DoorDash buys Deliveroo for £2.9B — less than half its IPO price

US food delivery giant DoorDash has acquired British rival Deliveroo in a £2.9bn ($3.9bn) deal, ending the UK business’ rocky tenure as a public company.  The all-cash offer, priced at £1.80 ($2. [...]

AI can change the world—if we change who it’s built for

The funding gap needs to be addressed for social impact innovation. [...]

Sony is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, run by former Call of Duty director

Sony is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party game studio led by former Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports. Before leading Dark Outlaw Games, Blunde [...]

Tesla will no longer release the Cybertruck range extender

Tesla has scrapped its plans to sell a range extender for the Cybertruck, the automaker has notified customers who have previously paid a $2,000 reservation fee for the $16,000 add-on. Based on copies [...]

This flying sportscar is set to go on sale next year — for $1M

A flying car that morphs into a plane in just 80 seconds is set to go on sale in early 2026. Slovakian flying car maker Klein Vision unveiled the Aircar 2, its first “production-ready” prototype, [...]

New TNW Backstage podcast explores privacy tensions and Meta’s model

Have you heard of the privacy paradox? It’s the contradiction between our claims to care about privacy — and our refusal to protect it. The paradox came to mind while working on the debut episode [...]

Listen to the ‘world’s first’ song made by a quantum computer and AI

The beat just dropped on a new era of music, and it’s coming not from a recording studio but from the weird and wonderful realm of quantum physics. UK-based tech startup Moth has released the track [...]

Denmark to trial autonomous sea drones amid tensions with Russia

The Danish Armed Forces are set to trial four autonomous sea drones that will patrol Northern Europe waters, looking for signs of criminal activity.  Powered by wind and solar, the uncrewed surface v [...]

UK’s digital defences need ‘colossal’ overhaul for quantum era

Britain requires a “colossal” overhaul of its cybersecurity systems to defend against future quantum computers, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned this week.  Speaking at the [...]