Mozart and the digital twin for music


Although Mozart has no living descendants, his music still has countless inheritors. The latest in the lineage — born just this summer — is a digital twin. German tech giant Siemens conceived the prodigious clone. Last month, the company brought the system to M

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Norway wealth fund credits tech for $138B profit but envisions market crash


Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is celebrating a $138 billion profit from the first half of the year, but has put the champagne on ice. The $1.6 trillion fund credited the returns to investments in tech. Driven by surging demand for AI, technology stocks surged

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Football’s loathsome offside rule is getting an automated upgrade


The English Premier League is giving offside calls a (semi) automated upgrade. The new system revamps arguably the most controversial rule in sports. First introduced back in 1863, the offside law prevents sneaky footballers from camping by the goal. In its curren

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TNW Podcast: The state of healthtech, AI to battle ‘karoshi,’ CMA takes on Amazon and Anthropic


Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linne

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The race to power Europe’s warehouses with robots


The robot arms train every night. About half a dozen of them, flexing in silence. They practise picking up items thousands of times over, to test whether their latest algorithms are working as intended. And in the morning, Nomagic’s engineers turn up fo

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EU warning to Musk ahead of Trump interview draws ire of X


Much has been said today about the interview that took place on Monday between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X. Delayed by technical reasons, which Musk blamed on DDOS attacks, the two-hour conversation has been labell

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Dawn Aerospace is proving that spaceplanes aren’t rocket science


Dawn Aerospace is a small startup with big ambitions: to build the first vehicle to fly over 100 km above the Earth — twice in one day.     A couple of weeks back, the budding company — headquartered in the Netherlands and New Zealand — took a ma

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Why Go programming language is on the rise (again)


Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise in interest that it was named the 2009 Programming Language of the

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UK startup launches SAF plant at Oxford Airport in quest for greener flights


UK startup OXCCU has opened a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) demo plant at London Oxford Airport, as it looks to make a dent in emissions from air travel.  OXCCU spunout from Oxford University in 2021. The startup has developed

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Balderton Capital announces $1.3B fund for European tech


Balderton Capital today announced the closing of its $1.3bn early stage and growth funds in a sign of the European tech sector regaining investor confidence and momentum.   We are often disconcerted at the lack of support for European ent

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