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Two Babylonian Kings, an Egyptian Customs Official and a Corsican Hoard Lead TimeLine’s 2 June Antiquities & Ancient Art Auction

Day One is the flagship sale with a dedicated printed catalogue; 3-8 June sessions are online-only; Coins, Weights, Tokens & Medals follow on 9-10 June.

Corsican Bronze Age Hoard from the Ajaccio Area, Discovered c. 1880–1890

A rare Bronze Age Corsican hoard comprising a varied group of bronze objects, including a dagger or short sword, dagger pommel, crescent-shaped axe, harness fitting, several fibulae, and a group of rings. The collection gives a strong impression of Bronze Age metalworking, personal adornment, weaponry, and ritual or practical objects from the Ajaccio area.

HARWICH, United Kingdom, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TimeLine Auctions, the British saleroom known for museum-level antiquities, will hold its Antiquities & Ancient Art Auction on 2 June 2026. Day One has headline pieces from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and the western Mediterranean, within a wider sale spanning the Palaeolithic to the medieval period.
Large Egyptian Bronze Figure of Osiris with Lapis Lazuli Inlays

A large bronze mummiform figure of Osiris, shown wearing the central element of the Atef crown, with traces of lapis lazuli inlay still visible in the eyebrows and divine beard. The god is depicted in traditional form, with crossed arms holding the crook and flail, and fine details including a uraeus to the crown and recesses for further inlays. Mounted on a wooden base and supplied with a custom-fitted case, it is an impressive and highly decorative representation of Osiris.

Two named Mesopotamian kings sit at the top of the catalogue. A hemispherical bronze bowl carries the five-sign cuneiform name of Manishtushu of Akkad (c. 2270–2255 B.C., lot 249), one of the earliest named royal inscriptions to come to market in recent years. From the Kassite period come an agate eye-bead bearing the name of Kurigalzu II (lot 250), and a banded agate cylinder seal with a Sumerian prayer to the storm god Adad (lot 216).

The Egyptian section is headed by a forty-centimetre basalt figure of the Saite customs official Wahibre, kneeling to support a wide offering basin. Separated in the nineteenth century, the two parts moved through different collections and salerooms before coming together here for the first time at auction (lot 61). Other Egyptian highlights include a seventy-centimetre hollow-cast bronze Osiris of the 26th Dynasty (lot 81), and a painted wooden stele linking Amun at Luxor to Osiris at Abydos (lot 65).

Two Attic vessels lead the Greek section. A 6th-century B.C. black-figure pyxis shows the chariot procession of an Athenian bride, with the reception at her new house around the lid (lot 96). A fifth-century red-figure column krater pairs Europa with a Dionysiac triad, two scenes of divine power on one vessel (lot 88).

From the western Mediterranean come the Gravona bronzes, ten objects recovered from a railway cutting in Corsica in the 1880s and published by Robert Forrer in 1924.

Following Day One, the auction continues online-only from 3 June, with ancient art across multiple collecting categories. The programme concludes with an Ancient Coins sale on 9-10 June, alongside weights, tokens, medals and books.

Auction start time: 8am US Eastern / 1pm BST.

Bidding: Absentee, by telephone, or live online via TimeLine’s bidding platform, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable or The Saleroom.

Payments: GBP accepted. Worldwide shipping available.

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The Heartbeat That Never Dies: How Neutrinovoltaic Technology Could End the Era of Battery-Dependent Medical Implants

As the global medical device industry confronts a structural dependency on finite power sources, researchers at the Neutrino® Energy Group are advancing a continuous ambient energy conversion framework with direct implications for cardiac pacemakers, hearing aids, and implantable devices worldwide.

BERLIN, DE / ACCESS Newswire / May 29, 2026 / Millions of people depend on tiny electronic devices inside their bodies. Every one of those devices runs on a battery that will eventually fail. Neutrinovoltaic research now suggests that the power source need not deplete at all, because it would draw not from a finite chemical reservoir, but from the continuous particle flux that permeates all matter, at all times.

Somewhere in the world right now, a patient is being prepped for an operation that has nothing to do with illness. Their heart is fine. Their pacemaker is not. The lithium-iodide cell that has kept it firing for the past seven years is approaching depletion, and so a surgeon must open the chest, extract the pulse generator, replace it, and send the patient home to start the cycle again.

