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• Art meets solar: These Dutch startups are making photovoltaics sexy

  10-07-2023 17:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the best ways to make buildings greener is to cover them with solar panels — turning homes, offices, and factories into clean energy generators.  Rooftop solar is particularly popular in the Netherlands because, well, it’s a tiny country with lots of people, where every square inch counts. Adding solar panels to the empty exterior of a building, rather than occupying swathes of countryside, simply makes sense.   Rooftop makes up the largest number of solar inst
  
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• Meta’s Threads reaches 100M users, despite delayed EU launch

  10-07-2023 15:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Early this morning, Meta’s new Twitter rival, Threads, hit 100 million sign-ups, less than a week after launch. This makes Threads the fastest growing online platform in history, dethroning ChatGPT, which took two months to reach the same number of users.  When Mark Zuckerberg commented (posting on Threads, naturally) on hitting 70 million users on Friday last week, he stated this was already “way beyond our expectations.” However, it is still a long way to go to the two-
  
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• Meta platforms top the list of UK payment scams, finance group claims

  10-07-2023 11:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  UK Finance, which represents more than 300 companies, has written to the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, requesting that ministers make tech companies take responsibility for payment fraud on their platforms. Specifically, the lobby group is pointing the finger at Meta, which it claims is connected to over 60% of all push payment fraud.   An Authorised Push Payment (APP) scam, also known as bank transfer fraud, is a type of scam in which fraudsters trick individuals or businesses into author
  
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