In a country where public school classrooms are often overcrowded and dominated by rote memorization, Egypt has been experimenting with a new model of education, inspired by a country far beyond the North African region. Over the past decade, under a bilateral pact with Japan, the Egyptian government has launched a network of “Egyptian-Japanese schools” aimed at fostering academic prowess and emotional resilience, teamwork, and daily discipline — hallmarks of Tokyo’s renowned education system. 

December 5, 2025 — YiHe Technology, a company specializing in the R&D and industrialization of electrochemical synthesis, has completed two consecutive funding rounds totaling tens of millions of USD, including an angel round led by K2VC and an angel+ round funded by angel investor Fei Gesheng. The proceeds will be used for team expansion, process optimization, and pilot-scale product development. Yuewei Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor for subsequent rounds.

Hyderabad, December 5, 2025, India — The Government of Telangana is set to unveil its Telangana Rising 2047 Vision Document at the upcoming Telangana Rising Global Summit in Bharat Future City, where nearly 1,000 global delegates—including business leaders, policy experts, academics, and representatives of multilateral institutions—will receive exclusive copies. The long-term roadmap positions Telangana to become one of the world’s leading growth hubs over the next two decades.

StartupTN, the Tamil Nadu government’s nodal agency for startups and innovation, has opened applications for TANSEED 8.0, the latest edition of its flagship seed fund initiative designed to support early-stage startups across the state. TANSEED (Tamil Nadu Startup Seed Fund) provides Support Equity-linked Grants, offering up to Rs 15 lakh for green tech, rural impact, and women-led startups, and up to Rs 10 lakh for ventures in other sectors.

How do you keep RAG systems accurate and efficient when every query tries to stuff thousands of tokens into the context window and the retriever and generator are still optimized as 2 separate, disconnected systems? A team of researchers from Apple and University of Edinburgh released CLaRa, Continuous Latent Reasoning, (CLaRa-7B-Base, CLaRa-7B-Instruct and CLaRa-7B-E2E) a retrieval augmented generation framework that compresses documents into continuous memory tokens and then performs both retrieval and generation in that shared latent space.

Thousands of True Wireless Earbuds are being recalled across Canada due to burn and fire hazards. The earbuds, which were sold by retailer Giant Tiger, were listed in a recall notice issued by Health Canada on Thursday. According to the recall, the USB cable used to charge the earbuds was manufactured with the wrong wiring material, which could lead to overheating when plugged in, posing a fire risk.

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Cumberland Community Improvement District and Cobb County, Georgia, plan to launch an autonomous shuttle service across Metro Atlanta’s Cumberland district. The Federal Transit Administration awarded Cobb County $6.6 million under the Low or No Emission Grant Program for the project.

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Founders, advisers and investors gathered for the final Founders Exchange of the year on December 3, returning to Dublin’s Digital Hub to chat building and fundraising. On Wednesday (3 December) Enterprise Ireland and Silicon Republic hosted the third edition of a new event series for early stage start-ups in Ireland, the Founders’ Exchange, returning to the Digital Hub in Dublin. It rounded off a year that kicked off with the Founders Listening Tour in February, when the partners toured Ireland with eight events resulting in, among other things, the launch of this new meet-up series.

In global clinical trials, the kit is much more than a box handed off to a courier. It’s a critical trial tool that must clear customs, withstand transit, and arrive across borders ready for use by the trial team or participants. That means more than compliance; it means foresight. From labeling and language to packaging and provenance, kitting logistics for global clinical trials demands a strategic blend of logistics, cultural fluency, and regulatory precision.

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In this week’s CleanTechnica YouTube gathering, fellow CleanTechnica writers Zach Shahan, Larry Evans, José Pontes, and I over-extended the allotted time of 30 minutes and talked for an hour and fifteen. The discussions were continuous and spontaneous, layered, one topic opening up another. One of the points we raised and discussed was autonomous driving laws in China, compared to what is going on in the US and Europe.

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Many passengers across the country are adjusting their travel plans after IndiGo cancelled several domestic flights. The cancellations follow India's updated Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) rules, which now set tighter limits on pilot working hours. As airlines adapt to these requirements, IndiGo has suspended all its domestic departures from several major airports in India, leaving many passengers unable to board their scheduled flights and stranded at the Airport for hours.

