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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. National Child Abuse Prevention Month isn’t until April. It caught my eye and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was all about, what was the story behind the story.

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EUV chip production will soon reach record levels of energy consumption

TechSpot

Put into perspective, that's more than the total power usage of smaller nations like Singapore or Greece. According to a recent TechInsights report, fabs equipped with EUV tools could see electricity consumption exceed 54,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) annually by 2030. Read Entire Article

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

Last year, the European Commission and Member States launched the Startup Nations Standard. During the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, Portugal announced that it would go one step further and create the European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA). It’s a new entity that is in charge of the Startup Nations Standard.

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Play this long-lost Tomb Raider remake

The Verge

The alpha includes levels set in Greece, Peru, and Croft Manor. The unfinished game was then reskinned as a demo for an Indiana Jones game for LucasArts and as a National Treasure game. The playable alpha features the climbing, swimming, and general platforming of the original game minus dialogue and enemies.

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A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, Greece and other Mediterranean nations have been fighting fires for weeks to bring a number of massive blazes under control. California is dealing with some of the worst wildfires in its history (a superlative that I use essentially every year now) with the Caldor fire and others blazing in the state’s north.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

The bottom of the graph is literally crowded with European nations! With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. It scares them to try.

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Telemedico gets $6.6M to grow the reach of its digital health SaaS

TechCrunch

. “We aim to increase our presence on the markets where we are already active: Spain, Russia, Portugal, Turkey, and launch on new markets, with new languages — mainly EU Countries, like France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Romania,” he adds. “The top three competitors are Babylon Health , KRY and Pushdoctor.

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