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Finally, Ariane 6 had its first successful commercial launch today. The milestone came seven months after the rocketsmaiden flight, which restored sovereign access tospacefor Europe. Ariane 6 carried CSO-3, a French military spy satellite capable of taking high resolution images of Earth. The first two probes were launched aboardRussian Soyuz rocketsin 2018 and 2020. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Since Moscows full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Europe has been unable to access Soyuz rockets....

Interplanetary travel might be about to get a whole lot faster and hotter. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Pulsar started building the enginein 2023 at a site inMilton Keynes, England. The company has teamed up with the US-based Princeton Satellite Systems to predict how plasma behaves under electromagnetic confinement. Themachine learningsimulations will guide the rocket engines design. Story bySion Geschwindt Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy....

Musks role in the White House had already been linked to Teslasales and stock tanking. Now, the repercussions appear to have spread to SpaceX. The fallout centres on the companys Starlink satellite internet service. The internet has provided a vital communications system to Ukraines military since Russias full-scale invasion began in 2022. But concerns are now growing that the service could soon be disrupted. According toReuters, US officials recently raised the prospect of cutting off Kyivs access to Starlink....

QuantWare, a startup from the Netherlands, could help them unlock millions more. 40% off TNW Conference! The more you have, the faster the machine. If this is the pace of scaling up, were not going to get there fast enough. Current designs route the electronic signals used to control the qubits to the edge of the chip. But as qubit numbers grow, space runs out. QuantWares core offering vertical integration and optimisation, or VIO promises to solve quantums scaling problem....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Cino users link their bank card to the app, where they get a virtual card. They can then create or join custom payment groups with fully adjustable split ratios. Everyones share is then deducted at checkout. Back in the cash days, it was simpler. Now that weve gone digital, payments need to evolve to keep up. Cino said it has seen 100% month-on-month growth in Finland and Italy....

It also provides tools for reporting and analytics. The company is ridingsustained growthin global travel to fuel its expansion. It has also acquired 12 companies in total at it looks to swallow up market share. Mews plans to continue its shopping spree, aiming for up to four acquisitions in 2025. Fuelled by fresh funding, its also looking to expand its presence in the US. Its no surprise then that the main investor in this latest capital raise was American investment firm Tiger Global....

Its no secret that European tech has a gender equity problem. Mendominatethe leadership of most companies in the sector. Women foundersstruggleto raise VC money, and theres a starkpay gapbetween male and female workers. This gender imbalance is especially glaring in the STEM-dominated world of deep tech. Securing funding remains a challenge, with women-led firms taking six months longer to sign their first term sheet. Over the past decade, women-led companies raised 1....

Want to book a flight but dont want to spend ages comparing prices? Opera claims the tool dubbed web app Operator signals a new paradigm in thehistory of browsing. 40% off TNW Conference! Now it can, said Operas executive vice president Krystian Kolondra. This is different from anything weve seen or shipped so far. internet tool Operator isnt just for shopping, though. It can search the web for whatever you need, potentially saving you time on menial tasks....

Wayve is already testing its technology in the UK and the US. 40% off TNW Conference! This data gets fed to Wayves so-called embodied AI system. The more the AI drives, the better it becomes at responding to hazards. Wayves approach to autonomous driving is similar to Teslas. But unlikeElon Musks firm, Wayve will sell its technology directly to carmakers. This means you wont have to buy aTeslato access top spec self-driving tech....

Under the contract, the startup will design, build, and flight test the spaceplane. The aircraft will serve as a testbed for hypersonic flight and defence research. Itcould be used as a small satellite carrier if fitted with a non-reusable upper stage, Polaris said. Polaris was founded in 2019 by Alexander Kopp as a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It builds upon over three decades of German and European spaceplane research....

But what happens when the authorities come knocking? looks like Silicon Valley often rolls over and complies. Thispotentially includes handing over user emails, files, messages, and other highly personal information. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. However, the company also complies with its fair share of government requests for user data. Of those, it complied with 5,971 of the requests. Thats 93% higher than the Big Tech companies highlighted in the new report....

For decades, European tech insiders have looked across the Atlantic with a mix of admiration and frustration. The sentiment fuels calls for Europe to replicate Silicon Valleys model. But Vidya Peters, CEO of Dutch unicorn DataSnipper, argues this approach is flawed. Rather than merely mimicking US tech, she urges startups and scaleups to embrace Europes strengths. A key one is sustainable, long-term growth. Five years ago, it wasnt very fashionable to be profitable, Peters tells TNW....

These experiments are birthing new business opportunities. OrganOxs Metra machine pumps oxygenated blood and nutrients through the liver, mimicking natural conditions during a transplant. 40% off TNW Conference! Thetechcaught the eye of Swedish medical-equipment giant Getinge, which acquired Paragonix for $477mn last year. Yes, you read that correctly: pig organs for human transplants. The organ functioned normally for 72 hours. In December 2024, there were over 104,000 people in the USwaiting for an organ donor....