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OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers, wholesalers, and distributors decide how individual orders should be delivered.Called OmniSTAR, the system evaluates options including owned fleets, couriers, parcel carriers, and other delivery modes, then selects the lowest-cost option that meets the required service level, according to OneRail.The platform combines Nvidia’s cuOpt decision optimisation engine and cuDF data processing software with OneRail’s delivery pricing and performance data. Nvidia accelerated computing infrastructure is used to process the routing and delivery-mode calculations.OneRail said the system can reduce computation times by as much as 10 times. A calculation…

Microsoft says a known issue that reverts mouse settings after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update affects only non-English Windows 11 systems. The bug was confirmed Friday, one day after the KB5120998 release, which includes Start menu, taskbar, and Windows search improvements for devices running Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2. According to user reports, mouse cursor personalization settings are changing or resetting automatically after installing the KB5120998 update, and affected Windows 11 users cannot restore their previous mouse settings after they are reverted. “Following installation of Windows updates released August 27 2026 (KB5120998) and later, mouse personalization settings…

Kraken parent Payward has partnered with SoFi in a deal that will bring SoFiUSD to Kraken and connect the crypto platform to SoFi’s 24/7 dollar settlement network.Under the partnership, SoFi will use Kraken Prime as an additional source of digital asset liquidity, while Payward will join the SoFi Exchange Network (SEN) and gain access to SoFi’s business banking services.The companies said qualified custody services could be added as the partnership expands, while Kraken’s institutional and business clients will gain access to SEN for round-the-clock US dollar settlement.SoFiUSD, issued by SoFi Bank, is a dollar-backed stablecoin launched in 2026 for payments…

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified an unusual magnetic response that overturns a long-standing assumption about the Hall effect, a foundational principle used to study how materials behave electrically and magnetically. The findings, published in Nature Materials, expand scientists’ understanding of the Hall effect and could eventually support simpler and more flexible magnetic sensors for electronics, transportation and medical imaging. Rethinking a Century-Old Physics Effect Scientists have relied on the Hall effect for more than a century. In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered that when a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to a material carrying an electric current, the moving charges…

The drought-adapted succulent spekboom (Portulacaria afra) has long been trumpeted as the crown prince of South Africa’s nature-based carbon sink solutions.The World Bank ensured its coronation with a $120 million outcome-based bond, structured and named in its honor.According to Amazon, the tech giant’s commitment to buy carbon credits from the first developer to draw on the bond gave other financiers the confidence to back the industrial-scale project. Does this make the tech giant the power behind the throne of an emerging nature-based carbon credit sector?Mongabay’s investigation uncovers a sector dominated by international corporations whose investment promises are hard to…

Shared ebikes have become a key part of London’s transport network. From Hounslow to Greenwich, it’s rare to step on to the street without seeing one, and they now facilitate millions of journeys every month. Forest recorded 3m rides this July alone, a new high. Demand keeps rising, and operators are logging ever-higher ride-per-bike ratios, a key measure of how intensively fleets are being used.This is good news for London, which gains a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable way to get around – one that eases reliance on private car ownership. And, with new research revealing that air-quality improvements driven…

The United States and Iran continue to make competing claims about who has greater control of the critical Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.Washington claims the strait is open and that dozens of ships, carrying millions of barrels of oil, are passing through each day. US President Donald Trump claimed last month that the US was in “total control” of the waterway, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas is shipped during peacetime, but which has been closed since the US-Israel war on Iran began six months ago.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIran, however, says the…

Un espace hybride La législation actuelle sur les services numériques, adoptée en 2022, n’avait pas prévu l’essor des chatbots. João Pedro Quintais, maître de conférences en droit à l’université d’Amsterdam, décrit ChatGPT comme une technologie “hybride” qui combine les fonctions d’un moteur de recherche et d’une plateforme en ligne, ainsi que d’autres fonctions plus proches de celles d’un éditeur de ses propres contenus. La qualification de “moteur de recherche” pourrait limiter la capacité de la Commission à contrôler la manière dont ChatGPT gère les risques liés non seulement à la santé mentale des adolescents, mais aussi à l’intégrité des élections…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldApollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black has sued members of the US Congress over their probe into the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, accusing lawmakers of abusing their congressional power by engaging in a “fishing expedition”.Lawyers for the billionaire filed a lawsuit on Thursday in federal court against the House committee on oversight and government reform and its chair, Republican congressman James Comer.Black’s lawyers argued that two congressional subpoenas issued to the Apollo co-founder earlier in the…

Three months ago, Nvidia took the wraps off its RTX Spark “superchip” and a handful of future laptops that would use it. It felt like a consequential moment in the history of the PC, despite all the questions that remained.And now, as announced at the IFA 2026 tech show in Berlin, we’ve had our first hands-on look at one of these laptops, as well as some announcements around RTX Spark-powered mini desktop PCs. Demand for running agentic AI workflows like OpenClaw locally on your computer keeps rising, and these new PCs look like they are designed specifically to feed it.Nvidia Alternatives to…