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The race for semiconductor leadership is on and European chipstartupsare rising to the challenge. Europe is already home to high-profile chip companies including ASML, NXP, Arm, and Infineon. However, it lags behind in manufacturing capacity. The EU is currently producingabout 10%of the worlds semiconductors. The UK accounted for0.5% of chip salesglobally in 2023. The goal is to gain a competitive advantage in next-generation semiconductors. This is also where the continents startups can play a pivotal role....

The internet cables were severed early on Monday morning,saidnetwork provider Netalis on X. Junior Minister for Digital Affairs Marina Ferraricondemnedthe attacks, calling them cowardly and irresponsible. Paris, where most of the Olympic events are taking place, has not been affected. Whether the attacks were intended to disrupt the Games or not is unclear at this time. However, Frances interior minister suggested that therail sabotagemay be connected to far-left activists. It is not yet clear if police are linking the two attacks....

Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with British-American startupZeroAviato develop a liquid hydrogen-powered turboprop aircraft. The partners aim to conduct a flight demonstration between two yet-to-be-named airports in 2026. ZeroAviabuilds hydrogen-electric powertrains that can be retrofitted onto new or existing aircraft. Hydrogen-electric engines use hydrogen in fuel cells to generate electricity. This then powers electric motors that turn the aircrafts propellers. The only emission is water vapour. The engine will be retrofitted to a large regional turboprop, like theATR72or theDash 8 400....

Installing and updating applications and other dependencies on a computer really should be a solved problem by now. Enter Homebrew 40% off TNW Conference! At various points in its history, it was the most popular and contributed-to project on GitHub. There were also times when its popularity and architecture brought the infrastructure it uses to a shuddering halt. In short, if I meet a developer using a Mac, I can almost guarantee theyre using Homebrew....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. This is usually a premium feature. The publisher later removedHines article, but the original version provided potentially identifying information about some of the athletes. Story bySion Geschwindt Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy. Also tagged with

Elon Musk could have yetanother problemwith the European Union. Musks X has enabled the Grok chatbot to be trained on data from any user. This feature is now on by default, which may breach EU rules. Deep within the parameters of X, users unearthed evidence of the data harvesting. This approach could violate the EUs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The law restricts companies from expandingdatacollection without telling users and providing a clear opt-out....

The Paris Olympics 2024 kicked off today. Analysts predict that there could be as many asfour billion cyber attacksat this years Games. The official Paris Olympics 2024 app is particularly vulnerable. The Paris Olympics app has already been downloaded over 10 million times on Google Play. The app also gathers your personal information, including name, address, email, photos, and videos. 40% off TNW Conference! For hackers, thats the allure. Last month, hackers stole the personal details of560 million Ticketmaster customersworldwide....

Thestartuphas developed a 3D-structured ultra-thin copper foil that can simply drop in to existing battery architectures. The so-called current collector minimises internal resistance within a battery, allowing energy to flow more efficiently. This improves capacity, charging time, and battery life. While these benefits apply to all batteries, Addionics is focusing its efforts on the automotive industry. EV-makers and their battery manufacturers are racing to build batteries that charge faster and last longer....

An exercise machine for astronauts has entered an Airbus accelerator. Built by UK startupPhysical Mind London, thedevicemitigates the impacts of zero gravity, which can be brutal. After six months in space, astronauts can lose up to20% of their bone mass. Their muscles can also shrink dramatically. On short flights, they can suffer muscle loss of 20%. If no countermeasures are applied, this can rise to 50%. Physical Mind Londonwants to provide those countermeasures....

The hangar belongs to Heart Aerospace. The Swedishstartupis building a hybrid-electric 30-passenger airliner called the ES-30. It could offer a cleaner, cheaper alternative to short-haul flights on routes across the world. A lot of companies obsess over how an electric aircraft will look. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. If successful, the ES-30 will be by far the largest electric plane ever to take to the skies. Building it will test the limits of whats possible with todays technology....

Revolut has finally won a UK banking licence, intensifying the neobank threat to traditional finance. Regulators werereportedlyconcerned about Revoluts accounts, but politicians offered vocal support. Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor, called the company a shining example from our world-beating fintech sector. With the new license, Revolut can push that sector further into mainstream finance. But first, the company must complete a mobilisation stage, designed for testing systems before a full launch....

Cheng founded The Tyre Collective in 2020 alongsideSiobhan Anderson and Hugo Richardson. The team spun out the company from a masters research project at Imperial CollegeLondon. During our research we found that almost nothing was being done to curb tyre pollution, said Cheng. It was like this invisible issue no one was talking about. 40% off TNW Conference! We discovered that tyre particles become electrostatically charged due to the friction with the road, Cheng explained....

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