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Gates offers $1.5B for carbon-cutting innovation if lawmakers enact public-private program

GeekWire

Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill that includes billions for climate-related efforts. Gates told WSJ that he hopes other investors will chip in to raise as much as $15 billion for DOE-supported projects that lessen the atmosphere’s carbon burden. Image from the GeekWire interview on Feb.

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Oops, we forgot to fix the supply chain

Vox

Other problems, including the energy crisis created amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, mean that even if shipping costs continue to fall, those price declines won’t necessarily be passed on to average people. Some experts say it never really broke. At first glance, it might look like the pandemic-era supply chain chaos is nearly over.

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The year EVs outgrew Tesla

Vox

Electric vehicles are going mainstream. | Nic Antaya/Getty Images. The transition to electric vehicles hit several milestones in 2022. Critics have long dismissed electric vehicles as overly expensive, inconvenient, and unrealistic. But 2022 didn’t hear them. The electric era, it seems, is finally here. The numbers bear this out.

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The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots”

Vox

There is no neat and tidy definition that divides the kind of artificial intelligence that is already integrated into everyday life around us and the kind we worry about in the future. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI. That is, if there is anyone left alive to be visiting zoos.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

[UPDATE: We have added 25 additional futurists to the list for a total of 203. It is tricky defining a futurist, so while we have largely selected those who describe themselves as working in this space, we have also included others whose work is largely that of exploring the future. Detailed list – in alphabetical order.

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What we know about Intel’s $20 billion bet on Ohio — and US manufacturing

The Verge

Intel Sandy Bridge Chips. Hint: It’s not about the chip shortage On Friday, Intel announced it would build the “largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet” here in the United States, on a 1,000-acre plot of land in New Albany, Ohio. It could become Ohio’s version of California’s Silicon Valley, several suggested. Car prices?

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The case for Broadband for All

Vox

We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Millions of people simply can’t access broadband because the infrastructure isn’t in place. It’s how we access government services, look for work, find our homes, and stay connected in our day-to-day lives. Efi Chalikopoulou for Vox. Here’s what it would take to do it.

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