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LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism

The Verge

An employee from Fiji said, “It is not solely a ‘white’ problem to solve. The same day, a white employee followed up with the employee from Fiji — the one who’d spoken about this not being just a “white” problem — to discuss why the words had been harmful. The chat function on BlueJeans, however, told a different story.

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Startup founded by ‘Survivor’ champ debuts airless bike tires based on NASA rover tech

TechCrunch

SMART, which is co-founded by “Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, worked with Padula and Creager, along with former NASA intern Calvin Young, to apply the benefits of SMA to the consumer market.

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The Greenwash Brigade

Tech Soup

The Greenwash Brigade is a part of American Public Media's Public Insight Network , which is a network of more than 70,000 self nominated people across the world with particular areas of expertise who volunteer to fact check public radio news stories.

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This startup is betting that you want to binge remote-work content

TechCrunch

Jesse Chambers , the founder and CEO of wrkfrce , thinks there’s an opportunity for a media publication dedicated solely to helping workers navigate what he thinks is an irreversible shift. The company isn’t competing with any publications, as most cover remote work as one topic of many.

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

TechCrunch

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. 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.