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Research is helping to shape a national roadmap linking ocean health, communities, governance and the economy to strengthen how Australia uses evidence to manage its oceans. Dr. Tai Loureiro, from The University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences, was part of a national team of researchers and practitioners that developed an Ocean Accounting White Paper for the National Marine Science Committee, one of 21 papers informing the next National Marine Science Strategy 2026–2036. Source link

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PayPal Ventures is taking a break. Five sources told Fortune that the corporate venture arm, which was founded in 2016, will be winding down operations. A company spokesperson confirmed the news to TechCrunch, albeit with a nuanced statement: “As part of our continued efforts to sharpen our focus, we are exploring strategic options for our corporate venture arm,” the spokesperson said in an email. PayPal Ventures has made more than 80 investments, including the crypto trading platform Talos Global, fintech infrastructure company Plaid, and the crypto bank Anchorage Digital. It has raised $850 million across three funds.  PayPal Ventures still exists…

Location : The A282 anticlockwise exit slip to the A206 . Lane Closures : Lane one is closed. Reason : Broken down vehicle. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 11:45 and 12:00 on 18 June 2026. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 11:45 and 12:00 on 18 June 2026. Lanes Closed : There is one of two lanes closed. Source link

Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal want to solve two hard problems: create a good-looking wearable and measure hormones to help women understand their health better. The pair is building a startup called Clair Health to track inflammation and bloating markers, energy levels, and cycle phase classification to give insights into cycle irregularities and perimenopause, as well as hormonal fluctuations, and how to navigate those changes. The company has raised $11.6 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from startup accelerator program a16z speedrun, Brydge Club, Treehub, Cartan Capital, AGI House, Insiders VC, Anne Wojcicki,…

Long before bitcoin existed, Ricardo Salinas Pliego was learning about hard money at the family dinner table. Born in Mexico City in 1955, Salinas is the founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail. In 1987, he took over from his father as CEO of Grupo Elektra — originally a family-owned furniture manufacturing company founded in 1906 by his great-grandfather — and refocused it on appliances, electronics, and consumer credit for Mexico’s emerging middle class.  Today, his empire includes Banco Azteca, TV Azteca, and dozens of other enterprises spanning the…

Mr Burnham has released a video to say he backs Labour candidate Philip Berman, who is standing for the party in the upcoming Goldsmid ward by-election in Hove, on June 25. The former mayor of Manchester is also standing in his own by-election for the Makerfield parliamentary constituency today (June 18). He is widely expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party if he is elected to parliament. In a video released in support of Mr Berman, Mr Burnham said: “We’ve got two big by-elections coming up. “I’m up on June 18, as you might know,…

Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy (it’s a hot IPO summer and we’re all just along for the ride), most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s long-term impact on the country, a new study from Pew Research reveals. In fact, although a whole lot of Americans increasingly use AI in their daily lives, most of them have neutral to negative views about it, the research reveals. Only 16% of Americans think that AI’s impact on society during the next 20 years will be positive, Pew says, while around 40% say that it will have a…

When it comes to antivirus software, most people will just set it up and move on, assuming that it’s doing its job in the background. And for the most part, that trust is well-placed. But something that rarely gets asked is if your antivirus is keeping up with the threats that exist right now. Protection is only as good as the last upgrade and if you don’t know when that was, you should continue reading. For the average user, antivirus software is one of those things that should just do its thing. Invisible, low maintenance and working consistently. Keep in…

Thursday 18 June 2026 9:01 am D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), the only dual-platform quantum computing company providing both annealing and gate-model systems, software and services, today announced its forthcoming gate-model quantum computing simulator, which is expected to be the first of its kind designed for error-aware programming. The announcement marks the next step in D-Wave’s gate-model roadmap and comes just weeks after the Company outlined its differentiated approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing. Built around D-Wave’s dual-rail technology, the simulator is expected to enable error-aware programming, giving developers visibility into errors so they can design applications…