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Investment group Plural has co-led a $34m (£25.2m) Series B funding round into Phasecraft, a Bristol-based quantum algorithms company. Founded in 2019, Phasecraft develops “hardware-agnostic” algorithms in partnership with the likes of Google Quantum AI, IBM, QuEra and Quantinuum – which this week raised over £400m. The new funding for Phasecraft brings the total amount ...
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McIntyre joins 'Highlander' as its second Scottish actor *and* second wrestler-turned-actor. Read more ›
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"Researchers have found that the carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into images and videos is far worse than we previously thought," writes Futurism: As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations... Read more ›
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Workers in Indonesia risk their lives cooking toxic tofu over furnaces powered by US plastic waste, poisoning food and communities. Read more ›
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Like many other inventions, super glue was discovered completely by accident and was originally intended to be something else. Here's what happened. Read more ›
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Apple's latest mobile chip, the A19, has officially become the world's fastest CPU, at least in PassMark's single-threaded benchmark. It outperformed every flagship desktop processor from both Intel and AMD, as well as Apple's own M3 Ultra, while requiring less cooling and consuming significantly less power. Read more ›
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Can you stream YouTube via dial-up? You'll need at least four bonded 56K modems. But what if you have 12? Read more ›
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Lawmakers must pass a funding bill by the end of September, or the government will shut down. Republicans and Democrats are at an impasse. Read more ›
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Higher H-1B visa costs might not boost hiring in the US, as companies might turn to workers abroad. Read more ›
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Plus: A ransomeware gang steals data on 8,000 preschoolers, Microsoft blocks Israel’s military from using its cloud for surveillance, call-recording app Neon hits pause over security holes, and more. Read more ›
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Sony doesn't think 'Black Knight' has a chance in theaters, and Tartakovsky hopes his fanbase can change the studio's mind. Read more ›
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As everyone waits to learn who's our latest Batman, Gunn offers up hints about 'Brave & the Bold,' the hero's first outing in the new DCU. Read more ›
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After decades of being in charge of our family travel, it was weird at first to not have to do anything. I let my adult kids plan our time together. Read more ›
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Electric powertrains allow for "crazy fast acceleration figures," reports Car and Driver, as well as "huge power numbers." And now a Chinese luxury electric car brand owned by BYD Auto "just hit a top speed of 308.4 mph, making it not only the fastest electric car on the planet, but the fastest car. Period." Engadget reports that the U9 Xtreme "is packed with four motors that produce just under 3,000... Read more ›
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Make your life even easier with this handy platform that puts multiple AI models in one place, 1min.AI, now $99.99 (reg. $540) for a lifetime subscription. Read more ›
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The Russian Academy of Sciences has unveiled a 2026–2037 roadmap for domestic 11.2 nm EUV lithography tools that reject ASML's architecture in favor of xenon plasma, Ru/Be mirrors, and solid-state lasers, aiming for simplified, tin-free, cost-effective alternatives. Read more ›
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My ride on Malaysia's KTM ETS train from Kuala Lumpur to Penang in business class was great, from the private Ruby Lounge to the onboard meal. Read more ›
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At 37, I travel full-time and have no kids. I worry that I'm falling behind, but my great aunt, a superager, says to stop worrying. Read more ›
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With one declaration, President Donald Trump upended an aspect of our immigration system. Last week, Trump announced that the US would begin imposing a $100,000 fee for all new H-1B visa applications — that is, the visa that high-skill foreign professionals use to work in the US. By hiking the fee to such an exorbitant […] Read more ›
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Planning approval has been secured by Latos for a new £100m data centre specialising in AI inference capabilities. The 18,836 sq ft centre will be located at Preston Farm Industrial Estate in Stocton-on-Tees and will house NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Latos, a neural edge infrastructure company, plans to open the site in early 2027. “From robotics ... Read more ›
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YASO, a London-based startup that helps consumer brands expand and grow in the Chinese market has raised £8.25m in a Series A funding round. The company provides an operating system covering payments, logistics, compliance, tax, analytics and storefront integrations for firms looking to grow their presence in the challenging to enter but highly lucrative Chinese ... Read more ›
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The UK government is considering lowering the financial requirements for the global talent visa amid an extreme increase in cost from the US. Figures at Number 10 and the Treasury have even floated the idea of abolishing the associated fees altogether, according to reporting from the Financial Times. The global talent visa is a scheme ... Read more ›
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London-based fintech firm Tide has been valued at $1.5bn after securing a new $120m (£88.8m) funding round. The business and finance management platform was founded in 2015. Tide offers SMEs business accounts and banking services as well as a suite of administrative management tools. The company, which operates in its home market as well as ... Read more ›
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This week’s podcast guest is Calum Chase, co-founder of Conscium, who discusses why fears of an AI winter have been greatly exaggerated, why the industry has surpassed the hype phase and will continue to grow and the transformational impacts already happening and those yet to come. Conscium is a research organisation focused on applied AI ... Read more ›
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Figures from the UK tech industry have urged the Home Office to “decisively” embrace immigration in the wake of anti-migrant policy from the US. In an open letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, tech advocacy group Startup Coalition said moves from the US against encouraging skilled migration made it more important than ever that the ... Read more ›
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ZILO, a London-based startup developing software for asset and wealth management, has secured a $27m (£20m) Series A extension round. Founded in 2023, ZILO produces global transfer agency software, used to manage the records of the owners of various assets. The software is used to process transactions and keep track of investor details. Now backed ... Read more ›
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Dame Angela Eagle, recently appointed as a minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), has declared the government’s commitment to the agricultural tech sector. In her first public appearance since being named Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs in the cabinet re-shuffle earlier this month, Eagle said this ... Read more ›
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Alloyed is a University of Oxford spinout that specialises in developing and manufacturing high-performance metal components through a combination of materials science, advanced software, and additive manufacturing, which includes 3D printing. Earlier this year, the startup secured £37m in Series B funding, reflecting its impressive traction – with customers including Anglo American, BMW, Boeing, Hitachi ... Read more ›
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Revolut has pledged to invest £3bn in the UK as it opens the doors of its new global headquarters in Canary Wharf. The fintech unicorn, currently the UK’s most valuable private tech company, also pledged to create an additional 1,000 new jobs. According to the firm, the UK investment is the cornerstone of its five-year ... Read more ›
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