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Europe has been the hotbed of innovation for years, shaping ideas and industries globally. Each year, tech conferences across the continent continue to grow, offering a platform for professionals, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts to exchange knowledge, network, and explore the latest trends. For 2025, the lineup of European tech conferences promises to be more exciting than ... Read more
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Holiday season 2024 solidified it: we really need to stop going along with the lie that streaming is better than physical media. Read more ›
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"Squid Game" is set to return next year following the release of season two. Here's what we know so far about the third and final season. Read more ›
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CEO Tony Vinciquerra, who's stepping down January 2, has some blame to lay for the failure of Kraven the Hunter and others. Read more ›
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Here are some hints -- and the answers -- for the Dec. 27 Strands puzzle, No. 299. Read more ›
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America loves jocks, and that's why we don't have any good engineers... or something. Read more ›
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Dave Calhoun was Boeing's CEO from January 2020 to July 2024. Calhoun was trained as an accountant. His successor, Kelly Ortberg, is an engineer. Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business practices, focusing on how the company bundles its Office products with cybersecurity and cloud computing services. The probe follows ProPublica reporting that revealed Microsoft offered free temporary upgrades of federal agencies' software licenses to include advanced cybersecurity features, leading to long-term contracts once the trial period ended. The strategy helped Microsoft expand its government busi Read more ›
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Image: The Verge ChatGPT isn’t working for many users right now. With numerous reports on social media, we also confirmed that the chatbot loads but isn’t able to respond to queries, while others are seeing an “internal server error” message. It looks like the outage started around 1:30PM ET, which is when reports began to spike on Down Detector. At around 2PM ET, OpenAI posted an update to its status... Read more ›
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released what appears to be one of the most powerful open-source language models to date, trained at a cost of just $5.5 million using restricted Nvidia H800 GPUs. The 671-billion-parameter DeepSeek V3, released this week under a permissive commercial license, outperformed both open and closed-source AI models in internal benchmarks, including Meta's Llama 3.1 and OpenAI's GPT-4 on coding tasks. The model was trained on... Read more ›
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Beyoncé's 12-minute Christmas halftime performance on Netflix paid homage to Texas and Mexican culture. Read more ›
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An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38. The airline's chief hailed the pilots' heroism after 29 passengers survived. Read more ›
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The Redmi Turbo 4 is launching early in January as the first phone using MediaTek's newly unveiled Dimensity 8400 SoC. This brings an all big core CPU design to the upper-midrange for the first time, which is quite an exciting development if you ask us. With that in mind, you may have been wondering just what to expect from this chip in terms of performance. While benchmarks aren't necessarily indicators... Read more ›
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NASA has been celebrating the photographic work of astronaut Matthew Dominick, who enjoyed a six-month stay aboard the space station in 2024. Read more ›
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The cat death appears to be the first case of H5N1 in the U.S. traced to raw pet food. Read more ›
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A CPU-Z screenshot has surfaced, allegedly detailing a 16-core X3D CPU based on Zen 5 which is likely to be the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Read more ›
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Villains were everywhere and more relatable than ever. Across pop culture, social media, and IRL, the phenomenon went full-on main character. Read more ›
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There have been over 32,000 cases of whooping cough this year, CDC data shows—the highest toll seen in a decade. Read more ›
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Apple today announced the upcoming launch of its annual New Year promotion in Japan, providing customers with a free Apple gift card worth up to ¥30,000 with the purchase of eligible Apple devices. Customers in Japan can get an Apple gift card when shopping at Apple from January 2 to January 5, and as a bonus, the first 50,000 people to purchase an iPhone 15, iPhone 14, or iPhone SE... Read more ›
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Eindhoven-based NXP Semiconductors, a global provider of automotive processing and networking solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aviva Links, a California-based company specialising in Automotive SerDes Alliance (ASA)-compliant in-vehicle connectivity solutions. The all-cash deal is valued at $242.5M (approximately €233.13M). The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2025. ... Read more Read more ›
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Gorinchem, the Netherlands-based Capital Mills, a Dutch venture capital firm, announced the promotion of Barry de Kock, and René Delsing to partner. Barry de Kock (partner) says, “After almost 10 years at Capital Mills I am truly honored and keen to take on the role of managing partner. Despite the many milestones we have reached, ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Prosus, a global consumer internet group, on Monday, announced that it is set to acquire Despegar, a Latin American Online Travel Agency (OTA), for $19.50 per share, totalling $1.7B (approximately €1.6B). This offer represents a 33 per cent premium over Despegar’s closing share price as of December 20, 2024, and a 34 per cent ... Read more Read more ›
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Lithuania is proving to be an attractive destination for both entrepreneurs and investors alike. There are over 1,000 startups and tech companies in the country, providing jobs for more than 18,700 people. By mid-December, Lithuanian startups had raised €86M this year through 38 deals, according to the report. Although the number of deals increased by ... Read more Read more ›
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Amstelveen-based GIGA Storage, an energy company that develops and deploys large-scale energy storage projects, announced the promotions of Kevin Dijkers to new CEO and Animesh Ranjan to Chief Investment Officer. Kevin Dijkers, says, “I am thrilled by the challenges and opportunities ahead and am fully committed to driving the company’s continued growth. I recognise the ... Read more Read more ›
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Eindhoven-based Sendcloud, a shipping platform for e-commerce, has acquired Rotterdam’s Lox, a company specialising in delivery issue management. This acquisition aims to enhance Sendcloud’s ability to address global shipping challenges, particularly the complexities and costs associated with delivery issues. Aim of the acquisition Common problems such as lost, delayed, or damaged parcels significantly impact e-commerce ... Read more Read more ›
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On Monday, Groningen-based Future Tech Ventures (FTV), announced that it has invested €350K in IonIQs, a startup from Groningen that has developed a sustainable technology to efficiently filter lithium from wastewater. The announcement comes over two months after Future Tech Ventures made its debut with €20M proof-of-concept fund to back 50 Northern Netherlands startups. Lithium ... Read more Read more ›
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The “State of Dutch Tech 2024” report highlights the growth of deep tech companies in the Netherlands, with investments increasing by 14 per cent from 2022 to 2023. This rise is driven by university spin-offs and research institutes, though scaling challenges remain. Over the past five years, deep tech venture capital (VC) investments have grown ... Read more Read more ›
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Solna, Sweden-based Chromafora, an environmental technology company, announced that it has secured €22.5M in nondilutive financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) The Swedish company will use the loan to advance a technology for removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – from water. The credit from the EIB, the European Union’s lending arm, ... Read more Read more ›
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Delft-based GEHECO, a company that aims to enable carbon-neutral heating in buildings, has secured €350,000 in funding from UNIIQ, a proof-of-concept investment fund for Zuid-Holland. The funding, part of the Early Phase Financing programme, will support the development of GEHECO’s drilling technology. This technology enables the installation of underground heat exchanger tubes in homes that ... Read more Read more ›
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