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Image guided therapy: 3D navigation with light instead of x-ray
By bringing this light-based navigation technology to more hospitals, we’re helping clinicians treat complex vascular disease with precision and safety, while reducing radiation risk for patients and teams in the lab Atul Gupta LumiGuide is powered by Philips Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology. The system uses light to visualize the shape and position of LumiGuide read more
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Avoidable knee surgery cancellations: a costly, painful problem
Each cancellation represents not just a statistic, but someone’s quality of life being put on hold, which is unacceptable Karin Smyth A quarter of the cancellations were less than 24 hours before surgery, and nearly one third were within 2 to 14 days. Cancellations the day before, or on the same day as surgery, can read more
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Zillow drops climate risk scores after agents complained of lost sales | TechCrunch
Sorry, prospective homebuyers. Just over a year after adding climate risk scores, Zillow has removed them from more than 1 million listings after real estate agents complained that the information was causing them to lose sales. Zillow first added the data to the site in September 2024, saying that more than 80% of buyers consider read more
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Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research | TechCrunch
Nvidia announced new infrastructure and AI models on Monday as it works to build the backbone technology for physical AI, including robots and autonomous vehicles that can perceive and interact with the real world. The semiconductor giant announced Alpamayo-R1, an open reasoning vision language model for autonomous driving research at the NeurIPS AI conference in read more
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MKBHD's wallpaper app Panels is shutting down | TechCrunch
Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, or MKBHD, announced on Monday that his phone wallpaper app Panels is shutting down. Fans had high hopes for Brownlee’s foray into app development, given his reputation as an eagle-eyed tech reviewer who has amassed more than 20 million followers on YouTube. He’s so influential that some blamed his commentary on read more
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Construction workers are cashing in on the AI boom | TechCrunch
The AI boom is proving to be a windfall for construction workers building the massive data centers that power it all. According to The Wall Street Journal, workers moving into data-center construction are seeing pay jumps of 25% to 30% compared to their previous jobs — and in some cases, much more. Among them is read more
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Festivitas lets you decorate your Apple devices with holiday lights and snow | TechCrunch
If you want to bring a bit of holiday cheer to the screen you use the most, you’ll get a kick out of the newly updated Festivitas app for Apple devices. Originally designed to add holiday lights to your Mac’s desktop, this popular indie app has been updated this year with several new features, most read more
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Deezer rolls out ‘My Deezer Year 2025,’ its Spotify Wrapped clone | TechCrunch
Deezer launched “My Deezer Year 2025” on Monday, its annual recap similar to Spotify Wrapped. By releasing early, Deezer beats other streaming music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, in providing an annual summary of listeners’ favorite songs, artists, albums, and genres for 2025. The feature, called “My Deezer Year,” offers users a read more
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Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation | TechCrunch
German AI lab Black Forest Labs said on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $3.25 billion. The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain read more
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Marble Imaging secures €5.3M to bring ultra-high-resolution Earth Observation data to Europe
Marble Imaging has raised €5.3 million in an oversubscribed Seed funding round led by HTGF, powering its mission to become Europe’s leading source of very high-resolution Earth Observation data and insights. Marble Imaging is a big-data Earth observation company founded in August 2023 in Bremen, Germany, building its constellation of VHR satellites to provide up read more
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AbbVie atogepant migraine therapy label expansion potential
If approved in Europe, atogepant would provide patients with a new acute treatment option for migraine attacks. New phase III findings have demonstrated superiority of AbbVie’s oral atogepant (60mg) over placebo in enabling pain freedom for adults with acute migraines. The pivotal ECLIPSE study evaluated participants with a history of migraines over 24 weeks. Primary read more
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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
Our muscles are nature’s actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate “biohybrid robots” made from both living tissue and synthetic parts. By pairing lab-grown muscles with synthetic skeletons, researchers are engineering a menagerie of muscle-powered crawlers, walkers, read more
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BSI launches a word-first environmental standard for pharma
New BSI standard PAS 2090 could reshape how the pharmaceutical industry reports and minimises its environmental footprint. The first global standard to help manufacturers measure and assess the life cycle emissions of pharmaceutical products has been published by UK national standards body British Standards Institute (BSI). The voluntary standard aims to minimise the environmental impact read more
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Minitap secures $4.1M to make mobile development 10x faster with AI
Minitap, an AI-powered mobile development platform, has raised $4.1 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital, and several unicorn founders. It also attracted a strong group of AI infrastructure experts, including Thomas Wolf, Stefan Glanzer, Michael Breidenbrucker, Paul Muller, Petter read more
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Wayve acquires German startup Quality Match
Wayve, the UK self-driving startup, has acquired a German startup which specialises in analysing AI model training data for automated driving..The UK startup has acquiredQuality Match, founded in 2019, whichemploys around 20 staff, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition comes as London-based Wayve looks to trump rivals such as Tesla to prove that its tech read more
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Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation
Today Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B round at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation. Black Forest Labs was founded last year with a mission to build frontier models for pixels—systems capable of creating what cameras cannot capture. The team set out to develop models that understand intent rather than simply execute read more
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AI-powered system for interventional imaging presented at RSNA 2025
Artis icono.explore is equipped with Optiq AI Image source: Siemens Healthineers “The growing need for earlier-stage treatments raises the bar for image quality and this is where artificial intelligence comes into play. With Optiq AI, we are unlocking AI’s potential for a new generation of interventional systems and are bringing it to all clinical fields,” read more
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Alarming number of invasive breast cancers in younger women
Spot on right mediolateral oblique (side angle) view. Area of distortion persists on additional mammographic views, and a mass is identified on subsequent breast ultrasound. Ultrasound guided biopsy was performed and revealed nuclear grade 1 invasive ductal carcinoma. Image credit: Stamatia Destounis, M.D., and RSNA Dr. Destounis noted that an important factor about the research read more
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Taiwan and Sweden explore roads towards smart and sustainable healthcare
Dr. Jing-Wei Lee (left), President of National Cheng Kung University Hospital, and Helena Reitberger , Swedish Representative to Taiwan, The Swedish Trade & Invest Council Image source: NCKU News Center During the meeting, the guestsoutlined the core principles of Sweden’s healthcare system: flexibility, resilience, and sustainability. The Swedish delegation, led by Helena Reitberger, Swedish Representative read more
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How time became money: clocks, capitalism and wealth
Ralph Kettell was the kind of eccentric only Oxford can produce. Born in Hertfordshire in 1563, he was 15 when he first came to the city and its ancient university, winning a scholarship to Trinity College. Like so many, he never really left. As the years passed and Kettell’s neat goatee grew grey, he became read more
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