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LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism

The Verge

It was meant to give LinkedIn’s global workforce the chance to discuss inclusion and allyship. An employee from Fiji said, “It is not solely a ‘white’ problem to solve. This is not what Martin Luther King Jr would have wanted for anyone.”. The meeting, hosted on the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans, was called “Standing together.”

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

But global issues can’t wait three years.”. Oceankind’s stated mission is “to improve the health of global ocean ecosystems while supporting the livelihoods of people who rely on them.” “We Page and his family are reported to have spent much of the pandemic in Fiji. Casting a wide net for science.

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

TechCrunch

The next-generation operating system that will provide those upgrades, codenamed “Briggs,” will be uploaded to its global fleet of LINK e-scooters. The company has developed AI — which is integrated into the vehicle — that monitors and corrects scooter safety issues in real time.