> Tangles scrapes information from the open, deep, and dark webs and is the premier product of Cobwebs Technologies, a cybersecurity company founded in 2014 by three former members of special units in the Israeli military.

If I had a dime for every time a sketchy "cybersecurity"/surveillance software ended up being developed by an Israeli firm...

Maybe you could have a system where, in the extreme case, a fully automated company with just a few executives gets taxed on a fixed percentage of its revenue. For every human employee they hire, they can deduct 110% of that person’s total compensation (salary + benefits) from the revenue that’s subject to tax.

That way it’s beneficial in both directions: if they stay fully automated, they’re effectively helping to fund something like a UBI through higher taxes on their automation-driven profits. But they’re also strongly incentivized to hire humans anywhere it actually makes sense, because every real job they create directly reduces their tax burden.

You're thinking of Daniel Elk (Spotify co-founder and CEO) and Ludvig Strigeus, who ran uTorrent before building Spotify.

Thanks!

That's essentially what Matter + Thread is. The Matter smart home standard, which can run on the Thread wireless protocol, allows products to work without an internet connection for local controls.

Matter is pretty common on newer smart home products, while Thread is a bit newer so it's only supported on some products right now.

When it comes to state-sponsored cyber-spying like this, take your pick between USA, Israel, Russia, China.

> During Wednesday’s presentation in Seattle, Amazon executives said the economics of commingling no longer worked. With the company’s logistics network now capable of storing products closer to customers, the speed advantage of pooled inventory has diminished. At the same time, Amazon estimated brand owners spent $600 million in the past year alone through re-stickering products, the process of placing new labels or barcodes over existing ones on products.

and for a streamlined way to grab weather forecast data directly from multiple governments national weather service APIs, there’s the library UniWeather.js:

https://github.com/ghobs91/UniWeather.js

> solid alternatives from Asia

That just moves the problem somewhere else, rather than giving the EU homegrown solutions to rely on.

> Whatsapp (and perhaps Telegram) are the dominant messaging/chat apps for example and that is European tech but it was inevitably going to be bought

Nitpick: Whatsapp was American from the start. It was founded in Mountain View, CA by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former employees of Yahoo.

I should have checked :-) Sorry.

If you want to skip the middleman and integrate the national weather service APIs that many countries governments provide (and which most commercial APIs base their data on anyway), check out this library.

It unifies weather data from official national weather service APIs across the US, Canada, Mexico, and major European countries.

https://github.com/ghobs91/UniWeather.js