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Boston Tech Week 2026 Opens Tomorrow: a16z Brings 572 Events to Kendall Square

Boston Tech Week 2026 opens tomorrow with 572 events across Kendall Square, the Seaport, and six other neighborhoods — registration is free for most sessions at tech-week.com/calendar/boston. The inaugural a16z-presented festival runs May 26–31 and brings together biotech, AI, deep tech, and robotics programming from over 80 founding hosts including…

International Business Times

New fidget spinner world record set by Cambridge University engineering student

James Goh made his own fidget spinner to achieve the Guinness World Records title

The Independent UK

Sons of jailed Saudi scholars urge Cambridge to drop plans to train Riyadh staff

Exclusive: Families of men facing death penalty join opposition to proposals to run courses for defence ministry

The Guardian - UK

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Man accused of wounding two drivers in Cambridge shooting spree pleads not guilty

A man accused of wounding two drivers when he fired at least 70 rounds from an assault-style weapon on a busy street near Boston pleaded not guilty to assault and other charges

The Independent UK

Cambridge University’s proposed Saudi deal endangers academic freedom

Letters: Academic freedom would be compromised by a planned deal between Cambridge University and Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry, warns Jemimah Steinfeld

The Guardian - UK

Lord Hunt of Chesterton obituary

Met Office director general whose ideas about turbulence are now used in the building of high structures

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge Shooting: Gunman Tyler Brown Shot By State Trooper And Armed Civilian After Firing 60 Rounds At Cars

A 46-year-old gunman allegedly fired up to 60 rounds at cars on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before a State Police trooper and an armed civilian shot him, authorities said.

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Two critical after gunman with assault rifle fires up to 60 rounds into traffic in Massachusetts

Shooter opened fire on drivers passing along busy Memorial Drive in Cambridge, near Harvard University, before being taken down

The Independent UK

Who Is Tyler Brown? Memorial Drive Gunman Had History of Targeting Police Before Cambridge Shooting

A Boston man with a violent past fired 60 rounds in Cambridge, injuring two, before being stopped by police and a former Marine.

International Business Times UK

Dame Bridget Ogilvie obituary

Parasitologist and director of the Wellcome Trust who oversaw the launch of the UK’s flagship genome sequencing centre

The Guardian - UK

Delayed Great British Railways’ first station to open at Cambridge South in June

Station will be first to be given full GBR branding and will directly link city’s Biomedical Campus to London, Brighton and Stansted airport

The Guardian - UK

A new exhibition explores empire, love and loss through paintings of flowers from 1900

The term “handpicked” suggests a bouquet that has been chosen carefully, each flower selected for its colour, form or meaning and relation to the others. The curators of this new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge have certainly achieved a complex yet complementary arrangement.

The Conversation

AstraZeneca makes surprise U-turn with £300m pharma investment in UK

Drugmaker had stalled large-scale projects in England but has now pledged investment at two sites, announced by Keir Starmer

The Guardian - UK

28-Year-Old Harvard Student's Dorm Room Side Hustle Made $7K In First Month — Now Targets $500K

Brian Youngblood launched Prest, a shelf-stable powdered hummus, from a Cambridge donut shop kitchen while studying at Harvard Business School.

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The Guardian - UK

V&A East Storehouse and Norwich Castle among finalists for museum of the year

National Gallery, the Box in Plymouth and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge also shortlisted for £120,000 Art Fund prize

Reason

State vs. Local, State vs. State

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Cambridge’s £190m gift: billionaires won’t fix universities’ problems

Editorial: Philanthropy increases the gap dividing highly selective, elite higher education from the rest. Ministers need a plan for the sector overall

Evening Standard

Channel 4 forced to apologise for swearing during boat race live coverage

BBC Boat Race veteran Clare Balding and reality TV star Jamie Lang were both forced to issue on-air apologies

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The Independent UK

Cambridge win men’s Boat Race after Oxford end losing run in women’s event

The wind created gruelling sea-like conditions on some sections of Thames.

The Guardian - UK

Different strokes: Channel 4 steps up for debut as Boat Races get makeover

Races have left the BBC as Oxford’s women, led by Olympic medallist Heidi Long, seek to end long wait for victory

The Independent UK

Boat Race gets reality star revamp to attract new audiences

Channel 4 hopes that adding reality stars to their coverage will boost the appeal of the Boat Race

The Independent UK

Where was Project Hail Mary filmed? The UK destinations

Cameras captured a working observatory site in Cambridge

International Business Times UK

True or False? Did Woman Who Called ICE To Arrest Immigrant Workers Working On Her Home Face Felony Charges? Here's The Truth

A Cambridge homeowner is at the centre of controversy after viral videos suggest she called ICE on Guatemalan workers to avoid paying a roofing bill. ICE denies the claim

The Independent UK

Spice up your grilled leg of lamb with a baharat marinade recipe from Formaggio Kitchen

Jessica Battilana of Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has an easy grilled leg of lamb that gets big flavor from a Turkish spice mix called baharat

Tom’s Hardware

New Cambridge human brain-inspired chip could slash AI energy use — new type of memristor has roughly a million times lower switching current than conventional devices

Cambridge researchers have published a paper describing a new type of hafnium oxide memristor that operates at switching currents roughly a million times lower than conventional oxide-based devices.

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