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- New Zealand: Researchers are soon to test a potential game-changer in space propulsion on the ISS, combining plasma thrusters and superconducting magnets / full item
- New Zealand: Agnition Ventures partners Singapore’s Agrifood Futures for ‘Land x Launch’ accelerator, offering a program for agri-tech startups to launch in New Zealand / full item
- New Zealand intro’s visitor visa rule changes, integrating digital nomad and remote worker provisions into the existing visa system / full item
- New Zealand: Polymath raises NZ$1.5M pre-Seed with app that gamifies maths for kids / full item
- New Zealand: Forest Bioeconomy 2025 Conference is set for 20-21 May in Rotorua, with the theme of ‘Pioneering Sustainable Innovations for Tomorrow’ / full item
- New Zealand Nat’l Cyber Security Centre report outlines increasingly complex security threats faced from both criminals and nations, with 7122 security incidents in the year to July 2024 / full item
- New Zealand: Icehouse Ventures VC firm closes 2nd growth fund with NZ$122M in commitments to back up to 20 later-stage scaleups / full item
- New Zealand: Kwetta raises $16M led by Blackbird VC with energy grid level optimisation focused on electric buses and trucks / full item
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Critical tech news: February 2025
- Taiwan: MediaTek chip designer remains optimistic inf the face of concerns over possible US tariffs…
- India: Suchi Semicon firm is to establish an Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly & Test – OSAT – facility in Surat, locating near to Micron, Tata Electronics, and Kaynes Semicon facilities…
- Since early 2024, reports have emerged of idle computing centers in China. And in September, renting NVIDIA AI chips in the cloud was cheaper in China than in the US…
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