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  • Antiverse secures $9.3M Series A for AI antibody platform

    UK-based Antiverse, a biotech company developing AI-designed therapeutic antibodies for hard-to-target disease targets, has closed a $9.3 million Series A round led by Soulmates Ventures, with participation from Innovation Investment Capital, DOMiNO Ventures and existing investors DBW, Kadmos Capital and i&i Biotech Fund. The financing brings Antiverse’s total capital raised to more than $20 million. read more

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    Antiverse secures .3M Series A for AI antibody platform

  • Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Major Gift of Stephen Shore Photographs

    The Vancouver Art Gallery announced this week that it has received a gift of more than 800 works from American photographer Stephen Shore’s series “Uncommon Places.” The donation comes from the Vancouver-based Chan family, which has long supported the museum. Taken on road trips across North America between 1973 and 1981, “Uncommon Places” is considered read more

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  • Tired of Typing? These Are the Best Ergonomic Keyboards I’ve Found

    While there are countless types of ergonomic keyboards, the most common are typically going to be angled keyboards and split keyboards. Angled keyboards, often referred to as “Alice”-style keyboards in the mechanical keyboard world (named after the TGR Alice), split the alphanumeric keys along the middle, positioning the two halves at an angle from one read more

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    Tired of Typing? These Are the Best Ergonomic Keyboards I’ve Found

  • Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring Is Coming. We Explain What It Is and How to Use It

    The Apple Watch is not calibrated with a cuff. It takes 30 days of cardiac data from the existing optical PPG sensors, analyzes it, and gives you a probability that you might have hypertension. It’s also significant that this is the first year that the Apple Watch has had a true 24 hours of battery read more

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    Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring Is Coming. We Explain What It Is and How to Use It

  • BioInnovation Institute backs five startups with €1.3M in follow-on funding

    BioInnovation Institute (BII), an initiative of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, has awarded an additional €1.3 million in follow-on funding to five portfolio startups,bringing total support per company to up to €1.8 million. The funding is intended to support product development, operational scaling and progress toward market deployment across healthtech, agritech, climatetech and deeptech. The announcement read more

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    BioInnovation Institute backs five startups with €1.3M in follow-on funding

  • All the Ways Big Tech Fuels ICE and CBP

    ICE has also purchased at least one “customized” training session for staff on using Microsoft Teams. Details on FPDS revealed that the training would be focused on developing “documents” for the management office of the 287(g) program, which deputizes enrolled state and local agencies to work with ICE. “Automated documents” are also mentioned, but nothing read more

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    All the Ways Big Tech Fuels ICE and CBP

  • Art Spring in NYC

    Daily Newsletter The best shows to see across the city this season, SVA shuts down curatorial practices program, Art Crossword, March opportunities, and more. Enough with those filthy glaciers on our sidewalks — the Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide is here! With 70-plus shows, it’s all you need to know about the major read more

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    Art Spring in NYC

  • The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone

    The invention that turned Apple into a world-beating, billion-selling, society-changing colossus was not a laptop or a music player; it was the iPhone. It seemed to appear in 2007, fully formed, beautifully conceived, self-assured, and conceptually obvious. But behind the scenes, the iPhone we know today was made possible by more than bold bets, fanatical read more

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    The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone

  • Bindbridge raises $3.8M for next-generation crop protection

    Cambridge-based Bindbridge has secured $3.8 million in early-stage funding from Speedinvest and Nucleus Capital to advance next-generation crop protection aimed at improving crop resilience and agricultural productivity. Traditional crop protection methods face growing constraints due to environmental persistence, human health concerns and rising herbicide resistance, leaving farmers with fewer effective options as global food demand read more

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    Bindbridge raises .8M for next-generation crop protection

  • Why Missile Alerts and War Updates Trigger Doomscrolling

    As missiles crossed the Persian Gulf this weekend and explosions were reported across the region, millions of people did the same thing: They reached for their phones. Within minutes, social media feeds filled with videos, breaking news alerts, and speculation about what might happen next. The strikes followed the US-Israel attacks inside Iran earlier in read more

