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What is the Inverter Technology Refrigerators Market forecast to be worth by 2036? USD 42.6 billion in 2026 to USD 88.5 billion by 2036, at a 7.6% CAGR.

From nursing, engineering, archaeology and more young students in Williams Lake recently had the opportunity to explore local careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or what is more commonly referred to as STEM. On Tuesday, Oct. 13, the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) campus hosted the “Big On Stem” Career Exploration Day by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Williams Lake (BBBS) in partnership with Cenovus Energy.

LG Uplus has demonstrated AI-based network management technologies and shared results from a proof of concept for Wi-Fi 8-based edge AI at Network X 2026 in Vienna, Austria. The event, held from 12 to 15 October, provided a platform for the company to present its commercial deployment of Wi-Fi 7 routers supporting the 6 GHz band, which it introduced last year. The routers use the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands.

Do you like numbers? Do you like retail technology news? Then this is the article for you. Including Duvo, TFG London, Bain & Company, M&S, Morrisons, Lidl GB, Omnisend, Marklo, Ikea, Miracly, Pricer, Orange, and Frasers Group.561... Pricer has been selected by Orange, a telecommunications operator in France, to digitalise its retail store network. The project encompasses 561 stores with an average size of 120 m² over the next two years. The agreement covers the complete deployment of Pricer’s electronic shelf label (ESL) solution, including hardware, infrastructure, attachment solutions, installation, and cloud management via the Plaza platform under a long-term maintenance contract. It includes annual recurring SaaS and maintenance revenue. Orange chose Pricer following pilot programmes across multiple store locations.28% of UK consumers do not trust artificial intelligence in retail at all, as retailers such as Morrisons introduce new technology to the weekly shop, according to research from e-commerce marketing platform Omnisend. The company surveyed 1,086 Brits for this. 29% are concerned that AI will lead to job losses on the high street.

Haidlmair, together with its subsidiaries FDU Hotrunner and Digital Moulds, exhibited at Fakuma as provider of injection molding technologies, including a new process for container molding. Active Mold presents new approaches to increasing process efficiency and productivity in container molding, enabling more precise process control, scrap reduction and improved repeatability. In addition, the company offered a first glimpse of its new U. S. subsidiary, which will begin operations in early 2027. With this new Greensburg, Indiana location, the Haidlmair Group is expanding its presence in the North American market and strengthening its ability to support local customers.

Get QQXT alerts:First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Technology Sector Index Fund (NASDAQ:QQXT - Get Free Report)'s share price shot up 1.3% during trading on Thursday. The stock traded as high as $99.29 and last traded at $99.26. Approximately 15,428 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 83% from the average session volume of 8,416 shares. The stock had previously closed at $97.99. First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Technology Sector Index Fund Trading Up 1.3%The company's 50-day moving average price is $99.98 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $99.06. The company has a market cap of $143.93 million, a P/E ratio of 23.20 and a beta of 0.83. First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Technology Sector Index Fund Increases DividendThe business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Investors of record on Thursday, September 24th were issued a $0.1919 dividend. This represents a $0.77 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.8%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 24th. This is a positive change from First Trust NASDAQ-100 Ex-Technology Sector Index Fund's previous quarterly dividend of $0.1870.

Italian coffee processing manufacturer Brambati will showcase its BR-E5 electric roaster at TriestEspresso 2026, presenting a technology solution designed to support coffee producers seeking greater energy efficiency and more sustainable roasting operations. The compact electric roaster combines precise process control with consistent roasting performance, offering an alternative to traditional systems as businesses continue to focus on reducing energy consumption and their environmental impact.

Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet, according to a study published on Friday in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.  A team transmitted electrical signals corresponding to Braille letters to human brain organoids, which are living neural tissues derived from stem cells. The results revealed that a single organoid, consisting of about 10,000 neurons, could classify the letters with about 61 percent accuracy, while teams of three organoids reached 83 percent accuracy.  “The human brain can perform incredibly complex information processing while consuming relatively little energy, and artificial neural networks were originally inspired by biological nervous systems,” said Tianyi Liu, a PhD candidate at Bristol University who led the new study, in an email to 404 Media. “If we've been trying to imitate biological neural networks all along, why not try using real biological neural networks directly?” she continued. “What kind of information processing capabilities might these tiny neural organoids have?

A firsthand look at how AI governance, autonomous trading, cybersecurity, and digital-asset fraud are shifting enforcement risk toward the decisions firms make and the records they preserve. Last week, I joined Ariella Guardi, Robert Musiala and Luke Tenery, with Charu Chandrasekhar moderating, at Securities Enforcement Forum Central in Chicago for a discussion on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital assets and emerging technology enforcement. The discussion reflected a shift in the enforcement landscape. Regulators and market participants are no longer dealing only with whether new technologies fit within existing regulatory categories. Increasingly, the harder questions concern what happens when firms actually deploy those technologies at scale.