Donald Trump’s administration has made the unprecedented decision to make a direct capital entry into XLight, a deep-tech startup led by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing the Department of Commerce, the US…
IBM has stepped up its efforts in the race to build a usable quantum computer with the unveiling of its new Quantum Nighthawk processor. The goal is clearly defined and strategically differentiated from the competition: the company wants to achieve…
John M. Martinis, a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2025) and one of the architects of Google’s breakthrough in ‘quantum supremacy’, is starting a new chapter. This time his goal is not a laboratory record, but the…
The competition is already implementing AI, but are we? Will we be left behind? – This is the question that keeps many SME managers and business owners awake at night. Bombarded by headlines about revolutions, conferences promising breakthroughs and vendors…
The European Union is entering a new phase of thinking about economic security. At a meeting of ministers in Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency, there was a proposal to impose additional conditions on Chinese investment in Europe – including…
In just one decade, the smartphone has undergone a transformation from a useful gadget to the almost invisible centre of our lives, eliminating everyday frustrations along the way that we have managed to forget. This is the story of the…
Creotech Instruments has announced a significant expansion of its collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the CAMILA project – a new addendum raises the value of the contract to more than €59 million, of which €29.1 million will…
In the global race for technological dominance, Europe is increasingly falling behind. While the US and China are surging ahead, building digital empires based on artificial intelligence, advanced cloud and innovation, the Old Continent is facing a growing investment gap.…
For decades, Europe’s technological landscape was based on a simple divide: innovative, capital-rich centres in the West and talented but mostly cheaper hinterlands in the East. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was mainly seen through the prism of cost arbitrage,…
The European Commission’s ‘State of the Digital Decade 2025‘ report is an annual barometer of ambitions and realities in the Union’s digital landscape. This year’s edition, while pointing to progress, is first and foremost a sober assessment of the fundamental…
The year 2025 on the European technology scene is a time of apparent contradictions. On the one hand, data points to historically low levels of Venture Capital fundraising, with just €5.2 billion raised in the first half of the year,…
A quiet revolution has been playing out in the landscape of Poland’s technology economy for several years. Devoid of the global publicity that accompanies the biggest tech hubs, the transformation of the HealthTech sector is fundamentally changing the face of…
The hybrid approach from Fujitsu and leading universities reduces posture calculation errors by 43%, paving the way for more complex humanoid machines. A consortium involving Fujitsu, Shibaura Institute of Technology and Waseda University has developed a novel hybrid method to…
Quantum computers, long seen as the domain of physics laboratories, are beginning to find practical application in business. With the increasing availability of hardware via the cloud, there is a demand for a new type of specialist – a hybrid…