Urban mobility leader Cowboy launches Cross, first all-road ebike model
Have you tried your first ebike yet? Despite being surrounded by them on a daily basis in Amsterdam (only mildly bitter as they whizz past me while I struggle against…
Denmark’s new Nvidia AI supercomputer will come online this year
Two of the biggest winners over the past year — chipmaker Nvidia and pharmaceutical drug maker Novo Nordisk — are joining forces to set up one the world’s most advanced…
Iceland eruption: How tech can help predict the next volcanic event
On Saturday, a giant 3-kilometre fissure opened up in the ground on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, sending a river of molten lava flowing across the landscape. The eruption is…
“Something felt ‘off’” — how AI messed with our human research
All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as TLDRthis will summarise it…
How hydrofoil boat startup Candela took a wild idea and made it fly
In 1906, inventor Enrico Forlanini launched the first hydrofoil boat on Lake Maggiore in the Italian alps. His contemporary innovator Alexander Bell later said a ride on Forlanini’s invention was…
This little carbon-sucking machine could crack DAC’s big energy problem
Direct air capture (DAC) features prominently in the climate plans of many world governments, and has drawn billions of dollars in private investment. And yet, as the costs of the…
Riddled with debt, Sweden’s Embracer sells Star Wars game maker for $500M
Swedish gaming company Embracer Group has sold a big chunk of one of its biggest subsidiaries, US-headquartered Saber Interactive, in a deal totalling $500mn. The buyer is Beacon Interactive, a…
ASML backs €110M Dutch deeptech fund for quantum, semiconductors
The pride and joy of the Dutch tech ecosystem, ASML, has featured heavily in the news this past couple of weeks, after news broke the government was scrambling to keep…
UK fusion startup trials plasma-stabilising laser for ‘holy grail’ of energy
British startup Tokamak Energy is testing a new type of laser that it says is “crucial” to stabilising fusion reactions — the same atom-fusing process that powers the Sun and…
French MoD taps 5 startups to develop fault-tolerant quantum computer
Quantum computers have an almost mythical status among data scientists and researchers. The dream of emerging out of the NISQ (noisy intermediate-scale quantum) era into a world of fault-tolerant qubits…
‘French scar’ leaves another mark on TikTok’s painful week
TikTok’s rough week in the west went from bad to worse today when Italian authorities slapped the app with a €10mn fine over a viral challenge called the “French scar.”…
Dutch startup TheyDo bags $34M to solve ‘biggest business problem of the century’
Dutch startup TheyDo has raised $34mn to solve “the biggest business problem” of the century: scaling customer journeys. Founded in 2019, the company produces a live platform that provides actionable…