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Squeezed out: Bulgaria lavender oil makers fear EU laws
Squeezed out: Bulgaria lavender oil makers fear EU laws
Business and Economy
by  AFP

As a successful harvesting season yielding several hundred tonnes of lavender oil wraps up in Bulgaria -- the world's top producer -- the industry's future looks more grey than purple. It takes up to 120 kilos of lavender -- still being pressed by foot into huge troughs before distillation -- to produce one kilo of Bulgaria's purple gold used in famous cosmetics and perfumes.

The fight over a 'dangerous' ideology shaping AI debate
The fight over a 'dangerous' ideology shaping AI debate
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction. - Eugenics claims - Longtermism grew out of work done by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in the 1990s and 2000s around existential risk and transhumanism -- the idea that humans can be augmented by technology.