Tag Archives: Europes

‘Silicon Valley’s John Altschuler On Europe’s Issue With Showrunners

‘Silicon Valley’s John Altschuler On Europe’s Issue With Showrunners

John Altschuler, the co-showrunner of Silicon Valley and King of the Hill, wants Europe to show more respect to writers. The scribe, part of a writing duo with Dave Krinsky, called this facet of the European production system the “biggest difference” with the Hollywood studios’ approach. However, he did credit the European view that TV production is seen through cultural …

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Ryder Cup 2025: Europe’s Viktor Hovland out of singles match v Harris English

Ryder Cup 2025: Europe’s Viktor Hovland out of singles match v Harris English

US captain Keegan Bradley put English’s name in the envelope in case of injury to a European player. When the draw for the singles came out following play on Saturday, English and Hovland were paired in the 12th match. Hovland’s issue flared up following his Saturday morning foursomes victory alongside Robert MacIntyre against Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley. Scheduled to …

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Greece’s once notorious tax system becomes one of Europe’s most efficient

Greece’s once notorious tax system becomes one of Europe’s most efficient

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — With a pristine white exterior, the Greece tax authority’s new headquarters looks out of place on a clogged industrial artery outside Athens. A former shopping mall and ice rink, the building has been overhauled into an ultramodern digital center that has led the rescue of the nation’s ailing finance and tax sector. It is teeming with …

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Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. – POLITICO

Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. – POLITICO

European rulemakers in 2009 revised a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice. “Too much …

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Campi Flegrei: What We Know About Seismic Activity At Europe’s Most Dangerous Volcano

Campi Flegrei: What We Know About Seismic Activity At Europe’s Most Dangerous Volcano

Europe’s closest thing to a supervolcano has been stirring for the past 20 years, culminating in a significant spike in seismic activity since the beginning of 2022. Naturally, these developments have got people’s bottoms squeaking, although the likelihood of a full-blown eruption is something scientists are still trying to calculate. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please …

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AI detects earthquake surge at Europe’s most dangerous volcano

AI detects earthquake surge at Europe’s most dangerous volcano

Italy’s Campi Flegrei has been restless again when it comes to earthquakes, and a new AI approach is helping scientists see what the ground is really doing. In a peer-reviewed study, researchers from Stanford University, along with colleagues at INGV Osservatorio Vesuviano and the University of Naples Federico II, reanalyzed continuous seismic records. The team found more than four times …

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Google Is Fined $3.5 Billion for Breaking Europe’s Antitrust Laws – The New York Times

Google Is Fined $3.5 Billion for Breaking Europe’s Antitrust Laws  The New York Times Google Fined $3.5 Billion by EU Over Ad-Tech Business  The Wall Street Journal Google Fined Almost €3 Billion by EU for Abusing Adtech Power  Bloomberg.com EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat  politico.eu Alphabet’s Google set to be hit with EU antitrust fine over adtech on Friday, …

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Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network

Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network

Paper mills often produce papers with fabricated data or sell authorships to researchers.Credit: Lane Erickson/Alamy An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills — businesses that produce fake or low-quality research papers and sell authorships. Anna Abalkina, a research-integrity sleuth and social scientist …

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