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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. based drone production.

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

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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. Aren’t other plastics a problem? Every year, the world produces more than 400 million tons of new plastic.

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