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German innovation is not limited to the country’s capital. In fact, some of this year’s most prolific startups are based hundreds of miles away. The AI startup Alpha Alpha hails from Heidelberg. Helsing, which sells AI to Europe’s…

A furious woman onboard a Frontier Airlines flight made wild claims as she tried to get the plane to return to the gate.The anonymous woman was flying from San Diego to Las Vegas and began making a scene when she realised she’d left her…

The Airwave is an extension of the tech-based teaching methods Roli has been pursuing for years. The company also makes the light-up Piano M keyboard (formerly called Lumi Keys), which is focused on music learners and which incorporates the…

Liz Hamren, the CEO of Amazon’s Ring camera business, often wonders whether her husband remembered to grab the package of frozen goods that is regularly delivered to their home. She could nag him, or she could check the footage from their…

Why is Stockholm, a capital city with a population less than one million, home to global brands such as Skype, Spotify, Klarna and Minecraft? “I think it has to do with the Swedish creed,” says Ben Eliass, CEO of bodycare brand Estrid.…

A missing hiker wrote a haunting note atop one of Yellowstone National Park's towering peaks before mysteriously vanishing.Austin King, 22, documented his terrifying solo climb up the daunting 11,400-foot Eagle Peak in Wyoming, US, fighting…

A bloke has claimed he knows what Bigfoot sounds like, having captured "audio evidence".Charlie Raymond, 57, has devoted the last three decades of his life to finding the elusive cryptid in his home state of Kentucky, US. The man is so set…

Home to fine cheese, breathtaking scenery and footballing politics (FIFA HQ overlooks Lake Zurich), Switzerland’s largest city is also a financial juggernaut. The central square of Paradeplatz is its beating heart, where the Swiss banking…

The extent to which academics are likely to follow the media attention, money, and Nobel Prize committee plaudits is a question that vexes Julian Togelius, an associate professor of computer science at New York University’s Tandon School of…

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of…