Many businesses that provide goods and services to the EU’s 450 million consumers must comply with new accessibility standards that took effect in June. Like the GDPR before it, this new act had companies scrambling to adjust their websites, e-commerce platforms, and banking apps. But despite similar standards existing in the U.S., many still have a long way to go.

Rising Demand for High-Speed, Low-Latency Internet Driving the 5G Infrastructure Market IMARC Group, a leading market research company, has recently released a report titled “5G Infrastructure Market Size, Share, Trends and Forecast by Communication Infrastructure, Network Technology, Network Architecture, Frequency, End User, and Region, 2025-2033”. The study provides a detailed analysis of the industry, including the 5G infrastructure market trends, growth, size, and industry growth forecast.

In a country where private tutoring has long been an unwritten law for academic excellence, a new wave of change is happening. With smartphones, the internet, and affordable data within reach of millions, educational apps are transforming how Nigerian students learn. Replacing one-on-one home lessons with digital learning platforms.  Trusted by many parents, Tuteria bridges the gap between qualified tutors and students.

Having raised one of Ireland’s largest pre-seed rounds late last year, Jentic has become the first Irish company to be selected for AWS’ Gen AI accelerator. Having raised one of Ireland’s largest pre-seed rounds at the end of 2024, Jentic has become the first Irish company to be selected for AWS’ Generative AI accelerator. It has been quite a year for the AI infrastructure start-up founded by some of Ireland’s most experienced founders in 2024.

Cellular membrane proteins play important roles in cellular transport, signaling, and cell-to-cell communication. Malfunction in membrane proteins can lead to serious diseases, such as cancer. However, current biophysical models poorly describe the behaviors and energetics of proteins within lipid bilayers, limiting the understanding of disease-related misfolding and mechanisms for therapeutic intervention.  In a new study published in PNAS titled “Design principles of the common Gly-X6-Gly membrane protein building block,“ researchers from Scripps Research have unveiled a protein design approach for decoding the sequence–structure relationships underlying transmembrane α-helix packing.

In what seems an important professionalisation milestone for carbon accounting, UK trade body the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) has launched a new course specification for the sector, allowing training providers to develop and run accredited courses for the first time. This attempt to set professional standards is expected to help efforts to prevent greenwashing and to underpin trust in the net-zero transition.


 Female skateboarders often feel pressured to adopt baggy clothes and masculine aesthetics. Sterre Meijer skates in flowy dresses and crop tops, and still lands difficult tricks that leave viewers rewinding her videos in disbelief. This 20-year-old Dutch athlete has amassed millions of followers across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, while partnering with brands like DVS Shoes, all while maintaining her personal style.

Regardless of which social media app you scroll on, chances are you’ll stumble upon a live selling session.  It could be a fashion house, a tech brand, or even a local F&B entrepreneur chatting away. Products will flash on the screen and orders will start rolling in without the host even batting an eye.  In reality, though, this seamless-looking process hides a chaotic backend for sellers.

At long last, Hulu has arrived in Canada — well, sort of. On Wednesday, the Disney-owned service was added to Disney+ worldwide, including in Canada. It has replaced the Star branding that was used in Canada and other international markets. Say Hello to Hulu! 💚 #HuluOnDisneyPlusCA pic.twitter.com/7PrMD0HxQK — Disney+ Canada 🇨🇦 (@DisneyPlusCA) October 8, 2025 It should be mentioned that this doesn’t really make much of a difference to the actual user experience.

TL;DR: A new research from Apple, formalizes what “mid-training” should do before reinforcement learning RL post-training and introduces RA3 (Reasoning as Action Abstractions)—an EM-style procedure that learns temporally consistent latent actions from expert traces, then fine-tunes on those bootstrapped traces. It shows mid-training should (1) prune to a compact near-optimal action subspace and (2) shorten the effective planning horizon, improving RL convergence.

Want to watch New England Patriots games from anywhere – even outside the US? We get it! Patriots fans want to keep up with every snap, but between local games, national TV channel rotations, and blackout restrictions, watching the whole NFL season can be a pain. But don’t worry, with a VPN, you can watch New England Patriots games on vacation, at work, or even during blackout weekends.

It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no real reason why you cannot take another type of DC motor like a brushless DC (BLDC) motor and use that instead. Interestingly, some printer manufacturers are now using BLDCs for places where the reduction in weight matters, such as in the tool head or extruder, but if a BLDC can be ‘stepped’ much like any stepper motor, then why prefer one over the other?

Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday exhorted the fledgling fintech ecosystem to focus on the underserved sections of the society to deepen financial inclusion. Speaking at the annual Global Fintech Fest (GFF) in Mumbai, Malhotra accepted that serving the "privileged" will be a lucrative business, but urged the smaller companies to focus on the underserved. "Build for inclusion. While there may be higher profits to be made by deepening access to the haves and the privileged.

