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LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism

The Verge

This part of the forum went as planned — employees told The Verge they were moved by the panelists’ vulnerability and learned from the stories they’d shared. An employee from Fiji said, “It is not solely a ‘white’ problem to solve. The chat function on BlueJeans, however, told a different story.

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How to Win the Story Wars

Care2

Sachs highlighted the example of the Fiji Green marketing campaign, where consumers quickly learned that Fuji’s practices weren’t "green" at all. Not only are they engaging with us in great conversations across social media channels, they are also our critics, so being sincere is critical.

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

TechCrunch

In rapid succession, Oceankind provided three grants totaling almost $2 million to iterate the robot’s design, add machine learning capabilities and transform it into a multi-functional autonomous underwater reef restoration system , intuitive enough to be operated by citizen scientists. ’ And they wanted it to be quick,” he said.

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

TechCrunch

SMART’s co-founders, Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, are targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year. Attention early-stage founders! I participated last year as a moderator. There was an abundance of information.