Thursday, June 18, 2026

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Nine walks away from its $49 million digital media investment, Pedestrian, handing it to Richard White’s Vinyl

Vinyl (ASX:VNL) is acquiring 100% of Pedestrian Group from Nine Digital for “nominal consideration” with no other cash, debt, scrip or ongoing royalties involved. The embattled TV and publishing empire (ASX: NEC), which has fallen from a $4 billion valuation...

The colleague who stays composed during a layoff round and only falls apart in the parking lot isn’t unusually professional, they learned somewhere that...

The pattern is familiar to anyone who has watched a layoff round move through a company. Someone gets the news in a glass-walled conference room, nods, shakes a hand, walks back to their desk, packs a box with the...

A 38-metre laser came online in Denver this week claiming a world record, but what Xcimer is actually doing is pointing forty years of...

Fusion startup Xcimer Energy reportedly activated its Phoenix laser system in Denver, claiming the title of the world’s largest privately owned laser. The 38-metre-long machine is described as a deliberate step toward a commercial fusion power plant the company...

One World Lithium Taps UBC Team to Advance Local Cleantech Innovation

One World Lithium is developing proprietary extraction technologies and pursuing strategic partnerships to commercialize lower-impact, scalable production from brines and clay slurries. Unlike traditional methods that tend to produce intermediates requiring additional downstream chemical processing, the Canadian firm’s objective is...

UBC’s HATCH Graduates Six High-Impact Startups

UBC’s HATCH Venture Builder is celebrating the graduation of six research-based startups, highlighting the depth and diversity of venture creation emerging from the university’s innovation ecosystem. The accelerator, which supports established UBC research-based spin-off companies, celebrated the graduating ventures on...

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...
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Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney...
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