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  • Do You Actually Need a Smart Bird Feeder With a Movable Camera?

    Assembly was quick and tool-free, requiring only a handful of included knob screws. I also like that it included both fence- and pole-mounting options, the latter of which is critical for preventing squirrel damage. ScreenshotCoolfly app via Kat Merck Smart feeder companies continue to upgrade their cameras’ quality with each new model, but the general read more

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    Do You Actually Need a Smart Bird Feeder With a Movable Camera?

  • Guide: What’s Coming Up at the Tech.eu Summit London 2026?

    Taking place on April 21–22 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, the Tech.eu Summit London 2026 will once again bring together founders, investors, and operators from across Europe for two days of focused conversations, insights, and networking. Following the recent agenda announcement, here’s a closer look at what to expect from each day read more

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    Guide: What’s Coming Up at the Tech.eu Summit London 2026?

  • Doctolib, AP-HP, and Roche launch startup programme to bridge healthtech–clinical gap

    Doctolib, @Hôtel-Dieu (AP-HP) and Roche are launching Care Forward, a support program for European health startups at STATION F. Designed to help young companies develop, test and deploy their solutions as close as possible to care delivery needs, it brings together technological expertise, access to clinical environments, and medical and regulatory support. Based in the read more

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    Doctolib, AP-HP, and Roche launch startup programme to bridge healthtech–clinical gap

  • Germany’s Akbank AG successfully completes first phase of core banking migration to Mambu in partnership with Innovance

    Akbank AG, the German subsidiary of Turkey’s leading bank Akbank TAS, has successfully completed Phase 1 of its core banking transformation, to the leading SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu. The transformation was delivered in close partnership with Innovance, Mambu’s strategic technology partner. The milestone marks a full transition away from Akbank AG’s legacy core system read more

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    Germany’s Akbank AG successfully completes first phase of core banking migration to Mambu in partnership with Innovance

  • Cosine goes from benchmark leader to cornerstone of UK sovereign AI strategy

    The UK government has selected Cosine, the British AI company whose models have outperformedOpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepSeek on independent coding benchmarks for two consecutive years, as one of the first partners in its newly launched £500 million Sovereign AI programme. Cosine was founded in 2022 by Alistair Pullen — who has been building AI read more

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    Cosine goes from benchmark leader to cornerstone of UK sovereign AI strategy

  • New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets | TechCrunch

    Few venture firms have bet more aggressively on AI than Sequoia Capital, and it isn’t slowing down. The Silicon Valley stalwart has raised roughly $7 billion for a new fund, according to Bloomberg. Sequoia declined TechCrunch’s request for comment. The money will go toward what the firm calls its “expansion strategy” — essentially its late-stage read more

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    New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised B to expand its AI bets | TechCrunch

  • Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises | TechCrunch

    More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI-assisted coding remains by far the most popular and lucrative use case for the technology. Although multiple companies — including Anthropic, maker of Claude Code, as well as Cursor and Cognition — are already vying for dominance, investors believe there is room for at least read more

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    Factory hits .5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises | TechCrunch

  • MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting

    Yesterday, on a gorgeous, unseasonably hot spring afternoon,a squad of us descended on MoMA PS1 in Queens for the press preview of Greater New York, which opens today, April 16. A survey of artists working and living in New York City, the quinquennial (that’s every five years) is back for the sixth time since its read more

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    MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting

  • Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes

    Cardamom, a beloved restaurant at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, is no more following a controversial decision by the eatery to lay off its front-of-house workers and institute a QR code ordering system. The museum said on Thursday that such a move “does not align with our core values.” “We are committed to creating read more

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    Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes

  • Light-activated gel could impact wearables, soft robotics, and more

    Consider the chief difference between living systems and electronics: The first is generally soft and squishy, while the latter is hard and rigid. Now, in work that could impact human-machine interfaces, biocompatible devices, soft robotics, and more, MIT engineers and colleagues have developed a soft, flexible gel that dramatically changes its conductivity upon the application read more

