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• Why can’t we just put a space station on the Moon already?

  07-12-2021 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Curious Kids is a series by The Conversation that gives children the chance to have their questions about the world answered by experts. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] and make sure you include the asker’s first name, age and town or city. We won’t be able to answer every question, but we’ll do our very best. Why can’t we put a space station on the Moon? – Ronak, aged 17, Jaipur, India A space
  
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• Microsoft says new $2,599 laptop with Nvidia chip outperforms MacBooks

  07-10-2026 21:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft priced its first Nvidia-powered Surface at $2,599.99 and claimed on stage that it doubles a MacBook Pro M5 on local AI prompts, without publishing how either figure was measured. The chip inside is built on Arm’s architecture, from the Cambridge company Nvidia failed to buy in 2022. Microsoft has priced its first Nvidia-powered laptop […]
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• HubSpot to cut 660 jobs as the company pivots to AI

  07-10-2026 20:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  HubSpot is eliminating about 660 roles, 7% of its workforce, in a restructuring its chief executive calls an AI strategy shift while insisting it is not driven by AI efficiencies. Its SEC filing concedes the timetable depends on local consultation law, which in Ireland means a statutory 30-day minimum and criminal penalties for ignoring it. […]
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• San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI

  07-10-2026 20:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  San Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission wants. San Francisco has paused new data […]
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• Miro CEO says companies must redesign work around AI, not bolt it on

  07-10-2026 19:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Wednesday. “One of the big challenges is how not to put […]
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• DoorDash’s Tony Xu says AI agents will increase demand for human labour

  07-10-2026 19:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. AI agents have probably already overtaken humans in the number of things […]
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• Microsoft will block two Windows installer formats in Outlook from November

  07-10-2026 19:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook’s blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a package through, and the change lands as a default policy edit in every Exchange Online tenant, […]
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• Alibaba’s Joe Tsai says open source is Europe’s only way to AI independence

  07-10-2026 19:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai says open-source AI is the only way for Europe to become independent in the technology. He spoke to founders and investors on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “The Other Side of the Story”. “Open source is the opportunity for Europe… That’s the approach […]
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• The 9 best accounts receivable automation software platforms for 2026

  07-10-2026 19:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  How nine AR automation platforms compare on collections automation and cash application, and which one keeps its AI inside auditable controls Allianz Research puts average global DSO at around 59 days, while roughly $10 trillion sits in unpaid invoices globally. Cash that sits in receivables is cash a company can’t deploy, which is why late […]
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• Bending Spoons’ Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe’s big barrier

  07-10-2026 18:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bending Spoons co-founder and chief executive Luca Ferrari says access to capital is no longer the main obstacle for European founders. Strong companies can now raise at scale in Europe, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin. “I think if you have a great project and […]
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• Honda will test wireless EV charging on 300 metres of motorway in 2027

  07-10-2026 18:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Honda will test wireless charging built into a 300-metre stretch of Japanese motorway from next year, delivering up to 150 kW to vehicles moving at 120 km/h, aimed first at commercial vehicles. France, Germany and Sweden have been running or planning electric roads since 2022, and the French A10 project already delivers more than 200 […]
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• Paramount closes Warner Bros deal as Skydance and plans a single streamer

  07-10-2026 18:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Paramount has completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery and renamed the combined company Skydance. The company announced the close on Tuesday, and its shares now trade on the New York Stock Exchange as SKYD. Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders received about $31.02 a share in cash. Skydance owns two major film studios, Paramount Pictures and […]
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• SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare

  07-10-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX and the commercial space industry want the FCC to abolish the third-party council that coordinates the radio spectrum used by rocket launches and aircraft flight testing, replacing it with an unspecified system of self-coordination. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX and GE Healthcare have objected, while the European Commission is moving the other way and reserving […]
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• OpenAI publishes 722 maths papers written by a model it has not released

  07-10-2026 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has published 722 maths manuscripts from an internal model it has not released. The papers fall into 372 families of results. The company announced the release on Tuesday and put them all in a public GitHub repository. It is the same model behind OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes proof last month. OpenAI gave it about 4,000 problems […]
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• Finland orders Google to stop clearing forest at two data centre sites

  07-10-2026 17:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to stop work at two planned data centre sites, in Muhos and Kajaani. The halt covers work that significantly changes the environment. The agency issued the order on Tuesday. Tuike Finland Oy must stop at once, and by 23 October at the latest. The […]
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• Ring’s first smart lock has a clever answer to the dead battery problem