In this tutorial, we explore how we can orchestrate a team of specialized AI agents locally using an efficient manager-agent architecture powered by TinyLlama. We walk through how we build structured task decomposition, inter-agent collaboration, and autonomous reasoning loops without relying on any external APIs. By running everything directly through the transformers library, we create a fully offline, lightweight, and transparent multi-agent system that we can customize, inspect, and extend.

Indian Railways is taking a technological step to protect wildlife and improve train safety by expanding the use of an AI-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to monitor elephant movement along railway tracks. The system has been implemented over 141 route kilometres on the Northeast Frontier Railway and sends real-time alerts to train operators and station control rooms whenever elephants approach the tracks.

Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has ordered all point-of-sale (PoS) operators to register their businesses before January 1, 2026, or risk having their terminals seized. The move marks the government’s most forceful attempt yet to formalise an industry that has grown rapidly but unevenly, and it places renewed pressure on fintech companies to tighten compliance across their agent networks. In the public notice dated December 6, 2025, the CAC said it had observed “the rising number of PoS operators running without registration,” describing the trend as a violation of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA 2020) and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s agent banking regulation.

Dec 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Blockchain The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX with 24 extensions impersonating popular developer tools and frameworks like Flutter, React, Tailwind, Vim, and Vue. GlassWorm was first documented in October 2025, detailing its use of the Solana blockchain for command-and-control (C2) and harvest npm, Open VSX, GitHub, and Git credentials, drain cryptocurrency assets from dozens of wallets, and turn developer machines into attacker-controlled nodes for other criminal activities.

TL;DR Evidence of a new multi-folding device from Xiaomi has surfaced. This device sports the model number 2608BPX34C. It’s rumored to have around the same dimensions as Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold. At the beginning of December, Samsung officially announced the Galaxy Z TriFold. It’s only been a few days since then, but it looks like the multi-folding phone could get another competitor soon.

During Black Friday, Rogers started offering a 25GB data bonus on its $85/mo ‘Popular’ plan. That deal ended on December 1, but now it’s back alongside some other benefits. First and foremost, the 25GB data bonus on the ‘Popular’ plan brings it up from 175GB to 200GB of data. Rogers’ website notes that the plan includes 5G and 5G+ access, with data speeds of up to 1Gbps for the 200GB allotment.

On December 5, Ledao Auto unveiled a nationwide “battery doubling plan” for its swap-station network, committing to deploy more than8,000 brand-new battery packs across China. The rollout is expected to be completed by mid-January next year. Once the expansion is finished, the number of Ledao batteries within China’s battery-swap network will exceed twice the current level, ensuring sufficient capacity for the surge in demand during the Spring Festival travel season and providing…

Dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA work wonderfully when datasets are linearly separable—but they break down the moment nonlinear patterns appear. That’s exactly what happens with datasets such as two moons: PCA flattens the structure and mixes the classes together.  Kernel PCA fixes this limitation by mapping the data into a higher-dimensional feature space where nonlinear patterns become linearly separable. In this article, we’ll walk through how Kernel PCA works and use a simple example to visually compare PCA vs.

In 2025, while most tech founders chase AI and fintech glory, Bayo Adewoye is solving a problem few people want to talk about: Building solutions that don’t require the internet. Bayo Adewoye’s introduction to agriculture wasn’t through a business school case study or a Silicon Valley accelerator. It was through a security guard. In 2018, Adewoye was living with his uncle in Abuja.

Moscow Film Cluster, one of the largest creative filmmaking ecosystems in Eastern Europe, announced its participation in the 5th Edition of Red Sea Souk 2025 in Jeddah, from 6-10th December this year. For the first time in the MENA region, the Cluster will introduce its full-scale production infrastructure to international partners – presenting locations, services, technical capacities, creative talent, and internationally-oriented incentive measures designed for global filmmakers.

Other winners include CergenX, Stryker, Alcon Ireland and the Institute for Clinical Trials. The Irish Medtech Awards 2025 were held last night (4 December) in Galway to recognise the talent and diversity of this major sector.  US-headquartered West Pharmaceuticals beat other finalists Deciphex and Integer Holdings to be crowned Medtech Company of the Year.   West has a contract manufacturing site and a global financial services office in Dublin.