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    Light-activated gel could impact wearables, soft robotics, and more

  • Marvel at Manabu Kosaka's Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures of Retro Objects

    It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does read more

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    Marvel at Manabu Kosaka's Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures of Retro Objects

  • Fund II second close strengthens Unconventional Ventures’ bet on overlooked founders

    Today, Unconventional Ventures (UV) announced the second close of Unconventional Ventures Fund II. In a challenging global climate — marked by economic uncertainty and tightening capital markets — this close represents more than a fundraising milestone. It signals strong conviction that backing underinvested founders building scalable, category-defining companies remains a resilient and forward-looking investment thesis. read more

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    Fund II second close strengthens Unconventional Ventures’ bet on overlooked founders

  • “We are where ChatGPT was five years ago,” says European 3D AI foundation model startup boss

    OneofEurope’stop AI researchers, who is heading upa3D AI foundation model startup, says that 3D AI models are “kind of where ChatGPT for language wasfive years ago”. Matthias Niessner,the CEO andco-founderofSpAItial,tooka leave of absence from leadingthe visualcomputingand AI lab at the Technical University of Munich to launch the Munich andLondon-basedstartupSpAItial,whichlast year landed a $13m seed round. read more

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    “We are where ChatGPT was five years ago,” says European 3D AI foundation model startup boss

  • Congress Turns Up Pressure on DHS Over Palantir’s Role in Immigration Crackdown

    Thirty-four members of Congress are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement provide detailed information about how tools developed by Palantir and “a range of surveillance companies” are fueling Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown, according to a letter shared exclusively with WIRED. On Thursday, the lawmakers sent the letter to DHS read more

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    Congress Turns Up Pressure on DHS Over Palantir’s Role in Immigration Crackdown

  • Apple Was Filming Fatal Aircraft Crash for Vision Pro

    A British paraplegic adventurer was being filmed for an Apple Vision Pro immersive video series during a fatal aircraft crash in the Jordanian desert in July 2024, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. Claire Lomas became internationally recognized in 2012 when she became the first person to complete the London Marathon using a robotic exoskeleton suit, five read more

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    Apple Was Filming Fatal Aircraft Crash for Vision Pro

  • £100M boost for UK healthtech as British Business Bank backs Apposite growth fund

    The British Business Bank has agreed to make a £100 million commitment to Apposite Healthcare Growth I, a fund investing to support the growth of health technology companies, primarily in the UK. This will be the British Business Bank’s largest fund commitment to date and is the Bank’s first commitment to Apposite Capital, a specialist read more

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    £100M boost for UK healthtech as British Business Bank backs Apposite growth fund

  • spektr raises $20M Series A to streamline financial compliance

    Copenhagen-based spektr, a company building AI infrastructure for compliance in financial services, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was led by NEA, with participation from existing investors Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech. Compliance teams continue to spend significant time manually reviewing corporate documents, mapping ownership structures, verifying websites, and preparing risk read more

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    spektr raises M Series A to streamline financial compliance

  • Talking Art With Rama Duwaji

    Daily Newsletter The artist and NYC first lady sits for an exclusive interview with our editor-in-chief. Plus: Who’s behind the posters calling to boycott the Met Gala? On a damp New York City morning last week, I visited Gracie Mansion for an exclusive interview with artist and First Lady Rama Duwaji in her studio. We read more

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    Talking Art With Rama Duwaji

  • What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti

    What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti “Everyone knows what a head is!” Thus André Breton—the imperious leader of the French Surrealist group with which Alberto Giacometti had made common cause in the late 1920s—chided the artist for his return to sculpting human likenesses after 1935. The Swiss-born, Paris-based Giacometti had distinguished his tenure read more

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    What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti

  • Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents

    Outcraft AI, an agentic AI platform focused on autonomous revenue execution, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from Practica Capital. The company also received early backing from venture builder Lost Astronaut. Businesses frequently miss revenue opportunities due to delayed or inconsistent customer engagement. Leads may go cold, free users fail to convert, declined payments read more

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    Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents