The US-based developer of copper indium gallium selenide thin-film PV products said its modules will be tested without modifications by companies developing marine PV and power beaming applications.

Ascent Solar testing CIGS modules for power beaming, marine applications

PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) today announced that a leading optical communications laser manufacturer placed an order for multiple Lumina™ metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems. This order establishes Lumina™ as the customer’s production tool of record for indium phosphide (InP) epitaxy on both 4-inch and 6-inch wafers. The tools will be used to fabricate InP lasers for use in innovative optical communication solutions for the datacom industry.

Veeco Receives Multiple Lumina Systems Order from Leading Optical Communications Laser Manufacturer

The U.S. is also exploring stockpiles of rare earths, tungsten, bismuth, and indium — metals critical for advanced weapons systems, radar, and missile defense. The Pentagon's current stockpile is valued at about $1.3 billion, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed earlier this year allocates $7.5 billion for critical minerals.

Pentagon Plans $1B Critical Minerals Buying Spree

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AI hallucinations occur when an artificial intelligence system generates incorrect or misleading outputs based on patterns that don’t actually exist.

Taming AI Hallucinations: Mitigating Hallucinations in AI Apps with Human-in-the-Loop Testing

Deploying products efficiently requires a streamlined approach that minimizes errors and accelerates time-to-market. 

Gen AI in Action: Streamlining the Product Development Lifecycle for Greater Efficiency

Amazon Bedrock’s RAG Evaluation framework tackles various challenges with a systematic, metrics-driven approach.

What You Need to Know About Amazon Bedrock’s RAG Evaluation and LLM-as-a-Judge for Advancing AI

AI-powered insights transform the limits of product engineering with new concepts about product ideation, design, and delivery.

AI Is Making it Easier to Engineer Better Products—Here's How

 Explore how data annotation powers generative AI, driving innovations from chatbots to deepfake technology.Learn about challenges, opportunities, and the futur

Beyond the Hype: How Data Annotation Powers Generative AI

How Gen AI and AWS Bedrock Supercharged Real Estate Data Extraction  

Embedded generative AI solutions directly integrate advanced generative or AI models into production devices and processes, creating new possibilities for PdM. 

Embedded Gen AI: Smarter Predictive Maintenance Apps for Manufacturing 

AI financial chatbots have been transforming customer service in banking and finance, ushering in an era of hyper-personalized, real-time assistance.

From Chatbots to Wealth Advisors: Building Gen AI-Driven Financial Assistants

Synthetic data represents a paradigm shift in healthcare because it allows data to transcend its potential shortcomings.

Synthetic Data And Its Potential In Healthcare

Explore how data annotation is crucial to generative AI success. Learn about tools, strategies, & best practices that enhance AI model performance, scalability.

The Critical Role of Data Annotation in Shaping the Future of Generative AI

Explore HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of Data Science in 2024—top stories, standout writers, and the readers who shaped the discourse!

HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our Data Science Community!

Antimony, arsenic, bismuth, boron, nitrogen, cæsium, gold, indium, mercury, phosphorus, rubidium, selenium, sulphur, thallium, praseodymium.

SPECTRUM OF THE SUN AND ELEMENTS

Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Volume III, NUCLEAR FISSION: New Elements


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List of software testing companies. Choose the best software testing company you can trust to outsource your project for 2023

Software Testing Companies To Look Out For in 2023

Something in the many-faceted mind of the master machine spurs it to diabolical revolt against the authority of its human masters.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: VOL. VII, No. 1 - The Revolt of the Machines

Technology Trends for AI, Cloud and Data analytics in 2022

Thanks to big data, today an organization can quickly obtain the necessary information from an unordered data set and deploy it effectively. The growing popularity of big data analytics has led to a significant increase in the number of companies providing big data solutions and related services.

The Top Big Data Consulting Firms

Finding a trustworthy software testing company is not piece of cake. It may take weeks, and it is guaranteed to cost you some efforts and nerves. Yet, it’s not like you can release your software solution without proper testing done. Users become less forgiving when it comes to less-than-perfect user experience and&nbsp;bugs.

Top 20 Software Testing Companies Worth Your Attention in 2019

The saying that size does not matter may be applicable in graphene — this wonder material that, although measures only an atom thick, is changing the way we live with its amazing properties.

How the great potential of graphene can improve the technologies we use daily

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Nita Sinha and Prof. V. Ravindran for being my advisors and supporting me through the highs and lows...

A Phenomenological Study of WIMP Models: Acknowledging the People That Made This Possible

Is Product Hunt Dead or What Results Can You Expect from Product Hunt Launch?

Is Product Hunt Dead - What Results Can You Expect From Product Hunt Launch?

A sailing vessel would not have beat up to Milford, as we did, in twelve months.

Exerting Forces Too Great for Human Power, and Executing, Operations Too Delicate for Human Touch

He looked at me over his spectacles. “I’ve seen another that was refused at four.”

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