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Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off
Furo, a startup building software for industrial battery storage systems, has raised $4 million from mostly US investors after its three co-founders chose to relocate from Silicon Valley back to their native Germany. The move challenges the long-standing Silicon Valley orthodoxy that international founders must be based in the US to secure venture funding, and…
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Several dead after tourist coach carrying 48 passengers flips over mountain road in Swiss Alps
Several people died and others were injured when a coach carrying 48 tourists overturned on a mountain road in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland, one of the country’s most popular Alpine holiday regions. The crash happened at around 8pm on Thursday on the route linking the villages of Susch and Zernez, after the vehicle…
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Top police investigator used Flock cameras to search for her ex-girlfriend’s car 3,000 times, cops say
A senior investigator with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office in New York has been suspended and charged after allegedly abusing access to Flock surveillance cameras to track down her ex-girlfriend’s car thousands of times. Laurie Moore, 47, is accused of running more than 3,000 unauthorised searches on her former partner’s vehicle, alongside over 1,000 further…
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Rick Springfield Claims He Killed a Man While Entertaining Troops During Vietnam War
Musician Rick Springfield has recounted a harrowing episode from 1968, when he travelled to South Vietnam as a teenager with the Australian band MPD Ltd. to entertain American troops. During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, he claimed that while a Navy encampment came under attack he was invited to fire mortars and was…
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Dolly Parton’s Travel Stop Releases New Videos That Include a New Jingle, Star Talking Stop’s Importance
Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop, the roadside venue in Cornersville, Tennessee, founded by Dolly Parton, has released previously unseen videos of the late country star discussing why opening the stop mattered to her, timed to coincide with the upcoming Trucker’s Appreciation Week. The release comes weeks after Parton’s death on 25 August in Nashville at the…
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Netflix’s New 6-Part Thriller Is ‘John Carpenter Meets H.P. Lovecraft’ With a Canadian Twist
Netflix has revealed details of “Below,” a six-episode thriller set in a fictional, dying Newfoundland fishing village called Snooks Arm, premiering on 8 October. Created by Canadian showrunner Jesse McKeown, known for his work on The Umbrella Academy and Letterkenny, the series follows Josh Hartnett’s character Calvin Penney, whose family has lived in the declining…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US
Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has climbed to the No. 2 spot on the US Apple App Store, boosting investor confidence just days after its Tuesday launch. The app forms a key part of Meta’s push into agentic AI, an emerging field the company believes will reshape how people get everyday tasks done, though…
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Ministers eye tourist tax as SNSM shadows migrant dinghy to Portsmouth, Trump pledges $5,000 tariff payout
A busy briefing: devolved powers could let English mayors levy hotel stays, French rescuers refused to board 120 migrants near Portsmouth, and Trump promised Americans a $5,000 payout if Republicans hold Congress. Also: Iceland opens in the Falklands, heatwaves threaten Britain’s beer, and Tilda Swinton returns to t…
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Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
The European Space Agency is pressing ahead alone on its Envision mission to Venus after NASA signalled it likely cannot deliver a US-built radar instrument it had promised, due to budget pressures from the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to NASA science funding. Envision will map the Venusian surface at ten times the resolution of NASA’s…