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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

To date, the company has raised $500,000 through a series of government grants and competitions. . Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. The Mobile Work Exchange has a handy benefits calculator where you can quantify how much telework can help your particular organization.

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Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

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Similarly, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a directive that requires all grantees to pause any activities related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) that do not fully comply with the new administration’s updated requirements.

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BadVR is using government grants to build a business that’s independent of venture capital

TechCrunch

The first step was finding money from the government’s Paycheck Protection Program to get more capital coming in and maintaining its headcount. Eventually, the company managed to land additional financing in the form of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. That’s how BadVR got most of its $3.5

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Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

TechCrunch

Nguyen’s new startup Hatch recently launched its first two products and announced today it has secured a total of $20 million in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, SVB and Plaid’s founders. Eligible account holders can also enroll in Hatch Cover, which covers overdrafts up to $100, or apply for lines of credit.

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Confused Senator Rages That Self-Driving Cars Are Woke

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According to a database he released this week, as NPR reports , just over $2 billion of the National Science Foundation's $9 billion budget went to "left-wing ideological crusades masked as 'academic research.'" It's ludicrous," University of Maryland biologist Joshua Weitz, who has previously received NSF grants, told NPR.

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The Trump administration should follow its own order on free expression

Fast Company Tech

The order largely restates existing law, which prohibits the federal government from engaging in unconstitutional censorship, but as a statement of policy it could theoretically increase protections for legal speech and reduce the number of circumstances in which the federal government seeks the suppression of viewpoints it dislikes.

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