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UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with 'hyper-realistic' digital avatars

The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber's entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by manifesting musicians as digital avatars. Unit1 was set up…

Mangaluru Technovanza 2026 to focus on global capability centres, data centres, startups, medtech

The sixth edition of Mangaluru Technovanza 2026, which begins here for two days on September 22, will focus its deliberations on four key growth engines: global capability centres (GCCs), data centres, start-ups and medtech, according to the…

Startup eyes space-based solar power | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

In a laboratory amid Northern Virginia's sprawling data centers, a group of scientists is looking very far outside the box for a solution to overwhelmed power grids. They want to harness the sun's rays and shoot a 0.62 mile-wide laser -- they…

Melinda French Gates once revealed she's refusing to fund her Gen Z daughter's startup-despite being worth over $34 billion

Chinese 'robot brain' startup sees ChatGPT-style breakthrough as soon as next year

4 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google Humanoid robots will be able to complete most general-purpose tasks from verbal instructions as soon as next year, although becoming useful around the house will take much longer, said the…

Shiloh Luckey Charged in $13.3 Million Startup Fraud

Shiloh Luckey spent months handing out tax advice on TikTok while federal investigators were looking into whether she lied about being a certified public accountant to raise millions for her tax startup. Now she is facing 15 federal charges.

Ask Nathan: Is REO Truck Startup Real and Should the BYD Dolphin Come to the US? - TFLcar

Is the REO cheap pickup truck the real deal? Do we need to have the BYD Dolphin imported here? The first question comes from a fan who wants to see if the startup company REO is serious about providing an inexpensive pickup truck to rival SLATE and…

Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets - Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no human input and zero external comms

Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo, Ars Technica reports. Scaleout Systems, a Swedish AI startup, used a low-cost loitering munition from BAE Systems Bofors to…

Service Startup API Key Identity Logs - Bounded Healthtech Incident Attribution

Record one authenticated startup event that binds a non-reversible API-key fingerprint to an immutable build identifier, workload identity, and deployment attempt. TL;DR: for a health-data service, this small record is enough to connect a later…

Creative minds exhibit engineering skills at graVITas' 26 at VIT

Students from different streams of engineering such as mechanical, electronics, and electrical and communication displayed their skills on the second day of technological festival, graVITas'26 organised by VIT here on Saturday. Events such as robo…

As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich - with few guardrails

Donald Trump 's sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime friend Michael Dell…

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on Arc, the Future of Quantum and the Agentic Economy

Circle is known to many as the issuer of the $74 billion digital currency USD Coin, or USDC. But co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire believes the company's latest launch may be the “most consequential major platform launch” in its…

Karnataka plans global quantum platform with 2027 Bengaluru summit

Karnataka is preparing to scale up the second Quantum India Bengaluru Summit in 2027 into a major global platform for quantum research, innovation, industry collaboration and investment, Minister for Science & Technology Ajay Dharam Singh said on…

Owning your company's stock can be lucrative. It can also make career decisions complicated.

The day after Rob Waters learned of his layoff from Google last year, he was encouraged to apply for a new role there as an AI sales specialist. Google soon offered him the position, with a six-figure salary. Waters wasn't sure he wanted to return.

Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone

Kali Hays Technology reporter, San Francisco Not all employees of major firms working on artificial intelligence (AI) think the technology spells doom for humanity. In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for companies…