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Delivers superior HD voice clarity, modern Type-C charging, and nationwide 4G network performance, featuring the newly launched HMD 101 4G and HMD 102 4G HMD (Human Mobile Devices), the leading European mobile phone manufacturer and maker of Nokia phones, has partnered with Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s #1 connectivity provider, to officially introduce a new range of affordable 4G feature phones to Sri Lanka, including the HMD 101 4G and HMD 102 4G. Combining the legendary durability and trust of Nokia’s hardware with Dialog’s nationwide coverage, this strategic initiative supports the country’s transition from legacy 2G networks to modern 4G…

Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned.-AI Boom Andrew Bailey said the central bank is watching the huge amounts of money being invested in AI “very carefully” and cautioned that “not everybody always wins”. The money that has been spent on and loaned to AI firms over the last few years in the hope of large returns is causing markets to value some of them as multi-trillion dollar businesses. Asked if he believed an AI bubble could burst, Bailey said: “You…

Dr Asanka P. Sayakkara is the Founder Director of the Innovation & Startup Incubator at the University of Colombo. He is also a Senior Lecturer at University of Colombo’s School of Computing (UCSC). He completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of Colombo School of Computing in 2013 and received his PhD in the field of Information Security and Digital Forensics, from the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2020. During his PhD studies, he worked with the Forensic & Security Research (ForSec) group and Artificial Intelligence Solution for Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Smart Systems (ASEADOS) lab of UCD.…

Featured Image: The participants at the 2026 YGC Innovation Festival in Jaffna For the past 15 years, Yarl IT Hub has been building more than individual programmes. It has been creating a connected ecosystem around innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, bringing together school students, young people, founders, entrepreneurs, volunteers, industry, universities, institutions, partners and the diaspora around a shared purpose. At the heart of this model is a simple idea: Create opportunities at every stage of the journey. A school student can discover technology, a young person can build practical skills, an aspiring founder can test an idea, and an entrepreneur…

The technology could strap onto existing gas turbines and make them more efficient—but it wouldn’t do away with their emissions entirely. A new company has a plan to make the dirty gas turbines powering data centers more efficient: liquid carbon dioxide. American Supercritical came out of stealth Wednesday, announcing $8 million in funding. It wants to retrofit inefficient gas turbines that many data centers rely on for power with units that can generate more power, without adding more emissions (though the gas-fired turbines will continue to emit carbon pollution). The technology can also theoretically be used on a wide variety…

Around 17,000 tech graduates a year entering a market with little room to absorb them Youth unrest risk flagged as graduates seek US$ 1,000 monthly salaries Service export tax seen deterring global IT firms from scaling up Sri Lanka is producing some 17,000 technology graduates every year without jobs to absorb them, a mismatch that risks breeding unrest among young people unless the country pivots decisively to the new economy, Standard Chartered Bank Sri Lanka Chief Executive Officer Bingumal Thewarathanthri warned. Thewarathanthri raised the concern on a panel at the 49th Annual Meetings of the Association of Development Financing Institutions…

Salesforce has expanded Headless 360, transforming its platform so authorized AI agents can securely discover, understand and take action across trusted enterprise capabilities through open standards. The expansion is designed to help organizations move beyond fragmented AI integrations by allowing them to reuse business capabilities already built on Salesforce, while maintaining existing identity, permissions, metadata, workflows, governance and business logic. The development comes as enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents across their operations and seek secure ways for these agents to execute complex business tasks. The expanded Headless 360 platform includes new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, Data 360 capabilities, Slack…

UNESCO recently advocated a shift away from resource-intensive AI models in favor of more compact ones. The UNESCO report calls for governments and industry to invest in sustainable AI research and development. as a way to reduce energy consumption by up to 90%. While much of the AI industry is still obsessed with building more data centers, on-device AI is challenging the notion that “bigger is better”. Driven by growing demand for localized user privacy, environmental concerns à la ‘tokenmaxxing’, and efficiency required by some use cases, breakthroughs in smaller purpose-built AI models have shown developers that capable AI does…

Prof. Lasith Gunawardena is the University of Sri Jayewardenepura’s former Head at the Department of Information Technology, Co-Chair of the Invention, Innovation and Venture Creation Council (IIVCC), and former Chair of the IT Governance Committee (FMSC). Over the course of 25 years, he has taught and mentored more than 10,000 students across undergraduate and postgraduate programs conducted by Sri Lankan Universities and as a Registered University Teacher of Plymouth University, UK. He is on the Board of Directors of ORCID Inc. as one of two Researcher-Directors globally, and Co-Chair the ORCID Researcher Advisory Council (ORAC), and his role connects Sri…

As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to the problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out. The release follows a string of hacking incidents involving AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta that bypassed security controls to escape their testing environments and access real-world systems.…