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Hosel raises £500K pre-seed to create the "Vinted for golf"
Golf tech startup Hosel is aiming to take a swing at a global second-hand club, equipment, and accessory market valued at $3 billion. Ascension VC has led a pre-seed £500,000 investment round, with a further institutional round and US expansion planned later this year. With a growing trend among golfers seeking “nearly new” golf clubs, read more
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How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier?
The second difference is the equal sign instead of less-than-or-equal. This means the frictional force is constant as long as the object is sliding—it doesn’t equal the applied force anymore. That means the net force isn’t zero. Push harder on the chair by running and the chair will speed up. Let’s go back to that read more
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Use Microsoft PC Manager to Speed Up Your Windows 11 Computer
Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over that time it’s managed to gather all kinds of add-ons, companion apps, and utilities that you may not necessarily have discovered. Some of these are made by Microsoft itself. There’s Microsoft PowerToys, for example, which lets you tweak everything from read more
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Apple Now Makes One in Four iPhones in India
Apple boosted iPhone production in India by around 53 percent last year and now makes a quarter of its flagship devices there to avoid tariffs on China, reports Bloomberg ($). Apple assembled about 55 million iPhones in the country across 2025, up from 36 million a year earlier, according to the publication’s sources. The shift read more
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Inter IKEA Group backs Seprify’s €13.4M Series A to scale cellulose materials platform
Swiss bio-materials companySeprifytoday announced that it has raised €13.4 million in Series A funding to scale their cellulose-based alternative to titanium dioxide used across cosmetics, food and coatings. The investment is backed by Inter IKEA Group and also includes participation from investors Una Terra Early Growth Fund, Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Kickfund, and read more
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BioInnovation Institute adds 11 startups to Venture Lab cohort
BioInnovation Institute (BII), a Copenhagen-based non-profit innovation hub established by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is supporting 11 companies through its 12-month Venture Lab programme. Each company receives €500,000 in convertible loan funding, along with access to laboratory infrastructure, mentorship, business expertise, and BII’s investor network of more than 200 national and international investors. BII supports read more
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This Slick Little Music Box Can Vibe Out Any Living Room
The Wiim Amp Ultra aims to fix this issue, catering to those after a bit more than just worry-free performance at a very nice price. On that front it proved an immediate success, providing noticeably cleaner, more expansive stereo sound than the Amp Pro I’ve had at the center of my living room for the read more
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Yann LeCun’s Paris-based AI world model startup raises more than $1BN
Yann LeCun’s much-anticipated new startup, which is developing alternative AI models to large language models (LLMs), has raised more than $1bn in Europe’s largest-ever seed funding round, it has confirmed today. Announcing the funding round, LeCun, the former Meta chief AI scientist and Turing prize winner, said: “We just completed our seed round, one of read more
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Mantle8 awarded €2.06M EU grant for natural hydrogen platform
Mantle8, a European natural hydrogen exploration company, has received a €2.06 million grant from the European Union’s Just Transition Fund to support the development of itsnatural hydrogen exploration technology platform in Grenoble. Founded in 2024 by Emmanuel Masini, Mantle8 develops geoscience-based technologies designed to identify potential natural hydrogen resources and analyse hydrogen-generating systems in the read more
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Escape secures $18M Series A to develop AI cybersecurity agents
Escape, an offensive security engineering platform, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round to develop AI agents designed to automate the security lifecycle. The round was led by Balderton, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator. Advances in AI have shortened the time between code deployment and read more
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Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models. LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not language, and that AI world models are necessary to develop true read more
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Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The chipmaker has been pitching the product, referred to as NemoClaw, to enterprise software companies. The platform will allow these companies to dispatch AI agents to perform tasks for their own workforces. Companies will be able read more
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Electric air taxis are about to take flight in 26 states | TechCrunch
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved eight pilot programs that will allow a handful of companies, including Archer Aviation, Beta Technologies, Joby Aviation, and Wisk to start widespread electric aircraft testing as early as this summer. The three-year program, which will span 26 states, is designed to ensure U.S. companies lead the way in next-gen read more
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down | TechCrunch
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down from the top leadership position and transitioning to a new role as chief innovation officer, the company announced Monday. Graber, who has helped grow the X and Threads competitor to 43 million users and furthered the development of its underlying AT Protocol, will be replaced by Toni Schneider read more
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‘Flying Cars’ Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer
New kinds of aircraft, sorts of “flying cars” that can take off and land with little space like helicopters but function like airplanes, will start operating in US airspace as early as June, the US Department of Transportation announced on Monday. Eight regions across the US, including New York and New Jersey, Texas, Florida, and read more
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Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes
News Joumana Asseily said she temporarily closed her gallery in Beirut amid evacuation orders last week Marfa’ Projects’ current exhibition of Lebanese filmmaker Rania Stephan’s work (image courtesy Joumana Asseily) Amid Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, which has already displaced an estimated half a million people in the days since the US-led assault on Iran began, read more
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It looks like the DOJ isn't going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster | TechCrunch
After a high-profile antitrust lawsuit, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday that it has tentatively settled with Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation. After merging in 2010, the combined Live Nation and Ticketmaster control the majority of ticket sales and venue bookings in the U.S., leaving talent little choice but to work with these read more
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Periwinkle is making self-hosted social media on Bluesky's AT Protocol even easier | TechCrunch
The Berlin-based startup Periwinkle is offering a new avenue for those wanting to leave centralized social media operated by Big Tech companies. Instead of joining a decentralized, open social networking app like Mastodon or Bluesky, Periwinkle allows anyone to set up a social media account on their own domain, under their own control. Built on read more
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Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code | TechCrunch
When it comes to coding, peer feedback is crucial for catching bugs early, maintaining consistency across a codebase, and improving overall software quality. The rise of “vibe coding” — using AI tools that take instructions given in plain language and quickly generate large amounts of code — has changed how developers work. While these tools read more
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