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The Spinoff Europa technology conference is returning in 2025 in Sofia, with a focus on innovation and a sustainable future.
The International Spinoff Europa Conference 2025 will be held on June 19-20 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event is dedicated to technological startups and will bring together over 250 participants, including scientists, entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors. The conference will offer a rich program with key panels, a "Spinoff of the Year" competition, laboratories for artificial intelligence, personalized medicine, and other areas, as well as opportunities for B2B meetings and networking.
Innovative technologies for monitoring are being tested in Sozopol.
On June 5, 2025, in the area of the Shofyorski Beach in Sozopol, a demonstration of a pilot project funded by the EU will be held, aimed at using mobile command centers, drones, radars and artificial intelligence to improve security and response in crisis situations. Access to the beach will be temporarily restricted during certain time intervals.
Burgas students design a sustainable future for the "Mladost" sports hall
The third edition of the eco-innovative camp under the project "Reassessment of climate neutrality in European coastal cities" (Re-Value) concluded with inspiring ideas for the transformation of the Mladost sports hall in Burgas. Over 80 students proposed bold, technological and socially significant innovations that will be considered for implementation within the "RELAUNCH THE CITY" (RELAUNCHTOWIN) project.
The newly established National Innovation Fund – a key unit for the innovative development of Bulgaria
The government adopts a Decree for the establishment of a National Innovation Fund (NIF) as a secondary budget administrator under the Ministry of Innovation and Growth. The goal is for NIF to become a key unit for the implementation of innovation policies in Bulgaria, providing specific mechanisms for financing innovation projects. This will facilitate the access of small and medium-sized enterprises and startups to financing, accelerating the transfer of technologies to the market and increasing the competitiveness of Bulgarian companies.
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences presents innovative developments for business.
Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) presented their latest technological developments at a special forum organized jointly with the Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises at the Ministry of Innovation and Growth. The event was opened by Deputy Minister Krasimir Yakimov, who outlined future opportunities for financing joint projects between business and the scientific community.
New technological challenges for dual-use innovations in defense
The Ministry of Innovation and Growth and Sofia Tech Park are organizing an information day on the new opportunities under the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA). The event will present ten new challenges aimed at finding dual-use technologies to support NATO's mission of building a peaceful, secure, and sustainable future.
The humanoid robot Atlas perceives and interacts with the environment
The engineers from Boston Dynamics reveal details about the complex perception system that allows the humanoid robot Atlas to perform various tasks in real-world conditions. The robot uses a combination of high-precision sensors, computer vision, and machine learning to recognize and localize objects around it, assess its position in space, and coordinate precise manipulations.
The billionaire Musk is accelerating the launch of new services in X, including an encrypted messaging app.
Elon Musk is withdrawing from the White House to accelerate the launch of new services and products in the companies he owns. Among them is the new messaging app XChat, which will offer encryption, disappearing messages, and the ability to exchange any files.
The Ministry of Innovation and Growth is activating the transfer of technologies to improve the connection between science and business.
Deputy Minister Martin Danovski announced that the Ministry of Innovation and Growth (MIG) is taking key steps to activate the technology transfer processes. This includes developing the capacity of existing technology transfer offices and launching a Technology Transfer Fund with over 30 million euros.
Former Tesla Optimus leader warns: Humanoid robots are not suitable for factories.
The former leader of the Tesla Optimus project, Chris Welty, expresses doubts about the suitability of the company's humanoid robots for work in factory conditions. He claims that such machines cannot currently effectively perform routine production tasks, in contrast to specialized automated systems.
Aggressive AMD PBO settings lead to damage of Ryzen 9000 processors on ASRock motherboards
The problems with damage to AMD Ryzen 9000 processors when used with ASRock motherboards are due to too aggressive settings of the automatic Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) function. Despite initial denials, ASRock acknowledges that early BIOS versions contained exaggerated current limit values, leading to overvoltage and damage to the processors.
Revolutionary strategy of Microsoft for autonomous AI and independent agents
Microsoft presented a large-scale strategy for creating an "open agent network" - an ecosystem in which autonomous AI agents interact with each other and solve tasks without constant human control. The company launched over 50 new tools and platforms integrated into GitHub, Azure, Windows, and Microsoft 365 to accelerate the transition to "self-governing" artificial intelligence.
Groundbreaking AI platform from Microsoft accelerates scientific discoveries
The company Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence platform called Microsoft Discovery, designed to accelerate scientific research and discoveries through collaboration between scientists and specialized AI agents. The platform covers the entire cycle of scientific research - from data analysis to hypothesis generation and experimentation. Despite skepticism about the capabilities of modern AI systems in science, Microsoft hopes that Discovery will achieve better results than its predecessors.
Successful completion of the Varda W-3 space mission with unique data on high-speed atmospheric entry.
The Varda W-3 space mission on May 14, 2025 was successfully completed with the safe landing of the capsule, which delivered a valuable inertial measurement unit tested at speeds over 25 Mach. The collected data will be crucial for the future development of high-speed reentry technologies for spacecraft returning to Earth.
Compact mini-PC with powerful AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 16 GB RAM and up to 8 TB SSD is now available on the market.
The Minisforum company presented its new mini-PC UM750L Slim, which features a compact design but boasts impressive technical specifications. The device is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 7545U processor, 16 GB of high-speed LPDDR5 RAM, and the ability to install up to 8 TB of SSD storage. Additionally, the UM750L Slim supports output of 8K video to up to three displays simultaneously.