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EU commits €10M to accelerate Ukraine's digital integration with Europe
The European Union has allocated €10 million to support the development of digital public services in Ukraine and their alignment with European standards. According to Oleksandr Bornyakov, Acting Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, cooperation with the European Union and the Academy of Electronic Management is a long-standing success story that laid the foundation for read more
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Spotify confirms Turkish office opening
Spotify has confirmed it will open an office in Turkey, saying the country is a “priority market”, following aspat between the streaming giant and the Turkish government. Spotify said it will open an office in Istanbul by the end of June, saying “opening an office in Istanbul is not a symbolic move for Spotify,it’s a read more
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AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation 2 months after launch | TechCrunch
Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company said Monday the round was led by Lightspeed. Ricursive says the system will be able to create its own silicon substrate layer and speed up AI chip improvements. Rinse read more
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Qilimanjaro launches EduQit, a modular build-your-own quantum computer for education and research
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech today announced the release of EduQit, a modular quantum computing kit designed to enable hands-on training, experimental learning, and early-stage research using an on-site superconducting quantum computing system. EduQit enables universities and research institutions to work directly with a physical quantum computing system. This provides hands-on experience with hardware, control systems, operations, read more
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Art is Better Together: A Letter from Our Editorial Director
Dear readers, I recently picked up Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam’s bestselling book about the collapse of community in the U.S. At a whopping 581 pages, this veritable doorstop is a trove of data and insight into our increasingly isolated world. First published in 2000, before the internet exponentially diverted our attention from the physical world, read more
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Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America
Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. Based in São Paulo, Silveira is a pioneer of Brazilian conceptual art who is known for utilizing light, installation, and photos to consider how images circulate and tell stories. One of read more
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Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells Playfully Remember Places and Landscapes
From an array of photos, videos, sound bytes, and illustrative elements, Rich Wells creates moving collages that capture the essence of place. Based in Sheffield, he documents his visits to landscapes and landmarks near and far, including bicycle rides around different parts of the U.K. and places as familiar as his own kitchen table. “I read more
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Ashes To Ashes: The Paintings of Fulvio Di Piazza – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From funeral services to the famed David Bowie song to a British sci-fi series, the phrase “ashes to ashes” takes on a new strain of meaning with every use. With Fulvio di Piazza’s recent show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York, this metaphoric 360-degree view of life is reimagined once again. Ashes to Ashes read more
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YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models | TechCrunch
A group of YouTubers who are suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their list of defendants. The plaintiffs — internet content creators behind a trio of YouTube channels with roughly 6.2 million collective subscribers — allege that Snap has trained its AI systems read more
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Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp | TechCrunch
Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday. The tech giant said the new subscriptions will unlock more productivity and creativity, along with expanded AI capabilities. In the coming months, Meta said it will offer a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, read more
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'Among the worst we've seen': report slams xAI's Grok over child safety failures | TechCrunch
A new risk assessment has found that xAI’s chatbot Grok has inadequate identification of users under 18, weak safety guardrails, and frequently generates sexual, violent, and inappropriate material. In other words, Grok is not safe for kids or teens. The damning report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of read more
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Radiant joins Hexa’s Carbon Zero programme and raises €2M to decarbonise industrial heat
Radiant (formerly Neamine) has been selected to participate in Hexa’s Carbon Zero acceleration programme and has closed a €2 million funding round, with minority participation from the business angel networks Tiresias Angels and Selim Cherif. Industrial heat accounts for more than 70 per cent of total industrial energy consumption, yet it remains largely dependent on read more
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Brickanta closes $8M round to expand AI use in construction planning
Stockholm-based Brickanta, an agentic AI platform for the construction industry, has closed an $8 million seed funding round led by Northzone. The round includes participation from global sports figures, founders of Lovable and Tandem Health, angel investors affiliated with OpenAI, Google, and Meta, as well as continued backing from Y Combinator and SSE Business Lab. read more
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Africas year in politics: Coups, elections and protests
AFP via Getty Images The deadly violence that followed Tanzania’s election shocked many October’s shocking events in Tanzania offer a snapshot of some of the tensions which have shaped a difficult year for African politics. Demonstrators were shot dead by police while protesting against what they saw as a rigged election – condemned by regional read more
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Nordic challenger bank Lunar raises €46M, as looks to grow business users
Lunar, the Nordic digital challenger bank, has raised €46 million in fresh funding, with the funds geared towards growing its business customers and supporting the launch of a suite of new lending products. Lunar, which has over one million users across the Nordics, has raised the funding from existing investors Heartland and Orbit Alliance and read more
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Great white sharks face extinction in Mediterranean, say researchers
Victoria Gill, Kate Stephens and Gwyndaf Hughes,BBC News science teamand Ahmed Nour,BBC News Arabic Getty Images Great white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea are in danger of disappearing, with illegal fishing contributing to their decline. This is according to research by US scientists, working in partnership with UK charity Blue Marine Foundation. They read more
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$1M+ raise for construction startup Arctis AI led by former fencing champion Dila Ekrem
The construction and real estate sector is Europe’s largest industry, yet it remains largely dependent on manual and disconnected processes. This inefficiency is becoming critical as the sector faces a massive wave of activity, driven by a €584 billion requirement for power grid upgrades and an estimated €500 billion in transport infrastructure modernisations across Europe read more
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South Africa cricket: How Proteas scaled heights but now face wait for a home Test
That has been realised most clearly in the balance of the side. South Africa have long relied on fast bowlers of rare quality, but this attack has evolved beyond brute force. Rabada, a generational talent, remains the spearhead and is now complemented by a depth of skill and variety that allows the Proteas to compete read more
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South Korea’s Edenlux set for U.S. debut of eye-strain wellness device | TechCrunch
People around the world now spend hours a day on their smartphones. On average, daily smartphone use exceeds three hours, and for many adults, total screen time climbs to six hours or more, according to research. This constant close-up screen exposure has been linked to a growing list of eye-health issues, including dry and irritated read more
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