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In the 1977 Star Wars film A New Hope, there’s an iconic scene where the beloved droid R2-D2 casts a beam of light to create a hologram of Princess Leia pleading for the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sadly, almost 50 years on, we’re not much closer to the true holograms science fiction promised us, let alone the teleportation devices and flying cars. Yes, we have AR and VR headsets like Microsoft’s HoloLens or Apple’s Vision Pro, but those simply use transparent screens to give the effect of a hologram. Even Tup
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Astronomer said CEO Andy Byron has resigned after a viral incident at a Coldplay concert. Read more ›
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An experimental LLM from OpenAI solved some of the world's hardest math problems at the 2025 International Math Olympiad, the company said. Read more ›
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EA is planning a three-day event that will finally include the reveal of the next Battlefield game. Rumour has it, it's called - yup, you've guessed it - Battlefield 6. Read more Read more ›
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The reptilian race still has some part to play in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' before all is said and done. Read more ›
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Last month, WhatsApp announced the stable release of the "Message Summaries" feature that enables users to summarize unread messages in chats. However, that feature only works with one chat at a time, so WhatsApp is developing another feature called "Quick Recap" that will allow users to summarize messages from multiple conversations simultaneously. According to the folks at WABetaInfo, the Quick Recap feature will allow users to summarize messages in up... Read more ›
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After a disastrous launch and dismal sales, Tesla is now offering to give away its most valuable software to convince people to buy its polarizing electric truck. Read more ›
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Ubisoft's own shareholders have directly challenged the publisher to respond to the huge swell of support behind Stop Killing Games – a consumer movement generated by Ubisoft's decision to take The Crew offline last year. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft signed a contract with Vaulted Deep to sequester 4.9 million metric tons of waste deep underground, offsetting its carbon emissions. Read more ›
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By promising to pay for AI failures, the Chinese EV giant is challenging Tesla's "use at your own risk" model. Read more ›
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Warframe fans won't need to be reminded it's a big weekend for developer Digital Extremes and its long-running sci-fi shooter. Thanks to this year's TennoCon live event, which is traditionally the time for the studio to dazzle its community with all sorts of things to come, we've now got a pretty good idea of what Warframe's next twelve months look like. Read more Read more ›
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It's officially Warframe weekend, what with developer Digital Extreme's tenth TennoCon live event now here, and it's brought plenty of news about exciting things to come. Including, it turns out, a native Switch 2 version of the free-to-play sci-fi shooter - just as soon as Digital Extremes can get a developer kit from Nintendo, at least. Read more Read more ›
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The discarded Nintendo SD cards contained a boot image that Nintendo used for the factory setup of its Wii U consoles. Read more ›
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We ranked every major Lex Luthor performance, including Nicholas Hoult's, to crown Superman's best on-screen nemesis. Read more ›
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Warframe has been around for a while, and with its age it's garnered a reputation for being a little daunting for new players eager to jump into a galaxy of sci-fi action and emotional rollercoasters. There have been attempts to fix this with revamped tutorialisation and an option to leap to newer content, but a core part of the experience has remained a wall of complexity: modding. Read more Read more ›
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Magecart-style attack on OpenCart sites uses hidden scripts to inject fake checkout forms, steal card data, and delay fraudulent transactions by several months. Read more ›
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All of the iPhone 17 models coming later this year will feature two display upgrades, according to information shared by Digital Chat Station, an account with more than three million followers on Chinese social media platform Weibo. First, the account said that the entire iPhone 17 series will feature thinner bezels. Apple says the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max feature the thinnest bezels around the screen of... Read more ›
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Denmark is aiming to stake a bold claim in the global quantum race with plans to build the world’s most powerful quantum computer. Backed by €80mn from EIFO (Denmark’s export and investment fund) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the new initiative — dubbed QuNorth — aims to deploy the Nordic region’s first “Level 2” quantum system. Microsoft and California-based Atom Computing will deliver the system, named Magne, after the mythological... Read more ›
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A giant cargo ship is trapping carbon from its exhaust and turning it into cement for use in onshore construction. The technology, developed by UK startup Seabound, is billed as the world’s first commercial carbon capture system for boats. It’s installed on the UBC Cork, a cement carrier owned by Germany’s Hartmann Group. “These are the systems we intend to scale across hundreds, and eventually thousands, of vessels,” Alisha Frediksson,... Read more ›
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London-based insurtech startup Laka has raised $10.4mn in Series B funding as it eyes profitability at the end of next year. Laka offers “collective” insurance for bikes and e-scooters, pooling claims across a community of riders. Instead of fixed, upfront premiums, customers pay a variable monthly fee based on the total number of claims across the entire user base. The fee is capped at a maximum amount based on the... Read more ›
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Dutch file-sharing service WeTransfer is under fire after users spotted sweeping updates to its terms of service that appeared to let the company train AI models on their uploaded files. The company has now removed the controversial language, but users remain outraged. Here’s what’s going on — and why it matters. What did WeTransfer change? WeTransfer users discovered this week that the service had updated its policy with a clause... Read more ›
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Funding focus is a new series analysing cash flow into the European tech ecosystem. Last week, we looked at the largest investment rounds in the Netherlands, and now we’re honing in on Europe’s budding fusion energy sector. European fusion energy startups raised a record €290mn in the first half of this year as VCs bet big on a technology with the potential to supply virtually limitless clean power. Funding in... Read more ›
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Dutch startup Whisper has emerged from stealth with a cybersecurity platform that promises to detect online threats before they strike. It plans to do this with what it calls a “God Mode” view of the internet. At the heart of Whisper’s approach is a massive, real-time map of global internet infrastructure. The map is built from more than 45 billion data points sourced from 18 different systems, such as domain... Read more ›
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German startup Enerkii has launched an energy-as-a-service model that aims to cut power bills in half for industrial customers — and decarbonise them in the process. The model uses an in-house operating system (OS) to calculate the optimal solar energy configuration for any company in around 15 minutes. Then it provides the hardware stack to set it up — solar panels, battery storage, EV charging, and, soon, heat pumps. Henrik... Read more ›
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“There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause.” So said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Commission, in response to calls for a pause on the EU’s AI Act. These landmark rules on artificial intelligence will, then, be rolled out according to the timeline specified in the legislation. The EC will ignore calls from 46 CEOs across the continent to halt the... Read more ›
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A bankrupt company’s propulsion system for hypersonic planes is being revived by Invictus, a new European Space Agency (ESA)-backed project aiming to build and fly a hydrogen-powered spaceplane by 2031. The proposed engine for the plane is based on so-called pre-cooler technology, developed over decades by UK aerospace firm Reaction Engines, which went bust in November. Many of Reaction Engines’ top engineers found a new home at British aerospace and... Read more ›
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Norwegian industrial investment firm Aker has announced plans to build an AI “factory” in the Arctic. It’s the latest company heading to the far north to tap into abundant green energy and natural cooling for power-hungry data centres. The facility will be located in the Norwegian coastal town of Narvik, which lies 220km within the Arctic Circle. Aker’s president and CEO, Øyvind Eriksen said that the site already had access... Read more ›
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