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Boy wonder! Fourteen-year-old genius becomes Poland’s youngest business owner

Kamil Wroński has become Poland’s youngest business owner after a court granted him permission to create his own start-up. @wronski.kamil/Facebook

Having built his first robot at the age of three, teenager Kamil Wroński has now founded his own firm to develop a pioneering solar tracker.

Polish start-ups thrive during pandemic

This year has seen a breakthrough for Polish start-up firms and most of them have shrugged off the impact of the pandemic or even benefitted from it, a report has found.

Three Polish MedTech start-ups chosen for Google’s 2021 European Accelerator programme

The companies were chosen to join the three-month-long programme, along with 12 other companies from Europe and Israel, that Google says are the ‘most promising European tech start-ups’.

Every LITTER bit matters: Warsaw start-up looks to clean-up the world

Already hailed by the UN, Planet Heroes are the world’s first crowdfunding platform for local clean-up actions.

Twenty Belarusian start-ups come to Poland

Poland has managed to attract 20 Belarusian start-ups, PAP has been told by the president of the Startup Hub Poland Foundation, part of the government “Poland Business Harbour” project.

Kraków firm devises underwater vehicles inspired by STINGRAYS to research seabed

Video: Working with the Polish Academy of Sciences, the fish-shaped unmanned underwater vehicles from Noa Marine will be able to autonomously collect chemical, acoustic, geological and visual data without human intervention for periods of up to six months.

Wrocław firm to send thousands of new ‘business-friendly’ satellites into space

The first to be launched on the Virgin Orbit and SpaceX Falcon 9 will be focused on helping the American agriculture market by processing data in space, something which the co-founder and CEO Grzegorz Zwoliński called a “complete innovation on the satellite market.”

The only way is up! Puławy vertical farm first in Europe to supply beauty and health industries with plant extract from herbs

Established by husband and wife team Anna and Dawid Drzewiecki after their observations of where different plant extracts came from in cosmetics and natural supplements, the company’s innovation is based on their unique form of production, combining the growth of plants and the production of extracts in one place.

Payment technology implanted in your HAND becomes first that can be used worldwide

Using bio-polymers and the same short-range NFC (near-field communication) technology as contactless payment cards, the implant from Polish-British startup Walletmor can be sewn into the hand and used to make payments at all contactless terminals around the world that accept payments with standard cards from organizations such as Mastercard or Visa.

Kraków start-up teams up with US nuclear firm to fly to the moon and extract rare energy isotope

Experts from the Solar System Resources Corporation estimate that 200 tonnes of Helium-3 would be enough to satisfy the annual energy needs of the world’s population.

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Auschwitz museum launches fascinating photo album to coincide with 75th anniversary

Opened on the initiative of former prisoners on 2 July, 1947, the history of the museum has now been documented in the new album divided into six sections and entitled  '75 years of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial'.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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