Friday, June 26, 2026

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Oxford Quantum Circuits just raised Europe’s largest-ever quantum round at £260M — and the customer list reveals who is really underwriting the entire sector

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a superconducting quantum hardware spinout from Oxford University, has closed a £260 million Series C. It is the largest private quantum computing round ever raised in Europe, according to Tech.eu. The round was led by...

Tardigrades can survive freezing near absolute zero, extreme radiation, and the vacuum of space by drying into glass-like tuns that suspend their biology until...

A tardigrade dropped into liquid helium at -272°C, boiled in a beaker, irradiated with a dose that would kill a human a thousand times over, or exposed to the raw vacuum of low Earth orbit will, in most cases,...

Factorial just raised $150M at a $2.5B valuation, but the $540M sitting next to that equity cheque is what actually signals the next phase...

Barcelona’s Factorial just closed a $150 million Series D at a $2.5 billion valuation, led by General Catalyst with participation from Atomico and Four Rivers. Sitting next to that equity cheque is a separate commitment of up to $540...

The person who maintains a Notion second brain, a Todoist GTD setup, and a calendar blocked to the quarter hour isn’t more productive, many...

Open someone’s laptop on a Tuesday evening and you can sometimes catch the ritual. A tab for Notion, a tab for Todoist, the calendar app pinned. They are not doing work, exactly. They are tidying. A task gets dragged...

Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, meaning some swimming the North Atlantic today may have been alive when Isaac Newton was, while...

Somewhere a kilometer below the surface of the North Atlantic, in water just above freezing, a shark drifts. A copepod hangs from its cornea like a ragged streamer. The eye behind that fouled lens is still working, more or...

BC Business House To Showcase Province During World Cup

As the world arrives in Vancouver for seven FIFA World Cup 2026 matches this summer, British Columbia is preparing to turn global attention into economic opportunity. BC Tech is partnering with the Government of British Columbia to help promote trade,...

You have until June 9 to tell politicians what you think of the Budget’s capital gains tax changes

On Tuesday, June 9, submissions close for a Senate inquiry into the government’s proposed changes to capital gains tax, announced in the federal budget last month. So rather than raging on LinkedIn with Albo memes, this is your chance to...

Cheque in: 7 startups kicked off June raising $17 million

This week, we counted seven Australian and New Zealand startups that raised a combined total of $17 million in new funding. This includes Nardo, which now has Cahill on board as an investor and advisor, and Alloovium and Gutgutgoose,...

Elon Musk is a week away from becoming the world’s first trillionaire

The company’s decision to publish a ‌price on Wednesday a week ahead of its landmark offering has few if any precedents among major US IPOs, and reflects Musk’s standing in the financial world ‌as an adventurer with a golden...

Australia’s lagging innovation metrics; a new owner for Fishburners

Fishburners has a new owner. And episode 60’s guest is Carolyn Breeze, CEO of the buyer, ASX-listed Scalare Partners. Scalare bought Fishburners from the voluntary administrators this week and the startup community and its members will leave the Tech Central...
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Apple just jacked up Macbook prices by 20% – so here’s where you can still find a bargain

The SKUs hardest hit by the almost-20% rise across Apple’s Mac and iPad ranges, with the tech giant saying...
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