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2024 Paris Olympics medals unveiled - and they're embedded with actual pieces of the Eiffel Tower

2024 Paris medalists will take a bit of France and its iconic landmark home with them. And it's legit pieces of the Eiffel Tower, in case you were wondering.
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Nokia-branded phones to coexist alongside our own for now, says HMD Global

Finnish mobile phone maker and Nokia’s official brand licensee HMD Global announced that it will move forward with a new multi-brand strategy where it would produce devices under a new HMD Original
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From videogame characters to AI avatars: An IP story

You might have spent entire evenings, if not days, playing as your favourite videogame character, looking forward to moving to the game’s next level and conquering new worlds.
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76% of European women find it challenging to ascertain whether a garment is genuinely eco-friendly

Is the attachment to fashion the same among European women? What about their sensitivity to trends?
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Chanel wins case against What Goes Around Comes Around

After a nearly one-month trial, Chanel has won its case against luxury reseller What Goes Around Comes Around. The jury voted in favour of Chanel unanimously on all four counts.
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Apply to WIPO Global Awards 2024

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has opened its 2024 Global Awards competition, inviting applications from small businesses and startups that use intellectual property (IP) to dr
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Diesel launches campaign against counterfeiting

Using the latest innovations, Diesel accomplished a “significant reduction in the amount of imitation Diesel products” on the market.
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Universal Music to pull songs from TikTok

Universal Music is set to pull its millions of songs from TikTok after a breakdown in talks over payments.
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'First of all you must be patient, then you need spatial memory': The man behind the puzzle that 99% can't solve

On January 30th in 1975, the Hungarian academic Ernő Rubik applied for a patent on his invention. Little did he know that his ingenious teaching tool would become an iconic global phenomenon.
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