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How global unrest will impact innovation in 2023

TechCrunch

The global economic and political turmoil of the past year has had a meaningful impact on corporate innovation in the technology industry and beyond. All of these factors have led to belt-tightening in the corporate world, layoffs and hiring freezes and a more conservative investment posture from the investment community.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 and thats a conservative estimate. will become more common.

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The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

TechCrunch

has grown so substantially that, in recent years, Canada has ranked third globally in its rate of intact forest loss — behind only Russia and Brazil — mostly due to logging, the NRDC said. Demand from the U.S. Ninety percent of that is clearcutting, which exacerbates climate change.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stripe vs. Plaid, IP litigation, what VCs really think about the downturn

TechCrunch

Natasha Mascarenhas obtained emails from Y Combinator, Lightspeed, Reach and January Ventures that contained standard suggestions for conserving runway and rethinking valuations in “an extremely capital constrained environment.” ” In short: save your money, and if you plan to ask for more, expect less generous terms.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 views on Epic-Bandcamp deal, SPAC letdown, CIO sales strategy

TechCrunch

And that’s the problem — if SPACs had been used more conservatively, they could have leveraged their moment in the sun as a way to get more companies public that deserved it.” In an in-depth how-to, Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis, walks readers through the four basic elements for using OSS in production: Auditing.

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ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the US

TechCrunch

PitchBook notes that as of the end of December, ClearBank’s valuation was just under £274 million, which likely puts the current valuation at $590 million at its most conservative estimate. Just look at the discussions on SWIFT and cutting off Russia, and how slow that has been moving.” “Europe and and the U.S.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

Top personnel from the NSA and US cyber command collaborate with OpenEye to retrofit a semblance of security for U3s weights before senior leaders in China, Russia, Israel, North Korea, or Iran realize just how valuable OpenEyes software has become. Previously, U3 was conservative. Storms are brewing in Washington too.