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After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will possibly collaborate with Arm, but what remains to be seen what happens to the…

Other lives: Social worker and volunteer dedicated to the community, and the celebration of literature, in Cambridge

Letters: Readers respond to Mary Beard’s defence of Cambridge University’s mandatory retirement age

The round was led by Hoxton Ventures alongside funding from Basis Set Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners

On March 8, an unnamed woman, part of a group called Palestine Action, attacked a painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, Cambridge. (Balfour studied there from 1866-69: this must be the connection). She cut it seven times with a knife and sprayed red paint over Balfour’s face. All this…

Thomas Hertog tells us how he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on his final theorem — a Darwinian revolution in physics that explains the origin of time.

Raspberry Pi had a humble start to life as a charity in Cambridge. Sixteen years later, it's sold over 60 million personal computers and is on track for an IPO.

Cambridge engineers recreate mathematician John Venn’s machine that can launch balls at 33mph

Cambridge, Stratford, Wigtown and Henley festivals say firm ended deals after protests over its links to Israel and fossil fuels