Image Source: Yarn Memes While Kenya is trying to make its large corporations and big businesses moonlight as VCs, banks, too, have been turning to eco-warriors. KCB, Kenya’s largest bank by assets, committed KES53.2 billion ($411 million) to finance green projects this year. Banking on sustainability: So far, 21.32% of KCB’s loan portfolio qualifies as green, as the bank pushes toward its 25% target for the year.

MONTREAL – INOVAIT, Canada’s membership network promoting image-guided therapy (IGT) and artificial intelligence (AI), announced the latest recipients of the Pilot Fund at SCALE AI’s ALL IN event at the Palais des congrès in Montréal, Quebec. This competitive funding program is awarded to medical technology projects that harness the transformative power of AI, machine learning, and big data analytics in IGT to advance medical innovation.

PITAKA has built a reputation for creating some of the thinnest, most premium cases on the market using aerospace-grade aramid fibre. Their approach to iPhone protection prioritises minimalism without compromising on quality, and their latest lineup for the iPhone 17 Pro continues this philosophy. The iPhone 17 Pro lineup includes three distinct cases, each targeting different protection levels and user preferences.

Baird analyst Colin Sebastian has raised his 12-month target price on Shopify Baird analyst Colin Sebastian raised his 12-month target price for Shopify (Shopify Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials NYSE:SHOP) to US$170 from US$160 while maintaining an “Outperform” rating in an Oct. 7 report. His new target is above the current analyst average of US$160.21. In August, Shopify reported a strong second-quarter 2025 result, which showed 31% year-over-year revenue growth and a 16% free cash flow margin, marking the company’s eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit free cash flow margins.

October 8 – Alibaba Group has formed an internal robotics team, signaling its formal entry into the global race among tech giants to build AI-powered physical products. On Wednesday, Lin Junyang, head of technology at Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen large model unit, announced on social media platform X that the company has established a “Robotics and Embodied AI Group.” The move highlights Alibaba’s strategic push from software-based AI into hardware and real-world applications.

Samsung has announced an expansion of its Samsung Experience Stores retail outlets, opening by the end of November in California (Los Cerritos Center), New York (Queens Center), and Minnesota (Mall of America). Since their debut in 2019, the Samsung Experience Stores have become hubs where consumers can explore the Galaxy ecosystem, including exclusive retail colors, and take their favorite Galaxy devices home immediately after launch.

A company is only as strong as its cybersecurity network so employees and employers are equally as responsible in ensuring a safe and productive environment. This month, SiliconRepublic.com is paying particular focus to the topic of security and privacy, so what better way to begin then by covering how companies in 2025 can ensure that they are doing the utmost when it comes to creating a secure workspace. 

TL;DR: AgentFlow is a trainable agent framework with four modules—Planner, Executor, Verifier, Generator—coordinated by an explicit memory and toolset. The planner is optimized in the loop with a new on-policy method, Flow-GRPO, which broadcasts a trajectory-level outcome reward to every turn and applies token-level PPO-style updates with KL regularization and group-normalized advantages. On ten benchmarks, a 7B backbone tuned with Flow-GRPO reports +14.9% (search), +14.0% (agentic), +14.5% (math), and +4.1% (science) over strong baselines.

A new chapter is unfolding in South Korea’s virtual asset landscape as Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, reaches a record-breaking high above USD 125,000. The surge marks a deeper shift in global finance, where digital assets are evolving from speculation to institutional trust. This rally arrives at a pivotal moment for South Korea, testing how far its fintech and blockchain reforms can position the nation within this accelerating financial transformation.

Akko has established itself as a manufacturer of keyboards and related components, such as clickable switches and keycaps in a variety of colors. The MetaKey is the company’s most recent use of such expertise. It’s a physical keyboard that attaches to the bottom of your iPhone and allows you to text without the on-screen keyboard getting in the way. More space above your words.

Public Mobile has brought back its 100GB Canada-US-Mexico talk, text and data plan, but this time it’s a bit more expensive. On Tuesday, Public Mobile updated its site to include $50/80GB and $60/100GB plans with Canada-US-Mexico, talk, text and data at 5G speeds. This plan doesn’t seem all that bad; however, earlier this year, Public Mobile introduced $45/100GB US-Mexico-Canada plans for new customers.

H.E. Dr. Majid bin Ibrahim Alfayyadh, Chief Executive Officer of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC), delivered a keynote address at the First Disability Research Forum, organized by the King Salman Center for Disability Research in collaboration with King Saud University. The event brought together leading local and international researchers and experts in rehabilitation, neuroscience, and genetics. During his address, Dr.