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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In collaboration with LG, UK startup Urban-Air Port has unveiled the AirOne vertiport, which merges robotics with AI integrated systems â a world first, according to the company. Vertiports promise to facilitate advanced urban air mobility, intended for vehicles such as drones and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Urban-Air Port first demostrated AirOne in 2022 in the UK. Now, the vertiport is commercially available. Through the partnership with... Read more âș
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Scientists have discovered oxygen-generating âbattery rocksâ on the ocean floor that could challenge long-held beliefs about the origins of life on Earth â and make a strong case against deep-sea mining. A team led by Professor Andrew Sweetman of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) made the discovery while on fieldwork in the Pacific Ocean. The researchers were scanning the seabed 4,000 metres below the surface, a region known... Read more âș
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A Cambridge University spin-out is developing a unfolding, heat-detecting telescope that could capture high resolution thermal images of Earth â at an affordable price. Currently, some large, expensive satellites in low-earth orbit can capture high-resolution images infrequently, while small, low-cost satellites capture frequent but low-resolution images. The startup, SuperSharp, wants to occupy the space in the middle. SuperSharp credits these capabilities to its unfolding âself-alignment technologyâ whic Read more âș
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Despite taking several years to become fully popularised, Python continues to dominate the programming sphere thanks to its clean and relatable syntax, readability, and ease of learning for beginners. However, the most common complaint among users is that Python is slow. Slower than C++, slower than Java, and slower than C#. Itâs also slower than Julia, a high-performing, relatively new kid on the block which was released in 2012. Conceived... Read more âș
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Growing up, Jari Hazelebach was a full-time interpreter. Both of his parents are deaf, and from a young age he helped them communicate in a world largely oblivious to the struggles of the 430 million people suffering from disabling hearing loss.   âWhile my parents could lip-read, their hearing disability made group conversations almost impossible,â Hazelebach told TNW. Even family Christmas gatherings were a struggle. Thatâs what drove Hazelebach to found... Read more âș
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Britain has successfully fired a laser weapon from an army combat vehicle for the first time, the UK government announced today. During trials, the system âneutralisedâ targets at distances in excess of 1km, officials said. Matt Cork, programme lead of the governmentâs Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), called the test a âpivotal moment.â âThis technology offers a precise, powerful, and cost effective means to defeat aerial threats, ensuring greater... Read more âș
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A team of students from the Technical University of Delft have made history by crossing the North Sea in a fully hydrogen-powered boat.  TU Delftâs Hydro Motion team set off from Breskens, Netherlands on July 11, with 160km of rough ocean ahead of them. Shortly into the trip, however, the vessel suffered a failure in its cooling pump and had to dock in Belgium for repairs. After a bit of... Read more âș
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Imagine walking through a bustling railway station. Youâre in a hurry, weaving through the crowd, unaware that cameras are not just watching you but also recognising you. These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance customer experience or to improve their own efficiency. Biometrics are unique physical or behavioural traits and are part of our everyday lives. Among these, facial recognition is the most... Read more âș
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Swiss app developer Proton has launched a new âprivacy-firstâ AI email writing assistant that could be a more secure alternative to similar offerings from Google and Microsoft. Proton Scribe, integrated in Proton Mail, allows users to compose emails with simple prompts. The large language model (LLM) can also proofread your drafts before theyâre sent. To use the feature, all you have to do is draft an email in Proton Mail... Read more âș
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Cultivated meat is now approved for sale in Europe â but donât break out the fine China just yet. The first dishes are exclusively reserved for pets. Our furry friends can now legally dine on cultivated chicken from Meatly, a startup based in London. The company announced on Monday that British regulators have rubber-stamped sales of the product. By providing the green-light, the UK has become the first European country... Read more âș
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From your phone to your clothes or even the breakfast you ate this morning, thereâs a high chance a boat transported it from where it was made to where you bought it from. The global shipping industry accounts for around 90% of world trade. Most of these goods are ferried by giant cargo ships that carry huge amounts of stuff. But, theyâre slow and not exactly nimble. This can result... Read more âș
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Samsung has snapped up UK startup Oxford Semantic Technologies, in a bid to âhyper-personaliseâ user experiences with AI. Founded in 2017, Oxford Semantic specialises in knowledge graphs, which integrate and analyse data. The technology powers countless applications, from voice assistants to search engines. Oxford Semantic baked knowledge graphs into a product called RDFox, which the company describes as an âAI reasoning engine.â The system supports an array of use cases,... Read more âș
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Danish startup Again has raised money⊠again. Google Ventures and Berlin-based HV Capital led the $43mn funding round, which brings the startupâs total to date to just shy of $100mn. Again takes waste COâ from industry, combines it with hydrogen and then feeds the concoction to a host of millennia-old bacteria. The little germs devour the brew, turning it into commercial-grade compounds like acetate. This is the base chemical in... Read more âș
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While this year thus far has been less profitable for ASML, the tech giant saw orders for its chip making machines increase again over the past three months. According to the companyâs earnings report for the second quarter of 2024, net bookings (i.e. orders) reached âŹ5.6bn â rising over 24% year-on-year. A significant chunk consisted of orders for ASMLâs EUV machines, which accounted for âŹ2.5bn. The Dutch company is the... Read more âș
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ï»ż Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast â the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In todayâs episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about the launch of Ariane 6 and its consequences, the woes of Firefly, robotic laundry folding, the math of swimming, and more. Youâll also hear a... Read more âș
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Today, UK error-correction specialist Riverlane and startup Atlantic Quantum announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to scale fluxonium-based qubit architecture and advance the technology towards useful quantum computing. It is a really encouraging time to be writing about quantum tech. Beyond the fact that it is increasingly being acknowledged as a strategically important technology by security agencies and governments globally, after decades of feeling just five years out... Read more âș
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Since its launch in 2017, DeepL has successfully rivalled machine translation giants such as Google Translate. Today, with the launch of its new large language model (LLM), the startup aims to raise industry standards even higher. In alignment with the unicornâs technology development strategy, the new LLM is specifically built for translation and editing. According to DeepL, this fine-tuning to language is what enables it to produce more human-like translations... Read more âș
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Sixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this, the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes over two seasons) and a feature-length movie in 1990. The Jetsons was created by the Hanna-Barbara animation studio in Los Angeles... Read more âș
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Yandex founder Arkady Volozh is building a cloud service platform for developers to train artificial intelligence models. Named Nebius Group, the company says its aim is to become a European global leader in AI infrastructure. The launch follows news from yesterday that Yandex had successfully sold its Russian assets in a $5.4bn deal, in what constitutes the largest corporate exit from the country since the start of the full-scale invasion... Read more âș
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UK-based AI startups are now worth $256bn, according to new data from Dealroom and HSBC Innovation Banking. They also account for 22% of the countryâs innovation ecosystem value â up from 12% in 2019. In the first half of 2024, startups in the field raised $2.1bn. And this amount is projected to more than double in the coming five months. This means theyâre on track for another record-breaking year, following... Read more âș
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