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The development of such technologies has the potential to completely transform the way that we view health care, offering patients the ability to recover from illnesses that have until now been considered incurable — such as neurodegenerative diseases, which can
WARSAW — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is usually quick to congratulate any Polish athletic success, but he was uncharacteristically slow after women rowers won the country’s first medal of the Tokyo Olympic Games, a silver, on Wednesday. It took a
Poland’s government is cracking down on illegal waste shipments and proposing new laws to toughen penalties for environmental crimes. But those measures are unlikely to do much to improve the country’s poor record in meeting EU recycling and waste targets,
Move over, Dublin. It’s Luxembourg that’s kicking off Europe’s era of big-ticket privacy enforcement. More than three years since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation came online, the hefty fines it promised are finally materializing. In financial filings out Friday,
Europe is escalating its antitrust campaign against Silicon Valley, and the next tech deal in its sights is Facebook’s planned acquisition of customer interaction platform Kustomer. The European Commission is expected to open an in-depth investigation on Monday into the
CHICAGO – A sea of maskless, sweaty, thrashing bodies filled Chicago’s Grant Park, pushing up against the performance stage as acts like Miley Cyrus screamed into the microphone. Roughly 100,000 people a night poured into the four-day long Lollapalooza, one
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority announced on Friday that it opened an investigation into Facebook’s planned acquisition of customer interaction platform Kustomer. Facebook announced the purchase in November last year, saying it hopes Kustomer’s integration will improve customer interactions
ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTESTERS ARRESTED IN BERLIN: Even though a court has banned protests, thousands of people took to the streets of Berlin to protest COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday, according to Deutsche Welle. The police said almost 5,000 people took part in
Cryptocurrencies are big business. But many of them carry a heavy carbon footprint — putting them in the crosshairs of EU policymakers now determined to tackle climate change and reduce companies’ carbon emissions. Bitcoin, the biggest in the cryptocurrency world,
Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform. The social network — started a month