German climate tech VC raises ‘record-breaking’ €300M first fund

Securing cash has been especially tough the last year or so, amid one of historysbiggest downturnsin VC funding. This has pushed many promising startups off the edge. World Fund looks to bridge the gap by focusing on the larger sums startups need to scale. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. This week, it co-led a25mn founding round in UK-basedMission Zero, which builds energy-efficientcarbon capture machines. Many of World Funds new backers had never invested in first-time VC funds....

March 21, 2024 · 1 min · 136 words · Lawrence Bell

How regionalised data sovereignty is changing the marketing landscape

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Recent developments, however, suggest that more regions and regulators are leaning toward regional data and privacy control. All of the above point to a breakdown of global data hubs. This affects the development of new, data-based business models, but the challenges are even more fundamental. Orchestrating global campaigns or developing and marketing products becomes difficult when working with two separate data systems. Businesses will have to rethink their data strategies as a whole....

March 21, 2024 · 1 min · 164 words · Amy Green

It Will Always Be Fun Beating The Bucks (Again) As The Celtics Extend Their Current Winning Streak To 7 Games

What’s eerie is how similar this game was to that first meeting. The Celts magic number to secure the 1 seed is just 3 with 13 to play. All that matters now is seeing how they react to certain in game situations and health. That’s the benefit of being locked in from Game 1 through Game 69 (nice). With that said, let’s dive in. Just like we saw in that Game 7 back in 2022....

March 21, 2024 · 3 min · 616 words · Mr. Joseph Riley

It's Time To Get The Juices Flowing With Every Single Damn Thing You Need To Know For The Greatest Day Of The Year

Today is the best day of the year. Today is the day we all look forward to, the day we battle from November to get to. It’s a combination of Christmas, Thanksgiving and a horror show all in one. Nothing beats the feeling of waking up with the butterflies of today though. Schedule Bracket It’s still clean. There’s still hope for 64 teams - the perfect number for a bracket....

March 21, 2024 · 3 min · 489 words · Margaret Andrews

Swedish startup secures €10M to turn industrial waste into green cement

Problem is, cement production emits 8% of global CO2 four times that of air travel. When limestone is heated in a kiln, calcium carbonate breaks down into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. Around 60% of the cement industrys total emissions are a result of this process. By using certain industrial by-products, like slag from steelmaking,Cemvision sidesteps this chemical reaction entirely. The other 40% of cements emissions come from the energy needed to superheat limestone in a kiln....

March 21, 2024 · 1 min · 178 words · Theresa Morris

2024 NCAA Tournament Region (Midwest) Breakdown, Preview And Picks

I do this every year and we roll on in 2024. Not the First Four, the real Tournament. Midwest Region Storylines 1.Kansas is screwed, announced Kevin McCullar is out -This is it. Kansas with McCullar has one of the best starting 5s in the country. They don’t have any depth and now needs Timberlake or Jackson to take on a bigger role. Oh and why does this matter even more?...

March 20, 2024 · 4 min · 670 words · Christian Cross

A List Of Reparations For Rico Bosco To Pay For Sleeping On The Streams In Order To Attend March Madness This Weekend

Let me say this before we begin: I like Rico Bosco. Ran out of ink in three markers! Bottom line: we’re on the same page now. Which brings me to today, where I’m trying to help the guy out. Remember when he disappeared between Games 3 and 4 to appear on WCW…..? March Madness for Barstool is our NBA Finals. We need to put our best lineup on the floor....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 314 words · Justin Conway

French competition watchdog fines Google €250M for AI copyright breaches

The case is part of a five-yearquarrelbetweenGoogleand media publishers over the use of online content. Two years later, Google signed a 5-year deal agreeing to buy news from the AFP. 40% off TNW Conference! The tech giant then promised to make the remuneration process for publishers more straightforward. Story bySion Geschwindt Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy. Also tagged with

March 20, 2024 · 1 min · 67 words · Allison Terry

Gronk Goes All Out to Set the Record Straight on Belichick's Legacy: 'Without Him, None of This Was Possible.'

I want to be done with the anti-Belichick propaganda that was AppleTV’sThe Dynasty. And fill those synapses in my brain with something more worthy of them. Like the names of all the Japanese characters inShogunor what happened on the last season ofCobra Kai. But every time I’m out onThe Dynasty, they pull me back in. First Julian Edelman criticized the tone of the the show. He set the standard. Coach Belichick was the standard....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 422 words · John Zavala

How news organisations decide whether a photo is ‘too edited’

In the era ofartificial intelligenceand accessible photo editing, you cant believe everything you see online. One exception, of course, is (usually) if its published by a reputable news source. The foundation of photojournalism lies in its ability to present reality in anauthentic and unaltered manner. These organisations adhere to strictcodes of conductdesigned to ensure the integrity of the images they distribute. If an image is accepted but later found to violate these guidelines, it is given a kill order....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 256 words · Joshua Smith

Opening Day Bombshell: Shohei Ohtani's Translator And Best Friend Ippei Mizuhara Fired By Dodgers After Being Accused Of Stealing Millions From Shohei And Illegally Gambling

Ippei Mizuhara had life all figured out. Somehow someway he attached himself to the hip of the greatest baseball player in the world. Since 2017, Ippei joined forces with Shohei Ohtani to be his translator and best friend. They became completely inseparable over the years. Whatever Ohtani did, Ippei was there. After Ohtani signed his mega deal with the Dodgers this offseason, Ippei was immediately hired by the Dodgers. Dude had it made....

March 20, 2024 · 3 min · 435 words · Melissa Cole

The 3 Barstool Sports Employees I'd Rob A Bank With

Welcome back to another episode of Blog Wheel. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I kinda quit doing them considering they get a shockingly low amount of clicks. But I’m trying to move away from only writing clickbaity blogs. I’m just now realizing I didn’t necessarily include a step-by-step plan in this blog. I kinda forgot that was part of the topic. But I’m already pushing 2000 words on this bitch, so I’m rolling with what I got....

March 20, 2024 · 4 min · 821 words · Clinton Johns

This startup is building AI that can fly drones and make its own decisions

The result is anAIthat doesnt need training. A spinout fromUniversity College London, thestartupjust raised 2.3mn for its neuroscience-inspired agentic AI. Now I dont need to keep looking. And its built into a more interesting cognitive prediction at the higher levels. So its very much like a hierarchical brain. But credit to our brains, they then refines those predictions based on incoming sensory data. We dont train [our model], Moran says....

March 20, 2024 · 1 min · 151 words · John Monroe