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This post is brought to you in paid partnership with Apollo.io January is the season for audits. We audit our finances, our habits, and our wardrobes. But for anyone running a revenue team, the most critical audit you can perform right now is on your software stack. Most sales operations are messy. You have one tool for data, another for email sequencing, a third for call recording, and a CRM that holds it all together. It is expensive, inefficient, and creates friction where there should be flow. Apollo.io offers the antidote: a single, all-in-one Go-To-Market (GTM) platform that allows you…
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(Photo via ORCA presentation) One of the more seamless aspects on a recent trip to Japan was being able to simply “tap” my iPhone to pay for subway rides in Tokyo. That frictionless transit payment capability, common in many major cities worldwide, isn’t available in Seattle. But that’s about to change. Seattle’s ORCA transit system is rolling out an upgrade that will let riders pay fares by tapping their credit card or smartphone — no dedicated ORCA card required. The new “Tap to Pay” feature will let riders across the Seattle region use Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express cards,…
Normally, when someone sends feedback like this, I ignore it, but it happens often enough that it deserves an explainer, because the answer is really, really simple. So simple, in fact, that it should be evident to the likes of Bruce, who decided his misunderstanding deserved a 1-star Trustpilot review yesterday:Now, frankly, Trustpilot is a pretty questionable source of real-world, quality reviews anyway, but the same feedback has come through other channels enough times that let’s just sort this out once and for all. It all begins with one simple question:What is an Email Address?You think you know – and…
Looking to upgrade your earbud game? Our favorite wireless earbuds for most people, the Nothing Ear (a), are marked down to just $79 in all three colors—black, white, and yellow—a healthy discount from the already affordable $109 price point. They have an excellent, open audio profile, top-tier touch controls, and impressive noise canceling for such a small pair of earbuds.Beyond the excellent price, the Nothing Ear (a) offer a surprisingly complete package. They have excellent sound for both music and phone calls, with an open midrange that’s perfect for more acoustic music. Our reviewer Parker Hall found them particularly great…
Supply chains are the lifeblood of global commerce, yet they remain plagued by inefficiencies—delays, stockouts, overproduction, and unpredictable disruptions. Enter autonomous AI agents, the silent orchestrators now optimizing logistics with superhuman precision. Unlike traditional software, these agents learn, adapt, and make decisions in real-time, often without human intervention. “AI agents don’t just follow rules—they rewrite them. In supply chains, they’re the new invisible workforce.“ — Dr. Elena Rodriguez, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics From Walmart’s inventory bots to Maersk’s self-adjusting shipping routes, AI agents are transforming supply chains in ways most businesses don’t even realize. Here’s how. 1. Predictive Procurement: No More…
The robots in my building are multiplying. It started with one roughly the size of a doghouse that cleans the floors, and not very well — a commercial-grade Roomba that talks to you if you get in its way. Somehow, I’m always in its way.My landlord was clearly excited about the new, technical marvel of an addition to the building, which takes up half the size of a New York City block. There are plenty of floors to clean and human hours of labor to save. Then my landlord told me the robot, which had been confined to the lobby,…
Ravie LakshmananJan 23, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Fortinet has officially confirmed that it’s working to completely plug a FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability following reports of fresh exploitation activity on fully-patched firewalls. “In the last 24 hours, we have identified a number of cases where the exploit was to a device that had been fully upgraded to the latest release at the time of the attack, which suggested a new attack path,” Fortinet Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Carl Windsor said in a Thursday post. The activity essentially mounts to a bypass for patches put in place by the network…
After years of high drama, the joint venture to keep the TikTok in the U.S. has been finalized. In a public announcement, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC said the 200 million Americans and 7.5 million businesses that use TikTok in the U.S. can rest easy. The deal is done. The announcement comes on the cusp of the long-delayed deadline set by President Trump in December. TikTok’s Beijing-based owner, ByteDance Ltd., will retain a 19.9% stake in the U.S. operation, while the joint venture will be overseen by a board of seven directors. Oracle Corp., United Arab Emirates investment firm MGX and…
The line between science fiction and reality is getting blurrier thanks to MIT researchers who have developed a system that can turn spoken commands into physical objects within minutes. The “Speech-to-Reality” platform integrates natural language processing, 3D generative AI, geometric analysis, and robotic assembly. The platform enables on-demand fabrication of furniture, functional and decorative items without requiring users to have expertise in 3D modeling or robotics. The system workflow begins with speech recognition, converting a user’s spoken input into text. A large language model (LLM) interprets the text to identify the requested physical object while filtering out abstract or non-actionable…