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Portugal closes its last remaining coal plant

November 24, 2021
Portugal has shuttered its last remaining coal plant, becoming the fourth country in the European Union to do so, along with Austria, Belgium, and Sweden. The Pego plant in central Portugal was shut down on Friday, 10 days ahead of schedule. It was Portugal’s second-largest emitter of carbon dioxide. Saturday was the first day that electricity was produced in Portugal without the use of…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla employees are reportedly organizing a union at Gigafactory Berlin

November 24, 2021
Some Tesla employees are reportedly organizing a union at Gigafactory Berlin, and IG Metall – one of Germany’s most powerful unions – is behind it. For years, United Auto Workers (UAW) tried to unionize Tesla’s Fremont factory, and the automaker fought against it, so much so that Tesla was recently found to have violated labor laws based on a ruling by the National Labor Relations…
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GamingNews

Sarah Ross, ex-Zynga communications VP, passes away

November 24, 2021
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Sarah Ross, former vice president of global communications of Zynga, passed away on November 20. She was an unsung player behind one of the biggest social impact campaigns in…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s Tutel optimizes AI model training

November 24, 2021
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Microsoft this week announced Tutel, a library to support the development of mixture of experts (MoE) models — a particular…
MobileNews

Apple sues ‘Pegasus’ spyware creator NSO Group for attacking iOS users

November 24, 2021
Apple on Tuesday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against NSO Group, which is known for developing the advanced spyware “Pegasus” to attack and surveil users of iOS and Android devices. The company claims that it is suing the creators of the spyware to “prevent further abuse and harm to its users.” Pegasus was developed with governments and law enforcement agencies in mind since the…
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