Articles for category: Technology

September 28, 2025

Rohit Sharma

How AI Models Are Revolutionizing Science and Medicine

What if AI could design new drugs, navigate without GPS, and prevent future cyberattacks? In our most recent Lexicon episode, we talked with Fernando Dominguez, Head of Strategic Partnerships at SandboxAQ, a company spun out of Alphabet that’s blazing a trail in the AQ (AI + Quantum) arena. Together, we examined how LQMs are transforming the meeting point of AI and quantum tech, from modeling molecular behavior to navigation without GPS. What are LQMs? LQMs are specialized AI systems trained not on internet prose but on numerical, scientific, and physical principles. As Fernando put it, think less ChatGPT and more

September 28, 2025

Priya Nair

Strategic Alliance Advances US Gallium and Critical Mineral Independence

US Critical Materials Corp., a prominent rare earth exploration and processing technology firm, is pleased to announce a strategic advisory partnership with GreenMet, a Washington, D.C.-based advisory group specializing in critical minerals strategy and financing. This collaboration represents a key move in advancing domestic rare earth production, with gallium — a mineral of increasing national security significance — taking center stage. US Critical Materials holds the highest-grade reported gallium deposit in the United States, with concentrations averaging 300 ppm — well above the 50 ppm that the U.S. had been importing, largely from China. Gallium, vital for advanced semiconductors, defense

September 28, 2025

Ananya Singh

How Singapore Museums Are Redefining Cultural Experiences

On a weekend excursion with her family last year, Ms Charleen Phor found herself following behind her toddler as he enthusiastically wandered among the vibrant shophouses of yesteryear and clambered into a snug cargo hold at the Children’s Museum Singapore. In a gallery where little visitors were tracing the paths of early migrants, her son peered into a streetside barbershop and tried a multimedia game that let him clean a digital Singapore river. “I like the very open concept, where the children can explore at their own time and realise, ‘This is where I want to park myself’,” said Ms

September 27, 2025

Priya Nair

Sunrise New Energy Ranks Among Top Global Battery Material Suppliers

Sunrise New Energy Co., Ltd., an innovator in battery anode materials, has been named one of the top eleven global suppliers of synthetic graphite anode materials, serving both energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) batteries. This recognition highlights the company’s strong growth momentum and continual improvements in technology and capacity. After nearly four years of sustained effort, Sunrise has submitted 97 domestic and international patent applications and has been granted 39 patents, including three patents in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. According to a market landscape report, Sunrise is ranked among the top eleven worldwide by shipment volume. A

September 27, 2025

Ananya Singh

Trump’s Ukraine Territory Claim Faces Military Reality Check

President Donald Trump’s striking assertion this week that Ukraine could recover all its territory with backing from the European Union and NATO is implausible without a significant change in the alliance’s approach to Russia’s invasion, military analysts, officials and diplomats in the area say. Still, many cautioned, major future Ukrainian successes cannot be wholly dismissed, especially if Russia’s war economy collapses and Ukraine substantially bolsters its armed forces and arsenal with help from partners including the United States — an outcome that seems unlikely as Trump shifts responsibility for supporting Kyiv to Europe. “President Trump said that Ukraine, with support

September 27, 2025

Rohit Sharma

OTR Solutions Fuel Credit Opens Access for Carriers

OTR Solutions, a full-service freight factoring and transportation technology firm, announced the introduction of its new fuel credit product, the OTR Fuel Card. This program gives both newly established and veteran carriers dependable access to credit secured by their factoring relationship rather than their credit score. The factoring integration allows carriers to fuel now and pay later via flexible weekly billing or directly through factored invoices. “At OTR Solutions, our mission has and always will be to put carriers first,” said Jimmy Wittpenn, vice president of fuel product. “Our new fuel credit product is another way we are fulfilling that

September 27, 2025

Priya Nair

Microsoft’s Microfluidic Cooling Boosts Chip Performance

Microsoft is progressing with a novel approach to cool microchips that it says could result in more energy-efficient data centers down the line. The technique, known as microfluidics, uses liquid coolant running directly through the silicon. After laboratory experiments, Microsoft reported that this approach can dissipate heat up to three times more effectively than the cold plates currently used in data centers. The company said this week that it managed to build a microfluidic cooling solution for a server handling core services for a simulated Microsoft Teams meeting. If they can replicate that performance outside the lab, microfluidics could reduce

September 26, 2025

Priya Nair

Mercury Systems Secures $12.3M Military Aircraft Contract

Mercury Systems, Inc. has secured a $12.3 million development contract from a defense prime contractor to create an avionics subsystem for a new U.S. military aircraft. Under the three-year arrangement executed in July, Mercury will engineer a Communication Management Unit (CMU) control head that consolidates and oversees multiple cockpit communications systems and is anticipated to be installed on a new aircraft fleet. “The Mercury Processing Platform provides distinctive technologies that improve the pilot–machine interface to support faster, more informed decisions,” said Tom Smelker, Mercury’s Senior Vice President of Processing Technologies. “This award represents a new product from our Displays and

September 26, 2025

Ananya Singh

Microsoft Halts Israeli Defense Ministry’s Azure Cloud Access

Microsoft has suspended portions of its cloud services for Israel’s Defense Ministry after uncovering evidence that they were used to monitor civilians in Gaza, intensifying tensions over one of the company’s most disputed contracts. The action came after an internal review that validated parts of a story claiming Israel had stored data from millions of Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. A person familiar with the situation said the company is continuing its probe, while Microsoft executives emphasized their dedication to privacy safeguards. “As employees, we all have a shared interest in privacy protection, given the business value it

September 26, 2025

Rohit Sharma

SharpLink Tokenizes SBET Shares on Ethereum Blockchain

In a notable development at the crossroads of traditional finance and blockchain technology, SharpLink Gaming — one of the largest public holders of Ether — has revealed plans to tokenize its common stock on the Ethereum blockchain. This decision mirrors a wider movement of firms adopting blockchain for inventive capital markets solutions, aiming to boost liquidity, transparency, and regulatory compliance in securities trading. SharpLink Gaming partners with Superstate to tokenize NASDAQ-listed SBET shares on Ethereum. The company has built a sizable Ether treasury, making it the second-largest public ETH holder. The tokenization seeks to enable trading of public equities on