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Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection


The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were not disclosed. Penemue, the Freiburg-based TrustTech startup developing AI to detect and counter online hate speech, digital violence, and disinformation, has raised more than €1.7 million in […]



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Cyberpunk trading card game hands-on impressions from PAX East 2026

Hands-on with the $15 million Cyberpunk trading card game reveals fast-paced matches, simple systems, and a surprisingly strong first impression

Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton


The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series A, with SIMEST providing international expansion funding through Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wearable Robotics, an Italian rehabilitation technology company spun out of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in […]



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Critical Role continues the Mighty Nein story in a Campaign 2 sequel novel

Critical Role returns to Wildemount in Nibedita Sen’s The Mighty Nein — Children of Empire

The Western US is already running out of water — and summer is still months away

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks, which supplies water for communities as it slowly melts throughout the spring and summer.  Then came the heat […]