Author: Carter

Verobotics designed a lightweight, surface-adaptable façade robot to deliver genuine mobility — not just suspended access — for exterior cleaning and inspection tasks. | Source: Verobotics At NVIDIA’s Israel campus, façade cleaning turned into something much more meaningful than a simple upkeep task. What started as a hands-on answer to a widespread headache — grimy windows and hard-to-reach high-rise exteriors — grew into a real-world showcase of how AI-driven robotics can fundamentally transform the way buildings are monitored, maintained, and safeguarded over the long term. While every building owner instantly relates to the hassle and expense of façade cleaning, Verobotics’…

The second day of TechEx North America shifted toward a more in-depth, critical look at how AI is being used in businesses—though the overall tone remained hopeful. The AI and Big Data program kicked off by addressing what’s known as the “AI graveyard”: projects that show promise during testing but fail to deliver in real-world settings. Despite this somewhat gloomy label, several speakers and sessions focused on practical strategies that forward-looking companies can use to avoid ending up in that technological dead zone.Across various tracks on day two, the event dug deeper into the widespread challenges affecting AI rollouts. Sessions…

# Introduction Production data is often bound by strict privacy and compliance regulations. As a result, anonymizing this data is essential in nearly every real-world data science initiative that involves deploying a data-driven product, service, or solution. Mimesis is an open-source Python library known for its ability to quickly generate realistic synthetic data. It runs entirely on your local machine and offers a free, reliable solution for building data pipelines. This guide will walk you through how to use this library to anonymize sensitive production data, using a practical, step-by-step example that you can easily replicate in your IDE or…

Top officials across the federal government increasingly acknowledge that yesterday’s security models are no longer sufficient to counter today’s and tomorrow’s threats. The White House’s recently issued National Cyber Strategy embodies this understanding. It represents a serious and essential move toward a more comprehensive approach to safeguarding the nation and its people, and it should be seen as more than just a policy paper—it must be put into practice. The strategy’s focus on critical infrastructure and integrated technologies directly mirrors what the industry has observed across federal agencies: a growing disconnect between the threats they encounter and the tools and…

Pharmaceutical manufacturing is moving into a phase where digitalization is expected to do far more than just streamline documentation and reporting. Regulatory authorities and industry organizations are increasingly linking advanced manufacturing to tighter process control, greater efficiency, improved product quality, and more reliable supply chains. The FDA characterizes this as the adoption of new or innovatively applied technologies that can boost quality, increase efficiency, address drug shortages, and accelerate time-to-market. Similarly, ISPE’s Pharma 4.0 framework views digitalization as a means to foster transparency, adaptability, faster decision-making, and real-time in-line control across operations, quality, and compliance. Within this landscape, connected equipment,…

The VerifiedX Foundation has rolled out vBTC.b on Base, with backing from Fireblocks. The goal is to bring Bitcoin’s reputation as “digital gold” and its globally recognized brand into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and institutional self-custody solutions. As outlined in a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, VerifiedX is the first “Non-Synthetic Bitcoin Asset” that comes with built-in native Bitcoin redemption. It works seamlessly with Base, Coinbase’s rapidly growing EVM blockchain and DeFi platform. “vBTC is now live as a canonical asset on Base under the ticker vBTC.b and is officially listed inside the Fireblocks platform with self-custody…

GitHub announced on Tuesday that it is looking into unauthorized access to its internal code repositories. This follows claims by a well-known hacking group, TeamPCP, that they are selling GitHub’s source code and internal organizational data on a cybercrime forum. “At this time, we have found no evidence that customer data stored outside of GitHub’s internal systems—such as data belonging to our enterprise clients, organizations, or their repositories—has been affected. However, we are actively monitoring our systems for any further suspicious activity,” stated the Microsoft-owned company. GitHub also mentioned that it will inform customers through its standard incident response and…

Nexera’s NeuraGrasp can handle items that were once tough to pick, like porous polybags. Source: Locus Robotics Locus Robotics, which introduced the Locus Array mobile manipulator last month, announced today that it has acquired Nexera Robotics to expand the range of products its robot can manage. Nexera’s patented NeuraGrasp will take the place of the suction cup gripper on Array, significantly boosting its fulfillment capabilities, according to the companies. “The cutting edge of warehouse robotics today is AI-powered mobile manipulation at enterprise scale,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “Efficiently grasping millions of different SKUs with both speed and…

What happens when you prompt a large language model to stand in for 6,000 American households answering inflation questions? Recent research shows that LLMs can match the average responses of major household surveys with remarkable precision—within a percentage point (Zarifhonarvar, 2026). For instance, the 2020 Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) recorded a median one-year-ahead inflation expectation of roughly 3%. When given realistic personas and a knowledge-cutoff instruction, a prompted LLM produced a median estimate of about 3%. This level of accuracy has led some to propose LLMs as a low-cost, high-frequency supplement to established surveys like the SCE, Michigan Survey,…

Animals Male Uchl1-eGFP and Cd68-eGFP mice (8 weeks old) on the C57BL/6J background, along with wild-type C57BL/6J mice, were given either a standard chow diet or a high-fat diet (60% fat, D12492i from Research Diets) for 16–18 weeks, with food available at all times. The animals were kept on a 12-hour light–12-hour dark cycle. The animal facility was maintained at 20–24 °C with 45–65% humidity. Body composition was assessed using an EchoMRI-100H system (EchoMRI). For insulin-tolerance tests, mice were fasted for 6 hours and then injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 0.75 U kg−1 insulin. Blood glucose levels were measured from the tail vein at…