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  • Tangled raises $4.5M to build Europe’s code infrastructure

      GitHub alternative Tangled has raised a $4.5 million funding round. The code platform offers a primary European alternative to GitHub for developers, providing an open and extensible network built for the next generation of software creation. The funding round was led by byFounders, the community-powered VC firm, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and read more

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    Tangled raises .5M to build Europe’s code infrastructure

  • Outpost Bio raises $3.5M pre-seed for human microbiology models

      Outpost Bio, a company focused on decoding complex interactions in human biology, has raised a $3.5 million pre-seed round co-led by Merantix Capital and Seedcamp, with participation from OpenSeed VC, Defined, and several strategic family offices and angel investors. Human microbiology examines how microbial communities living in and on the body metabolise drugs, process read more

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    Outpost Bio raises .5M pre-seed for human microbiology models

  • Noxon secures seed funding for muscle-computer tech

      Munich-based medtech company Noxon has closed its seed funding round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Bayern Kapital, with participation from Auxxo and another institutional investor. The size of the round was not disclosed. In rehabilitation and the treatment of neuromuscular disorders, muscle diagnostics and activation are typically performed intermittently in clinical settings. As read more

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  • In charts how Donald Trump became a military interventionist

      Time and again, Donald Trump has crowed about the failures and humiliation of US presidents who got bogged down in foreign misadventures, from Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to George W Bush’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq. On Iran, too, Trump has a long memory, musing in recent months about how Jimmy Carter’s 1980 read more

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  • Lenovo’s Latest Wacky Concepts Include a Laptop With a Built-In Portable Monitor

    Do you like having a second screen with your computer setup? What if your laptop could carry a second screen for you? That’s the idea behind Lenovo’s latest proof of concept, the ThinkBook Modular AI PC, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Lenovo is never shy to show off wacky, weird concept laptops. We’ve read more

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    Lenovo’s Latest Wacky Concepts Include a Laptop With a Built-In Portable Monitor

  • Whitney Biennial shifts to infrastructural interventions

    This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. It describes not only the country’s 50 states but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories. Strategically, Immerwahr argues, words like “colony” and “empire” have been evaded by officials since World War II—but that’s read more

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  • Trump’s Iran strikes accelerate drift from dollar dominance

      Donald Trump’s attack on Iran, with its puerile Pentagon nametag Operation Epic Fury, is another show of violent force from a bullish administration. Aside from unleashing fresh instability across the Middle East, the strikes add to the sense of a US operating with little regard for international law or global norms – as with read more

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    Trump’s Iran strikes accelerate drift from dollar dominance

  • Polymarket Sees $529M in Iran Bombing‑Bet Trading

      Prediction market users have made — and profited from — big bets around the bombing of Iran by the U.S. and Israeli military. On Polymarket, $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the attack, according to Bloomberg. An analysis by analytics firm Bubblemaps SA found that six newly-created accounts made read more

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    Polymarket Sees 9M in Iran Bombing‑Bet Trading

  • The 5 Major Unknowns in Trump’s New War With Iran

      More recently, Iran has been a regular adversary in cyberspace—and while it hasn’t demonstrated quite the acuity of Russia or China, Iran is “good at finding ways to maximize the impact of their capabilities,” says Jeff Greene, the former executive assistant director of cybersecurity at CISA. Iran, in particular, famously was responsible for a read more

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    The 5 Major Unknowns in Trump’s New War With Iran

  • Google Tackles RCS Spam in India With Partners

      As persistent spam complaints have clouded Google’s Rich Communication Services (RCS) push in India, the company is turning to deeper carrier integration to bolster protections on the platform. On Sunday, Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator with over 463 million subscribers, said it had partnered with Google to integrate the carrier’s network-level spam filtering read more

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    Google Tackles RCS Spam in India With Partners

  • Anthropic Claude Tops App Store After Pentagon Dispute

      Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. As first reported by CNBC, Claude has been rising to the top of the free app rankings in Apple’s US App Store. On Saturday evening, it overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot, a read more

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    Anthropic Claude Tops App Store After Pentagon Dispute

  • What Happens if Iran Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz?

      The analysis company’s Commodities at Sea monitoring also recorded outbound oil and product flows averaging about 20.4 million barrels per day in February to date, slightly below January levels—evidence that geopolitical tension alone can slow shipments before any physical disruption occurs. “Hormuz risk is not only about closure but also fleet productivity. If Iran read more

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    What Happens if Iran Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz?

  • Honor’s ‘Robot Phone’ With Moving Camera Dances to Music

      Honor first teased its “Robot phone” with a movable camera arm earlier this year. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the Chinese company provided more details about the device, including how the robot can respond to different situations without commands. The company said that it is planning to launch this device read more

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    Honor’s ‘Robot Phone’ With Moving Camera Dances to Music

  • Honor Launches Slim Magic V6 Foldable With 6,600mAh Battery

      Honor launched its new foldable, the Honor Magic V6, with a massive 6,600 mAh battery and a new sturdy hinge ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The Chinese company has been obsessed with proving that it makes the thinnest foldables. This year’s version is 4mm thick when unfolded and 8.75 mm read more

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    Honor Launches Slim Magic V6 Foldable With 6,600mAh Battery

  • SaaSpocalypse Explained: What’s Driving the SaaS Shakeup

      One day not long ago, a founder texted his investor with an update: he was replacing his entire customer service team with Claude Code, an AI tool that can write and deploy software on its own. To Lex Zhao, an investor at One Way Ventures, the message indicated something bigger — the moment when read more

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    SaaSpocalypse Explained: What’s Driving the SaaS Shakeup

  • Backyard Smoker That Even Pitmasters Approve

      While my love of smoked meats is well-documented, my own journey into actually tending the fire started just last spring when I jumped at the opportunity to review the Traeger Woodridge Pro. When Recteq came calling with a similar offer to check out the Flagship 1600, I figured it would be a good way read more

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    Backyard Smoker That Even Pitmasters Approve

  • Maximum’s Billex turns bank notes into furniture

    Money manufacturers the world over are forever contending with counterfeiters. Before the U.K. introduced a new pound coin in 2017, for example, the earlier version was easy enough to fake that there were tens of millions of fraudulent copies in circulation. The same goes for paper bank notes, which over the years have been printed read more

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    Maximum’s Billex turns bank notes into furniture

  • Best Privacy-Friendly Alternatives to Ring Doorbell

      There’s also the risk that footage falls into the wrong hands and ends up enabling politically-motivated investigations, police harassment, or stalking without you intending or even knowing about it. Maybe company employees or third-party contractors gain access to videos, or your cameras are hacked. Amazon settled a privacy lawsuit brought by the FTC that read more

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    Best Privacy-Friendly Alternatives to Ring Doorbell

  • These Are the Best Laser Printers I've Tried

      If you print more than the average person, you may want to consider ditching traditional ink printers for a laser printer at home. Laser printers have a few advantages over inkjet printers, the biggest of which is speed. Because there’s no ink to dry, laser printers generally print much faster. They also tend to read more

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    These Are the Best Laser Printers I've Tried

  • Customize Chrome Toolbar for Maximum Efficiency

      The main job of Google Chrome is to give you a window to the web. With so much engaging content out there on the internet, you may not have given much thought to the browser framework that serves as the container for the sites you visit. You’d be forgiven for still using the default read more

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    Customize Chrome Toolbar for Maximum Efficiency