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Manufacturing has always been a cornerstone of global economic growth, but today’s factories face increasing pressure to produce more… Continue reading on Medium »

China exported 179.44 billion integrated circuits worth $177.28 billion in the first six months of 2026, an increase of more than 96% year on year by value, according to data released by the country’s General Administration of Customs and reported by the South China Morning Post. The figures are Beijing’s own customs numbers, presented at…

Salad is usually synonymous with healthy eating. Except now, as the US grapples with an expanding outbreak of cyclosporiasis that’s sickened more than 7,100 people in Michigan alone, likely caused by iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms. In fact, leafy greens are frequently implicated in instances of foodborne illness. There was a 2022 multistate E….

If you’ve been curious about film photography but didn’t want to spend a fortune, Kodak has a new camera worth checking out. The new Kodak EC35 is a reusable 35mm point-and-shoot camera that costs just $34.99, making it one of the most affordable ways to try shooting on film. Developed by Reto Project under the…

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered the flaw said. RoguePlanet, tracked as CVE-2026-50656, came to public notice in June when NightmareEclipse, the pseudonymous name used by…

Over the past couple of years, conversations around how to effectively connect data with AI have become louder. Competing architectures and frameworks have emerged, and bold vendor claims have been made for being the critical piece in a modern data stack. Amid all this, a simple but fundamental realization has emerged: that data by itself…