Thomas Macaulay    Just a decade ago, the world’s biggest tech beast was a relative minnow. Microsoft had become notorious for disappointing product launches, stagnant innovation, and losing top talent. The first true software giant was becoming a big tech dinosaur. Fast forward to and Microsoft is the planet’s...

Thomas Macaulay    Britain is exploring new curbs on China’s access to sensitive technologies following allegations of cyber espionage. Oliver Dowden, the UK’s deputy prime minister, launched a review of the restrictions on Thursday. He warned that hostile states could use British funds and tech for military...

Stefania Troncoso Fernández    For the past two years, I have worked at a company whose workforce hails from around the globe, including the United States, Europe, and Latin America. I’m the only team member based in Santa Marta, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and I work remotely like many of my colleagues on the other...

Thomas Macaulay    Dutch startup Meatable has hosted the first legally approved tasting of cultivated meat in Europe. On the menu was a lab grown pork sausage. Meatable says the produce is indistinguishable from traditional meat, but causes no harm to animals or the environment. To replicate the flavours and...

Thomas Macaulay    AI threatens to decimate the translation profession, according to a new survey by a British union. Almost four in ten translators said they’ve already lost work due to generative AI. Nearly half of them said the tech has decreased their income. They fear far worse is to come. Over three...

Linnea Ahlgren    California based quantum circuitry company Rigetti has brought a commercially available quantum computer to the UK. Only the second in the country, it was installed in collaboration with Oxford Instruments NanoScience a cryogenics company that provides the cooling needed for superconducting...

Andrii Degeler    ï 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, Linnea and Andrii talk about artificial general...

Ioanna Lykiardopoulou    Amid the semiconductor industry’s slowdown and increasing geopolitical tensions, Dutch chip machine maker ASML reported a decrease both in sales and profits. Europe’s most valuable tech company saw orders fall to . bn in the first quarter of , down from . bn in the previous quarter. Its net...

Thomas Macaulay    Under orders from the EU, tech giants have launched advertising transparency tools. None of them are fit for purpose, according to a new study from Mozilla. The tools provide libraries of data about online adverts. By exploring the repositories, researchers can identify the funders and...

Thomas Macaulay    A British drone maker plans to launch air taxis in after raising a whopping mn. Skyports has already flown electric vertical takeoff and landing eVTOL aircraft on delivery and monitoring trials. The new funding brings commercial air taxis closer to the services on offer. The first...