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Amazon’s new $2B fund aims to boost affordable housing in Arlington, Nashville and Seattle areas

GeekWire

Microsoft started the trend with a $750 million affordable housing initiative focused on areas around its Redmond, Wash., Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $186 billion. headquarters. billion pledge. Amazon’s market value now exceeds $1.6 DVIDS / DOD).

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Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

GeekWire

Rea is executive director of E8 , a Seattle-based investment network focused on climate tech. Despite the promising trends, Pitchbook reports that climate tech only made up 2% of all VC tech deals so far this year in the U.S. Mike Rea, executive director of E8. (E8 David Kenney, president and executive director of VertueLab.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. Former Facebook employees working at the political nonprofit Acronym are hoping to harness the platform’s power to defeat President Trump.

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How to think about polarization on Facebook

The Verge

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Late in the day, there was word of a forthcoming executive order , with no other details.

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24 things we think will happen in 2024

Vox

Florida is trending Republican , and Texas hasn’t elected a Democrat to statewide office in three decades. According to Morning Consult’s weekly approval ratings of more than 20 democratic leaders, Modi’s net approval was a sky-high +60 among Indian voters as of late November, twice as high as the next most popular leader.

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