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Nursing battles wounds and awaiting repairs, Steggy and Termigator the battle bots are back in Gainesville after a smashing December showing at the National Havoc Robot League World Championships.  The University of Florida’s Gator Robotics team competed in the championship in Norwalk, Connecticut on Dec. 6. About 80 college and non-academic teams competed in three weight classes — 3, 12 and 30 pounds — with up to 30 qualifying bots in each division as determined by performance in regular-season competitions.   A lean, green 12-pound machine equipped with blades and a steel cylinder with teeth called a drum, Steggy pounded its way into the semi-finals, eventually succumbing to Slam Plan the bot from Team HUGE. Slam Plan, incidentally, lost in the finals to Pramheda.  Steggy is driven by Gator…

We’re getting an inside look at a unique program at Lakota Local Schools. It’s preparing students for a career in cybersecurity. The program is making strides and is now gaining national attention. As we’ve reported, last summer in Middletown, a cyberattack crippled the city’s computer system. Last fall, there were two cyberattacks in West Chester Township. This unique program in Lakota is trying to get ahead of these attacks from even happening. Two seniors with the district’s Cyber Academy just got nationally recognized for their achievements in the field and their plans for the future.The Cyber Academy is a training…

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…

Market OverviewThe Blockchain IoT market is at the forefront of technological innovation, combining the transparency, security, and decentralization of blockchain technology with the connectivity and data-driven capabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT). The market size was estimated at 1.84 USD Billion in 2024, reflecting the growing adoption of blockchain solutions across IoT-enabled industries. This market is poised for extraordinary growth, with projections indicating an increase from 3.261 USD Billion in 2025 to a staggering 997.82 USD Billion by 2035, representing a remarkable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 77.24% over the forecast period.The rapid expansion of the Blockchain IoT…

This post was co-authored with Benjamin Kleppe, Machine Learning Engineering Lead at bunq. The integration of agentic AI is transforming the banking industry, marking a significant shift from traditional customer service systems. Agentic AI demonstrates autonomous decision-making capabilities in complex financial environments, enabling banks to provide round-the-clock multilingual support, process transactions, and deliver personalized financial insights at scale. bunq is Europe’s second-largest neobank, built to make life easy for people and businesses who live an international lifestyle. Founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneur Ali Niknam, bunq has always put users at the heart of everything they do. The company helps…

Today’s factory floors are buzzing with innovation, driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and hyper-automation. From autonomous vehicles gracefully navigating warehouses to vertical farms growing crops with unprecedented precision, the industrial landscape is undergoing a radical transformation. But behind every smart robot and every AI-powered system lies a crucial, often invisible, hero: the network. Traditional Wi-Fi, while great for your laptop, often struggles to keep up with the extreme demands of industrial environments. Imagine challenging conditions: numerous obstacles and significant RF interference severely impacting wireless connectivity, all while requiring absolute, unwavering connection for moving machinery. This is where the rubber meets…

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a global tsunami that obliterated parts of Indonesia, wiped out villages in Thailand, and hammered the coastlines of Sri Lanka and India, leaving catastrophic damage in 17 countries. As the water retreated, televised broadcasts of the devastation shocked the world. The disaster spurred international initiatives to better warn and prepare coastal communities. It also unexpectedly revealed a new mode of communication. Well before the television cameras arrived, a new lens into the tragedy appeared: amateur footage of the event, taken largely by tourists. Caught up in the disaster, they…

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution has transformed how we interact with technology, creating unprecedented demand for high-quality printed circuit boards. As IoT devices become increasingly sophisticated, the need for reliable PCB manufacturers who can deliver complex, miniaturized, and high-performance boards has never been greater. China remains the global hub for PCB manufacturing, offering a unique combination of advanced technology, skilled workforce, and competitive pricing. In this comprehensive guide, we explore the top four IoT PCB manufacturers in China that have established themselves as industry leaders. 1. PCBSync — The High-End PCB Assembly Specialist When it comes to complex IoT…

Insider Brief Quantum machine learning is emerging as a complementary tool in drug discovery, where hybrid classical–quantum algorithms are being explored to address molecular modeling, optimization, and generative design challenges that strain classical AI. Research led by scientists at Insilico Medicine shows how QML methods could be applied across the drug pipeline, including property prediction, molecular optimization, and candidate generation, primarily through variational, noise-tolerant approaches suited to current hardware. While early results are limited to small-scale demonstrations, the study concludes that targeted QML subroutines embedded in classical workflows may become practical as quantum hardware, error mitigation, and data-encoding techniques improve.…

WVU Photo Middle School Tournament Champions Lil’ George and Clankers from Sherrard Middle School compete at the 4th annual VEX Robotics Competition at WVU. MORGANTOWN — This weekend, more than 50 teams put their coding and engineering skills to the test at the 2026 VEX Robotics Competition hosted by Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at  West Virginia University. Now in its fourth year, the VEX competition brings student teams from across the state of West Virginia to design, build, and compete with their robots in an elimination-style skills match for a chance to qualify for the VEX…