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TheUKuniversity spinout ecosystem is flourishing, with1,116active companies as of January 2023. According to data fromBeauhurst, between 2013 and 2022, academic institutions took an average stake of 23.9%. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. UK universities tend to retain more than double the amount of equity compared to their European counterparts. This disparity is even higher for US university spinouts, said Ekaterina Almasque, General Partner at OpenOcean VC. Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW....

The five long-term moonshots werelaunched todayby the British government. The first aims to buildquantum computersthat can run 1 trillion operations by 2035. Another with a deadline for that year is deploying the worlds most advancedquantumnetwork at scale. This initiative aims to pioneer the future quantum internet. Three other projects have an earlier target date of 2030. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The second intends to equip aircraft with quantum navigation systems....

The Baseball Hall Of Fame ballot is out! This is one of my favorite days of the off-season. I love looking at the new players on the list and looking at the guys that will get in. Seeing James Shields on this list brings me actual joy. People I’d vote for are in bold (sorry James Shields). This is not a bad ballot. You have an automatic first ballot Hall of Famer inAdrian Beltre....

Speaking a foreign language often comes with a fear of performance. What if you pronounce words wrong? What if your mind freezes? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. When activating the feature, users are asked to speak directly into their gadget when prompted. It then provides users with tailored, visual feedback. This is a bit of a catch 22 and is why we have launched the Everyday Conversations feature....

The land of the brave, its very name means valiance. But if a recent four-day week pilot programme is pursued, it may soon be even better. Earlier this year Valencia became the first city in the world to trial a four-day working week. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. For a number of weeks in April and May, employees across the city undertook a shorter working week. Overall, people reported a greater sense of health and well-being and less stress....

Daily Mail-This is the moment stunned plane passengers looked on in awe after paramedics helped a woman give birth while she was onboard the aircraft. Footage from the plane, filmed earlier this month, shows a paramedic briskly walking through the plane carrying the newborn baby at Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. The drama unfolded as the Pegasus Airlines plane was making final preparations for take-off for a flight to Marseille in France....

So now that the Celts return from their trip 3-1, everything’s good right? Eh, sort of. Big picture, yeah things are good. At 11-3, the Celts still own the best record in the NBA. Going 3-1 on a road trip with wins over PHI while missing two starters was nice. But it’s how the Celts ended the trip that leaves you annoyed. Sometimes it’s not always only about the result, but also how you looked....

These agents will act like roboticpersonal assistants. Were not talking about simple automation or the removal of repetitive tasks, explained founder Ed Broussard. This is a huge departure from whats currently on the market. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Tomoro aims toaccelerate workplace efficiency at large corporations by up to eight times the current rate. Having launched just this week, the company has already secured its first client, British insurance firm PremFina....

These four spacecraft will constitute the first batch of the constellation. Open Cosmos will co-fund the satellites development, backed by an additional 3mn from the UK Space Agency. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The startup is planning five more launches by March and raised an additional 50mn during itslatest funding roundin September. Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies....

Let’s start with a few basics. First, a thank-you to the steady-handed camera person who appears to have the latest iPhone. What clarity, what grace under pressure. Exactly the cinematographic oversight needed to present this tale of street combat. Now on to the show… Act I: “Ladies, like!” In a shocking development, this all appears to start because of a couple unruly ladies. There are two women of interest here....

This whole Sam Altman saga over at Open AI/Microsoft has really tugged on the heartstrings. That’s a 96% loyalty rate! Brings a tear to the eye. Now pack your fish tanks and dust off those resumes! Clearly that won’t happen given that he owns the company himself. But hypothetically, if Barstool had a board? (Does Barstool have a board?) And that board thought to tell Dave he was no longer fit to rule?...

I started covering this trial shortly after I started posting blogs here. It’s crazy to think this kicked off three years ago and just wrapped up this morning. This may not be a huge deal here in America, but it is huge news in Europe. Mainly because the ‘Ndregheta is responsible for 80% of all of Europe’s hard drugs. These guys did major numbers. We’re talking nation-state GDP-bang out numbers....

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as those used in chatbots have an alarmingtendency to hallucinate. That is, to generate false content that they present as accurate. LLMs are currently treated as knowledge sources and generate information in response to questions or prompts. But the data theyre trained on isnt necessarily factually correct. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. LLMs will undoubtedly assist with scientific workflows, according to the Oxford professors....