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British VC firm Passion Capital has today announced the close of their fourth Seed fund; Passion IV, alongside two SPV’s at €46 million ($55 million) in order to deploy fresh capital into its next cohort of early-stage startups. According to the firm, the fund is 100% backed by private capital and continues their focus on ...
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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'Johnny Appleseed' will soon take over from 'Tim Apple' (ahem), and here are some interesting — and some rather odd — facts about him. Read more ›
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WhatsApp has started testing a paid subscription tier called WhatsApp Plus, which adds a set of personalization options on top of the standard messaging experience, according to WABetaInfo. The paid plan Meta is testing appears to be geared towards hardcore users who spend a lot of time in the app: subscribers get access to premium sticker packs with fullscreen overlay animations (visible to recipients without the plan), optional accent colors... Read more ›
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Один экран в приложении, а на бэкенде несколько REST-вызовов, куча эндпоинтов и ответы, где 90% полей не используются. Теряем в скорости, усложняется фронтенд и приходится версионировать контракт, когда меняется формат данных.GraphQL предлагает другой подход: один API-эндпоинт и запрос, в котором клиент сам указывает, какие поля ему нужны. Это снижает overfetching, уменьшает количество сетевых затрат и упрощает договоренности между фронтом и бэком за счет схемы как явного контракта и живой документации.В... Read more ›
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Fora Travel has the luxury of being private and can build its business — seemingly at a decent pace — without getting second-guessed in quarterly earnings calls. Read more ›
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Chili's is taking on the fast-food giant with five new chicken sandwich flavors and an update to its 3-For-Me value meal. Read more ›
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Shubham Gupta didn’t go “Bonkers” when it all started. Rather, his poised approach helped his bespoke streetwear brand set a… Read more ›
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Discover the four simple words that psychologists say can transform your relationships, protect your mental health, and finally free you from the exhausting cycle of over-explaining, apologizing, and saying yes when you desperately want to say no. Read more ›
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In our race to embrace everything new and young, we're systematically erasing centuries of hard-won wisdom that lives only in the minds of those we've deemed too old to matter. Read more ›
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The squid kids will be back this summer. Nintendo announced this morning that Splatoon Raiders, a single-player spinoff of its competitive shooter series, will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23rd. It'll be the first new entry in the series since Splatoon 3 in 2022. In addition to the date, Nintendo also released […] Read more ›
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Apple has tested a 200-megapixel telephoto camera for the iPhone, but adoption is still years away with earliest window in 2028. Read more ›
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AI-агенты в 2025 году умеют почти всё. Одного хорошо не умеют — помнить. Я взял две чужие идеи и склеил их. Читать далее Read more ›
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Первая часть цикла описывала историю появления в компьютерных играх человеческой речи, различные технологии её реализации: синтез, запись и воспроизведение. Во второй части я рассказал о том, как простые голосовые вставки эволюционировали в примитивные вокальные партии в игровой музыке, совмещающие фрагменты человеческого голоса и синтетическое музыкальное сопровождение.С приходом эпохи мультимедиа всё стало значительно проще: появилась возможность воспроизводить любой звук высочайшего качества с компакт-ди Read more ›
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Cast AI finds that that 95% of GPU capacity across thousands of organizations are idle, as companies overbuy GPUs on FOMO. Read more ›
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I didn't think my routine counted as fitness. Then I realized my habits were keeping me healthy and strong as I age. Read more ›
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Started PR is named PR partner for Banking Transformation Summit Europe 2026 in London, uniting 170+ banks to discuss AI, infrastructure and payments innovation. Read more ›
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Chipolo has built a name for itself as the independent tracking company which happily integrates its products with both Apple and Google’s item-finding networks. Today, it’s announcing a partnership with wallet maker Secrid that, if you haven’t guessed already, sees the pair launch a compatible miniwallet. The Chipolo x Secrid Miniwallet Trackable is tailor-made to suit Chipolo’s Card tracker and accentuate all of its positives. For instance, the tracker sits... Read more ›
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French VC Newfund has closed HEKA (€60 million), the first European fund dedicated to BrainTech, to promote European innovation in BrainTech – spanning AI, digital therapeutics, advanced imaging and BioTech. With the new fund, Newfund aims to finance 25 technology startups focused on brain health. This is in response to U.S. dominance when it comes ... Read more ›
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Agriodor, a Rennes-based AgriTech startup using natural scents to protect crops, has raised €15 million in Series A funding to accelerate its growth and the global deployment of its olfactory biocontrol technology. The round was led by the Environmental and Solidarity Revolution Fund, which is financed by the societal dividend of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale ... Read more ›
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Vox Talk AI, a Dublin-based startup deploying AI operators for the alarm monitoring and CCTV industry, has closed a €1.35 million pre-Seed funding round to accelerate commercial adoption, advance product development, and grow the team. The round was co-led by Delta Partners and Act Venture Capital, with participation from Enterprise Ireland. “Security companies are crying ... Read more ›
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Founded in Amsterdam in 2014 and entirely self-funded, Poki has grown into the world’s largest web gaming platform, reaching 100 million monthly players and recording 1 billion gameplays in a single month in 2025. But the more interesting story for Europe’s indie developer community is not the scale, but how the platform got there. Unlike ... Read more ›
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SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based AI payments startup, today announced that it has raised €2.4 million ($2.8 million) in pre-seed funding to build out its new payment infrastructure platform, built for agentic commerce. The round was led by European FinTech VC Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Antler and Greens Ventures, both investors in ... Read more ›
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Smartwage, an Italian FinTech startup, announced the closing of its €2 million pre-Seed funding round. The startup aims to transform traditional corporate welfare by enabling employees to use their welfare credit with any merchant through its platform. The round was led by Step Fund, the venture capital fund managed by Alternative Capital Partners SGR. The ... Read more ›
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On May 7-8, 2026, the EU-Startups Summit returns to sunny Malta, bringing together around 2,400 founders, investors, and startup ecosystem leaders for two days of networking, inspiration, and knowledge-sharing. In today’s competitive startup landscape, building a strong brand is no longer optional. From early-stage positioning to scaling international visibility, effective PR and branding strategies play ... Read more ›
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Pisa-based CamGraPhIC, the research arm of 2D Photonics, has been given approval by the European Commission for €211 million in funding by the Italian State to build a new class of optical technology designed to address how data moves inside advanced computing systems. Today’s announcement will reportedly be one of the largest single public investments ever ... Read more ›
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Donecle, a startup out of Toulouse specialising in automated aircraft inspection using autonomous drones and artificial intelligence, announced a new €10 million funding round to accelerate its international expansion, particularly in Europe and the United States. The round was led jointly by IRDI Capital Investissement and SWEN Capital Partners, with the participation of GSO Innovation ... Read more ›
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Qalzy, a London-based startup building an AI nutrition scale, has today announced a pre-Seed round to expand its AI food-recognition capabilities and accelerate its international launch. The round was supported by Jenson Ventures and comes after raising nearly €204k ($241k) via Kickstarter pre-orders before its international launch. “The way most people track calories today is ... Read more ›
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