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• Why Schengen membership for Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria is beneficial for Europe

  17-11-2022 14:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Schengen area, the largest border control-free travel zone in the world, may soon expand to include three new members. Currently, it comprises of 22 EU member states and four countries outside the Union: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Now, Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria — the youngest EU members — are on the right track to becoming part of Schengen. And this is a good thing for startups and businesses in the bloc. Last week, MPEs of the European Parliament appro
  
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• Swedish startup Sesamy seeks to slaughter the subscription model

  17-11-2022 11:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ahh, the pain of digital content. You want to buy one audiobook, or listen to a single premium podcast, but a damn paywall means you have to pay for a subscription to a whole platform. Sure, it might open you to new content, but more likely results in a subscription you never use. Or, even worse, accidentally auto-renew. But a Swedish startup is here to take away your pain: Sesamy. It’s the brainchild of the people behind Acast, the world’s largest podcasting platform. Simply put, S
  
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• Yes, staging can be a pain — but here’s why you shouldn’t skip it

  17-11-2022 10:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Programming’s big dirty secret is that everyone has, at some point in their career, broken something big. Big like, wiping the full production database on their first day of work, killing the live application while multiple sales people are showing it to clients, or bringing down half the internet by passing on the wrong piece of data. Oops. There are a million reasons why things go wrong, and not all are completely avoidable. But having a good setup for testing new code can at least miti
  
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• Europe, take note: The Netherlands commits €1.1B to cycling infrastructure

  17-11-2022 09:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  You’d think the Dutch had already covered their entire country with bike paths, but no, there’s more to be done. That’s why, this week, the Netherland’s national government announced a €780 million investment in cycling infrastructure. Combined with existing municipal and provincial commitments, it brings the total investment to €1.1 billion by 2030. This country has cycling in its veins. On a mission to reduce car journeys, the government is finding transport
  
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