Swiipr, a travel paytech company transforming the airline industry’s outdated and inefficient disruption payments systems, has secured €7 million in Series A funding, led by Octopus Ventures, to help drive the company’s next phase of growth. TX Ventures and Solano Partners supported Octopus on the funding round. The capital will be deployed to develop Swiipr’s […]
Copenhagen-based fintech ZTLment announced it has raised €2.4 million in total pre-seed funding from investors PreSeed Ventures, Upfin, Giant Ventures, and strong business angels. With the fresh capital, ZTLment aims to eliminate the need for outdated banking infrastructures once and for all and make it easy to make programmable and peer-to-peer payments. The Danish fintech […]
Lecce-based Zefi.ai, a startup on a mission to change the way software is built empowering product teams, announced it has raised €1.6 million in a pre-seed round led by 360 Capital, a leading Italian-French fund based in Paris and Milan, and 14Peaks Capital, an international Zurich-based fund that invests in B2B SaaS companies in Europe […]
Cloover, a Berlin-based startup, has secured €105 million seed round to fuel the growth of its operating system for the renewable energy industry. The company connects all relevant stakeholders of the energy transition – installers, prosumers, manufacturers, energy providers, and investors – through its software, finance, and energy solutions. The round is led by Lowercarbon […]
Next-generation communications security startup Q*Bird has raised a €2.5 million round to accelerate its growth in the emerging quantum security market. The funding was jointly led by QDNL Participations and Cottonwood Technology Fund, with participation from InnovationQuarter. Q*Bird has developed a unique quantum cryptography (QKD) product called Falqon, which is based on the fundamental laws […]
Temporal is an open-source project focused on durable execution and workflow orchestration. Cofounder and CTO Maxim Fateev tells Ben and Ryan about the challenges of building a cloud service based on an open-source project and how Temporal is helping teams simplify their code and build more features more quickly. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/28/an-open-source-development-paradigm/
NcodiN, a pioneering tech company in optical interposer technology, has successfully secured €3.5 million from top-tier European deep tech investors Elaia, Earlybird and OVNI Capital. NcodiN aims to revolutionize the semiconductor industry and meet demand for innovative technologies to keep up with the pace of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. This funding […]
Google quietly started indexing EPUB files and can now be seen in the SERPs
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Data reveals Google AI overviews are disrupting ecommerce visibility, pulling product data from non-ranking sources.
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Google Analytics introduces direct export to Google Sheets, streamlining data analysis and collaboration.
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Nový metamateriál exceluje v tom, co mají metamateriály nejraději. Dělá si legraci ze selského rozumu. Téměř přes něj není vidět, ale přitom propustí ještě více světla, než obyčejné sklo. Jeho důmyslná mikrostruktura interpretuje fyzikální zákony vyloženě zlomyslným způsobem. http://www.osel.cz/13493-pres-dabelsky-metamaterial-neni-videt-a-presto-propusti-vic-svetla-nez-sklo.html
Google rolls out a new type of social profile that makes users' written reviews in Search publicly accessible.
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The European Space Agency has hired Airbus to build a space satellite. It will forecast solar storms like the one that caused the biggest northern lights display in over 20 years this May. The satellite, dubbed Vigil, will sit at
The EU’s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is set to enter into force by the end of June, following its final adoption today. The key regulation aims to ensure that homegrown clean tech can cover at least 40% of the bloc’s demands by 2030. “Demand is growi
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion as investors bet big on challengers to companies like OpenAI in the intensifying AI race.
The funding round was backed by inv
The world of hard tech startups is filled with potential. However, compared to software businesses, their journey to success requires a different approach. This unique landscape demands a fresh perspective on how we navigate the critical inflexion point. In the context of startups, the inflexion point refers to a critical stage in a company’s growth […]
In a perfect world, we would start our day by going through a neatly ordered list of tasks. We’d have a few hours of deep work concentration to cross off half of them. Then we’d have a leisurely lunch with colleagues and go back to whittling down the list until t
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Most New Year’s resolutions are buried by now. April’s a great time for a fresh start. So today’s post focuses on simple, us
Energy tech startup Delta Green [formerly, Nano Green] announced the finalization of a significant investment totaling €2.2 million. The investment is backed by three VC funds — Tilia Impact Ventures as the lead, along with Credo Ventures and Purple Ventures. The funding is earmarked to fuel the company’s expansion into Western Europe and to scale […]
Six NATO members are planning to build a “drone wall” to protect Europe from Russian threats. Finland, Norway, Poland, and the three Baltic states will work together to set up the air defence system. The drones will monitor the thousands of kilomet
Excerpted from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, by Thomas S. Mullaney. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. All rights reserved.
During the early rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s, no Western-designed CPU, printer, monitor, operating system, or programming language was capable of handling Chinese character input or output—not “out of the box,” at least. For the better part of the history of computing, computing techn
Find out why emotional intelligence is a valuable asset. Discover how EQ can help manage conflicts, negotiate goals, and build strong relationships across diverse teams.
