Financial Times: Sources: UK PM Rishi Sunak met Arm CEO Rene Haas and Masayoshi Son to revive efforts to secure a London listing for Cambridge-based Arm’s IPO alongside New York — Officials and London Stock Exchange face uphill battle to secure UK role for chip designer’s IPO
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: London-based insurance broker Superscript, which offers a “self-serve” platform for SMEs, sole traders, and others, raised a £45M Series B led by BHL UK — Superscript, an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million …
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope has been operating for less than a year, but already it’s causing astronomers to rethink some long-held beliefs about the early universe. A team from the University of Texas has used NASA’s new space telescope to take a peek at some extremely distant, and therefore ancient, galaxies. Webb’s extraordinary clarity
Read MoreNikkei Asia: People’s Bank of China official Guo Shuqing says the government’s two-year clampdown on financial units at Alibaba, Tencent, Didi, and others is winding down — Alibaba, Tencent, Didi and Meituan can expect normalized supervision — China’s more than two-year clampdown on its sprawling internet sector …
Read MoreA new report indicates that Apple’s biggest iPhone supplier has already kickstarted production on the iPhone 15.
Read MorePatricia Allen / EU-Startups: UK-based Oxford Ionics, which is using trapped ions to scale quantum computing, raised a £30M Series A led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Braavos — UK-based tech startup Oxford Ionics has just raised over €34 million to unlock a more powerful future for quantum computing.
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Read MoreIan Smith / Financial Times: UK-based insurer Beazley launches the first cyber catastrophe bond, typically used for hurricanes and extreme weather, as the industry combats ransomware claim — Template eyed as source of capital for area of insurance in high demand — Lloyd’s of London insurer Beazley has launched …
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: Taiwanese lawmakers pass rules letting domestic chip companies convert 25% of their annual R&D expenses into tax credits; TSMC’s stock rises 4%+ — Taiwanese lawmakers have passed new rules that let local chip firms turn 25% of their annual research and development expenses into tax credits …
Read MoreAs much as we’d love a TV show version of the cult classic movie, we’re talking about a different kind of Spaceball. While there have been many iterations, [Evan] had a Spaceball built by a company known as Spacetec in 1991 and rebranded by HP. Being an older peripheral, he used the Orbotron 9001, a
Read MoreWe had the opportunity to interview Paul Lee at CES 2023, who is the Chief Global Business Officer at Asleep. The company is based in South Korea and is on a mission to improve sleep tracking with their solution in a much more convenient way than we’re used to. Mr. Lee explained in detail how
Read MoreCredit: LG We saw a bunch of cool tech at CES 2023, and as always, smart kitchen appliances were right at the forefront of it all. From smart cutting boards to AI ovens, a color-changing party fridge, smart mixers, and more, we saw it all, and it got us thinking — just how many of
Read MoreThe new Camera Module 3. | Image: Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi is launching a new camera module for use with its diminutive DIY computers — the Camera Module 3. Its upgraded Sony IMX708 sensor is higher resolution, but perhaps more important is that the new module supports high dynamic range photography and autofocus. Alongside it,
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Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Samsung has enabled Matter Easy Pair on Galaxy Phones via its Nearby Device Scanning app. Galaxy users will now see a pop-up when a Matter-enabled device is nearby. Samsung is updating its Nearby Device Scanning feature with the ability to recognize Matter-enabled devices. Galaxy Phones will now be
Read More[Evan] already had a working ADM-3A (a dumb terminal from 1976) but was starting to eye the accessories hungrily. He had only seen the numpad on Wikipedia and in the manual. So when he found some authentic stackpole numpads on a surplus sale, he grabbed them and converted them to be ADM-3A compatible. Looking at
Read MoreAfter a brief explosion around 2016, VR quickly faded into the background. It’s not that it went away, but some of the hype died down. This started to change beginning with the Meta Quest 2 launch in 2020. More recently, Sony announced its PSVR 2, and then there was Meta late last year with the
Read MoreCredit: Smartprix The RAM and storage options for the Galaxy S23 series have leaked. The Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Ultra might get a base storage bump. The names of the official colorways have also leaked. Samsung may have accidentally leaked the launch date of the Galaxy S23 series, but the specs of the
Read MoreIn just a few decades, mobile phones have gone from being a luxury reserved for the elite to an essential tool for billions of users. From the first in-car phones of the 1940s to the best smartphones of today, the evolution of cell phones is nothing short of remarkable. To that end, let’s take a
Read MoreElizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit congress and supreme court buildings — Researchers detected a surge in violent rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting
Read MoreA year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project and published a video with a summary of the whole build process (also linked below). The full video series can be
Read MoreAggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine boosted European investments in dual-use tech like autonomous drones, rockets for satellites, and more — European tech companies that work with the defense industry, long an investment taboo for many venture capital firms, are drawing record amounts of funding in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Read MoreApple is apparently not going to release any major upgrades to Apple Watch, iPad, AirPods, or Apple TV in 2023, says Mark Gurman.
Read MoreSomething odd is afoot in the mountains around Salt Lake City, Utah, at least according to local media reports of remote radio installations that have been popping up for at least the past year. The installations consist of a large-ish solar panel, a weatherproof box full of batteries — and presumably other electronics, including radios
Read MoreNaomi Nix / Washington Post: Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week — The platform cut Trump’s indefinite suspension to two years at the urging of its Oversight Board. But that doesn’t mean he’s coming
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