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Meet the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, presented by ShowStoppers and TAITRA

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Green Jacket Sports is showcasing its Golface smart system, which helps golf courses monitor and collect data on their operations in real-time, while allowing golfers to track their performance. Maktar is the maker of a smartphone backup device called Qubii.

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Here are all 20 companies from Alchemist Accelerator’s latest Demo Day

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Grandeur Technologies: Pitching itself as “Firebase for IoT,” they’re building a suite of tools that lets developers focus more on the hardware and less on things like data storage or user authentication. Watts Battery: A big, stackable backup battery for your home. Only need a bit of power in an outage?

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Time for Europe to step up

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Earlier at the same conference, Matt Hancock, who, as minister for digital in the UK’s Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), is the nearest thing the UK has to a minister for AI, claimed that with a projected investment of £1bn, the UK was “in the front rank of AI countries.” That is the approach which Europe should champion.