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In the fast-paced world of tech startups, scaling quickly and efficiently is often the name of the game. However, with the abundance of venture capital (VC) funding available, when the tides turn as they have in the past 24 months, there’s a risk of becoming overly reliant on external investment to fuel growth. As such, […]
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Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.
Spectrum.Life, a startup delivering clinically backed digital health, mental health and wellbeing solutions to organisations and their people, has announced a €17 million investment round. The round was led by Act Venture Capital with participation from existing investors. With this investment, Spectrum.Life will continue to drive its vision to change and save as many lives […]
Google's new AI search overviews stumble with inaccurate, bizarre responses, prompting mainstream media attention.
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Pozorování supermasivních černých děr odhalilo asi u třetiny z nich nesrovnalosti mezi směrem jejich výtrysků a polohou stop po jejich předchozí aktivitě. Zdá se, že některé supermasivní černé díry jsou jako Hvězdy smrti a mohou změnit směr paprsků smrti, jimiž žhaví okolní vesmír. http://www.osel.cz/13492-astronomove-vystopovali-supermasivni-cerne-diry-co-si-hraji-na-hvezdy-smrti.html
DeepL, a leading Language AI company, announced €277 million of investment at a $2 billion valuation. Led by Index Ventures, the heavily oversubscribed round attracted strong support from new investors, who will bring their extensive expertise, connections, and resources to support DeepL’s growth and long-term vision to transform the way companies communicate around the world. […]
Nory, an AI powered operating system for hospitality businesses, has secured €14.7 million in Series A funding round led by Accel, taking its total raised to $25 million, following 400% revenue growth in 2023. Existing investors Cavalry, Playfair, Samaipata and Triplepoint also participated in the round. This investment will be used to accelerate product development […]
Espoo-based mycoprotein company Enifer has announced the completion of a funding package that enables it to start constructing a unique food-grade mycoprotein factory in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The factory, which is set for completion by the end of 2025 and projected to cost €33 million, will convert food industry side streams into Enifer’s sustainable PEKILO® fungi-based […]
Viable, an intelligent finance startup that helps consumer brands improve growth, profit and cash flow outcomes, announced the closing of its €2.8 million seed funding round with participation from Episode 1, Haatch, Portfolio Ventures and a group of angel investors led by Martin Brailsford, former founder & CEO of e-commerce group Internet Fusion. This round […]
Unlockit, a Portuguese real-estate transaction management platform, has wrapped its pre-seed funding round for an amount of €1.4 million. This investment was led by the Eaglestone Group, an international financial services platform, through the Group’s venture capital company, Eaglestone Capital Partners, accompanied by Portugal Ventures and also has the participation of current investors Reorganiza and […]
Oxfordshire-based Grey Wolf Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging first-of-its-kind antigen modulation therapies to address the source of immune dysfunction in oncology and autoimmunity, announced the closing of an oversubscribed €46 million Series B financing expansion, bringing the total amount of Series B funds raised to $99 million. The Series B expansion round was led by ICG’s […]
In this episode, Shirley Romig, Chief Accelerator Investment Officer at Techstars, discusses the future of accelerator programs and the importance of ecosystem development. She highlights the need to tap into talent globally and create partnerships that fuel growth for Techstars’ portfolio companies. Shirley also shares valuable lessons she has learned from scaling companies like Lyft […]
Rows, a collaborative cloud platform-based spreadsheet app, has just raised €8 million in a funding round led by Indico Capital Partners and with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures, Accel, Lakestar, Armilar Venture Partners and others. The company will use these funds to make data integrations even faster and easier, continue to enhance AI features, […]
In the world of entrepreneurship, a great idea alone isn’t enough. To convince investors, partners, or customers of the value of your startup, you must effectively communicate your vision and passion. While the content of your pitch is crucial, the non-verbal cues you give off – your body language – can significantly impact your audience’s […]
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OpenAI’s chatbots scored a big new data source following the company’s deal with News Corp. on Wednesday. With the stroke of a pen, ChatGPT and the company’s other services added the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, MarketWatch, Barron’s, and other publications to its database.
The deal, which did not include Fox News content, was the latest in a growing ser
When journalists sounded alarm bells in early May 2024 that more than 100 extremist militia groups had been organizing and communicating on Facebook, it wasn’t the first time militias had garnered attention for their online
It seems as though the more powerful computers get, the more noticeable it is once they start to buckle under the pressure of multi-tabbed web sessions, unchecked digital hoarding, many-windowed multitasking, and more.
If your Windows 11 PC is taking longer than expected to perform tasks, there are several ways to speed it up—some obvious and others not so.
