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A Dutch startup has devised a way to convert mountains of plastic waste into chemicals essential for the production of a wide range of goods, from bottles to batteries. BioBTX has patented the process — known as Integrated Cascading Catalytic Pyrolysis — and just secured €80mn to scale it up. Armed with the fresh funds, the company will build a factory in Groningen capable of converting 20,000 tonnes of plastic waste a year into chemicals like benzene, toluene, and xylene. Scientists refer to these hydroc
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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For decades, the Gulf of Panama has relied on strong seasonal winds to trigger upwelling, bringing cool, nutrient-packed water to the surface. But in 2025, this dependable event didn’t happen. Researchers point to unusually weak winds as the likely culprit, reducing ocean productivity and warming coastal waters. The surprise disruption highlights how vulnerable these critical systems may be to climate change. Read more ›
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Йеллоустоун — один из самых известных вулканически активных регионов в мире. Гейзеры, горячие источники и следы прошлых извержений давно привлекают внимание как туристов, так и исследователей. При этом до сих пор нет полного согласия в том, какие именно процессы поддерживают эту активность на протяжении миллионов лет.Долгое время основным объяснением оставалась модель «горячей точки», связанной с глубинным источником тепла в мантии. Она хорошо описывает многие подобные системы по всему миру. Однако... Read more ›
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Chevrolet had a good 2025, but some of its offerings were much less popular than others - including one specific SUV that sold particularly badly. Read more ›
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A Snapdragon X2 Elite chip and AMOLED screen sound great, but Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Book 6 Edge may not land where I thought it would. Read more ›
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Long bias from the largest perpetual traders on Hyperliquid has built steadily through February, March and April, with the position now leaning aggressively long as bitcoin tags $80,000 and US-Iran talks resume. Read more ›
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When you’re juggling more than just your own calendar, staying organized can be overwhelming. Fortunately, the Skylight Calendar 2 can help simplify things by syncing multiple calendars in a single spot, and now through May 7th, it’s available directly from Skylight for $259.99 ($40 off), its best price to date. Skylight’s 15-inch smart calendar improves […] Read more ›
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It's "the curious case of... the Pokémon Go pro who celebrated too hard," reports the gaming news site Aftermath. It all started on the first weekend in April... Firestar73, a competitive Pokémon Go player who placed seventh at last year's world championships, managed to narrowly cinch a game-five finals win at the 2026 Pokémon Orlando Regional Championships after battling his way out of the dreaded losers' bracket. As stress and... Read more ›
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After years of telling myself I should be grateful for my stable marriage and decent job, I discovered the most insidious trap isn't rock bottom or dramatic failure—it's the comfortable numbness of a life that's just bearable enough to endure but never quite worth celebrating. Read more ›
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Maximalists warn freezing 5.6M BTC risks instant sell-offs, while others say quantum threats leave no alternative. Read more ›
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In space, no one can hear you scream...but your neighbors might when they see you've got a 6-foot alien in your front yard. Read more ›
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With WWDC 2026 just around the corner, I’d love to see Apple revamp the Shortcuts app in iOS 27. Read more ›
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Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone is shaping up to be a significant design departure, featuring a shallow four-edge micro-curve and a Samsung-made COE OLED panel. Read more ›
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Rising living costs in the US drove Zachary Biss to move to Lisbon, Portugal. He took a transatlantic cruise to move there and enjoyed the benefits. Read more ›
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Researchers show market accuracy comes from a tiny group of informed traders, not broad participation. Read more ›
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These 5 Ryobi tools tackle those problems that you don't think twice about - until you discover there's a much easier way to deal with them. Read more ›
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27 years ago today, on April 26, 1999, a 1 KB virus called CIH detonated its payload on hundreds of thousands of Windows 9x machines worldwide. Read more ›
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Business Insider had a colleague as a guest at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. This is his witness account. Read more ›
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The famous mezcal “worm” has long puzzled scientists, but DNA testing has finally cracked the case. Researchers found that all sampled larvae were actually agave redworm moth caterpillars—not a mix of species as once believed. While the discovery clears up a long-standing mystery, it also raises concerns about sustainability. Growing demand for mezcal and edible larvae could put pressure on wild populations and the agave plants they depend on. Read more ›
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In short: Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from 17.5-31.6 percentage points in May 2023, despite the US spending 23 times more on private AI investment ($285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion). China leads in AI patents (69.7% of global […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new AI chips – a memory processing unit and an inference-optimised TPU – adding a third design partner alongside Broadcom and MediaTek in its custom silicon supply chain. The discussions, which have not yet produced a signed contract, came days after Broadcom locked in […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: The Trump administration is waging a multi-front campaign to prevent states from regulating AI, using a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department evaluations of “burdensome” state laws, and a legislative framework urging Congress to preempt state-level regulation with a “minimally burdensome national standard.” But states have accelerated in the opposite direction – 1,208 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes. The robot, built by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., navigated the 21-kilometre course autonomously, without remote control, using multi-sensor fusion and real-time decision-making algorithms. A second Lightning unit, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The CEO of Europe’s most valuable startup gave his clearest IPO timeline yet in a Bloomberg interview, narrowing his December ‘two to three years’ estimate to ‘two years.’ It came as Revolut marked the biggest regulatory milestone in its history and filed for a US bank charter, both developments that make an eventual listing meaningfully […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The ASX-listed data centre operator is raising A$1.5 billion in a fully underwritten equity offering and expanding its hybrid securities programme by A$700 million, with La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec now committed to a total of A$1.7 billion. The raise will fund accelerated development of the S4 Western Sydney campus, where contracted […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Australia’s markets regulator has publicly confirmed it is watching the development of Anthropic’s Mythos model alongside peer regulators worldwide, adding to a rapidly expanding international regulatory response that began with the Bank of England, the US Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department. ECB President Lagarde has warned no governance framework is yet in place. The […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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AI coding adoption is exploding. But most engineering leaders are still measuring usage instead of outcomes. That creates a costly blind spot. There is a question that nobody in the AI industry wants you to ask. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Google. Not the dozens of startups selling AI coding agents to your engineering team. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Siemens, Nvidia, and UK robotics startup Humanoid have successfully deployed an AI-powered wheeled humanoid robot in live logistics operations at a Siemens electronics factory in Germany. The HMND 01 Alpha completed over eight hours of autonomous tote-handling at 60 moves per hour with a pick-and-place success rate above 90%, and was integrated directly into Siemens’ […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The deal is an internal Blackstone consolidation, both AirTrunk (acquired for A$24 billion in 2024) and Lumina CloudInfra (launched by Blackstone in 2022) sit within the same portfolio. By folding Lumina into AirTrunk, Blackstone gives its Asia-Pacific data centre platform a foothold in India’s hyperscale market without a third-party acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. AirTrunk, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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