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Wednesday 21 January 2026 10:26 am Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email Setting a New Year’s resolution is one of those time-honoured traditions.Indeed, it’s a ritual that can be traced some 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonian times, with citizens celebrating the New Year during a 12-day festival called Akitu. One common New Year’s resolution was the return of borrowed farm equipment.While our goals may look different today, the desire to start afresh remains the same.Across the Square Mile, many of us will embrace the…

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He was taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries.Stock image(Image: Liam McBurney/PA Wire)A man has been taken to hospital after being stabbed in Belfast this morning.Emergency services were called in the early hours of Wednesday, January 21, after reports a man had been stabbed in the abdomen in the Woodland Avenue area, in the north of the city.Police attended the scene along with colleagues from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, who took the man on to hospital for treatment to his injuries. A PSNI spokesperson added: “Our enquiries are ongoing and we would appeal to anyone with any information,…

This week, a startup from San Francisco announced plans for a luxury hotel on the moon…yes, you read that right. Galactic Resource Utilization Space, better known as GRU Space, says it wants to build an initial inflatable lunar hotel by 2032, before eventually building a permanent lunar hotel using the materials on the moon’s surface. If successful, the project could see the moon being used as a new centre for tourism, particularly for high-net-worth, adventure-seeking travellers.   Building The Hotel   According to GRU Space, the lunar hotel will be constructed in stages. The first stage, V1, would be an…

Online mentoring site UStrive has resolved a security lapse that exposed the personal information of its users, including children.  The exposed data included the full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other non-public and user-provided information of UStrive users, which was accessible to any other logged-in user. The nonprofit, previously known as Strive for College, provides online mentorship to high school and college students through its platform. The organization would not say whether it plans to inform users about the security incident.  Last week, a person who asked not to be named alerted TechCrunch to the security flaw on UStrive’s…

Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot company backed by Nvidia and Uber, is expanding into a new category with its latest acquisition: healthcare. Los Angeles-based Serve Robotics announced Tuesday it was acquiring Diligent Robotics, a startup that builds robots named Moxi designed to assist in hospitals by delivering lab samples, supplies, and other tasks. The deal values Diligent’s common stock at $29 million. Diligent Robotics was founded in 2017 by Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu and has raised more than $75 million in venture capital — most recently raising a $25 million funding round in 2023. The acquisition marks Serve’s…

Luminar founder and former CEO Austin Russell has agreed to accept an electronic subpoena for information on his phone related to the company, as part of the lidar maker’s ongoing bankruptcy proceeding, per a new filing Tuesday. Russell now has seven days to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or object to it — otherwise he has 14 days to comply, according to the filing. The agreement comes two weeks after Luminar’s lawyers accused Russell of avoiding the subpoena by turning away process servers at the gate to his Florida mansion. Russell had argued he was unwilling to turn…

Wildland fires broke out amid hot and dry conditions in south-central Chile in mid-January 2026, prompting evacuations and causing extensive damage to infrastructure. As of January 20, the spate of deadly fires had burned more than 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) in the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions, according to Chile’s National Forestry Corporation. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of smoke billowing from multiple fires on January 18. Dozens of active fires in the area prompted the evacuation of 50,000 people and destroyed more than 300 homes, according to a January 19 report from Chile’s…

Days ahead of a scheduled trial, social media company Snap has settled a lawsuit accusing the platform of causing social media addiction, according to reports from multiple outlets. According to the New York Times, the settlement was announced Tuesday in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County. The lawsuit against Snap was brought by a 19-year-old known in court documents as K.G.M., accusing the social media app of designing algorithms and features that caused addiction and mental health issues. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The lawsuit also names other platforms, including Meta, YouTube, and TikTok. No…

Mike Novogratz’s digital asset firm Galaxy is preparing to launch a $100 million hedge fund aimed at profiting from both rising and falling crypto prices. The fund is set to launch in the first quarter and will be structured to take long and short positions across digital assets and traditional equities tied to financial infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.Up to 30% of the fund’s capital will be allocated directly to crypto tokens, with the remainder deployed into financial services stocks expected to be shaped by digital asset regulation, blockchain adoption, and technological change, per the report. The fund…