First, the obvious ways
If you haven’t tried them
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Revoluční raketový pohon aerospike pracuje v širokém rozmezí nadmořských výšek. Mohl by dostat kosmoplán ze startovací dráhy až na orbitu. Zatím se nejdál dostal startup Polaris, který uskutečnil úplně první letový test s tímto pohonem. Prototyp MIRA I se ale zřítil při startu, ještě před spuštěním pohonu aerospike. Polaris zamáčkl slzu a jede dál. http://www.osel.cz/13491-prvni-prototyp-s-pohonem-aerospike-mira-i-havaroval-jeste-pred-testem.html
Connoisseurs of human-created comedy exhaled, back in January, when an AI-generated George Carlin special turned out to be written and performed by a person. The relief was short-lived, though. Even as that attention-seeking stunt incurred litigation from the long-deceased legend’s estate,
Just nine years after accepting his own sheepskin from Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT), YouTube gadget guru Marques Brownlee was back on campus to deliver the 2024 commencement address at his alma mater on Wednesday, May 22. He’d been given seven minutes in which to deliver his remarks—a time period shorter than the videos he creates for his YouTube followers, he quipped.
“Find
Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars, and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patte
Lately, I’ve been slightly obsessed with maps.
It’s not a wistful nerd fixation, either—I promise. (Though I certainly do have my fair share of those!) Nope: This obsession is all about practical benefit and some splendid ways our modern mapping technology can help us.
We’ve talked about little-known map-centric tricks in my Android Intelligence newsletter a few times recently, including with
Following almost two years’ worth of investigations and chest puffing in Washington, D.C., the government this week filed its much-anticipated lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, accusing the company of antitrust.
It was the formal start of a boxing match that’s likely to go many rounds—and both sides are coming out swinging. When announcing the s
The list of jobs that are being threatened by artificial intelligence is growing by the day, but could generative AI ever take center stage on Broadway?
In the past year, the unions representing Hollywood actors and writers won protections against the potential applications of AI in TV and film—just in ti
The PC just got an AI makeover, raising hopes that the buzzy technology would help revive an industry that has been on a steady decline over the last few years.
Here’s everything we know about AI PCs:
What doe
Next month Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, the event where it shows off its upcoming software offerings. The star this year will be iOS 18, the operating system that powers the iPhone. iOS 18 is rumored to be one of the most significant upgrades to the iPhone’s operating system in over a decade. That’s because Apple is widely expected to finally jump on the
Webbův dalekohled opět předvedl, proč stálo za to ho poslat do vesmíru. Pozoroval nejranější galaxie, jak vznikají ve vesmíru, který je starý jen asi 400 až 600 milionů let. Vědci se tak poprvé stali takřka očitými svědky procesu, který doposud znali jenom z počítačových simulací. http://www.osel.cz/13490-bajecny-uspech-webbuv-dalekohled-spatril-vznikajici-galaxie-na-usvitu-vesmiru.html
What was that thing for anyway?
Spotify announced Thursday it will discontinue Car Thing, a $90 device that allows users to control Spotify through their car speakers. After December 9, 2024, Car Thing will no longer be operational—and Spotify is recommending that users trash it (safely, of course, and following electronic waste guidelines).
It’s one thing to discontinue the device, but another t
Tesla has cut output of its best-selling Model Y electric car by a double-digit percentage number at its Shanghai plant since March, according to industry data and a source.
The move is aimed at addressing weakening demand for the U.S. automaker’s aged model in China, its second largest market into which a majorit
In a season dominated by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Barbie, investment world icon Sallie Krawcheck celebrates what she calls “the feminization of wealth.” Founder and CEO of women-led investment platform Ellevest, Krawcheck discusses Ellevest reaching $2 billion in assets under management and why The Great Wealth Transfer is primed to turn the econ
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the tech company’s high profile deal with the United Arab Emirates-backed AI firm G42 could eventually involve the transfer of sophisticated chips and tools – a move that a senior Republican congressman warned could have
Friday is here, the weather is… not horrible, and it’s time for your weekly round-up of news from the Dutch tech ecosystem. There was plenty to talk about when it came to the crown jewel in the Dutch tech ecosystem this week. Chip machine-maker ASML featured
IQM Garnet, a 20-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) is now available via Amazon Web Services (AWS) — the first quantum computer accessible via AWS’ cloud in the European Union. Finnish quantum hardware startup IQM is based outside of Helsinki, F
Critically speaking, Humane’s AI Pin is not off to a great start. Many have condemned the device as unnecessary and cumbersome; YouTube review legend
Google’s Pixel 8a is a $500 smartphone trapped between two worlds.
In the world of midrange phones, the Pixel 8a is pretty great. Feature-wise it’s not too far off from the $700 Pixel 7, with a capable camera system, a silky smooth 120 Hz display, and a snappy interface. While using it, I seldom found myself wishing for a more expensive regular phone (even if I missed my trusty foldable
Drivers for some of the largest rideshare and delivery companies in California are earning well below the state minimum wage despite the implementation of Proposition 22, according to a new report from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Labor Center and its Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics.
The median wage for a California rideshare driv
