Army parachutes onto Tristan da Cunha to help Briton with suspected hantavirusMinstry of DefenceMedical supplies were dropped onto the remote island, which has no airstrip and a population of just 221British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus.The man left MV Hondius, the cruise ship hit by a deadly...

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI  ARK Invest Venture Fund has made its first-ever lead investment in an early-stage startup called Lucra, firm founder Cathie Woods told TechCrunch.   “We feel pretty excited about it,” Woods (pictured above) said in the recent interview regarding the investment in the startup. Lucra developed...

AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO In Brief Posted: 12:19 PM PDT · April 18, 2026 Image Credits:TechCrunch/Julie Bort Cerebras Systems, a startup building what CEO Andrew Feldman describes as “the fastest AI hardware for training and inference,” has filed to go public. The company previously filed for an initial public offering in...

VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo Alto-based VC, which saw its median deal size explode over the past several years, has poured an increasing amount of money into the “physical world.” Its deals include electric boat...

The global propyl gallate market is advancing as food preservation, oxidation control, and product stability become increasingly critical across industrial food systems. Widely used as a synthetic antioxidant, propyl gallate plays a key role in extending shelf life and maintaining quality in fats, oils, processed foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. With Fact.MR projecting...