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• Anti-LGBTQ policies cost Europeans billions of dollars every year

  08-11-2022 20:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Imagine watching the prime minister of the UK dump 53 billion Euros’ worth of taxpayer funds into a volcano. Think of all the good that money could do. If you’re a citizen of the UK, think about how hard you work to pay those taxes. According to the World Bank, that’s about how much queerphobia could be costing the Brits. In Italy, that figure would be closer to 36 billion and in Russia and Spain it’d be a bit lower due to their smaller GDPs. The equation is simple: unle
  
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• Taiwan’s tiny investment into Lithuanian chip production is better than it sounds

  08-11-2022 16:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Taiwan, the world’s largest semiconductor supplier, is offering an unexpected helping hand to Lithuania — and, with it, Europe as a whole. The Asian nation will invest a little over €10 million ($9.98 million) towards chip production in the Baltic country, the head of the Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius said on Monday. As Reuters reports, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology and Research Institute (ITRI) will work together with Lithuania’s electronics manufactu
  
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• How tech can help companies fast-track their sustainability goals

  08-11-2022 16:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Content provided by IBM and TNW. Business leaders are looking to ensure that their organizations are doing their part to address the impact of climate change. After another year of extreme weather events — from Hurricane Ian in the United States to heat waves in the UK and floods in Pakistan, the need to transition into a more sustainable world has become clearer than ever before, and companies are now expected to reach new levels of action. Last year, the COP26 — the Unit
  
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• Another promising European startup is devoured by Meta

  08-11-2022 13:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has bought Audio Analytic, a Cambridge-based startup building AI-driven sound recognition software. Founded in 2010 by Chris Mitchell, Audio Analytic aims to augment consumer technology with high-end sound recognition, and has trained its AI to recognize a broad range of sounds, including smoke alarms, dogs barking, windows breaking, or even babies crying. As per the company’s website, its technology can give machines the “most accurate, robust, and
  
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