2025-06-25

Google's Imagen 4 text-to-image model promises 'significantly improved' boring images

Google has unveiled its latest text-to-image model Imagen 4 with the usual promise of "significantly improved text rendering" over the previous version, Imagen 3. The company also introduced [...]

2025-06-25

Want a More Sustainable Android Phone? The Modular Fairphone 6 Could Be the Answer

Time to ditch the upgrade cycle. This future-proofed device from the Dutch social enterprise is built fairly, and built to last. [...]

2025-06-25

Isar Aerospace raises €150mn to strengthen Europe’s launch capabilities

Europe’s best-funded space tech firm, Isar Aerospace, plans to strengthen the continent’s access to orbital satellites after raising €150mn to expand its launch service. Daniel Metzler, Isar’s [...]

2025-06-24

The Oversight Board calls Meta's uneven AI moderation 'incoherent and unjustifiable'

As Meta's platforms fill up with more AI-generated content, the company still has a lot of work to do when it comes to enforcing its policies around manipulated media. The Oversight Board is once [...]

2025-06-24

Danish biotech Cellugy wants to replace microplastics in cosmetics

Danish biotech Cellugy has raised €8.1mn in EU funding to accelerate production of a biodegradable material designed to replace microplastics in cosmetics. The grant, awarded under the EU’s LIFE P [...]

2025-06-24

These sensors ‘listen with light’ to guard Europe from subsea sabotage

Dutch tech scaleup Optics11 has launched an underwater monitoring system that uses light waves to “listen” for the presence of foreign objects. Called OptiBarrier, the system can detect enemy subm [...]

2025-06-24

How NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani won over the internet

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the leading favorite in a race against Andrew Cuomo, has created a social media campaign that people won't forget. [...]

2025-06-24

Media Matters sues FTC, says agency is retaliating on behalf of Elon Musk

FTC probe is clearly connected to "Musk's vindictive lawsuits," group says. [...]

2025-06-24

European startup’s space capsule ‘lost’ after reentry

Communication with a privately funded European space capsule was lost Tuesday shortly after the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere.  The capsule launched on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Spa [...]