The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is expected to leave its interest rate target unchanged at 3.5 to 3.75 percent at this week’s January meeting. After a series of rate cuts in the
Late last year, YouTube announced plans to reinstate accounts that had been banned at the behest of the Biden Administration for posting alleged COVID-19 misinformation. The announcement likely came as a relief to
David Beito argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a self-serving politician who cared very little for the civil liberties of Americans. In FDR: A New Political Life, Beito challenges historians who explain away
From Predictive Maintenance to Root Cause Intelligence For the last five years, the industrial sector has been obsessed with “listening” to machines. We have plastered billions of dollars worth of vibration sensors and thermal
Key Insights (AI-assisted): By folding Actility into Netmore, LoRaWAN shifts from a fragmented, country-level proposition toward a more integrated global infrastructure layer. Consolidation at this scale will likely pressure smaller LPWAN players and accelerate
Many of the worst policies have bipartisan support. On January 9, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he was “calling for a one year cap on credit card interest rates of 10 percent”
As of December 31, 2025, data for 11 of the 24 components of the Business Conditions Monthly have not yet been published. The timing of their release remains uncertain. Recent inflation data present a
Key Insights (AI-assisted): Rising offender monitoring volumes signal a maturing but still underpenetrated public-safety IoT segment. Scale growth will force vendors to optimize device power budgets, connectivity costs and cloud analytics for high-availability, evidential-grade
Key Insights (AI-assisted): Live NB-IoT NTN trials on an operational LEO constellation signal that satellite is moving from proprietary stacks to standards-driven extensions of cellular coverage. For IoT vendors, this lowers integration risk and encourages
Key Insights (AI-assisted): The trends outlined signal that AIoT is maturing from infrastructure deployment to outcome-focused, domain-specific systems. Scenario-driven solutions and edge-native analytics indicate buyers will prioritize tightly integrated stacks over generic IoT platforms,