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Berkeley Yeast, S2G dish on the future of beer, meat and more at TC Disrupt 2023

TechCrunch

Matthew Walker: S2G Ventures managing director of food and agriculture Matthew Walker has more than 10 years of experience in venture capital, investment banking and securities law. He is also a member of the Illinois Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy.

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Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Engadget

National chains There is no national electronics recycling law at this time, so you won't find any federal programs to assist you with getting rid of old devices. You can take your items to a recycling center, drop them off at a store, or even mail them in. Heres how to find places that will take your old gadgets.

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TikTok’s success has made it a big target for regulators

The Verge

Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. And after Hong Kong passed a new national security law giving vast new surveillance powers to the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok led all social networks in pulling the app from Hong Kong. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example.

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Hundreds of U.S. communities are making reparations for slavery and colonization

Fast Company Tech

The Evanston effect Evanston, Illinois, launched the countrys first publicly funded housing reparations program in 2019. Because Georgia law prohibits government entities from making payments to individuals , a community group stepped in to organize compensation. Constitution. Like reparations, all are efforts to grapple with the U.S.s

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Wisconsin Supreme Court race ends in victory for Democrats and defeat for Elon Musk

Fast Company Tech

Judge Susan Crawford preserved liberals’ narrow majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday by defeating conservative Brad Schimel, but in a way the real loser of the election was billionaire Elon Musk. Pritzker, Illinois’ Democratic governor and a billionaire himself who donated to support Crawford, posted on X. .”

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The antitrust case against Google is becoming just another partisan fight

The Verge

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Reported cases in Illinois: 96,778. Data from The New York Times.

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

You can argue that the company is more sensitive to pressure from conservatives in the United States, and a lot of good reporting has borne that out in the past few years. Reported cases in Illinois: 120,588. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 898,259. Reported cases in New Jersey: 160,445. Governing. ?

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