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BeeSpeaker, a Poland- and Sweden-based language learning startup, has raised €2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Movens Capital, with SpeedUp Venture Capital and several angel investors participating. Founded in 2022, the company focuses on helping users practice spoken language through AI-driven video tutors and conversational exercises. BeeSpeaker reports 60,000 paying users […]
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Organizers say the “No Kings” protests drew more than seven million people across 2,700 cities. The crowds included high-profile politicians, A-list celebrities, and more than a few creative inflatables. Read more ›
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The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there. Read more ›
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Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million people took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president, his policies, and his tactics. Indivisible, the group behind the protests, claims that there were over 2,700 […] Read more ›
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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy said that agents just aren't working, and it'll take about a decade to get them to a place where they are useful. Read more ›
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An unfortunate Reddit user lost access to 3 terabytes of data stored across two drives when BitLocker automatically encrypted them without the user's knowledge, within Windows 11. With no keys to unlock the drives, the data is now permanently gone with no hopes for conventional recovery. Read more ›
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iOS 26.4 is expected to introduce a revamped version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence, but not everyone is satisfied with how well it works. In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said some of Apple's software engineers have "concerns" about the overhauled Siri's performance. However, he did not provide any specific details about the shortcomings. iOS 26.4 will likely be released in March or April, so Apple... Read more ›
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Introduced in October 1985, the third-generation x86 processor was the first 32-bit chip in Intel’s PC line, the origin point for the IA-32 instruction set, and the architectural turning point that transformed personal computing. Read more ›
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Violent video games have found themselves in the crosshairs of politicians yet again, but this time with Mexico's government. Earlier this week, Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a comprehensive financial package that includes an eight percent tax on video games with mature content. As first reported by Insider Gaming, the proposed tax covers games that have a C or D rating under Mexico's video game age classification system, which is... Read more ›
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We still have a few months to wait before the next Cult of the Lamb DLC, Woolhaven, arrives, but the Massive Monster team just shared a closer look at one of the new experiences the expansion will bring and, oh boy, I cannot wait to play this. In addition to adding a new mountain area with two new dungeons, Woolhaven will introduce ranching, so you can raise animals — the... Read more ›
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Premium Plus and Premium Business users will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace. Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories. Priority handles will be free and “often include full names, multi-word phrases, or alphanumeric combinations.” Rare handles, on the other hand, will be […] Read more ›
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"Eleven days ago, the nonprofit entity that develops the protocol, Signal Messenger LLC, published a 5,900-word write-up describing its latest updates that bring Signal a significant step toward being fully quantum-resistant," writes Ars Technica: The mechanism that has made this constant key evolution possible over the past decade is what protocol developers call a "double ratchet." Just as a traditional ratchet allows a gear to rotate in one direction but... Read more ›
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Like a moth to a flame, Windows has attracted yet another bug. In the latest October update, the recovery environment renders your USB keyboard and mouse unresponsive, making it impossible to interact with your PC. Microsoft has already taken note of the issue and plans to fix it in a future update. Read more ›
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"This is an attempt to stop Waymo cars from driving into the dead end," complains a home-made sign in San Francisco, "where they are forced to reverse and adversely affect the lives of the residents." On an orange traffic post, the home-made sign declares "NO WAYMO - 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m," with an explanation for the rest of the neighborhood. âoeWaymo comes at all hours of the night and... Read more ›
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It can a decade or more to develop a top tier video game like Grand Theft Auto 6. A Google gaming exec says AI will change that. Read more ›
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TSMC's new flyby video of its Fab 21 in Arizona offers a rare glimpse inside the fully operational N4/N5 cleanroom, highlighting ASML's EUV scanners producing chips for Apple, AMD, and Nvidia. Read more ›
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An investigation revealed that the popular low-cost Amech SGT-4 thermal paste is a chemically reactive PDMS-based compound containing that releases acetic acid, produces a vinegar odor, corrodes copper surfaces, and even creates ant holes on surfaces. Read more ›
