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What's up with public toilet anxiety? Learn more about what makes people too anxious to use the bathroom in public in this HowStuffWorks Now article.

Bristol proved especially popular among tech investors last year — local businesses raked in an impressive $414 million in 2020, making it the third-largest U.K. city for tech investment.

The sailing community makes the best of what is allowed

Kinsale & Crosshaven Yachts Leading on Water & Handicap in Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race 9th June 2021 The Murphy familys Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo is leading the Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race on corrected time Day #1 8 pm: The weather has settled down to a warm and sunny summers evening as the fleet in the 2021 Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race turn to windward close inshore between Wicklow Head and Arklow, theoretically with ample time to appreciate the lush beauties of the coastline of the Garden ...

UK pulls away from France and Germany on VC funding despite Brexit CNBC 3/16/2021 Sam Shead The U.K.s tech start-ups raised more in 2020 than start-ups in any other country except for the U.S. ($144 billion) and China ($44.6 billion), according to Tech Nations annual report. The U.K.s start-ups and "scale-ups" are now valued at an estimated $585 billion — more than double what they were valued at in 2017, Tech Nation said. By contrast, Germany, the next most valuable start...

Pandemic Preservation Projects Save Sailors Sanity 11th March 2021 The newly-restored 1969 Nich 43 Hunza being sailed by Andrew Wilkes in Arrecife Harbour in the Canaries Credit: Maire Breathnach A busy ship, the old saying goes, is a happy ship. And a sailor in enforced idleness can be – at the very least - one decidedly grumpy so-and-so. Thus the multiple limitations of pandemic lockdowns have posed a challenge to people who are only kept happy by having at least one project on the go. Bu...

Lincoln strongman adds competition into his next charity challenge Marking a decade of challenges in memory of a special friend Lincoln strongman Dave Johnson has completed over 20 charity challenges since 2011. | Photo: Bretts photography A strongman from Lincoln is preparing for his latest charity challenge and is adding a competition element to get others involved. Dave Johnson will once again be doing the challenge in memory of his close friend Mark Browne, who passed away in 2012 after a b...

Share Graphcore makes high-end chips that can be put into computers to make them faster at crunching data. The chips accelerate machine learning, otherwise known as artificial intelligence. They are currently used in driverless cars, traffic management systems and drug development. Customers include Dell, Microsoft and Samsung. There is growing excitement surrounding the company, which was founded in 2016 by experienced techies Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles, amid hopes that it might become the U...

AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $222M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights Applications based on artificial intelligence — whether they are systems running autonomous services, platforms being used in drug development or to predict the spread of a virus, traffic management for 5G networks or something else altogether — require an unprecedented amount of computing power to run. And today, one of the big names in the world of designing and building processors fit for the task has...

Semiconductor maker Graphcore has announced it has raised another $222million (£164million) from investors in a funding round that values the company at nearly $2.8billion. It is the largest amount of money the group has received in a fundraising round, surpassing the $200million it raised in December 2018 from investors such as Microsoft, BMW and early Apple investor Sequoia Capital. The Bristol-based unicorn firm, which designs chips for use in artificial intelligence, has now raised over $7...