Web companies will probably face new restrictions on digital privacy in Europe. Global online companies may face some new challenges in operating in Europe. Digital-privacy agencies from the European Union’s member countries met late last week to discuss how to apply privacy laws to “cookies”-- small Internet files used to remember things about users, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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In places around the world where the grid hasn't been extended, they're still figuring out ways to power their gadgets. We could learn a thing or two. Globally, there are 5.3 billion mobile phone subscribers--but according to Green Power For Mobile by The GSMA Development Fund, nearly 500 million people worldwide do not have a means of charging a mobile phone at home.
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Ever since Japan’s battered Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex began emitting radiation in March, calls to abandon nuclear power have risen in the U.S. and Germany, among other countries.
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