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Location, location, location! Innovative new app helps homebuyers find areas best suited to their needs

Location, location, location is everything. Jerzy Ochoński/PAP

They say that location, location, location is everything. Well, now a first-of-its-kind app lets users filter for their dream amenities and, by analysing a map of Warsaw, use 16 filters to find a place best suited to their needs.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

New app aims to help fight addiction

The free application is intended to help people addicted to substances such as alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and legal highs, as well as to compulsive behaviours such as uncontrolled overeating, playing computer games, using pornography or gambling.

Poland introduces ‘pioneering’ hot dog-making robot

The brainchild of convenience store chain Żabka and Kraków tech firm VeloxAlpha SA, the one-armed sausage server called Robbie can complete its task in three simple steps.

Three Polish MedTech start-ups chosen for Google’s 2021 European Accelerator programme

The companies were chosen to join the three-month-long programme, along with 12 other companies from Europe and Israel, that Google says are the ‘most promising European tech start-ups’.

More Afghans apply for international protection in Poland

Afghans evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover make up the majority of applications for international protection in August, a spokesman for the Office for Foreigners (UdSC) has told PAP.

Netflix launches first in-app gaming initiative in Poland with 'Stranger Things'

The addition of original games based on popular content will offer Netflix subscribers something that they aren’t receiving elsewhere and could be the key to continued growth of the service.

Belarusians file most asylum applications in Poland

Belarusians have been responsible for most political asylum applications in Poland this year, according to the country's Office for Foreigners (UdSC).

Where Tik-Tok meets Allegro: New app launched to promote online sales

With livestream online sales becoming the new norm, a Warsaw firm is looking to help both big and small businesses take their products directly to the customers’ virtual door.

New app brings Mars exploration closer to life on Earth

The mobile app from Warsaw-based firm Immersion VR presents NASA’s ‘Perseverance’ rover mission and the surface of Mars in an interactive way.

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Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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