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    Why Missile Alerts and War Updates Trigger Doomscrolling

  • Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Details Her Pointed Work on the Cover of Art in America

    In many ways, the confrontational cover of this issue needs no explanation: Lady Liberty is dead. But when A.i.A. sat down with the artist Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) to talk about her sculpture Liberté Morte (Dead Liberty),2025, she shared an enlightening story about how the work extends the lineage of her lexicon. In 2016, read more

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    Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Details Her Pointed Work on the Cover of Art in America

  • baCta secures €7M to advance programmable microbial factories

    Paris-based baCta, an industrial biotech startup developing an AI-powered bioproduction platform for industrial ingredients, has closed a €7 million seed funding round led by LocalGlobe and Daphni, with participation from OVNI Capital and several business angels, including founders of Phagos, Genomines and Mistral AI. Read our earlier interview with Mathieu Nohet, CEO and co-founder of read more

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    baCta secures €7M to advance programmable microbial factories

  • U.S. death toll in Iran war rises to 6 — live updates

      The head of the United Nations’s nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, said Monday that his agency had “no indication” that any of Iran’s nuclear installations had been damaged by the ongoing Israeli-U.S. strikes on the country. IAEA director general Rafael Grossi warned, however, that with missiles still flying a “possible radiological release with serious read more

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    U.S. death toll in Iran war rises to 6 — live updates

  • Qura secures €1.5M to rethink health management in Europe

    Milan-based Qura, an AI-powered full-stack health platform, has closed a €1.5 million pre-seed round led by United Ventures, with participation from Vento, Italian Angels for Growth (IAG) and several individual angel investors. An estimated one in five adults experiences persistent subclinical symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, hormonal imbalances, digestive issues or unexplained hair loss, that read more

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    Qura secures €1.5M to rethink health management in Europe

  • Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to tackle potato late blight in Europe

    Mycoverse, an agritech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) developing fungal-based biological crop protection, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed equity funding. The round was co-led by Future Food Fund and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from PINC, the venture arm of Paulig, bringing the company’s total funding to €4.3 million. The crop read more

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    Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to tackle potato late blight in Europe

  • Flink lands $100M to advance targeted expansion

    Berlin-based Flink, a quick commerce operator active in Germany and the Netherlands, has secured around $100 million in new growth capital. The round was led by Prosus and other existing investors, with Btomorrow Ventures, the corporate venture arm of BAT, also participating. Founded in 2021, the company operates a network of local fulfilment hubs that read more

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    Flink lands 0M to advance targeted expansion

  • Open Cosmos plans European rival to Starlink

      An Oxford-headquartered spacetech startup says it’s gearing up to manufacture up to 200 satellites a year, as it looks to offer European governments and businesses an alternative communication channel to Elon Musk’s Starlink. Open Cosmos is launching a satellite network, called ConnectedCosmos, that will provide sovereign communication as an alternative to “transcontinental mega-constellations”, the read more

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    Open Cosmos plans European rival to Starlink

  • Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue

      The AI coding assistant Cursor has surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue, according to a Bloomberg source. This individual says the four-year-old startup saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months. The disclosure appears timed to counter a recent wave of skepticism. Last week, tweets went viral questioning whether Cursor’s momentum read more

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    Cursor has reportedly surpassed B in annualized revenue

  • Apple releases watchOS, tvOS and visionOS 26.4 betas

      Apple today provided developers with the third betas of upcoming watchOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, and visionOS 26.4 betas for testing purposes. The software comes a week after Apple released the second betas. The software updates are available through the Settings app on each device, and because these are developer betas, a free developer account read more

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    Apple releases watchOS, tvOS and visionOS 26.4 betas

  • What metallic device is Joe Gebbia using?

      Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb and the US chief design officer appointed by President Trump, was spotted in San Francisco today using a mysterious metallic device. In a social media post on X viewed more than 500,000 times, a man who looks like Gebbia sits with an espresso at a coffee shop. He’s wearing read more

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    What metallic device is Joe Gebbia using?