In pictures: Heart Aerospace unveils 30-seater electric aircraft prototype

It is set to be the largest electric plane to ever take to the skies. 40% off TNW Conference! Thishybrid-electric 30-passenger airliner will havea range of around 200km. And if needed, a reserve engine will boost the range to a maximum of 800km. Scandinavian carrier SAS already startedselling ticketsfor the first electric flights on the ES-30 last year. The exact flight destination is yet to be finalised, said Forslund during yesterdays presentation....

September 13, 2024 · 1 min · 123 words · Mitchell Hawkins Jr.

Is AI killing fantasy football? To find out, I let it manage my team

Every week, millions of adults pretend that theyre football managers. I know this because I am one of them. With a budget of 100 million (digital) pounds, we build virtual squads of footballers. If their real-life counterparts play well, we win points. By the end of the season, the team with the most points wins. Butwhatexactly do they win? Well, that depends on whom you ask. But most of us fight for a far greater honour: bragging rights....

September 13, 2024 · 7 min · 1431 words · Kara Walters

25 startups enter UK late-stage accelerator on the journey to IPO

Future Fifty supports startups from the Series B to the IPO stage and beyond. Since its launch in 2013, it counts alumni such asRevolut,Monzo, and Skyscanner. And they need to have successfully raised Series B funding. 40% off TNW Conference! Theyre active in various tech sectors, including healthtech, biotech, energy, quantum, and fintech. According to Mayo, the accelerators approach is strongly experiential. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies....

September 12, 2024 · 1 min · 80 words · Cindy Gilbert

4 startup pitch battles not to miss this October

Rather than pitching to individualinvestors, prove your product and teams value in one quick-fire shot. Let potential partners and customers come to you after sharing your innovative idea on stage. Do you have what it takes? This October, there are four pitch battle competitions taking place atExpand North Starin Dubai 13 16 October 2024. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Many of the tool deadlines are ending soon, so move fast to secure your spot!...

September 12, 2024 · 1 min · 186 words · Karen Cook

Ukrainian startup plans to defend companies from disinformation with AI

A Ukrainian startup forged by war is bringing counter-disinformation to the business world. Osavul was founded in 2022 to fight Russian propaganda. To analyse the threats, the company appliedAIanalytics to the information landscape. The startup surveys open-source data from social media, websites, and messaging apps. It then identifies harmful narratives and the sources spreading them. The narratives have diverse forms. Osavul has detectedfake news videosplastered with BBC logos,racial slurshidden by slang, andgenerative AIamplifying Russian propaganda....

September 12, 2024 · 2 min · 336 words · Daniel Caldwell

Depop taps AI to generate listings for clothes from just 1 photo

Fashion appDepop has unveiled new AI gear from the firms tech wardrobe. The second-hand marketplace can now generate an entire listing from a single photo. Launched today, the feature is designed to acceleratethe listing process. All users need to do is upload their image and hit Generate Description. Image recognition and GenAI will then create the listing description. The system will also add various item attributes, from category to colour and brand....

September 11, 2024 · 2 min · 230 words · Angela Wise

Dutch ‘seabed security’ robots have caught the eye of NATO

The company, namedLobster Robotics, develops underwater drones that survey the seas. That data produces high-resolution, interactive, optical seabed maps. Their contents reveal what is normally invisible. 40% off TNW Conference! Users could monitor marine habitats, explore the oceans, or search for sunken treasure. They could also deploy the robots inseabed security a growing concern since the attack on theNord Stream pipelines. After several postponed launches, the team shifted their focus back to Earth....

September 11, 2024 · 2 min · 235 words · Mackenzie Yu

Rotterdam startup aims to improve laparoscopy with turbine tech

However, the use of pressurised CO2 gas comes with aseries of disadvantages, especially in high pressures. Spatium Medicals insufflator promises a solution. The startups patented turbine technology keeps the gas pressure consistently stable. The second process is called reciprocal insufflation. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Spatium Medical says that its solution can improve both patient recovery and surgical outcomes. The company expects to launch it commercially in 2026....

September 11, 2024 · 1 min · 111 words · Christine Montgomery

This Swedish startup wants to pay the flight tracking community using blockchain

One of the most popular pastimes you may or may not have heard about is flight tracking. It is also a goldmine for data. Popular flight tracking websites display the trajectories of tens of thousands of flights per day across their digitised maps. 40% off TNW Conference! The idea is to foster rapid coverage growth and improve data reliability. The rewards are based onperformance, coverage, and uptime. There are also leaderboards that compare the best performing antennas around the world....

September 11, 2024 · 2 min · 275 words · Adam Perez

TNW Podcast: The finances of OnlyFans, quantum accelerators, WeTransfer cuts

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September 11, 2024 · 1 min · 19 words · Amanda Lewis

Cambridge startup analyses ‘multi-omics’ data to discover new heart drugs

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, claiming the lives of17.9 millionpeople each year. CardiaTec aims to address this knowledge gap with a drug discovery platform that leveragesAIto analyse human tissue multi-omics data. These include the genome, the transcriptome, the proteome, and the epigenome. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. CardiaTecs technology uses computational methods to identify and prioritise dysregulated drug targets and pathways associated with the disease....

September 10, 2024 · 1 min · 174 words · Jamie Little

Could new programming language Mojo spark your career in AI and ML?

Those arent great numbers, but negatives are generally countered by positives. Meanwhile others are being built with the specific purpose to help developers ease into the fast-growing AI field. 40% off TNW Conference! Right now, of course, AI is the holy grail tech firms are chasing. Mojo has strengths in areas such as parallel and asynchronous computing, memory safety, and control and interoperability. Mojo isnt yet a mature language. Ready to find a fantastic software engineering job?...

September 10, 2024 · 1 min · 80 words · Lori Miller

EU brings Apple, Google to heel in €15.4B courtroom double-whammy

Thatsroughly equal to Irelands entire annual healthcare budget. But its far from Vestagers only battle with tech giants. Like Apple, Google fought the decision. And like Apple, it lost. This is a developing story. Story bySion Geschwindt Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy. Also tagged with

September 10, 2024 · 1 min · 53 words · Brian Thomas