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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.”. Instead, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which also received a separate $1 million donation from Oceankind, took public credit for the robot research. Moreover, Oceankind itself is not a nonprofit, which are required to open their books every year in public filings to the IRS.

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

TechCrunch

The company’s last public fundraising announcements were more than a year ago. 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 raised $275 million in a Series D round back in September 2019.