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Finnish news service Freepress has raised €1 million in seed funding to further develop its AI-driven news platform and prepare for international expansion. The round includes several experienced Finnish investors, led by Kustaa Poutiainen’s Stephen Industries Inc. Freepress uses a virtual AI editor to analyze large volumes of public and licensed news articles and generate […]
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Troy Smothers was a USMC sergeant when he deployed to Ukraine in 2005. He now travels to Ukraine to help build unjammable, fiber-optic drones. Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said US annexation of Greenland is a national security strategy meant to avoid a future armed conflict. Read more ›
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Extended time off can carry long-term costs — lower earnings, disrupted savings, slower compounding — but for some, the benefits outweigh the risks. Read more ›
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The new models mark the first time tabletop players will be given the option to build their Custodes units with unhelmeted female heads. Read more ›
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U.S. college graduates "have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree," writes Bloomberg. "But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland." "Recently, the job-finding rate for young college-educated workers has declined to be roughly in line with the rate for young high-school-educated workers, indicating that a long period of relatively easier... Read more ›
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It seems xAI has been taking liberties with gas turbines that federal rules don’t actually tolerate. Read more ›
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Rockstar has helped a terminally ill fan play GTA 6 ahead of its November release date. Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk wants Tesla to iterate new AI accelerators faster than AMD and Nvidia. This can be done, but with caveats. Read more ›
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'El Tigre' creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez will give the popular 'Looney Tunes' character his time in the spotlight. Read more ›
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The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues "that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems." Microsoft's first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has already caused two major issues that saw users unable to fully shutdown their PCs or sign-in into a device when using Remote Desktop...... Read more ›
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A modder in China has come up with an ingenious solution to combine all three consoles into one device that shares as much with modern tech as it does with ancient tradition. Read more ›
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Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band update to fix some pretty serious bugs, the first one introduced. The security patch was stopping some systems from shutting down or hibernating properly, and also preventing some users […] Read more ›
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Memory chip shortage set to spread well beyond the confines of datacenters and computers Read more ›
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Netflix dropping Google Cast support for modern Google TV devices may be because it wasn't being used much. Read more ›
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While social media continues to circulate claims linking acetaminophen to autism in children, medical experts say those fears distract from a far more serious and proven danger: overdose. Acetaminophen, found in Tylenol and many cold and flu remedies, is one of the leading causes of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and acute liver failure in the United States. Read more ›
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Energy abundance, open-source models and manufacturing strengths will push Beijing into first place Read more ›
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Many Android OEMs are copy and pasting Apple's flat edges and curved corners, and that's just lazy. Read more ›
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If you weren't able to shut down your Windows 11 device recently, Microsoft has rolled out an emergency fix addressing a couple of critical bugs that popped up with its latest January 2026 Windows security update. The latest "out-of-band" update repairs an issue for some Windows 11 devices that would only restart when users tried to shut down or hibernate. The same update restores the ability for Windows 10 and... Read more ›
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Beam adds plenty of desktop-grade browsing flair on the iPad, while throwing its own unique set of features into the mix. It's the most fulfilling browser experience I've ever had on Apple's tablet. Read more ›
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A Michigan dairy farm took a gamble on a new kind of soybean—and it paid off fast. After feeding high-oleic soybeans to their cows, milk quality improved within days and feed costs dropped dramatically. Backed by years of MSU research, the crop is helping farmers replace expensive supplements with something they can grow themselves. Demand has surged, and many believe it could reshape the dairy industry. Read more ›
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Helsinki-based Homie has launched publicly after securing €1 million in pre-seed funding, led by Superhero Capital with participation from Antler. The startup builds a network-led growth platform that helps B2B sales teams generate pipeline through warm, trusted introductions by activating employee, customer, and investor networks—positioning word-of-mouth as a scalable and measurable revenue channel. With the […] Read more ›
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Avenue Biosciences has raised a $5.7M seed extension to expand its protein engineering platform focused on the cellular secretory pathway, a key constraint in producing therapeutic proteins at scale. The round was co-led by Balnord and Tesi, with participation from existing investors Voima Ventures, Inventure, University of Helsinki, and Dimerent. Based between Palo Alto and […] Read more ›
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Finnish space intelligence company ICEYE has secured a multi-million, multi-year contract to deliver sovereign space-based intelligence capabilities to the Swedish Armed Forces, strengthening its position as a key commercial partner in Europe’s evolving defense and security landscape. The agreement, signed with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), covers the delivery of ICEYE’s Synthetic Aperture Radar […] Read more ›
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Tallinn-based edtech startup Flashka has raised a €1M pre-seed round led by Outlast Fund, with participation from Ulixes Capital Partners (UCP) and Vento Ventures. Flashka is building AI-powered learning tools that turn any content into flashcards, quizzes, and structured study flows designed to improve retention rather than provide shortcuts. The fresh capital will be used […] Read more ›
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Helsinki-based Skene has raised a €800,000 pre-seed round to help software companies turn well-built products into scalable growth engines using autonomous AI agents. The round was led by Superhero Capital, with participation from executives at NVIDIA. Founded by repeat entrepreneur Teemu Kinos, Skene builds AI agents that read and understand a product’s source code, then […] Read more ›
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Mö Foods has raised €2.4 million in a funding round led by Nordic Foodtech VC, backing the company’s ambition to make oat-based cheese alternatives a mainstream global staple. Founded in 2017, Mö develops plant-based cheeses made entirely from Finnish oats, using proprietary production technology designed to match dairy in taste, texture, and meltability while significantly […] Read more ›
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Cast AI has reached a valuation above $1 billion following a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures, the U.S.-based venture arm of Shinsegae Group. The funding was announced alongside the launch of OMNI Compute, a unified compute marketplace designed to let enterprises provision and operate GPU capacity across multiple cloud providers and regions without modifying […] Read more ›
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