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• GDPR turns 5: Meta has amassed €2.5B in fines — over 50% of the total

  25-05-2023 18:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  GDPR turned five this week — and celebrated in customary style: by slapping Meta with another eye-watering fine. At a record-breaking €1.2bn, the punishment was the perfect self-gift for the EU regulation. For Meta, however, it marks another miserable anniversary. According to research by Privacy Matters, Mark Zuckerberg’s demonic brainchild has accrued over half of the €4bn in total GDPR fines. After amassing a staggering €2.5bn across seven separate penalties, it&rs
  
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• London crowned tech king of the world

  25-05-2023 16:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  London has been named the world’s most high-tech city, according to Z/Yen Group’s seventh edition of the Smart Centres Index, published today.   The British capital secured the top spot for its world-leading financial services, deep talent pool, quality of its business environment, and international reputation. Climbing from second place, London was joined in the top five by New York, San Francisco, Zurich, and Lugano. Oxford came in seventh place, putting four European ci
  
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• Britain’s deepest mine could unlock secrets to permanent settlement on Mars

  25-05-2023 13:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  You might already know that humans are planning to permanently settle on Mars sometime in the near future. When and how that will happen is anyone’s guess, but scientists at the University of Birmingham believe some of the answers could lie beneath our feet.       The researchers have set up a laboratory 1.1km underground in Britain’s deepest mine to investigate how scientific and medical operations would take place in the challenging environments of Ma
  
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• Microsoft’s appeal over UK’s Activision veto is ‘chance to find a third way,’ say legal experts

  25-05-2023 13:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft’s appeal against a veto of its Activision Blizzard takeover offers a chance to “find a third way” in the feud, say legal experts. The Xbox maker on Wednesday formally appealed a UK regulator’s decision to block the $69bn (€64bn) deal. The shock intervention was a potentially fatal blow to the bid for Activision, which owns the Call of Duty, Candy Crush, and Warcraft franchises. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had concluded that the purchase wou
  
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• Your next home could be 3D-printed. Here’s how

  25-05-2023 07:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Experts estimate around 60% of buildings that will exist in 30 years’ time have yet to be built. This equals constructing a city the size of Stockholm every week until 2050. However, the construction sector currently doesn’t have the people or the skills to deliver the infrastructure and homes we need at the pace required. But what if we could offload some of the work to robots?   Enter 3D concrete printing — an emerging technology that uses 3D printers to create all
  
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• Google launches €10M social innovation AI fund for European entrepreneurs

  25-05-2023 06:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In conjunction with a visit of CEO Sundar Pichai’s visit to Stockholm yesterday, Google announced the launch of the second Google.org Social Innovation Fund on AI to “help social enterprises solve some of Europe’s most pressing challenges.”  Through the fund, Google is making €10 million available, along with mentoring and support, for entrepreneurs from underserved backgrounds. The aim is to help them develop transformative AI solutions that specifically targe
  
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