Egyptian squash players dominated the Alpha Bravo Construction British Junior Open (BJO), held from 2 January to 6 January, by clinching nine out of ten gold medals available across various age categories.  This performance reaffirms Egypt’s longstanding reputation as a powerhouse in squash, especially among juniors.  In the Under-19 boys’ category, Saif El-Din Refaai delivered a solid performance, winning gold in an entertaining final against compatriot Adam Hawal. 

If you are designing multibody SOLIDWORKS parts with mixed units, both imperial and metric, you need a way to accurately display the information in a cut list. You can manually change some values by typing over them and breaking the link to the model, or by creating a new column to add the values manually. But what about keeping the values linked?

In 2026, Korea’s venture capital framework enters a defining transition. The government is no longer adjusting rules but is now rebuilding the system that connects public finance, private capital, and innovation. This venture investment reform signals a long-term shift in how Korea intends to fund its future industries, from AI and deeptech to regional startups, through a more agile, globally aligned investment structure.

Ubisoft is currently offering one month of its Ubisoft+ Classics subscription for only $1. The deal is available from January 6 to February 5 on Ubisoft’s website. Some of the games included with Ubisoft+ Classics are: Anno 1800 Assassin’s Creed Mirage Assassin’s Creed Valhalla The Division 2 Immortals Fenyx Rising Far Cry 6 New Monopoly Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown…

Collaboration signals strategic shift toward non-EV batteries as safety concerns grow in data centers and industrial sites SK On and parent company SK Innovation said they have entered a partnership with domestic energy storage firm Standard Energy to broaden their presence in the energy storage system (ESS) market, responding to rising interest in battery technologies with improved fire safety. The companies formalized the cooperation through a memorandum of understanding signed at Standard Energy’s facility in Daejeon, agreeing to jointly work on the development of vanadium-ion batteries designed for high safety and power output in ESS applications.

From January 2026, founders, investors, executives, and freelancers from more than 20 African countries will face a new financial hurdle when trying to visit the United States. Under a revived US visa bond programme, applicants who otherwise qualify for short-term business and tourist visas (B1/B2) will be required to post a bond of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000, refundable only if they exit the US before their authorised stay expires.

CES 2026 is on, and once again, Lenovo is one of the largest exhibitors at the event. The company has announced new Yoga, IdeaPad, and other content creator- and consumer-focused devices. The Yoga line has always been one of my favorites, and 2026 looks like these Yoga devices will be slick. But we also have IdeaPad and Chromebook devices alongside Yoga.

The programme encouraged students to consider core themes in the evolution of smart cities Netcompany and Ahead Partnership’s challenge equipped young people with skills around the design of inclusive, sustainable and tech-enabled future cities. Oh no, sadly you have viewed the maximum number of articles before we ask you to complete some basic details. Don't worry, it's free to register and won't take you longer than 60 seconds!

The funding round comes at the same time as the announcement of an additional 130 jobs within the organisation. Luminate Medical, a Galway-based medtech company, has announced the raising of $21m as part of an expanded Series A funding round, taking its total funding to date to more than $50m.  The round was co-led by Lachy Groom and ARTIS Ventures, with participation from Western Alliance Life Sciences, alongside existing investors 8VC, Y Combinator, Atlantic Bridge, Faber, SciFounders and Elkstone, among others. 

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, has released Falcon-H1R-7B, a 7B parameter reasoning specialized model that matches or exceeds many 14B to 47B reasoning models in math, code and general benchmarks, while staying compact and efficient. It builds on Falcon H1 7B Base and is available on Hugging Face under the Falcon-H1R collection. Falcon-H1R-7B is interesting because it combines 3 design choices in 1 system, a hybrid Transformer along with Mamba2 backbone, a very long context that reaches 256k tokens in standard vLLM deployments, and a training recipe that mixes supervised long form reasoning with reinforcement learning using GRPO.

LG has debuted a home robot that's designed to cook, clean, and manage chores using advanced Physical AI. Part of LG's "Zero Labor Home" vision, the wheeled humanoid features dexterous hands and visual learning to automate daily household tasks. LG Electronics has officially announced CLOiD, its new home robot that's being showcased for the first time at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.

An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet drifting through space with the Milky Way in the background. NASA / JPL Most planets orbit comfortably around their stars, but some worlds are not so lucky. Astronomers have discovered a number of these rogue planets, which float through the Milky Way untethered to a solar system. Now, for the first time, they’ve directly measured the mass of one of these worlds, finding that it’s around Saturn’s mass.

Boutique travel agencies are redefining adventure for Singaporeans It begins in the dark, long before dawn, when the comforts of home feel furthest away. A guide rouses the group, and within minutes, they are stumbling across sand or forest paths, chasing a fleeting moment that no hotel concierge could ever schedule. Whether it’s a turtle nest hatching under the stars on a beach, a dawn hunt with Tanzania’s Hadzabe tribe (one of the world’s last true hunter-gatherer tribes), or spending a night or two camping in a canyon, these experiences are raw, unpredictable, and profoundly memorable.

