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• EU top court lawyer wants Apple’s €14.3B Irish tax judgement re-run

  09-11-2023 16:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has faced a major setback in its longstanding €14.3bn tax dispute with the EU after an adviser to the bloc’s highest court said an earlier ruling over the tech giant’s business in Ireland should be thrown out and the case re-run.  Advocate General Giovanni Pitruzzella of the EU Court of Justice said in an advisory opinion that Apple’s win in a lower EU court should be shelved because of a series of legal errors. “It is therefore necessary for the General
  
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• 140-year-old ocean heat tech could supply islands with limitless energy

  09-11-2023 13:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  A UK-based startup is looking to breathe new life into a century-old technology that could power tropical island nations with virtually limitless, consistent, renewable energy.  Known as ocean thermal energy conversion or ‘OTEC,’ the technology was first invented in 1881 by French physicist Jacques Arsene d’Arsonval. He discovered that the temperature difference between sun-warmed surface water and the cold depths of the ocean could be harnessed to generate electricity.&n
  
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• Your pets can now eat meat that’s ‘grown’ in a lab

  09-11-2023 12:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Good news, cats and dogs: you can now legally eat lab-grown meat. The milestone comes courtesy of a world-first permit for cultivated pet food. Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies received the inaugural license from the EU on Wednesday. The company can now produce and sell the futuristic cuisine, which is made from cells taken from living animals.  After extraction, the cells are placed in a bioreactor and grown into muscle tissue. The flesh is then formed into the desired shape. The proc
  
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• Food waste is a massive problem. This sensor system offers a solution

  09-11-2023 08:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Food waste has become a critical global issue. Almost 10% of the 8 billion people on Earth are undernourished, but nearly a third of the food on our planet is trashed before it’s eaten. A startup called Positive Carbon has proposed a solution. The Irish company has developed a sensor-based system that tracks, traces, and reduces food waste. According to the startup, the tech has triggered 50% reductions in waste — saving over 4,000 tonnes of food. Designed for commerc
  
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