More than one million pacemakers are implanted worldwide each year, and virtually every one will require at least one battery replacement surgery over the patient’s lifetime. Each procedure carries risks of infection, lead displacement, and anaesthetic complications. The same dependency plays out in miniature, millions of times daily, in the hearing aid. An estimated 430 million people globally suffer from disabling hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization. Those who wear aids know the ritual: replacing button-cell batteries every few days, often at the worst possible moment. Both devices are marvels of 21st-century biomedical engineering still tethered to 20th-century power sources.

Energy That Walks Through You

Holger Thorsten Schubart, the mathematician and Architect of the Invisible who leads the Neutrino® Energy Group, has spent nearly two decades asking a question that most of the scientific establishment was not yet ready to hear: what if the energy required to power a device was already passing through the person wearing it? “The problem is not a lack of energy,” he has said, “but the way we think about it.” Nowhere is that reframing more arresting than in the context of medical implants, where the energy has literally been present inside the patient’s body all along.

The Neutrino® Energy Group has spent nearly two decades developing technology that harvests a continuous spectrum of ambient, non-equilibrium energy inputs, including neutrino momentum transfer, cosmic muon flux, and electromagnetic fluctuations, converting these into stable electrical current through multilayer metamaterials of graphene and doped silicon.

The governing mathematical framework, known as the Schubart Master Formula, is expressed as:

P(t) = η · ∫V Φ_eff(r,t) · σ_eff(E) dV

The formula captures composite ambient input through an effective flux term that integrates multiple particle and field contributions into a single measurable framework. The system does not rely on any single energy source, but on continuous coupling to a multi-channel, non-equilibrium environment. The physical foundations underpinning each variable in the formula are anchored to peer-reviewed measurements from institutions including the COHERENT collaboration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the JUNO experiment, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, as well as the Nobel Prize-winning confirmation of neutrino mass by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald in 2015.

The underlying physics is scale-agnostic. The same graphene-based nanostructures that form the basis of larger generation units can, in principle, be adapted to the dimensions of a medical implant without any change to the fundamental conversion mechanism. Critically, not a single one of the ambient flux sources that neutrinovoltaic systems interact with is blocked by biological tissue. Neutrinos pass through the human body by the tens of billions per second. Cosmic muons penetrate skin, muscle, and bone. Electromagnetic fluctuations and thermal gradients permeate every living cell. A neutrinovoltaic module inside a pacemaker housing would be continuously coupled to harvestable ambient flux at every moment of its existence, drawing from the full, uninterrupted spectrum of non-visible radiation that surrounds and penetrates all matter, at all times.

A Pacemaker That Could Outlast Its Battery

Research into neutrinovoltaic miniaturisation suggests that a cardiac pacemaker incorporating such a module would not draw down a finite chemical reservoir in the way current lithium-iodide cells do. Instead, it would in principle harvest electricity continuously from the multi-channel ambient flux permeating the patient’s chest, around the clock, in every environment, at every altitude. With no moving parts and no cyclic chemical degradation, researchers propose that operational life under this model could extend significantly beyond current battery replacement cycles.

The safety case extends further. Lithium batteries carry inherent constraints around temperature sensitivity and, in rare cases, electrolyte management concerns. A solid-state neutrinovoltaic module contains no liquid electrolyte and no components subject to cyclic chemical degradation. For patients in remote regions where access to a cardiac surgeon may require travelling hundreds of kilometres, this distinction is not incremental. It represents the potential difference between a technology that demands infrastructure and one that operates independently of it.

The Hearing Aid That Could Forget About Batteries

Research directions within the neutrinovoltaic framework suggest that a hearing aid incorporating a miniaturised ambient conversion module could harvest continuous flux, converting the faint mechanical excitations induced in its graphene nanolayers into the microwatts required for amplification and signal processing. For elderly users with reduced manual dexterity, replacing a component smaller than a fingernail is a genuine ordeal. For users in developing nations, recurring battery costs push many to abandon their devices altogether, a dynamic documented in accessibility research across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. A self-sustaining hearing aid architecture would lower the long-term cost of hearing restoration and remove one of the most persistent barriers to consistent device use.

From Abstract Physics to Human Dignity

The Neutrino® Energy Group’s research programme, grounded in the 2015 Nobel Prize confirmation of neutrino mass, the 2017 COHERENT detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, and precision measurements from more than twenty global research laboratories, is not theoretical physics for its own sake. Its most profound potential applications may be measured not in kilowatts but in surgeries avoided, in independence preserved, and in the quiet dignity of a device that works without asking anything of the person who depends on it.

