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Healthcare and financial wellbeing startup for over 60s Lateral raises £2.5M
Experts in healthcare and financial serviceshavesecured £2.5 million in seed funding to fund a startup geared towards providing health and wealth products for theover 60s. The funding round in UK-based Lateral was led by UK fintech investorAugmenum with support fromTriple PointandTinyVC. Lateral, which is a nine-strong team,believes it has spotted a gap in the market, read more
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SmartyPlants closes £190K funding round for smart plant care technology
SmartyPlants, a UK-based technology startup focused on plant care, has received £190,000 in funding from the British Design Fund (BDF) to support the continued development of its smart sensor system for houseplants. Caring for indoor plants can be challenging due to factors such as inconsistent watering, unsuitable light conditions, and limited visibility into plant health. read more
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Polaron completes $8M funding round for materials science intelligence
London-based Polaron, an AI-focused startup developing tools for materials science, has raised $8 million to support the development of an intelligence layer for materials research and development. The funding round was led by Racine2, with participation from Speedinvest, Futurepresent, and a group of angel investors from the industrial AI sector. Despite widespread automation in manufacturing, read more
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UBEES secures €8M to support global expansion of regenerative pollination
UBEES, a company specialising in beekeeping applications for regenerative agriculture, has closed an €8 million Series A funding round, co-led by European funds Starquest and Capagro, with participation from Newtree Impact. The financing will support the company’s efforts to further integrate pollination into agricultural practices and value chains. Although a large share of food crops read more
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Refute raises £5M seed round to address disinformation threats
London-based Refute, an AI-powered counter-disinformation company, has raised £5 million in seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from Playfair, Episode 1, Osney Capital, and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF). The funding comes amid an evolving threat environment in which malicious actors are increasingly combining automated networks, influencer read more
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Epstein Files Reveal Peter Thiel’s Elaborate Dietary Restrictions
Peter Thiel—the billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal, and Palantir cofounder, and outspoken commentator on all matters relating to the “Antichrist”—appears at least 2,200 times in the latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice related to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The tranche of records demonstrate how Epstein managed to cultivate read more
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 236 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. Safari Technology Preview 236 includes fixes and updates for CSS, Forms, HTML, Images, read more
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Jeff Koons Attended Dinner Party at Jeffrey Epstein’s House
Artist Jeff Koons attended a dinner party organized by Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, years after the financier was first convicted of soliciting sex from a minor, according to emails released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last week. In 2013, Epstein specifically requested that Koons attend a September 4 dinner party at his Upper East read more
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Art World Connections: A Guide
From 1987 to 1994, Epstein was a board member of the New York Academy of Art, a private university in Lower Manhattan focused on graduate-level education combining, as per the Academy’s website, “intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse.” In 1995, he met Maria Farmer, a 25-year-old aspiring artist and student read more
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Portrait of Anne Boleyn Was Meant to Rebut Rumors That She Was a Witch, Historians Say
A portrait of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s ill-fated second wife, is now thought to be an attempt to rehabilitate her image after her death. Using infrared reflectography, historians and curators have uncovered evidence that the work was at least partially created to dispel rumors that Boleyn was a witch with six fingers. In the painting, read more
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Two Paris Museums Get More Than a Dozen Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, the organization that stewards the legacy of the iconic artist duo who wrapped large structures in fabric, has donated 14 artworks to two museums in Paris. The artists’ ties to the city are well documented. In 2021, a year after Christo’s death at 84, the artists’ 1962 plan to wrap read more
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Archival Art Will Not Save Us
Last fall, I attended a double documentary screening at Welcome to Chinatown of Christopher Radcliff’s 15-minute short, “We Were the Scenery” (2025), and Elizabeth Ai’s New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora (2024). The audience was packed, and with dinner provided by local downtown hotspots, it’s easy to see why. Over the past read more
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Opportunities in February 2026
Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each month. Sign up here! If you find this list valuable, consider becoming a Hyperallergic Member to help us make it possible every month. read more
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Sotheby’s Second Sale in Saudi Arabia Tops $19.6 M., Sets Record for Saudi Artist
Just under a year ago, Sotheby’s made its biggest foray in the Gulf yet with its first-ever auction in Saudi Arabia. That sale, titled “Origins” and featuring 117 lots spanning art and luxury objects, brought in $17.3 million with fees—squarely within its $14 million–$20 million presale estimate. It wasn’t a spectacular result, but also wasn’t read more
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A Rare Greek Funerary Sculpture, Priced North of $600,000, Heads to TEFAF
Most young women in ancient Greece were married early in their teenage years, and they were expected to produce children as a matter of public interest. So the death of a young woman of marriagable age was seen as a loss not only to her loved ones, but also to society. A rare ancient Greek read more
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Palestinians Decry Israel’s Plan to Seize West Bank Archaeological Site: ‘A Violation of Our History’
Israeli authorities have announced plans to seize a sprawling archaeological site overlooking the Palestinian town of Sebastia in the West Bank, sparking outrage among the roughly 3,500 Palestinians who depend on tourism to the site and nearby olive groves for their livelihoods. Residents of Sebastia have denounced the planned seizure as a pretext for expanding read more
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Does This Restored Roman Fresco Depict Italy’s Prime Minister?
News The recent restoration, which bears an uncanny resemblance to far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, is currently under investigation. A fresco of an angel in the Lucina Basilica in Rome, Italy, allegedly resembles Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni. (left: photo by Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images; right: photo by Marco Iacobucci/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Italian read more
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Apples Beautiful Store in Barcelona Will Be Temporarily Closed Soon
Apple’s impressive Passeig de Gràcia store in the heart of Barcelona, Spain will be temporarily closed for unspecified improvements starting Saturday, February 14 at 8 p.m. local time, according to the store’s official page. Apple Passeig de Gràcia The extent of renovations that will be completed remains to be seen, and Apple has not indicated read more
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Apple Releases iOS 16.7.14 to Address iPhone X and iPhone 8 Emergency Call Issue in Australia
Apple today released iOS 16.7.14 to address an iOS 16.7.13 issue that caused some older iPhones in Australia to be unable to connect to emergency services. The update is available for the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models, and it will allow these devices to place calls to emergency services in Australia. read more
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Apple Releases macOS 11, watchOS 10, and watchOS 9 Updates to Keep iMessage and FaceTime Working on Older Devices
Apple today released macOS 11.7.11, watchOS 10.6.2, and watchOS 9.6.4 for older Macs and Apple Watches that are not able to run the current watchOS and macOS 26. According to Apple’s release notes, the updates extend the certificate that features like device activation, iMessage, and FaceTime use. The certificate update ensures that these functions will read more
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