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As Great Britain is preparing many, many things for their eminent Brexit from the EU, the British government’s Data Protection Bill, which is supposed to keep Britain in line with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has civil liberty groups in an outrage at what some call an attempt to undermine millions of people’s privacy.   When it is debated next week, Liberty, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), and the Race Equality Foundation, are all calling for the House of Lords to remove certain exemptions the UK has included in the bill.

Building machine learning models can sometimes be difficult. New open source deep learning interfaces such as Gluon and ontologies/knowledge bases like Grakn allow developers to accomplish just that without compromising performance. Gluon’s optimized neural network components are pre-built, providing a clear and concise API for defining machine learning models. Grakn is the self-proclaimed database for AI.

How does Amazon want to make the shopping experience and everyday stress more comfortable and better for the customer? With the help of a new, high-tech door lock. We can tell you a bit about how it works.

Europe isn’t always first in technologies of the future. You can drive down large parts of the German Autobahn, for example, and lose your connection for kilometres causing a lot of stress when you’re trying to buy that swimsuit you forgot at home, having it sent to your hotel in Corsica, all whilst on your way south on holidays. Still, users and shoppers may soon be rejoicing. At the latest EU Summit, there was hope that mobile Internet in Europe will be developed into 5G on the domestic market.

Wish Inc. may be located in San Francisco, half a world away from us here in Europe, but it has attracted tens of millions of shoppers to its mobile marketplace this year. On the Wish marketplace, one can mainly buy goods from Chinese companies. Even according to mobile research firm App Annie, Wish was the most downloaded shopping app for Android in the 30 days up to 15 October.

European countries have long been in conflict with US companies when it comes to taxes. Many companies use loopholes and other tricks to evade taxes. Even on marketplaces such as Ebay and Amazon, some sellers evade VAT. A recent UK report shows how severe this problem is and criticizes especially Ebay and Amazon for not taking enough action. But it’s not only the marketplaces that need to do more about this problem.

Alibaba plans to invest over $15 billion over the next 3 years developing a global research and development initiative going by the name of Alibaba DAMO Academy. Currently recruiting more than 100 researchers, the Chinese tech giant said the program will help it reach its goal of serving 2 billion customers and creating 100 million jobs by 2036 whilst also “increasing technological collaboration worldwide.”