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Black founders in the UK are also seeing the impact of venture’s winter year. Black founders in the United Kingdom raised only 0.95% of all venture investment allocated in the country so far this year (or just $165 million out of around $17.3 billion), according to a new report by Extend Ventures. That would put 2023 behind 2022, when such founders raised 1.02% ($316 million of $30.88 billion), and 2021, when Black founders were allocated 1.13% ($454 million out of $40.03 billion) of all venture investment in the country. There’s clearly been a consistent decline since 2020, the year George…

Lottie is a digital marketplace connecting care seekers with the UK’s best care homes and retirement communities. The company streamlines the care home search process, providing expert advice and handling every aspect of finding a suitable home. Key offerings include a personalised search tool, expert curation of care homes, and support in comparing and selecting properties.   Website:     What is Lottie?   Lottie offers a unique service focused on helping families and retirees find top-tier care homes and retirement living communities in the UK. As a digital marketplace, Lottie stands out by only featuring the best care homes,…

The latest degen “gold rush” to inscribe everything from profile pictures to memecoins has led to at least half a dozen blockchain networks cracking under pressure over the past week.The last few days have seen Arbirtrum, Avalanche, Cronos, zkSync, and TON all suffering partial or full outages recently due to inscriptions, with modular data availability network Celestia the latest to succumb, according to industry researchers who posted a screenshot of its block explorer on Dec. 18.Videos have also been posted of mass minting on the Celestia network. Screenshot from Celestia block explorer. Source: X/@Dogetoshi“The team is actively investigating, but we…

The type 3 secretion system depends on two proteins, PopB and PopD (red and blue) creating a tunnel in the hosts’s cell wall. Credit: UMass Amherst Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” that can defeat efforts to kill them are an urgent public health crisis, and according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year. Researchers across the world are scrambling to meet the challenge. A collaborative team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and including scientists from the biopharmaceutical company Microbiotix recently announced that they had successfully learned how to sabotage a key…

Staff at Moulsecoomb Primary School put on the festive feast in collaboration with Nourish Contract Catering for 100 guests who enjoyed all the trimmings to the backdrop of Christmas tunes. As well as food and music, a visit from Father Christmas also ensured that each child went home with a gift. The annual tradition originated from The Pioneer Academy Trust wanting to make sure that everyone got a Christmas dinner during the festive period. It is now a fixture on the calendar at all schools in the trust. Children were each given a gift to take home (Image: The Pioneer…

Location : The M62 westbound between junctions J31 and J30 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 06:45 and 07:00 on 19 December 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 30 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Image Credit: Shutterstock Holly Marie Combs, 50, claimed Alyssa Milano, 51, is the reason Shannen Doherty, 52, was fired from their hit show Charmed, in a new interview. The actress appeared on Shannen’s Let’s Be Clear podcast this week when she revealed that she found out the news when she went to show producer Jonathan Levin in the early 2000s to find out herself why Shannen was let go. “He said, ‘We didn’t mean to — but we’ve been backed into this corner — we’re basically in this position where it’s one or the other,’” Holly said in the episode.…

30 objectors raised issues of insufficient social housing, pollution levels, and homes "for local people" Source link

There had been reports it could be held in January 2025 under the Fixed Term Parliament Act Source link

Google said today it will pay $700 million — $630 million to U.S. consumers and $70 to a fund used by U.S. states — in a settlement over Play Store reached in September. In September,  the company reached a tentative settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by U.S. states and consumers originally filed in 2021. However, the search giant made the details of the settlement public today. The complaint highlighted Google’s monopoly over app distribution on Android through the Play Store. In November 2022, Google started a pilot of its user choice billing program in the U.S., which allowed…