NATO has picked the investment team that will oversee the management of its €1 billion deep tech venture fund, set for launch this week in Vilnius at the alliance’s annual summit. The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is slated to be the world’s first
One of the best ways to make buildings greener is to cover them with solar panels — turning homes, offices, and factories into clean energy generators. Rooftop solar is particularly popular in the Netherlands because, well, it’s a
Early this morning, Meta’s new Twitter rival, Threads, hit 100 million sign-ups, less than a week after launch. This makes Threads the fastest growing online platform in history, dethroning ChatGPT, which took two months to reach the same number of users. When Mark Zuck
UK Finance, which represents more than 300 companies, has written to the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, requesting that ministers make tech companies take responsibility for payment fraud on their platforms. Specifically, the lobby group is pointing the fing
While many of us in Europe take it for granted, access to freshwater today, and in the future, is far from guaranteed. Demand is skyrocketing but supply is diminishing. Many of the ways in which water is used are inefficient and ant
This week, after nearly three decades of providing Europe access to space, the Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket completed its final mission. On Wednesday, July 5, at 22:00 GMT, the rocket took off from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Spaceport
Last week, Vilnius became the first European city to introduce a small fleet of autonomous delivery robots on public roads. Developed by Estonia-based startup Clevon and in collaboration with Lithuanian delivery platform LastMile, three driverless robots are
Parts of modern life are inescapable. We all use mapping software for directions, check the news on our phones, and read online reviews of products before buying them. Technology didn’t create these things, but what it has done is democratise t
Yesterday, the Dutch government released an official letter announcing it will allow the tasting of meat and seafood products cultivated from animal cells under specified conditions. Following in the footsteps of the US and Singapore,
Europe’s first “lightning hunter” has generated striking animations of severe storms hitting the Earth. Built by Italian firm Leonardo, the system is the first satellite instrument that can continuously detect lightning across Europe and Africa. The imager i