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- ‘Just like meaty sausages!’ Europe hosts first cultivated meat tastingby Thomas Macaulay on 18 April 2024 at 15:09
Dutch startup Meatable has hosted the first legally approved tasting of cultivated meat in Europe. On the menu was a lab-grown pork sausage. Meatable says the produce is “indistinguishable” from traditional meat, but causes no harm to animals or the environment. To replicate the flavours and […]
- 4 in 10 translators are losing work to AI. They want remuneration from devsby Thomas Macaulay on 18 April 2024 at 11:54
AI threatens to decimate the translation profession, according to a new survey by a British union. Almost four in ten translators (36%) said they’ve already lost work due to generative AI. Nearly half of them (43%) said the tech has decreased their income. They fear far worse is to come. Over […]
- The UK’s second commercial quantum computer has come onlineby Linnea Ahlgren on 18 April 2024 at 10:56
California-based quantum circuitry company Rigetti has brought a commercially available quantum computer to the UK. Only the second in the country, it was installed in collaboration with Oxford Instruments NanoScience — a cryogenics company that provides the cooling needed for superconducting […]
- TNW Podcast: Caroline Viarouge on EIT Manufacturing and EU-UK collaborationby Andrii Degeler on 17 April 2024 at 19:08
Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about artificial general […]
- China still ASML’s biggest market, but falling sales cause drop in profitby Ioanna Lykiardopoulou on 17 April 2024 at 15:00
Amid the semiconductor industry’s slowdown and increasing geopolitical tensions, Dutch chip machine-maker ASML reported a decrease both in sales and profits. Europe’s most valuable tech company saw orders fall to €3.6bn in the first quarter of 2024, down from €9.2bn in the previous quarter. […]
- In biggest-ever election year, tech platforms are wide open for voter manipulationby Thomas Macaulay on 17 April 2024 at 14:16
Under orders from the EU, tech giants have launched 11 advertising transparency tools. None of them are fit for purpose, according to a new study from Mozilla. The tools provide libraries of data about online adverts. By exploring the repositories, researchers can identify the funders and […]
- Air taxi firm raises $110M, plans to launch commercial service in 2026by Thomas Macaulay on 17 April 2024 at 09:27
A British drone maker plans to launch air taxis in 2026 after raising a whopping $110mn. Skyports has already flown electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on delivery and monitoring trials. The new funding brings commercial air taxis closer to the services on offer. The first […]
- Tree-planting search engine Ecosia to monitor reforestation from spaceby Siôn Geschwindt on 17 April 2024 at 06:00
Berlin-based Ecosia, best known as the tree-planting search engine, has teamed up with French startup Kanop to monitor its reforestation efforts from space. With around 20 million users, Ecosia is the world’s largest not-for-profit search engine. It is also one of the biggest tree-planters in the […]
- Google will outpace Microsoft in AI investment, DeepMind CEO saysby Linnea Ahlgren on 16 April 2024 at 16:30
We have all been guilty of falling under the foundation model spell of the past year-and-a-half, initiated by OpenAI’s unveiling of ChatGPT to the public. But it is not only where large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are concerned that incredible progress has been made in the field of […]
- Dutch deep tech fund for photonics startups reaches €75M after second closeby Ioanna Lykiardopoulou on 16 April 2024 at 16:02
PhotonVentures, a Dutch deep tech fund aiming to boost Europe’s photonics industry, has closed its second fundraising round with over €15mn — bringing its total capital to €75mn. The fund targets startups and scaleups developing solutions with photonic chips for a wide range of […]