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Looking to decarbonize the metal industry, Bill Gates-backed Boston Metal raises $50 million

TechCrunch

One startup that’s developing a new technology to address the issue is Boston Metal. Boston Metal, which previously raised $20 million back in 2019, uses a process called molten oxide electrolysis (“MOE”) to make steel alloys — and eventually emissions-free steel.

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More than just fans: How women are reshaping baseball on and off the field

Fast Company Tech

The Philadelphia Phillies offer behind-the-scenes tours and clinics for their female fans, while the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees offer fantasy camps that are geared to women. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The number of women working professionally in baseball has also grown.

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YouthBuild Boston: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. YouthBuild Boston's Work. YouthBuild Boston works with inner city at-risk teenagers to do real-world construction projects.

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Massachusetts governor won’t sign facial recognition ban

The Verge

The Boston Globe reported last week that Baker sent an omnibus police reform bill back to state lawmakers, asking for changes that included striking the facial recognition rules. Massachusetts legislators passed the first major state-level facial recognition ban, following a model set by individual cities like Boston and San Francisco.

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Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition

The Verge

It isn’t a blanket ban on facial recognition; police will still be able to run searches against the state’s driver’s license database but only with a warrant and requirements that law enforcement agencies publish annual transparency reports regarding those searches.

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Senti Bio raises $105 million for its new programmable biology platform and cancer therapies

TechCrunch

For Lu and his co-founders — fellow MIT professor Jim Collins, Boston University professor Wilson Wong and longtime synthetic biology operator Phillip Lee — Senti Bio is the culmination of decades of work in the field.

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Bringing the power of Explain Data to all Tableau users

Tableau

release, we are excited to deliver a reimagined Explain Data experience available to all licensed Tableau users. Doing this allows me to see that without that extreme value, the hotspots are equally divided between stations at MIT, Harvard, Boston University, and downtown—which is more in line with what I would expect!

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