rapidly. Organizations operate hybrid infrastructures spanning on-premises systems, multi-cloud platforms, containers, and Kubernetes clusters, all while navigating strict compliance requirements from frameworks including PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST 800-53, and CIS Benchmarks. Security operations centers (SOCs) commonly receive thousands of alerts per day, with high false-positive rates. Analysts can spend most of their time analyzing these false positives rather than investigating real threats. This contributes to burnout, delays in mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond…