It starts like your typical Disney-style fairy tale: After slaying a dragon, a prince and princess ride off into the sunset. But their happily-ever-after turns upside down when the prince is “struck by an invisible force far more powerful than the dragon,” says the film’s narrator, British actress Olivia Colman. Prince Charming begins to show…Read More
The computer systems of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s most high-profile war tribunal, were hacked last week, according to a statement released by the court yesterday. The tribunal said that its services detected “anomalous activity” affecting its information systems and that “immediate measures” were adopted to respond to this cybersecurity incident and to mitigate its impact. The ICC, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, is the only permanent war crimes tribunal and handles extremely sensitive data about some of the world’s most horrific atrocities. At this time, the nature of last week’s cybersecurity incident remains unclear and it’s not…
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3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has seen exponential growth over the past decade, analysis by the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals. In its latest study, the EPO found that international patent families (IPFs) in 3D printing tech increased at an average rate of 26.3% each year between 2013 and 2020. Notably, this growth rate is nearly eight times faster than the average of all other technology sectors combined (3.3%). According to the findings, Europe and the US are leading the global race for 3D printing innovation, accounting for almost three-quarters of all IFPs filed between 2001 and 2020.…
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Fuse Media is capping off a wildly successful upfront season. Today, in the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Latinx-owned entertainment company confirmed to Adweek that it has closed its upfront negotiations with double-digit growth in volume. Fuse Media also reached high single-digit growth in CPMs (cost per thousand viewers reached) across its linear and…Read More
The Joint Industry Committee (JIC)–formed earlier this year by OpenAP, along with a working committee of media agencies, premium video programmers, streaming platforms and trade bodies–has taken a significant step forward in the journey to multiple currencies. Today, the assembly announced it has given conditional certification to Comscore, iSpot and VideoAmp as part of its…Read More
Google DeepMind has unveiled its novel AI tool that can predict whether DNA mutations are likely to cause genetic diseases. The ambition is that it will facilitate faster diagnosis and development of life-saving treatments. The new AI model, called AlphaMissense, makes predictions about missense mutations, which occur when a single letter is substituted in the DNA code. The letters correspond to four nucleotides: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). This results in a different amino acid within the protein, which can in turn affect its function. On average, humans carry over 9,000 missense variants, which, in most…
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Berlin’s corporate carbon accounting platform Plan A has just received a fresh boost of capita in the form of $27mn from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Visa, and others. The ESG reporting SaaS startup will use the money to double its headcount to 240+ employees and expand market presence across Europe, particularly in Scandinavia, France, and the UK. Greentech software provider Plan A was founded in 2017 by Lubomila Jordanova and Nathan Bonnisseau. Its platform offers companies — waking up to increasing climate risk and under mounting pressure to decarbonise operations — the possibility to “self-manage” their entire net-zero journey. This includes…
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Climate Week NYC, an event hosted by the nonprofit business group Climate Group, descends on New York City this week to coincide with the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. While world leaders engage in diplomacy on East 45th Street–while facing tens of thousands of protesters fighting for an end to fossil fuels–Climate Week…Read More
Through the lens of a National Geographic photographer, the small family farms in the Organic Valley co-op look like national parks teeming with flora and fauna–honey bees, songbirds, rolling hills and native trees among them. And, of course, there’s an abundance of free-roaming cows. So why is one land mass protected, while the other isn’t?…Read More
In the not-so-distant past, a business-focused technology company could slap its logo onto a stadium, vehicle or athlete in a tech-savvy sport and connect its brand and products to the action. Since the introduction of Generative AI within the last year, however, firms like Bangalore-based Infosys increasingly have to use those partnerships as B2B demos…Read More
