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  • Brace for Cold Nights With the Best Down Comforters We’ve Tried

    Compare Our Top 11 Down Comforters More Comforters We’ve Tested If you want a warm blanket but you don’t want traditional down, consider a down alternative, or a comforter made with eucalyptus or bamboo. Buffy Breeze Comforter Courtesy of Buffy Buffy Breeze Comforter: The Buffy Breeze Comforter has been on my bed for years. It’s read more

    Brace for Cold Nights With the Best Down Comforters We’ve Tried
  • Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China’s First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art

    Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA). The 1,700-square-foot library was designed by renowned Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto and is located on the third floor of the museum. It holds more than 50,000 books and audiobooks, read more

    Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China’s First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art
  • New David Adjaye-Built Museums Beg the Question: What Happened to #MeToo?

    Of all the political movements of the 2010s that failed to secure for themselves real power, perhaps the most devastating failure for me personally was that of #MeToo. I was in graduate school at the height of the movement, where I was being harassed by a professor and sharing my stories with others in the read more

    New David Adjaye-Built Museums Beg the Question: What Happened to #MeToo?
  • An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum

    When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and read more

    An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum
  • What happens next for Marjorie Taylor Greene after exit from Congress?

    Getty Images Marjorie Taylor Greene’s five years in Congress will come to an early end on 5 January after she unexpectedly announced her resignation following a bitter rift with President Donald Trump. The surprise move from the Georgia congresswoman – a rising star in the Republican party – has left many speculating about her next read more

    What happens next for Marjorie Taylor Greene after exit from Congress?
  • BKN301 expands Series B and acquires UK fintech Planky to advance AI-first banking

    Fintech has secured a credit facility and acquired Planky, a UK-based tech company specialised in AI-driven financial analytics and open banking. The credit facility accompanies its latest Series B round, bringing the total raised to £29 million. The BKN301 Group is a fintech architecture provider that supports banks and fintech companies. Its cloud-native, proprietary suite read more

    BKN301 expands Series B and acquires UK fintech Planky to advance AI-first banking
  • US immigration: Families face separation as Haiti TPS scheme ends

    Liam Weir/BBC Marven says his life feels “more complete” now he has got to know Rochelle and Guerline Nawal al-Maghafi and Jasmin DyerBBC World Service, Florida In a waterside house in the town of Lakeland, Florida, Marven laughs with two women he loves dearly – his sister Rochelle and their biological mother, Guerline. The warmth read more

    US immigration: Families face separation as Haiti TPS scheme ends
  • Josef Brunner’s NutriUnited secures €8.5M Seed to champion family-owned food producers

    Corporate food companies group NutriUnited has raised €8.5 million Seed financing. Founded by Josef Brunner, NutriUnited builds, connects and develops artisan-oriented food companies. It aims tocreate a home for family-run businesses in the product categories meat, meat alternatives and ready-made meals. Josef Brunner is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and investor with over two decades of read more

    Josef Brunner’s NutriUnited secures €8.5M Seed to champion family-owned food producers
  • SportAI closes $3M round, supported by Casper Ruud

    SportAI, a B2B sports technology company that uses AI-powered video analysis to provide professional-grade performance insights, has raised an oversubscribed $3 million round from investors including Norwegian fund Altitude Capital and tennis player Casper Ruud. Endre Holen, former Head of McKinsey’s Global Tech & Media practice, has also invested and will serve as Chairman. Other read more

    SportAI closes M round, supported by Casper Ruud
  • PowerUP nets €10M Series A to scale its dual-use hydrogen technology

    Talliin-based PowerUP Energy Technologies has closed a€10 million Series A funding roundto accelerate the manufacturing and commercialisation of its hydrogen-powered electric generators.Co-led by Mercaton and ScaleWolf and joined by SmartCap’s Green Fund, the investment will enable further scaling of the technology, recognised for its dependable performance in extreme environments. PowerUP Energy Technologies, founded in 2016, read more

