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The EU's Cure for the E-Waste Epidemic
2021-03-15 12:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Globally, we throw out 50 million tons of electronics waste every year, which is the equivalent of 1,000 laptops every second. This month the EU addressed this problem with a comprehensive "right to repair" law to dramatically reduce this waste. Let's explore electrical hardware sustainability issues this week, and look at a laptop that seems to anticipate these new e-waste regulations.
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Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat'
2021-01-25 16:29:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to 190bn a year, a report says.
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Far-Right Spreads COVID-19 Disinformation Epidemic Online
2020-05-05 19:14:48| TechNewsWorld
Far-right groups and individuals in the United States are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to promote disinformation, hate, extremism and authoritarianism. "COVID-19 has been seized by far-right groups as an opportunity to call for extreme violence," states a report from ISD, based on a combination of natural language processing, network analysis and ethnographic online research.
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Sourcing in an epidemic requires resilience not re-shoring
2020-03-11 13:46:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The media is currently awash with predictions that the Covid-19 outbreak marks the end of multinational sourcing. Professional clothing buyers certainly need to review how they source - but it's resilience, not re-shoring, they should be seeking.
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Analyst: Bankruptcies Are Not Epidemic
2019-09-27 12:08:00| OGI
The U.S. shale industry has undergone a tortuous time of restructuring since the commodity price downturn that began in late 2014. A number of players have gone under, while the sector as a whole has had to severely alter the financial strategies that have long characterized the business, particularly the tendency to outspend cash flow.
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