When we think about people in the public eye we should thank, we think of figures such as Mother Teresa (we’ll let Christopher Hitchens spin in his grave at this mention) or Princess Diana, who virtuously stood out because of their charity work. However, it is demonstrably true that the people who create the technology […]
The European Union wants to implement a framework that would incentivize the production of movies and music inside the EU at the expense of American creations. For a political project that wants itself to be an alternative to the nation-state mentality, this is surely a nationalistic suggestion.
Have you returned to the office from your holiday weekend to find your email inbox flooded with privacy policy updates from every company you’ve ever crossed paths with? Well, you can thank an avalanche of new rules from the European Union for that. But the harms imposed by the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation […]
In a recent opinion piece for everyone’s favourite newspaper, The Guardian, Rhik Samadder, makes the case of getting rid of your smart phone. His goal: leaving the phone in a different room, and only replying to messages once a day. We’ll leave the fact that Guardian columnists seemingly don’t need to react to breaking news, […]
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg realiséiert, an ass den 23. Mee ausgestraalt ginn. De Beitrag kann och am Replay op http://www.rtl.lu nogelauschtert ginn. [Radio USO]: Um Dënschden-Owend war de Facebook-Hearing mam Mark Zuckerberg am Europaparlament zu Bréissel. No dem Skandal mat Cambridge Analytica ass et drëms gaangen de Facebook Grënner iwwer Changementer an der Politik […]
At the end of 2017, a number of President Trump’s nominations to important government positions were held up by lawmakers that were pressing for reform of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Dans le débat sur la fiscalité de l’économie numérique, le positionnement du Luxembourg ne concerne pas tant le sens à donner à la taxe en question, mais s’axe plutôt vers la compétitivité.
The amount of stories and commentary in mainstream news sources about how the internet ruins childhood, attention spans and social interactions, is immense. If you were to arrive in this day and age with a time-machine from the 1960s, you’d think that the internet was the first possible thing one could possibly use: giant corporations […]
Will robots take my job?’ is a frequently asked question today. So frequent, in fact, that there is even a website – willrobotstakemyjob.com – attempting to answer precisely that question with a statistically accurate calculation. It suggests that a credit analyst, for example, is running a 98 per cent chance of being computerised, while an editor at […]
After his testimony in front of Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by the European Parliament. Weeks after the invitation, Zuckerberg has now agreed to meet parliamentarians in a private session.