Schubart captures the stakes of this research direction in a single sentence: “The deepest promise of the Master Formula isn’t merely that it can power a building; it’s that it can power a heartbeat.”

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Neutrino® Energy Group
International Media & Strategic Affairs
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Website: https://neutrino-energy.com/

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Stoneshield Capital Closes Oversubscribed Opportunity Fund IV at €1.5 Billion Hard Cap

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Stoneshield Capital Fund IV first invesments, Meliá Hotels International, Exolum and Neinor Homes

LUXEMBOURG, May 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stoneshield Capital, a leading European investment firm focused on building and scaling platforms across real assets, announced today the final close of Stoneshield Opportunity Fund IV at its hard cap of €1.5 billion in total capital commitments, excluding co-investments, surpassing its original €1.0 billion target. The Fund closed within six months at twice the size of its predecessor fund, underscoring the strength of Stoneshield’s differentiated investment strategy, institutional platform and track record of execution. The pace of the fundraise was particularly notable in the current environment, where, according to Preqin, real estate funds globally have averaged 17 months to close.

The Fund was significantly oversubscribed, with aggregate interest surpassing €2.0 billion. The fundraise was anchored by strong support from Stoneshield’s existing global limited partners, with a 100% re-up rate, and was expanded through commitments from a select group of new global investors, including leading sovereign wealth funds, global consultants, pensions, insurance companies, endowments, family offices, and foundations across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Fund IV will pursue control-oriented investments across European real assets and related corporate platforms, using ownership of the underlying asset base as the foundation to build and scale operating businesses. The Fund will focus on sectors supported by structural tailwinds, supply constraints and operational complexity, including energy infrastructure, living, student housing, hospitality, and critical infrastructure. To date, Fund IV has completed its initial investments, these include a €150 million joint venture with Neinor Homes to develop the largest premium residential project launched in Marbella in recent years; a 9.5% stake in Meliá Hotels International, making Stoneshield the company’s second-largest shareholder and giving the firm board representation at one of Europe’s leading hospitality platforms; and a 15% stake acquisition in Exolum, one of Europe’s leading energy logistics and critical biofuels infrastructure platforms.

Felipe Morenes Botin and Juan Pepa

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Stoneshield’s Managing Partners, Felipe Morenés Botín and Juan Pepa, said, “We are grateful for the strong support from our existing and new investors, whose conviction reflects confidence in Stoneshield’s differentiated approach to European real assets. Our strategy is to bring a US private equity playbook to Europe, investing where hard asset ownership, operating capability and corporate complexity converge, and where disciplined underwriting and hands-on execution can unlock outsized value. Fund IV gives us the scale to continue executing that strategy: sourcing proprietary opportunities, scaling platforms around high-quality asset bases, and actively partnering with management teams to unlock growth through operational improvement and strategic repositioning. Europe remains a highly attractive market for investors who can pair local access with institutional execution and a control-oriented ownership mindset.”

PJT Park Hill and UBS Investment Bank served as financial advisors and placement agents to Stoneshield.

About Stoneshield Capital
Stoneshield Capital is a leading European investment firm with over €8 billion in AUM. Based in Luxembourg, it has a dedicated team of 30+ investment professionals working across European cities including Madrid, Lisbon and Dublin and over 30,000 professionals across portfolio companies.

Stoneshield was founded in 2018 by Juan Pepa and Felipe Morenés Botín (the “Managing Partners”) to capitalize on long-term real assets and private equity opportunities in Europe through a platform-led investment approach. Stoneshield was recently ranked among PERE’s Top 100 global fundraising franchises.

Notes to editor:

  1. Stoneshield Capital joins Meliá Hotel International’s Board of Directors (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/07/3290322/0/en/stoneshield-capital-joins-meli%C3%A1-hotel-international-s-board-of-directors.html)
  2. Stoneshield Capital to acquire 15% stake in Exolum from OMERS (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/22/3300241/0/en/stoneshield-capital-to-acquire-15-stake-in-exolum-from-omers.html)
  3. Neinor Homes and Stoneshield Capital Launch €150mn Partnership to Develop Premium Residential Project in Marbella  (https://www.neinorhomes.com/en/news/neinor-homes-and-stoneshield-capital-launch-150mn-partnership/)

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Framery announces new Gradus™ product line designed for the U.S. and Canadian markets

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Framery today unveils Gradus, a new line of smart office pods purpose-built for the U.S. and Canada

TAMPERE, Finland, May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Framery today unveils Gradus, a new line of smart office pods purpose-built for the U.S. and Canada. The line will officially launch at NeoCon on June 8th. Featuring three new models, the Gradus line will be sold in the U.S. and Canada and assembled in the USA.

