The writer is founder of Sifted, a media site for European start-ups A few weeks ago, Chile became the first country to enshrine neuro-rights in its constitution and is now finalising legislation to regulate technologies that record or alter brain activity. It is unlikely to be the last. An increasingly wide-ranging debate is developing among…
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The US is placing China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 institutes involved in biotechnology on an export blacklist for allegedly helping Beijing engage in the repression and surveillance of Uyghurs. A senior US official said the commerce department would on Thursday put the Chinese academy and its affiliate institutes on the “entity list”,…
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Two things to start: Au revoir, long-term European gas contracts. The European Commission has proposed banning deals between EU members and energy suppliers outside the bloc, such as Russia, that would last beyond 2049. That’s a long time away, but is the last year before the EU economy is supposed to have hit a net…
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Plug Power partners to develop a hydrogen fuel cell city bus – Renewable Energy World Home Hydrogen Plug Power partners to develop a hydrogen fuel cell city bus No posts to display We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we…
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 Hong Kong prepares for digital tax reporting using inline XBRL The Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (IRD) looks set to launch Inline XBRL-based digital tax reporting for business within the next…
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Modern Healthcare Senior Hospital Operations Reporter Alex Kacik and Reporter Technology Reporter Jessica Kim Cohen to discuss the latest tech development in joint replacement surgeries. Subscribe to Beyond the Byline Subscribe to Modern Healthcare Follow us on Twitter Music Credit: Coffee by Cambo Alex Kacik: Hello, and thanks for joining us. Modern Healthcare’s Beyond the Byline here, where…
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Need to get a leveraged project of the ground? You may well need the help of the worldwide insurance market. Credit enhancement insurance and other techniques are increasingly being used to help oil the wheels of capital allocation and spreading the risk. Those of you who regularly read my Lending column on Fridays will know…
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The day before I met Tim Holme at his headquarters in San Jose last December, he had just become Silicon Valley’s latest start-up billionaire. Shares in his next-generation battery company, QuantumScape, were surging in the wake of its recent public listing — one of many clean-tech stocks that had caught the imagination of investors across…
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Nick Clegg may be available in Berlin. He has a slot in Paris. He’ll make time for lunch in Brussels. Then Omicron hits, and the vice-president of global affairs at Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is not coming to Europe after all. Instead Clegg offers to meet . . . in the metaverse, the immersive digital world hyped as…
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European supermarket chains J Sainsbury, Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize will stop selling several Brazilian meat products after an investigation found they contributed to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Pressure to halt deforestation has ratcheted up since last month’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. It resulted in more than 100 countries pledging to end by…
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