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Aarhus-based sales and loyalty platform Kanpla has raised €2.2 million in a seed round led by Dutch VC firm HenQ and joined by several angel investors. The startup helps canteens and kitchens improve their digital user journey, increase sales & lower administration. The funding will fuel the startup’s expansion plans, starting from the U.K., Norway […]
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›
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For the hefty price of $1 million, plus at least $15,000 in fees, you can get permanent residency in the United States. Read more ›
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Extending an H-1B visa used to mean a quick trip abroad. Now it can mean getting stranded, as consular officers review applicants' social-media posts. Read more ›
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Ukraine said a resistance agent was able to sneak into a Russian hangar and destroy two Russian fighter jets. Read more ›
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Trump's Department of Education completed its update to income-based repayment plans, expanding access to borrowers with higher incomes. Read more ›
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Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 million actual songs, and is just under 300TB in total size. "A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation," the group said... Read more ›
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Wells Fargo advisor says lottery winners are on their own. If you win the Powerball, you'll need to make strategic decisions. Here's what to do. Read more ›
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TikTok and ByteDance are upping performance bonuses and other incentives for strong performers as they look to retain talent in 2026. Read more ›
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The new head of CBS News has been immersed in politics since she started. So of course her call to hold a story will be viewed from a political lens. Read more ›
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The second iteration of Gigabyte's RTX 5070 Ti triple-fan Windforce graphics card comes with traditional thermal pads. Read more ›
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Linux's share of the desktop market has climbed to as much as 11% by one count, but that figure includes Chromebooks, and the traditional Linux desktop remains hamstrung by the same fragmentation that killed Unix decades ago. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing in The Register, argues that the proliferation of Linux desktops -- more than a dozen significant interfaces exist today, and DistroWatch lists "upwards of a hundred" -- makes it... Read more ›
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After an investigation found some customers were charged nearly 25% more for identical items, Instacart says it’s ending its controversial price-testing program. Read more ›
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According to a new rumor from China, Apple will start testing the iPhone 18 series devices on the mass production line "one after another" in the very early days of January. Then, the actual production is set to start right before the Chinese New Year, which in 2026 falls on February 17. The iPhone 18 Pro mass production line has allegedly already been set up, and this source says the... Read more ›
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Best known for its pastrami sandwich, Katz's Deli in New York goes through 70,000 pounds of meat a week and serves 4,000 people on its busiest day. Read more ›
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I'm a chef. Here's how I turn Costco's $5 rotisserie chicken into five easy dinners and lunches for two people, from pasta dishes to burrito bowls. Read more ›
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No group has claimed the attack yet, and thankfully, water is still flowing in Romania. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, and Adele have had multiple albums spend double-digit weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart, a rare feat in this century. Read more ›
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Porvoo-headquartered SEATOM has been selected for NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) 2026 programme, joining the Operations in Extreme Environments challenge track. The Porvoo-based company, which is developing dual-use nuclear-powered maritime systems, will receive €100,000 in initial contractual funding and take part in DIANA’s six-month accelerator, working with defence stakeholders and test […] Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based fintech FarPay is entering a new growth phase following its acquisition by Dutch peer POM, in a transaction supported by investment firm Vortex Capital Partners. Known for its end-to-end automation of invoicing and accounts receivable across Scandinavia, FarPay will continue to operate as an independent brand within the POM Group, with its team, management, […] Read more ›
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Stockholm-based home energy startup Elvy has secured €500 million in financing from Scayl and one of the fintech’s bank partners to expand its residential energy offering in Sweden. The company provides homeowners with solar panels, heat pumps and battery systems through a subscription model that covers installation, maintenance and energy optimisation, removing the need for […] Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based NobodyWho has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from PSV Tech, The Footprint Firm, and Norrsken Evolve to advance its open-source approach to Small Language Models that run directly on users’ devices. The startup is positioning SLMs as a privacy-first, energy-efficient alternative to cloud-based large language models by enabling AI inference to happen locally […] Read more ›
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Helsinki- and London-based Cloudberry has announced a €30 million initial close for what it describes as Europe’s first venture fund dedicated exclusively to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials. The fund will invest at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on technologies linked to compute, connectivity, sensing, and power, at a time when European policymakers are seeking […] Read more ›
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European lenders are unlocking a significant new financing channel for Estonia’s business sector. Under a pact between the EIB Group and local lender Coop Pank, up to €249 million in fresh loans and leases will be made available to Estonian SMEs and mid-sized companies by 2028, with a strong focus on gender equality and climate-related […] Read more ›
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Stockholm-based nuclear startup Blykalla has raised $50 million to advance the industrialization of SEALER, its lead-cooled small modular reactor aimed at delivering stable, low-carbon baseload power. The round was co-led by Oklo Inc, Norrsken Launcher, and ARMADA Investment AG, with participation from KDDI, CoreWeave co-founders Brian Venturo and Peter Salanki, and investors including August One, […] Read more ›
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Lovable has secured $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation, as investors double down on tools that lower the barrier to building software. The round is led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund, with backing from NVentures (NVIDIA), Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, as […] Read more ›
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Danish industrial biotech startup EvodiaBio has raised €6 million in a funding round led by US-based RA Capital, with continued backing from EIFO and participation from new international investors Francis Family Funds and Wild Radicals. The company develops fermentation-driven technology that enables the efficient, scalable, and low-carbon production of natural aroma molecules—initially transforming beer production […] Read more ›
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Finnish SAR satellite operator ICEYE and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have signed a Letter of Intent to explore deeper collaboration across mission development, satellite operations, ground infrastructure, and future launch services, marking a concrete step toward strengthening Nordic and NATO-aligned space-based security capabilities. The partnership brings together ICEYE’s sovereign SAR-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) […] Read more ›
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