Calls for blanket ban on deforestation-linked products rejected by government

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Calls for blanket ban on deforestation-linked products rejected by government The government has rejected recommendations to ban UK businesses from trading in products linked to deforestation, regardless of whether their production was legal. The government has rejected recommendations to ban UK businesses from trading in products linked to deforestation, regardless of whether their production was […]

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PayPal backs Indonesian insurance startup Qoala in $47M funding

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PayPal backs Indonesian insurance startup Qoala in $47M fundingPayPal Ventures’ latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks, including accidents, phone screen damage, and ticket cancellations to over 5 million customers. Qoala has secured $47 million in a new round co-led by PayPal Ventures and MassMutual […]

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How to turn off Instagram’s political content filter

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How to turn off Instagram’s political content filterIt’s election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X competitor Threads, this change won’t impact what you see from accounts you already follow. But the platforms won’t proactively recommend content about politics, which […]

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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of America

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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of AmericaScores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a fraction seek out founders who are explicitly aligned with some set of values — let alone classically conservative […]

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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency

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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliencyAs the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of forest area burned by wildfires increased 320% from 1996 to 2021, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System. While building tech to slow the progression […]

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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents revealIn 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this […]

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Apple WWDC 2024, set for June 10-14, promises to be ‘A(bsolutely) I(ncredible)’

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Apple WWDC 2024, set for June 10-14, promises to be ‘A(bsolutely) I(ncredible)’Apple SVP Greg “Joz” Joswiak just confirmed via the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that the company’s annual World Wide Developer Conference is set for June 10-14. In what is no doubt a nod to the company’s artificial intelligence ambitions, the exec […]

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Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staff

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Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staffBanking-as-a-service startup (BaaS) Synctera has conducted a restructuring that has resulted in a staff reduction, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. While Synctera did not share how many employees were impacted, a report in Fintech Business Weekly pegs the number to be about 17 people, or about […]

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