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Candela’s hydrofoiling electric boats attract $24M investment in a bid for cleaner seas

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Solving this problem makes hydrofoiling craft a viable alternative to a traditional hull, and that in turn solves one of the problems inherent to electric watercraft: low range. But while the company does hope to sell as many of these as possible to the Monaco and Dubai crowd, the bigger opportunity may be in public transport, of all things.

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Creating a Compelling Event Registration Page: 5 Tips

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Make it easy for everyone to fill out your registration form by incorporating alternative text for images, closed captions for videos, and sufficient color contrast for text and visual elements. Include alternative text for your CTAs so people using screen readers can understand what action you’d like them to take. or “Sign Up Now!”

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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed

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Yet even as brands try, alternatives are often too expensive or worse for the environment. Founders: Pierre Thys (CEO) , Robert Monaco (President). The pitch: Consumers worldwide are demanding businesses to take action on eliminating plastic waste, 3.8 million pounds of which are leaked into the environment every few minutes.

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