Positioned as the definitive market-fit for the region, the Gradus line is set to capture growing demand as office utilization rates climb. Gradus offers clients an integrated, “built-in” design language, prioritizing architectural harmony and expanding choice alongside Framery’s aesthetically bold signature line.

“Gradus is purpose-built to meet the high volume and unique demands of the American and Canadian workplace,” says Samu Hällfors, CEO of Framery.

Products in the Gradus™ line will be assembled at Framery’s new factory in the United States. The new manufacturing facility is a key part of the company’s growth strategy and its goal to meet regional demand locally.

The Gradus line is defined by a “plug-and-play” interior designed for instant user integration. The portfolio consists of three new models designed to maximize interior volume within a minimal footprint:

  • Gradus Focus™: A smart, soundproof phone booth for one person, designed for calls and focus work.
  • Gradus Work™: A smart and soundproof workstation for one person, featuring a full-size adjustable desk and a spacious interior designed for uninterrupted flow.
  • Gradus Huddle™: A smart and soundproof meeting pod for 1–4 people, optimally sized for spontaneous collaboration and confidential discussions.

The pods feature a modular build with replaceable components, allowing units to be repaired, refurbished, and updated over time. This design also features a snap-on system for exterior wall panels, including wood veneers, fabrics, or custom acoustic panels, allowing the pods to either blend into the surrounding architecture or stand out as a focal point.

“Designers and customers in the U.S. and Canada want spaces that feel like their own, and this flexibility makes Gradus a perfect fit for any office,” says Hällfors.

Gradus offers a lower cost per square foot than fixed construction and meets local standards like IBC, IFC, and UL 962 for seamless regional adoption. The line also includes third-party verified EPDs to support corporate carbon accounting.

The product line features automated ventilation, automated lighting, and Class A soundproofing. Equipped with occupancy sensors, Gradus collects anonymized usage data. This allows the pods to integrate with Framery’s smart office solutions to optimize floor plans and help organizations eliminate the real estate waste of underutilized space.

“Gradus combines data-driven workspace optimization with a smooth user experience. It is a strategic tool for right-sizing office space needs,” says Hällfors.

The Tampere factory remains the hub for specialized expertise, providing the smart technology and sub-assemblies for the new line, and its existing products will remain in the U.S. and Canadian offering.

FRAMERY IN BRIEF

Framery enables people to focus on what truly matters and to get things done. With its soundproof smart pods and smart office solution, Framery turns ordinary offices into places people love. This is why Framery is an essential part of a successful workday for millions of workers in over a hundred countries and within many of the world’s leading companies.

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Agora, the Denodo Cloud Service, now available on the Microsoft Marketplace to Power Agentic AI Use Cases

Agora enables Microsoft Azure customers worldwide to leverage their full data estate across hybrid, multi-cloud, and data-sovereignty environments to accelerate agentic AI initiatives

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Denodo, a leader in data management and a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner, announced that Agora, the Denodo Cloud Service — a fully managed platform — is now available on the Microsoft Marketplace. Agora provides native integrations with Microsoft services including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, Power BI, and Azure Synapse Analytics, as well as partner services such as Azure OpenAI and Azure Databricks. Agora, combined with Microsoft’s AI and data services, enable organizations to extend their agentic AI capabilities to critical data residing in 200+ source systems across on-premises systems, SaaS offerings, and other cloud platforms while facilitating compliance with regulatory, data sovereignty, and security requirements.

Agora complements Microsoft Fabric’s semantic intelligence capabilities by providing the logical data access layer that connects AI agents to operational and analytical data outside Microsoft systems. While Microsoft Fabric delivers semantic understanding and orchestration capabilities for AI agents through Fabric IQ, Agora enables those agents to access live, trusted data from non-Microsoft sources — including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Snowflake, and hundreds of additional systems across on-premises and hybrid environments. This complementary architecture supports multiple agent consumption patterns, from Microsoft Copilot agents accessing enterprise-wide data through Agora’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration to custom AI agents built with Microsoft Foundry leveraging Agora’s APIs for real-time data retrieval. Agora also includes a data marketplace that enables PowerBI and other business users to find, access, and utilize enterprise data through the same semantic layer that powers AI agents, enabling humans and AI agents to share consistent business definitions and context.

