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Finlands vast green forests are famously restorative. So restorative that they can even treat diseases. Thats according toUute Scientific, a biotech firm based in Helsinki. The company has created a unique remedy: a microbial extract that replicates Finnish nature. Today, thestartuprevealed new evidence of the organisms powers. The extract targets a growing health problem. Immune systems, Uute says, are being weakened by urbanisation and oversanitation. As a result, city dwellers have higher rates of many allergic, inflammatory, and auto-immune diseases....

AI startup Poolside has raised a whopping $500mn and it still hasnt even launcheda product. Despite the barren release schedule, the company has become an investors darling. The new Series B round brings Poolsides total funding to$626mn. Its valuation now stands ata cool$3bn. The cash magnet is a AI-powered coding. Poolside has developed its own language model, which promises to accelerate software development. The company also boasts two eye-catching co-founders....

Six-fingeredgloves have been sent to global leaders as a chilling reminder of AI dangers. The gloves symbolise a disturbing digital problem: image generators giving peopleextra fingers. The petrifying pictures have now been brought to life by Finnish startup Saidot. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. After stitching the gruesome garments, Saidot posted them to tech luminaries, politicians, and celebrities. OpenAIs Sam Altman was sent a pair as a demand to align AI with human values....

Amsterdam-based Lapsi Health is looking to firmly position itself in the rapidly-evolving market of smart medical devices. These functionalities are available on the stethoscopes app and web-based platform. 40% off TNW Conference! Lapsi Health is also developing Ilo, a wearable for fetal health tracking, designed for pregnant women. Another upcoming product, called Air, is a wearable designed for lung tracking. The tools are currently at the validation and prototype stage, respectively....

London-based scaleup Huma announced today the expansion of its digital healthcare solutions with the acquisition of eConsult. This is one of the UKs largest digital triage and consultation platforms across primary and emergency care. Founded in 2011, Huma works with healthcare providers and big pharma to improve clinical outcomes with digital solutions. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. According to Huma, over two-thirds of primary and secondary care providers in the UK already use its solutions....

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The reason was to welcome the first IBM Heron processor to be installed outside of the US. The tech giants most powerful quantum processor to date, Heron has 156 superconducting physical qubits. The key for the Heron is that now we are focusing on the quality of the gates. 40% off TNW Conference! Their accuracy directly impacts the overall error rate of a quantum system. There is this great surfacing of new codes in error correction....

DeepL opened its first US office, in Austin, Texas, earlier this year. 40% off TNW Conference! Translate isnt the core business of Google its one of the 100 side gigs KutylowskitoldTNW in a previous interview. Were focused on one particular area. 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. Also tagged with

Imagine a future where internet connections are not only lightning-fast but also remarkably reliable, even in crowded spaces. This vision is rapidly approaching reality, thanks to new research on terahertz communications technologies. Im an engineer whofocuses on photonics, the study of how light and otherelectromagnetic waves are generated and detected. In this research, my colleagues and I have developed a silicontopological beamformer chip. Terahertz frequencies are crucial for 6G, which telecommunications companiesplan to roll out around 2030....

Microsoft has partnered with medical note takingsoftwarestartup Autoscriber to further scale the latters software across the EMEA region. This reduces the time doctors need to spend on admin by 20% to 50%. In actual time, this equals approximately five minutes per consultation. In addition, easing administrative burdens can help reduce burnout among medical personnel. Autoscriber also says its ACI tool results in more complete notes for the healthcare system. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

Gone are the days of elite footballersbuying pubs. Todays star players prefer to put their money into tech. Kylian Mbappe is one of the new generations leaders. The luxury brand has an ambitious business plan. Over the next few years, the company plans to increase annual revenues from 60mn to 300mn. Mbappes investment aims to accelerate these ambitions. His 10% holding could also support a mooted IPO,Bloomberg reports. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

Dubai is a city on the rise. Alongside itsprolonged economic success, the city has also becomea havenfor startups and the tech sector in general. For Europeanstartupslooking to expand and grow, this can be off putting. Why should startups seriously consider Dubai? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. This is far from the only reason for European startups to consider expanding into the UAE though. This isnt the only initiative in this vein either....

What do the Rothschilds, big wave surfing, and cows have in common? A Portuguese man by the name of Francisco Roque de Pinho, of course. Francisco used to be a banker at Rothschild,the most famous of European banking dynasties. For the past eight years hes been quietly operating an investment firm funding sustainable cattle grazing in South America. In his spare time, hesout conqueringthe worlds biggest surfable waves in Nazare, Portugal....