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Quakenbrück-based BIOWEG, in partnership with Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), has secured €1.5 million to support the development of its waste-to-value platform tech for water-based Rare Earth Element (REE) recovery. The funding comes from SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, as part of the Tech Metal Transformation Challenge; the aim of which is to ...
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According to YouTube's 2025 Recap feature, the podcast I consumed the most on its platform was Seth Meyers' recurring segment "A Closer Look" on his show Late Night. Last year, I would have argued that this is not a podcast. That it is, in fact, a clip of a TV show. But in 2025, with […] Read more ›
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From pet supplies to outdated clothing and toys, these are the things professional organizers suggest getting rid of before the new year. Read more ›
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You know that unsettling feeling when someone seems perfect on paper but something in your gut whispers "run"—there's a reason for that, and it might just save you from years of manipulation disguised as friendship. Read more ›
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2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing […] Read more ›
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Domestic audiences didn't fully turn up for 'Avatar: Fire and Ash,' but the international market may help it rake in end-of-year dough. Read more ›
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Trump is touting tariff revenues and a shrinking trade deficit as his economic accomplishments ahead or midterms, but economists say it's complicated. Read more ›
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Ghent-based FoodTech startup Those Vegan Cowboys has secured €6.25 million in its first funding round to accelerate the development of its cow-free casein, a vital dairy protein made using precision fermentation – with plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign in the coming months. The funding round was led by Pieter Geelen, co-founder of navigation giant ... Read more ›
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A "slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio closures" for Microsoft's Xbox "have led many to declare — not for the first time — that the Xbox is dead," reports CNBC. Or is it just changing its business model? The company's overall gaming revenue decreased 2% year-over-year, with a 29% dip in Xbox hardware sales, according to Microsoft's first-quarter earnings for fiscal 2026. The broader console industry has been in... Read more ›
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Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future. Read more ›
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Waymo has resumed its robo-taxi service in San Francisco after a power outage stranded vehicles around the city, CNBC reported. The blackout, caused by a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) substation fire, caused traffic light disruptions that affected Waymo's automated driving systems. "Yesterday’s power outage was a widespread event that caused gridlock across San Francisco, with non-functioning traffic signals and transit disruptions," a Waymo spokesperson told CNBC in a statement.... Read more ›
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Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said current and prospective CS students need to focus on skills "with a long shelf life." Read more ›
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Agreenculture, a Toulouse-based startup specialising in the autonomy and safety of agricultural machinery and tractors, has raised €6 million in a Series A equity round to enhance, standardise, and industrialise its products for rapid integration, while strengthening its commercial deployment. The funding was raised with participation from Supernova Invest, Future Food Fund and Unilis (Unigrains ... Read more ›
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Oxford-based materials science startup A&B Smart Materials (A&B) has closed its €1.7 million (£1.5 million) “heavily oversubscribed” pre-Seed round to replace the synthetic sustainable superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) used in hygiene products and agriculture. The funding round’s principal investors include existing backer Sake Bosch, alongside new strategic investors, Caesar and Living Hope VC. Archipelago Ventures, Triple ... Read more ›
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Danish flavour company EvodiaBio has raised €6 million (DKK 45 million) in a new funding round to accelerate growth in existing markets and support their expansion into the asian market. The round was led by the American investment firm RA Capital Management’s Planetary Health Fund and joined by other new investors Wild Radicals and Francis ... Read more ›
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Mirelo, an audio company that lets anyone generate perfectly synchronized sound effects for videos, has just raised about €35 million ($41 million) in a seed round, co-led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital. The Berlin-based startup was founded by two senior AI researchers who are also accomplished musicians, ... Read more ›
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Basel-based FoRx Therapeutics, a clinical-stage BioTech company developing precision anti-cancer therapeutics, today announced the close of an insider-led €42 million ($50 million) Series A financing. Existing investors including EQT Life Sciences, Pfizer Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund and M Ventures participated in the financing including a first closing in June 2024, which provided funding through the Investigational ... Read more ›
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Ankar, a London-based AI platform innovating how companies and law firms capture and protect their patents, has raised a €17 million ($20 million) Series A round to grow its team and expand further into the US. The round was led by Atomico, with Index Ventures doubling down and Norrsken VC and Daphni participating – bringing ... Read more ›
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Mindoo, a Belgian platform for deploying safe and governed agentic workflows in healthcare, announced today that it has secured €5 million in Seed financing to provide hospitals and practices with a scalable AI workforce layer that performs routine tasks and alleviates pressure. The round was raised from 6DC, Syndicate One and a group of strategic ... Read more ›
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Repsense, a Lithuanian dual-use data analytics company specialising in information tracking and threat detection, has closed its €2 million Seed round in order to strengthen its technology for tracking and predicting information threats. The round was closed with a final €1.1 million investment led by Tensor Ventures and Seed Starter, CVC of Česká spořitelna bank, ... Read more ›
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Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI-native software creation platform enabling users to build full-stack applications without writing code, has secured €281 ($330 million) million in Series B funding – valuing the startup at €5.6 billion ($6.6 billion). The investment round was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund. Other backers in this round include NVentures (NVIDIA’s ... Read more ›
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Warsaw-based primary healthcare startup Jutro Medical has raised €24 million to scale its AI-enabled primary care rollup. This Series A extension round was led by Warsaw Equity Group, with participation from Vinci, naturalX Health Ventures, Fluent Ventures, Aternus, KAYA VC, and Inovo VC. A debt component from mBank and Orbit Capital is also included in ... Read more ›
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