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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

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When his Seattle-based mobile analytics company Ground Truth underwent a merger in 2011 , he decided to try something else. Libes, who is also an author , additionally operates a nonprofit called Realize Impact that allows people to make philanthropic investments in socially conscious companies. Nine made the cut.

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

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This kind of work needs developers to be very precise in development work and to write code that is very optimized since any sloppiness in performance here affects all applications on Windows. This was back when you had to have a physical airline ticket to board a flight.”. I learned that paper airline tickets are wildly inefficient!

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As worries spark over the carbon impacts of NFTs, some unexpected boosters come to their defense

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That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I “NFTs are provably unique assets, and so using an NFT to represent a unique carbon certificate is the perfect application for solving this problem.”

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

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The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. It plans to fly again on Saturday but United Airlines kept them off the plane. Vamosi: And yet the airlines continued to dismiss of this work? I think he was a scissor, the woman talking I think she was a chief pilot at one of the airlines. Here’s CBS news.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

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T-Mobile is planning to use Starlink’s network to expand its coverage in dead zones, and SpaceX is encouraging other mobile providers to connect their networks to the heavens. ViaSat already provides satellite internet to several major airlines. Mariana Suarez/AFP via Getty Images. Challenges ahead.

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

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This philosophy inspired her to found Teazl , a mobile learning platform that helps companies educate their employees. In the 1990s, she led change and innovation for massive market growth in mobile devices at Nokia and was instrumental in instituting futures thinking at the company. Location: Sydney, Australia. Anne-Marie Dahl.

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