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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

Clean tech startups can be slower moving as their innovations often include hardware and their prototype process can take longer, particularly if it involves biological or chemical processes. This summer, the accelerator accepted 10 early-stage companies in the latest round of the program.

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Amazon Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke to leave next year, will be replaced by operations chief Dave Clark

GeekWire

He oversees businesses that generated more than $200 billion in net sales in 2019, representing nearly 90% of Amazon’s overall net sales last year. He grew up in Pittsburgh, studied chemical engineering at Princeton University, and did his graduate work in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO Business Intelligence

Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging. While organizations know they need to mitigate environmental risks more effectively across the supply chain, often they struggle to translate that ambition into results.

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How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

GeekWire

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory chemical engineer Dushyant Barpagaare is using a laboratory continuous flow system to study solvents that can capture carbon from the air. The department has a Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization program that is helping advance the sector. Andrea Starr / PNNL Photo).

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Apple has an AirPod repair problem

Vox

In 2022, Apple launched its own Self Service Repair program. Thanks to chemical reactions that take place when you charge and discharge them, the lithium-ion batteries that power AirPods and other modern electronics hold less and less charge over time. But yeah, we can only repair what is repairable.” All of them?” They better.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. Probably Probably who has an interest in setting back the Iranian nuclear program? When they did that. Intelligence Agency? Essentially, yes.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. Late last year, the BEF, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and the State Department, announced the creation of a carbon offset program called the Energy Transition Accelerator.