António Félix da Costa is an extremely fast worker. The motorsports star has barely caught his breath since speeding at 250 km/h per hour into sixth place at a race in Sao Paulo, but he’s already back behind another wheel on another continent. The location of
“Do you believe in the multiverse?” our petite and cheerful guide Angelina asked me when I told her what I do for a living, while navigating the rambunctious street’s of Hanoi’s Old Quarter. It was not a conversation I was expecting to have
Nasa’s Artemis program is scheduled to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a permanent orbiting laboratory by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, private companies are making significant steps in taking paying customers further into space. As humanity
Juggling two jobs is hard work. It’s particularly hard work when one of the jobs is in a warzone. But for Ivan Kaunov, the roles are complementary. As the CEO and co-founder of Buntar Aerospace, Kaunov develops drones for long-range flights. As a member of the
A flying car that’s certified for aviation just took another big step towards commercialisation. The Aircar’s creator, KleinVision, today announced the sale of a “groundbreaking” license to manufacture the vehicle. The deal gives China’s Hebei Jianxin Flying Car Techn
Oriole Networks, a UCL spinout, has raised £10mn in seed funding to build AI “super brains” that promise to accelerate the training of Large Language Models (LLMs). Founded in 2023 by UCL scientists, the startup has developed a new method that harnesses the p
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, Linnea, Tom (!), and And
Leading computer scientists have unveiled a vision of “collective AI” that resembles Star Trek species the Borg. Researchers from MIT, Yale, and Loughborough University explained the concept in a study published this week in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pa
Some 11% of job tasks in the UK are currently at risk of AI replacement, a new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found. In the worst case scenario, this translates to a loss of 1.5 million jobs — without any GDP gains. IPPR’s analys
London-based Gocycle, founded by Richard Thorpe, a former industrial designer at McLaren, has released the first images of its new range of folding cargo ebikes. Gocycle, best known for its sleek folding ebikes, first announced its move into the ca