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E-Bike-Startup Cowboy ist gerettet
Nach langer Funkstille hat sich das belgische E-Bike-Startup Cowboy zur eigenen Situation geäußert. Dank eines neuen Investors geht der Betrieb weiter.
https://www.heise.d…

US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-hiri…

So China's BYD has a €6,800 electric car on the Chinese market, with a 30 kWh battery and 300 km range. Amazing.
https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/byds-low-cost-seagull-ev-now-starts-under-8000-china/

Street trees unequally distributed across Canada, study finds #Canada

Street trees unequally distributed across Canada, study finds
A new study from the University of Toronto Mississauga finds that street trees are unevenly distributed across Canadian cities, with marginalized neighborhoods often seeing fewer and smaller trees and less species diversity.

Biometrische Grenzkontrolle: Deutschland startet Ein-/Ausreisesystem im Oktober
Nach einer Verzögerung soll das europäische Ein-/Ausreisesystem fürs Grenzmanagement jetzt in Düsseldorf starten. Frankfurt und München sollen folgen.

How Wall Street is embracing crypto, spurred in part by political opportunism, as some executives fear the rush may risk the safety of personal bank accounts (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/wall-street-banks-cryp…

Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.

Porsche-Holding investiert Geld in Militär-Startups
Russlands Angriffskrieg beunruhigt die Familie Porsche–Piëch. Mit Geld für Start-ups für Militärtechnik will sie helfen, Demokratie und Freiheit zu verteidigen.
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Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M users globally (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Alibaba leads US$60 million investment in AI video generation start-up AIsphere
AIsphere’s PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Biometrische Grenzkontrolle: Deutschland startet Ein-/Ausreisesystem im Oktober

Donnerstag: Porsche-Geld für Militär-Startups, Google-KI mit Erinnerungsvermögen
Investitionen in Militär-Technologie Gemini schaltet Hirn ein Fortnite-Horrorspiel der Sparkassen MediaMarktSaturn mit Online-Wachstum #heiseshow