Radha Basu, CEO and Founder of iMerit – Interview Series
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Radha Basu, Founder and CEO of iMerit has built her career at HP, spending 20 years with the tech giant and eventually heading its Enterprise Solutions group. She then took Support.com public as its CEO. Radha started Anudip Foundation in 2007 with Dipak Basu and then founded iMerit in 2012. She is considered a leading […]
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CivitAI in New Payment Provider Crisis, as Trump Signs Anti-Deepfake Act
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President Trump has now signed the Take It Down Act, criminalizing sexual deepfakes at a federal level in the US. At the same time, the CivitAI community’s bid to ‘clean up its act’ regarding NSFW AI and celeb output has ultimately failed to appease payment processors, leading the site to seek alternatives or face shutdown. […]
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1.5°C Paris target too high for polar ice sheets, says new study
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Aerial view of the Gertz ice shelf in November 2016 (image credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre’s Photostream, CC BY-NC 2.0 license). Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world’s ice sheets, according to a new study. Research led by […]
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Lime-free soil treatment product can cut brownfield remediation costs, says group
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A new remediation technology, ReBind, is claimed to offer a cost-effective, on-site solution for handling contaminated soil on brownfield redevelopment sites, according to the group behind it. Developed by SMR UK, the patented binder is said to enable developers to stabilise and reuse up to 100% of contaminated ground, avoiding escalating landfill costs and reducing […]
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Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down. Prices spiked after Russia cut off gas exports to Europe, precipitating a global energy crisis alongside its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK has been particularly exposed, as gas […]
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Traffic noise: Time to get serious?
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The developers of noise cameras insist there’s a case for them, and the public seem to agree. So far, a number of localities worldwide are either trialling the technology or moving to the implementation phase of issuing fines to the public. Why isn’t it taking off in the UK? Seemingly more than two-thirds of UK […]
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Cycling for the Planet
This is the time of the year when I notice a significant increase in the number of people bicycling to work and school. I consciously stop myself from smugly thinking, ‘where were you in January?’ and focus on sending ‘welcome to the bike path’ energy. The big jump in e-bikes is a double edged sword. […]
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Securing the Software Supply Chain with AI
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It’s no secret that software is a part of our daily lives. We use it to keep our schedules, connect with friends and family, manage our finances, and execute everyday tasks for work. The convenience and speed it offers us, it also offers to cybercriminals. Especially in the last several years, it’s been impossible to […]
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The Faster AI Developers Code, the Quicker the Cloud Needs to Be
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Cloud computing has come a long way, and it’s going to be used very differently for the next generation than it was when it first took root 20 years ago. As the race to automate software development heats up between OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI frontrunners, a quieter pressure point is brewing: cloud infrastructure. Recently […]
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The sweet taste of a new idea
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Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan has never forgotten the pleasure he felt the first time he tasted a delicious crisp, yet gooey Levain cookie. He compares the experience to when he encounters new ideas. “That hedonic pleasure is pretty much the same pleasure I get hearing a new idea, discovering a new way of looking at […]
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See, Think, Explain: The Rise of Vision Language Models in AI
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About a decade ago, artificial intelligence was split between image recognition and language understanding. Vision models could spot objects but couldn’t describe them, and language models generate text but couldn’t “see.” Today, that divide is rapidly disappearing. Vision Language Models (VLMs) now combine visual and language skills, allowing them to interpret images and explaining them […]
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What does the “Next Generation” Require of Us?
I have developed and updated 15 resources in my four years at Climate Generation. However, the 2025 update of Next Generation Climate for grades 6-8 (NGC) felt significantly more challenging. For the first time, I faced an atmosphere of federal pushback against the validity of climate change science and education. I struggled to find alternative […]
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Why GenAI Stalls Without Strong Governance
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As companies grapple with moving Generative AI projects from experimentation to productionising – many businesses remain stuck in pilot mode. As our recent research highlights, 92% of organisations are concerned that GenAI pilots are accelerating without first tackling fundamental data issues. Even more telling: 67% have been unable to scale even half of their pilots […]
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Kuljesh Puri, SVP & GM of Communications, Media & Technology, Persistent Systems – Interview Series
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Kuljesh Puri is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Media & Technology at Persistent Systems. He brings over 26 years of experience across the software, telecom, and semiconductor industries, along with extensive international exposure and a passion for transformation. Before joining Persistent, Kuljesh headed the Telecom Product Engineering portfolio at Tech Mahindra. […]
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AI’s Struggle to Read Analogue Clocks May Have Deeper Significance
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A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of […]
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Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, […]
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Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
In the Arctic Ocean, around 400 miles from the north pole, lies the island of Svalbard. Named after the Viking word for “cold edge”, the island lay largely undisturbed before it was used as a base for whaling in the 17th and 18th centuries and transformed into a coal-mining hub in the 20th century. Today, […]
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Neural Frames Review: The AI Video Tool Every Musician Needs
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Have you ever found yourself with a song and a vision but have no clue how to bring them together visually without burning through your savings or learning complex editing software? You have music you’re proud of, but no idea how to turn that into something people can see and feel. That’s what led me […]