AI & RoboticsNews

With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete

September 22, 2026
In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year. “We did bookkeeping, accounting, sales tax, taxes, everything,” Ali says. It was a stable business, and one that would have been easy to stay in. But Ali started to notice something. His work was increasingly dictated by the frictions of accounting software…
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NewsPhotography

“It carried more emotional weight than I had realized at the time,” says award-winning photographer about her “ordinary” black-and-white portrait

September 22, 2026
Sometimes we take a photo which, in the moment, doesn’t strike us as outstanding, only to later realize just how powerful the scene is. That’s the sentiment from Carly Goldsmith, who was recently crowned the winner of the “People” category at the 2026 Mono Awards. Hosted by Australian Photography and Capture magazines, the annual photography competition celebrates the world’s best…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla and Sunrun's virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid

September 22, 2026
Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from home batteries onto California’s grid during a heat wave on September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorded. The dispatch pooled more than 140,000 home batteries across the state and ran for a three-hour window in the evening, when the grid was straining under air-conditioning load. How the 580 MW came…
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DefenseNews

Hegseth to chair Pentagon’s new Homeland Defense advisory board

September 22, 2026
After overseeing a purge of Pentagon advisory committees last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is adding a new one to the list, focused on homeland security and defense. Announced in the Federal Register Sept. 11, the Homeland Defense Board aims to fill a gap Hegseth sees in providing military guidance to homeland security missions. “The specific, integrated advice required by the SecWar…
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