Together, Agora’s agentic-AI-ready data foundation and Microsoft’s AI and data services power real-time decision-making, hyper-personalized experiences, agentic workflows, and other hybrid and multi-cloud use cases that depend on live, governed access to distributed data. This approach minimizes latency, reduces data drift risk, and ensures mission-critical insights and automated actions are always based on the most current information available. To support secure, governed access and enable seamless compliance, Agora integrates with Microsoft Entra ID and delivers fine-grained data governance capabilities such as attribute-based access control, end-to-end lineage, and policy enforcement for non-Microsoft sources.

“Microsoft is pleased to welcome Agora to Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Marketplace,” said Jake Zborowski, general manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. “Together with Denodo, we look forward to helping enterprises accelerate agentic AI initiatives — especially those operating in complex hybrid, multi-cloud, and data-sovereign environments.”

With Agora available on the Microsoft Marketplace, organizations can get started quickly with options ranging from free trials to private offers for annual contracts and consumption-based pricing. These options enable customers to choose the model that best fits their business needs, while streamlining procurement and enabling customers to apply their Denodo purchase — an Azure IP co-sell-eligible solution — toward their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).

“With Agora’s availability on the Microsoft Marketplace and seamless integrations to Microsoft’s AI and data services, we offer our mutual customers a powerful solution for agentic AI use cases that leverage an organization’s entire data estate across hybrid and multi-cloud environments,” said Suresh Chandrasekaran, executive vice president, Denodo. “Agora on the Microsoft Marketplace delivers new levels of agility, scalability, cost-efficiency, and ease-of-use.”

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About Denodo
Denodo is a global leader in data management, powering trustworthy AI agents and applications. The Denodo Platform, an award-winning logical data management solution, transforms enterprise data into reliable insights for AI, analytics, and self-service initiatives. Organizations worldwide use Denodo to deliver AI-ready, business-ready data in a fraction of the time compared to traditional data lakehouses, achieving up to 4x faster time-to-insight, 345% ROI, and 10x better performance. For more information, visit denodo.com.

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Holafly partners with Valientes Colombia to support community-led initiatives and address the social impact of tourism

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Holafly partners with Valientes Colombia to support community-led initiatives and address the social impact of tourism.

DUBLIN, May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As discussions about responsible travel move beyond sustainability toward real impact, Holafly, the global eSIM provider for travelers, announces a partnership with Valientes Colombia, a locally led organization that prevents exploitation and supports vulnerable communities through education and long-term initiatives.

The collaboration comes as destinations such as Colombia see strong growth in international tourism, creating new opportunities while also revealing realities that are harder to ignore in certain regions. Among these realities, the presence of exploitative dynamics linked to tourism, including forms of sexual exploitation, remains a complex issue that cannot be addressed from a distance and requires sustained, on-the-ground work.

Holafly approaches this partnership with a clear conviction: that travel should care, not only about the experience itself, but about the people, communities, and environments that make it possible. “As a global travel brand, we see our role as extending beyond enabling travel and taking an active position in promoting a more responsible, conscious, and safe way of moving across borders, particularly in contexts where mobility and digital environments can intersect with social risks that are not always visible to travelers,” said Pedro Maiquez, co-founder and VP of Growth at Holafly.

This perspective reflects a growing awareness that travel can shape local realities in different ways, and that being part of the industry requires engaging with those contexts in a more thoughtful and consistent manner. The partnership with Valientes Colombia supports an organization that works directly with communities and combines research, school-based prevention programs, and on-the-ground action to better understand these challenges, raise awareness, and respond when needed.

The collaboration also reflects Holafly’s commitment to understanding responsibility beyond environmental terms, and to being part of a broader conversation about the role travel plays in society, one that increasingly includes people, communities, and local contexts.

By supporting Valientes Colombia, Holafly aims to contribute to a more responsible and inclusive approach to travel; one that extends beyond the experience itself and considers the lasting impact on the communities that make those journeys possible.

About Holafly
Holafly is the global leader in eSIMs for travelers, delivering coverage in over 200 destinations. With an outstanding 4.6/5 rating on Trustpilot and more than 15 million satisfied users, it has become the preferred eSIM choice for international travelers. Its unlimited data and build-in back up plan offering ensures peace of mind anywhere in the world.

About Valientes Colombia
Valientes Colombia is a locally led organization dedicated to preventing exploitation and supporting vulnerable communities through education, awareness, and long-term development programs. By working directly with communities, the organization creates opportunities that strengthen social resilience and promote safer, more sustainable local environments.

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