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Swedish startup Heart Aerospace has unveiled its first full-scale demonstrator hybrid-electric aircraft as it targets commercial flight by the end of 2029, a year later than previously planned.  Heart revealed the prototype, dubbed HX-1, at its hangar in Gothenburg yesterday, which we toured earlier this year.   The HX-1 prototype outside Heart’s hangar in Gothenburg, Sweden. Credit: Heart Aerospace The company will initially use the aircraft for ground-based testing, with the first flight scheduled for the second half of 2025 at the latest. It is set to be the largest electric plane to ever take to the skies.    “It is a…

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Every week, millions of adults pretend that they’re football managers. I am one of them. We live out our dreams in the Fantasy Premier League (FPL), an online game that’s become a global phenomenon.  With a budget of 100 million (digital) pounds, we build virtual squads of footballers. If their real-life counterparts play well, we win points. By the end of the season, the team with the most points wins. But what exactly do they win? Well, that depends who you ask. Here’s the official answer: over 10 million players compete for the grand prize of — drum roll, please — …

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Paris-based AI startup Poolside is in discussions to raise nearly $500mn at a $3bn valuation, Bloomberg reports.   Poolside is developing a ChatGPT-like large language model (LLM) that writes software code — but the business plan remains hush-hush. The company has yet to launch its first product. However, on its website Poolside states that it is currently training its LLM by “allowing it to improve by completing millions of tasks in tens of thousands of real world software projects.”  The startup is currently focused on winning over developers and has shown a demo code-generation product to investors, a person familiar with…

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The fifth-gen Lenovo ThinkBook Plus runs both Windows 11 and Android 13 across two chipsets, resulting in a laptop experience that’s difficult to replicate.

Apple just announced its iPhone 16 series, and there are some pretty big updates for both software and hardware. Here are the features that pro users will care about.

With this 42% off deal, you can Access Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, along with 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, for the lowest price we’ve seen.

Microsoft will officially end support for its most popular operating system in a little over a year from now. Here’s what you should do with your Windows 10 PCs before that day arrives.

Want to experience all the Apple Intelligence goodness that comes with iOS 18? Here’s the full list of compatible devices.