The EUâs landmark AI Act is moving closer to reality, as a rival rulebook forms across the English Channel. The union aims to agree on draft rules for the world-first AI statute next month, Reuters reported on Monday. âWe are still in good time to fulfil the overall target and calendar that we assumed in the very beginning, which is to wrap it up during this mandate,â Dragos Tudorache, an... Read more âș
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The decline of pollinators, particularly bees, is having a grave impact on agriculture and human health. Scientists estimate that 4.7% of the worldâs total production of fruit, 3.2% of vegetables, and 4.7% nuts is now lost because of inadequate pollination. But thereâs hope. Researchers at Tampere University in Finland have developed a robot that could serve as an artificial pollinator. The team was inspired by dandelion seeds and tapped into... Read more âș
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A UK startup has produced another milestone in the strange science of lab-grown meat: the first-ever cultivated steak fillet. The landmark was laid by 3D Bio-Tissues (3DBT), a bio-tech firm based in Newcastle. Founded in 2019, the company cultivated human corneas for vision-impaired people before applying its techniques to meat. 3DBT has good reasons for the move. CE Delft, an independent research firm, estimates that cultivated meat could cause 92%... Read more âș
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Europe has a long tradition in geothermal energy, with Iceland, France, and Hungary historically dominating the industry. In recent years, however, a range of other countries have entered the sector. Their motivations are clear: geothermal energy is 100% renewable, endless, and reliable. And the attraction has only intensified amid the drive to reduce dependence on Russian natural gas. Currently, Germany is leading the transition. At the end of 2022, the... Read more âș
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The EUâs new green tech funding plan has sparked concerns about an escalating global subsidy race. The initiative was launched in response to the USâ Inflation Reduction Act. The act provides $369 billion of subsidies for green technologies, largely through tax credits for products âmade in America.â The incentives have triggered fears that EU companies will be enticed to redirect investment and production to the US. Critics claim the measures... Read more âș
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How do you set your company apart from other brands? How do you sell people a product theyâre not used to? And how is all that possible without a marketing department? John Schoolcraft, Chief Creative Officer at Oatly, has an answer to all these questions. In 2012, together with CEO Toni Petersson, Schoolcraft began to transform a 30-year-old maker of oat drinks into a worldwide movement devoted to promoting a... Read more âș
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Spain-based Iberdola has secured an environmental license from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) to build a photovoltaic plant in Santiago do CacĂ©m in Portugal. The company claims that itâs set to be Europeâs biggest solar farm and the fifth largest in the world. The solar farm, named after the poet Fernando Pessoa, will start operation in 2025 and will have an installed capacity of 1,200MW. According to Iberdola, itâll be... Read more âș
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An EV that cleans the air while driving might seem like a pipe dream , but a student team based at the Eindhoven University of Technology has made it reality. TU/ecomotive â as the team is called â has been creating inspiring, environmentally conscious concept cars for over a decade now. Among the concept vehicles presented by the students, last yearâs Zem â which stands for âzero emission mobilityâ â... Read more âș
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The Netherlands-based Eleo is on a mission to accelerate the transition to a fossil-free future. How? Well, by providing high-tech batteries to the machines and vehicles most difficult to electrify. These mainly include industrial, off-highway machines in the construction, agricultural, and forestry sectors â but also cover electric mobility, ranging from cargo and last-mile delivery vehicles to vessels. Eleo started out as a student team at the Eindhoven University of... Read more âș
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A âmetal sockâ in the ground stuffed full of hydrogen. Vats of scorching sand. Huge weights moving very, very slowly up and down old mineshafts. Is this the future of energy? This menagerie of strange machines and heat-retaining vessels is poised to emerge across Europe as the continent seeks ways of storing the surplus energy produced by renewables. The UK, for example, wasted half a billion poundsâ worth of wind... Read more âș
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Whether you suddenly find yourself out of a job, courtesy of the recent wave of tech layoffs sweeping through the sector, or feel like youâve outgrown your current position and are looking for a new challenge, firing off a generic CV and hoping for the best isnât going to cut it. In fact, according to online resume builder Zety, only 10% of job applications result in interviews, and job seekers... Read more âș
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Tyre wear is a major contributor to polluting microplastics â small particles which donât biodegrade and tend to accumulate in the environment, leaking harmful toxins into the air and our waterways. And although thereâs no respective EU regulation yet, a London-based startup has developed a device that can capture these particles. The Tyre Collective started out as a masterâs project by three former students of the Imperial College London and... Read more âș
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This story is syndicated from the premium edition of PreSeed Now, a newsletter that digs into the product, market, and founder story of UK-founded startups so you can understand how they fit into whatâs happening in the wider world and startup ecosystem. The reignited excitement around the potential of AI as we hurtle into 2023 brings with it concerns about how best to process all the data needed to make... Read more âș
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This article was originally published on .cult by Luis Minvielle. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. Quiet quitting is a brand-new form of approaching the work-life balance. Contrary to what its name might suggest, quiet quitting doesnât actually involve an official resignation from your job. Itâs merely... Read more âș
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We might think that the conception of robots, AI, and automated machines is a modern phenomenon, but, in fact, the idea had already appeared in Western literature nearly 3,000 years ago. Long before Isaac Asimov conceived the Laws of Robotics (1942) and John McCarthy coined the term âArtificial Intelligenceâ (1995), Ancient Greeks myths were full of stories about intelligent humanoids. The fact that these mythical humanoids meet the criteria of... Read more âș
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Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed an innovative method for existing furnaces that could reduce steelmakingâs CO2 emission by nearly 90%. The iron and steel industry is a major cause of greenhouse gasses, accounting for 9% of global emissions. Thatâs because of the inherent carbon-intensive nature of steel production in blast furnaces, which currently represent the most-widely used practice. In blast furnace steel manufacturing, coke (a type of... Read more âș
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Twitter has fallen out with yet another landlord: King Charles III. The Crown Estate, which manages the British monarchâs vast property portfolio, has sued Twitter over unpaid rent for office space in London. The complaint was filed last week at the High Court in Britainâs capital. The case joins a range of wranglings over rent engulfing Twitter. In December, the company had reportedly not paid rent on any of its... Read more âș
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French startup Eolink â in collaboration with 15 European energy partners â will install a 5MW floating offshore wind turbine in Bulgaria by 2025. This is part of the EU-backed Black Sea Floating Offshore Wind (BLOW) project, which aims to advance sustainable energy solutions. BLOW will use Eolinkâs patented floating offshore wind turbine design, which the company claims solves existing industry issues by using four steel masts instead of one... Read more âș
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By 2027, Europe has the potential to fully rely on domestic production of battery cells, meeting its EV and energy storage demands without any Chinese imports. Thatâs according to the latest forecast by Transport & Environment (T&E), a campaign group, which analyzed a range of manufacturer reports and press releases. The European NGO further estimates that, in 2030, the companies with the largest battery cell production in the continent will... Read more âș
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For tech startups, the most valuable assets are often invisible. While businesses were traditionally built on physical resources, the contemporary economy is increasingly driven by intangibles. The chip firm Arm, for instance, earned a $40 billion valuation and a reputation as the UKâs leading tech company â despite never manufacturing a single chip. Instead, the company designs the processor architecture thatâs used in countless devices. This intellectual property-based business model... Read more âș
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