[Bancakes]

Remind me of the European Silicon Valley and its greatest accomplishments?

[ben_w]

In addition to the european groups bought by US big tech, and all the European divisions of American-parented big tech firms?

A quick search reveals DeepMind, Skype, SwiftKey, Shazam, Moodstocks for the former. Bit of overlap with the latter, too, as e.g. AlphaFold is from DeepMind after getting bought.

Quick look on the Apple App store also gets me Komoot (Germany), Trade Republic (Germany), Revolut (UK), Babbel (Germany).

Aside from them, ETH Zürich and CERN are doing pretty good work, too, the latter inventing the modern hypertext based web on which you are currently reading this.

Cambridge has some decent digital tech, also has Metalysis and The Welding Institute and was where the double helix structure of DNA were found and where Stephen Hawking chose to work.

[kandesbunzler]

okay so the very few examples you named have been bought up and are now part of american companies. And did you really just bring up komoot, a outdoor biking/hiking app, as a comparison to silicon valley? lmfao

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Not actively overthrowing democracy and infecting society with an attention addiction industry.

[micromacrofoot]

the US currently has a tech oligarch employing teenagers to audit government finance software