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A Manchester-based venture capital firm has ploughed more than £1.1m into several artificial intelligence startups. The investment package from EHE Ventures targets tech firms using AI to solve “real-world” problems in areas ranging from health and agriculture to publishing and consumer technology. It comes under the firm’s new SEIS AI Growth Fund, which is part ...
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iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors “will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment” if the deal is approved, iRobot said. The company didn’t discuss how the move might affect its employees in the US or elsewhere. Amazon dropped... Read more ›
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The Stephen King adaptation wrapped up its first season Sunday night on HBO with a little slice of fan service. Read more ›
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If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trump’s attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week. Peters is a former Colorado election clerk and a die-hard believer in the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. In 2021, Peters committed a series of […] Read more ›
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Apple and Samsung are best equipped to handle rising memory chip costs that could drive down global smartphone shipments by 2.1% in 2026, according to new data from Counterpoint Research. Image credit: iFixit In its latest projection for the smartphone market next year, the firm has downgraded its forecast from a previously expected 0.45% growth, citing a memory shortage that has pushed component costs up 10% to 25%. Chinese brands... Read more ›
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Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Ventana Micro Systems, a RISC-V CPU specialist whose engineers have spent several years pushing the open instruction set toward high-performance server and edge designs. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel has responded to Trump's Truth Social post about the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. Read more ›
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Amidst the economic uncertainty ushered in by this AI boom, some folks still have conviction and are offering hope to the community. Edward Crisler, the PR manager for GPU maker Sapphire, has just said that he believes DRAM prices will start to plateau in the next few months, so don't panic buy right now. Read more ›
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One of 2025's splashiest games, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is getting its first major DLC expansion, developer Team Cherry announced in a blog post. The nautically-themed Sea of Sorrow update will come to the moody Metroidvania some time in 2026, and better still, it will be free for all players. The DLC will include "new areas, bosses, tools and more," the developer wrote. There aren't a lot of clues to the... Read more ›
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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are worth a combined $511 billion after jointly adding $185 billion to their fortunes this year. Read more ›
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Intel has tightened its ties with the current US administration, appointing an economic advisor to President Trump as its new head of government affairs. Read more ›
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between […] Read more ›
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Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt; now owned by former supplier Picea Read more ›
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Android and iOS aren't the only game in town, and polled readers like this alternative platform. Read more ›
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Archer, Beta, and Joby are developing autonomous, gas-electric hybrid air taxis in hopes of clinching defense contracts. Read more ›
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more ›
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said that reframing stress as positive can have a "huge impact on your ability to manage it." Read more ›
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As workers rail against the tyranny of shared schedules, tech companies say they can help Read more ›
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Regardless of the experiences and material things that money can offer, at the end of the day, kids "just want your time," Chris Hemsworth said. Read more ›
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The rise of AI and hyperscale computing is driving a global shift from air-based to liquid and embedded cooling as various companies are developing silicon-integrated systems capable of handling multi-kilowatt system-in-packages that can be commercialized by 2027. Read more ›
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Tech Climbers has revealed its latest shortlist of the best performing product-led tech businesses in Greater Manchester that are making an impact. This week, the tech community gathered at the Cloud 23 cocktail bar in the heart of Manchester’s city centre as journalist Peter Stojanovic unveiled the 11 companies that made the official list and ... Read more ›
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Scottish renewable energy tech firm Orbital Marine Power has secured a £7m investment to advance its international commercial projects. Headquartered in the Orkney Islands, Orbital Marine Power has developed technology to harness tidal energy along the UK coast to use as a source of renewable power. Designed to withstand the harshest of conditions, the company ... Read more ›
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Genomics in simple terms is the study of the genetic information of an organism or cell, but for those in the medical tech industry, it is a fundamental shift in the very concept of medicine. Where genetics may examine variations in a single gene to determine the cause of medical conditions, genomics looks at all ... Read more ›
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The UK’s trade association for the blockchain and cryptoasset industry has announced it will formally join its US counterpart as part of an expanded global network. CryptoUK said on Tuesday that it will join Washington DC-based The Digital Chamber to form an expanded global policy group under the US organisation’s umbrella. The two groups hope ... Read more ›
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Bristol-based battery tech startup Anaphite has raised £1.4m to boost its mission to decarbonise electric vehicle (EV) battery production by accelerating the industry’s shift to dry electrode coating. The sum is a combination of £700,000 in grant funding from the Innovate UK Investor Partnerships: Clean Energy and Climate Technologies competition, plus £700,000 of aligned investment ... Read more ›
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Bristol-headquartered quantum algorithms company Phasecraft has been named as a finalist in the $5m (£3.75m) XPRIZE Quantum Applications challenge backed by Google. The XPRIZE Quantum Applications challenge was launched in March last year as a global competition funded by Google Quantum AI and the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) to generate quantum computing algorithms ... Read more ›
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The UK allocated £61.4B to defence tech investment in 2025, maintaining one of Europe’s largest defence budgets with a focus on naval and air upgrades, cyber capabilities and nuclear deterrence. A new report by Tracxn titled “European Defence Tech Report 2025: Is Europe’s Defence Tech Entering its Most Compelling Phase for Investors?” shows that the ... Read more ›
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Nu Quantum has closed its £45m series A funding round, signifying the largest ever series A in the quantum sector in the UK. The funding will accelerate Nu Quantum’s mission to reach fault tolerance by interconnecting quantum processors into a more powerful distributed quantum computer, driving the next phase of product development and deployment, and ... Read more ›
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EpilepsyGTx has closed a £24.8m series A round to advance the development of its single dose gene therapy for focal refractory epilepsy. The funding will enable the delivery of first-in-human phase 1/2a clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of the company’s lead gene therapy programme EPY201 in a broad population of patients with ... Read more ›
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Bolt Insight, the London-based market research company helping brands unlock consumer insights through AI-moderated research, has closed its £7m funding round led by Pembroke VCT with participation from 212, Active Partners, Velocity and TIBAS Ventures. The new funding will help to scale its BoltChatAI tool globally, in addition to funding the company’s next ambition to ... Read more ›
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