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Encrypted messaging platform Signal now offers secure backups on iPhone, letting users save and restore messages if they lose access to their device. There are free and paid versions of Signal’s secure backups. The free version lets users store up to 100MB of text messages, including photos, videos, and files from the last 45 days. The paid version costs $1.99 per month and can back up all text messages, along with up to 100GB of media which can be older than 45 days. The end-to-end encrypted backups can be accessed using a 64-character recovery key generated by the user’s…

Europe’s AI startups are losing ground to the US — and their own investors are to blame. Only 5% of global venture capital is raised in the EU, according to the European Commission. The US, by contrast, attracts more than half, while China takes 40%. Yet Europe isn’t capital-poor: households save €1.4tn a year, nearly twice as much as in America. Still, very little of that money finds its way into startups, despite a plethora of incentives like the UK’s EIS tax relief for business angels.   Even when funding is available, Europe’s venture capital firms are slow and cautious.…

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The new Dynamic View feature was announced last week as part of the Gemini 3.0 update. It started rolling out on the web version of Gemini recently, and I’ve been testing it out over the last few days. My first impression is that it’s great, although you have to know when to use it and when to avoid it. It doesn’t make sense for specific prompts, as it takes too much time and doesn’t provide any extra value compared to a classic text-based response. I’ll walk you through exactly what Dynamic View is,…