French court adds pressure on Google to pay for news (Update)
A Paris appeals court on Thursday upheld an order for Google to negotiate with media groups in a long-running dispute about revenues from online news.
Oct 8, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
UK electricity plant nears full switch away from coal
As the coronavirus pandemic undermines the production of cleaner renewable fuels, the UK's biggest electricity plant is close to using only biomass following a bumpy transition away from coal.
May 31, 2020
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EU to stop 'ghost flights' in coronavirus fightback
The EU is to act "very rapidly" to help airlines struggling from the new coronavirus outbreak by proposing a law to stop "ghost flights" to keep airport slots, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.
Mar 10, 2020
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France accuses Google of flouting EU copyright law meant to help news publishers
France has accused American internet giant Google of ignoring "the spirit and the letter" of a Europe-wide copyright law aimed at giving publishers a bigger cut of the economic benefit from online news.
Oct 18, 2019
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Spain vows to push ahead with tax on tech giants
Madrid will push ahead with a tax on large internet and technology firms as soon as a new government is sworn in, Spain's acting economy minister said Wednesday.
Jul 17, 2019
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EU parliament backs copyright bill targeting US tech giants
European Union lawmakers approved a copyright directive Tuesday to give writers and artists more protection of their creative rights and incomes, an intensely contentious measure that could have major trans-Atlantic implications ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Robotics
Opinion: Robots and AI could soon have feelings, hopes and rights … we must prepare for the reckoning
Get used to hearing a lot more about artificial intelligence. Even if you discount the utopian and dystopian hyperbole, the 21st century will broadly be defined not just by advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, ...
Feb 28, 2017
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Robot rights: at what point should an intelligent machine be considered a 'person'?
Science fiction likes to depict robots as autonomous machines, capable of making their own decisions and often expressing their own personalities. Yet we also tend to think of robots as property, and as lacking the kind of ...
Feb 7, 2017
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Parliament
A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place.[when?] It acquired its modern meaning as it came to be used for the body of people (in an institutional sense) who would meet to discuss matters of state.
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