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UK Startup Altilium Secures £18.5M to Build Britain’s First Commercial EV Battery Refinery

In short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country’s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Located in Plymouth, Devon, the facility will process 24,000 EV batteries a year using Altilium’s proprietary EcoCathode™ process, […]

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Estonia: The Uncommon EU Country Opposing Bans on Children’s Social Media Use

In short: Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict children’s access to social media. Estonia’s ministers argue that age-based bans are unenforceable, that children will find ways around them, and that the correct approach is to enforce the GDPR against […]

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AI can screen 15 million molecules daily, but it still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late 2025, a team of researchers working on Huntington’s disease used generative AI to computationally design 15 million potential compounds for a type of molecule called […]

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Samsung Phones to Discontinue Beloved Customization Option

Your Samsung Device Is Losing A Fun Customization Option With One UI 8.5

Samsung, recognized for its extensively customizable One UI, has subtly removed the functionality to utilize third-party or custom fonts with the March 2026 security update, impacting devices operating on One UI 8.5 or One UI 8.0. This alteration stems from a security patch that addressed a glitch permitting custom fonts without adequate cryptographic verification. While Samsung perceives this as a security threat, users can still obtain fonts via the Galaxy Store, although options are predominantly paid. In spite of this restriction, Samsung devices continue to provide a range of customization options such as wallpapers and color schemes.