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• Fable Prism – Where designers control generative AI

  06-03-2024 22:29 via webdesignernews.com
  Fable Prism represents a landmark milestone for generative AI. It’s the first time creators get to directly control what gets generated – on a visual canvas, using design and animation tools – all under one roof.
  
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• Emotional Design

  06-03-2024 21:23 via webdesignernews.com
  In recent years, we have been talking more and more about emotional design in our interface design. It has a lot of advantages but can also be double-edged if misapplied. We will analyze Mario Maker 2 to explain this notion and how to use it.
  
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• April Newsletter Ideas and Examples for 2024

  06-03-2024 20:56 via webdesignernews.com
  Here are several good email marketing ideas to play along with the overall atmosphere, intensify your marketing efforts, and drive business growth. We have also compiled a list of April email newsletter examples to show how brands in different niches implement their marketing plans.
  
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• Google Says It’s Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results

  06-03-2024 20:10 via webdesignernews.com
  The company announced changes to its algorithm to deamplify websites that “feel like they were created for search engines instead of people.”
  
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• Dutch government launched secret task force to keep ASML in Netherlands, report says

  06-03-2024 18:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Dutch government has reportedly launched a secret task force to keep chip giant ASML in the Netherlands. Dubbed “Operation Beethoven,” the task force was formed to allay ASML’s fears about the local business climate, according to De Telegraaf. Citing anonymous sources, the Dutch newspaper said the company was considering an expansion outside the Netherlands. France was mooted as a potential destination. Such a move would leave a deep impact. ASML is Europe’s most val
  
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• Digital bank Monzo raises £340M amid UK push to remain fintech leader

  06-03-2024 16:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amid tough market conditions, digital bank Monzo has raised £340bn (€409mn) in new funding, reaching a post-money valuation of £4bn (€4.7bn). The round was led by new investor CapitalG, the growth fund of Google’s parent company Alphabet. GV (Google Ventures, Alphabet’s venture capital investment arm) and HongShan Capital (a ChineseVC firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year) also participated, alongside existing investors including Passion Capital and Te
  
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• Digital bank Monzo raises £340B amid UK push to remain fintech leader

  06-03-2024 16:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amid tough market conditions, digital bank Monzo has raised £340bn (€409mn) in new funding, reaching a post-money valuation of £4bn (€4.7bn). The round was led by new investor CapitalG, the growth fund of Google’s parent company Alphabet. GV (Google Ventures, Alphabet’s venture capital investment arm) and HongShan Capital (a ChineseVC firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year) also participated, alongside existing investors including Passion Capital and Te
  
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• Nobel winner behind graphene hails new ‘wonder materials’ for smart contact lenses

  06-03-2024 15:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Nobel Laureate who co-created graphene has made another discovery that could turbocharge numerous futuristic applications, from smart contact lenses to rapid disease detection. Konstantin Novoselov, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, is among a group of scientists behind the breakthrough. The team announced today that they’ve unearthed unique properties in two unusual compounds: rhenium diselenide and rhenium disulfide — aka ReSe2 and ReS2. The duo comes from the same
  
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• Why US-based VCs are investing big in European climate tech

  06-03-2024 14:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  In the last decade, the US established itself as a leader in funding climate tech ventures, with Europe trailing. Known for their willingness to embrace risk and invest heavily, US investors stand out in their approach to supporting these ventures. The world of climate tech is marked by uncertainty: new markets are emerging, technology winners are yet to be determined, and fluctuating policies impact commercial viability. Notably, many of these ventures are developing complex hardware products,
  
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• TNW Podcast: The tech that makes us walk

  06-03-2024 13:17 via thenextweb.com
  
   Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Andrii and Ioanna talk about the benefits of walking, progressive web apps, unhealthy food, and physical controls in cars in the EU. Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode: Doctors have started prescribing a new medical trea
  
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• UK startup launches AI satellite to provide near real-time images of Earth

  06-03-2024 11:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  UK-based space tech startup Open Cosmos has successfully launched a new AI-powered satellite that can provide near real-time views of Earth.  The satellite, HAMMER — short for Hyperspectral AI for Marine Monitoring and Emergency Response — was successfully blasted into orbit Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.  Its mission is to provide high-resolution imaging from across the Atlantic ocean to help authorities monitor the marine environment or respond to natural disast
  
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• Ammonia production is filthy. This ‘nitrolyzer’ could clean it up

  06-03-2024 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ammonia is perhaps best known as a household cleaner or the chemical that makes your pee smell. Few might realise, however, that half of the world’s food production relies on ammonia-based fertilisers produced in just a handful of countries.  This clear, foul-smelling chemical is largely made by superheating water, air, and natural gas under pressure — a process that emits vast quantities of carbon dioxide. Ammonia synthesis is by far the dirtiest chemical manufacturing process
  
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