Portland Fire’s new logo and the return of its original team name. Courtesy: Portland Fire | WNBA Portland’s WNBA expansion team on Tuesday unveiled its new branding and name — the Portland Fire — a rekindling of the city’s previous WNBA team that played from 2000 to 2002. The new logo features a rose on…
By Europa Press Published July 15, 2025 Barcelona-based startup Theker, known for its adaptive AI-driven robotics, has secured $21 million (€18 million) in seed funding to scale its technology. The round was led by Kibo Ventures, with backing from Inditex—parent company of Zara—and Kfund’s Leadwind fund. Theker’s founders – Theker Founded by engineers Jiaqiang Ye…
Ghost of Yōtei has been revealed, in place of what many had expected to be ‘Ghost of Tsushima 2‘. It’s set more than 300 years after the first Ghost game, and as such, isn’t quite a direct sequel. While it’s still early days in terms of Ghost of Yōtei details, we do know that it’s…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has proposed a broad spending freeze for next year and scrapping two national holidays, putting his political survival on the line to narrow the deficit. In a press conference on…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rarely has a UK cabinet minister made such an extraordinary admission to parliament as that by defence secretary John Healey on Tuesday: a catastrophic data breach under the previous Conservative government endangering the safety of…
A ‘bioinspired super-adhesive filter’ has been tested by Korean scientists It uses oil, mimicking ‘mucus-coated nasal hairs’ for better filtering of dust Your PC could be a lot more dust-free in the future as a result, if this ever comes to fruition with mesh case filters The dust filters that aim to prevent particles from…
Bourigault et al. 2024 Thousands of scans of each participant are recorded and stored as part of the imaging project. Here showing images of the abdomen and major organs Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers….
A Nintendo Switch 2 owner was reportedly banned after playing legitimate second-hand games that were later found to be cloned Reddit user ‘dmanthey’ says they were able to reverse the ban after speaking to Nintendo Nintendo has been cracking down on piracy by restricting consoles caught using piracy tools A Nintendo Switch 2 owner is…
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tell a City of London audience on Tuesday that Britain’s safety-first regulatory culture is acting as “a boot on the neck of business”, as she promises to sweep away red tape…
