Space startup Open Cosmos will accelerate its mission to protect our planet after raising $50mn in a new funding round. The UK-based company uses satellites to tackle environmental issues. By…
The European Commission has named today six tech giants whose market power it aims to control through its Digital Markets Act (DMA) — a landmark pro-competition regulation, designed to ensure…
When Russian troops flooded into Ukraine last year, an army of propagandists followed them. Within hours, Kremlin-backed media were reporting that President Zelenskyy had fled the country. Weeks later, a…
Apple and Microsoft are pressing the EU to omit iMessage and Bing, respectively, from a list of “gatekeepers” subject to new regulatory requirements. Their reasoning? The services, claim the companies,…
As governments increase demands for labels on AI-generated content, Google DeepMind has released a potential solution: a watermarking tool. Named SynthID, the system harnesses deep learning to embed digital stamps…
First discovered in 1773 by French astronomer Charles Messier, the Whirlpool galaxy (aka ‘M51’) is one of the most well-known objects in the night sky. Everyone from amateur astronomers to…
AI has a notorious history of biases, from facial recognition systems misidentifying Black people to chatbots admiring Hitler. In some settings, the outcomes could be deadly. A case in point…
A spacecraft has detected tiny jets that could be the elusive source of the sun’s solar wind. The discovery was made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter. According…
A new satellite designed to analyse X-ray light in space is set to launch on August 26. The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM — pronounced “crism”) brings together Nasa,…
The UK has devised a novel solution for a funding gap: more funding. In a bid to strengthen the country’s financial sector, up to £1bn (€1.2bn) has been allocated to…
The UK’s first bank account dedicated to accelerating science and technology is set to launch next month. Science Card is the brainchild of Daniel Baeriswyl — during his PhD in…
The British government’s promise to protect encryption has been pilloried by security experts and libertarians. The dispute stems from a section of the Online Safety Bill. Under the legislation, messaging…