Category: Technology

Data security firm Cyera has raised a $540 million Series E funding round, bringing its total funding to over $1.3 billion and valuing the company at $6 billion. Empowering Secure AI Adoption Headquartered in New York, NY, Cyera provides an AI-driven, cloud-native platform designed to help organizations discover, classify, and protect data across diverse environments—including […]

Anxiety disorders are the world’s most common mental health problem. But it isn’t always easy to get professional help, with long waiting lists in many countries. Worldwide, only about 28% of people with anxiety receive treatment. The figure is similar for the UK, and in the US about 37% receive a treatment. This is due […]

Mila Supinskaya Glashchenko/Shutterstock If you visit a zoo, you might be captivated by the animals you see — majestic lions, curious meerkats, soaring birds of prey. But this is not always the case. Some zoos don’t always give us that impression of “happy animals” where they can behave naturally and be left alone by visitors […]

The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo’s Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration from the European Space Agency, it unites African Union (AU) member states to harness space technology for development. This is in […]

June 10, 2025 In a landmark moment for global space exploration, India, Poland, and Hungary each launched their first astronauts into space as part of a multinational crewed mission. The launch took place on June 10, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission, named Ax-4, is […]

OpenAI has reached a significant milestone, reporting $10 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR)—nearly doubling its previous year’s figure of $5.5 billion. This achievement underscores the company’s rapid growth and increasing adoption of its artificial intelligence products. Growth and Expansion The surge in revenue is largely attributed to OpenAI’s expanding user base and business adoption. […]

The Local Innovation Partnerships Fund will provide up to £500 million in funding for those who know their community best to work in partnership with: local authorities local businesses local researchers and innovators It is designed to attract a further £1 billion additional investment, including from the private sector, and £700 million of additional value […]

KAZLOVA IRYNA/Shutterstock When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign, and if horse had its ears back it wasn’t happy. Those riding lessons sparked a fascination with equine behaviour that is still with me and inspires […]

The Cambridge x Manchester Innovation Partnership will create a cross-UK innovation network. It will pilot new approaches to drive growth in a range of different sectors championed by the universities, from discovering new medicine to improving the resilience of UK infrastructure. Improving lives and livelihoods The partnership not only shines a spotlight on what Cambridge […]

Miriam Doerr Martin Frommherz/Shutterstock As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are friendly, helpful machines that can talk, remind, monitor – and even offer a form of companionship for older people. By 2050, the global population of adults aged 60 […]