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Amazon will make it easier to buy sustainable products with new climate label

The Verge

Amazon is launching a new environmental program called Climate Pledge Friendly that will label certain products that meet one of 19 certifications for sustainability. Amazon says more than 25,000 products should now display the program’s label. Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge.

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The CAA CIO’s 5 building blocks to support teams

CIO Business Intelligence

Founded in 1913, Ottawa-based Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) is made up of eight autonomous regional clubs, each of which provides a range of services, from roadside assistance and leisure travel services, to insurance services, and member discount programs. So ChatGPT is in the same fashion to see what it’s going to give or help me.

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The real scandal behind billionaire Eric Schmidt paying for Biden’s science office

Vox

Government is expected to be fairly transparent and accountable to the public, while the philanthropy world is often opaque and subject to the whims of private, ultra-wealthy individuals like Schmidt, whose estimated net worth is $27 billion. One positive sign is that OSTP’s budget is likely to increase. Congress increased its budget to $6.65

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

GeekWire

Techstars Seattle is part of a larger Techstars network that includes 50 programs across the globe and also features a Techstars venture capital fund and a startup studio model. Edify is an AI platform that allows engineering managers to instantly build and deploy technical onboarding programs to grow their teams.

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Picos at the Edge

Phil Windley

The files are stored on IPFS, decentralized on storage providers around the net. My vision for picos is that they can operate on a decentralized mesh of pico engines in a similar decentralized fashion. Picos are already encapsulations of computation with isolated state and programs that control their operation.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. So that’s the debate that I had with him over net neutrality. I introduced the first net neutrality bill 15 years ago, essentially after the 1996 Telecommunications Act passed, where I was the principal Democratic author. Nothing went wrong. MK: Right.

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How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Vox

I had asked the people at the “let’s all give our money to buy the world’s poor malaria bed nets” conference to buy me a plane ticket ? Obviously the money should go to bed nets! In June 2022, the crypto market crashed , and Bankman-Fried’s net worth, as estimated by Bloomberg , crashed with it. Flash forward to 2021.

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