New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate
Imagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records
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Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales
His Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service has banned Meta smart glasses from court buildings across England and Wales, a move that pulls one of Silicon
Bumble is letting men make the first move, dismantling the rule it was built on
Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to
His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company
A co-founder of xAI is going all in on building open-source artificial intelligence so that “anyone can control and shape A.I. for their own needs.”
How Social Media Sparked a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in
Nick Blair seeks $200m for pre-launch defence-tech startup Pyra
Nick Blair, a son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, is trying to raise around $200m for a defence-tech startup that has not yet
HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks
HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and
AI finds so many Windows flaws, Microsoft can’t keep up. Should you worry?
Be careful what you wish for. That’s what Microsoft found out recently when it discovered that AI — rather than making Windows more secure by
Meta’s local AI model prompts enterprises to rethink hardware-software cost trade-off
Meta rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU on Monday, offering a way
Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance
A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios
AquaNab raises funding to fight salmon’s $4bn sea lice problem with alpaca nanoantibodies
Hamburg biotech is taking an unusual shot at salmon farming’s most expensive pest, and it starts with an alpaca. AquaNab is developing tiny antibodies, derived
Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist
Tweety McTreason signed an executive order Monday that makes sweeping, unilateral changes to federal vaccine recommendations. The order aims to reduce the number of lifesaving
Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the
Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.
Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics