Wired UK – March 2019

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The value of a

lawsuit filed by

Satanic Temple

activists against

Netflix series

The Chilling

Adventures of

Sabrina. They

alleged the show

copied their

Baphomet icon

• but have now
  settled amicably

The estimated amount of tax revenue that would be paid

out by large technology companies such as Microsoft

and Google between 2020 and 2023 under chancellor

Philip Hammond’s proposed digital tax. The measure

would levy a two per cent tax on tech companies’ sales

in the UK, as opposed to the current tax on profits

British public support for the legalisation of cannabis

• a record high for the country, according to a poll
  by Populus – after the home secretary approved the
  prescribing of medical cannabis in November 2018

On average, the number of photos and videos posted by

parents of their offspring by the time they are 13. A report

by the UK Children’s Commissioner found that children

growing up today are the first generation to be “datafied”

The winning bid for an AI artwork hailed as the world’s first

to be sold at auction in October 2018. Portrait of Edmond

de Belamy, created by the French collective Obvious, went

for 40 times its original estimate at Christie's in New York

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Plastic scrap the UK exported to Malaysia between January

and August 2018, after China banned imports of British

recycling. The environmental group Unearthed discovered

the waste piled up in illegal dumps up to three metres tall

That 's all it took Alibaba to rack up $1bn in sales on its

Singles’ Day blowout on November 11, 2018. Total spend

in China's annual shopping frenzy, created in 2009

for lonely hear ts to buy themselves gif ts, is over $25bn

The percentage of Facebook’s revenue

represented by the £500,000 fine levied

on the company by the UK Information

Commissioner’s Office in October 2018

for breaching the Data Protection Act

Estimated global spend to treat illnesses caused by red

and processed meat, according to researchers from the

UK , US and Australia. They calculated that 22,000 lives

could be saved annually by raising taxes on the products

This is the amount of food binned

by Londoners every year: 60 per

cent of it is still edible, and it

costs £1.4bn, or £840 a household

Wind, solar,

biomass and

hydro energy

capacity

in the UK

from July to

September

2018 – the

first time that

renewable

capacity has

overtaken

fossil fuels