Biographica, a British AI startup innovating how the agricultural industry develops new crop varieties, today announced an €8 million (£7 million) funding round to accelerate the creation of climate-resilient, productive and nutritious crops – addressing global food security challenges driven by climate change, population growth, and limited natural resources. The round was led by Faber VC with participation from SuperSeed, Cardumen Capital, The Helm, EQT Foundation and Sie Ventures, and existing investors Chalfen Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Nucleus Capital, Dhyan Ventures, Saras Capital and Ventures Together.

Lenovo debuted the ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept at CES 2026, following on years of experimentation with flexible displays. This computer starts out as a very ordinary 13.3 inch laptop but quickly progresses to a higher 15.9 inch display, giving you a staggering 50% more area to work. A flexible OLED panel is the brains of the operation, as it folds up into a very compact size that is easy to throw in a bag.

NORWALK, CT and WASHINGTON, DC – January 6, 2026 – Africa Capital Digest and KRL International today announced the launch of Meridian Africa, an exclusive, five-part webinar series designed to provide institutional and corporate investors with actionable frameworks for deploying capital across the African continent. Running from January through June 2026, the invitation-only series arrives as Africa’s relationships with global capital markets are undergoing an unprecedented shift centered around three core dynamics: the transition away from DFI-dependent financing, Africa’s superior growth trajectory, and the evolution of risk-management strategies.

This is the Applied Clinical Trials Brief—your fast track to the latest insights shaping clinical operations and drug development. In the fifth and final part of our video interview series, Shanthi Sivendran, MD, MSCR, MBA, senior vice president for cancer care support at the American Cancer Society, discusses the structural challenges limiting representative enrollment in US cancer trials. Sivendran highlights how trials conducted largely outside the US or concentrated in urban centers can fail to reflect the populations most affected by specific cancers, citing EGFR-positive lung cancer as an example where enrollment must align with disease epidemiology to support regulatory approval and meaningful innovation.

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“HASI”) (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in sustainable infrastructure assets, and Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN), America’s largest provider of home battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, today announced the closing of an innovative joint venture to finance distributed energy assets. The partnership is expected to ultimately finance over 300 megawatts of capacity across more than 40,000 home power plants across the country.


 Tourism New Zealand spent more than $9.4 million on influencer marketing campaigns between January 2024 and September 2025, according to documents released under the Official Information Act. The agency engaged 65 influencers across global markets, but declined to provide individual payment breakdowns, citing commercial sensitivity. The disclosure, obtained by the Taxpayers’ Union of New Zealand, reveals spending of $1.2 million in fiscal year 2023/24, $6.1 million in 2024/25, and $2.1 million in the first quarter of 2025/26.

Gurugram: Policybazaar for Business, the corporate insurance arm of Policybazaar.com, has announced the appointment of insurance veteran Balasundaram R as a Senior Advisory Board member & Head of Marine Practice. With over four decades of experience in the Indian general insurance industry, Mr. Balasundaram brings deep technical expertise, strategic insight, and sectoral leadership that will help guide the company’s long-term growth across the corporate insurance landscape.

This week I took a trip from Wodonga to Adelaide, then up to Hornsdale, combining for more than a 2,000km round trip to visit the OG, Tesla’s Big Battery. It is hard to believe it has been nearly a decade since I covered this project, but here we are and I finally had the chance to go see it with my own eyes.

Motorola is looking to take some notes from Samsung and Google and is launching a book-style foldable. We expect the Motorola Razr Fold to launch later this year, as more specifications will be shared in the coming months. We also suspect the device will launch in Canada, but pricing and availability have yet to be shared. The Razr Fold features a 6.6-inch external display with an 8.1-inch 2K LTPO internal screen, making this panel larger than both Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

Jan 06, 2026Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Vulnerability The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed details of an unpatched security flaw impacting TOTOLINK EX200 wireless range extender that could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain full control of the device. The flaw, CVE-2025-65606 (CVSS score: N/A), has been characterized as a flaw in the firmware-upload error-handling logic, which could cause the device to inadvertently start an unauthenticated root-level telnet service.

Professor V Kamakoti, Director of Indian Institute of Expertise Madras, shouldn't be unduly fearful about India’s perceived lack of sovereignty in AI, and believes the nation will come out with related area particular fashions sooner or later of time. “Now we have a variety of work occurring in AI—basic work that builds AI techniques, a variety of customers of AI, a variety of papers from India are printed in AI… We even have a variety of area particular fashions developing,” mentioned Kamakoti, in an interview to…

There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t snap it up if the price is right. That’s what happened when saw a 1980s digital delay generator at a flea market for $40. Not only is it an excellent way to learn something about these devices, but it also provides a fascinating opportunity to troubleshoot and hopefully fix it.