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Wingcopter raises $22 million to expand to the U.S. and launch a next-generation drone

TechCrunch

Understanding the regulatory environment, and even helping architect it, is a major selling point for partners who don’t want to have to build out that kind of expertise and regulatory team in-house. With its U.S. The one market that Wingcopter doesn’t intend to pursue, however, is military and defense.

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Plastic straws symbolize a global pollution crisis but Trump wants them to stay

Fast Company Tech

In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtles nose sparked outrage worldwide and countries and cities started banning them, starting with the Pacific Island nation Vanuatu and Seattle in 2018. Trump strongly supports and gets support from the oil and gas industry. Aren’t other plastics a problem?

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