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Netzpolitik (DE)35d06/10

Judgment due to data protection fine: Deutsche Wohnen gets away with a black eye

Berliners voted for the socialization of the apartments of the “Deutsche Wohnen” group. Here is street art that commemorates the decision. – All rights reserved: IMAGO / SchöningInstead of 14.5 million euros, the housing company Deutsche Wohnen, which is notorious in Berlin, only has to pay a fine of just under a million euros. However, the court confirmed the company's data protection violations.

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Bundestag Nachrichten35d06/10

European Committee travels to Canada

From June 16 to 19, 2026, a delegation from the European Committee will travel to Canada for political talks. The discussions in Ottawa and Edmonton will focus on questions of cooperation, economic relations and current international and security policy issues. The committee sees Canada facing major challenges – similar to Germany – not only with regard to trade and security policy and the question of raw materials. Therefore, the country is looking for many things

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The Verge Tech35d06/10

BYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across Europe

Chinese EV colossus BYD has announced plans to speed up its conquest of the European auto market with the rollout of superfast Flash Chargers across the continent. BYD has already installed the first new chargers in Germany and the UK, and plans to roll out 3,000 across Europe by the end of next year. At an estimated cost of €580,000 (about $670,000) per charger according to the Financial Times, that would mean a total spend of roughly $2 billion to install the network. The 1,500kW charging stat

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The Verge Tech35d06/10

Xbox exploring ‘radically different’ console business models

The RAMageddon crisis has got Microsoft rethinking its Xbox console hardware business. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball have both revealed this week that Microsoft is reevaluating plans for its next-generation Project Helix console and exploring "radically different" console business models in the meantime. "We are working very hard to rethink everything that we can about Helix, which is a console we are committed to shipping, and we are very cognizant of the ways in whi

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The Verge Tech35d06/10

Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month

Microsoft's Office 2019 apps for Mac will stop working next month, because the company isn't renewing a certificate that validates Office licenses. Owners of Office 2019 for Mac are being warned they'll have to purchase Office 2024 or a Microsoft 365 subscription if they want to continue editing documents. Microsoft previously promised that "all your Office 2019 apps will continue to function," when it announced end of support in 2023. The company then quietly updated that support note last mont

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The Verge Tech35d06/10

Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road

Waymo has a lot of experience building virtual systems to help its autonomous vehicles better understand the real world. It built realistic 3D worlds to better anticipate natural disasters and unpredictable edge cases. It created a virtual representation of a hyperattentive driver to test against its own autonomous vehicles in a series of simulated scenarios to see which is better at crash avoidance. Now, in a new research paper published today in Nature Communications, Waymo describes a new com

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