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• What if a simple drug could make everyone less selfish?

  10-11-2022 19:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology recently published a ground-breaking study wherein they identified the brain neurons associated with prosocial and selfish behavior in mice. And then they figured out how to turn those neurons on and off. Inspired by the lonely isolation they felt during the COVID-19 quarantine, lead author Diego Scheggia says they originally set out to “understand the social factors and neurobiological determinants of altruism and self-intere
  
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• Germany blocking sales of its chip companies is like putting a plaster on a decapitation

  10-11-2022 15:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Germany’s federal government has blocked Chinese investment into two chip factories in the country, citing national security concerns for the move. Firstly, the government vetoed the takeover of Elmos, a Dortmund-based semiconductor company that’s producing chips for the automotive industry. This bid came from Silex, a Swedish subsidiary of China’s Sai Microelectronics. The announcement came from the Federal Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, after a meeting of the Federal
  
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• 3 ways tech companies can support their employees during the cost of living crisis

  10-11-2022 12:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Money is tight. Different circumstances ranging from the ongoing war in Ukraine to post-Covid inflation levels to UK interest rates rising to 3% (the highest since 2008) have employers and workers alike asking: what can be done to ease the pressure? Ideally, a one-off bonus payment is most impactful for employers and most cost efficient for employees, which is probably why 15% of UK companies are planning, or have already paid, such a bonus. But how can smaller companies and those facing cash f
  
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