  07-10-2026 17:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ring has announced a $249 smart lock with a dial that recharges a dead battery by hand, due in the United States early in 2027. Amazon’s own disclosure says the lock has not been authorised by the Federal Communications Commission and may not be sold until it is, and its remote features run over Amazon […]
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• Apple and LG built a doorbell, lock and thermostat together, Bloomberg says

  07-10-2026 17:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is working with LG Electronics on a video doorbell, a thermostat, a smart deadbolt lock and three security cameras, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The devices will carry the LG brand, not Apple’s. The accessories will work with Apple’s new smart home hub, an upgraded HomePod mini and a new Apple TV box. Apple plans […]
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• Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market

  07-10-2026 17:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth fund at $320M, and Europe is now its fastest-growing market. It made 12 investments through Endeavor’s European offices in the first half of 2026. That compares with 14 in all of 2025 and seven in 2024, the firm said on Wednesday. Investors oversubscribed Fund V, which takes the firm’s […]
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• Nous Research raises $90M to take its Hermes AI agent to businesses

  07-10-2026 17:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nous Research has raised $90M to build a business version of Hermes, its open-source AI agent. Nvidia, Microsoft’s M12, Samsung, Robot Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator and Menlo Ventures are among the investors, chief executive Dillon Rolnick wrote in a note on the company’s website. The round values Nous at $1.5bn, The Wall Street […]
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• Musk’s Grok Bot will use Anthropic’s Claude, Midjourney and Suno models

  07-10-2026 17:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will no longer run only on SpaceX’s own AI models. It will also use models from rivals, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday. “Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus […]
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• Amazon’s About You page goes viral for what it guesses about shoppers

  07-10-2026 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she “has flat buttocks”, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing their own profiles. About You lists the details Amazon has drawn […]
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• Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media

  07-10-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has opened its SynthID Detector to everyone. The free website checks whether an image, video or audio file carries Google’s SynthID watermark, a hidden signal its AI tools add to what they create. The tool is available globally in English from Wednesday, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli wrote in a company blog post. It flags […]
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• Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data

  07-10-2026 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on Wednesday. Biohub is the nonprofit research institute backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. […]
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• Dutch tax office drops Microsoft 365 cloud for own servers and open source

  07-10-2026 16:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Dutch tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365 in the cloud. Its office software will instead run on servers it controls, together with European open source tools. State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg set out the plan in a letter to the Dutch parliament this week. The change covers the […]
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• CoreWeave plans its first India data centres with 240MW from AdaniConneX

  07-10-2026 15:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  CoreWeave will open its first data centres in India, using 240 megawatts of capacity at an AdaniConneX campus in Navi Mumbai. The US AI cloud provider announced the deal on Wednesday. CoreWeave expects the first phase to come online in mid-2028. AdaniConneX is a 50:50 joint venture between Adani Enterprises and data centre operator EdgeConneX. […]
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• Rivercell raises $25M to build an AI model of how cells respond to drugs

  07-10-2026 15:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Paris start-up Rivercell has raised a $25M seed round to build an AI model that predicts how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes. HV led the round, with HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture taking part, the company said on Wednesday. The money will pay for Rivercell’s data platform, a bigger wet lab […]
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• Google launches Playground to turn prompts into games, with Unity on board

  07-10-2026 15:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has launched Playground, an experimental platform that turns text prompts into playable games. It is teaming up with Unity to add more advanced tools, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Google Playground opens today to users in the US aged 18 and over. People describe a game, test it right away […]
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• Atomic Machines emerges with $250M to build micro-machines from code

  07-10-2026 15:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Atomic Machines has come out of six years in stealth with $250M raised. It says its system builds working micro-machines straight from code. The Bay Area start-up announced the launch on Wednesday. Its first product is a power switch for AI data centres. Founder and chief executive Jeff Holden joined Amazon as its tenth engineer […]
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• Sereact’s robots now sort Zalando returns in Germany and Poland

  07-10-2026 15:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Robots from Stuttgart start-up Sereact are now sorting Zalando’s fashion returns in live operations in Germany and Poland. The two-armed machines work at CEVA Logistics sites in Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, the three companies said on Wednesday. It is the first step of a plan to automate returns across Europe. Zalando joined Sereact’s Series […]
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• EU-funded robot uses magnets to steer graphene implants into the brain

  07-10-2026 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded MINIGRAPH project. The project’s first target is Parkinson’s disease. Doctors already treat it with deep brain stimulation, […]
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