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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: UK's EV chargers mandate; Niantic’s metaverse plan; DuckDuckGo’s app-tracking blocker; plus, Karnataka’s IT minister on ‘Beyond Bengaluru’
Description: Britain has passed a law requiring new houses and buildings to install electric vehicle charging points from next year, BBC reports. This will see up to 145,000 charging points installed across the country each year. New supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovations will also come under the new law. The UK is switching to EVs, with petrol and diesel car sales banned from 2030.
Niantic, the maker of the popular augmented reality game Pokémon GO, has raised $300 million from Coatue at a valuation of $9 billion, the company said in a blogpost on Monday. The company that initially s...