GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

But carbon offsets and removal are in ever greater demand, and folks are working to develop legitimate programs and technology in the space. I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. ” Max Scher, Salesforce.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A nonprofit organization with Pacific Northwest ties has spun out its first venture capital fund totaling $60 million for investing in climate tech companies. The second [driver] is policy. Dawn Lippert, founding partner for Earthshot Ventures and CEO and founder of Elemental Excelerator. Elemental Excelerator Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Battle’s departure was not due to any disagreement with the company or on any matter related to its operations, policies, or practices, Expedia said in a SEC filing. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 The company offers mobile platforms for religious, education and nonprofit organizations.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

As for what or who is responsible for so many new users interested in trying the platform, which is operated by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, there are two likely culprits: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Signal competitor WhatsApp. Facebook says its new privacy policy changes nothing about consumer data sharing. Hang in there.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” They are being developed to improve drone targeting and detect missiles. In order to be very good at the narrow task of text prediction, an AI system will eventually develop abilities that are not narrow at all.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

But with our vast excess of atmospheric carbon, experts agree that it’s essential that we develop new technologies to remove and hold on to carbon — and that we move fast. Here’s a roundup of some key Pacific Northwest efforts to develop and support new carbon capture technology: PNNL’s research innovation.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

While it’s certainly easy to group workers by age, more emphasis should be placed on when people enter the workforce, the coinciding state of the economy, and the various safety net programs in place, said Sarah Damaske, an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Penn State University.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Uniswap, for example, issued tokens to community members, employees, investors, and advisers, and lets them vote on “development proposals.” Imagine that Instagram let you vote on which features it should develop next, and you’ve got the basic idea. eth,” you’ve found an ENS customer.

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

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. Applying for a grant can often be a long, burdensome process for nonprofits. Bezos’s philanthropic track record Before 2018, Bezos didn’t have much of a philanthropic résumé.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And Facebook has always defended itself by insisting that it is a net good to society because of how it brings people together. Ed Markey (D-MA) is calling for Facebook to halt all development of its Instagram for Kids product for children under 13, which BuzzFeed News first revealed the company was developing in March. “We

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. Workers developed the whole system — the bikes, repair networks, shelters, charging stations — because they had to. As contractors and, often, undocumented immigrants, they have few protections and virtually no safety net.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

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. We train them, we develop the years 100,000 People all right. They spent that time researching and understanding the environment. Things happen.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2022

The ethical concerns surrounding this news are glaring: A tech billionaire with an obvious personal interest in shaping government tech policy is giving money to an independent government agency devoted to tech and science, albeit through his private philanthropic foundation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She has worked on projects about diverse issues such as water security, the future of energy, the future of youth, intelligent buildings, the development of cities over the next few decades, and planning for Egypt in 2030. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology, economic policy, and regulatory policy. Zanelle Njapha.

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Vox

MAY 10, 2022

What we don’t know yet is whether these events are enough to meaningfully combat longstanding headwinds, from anti-union policy to the rise of gig work, that have caused union membership to decline for decades. It’s not clear where this will all net out. Meanwhile, public approval of unions is at its highest level since 1965.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I thought Bankman-Fried was going to commit billions toward tremendously beneficial causes, a development I chronicled in a long piece earlier this year on how EA was coping with its sudden influx of billions. You need policy. Maybe the problem was a theory of change that involved billionaires at all.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But getting the internet to everyone is not just about tech: It’s even more a policy question, one tied up in politics. Whether or not private companies want to undertake every connection project themselves, they don’t want competitors to, either, because they’re afraid models would develop that would threaten their business.

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Vox

AUGUST 8, 2022

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! Those opportunities were overwhelmingly found outside developed countries, primarily in global health. Flash forward to 2021.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2021

When MacKenzie Scott unveiled last year that she had donated $6 billion to support 500 nonprofits across the country, overwhelming applause rushed in for a billionaire who probably donated more money directly to charities in a single year than any living person ever had before. More net worth doesn’t always translate to more power.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. He threatened to shut down social media companies.

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2024

A better approach than using polling is to reference some of the forecasting models political scientists have developed for predicting elections in advance. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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