    PowerUP nets €10M Series A to scale its dual-use hydrogen technology
  • Uniphy lands £3M to roll out smart surfaces for in-vehicle controls

    Leeds-based Uniphy, whose technology could replace car dashboard controls and change how people interact with appliances, has raised £3 million to prepare for mass production. The funding comes from existing investors NPIF II – Mercia Equity Finance, managed by Mercia Ventures under the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II, and Mercia’s own funds. Founded in 2015 read more

    Uniphy lands £3M to roll out smart surfaces for in-vehicle controls
  • Juo secures €4M to expand its platform for physical product subscriptions

    Juo, a Warsaw-based startup building technology for physical product subscriptions, has raised €4 million in seed funding. The round was led by Market One Capital and Peak, with participation from SMOK Ventures, BADideas, FJ Labs, and Lakestar, bringing the company’s total funding to around €5 million. The subscription economy has transformed how consumers purchase and read more

    Juo secures €4M to expand its platform for physical product subscriptions
  • India's gig workers win legal status, but access to social security remains elusive | TechCrunch

    India has granted legal status to millions of gig and platform workers under its newly implemented labor laws, marking a milestone for the country’s delivery, ride-hailing and e-commerce workforce — yet with benefits still unclear and platforms beginning to assess their obligations, access to social security remains out of reach. The recognition stems from the read more

    India's gig workers win legal status, but access to social security remains elusive | TechCrunch
  • GitHub – DotFox/edn.c: A fast, zero-copy EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD acceleration.

    A fast, zero-copy EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD acceleration. EDN (Extensible Data Notation) is a data format similar to JSON, but richer and more extensible. Think of it as “JSON with superpowers”: JSON-like foundation: Maps {:key value}, vectors [1 2 3], strings, numbers, booleans, null (nil) Additional built-in types: Sets read more

  • Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India's next AI breakouts | TechCrunch

    Google has partnered with Accel to find and fund India’s earliest-stage AI startups in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier this year. On Tuesday, Accel and Google announced a partnership to jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through Accel’s Atoms program, with both firms contributing up to read more

    Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India's next AI breakouts | TechCrunch
  • New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture Transition Committee

    New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to lead the city earlier this month, has named an arts and culture transition committee. The 28-member group includes curators, art dealers, journalists, and arts and nonprofit administrators. It ranges from Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon read more

    New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture Transition Committee
  • The Analogue3D Is a Retro Gamer’s Dream

    Boot it up and you’re met with its custom operating system, 3Dos. Like the console itself, it takes a strikingly minimalist approach, all precise white pixel text on a stark black background. The OS as a whole is still cooking—more on that later—but it’s already showing signs of being a game archivist’s dream. It builds read more

    The Analogue3D Is a Retro Gamer’s Dream
  • Rad Power Bikes' batteries receive major fire risk warning | TechCrunch

    The batteries that power Rad Power Bikes’ e-bikes “pose a risk of serious injury and death” and owners should stop using them, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The warning, issued Monday by the CSPC, is due to a risk that the batteries can ignite or explode. The CPSC has linked the read more

    Rad Power Bikes' batteries receive major fire risk warning | TechCrunch
  • Tesla FSD software may not be approved by EU regulator after all | TechCrunch

    Tesla may have celebrated a regulatory win in Europe a bit too soon. Tesla claimed in a weekend social media post that Dutch regulator RDW was set to approve the use of its driver assistance system, known as Full Self-Driving, or FSD, in February 2026. The organization handles the licensing and registration of vehicles in read more

    Tesla FSD software may not be approved by EU regulator after all | TechCrunch
  • Depression: not just a disease of the mind

    Multi-omics approaches in female patients with atypical depression with psychotic symptoms The research team simultaneously examined genetic changes in immune cells in the blood and changes in nervous-system-related proteins. The results confirmed a breakdown in the balance of immune-neural interaction in patients with depression. MDD, especially in young women, often presents with atypical symptoms (hypersomnia, read more

    Depression: not just a disease of the mind