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Apple’s digital driver’s license has been delayed to next year

The Verge

Apple’s digital driver’s license / ID feature won’t be coming until “early 2022,” according to an update to Apple’s iOS 15 page that MacRumors noticed. Image: Apple. The change comes after news broke that Apple was looking for strict control over how states roll out the feature, which was previously listed as coming late this year.

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Americans' Urge to Help Overcomes Lock Down Limitations

VisionLink

In the face of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD), Visionlink’s Disaster Technologies Division and Sterling Volunteers are partnering in a public-private pro bono effort to help state governments and non-profit agencies mobilize the desire of Americans to provide help from a safe distance.

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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

TechCrunch

Emerge Career is working on changing that, and its early success in putting formerly incarcerated folks to work is attracting investment from both VCs and government programs. Education options during and after incarceration have never been particularly extensive, despite the best intentions of educators.

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Apple is reportedly relying on states to pay for digital ID rollouts

The Verge

Apple will soon let users in participating states digitally store their driver’s licenses or state IDs on their iPhone’s wallet, but according to a report by CNBC , the initiative will be partially funded by the states — and their taxpayers. Image: Apple.

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Emerge Career’s tech-forward job training lets incarcerated folks hit the road on release

TechCrunch

“So we felt the need to start a separate entity for upskilling formerly incarcerated people, and using government money to do it,” Orchingwa continued. The first training program Emerge has been making available is a commercial trucking license. To be clear, though, this isn’t some new drain on state budgets.

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How the ‘Severance’ child-boss represents childhood under threat

Fast Company Tech

Even as Elon Musk frets about women choosing not to have children, he seems eager to restrict any government aid that would provide the time or resources that raising children requires. The current administrations quest for what it calls government efficiency is poised to shred safety net programs that help millions of low-income children.

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The most innovative companies for energy in 2025

Fast Company Tech

By tapping its deep pool of usage data, analytics, and energy billing expertise, the Connecticut-based company is betting it can cut most clients energy bills by 30%. Customers then pay Budderfly up to 5% less than what they would have paid their electric company before the upgrades, while Budderfly keeps the rest of the resulting savings.