Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule in western France. He was 69. Guillemot and a flight instructor from Rennes were both killed when their twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed in a field near La Baule aerodrome on the [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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The idea of a humanlike artificial intelligence assistant that you can speak with has been alive in many peopleâs imaginations since the release of âHer,â Spike Jonzeâs 2013 film about a man who falls in love with a Siri-like AI named Samantha. Over the course of the film, the protagonist grapples with the ways in which Samantha, real as she may seem, is not and never will be human. Twelve... Read more âș
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Swiss foodies could soon be served an experimental new delicacy: cultivated burgers. The lab-grown cuisine is the brainchild of Dutch scaleup Mosa Meat. Founded in 2013, the company cultivates beef from cells extracted from cows. The blend is then formed into burgers that are indistinguishable from the mince on supermarket shelves. The lucky cattle, meanwhile, amble back to the farm. Mosa calls the product âthe worldâs kindest burger.â Cultivated meat... Read more âș
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The potential of using artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development has sparked both excitement and skepticism among scientists, investors and the general public. âArtificial intelligence is taking over drug development,â claim some companies and researchers. Over the past few years, interest in using AI to design drugs and optimise clinical trials has driven a surge in research and investment. AI-driven platforms like AlphaFold, which won the 2024 Nobel Prize... Read more âș
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Wearable devices have become a big part of modern health care, helping track a patientâs heart rate, stress levels and brain activity. These devices rely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up electrical signals from the body. Creating these electrodes isnât as easy as it might seem. Human skin is complex. Its properties, such as how well it conducts electricity, can change depending on how hydrated it... Read more âș
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As Chinaâs DeepSeek threatens to dismantle Silicon Valleyâs AI monopoly, a European alliance has emerged with an alternative to techâs global order. They call their project OpenEuroLLM. Like DeepSeek, they aim to develop next-generation open-source language models â but their agenda is very different. Their mission: forging European AI that will foster digital leaders and impactful public services across the continent. To support these objectives, OpenEuroLLM is building a family... Read more âș
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A German startup plans to jumpstart European EVs with an AI-powered brain. Sphere Energy built the system to simulate battery behaviour. The company then predicts a power sourceâs lifetime in numerous scenarios, from driving styles to temperatures on the road. According to Sphere, the insights shrink the battery testing cycle by at least a year. Developing a car, meanwhile, could be completed âat leastâ twice as quickly. Sphere envisions endless... Read more âș
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The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: whoâs most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume itâs the tech-savvy â those who understand how AI works â who are most eager to adopt it. Surprisingly, our new research (published in the Journal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with less knowledge about AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference... Read more âș
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In 1981, American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston, in which he outlined a revolutionary idea. Feynman suggested that the strange physics of quantum mechanics could be used to perform calculations. The field of quantum computing was born. In the 40-plus years since, it has become an intensive area of research in computer science. Despite years of frantic... Read more âș
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There are a handful of challenges that many developers like to tackle as something of a rite of passage to prove their coding worth. One is creating a compiler. That fundamental building block of many programming languages ââââtranslates the more human-understandable code into something a computer understands. Another and far more ambitious challenge is building an operating system. The scope is almost limitless. You could create a Linux distribution, which... Read more âș
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Shares in ASML have bounced back from the hit inflicted by DeepSeekâs AI advances. Celebrating the results, ASML predicted that the sudden emergence of low-cost models will boost demand for the firmâs semiconductor machines. The companyâs stock price rose by over 10% on Wednesday after the Dutch business reported impressive orders for its chip-making equipment. The tools produce the most advanced semiconductors in the world â and ASML is the... Read more âș
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From 2013 to 2023, the number of ICT specialists in the EU increased by 59.3% according to Eurostat. In that period, most of these tech workers were found in Germany, which provided employment for 21.5% of the EUâs ICT specialistsâunsurprising when you consider the fact that the country is home to a myriad of high-tech companies and organisations such as SAP, Siemens, Bosch, and Audi. France had the second largest... Read more âș
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DeepSeek sent ripples through the global tech landscape this week as it soared above ChatGPT in Appleâs app store. The meteoric rise has shifted the dynamics of US-China tech competition, shocked global tech stock valuations, and reshaped the future direction of artificial intelligence (AI) development. Among the industry buzz created by DeepSeekâs rise to prominence, one question looms large: what does this mean for the strategy of the third leading... Read more âș
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DeepSeek proves that Silicon Valley canât monopolise AI innovation, according to a European AI entrepreneur. Muj Choudhury, the CEO and co-founder of British voice processing startup RocketPhone, welcomed DeepSeekâs rapid rise. He hopes the Chinese company signals a shift in the balance of AI power. âAI development has long been dominated by Silicon Valleyâs powerful VC firms, which wield immense influence by pouring vast sums into the technology and shaping... Read more âș
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Spanish tech star TravelPerk has raised a whopping $200mn and sealed the acquisition of expenses platform Yokoy. The investment values TravelPerk at $2.7bn â almost double last yearâs $1.4bn valuation. The business travel giant said the funds would fuel further product development and expansion into the US. European VC firm Atomico led the Series E investment. Alongside the cash injection, TravelPerk announced the purchase of Yokoy, a Swiss startup thatâs... Read more âș
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Swedish startup Adsorbi has secured âŹ1mn to ramp up production of a cellulose-based material that sucks up pollutants from the air. MetsĂ€ Spring, the venture arm of the Finnish forestry giant, led the funding round alongside Chalmers Ventures and Jovitech Invest. âWe are planning to launch the pilot plant in June and we will be equipped to meet our customer demands while maintaining consistent quality,â Hanna Johansson, CEO of Adsorbi,... Read more âș
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Remember when spotting a drone in the sky was a novelty? Now itâs like playing whack-a-mole with flying machines. Delivery drones, military drones, AI drones, hobby drones â our skies are busier than the queue at airport security. Without air traffic control, weâre one step away from midair collisions and drones arguing over parking spots. Enter AirDodge, a Norwegian startup thatâs stepping in to tame the chaos. The Oslo-based company... Read more âș
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Stunning AI advances from Chinese startup DeepSeek have sent tech stocks tumbling across the US and Europe. DeepSeek released a free chatbot and new open-source AI models last week. Within days, the chatbot had overtaken ChatGPT to reach the top spot on the Apple App Storeâs free app rankings. The new R1 models sent further shockwaves through the AI world. R1 promised performance to rival OpenAI topâs reasoning model â... Read more âș
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The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal experience of individual clinicians toward a formal scientific discipline. The advent of evidence-based medicine meant clinicians identified the most effective treatment options for their patients based on quality evaluations of the latest research. Now, precision medicine is enabling providers to use... Read more âș
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Right now, thereâs at least one nuclear-power, nuclear-armed submarine stealthily patrolling the waters off the UK. The sub is powered by a nuclear reactor, so it can cruise undetected for over 20 years without refuelling. Oh, and itâs also armed with eight nuclear warheads â each six times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Since 1969, the Royal Navy has kept at least one of these fission-powered... Read more âș
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Donald Trumpâs big AI announcement has turned heads on both sides of the Atlantic. Trump revealed this week that OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle have formed a joint venture â called Stargate â that will invest $500bn in AI infrastructure. The companies said $100bn of the funding was available immediately. The rest would be deployed over the next four years. Trump billed Stargate as âthe largest AI infrastructure project by far... Read more âș
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