Paris-based fintech Pennylane has just pulled off one of Europe’s most noteworthy funding rounds of the year, announcing €175 million in new capital to accelerate its push into artificial intelligence and expand its footprint across the…
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French fintech Pennylane raises €175M
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The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
“Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?
For the past two decades,…
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Recent sensory experiences adversely impact perceptual decisions, study finds
People’s perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past experiences. One well-established example of this is serial dependence, a bias that prompts humans to make judgments about…
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Launch operators are the rocket fuel required to galvanize spaceports in Europe
Europe stands on the precipice of launching a satellite from the mainland. Until now, the Guiana Space Centre in South America has operated as Europe’s “gateway to space” but spaceports in SaxaVord and Andøya offer the tantalizing…
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SpaceX Worker Told to “Stop Crying” After Horrific Accident, Lawsuit Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Images SpaceX is facing a one-two punch of personal injury lawsuits after two different workers have sued the Elon Musk-owned company this…
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Chocolate Hills: The color-changing mounds in the Philippines that inspired legends of mud-slinging giants
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Name: Chocolate Hills
Location: Bohol, Philippines
Coordinates: 9.8297, 124.1396
Why it’s incredible: The hills change color with the seasons, inspiring legends that giants formed the mounds from mud.
The Chocolate Hills are a formation…
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‘Earthquake on a chip’ uses ‘phonon’ lasers to make mobile devices more efficient
Engineers have created a device that produces tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on the surface of a chip. They say it could one day be harnessed for signal processing inside everyday electronics, potentially paving the way to smaller, faster and…
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Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost
Chinese scientists have increased the yield of a carbon dioxide-to-starch conversion method by more than 10 times, potentially paving the way for industrial starch production without the need for agriculture.
In 2021, researchers from the Tianjin…
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Study finds fisheries management—not predator recovery—drives catch levels in the North Sea
A new research study found that well-managed fisheries can support the recovery of large marine predators such as seals and porpoises, showing that conservation and sustainable seafood production can go hand in hand. While the impacts of…
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Resurrected enzyme may unlock secrets of life's origins on Earth and beyond
Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.
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