Swedish startup wants €1.5BN to build emissions-free steel plant
Story by Siôn Geschwindt Swedish startup H2 Green Steel has announced its plans to raise more than €1.5bn in equity funding to build steel plants that emit virtually no emissions.…
UK-based DeepMind merges with Google Brain in transatlantic AI tie-up
Story by Thomas Macaulay Senior reporter Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on deeptech, startups, and government policy. Thomas is a senior…
You can now eat dinner in space — for just €120K
Story by Siôn Geschwindt It turns out you don’t need a rocket to explore the edge of space. French startup Zephalto has just announced plans to send eager tourists to…
Spanish surgeons perform world’s first fully robotic lung transplant
Story by Siôn Geschwindt A Spanish hospital has successfully completed what is believed to be the world’s first fully robotic lung transplant. Surgeons at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in…
European mission to explore the dark universe sets sail for launch site
Story by Thomas Macaulay Senior reporter Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on deeptech, startups, and government policy. Thomas is a senior…
Green light for €43bn EU Chips Act in big boost for bloc’s semiconductor industry
Story by Siôn Geschwindt EU member states reached a provisional agreement on Tuesday for a €43 billion plan to bolster domestic production of semiconductor chips — essential components in everything…
Europe’s Juice space mission blasts off towards Jupiter
The ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission — ‘Juice’ — successfully launched today from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was supposed to take place yesterday but was…
Germany and Intel in funding dispute over €17bn chip plant
Intel’s plan to construct a massive chip plant in Magdeburg, Germany, is arguably the centrepiece of the EU’s strategy to ramp up domestic production of semiconductors. But cash flow has…
Winamp relaunches — and breaks my nostalgic heart
Oh, to be an innocent young techie in the ’90s again. Merrily downloading Metallica albums from Napster, joyriding from bird’s eye views in GTA 1, and praying that 30-second porn…
Inside Arm’s vision for the ‘software-defined vehicle’ of the future
The digitisation of cars has made comparisons to “data centres on wheels” so common that they’ve become clichéd. It’s also built a booming market for tech firms — few of…
The world’s first self-driving bus fleet will soon hit Scotland’s streets
Next time you board a bus in Scotland and it’s driving itself, don’t freak out — this is all part of a government plan to bring self-driving tech into the…
TNW València 2023 was a blast — here are our favourite moments
For 16 memorable years, TNW Conference has been at the center of Amsterdam’s tech ecosystem, but on March 30 and 31, TNW València brought — for the very first time…