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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. Now in its 50 th year, the Greenpeace movement has spread across the globe, becoming the world’s largest independent environmental organisation. . Fighting for a greener future.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. An engineer at Twitter, Prachi Poddar, also announced the change by posting a long tweet.

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This ambitious proposal would radically reinvent Europe’s rail system

Fast Company Tech

The journey is slower than what the proposed Starline would offer, and is often bogged down in cross-border complications, including misaligned schedules, differing levels of rail infrastructure, and varying labor laws determining how long train conductors can work a shift. “Networks are good within nations.

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Greenlanders repeat their nation is ‘not for sale’ as Trump’s threats mount

Fast Company Tech

needs it “for national security.” and to open for business beyond Denmark , which colonized them 300 years ago and still exercises control over foreign and defense policy. “When Trump came to office, he wanted to talk to Greenlanders directly without going through Denmark. ” “How can a few words.

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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

Numerous European countries already have laws in place that regulate the sale of gas-powered vehicles and lay out incentives to increase the number of electric and zero-emission ones. Transportation is the sector contributing most to climate change in the United States, making up nearly a third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the nation.

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As Trump threatens to take over Greenland, its melting ice caps could hold a solution to our clean energy future

Fast Company Tech

According to one Greenland official , the island possesses 39 of the 50 minerals that the United States has classified as critical to national security and economic stability. Labor laws are much more strict than they would be in a Chinese rare earth mine in Mongolia, Lajeunesse said.

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