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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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. AWS netted $13.5 ILSR estimates seller fees netted $24 billion. billion in 2020, according to Amazon’s financial data.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

” The estimated $500 million in yearly revenue the tax is expected to generate is earmarked to be funneled into early-childhood education programs and school construction. The video below, published by Invest in Washington Now, a nonprofit that supported the tax, shows how much a person would owe based on the new tax.

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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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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Carbon capture is critical for us to address climate change in time and to actually reach net zero [emissions],” said Deepika Nagabhushan , a program director with the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. The department has a Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization program that is helping advance the sector.

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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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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. It’s unclear how much these efforts will impact Facebook’s policy decisions and bottom line. The Wall Street Journal’s blockbuster reporting may only be the tip of the iceberg.”.

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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. 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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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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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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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology, economic policy, and regulatory policy.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2021

Backers of the clean fuels measure said the show of support from the state’s largest employer could deflate opponents’ arguments that the policy would damage the state’s economy. But it is the first time Amazon has publicly declared its support of the policy. But state Sen. That’s partly because state Sen.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One of the biggest shortcomings of MacAskill’s book, in my view, is that it failed to lay out what “making the future go as well as possible” involves in practice and policy. You need policy. But the theoretical debate obscures what funding “longtermist” causes means in practice. the problem is the dominance of philosophy.

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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. million needed to get its internet service to 28,000 economically disadvantaged students at no cost as part of a program set to last for 10 years. Erik Schelzig/AP. It was a blessing when it was announced.

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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! 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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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. TikTok’s parent ByteDance generated more than $3 billion of net profit last year.

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