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Ethereal Exploration Guild, an Indian spacetech startup better known as EtherealX — developing a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle — is close to securing about $21 million in a new funding round co-led by TDK Ventures, with Accel among the participants, TechCrunch has learned. Initially planned as a $15 million Series A, the round has … Read more
Florian Wirtz has made an underwhelming start to his Liverpool career but the player is “too good to fail”, according to former Germany international Benedikt Howedes. The 2014 World Cup winner, who later served as Germany’s team manager, was speaking to a small group of international reporters about the fortunes of German players in the … Read more
Like pretty much every other tech company in existence, Adobe has leaned heavily into AI over the past several years. The software firm has launched a number of different AI services since 2023, including Firefly — its AI-powered media-generation suite. Now, however, the company’s full-throated embrace of the technology may have led to trouble, as … Read more
Premier League players taking part in AFCON 2025 departed to join up with their national teams this week ahead of the tournament opener on Sunday, when hosts Morocco face Comoros. The players called up could be absent for over a month, with the final of the tournament scheduled for January 18. So which Premier League … Read more
According to Reuters, Instacart is currently getting the regulatory equivalent of a throat-clearing from the FTC, which has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand regarding its AI-powered pricing tool, Eversight. Put another way, the agency wants to know why some people are paying substantially more for their organic granola than others. The … Read more
Raymond van Barneveld has admitted he will ask himself “what’s next?” after he lost his first match at the World Darts Championship for a second year running. Van Barneveld was thrashed 3-0 by Switzerland’s Stefan Bellmont on Wednesday, winning just two legs, and is set to drop significantly down from his current ranking of 35th … Read more
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump. Isaacman’s confirmation comes a little over a year after Trump nominated him. … Read more
Manchester City have progressed to the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup for the first time since winning the competition back in 2021 after beating Brentford 2-0, which included a stunning opener from Rayan Cherki. But the game was not without incident as, before Cherki’s excellent opener, Brentford felt as if Abdukodir Khusanov should have seen … Read more
Another day, another nine-figure round for a nuclear startup. Radiant Nuclear said today that it has raised more than $300 million, just one day after Last Energy said it had raised $100 million. Three weeks ago, X-energy raised $700 million, and in August, Aalo Atomics raised $100 million. Heck, Radiant itself raised $165 million just … Read more
For Nathan Broadhead, returning to Wrexham was more of a spiritual return, rather than a literal one. “I moved from here to Everton when I was 10 for about ten grand so it was too long ago to feel like a full homecoming,” Broadhead tells Sky Sports. “I didn’t expect to come back, especially with … Read more