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Battlefield 6 is an intense game with gorgeous visuals that demands the best screen possible. But what if you're at work and your literal job is to test displays? That's when a bit of ingenuity kicks in and you switch to the tiny screen on your CPU's liquid cooler to maximize gaming efficiency like a boss. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Cryptonews: Sony has taken Wall Street by surprise after its banking division, Sony Bank, filed an application with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national crypto bank under its subsidiary "Connectia Trust." The move positions the Japanese tech giant to become one of the first major global corporations to issue a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin through a... Read more ›
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"Microsoft does everything in its power to keep Windows users under its control," warns the Free Software Foundation in a new blog post this week. They argue that the lack of freedom that comes with proprietary code "forces users to surrender to decisions made by Microsoft to maximize its profits and further lock users into its product ecosystem" — describing both the problem and one possible solution: [IT management company... Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based Dreamdata has closed a $55 million Series B funding round led by PeakSpan Capital, with participation from InReach Ventures, Angel Invest, Curiosity VC, and Crowberry Capital. The company provides a B2B marketing platform that consolidates customer journey data to help marketing teams analyze performance and coordinate campaigns. The new funding will be used to […] Read more ›
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Enable Banking, an Espoo-based infrastructure provider, has partnered with Italy’s A-Tono Group to enhance connectivity between banks, businesses, and consumers. The collaboration will see A-Tono’s digital payments platform DropPay—which manages over two million transactions each month—integrate Enable Banking’s PSD2-compliant infrastructure, allowing users to access Account Information Services (AIS) and Payment Initiation Services (PIS) directly within […] Read more ›
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Helios Innovations AB, a Swedish cleantech company, has raised €1.28 million (SEK 14.2 million) from venture investor BackingMinds to expand its industrial wastewater and PFAS treatment operations. The company, founded by Jonatan Persson and Johanna Gillberg, has reported a 170% revenue increase over the past year and currently treats highly contaminated wastewater for Nordic pharmaceutical […] Read more ›
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Swedish agtech startup Arevo has raised €7.3 million in new funding to accelerate the scale-up of its bio-based fertiliser production and drive international expansion, Impact Loop reports. The latest funding round was completed with participation from existing investors, including Industrifonden, Fort Knox, Navigare Ventures, and forest industry group Stora Enso, all of which have backed […] Read more ›
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Lithuanian regenerative agriculture firm InSoil has signed a four-year agreement with Anew Climate, a U.S.-based environmental markets company, to market more than 500,000 independently verified soil carbon removals from InSoil’s Carbon Farming Program. Developed under Verra’s VCS VM0042 standard and verified by SCS Global, the project has achieved an average sequestration rate of 2.27 tCO₂e […] Read more ›
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Stockholm-based quantum technology company FirstQFM AB has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding led by BSV Ventures, with participation from Almi Invest, Further Than Capital, and Luminar Ventures. The company develops AI foundation models that aim to improve the reliability and scalability of quantum computers. The new capital will be used to continue work on […] Read more ›
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Liquid Wind, a Gothenburg-based eFuel developer, has been awarded €3.6 million from Industriklivet, the Swedish Energy Agency’s program for industrial decarbonization, to support the pre-engineering phase of its planned eMethanol plant in Örnsköldsvik. The facility will be integrated with Övik Energi’s biofuel-powered combined heat and power (CHP) plant, using renewable electricity to produce hydrogen and […] Read more ›
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ŌURA, the company behind the Oura Ring wearable, has raised more than $900 million in funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from ICONIQ, Whale Rock, and Atreides Management. The round values the company at roughly $11 billion. Founded in Finland and now headquartered in San Francisco, ŌURA develops data-driven wearable devices […] Read more ›
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Swedish startup Epiminds has raised $6.6 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from EWOR, Entourage, and several angel investors, including the former CMO of Booking.com. The company builds multi-agent AI systems designed to manage marketing processes from reporting to campaign execution. Its core product, Lucy, coordinates a network of […] Read more ›
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SiC Systems, a spinout from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), has raised funding led by QDNL Participations, with participation from Propagator Ventures, Plug and Play, and Wavepeak Ventures. Founded by Christopher J. Savoie and Professor Seyed Soheil Monsouri, the company develops a multiagent AI platform that combines process modeling, generative AI, and quantum-enhanced computation […] Read more ›
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