Recode by Vox

MARCH 8, 2025

The result would be global firestorms, massive earthquakes, and potentially megatsunamis, followed by an impact winter that would wipe out the global food supply. With an estimated diameter of 130 to 300 feet, it wouldnt be a world-ender, but it could cause severe local damage if it were to collide with the Earth.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater. The goal of the Treaty is to provide access to the great accessible libraries of wealthier countries, as well as make it legally possible to make local content accessible in each country. So, in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Our Black History Month feature of the day is this one-hour documentary on YouTube — KQED’s mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963 , as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African American community. There’s also a variation for local business searches.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The biggest idea I heard was that while mitigation is a global issue, climate adaptation will be a local issue.

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TechNode

JANUARY 8, 2025

Beijing is planning to revise its rules controlling global access to battery manufacturing technologies in a tit-for-tat move after major Western economies including the European Union and the United States decided to impose punitive tariffs on China-made electric vehicles. The proposed measures are open to public review until Feb.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

We are brainstorming a new solution to a widespread challenge in many countries: How to develop a self-sustaining, independent local tech ecosystem. We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity ?all

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For nonprofit managers who oversee tedious administrative work and grant proposal grinds, for instance, AI is a godsend for reducing time suck. Gift Catalog and Impact Stories: Heifer’s campaign features various impactful gifts like honeybees, ducks, clean water, and livestock, all of which help communities globally.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We are at a very interesting time – with shifts happening locally and globally, governments changing, and new paradigms emerging. I spoken with various libraries who, when they learned about the NetSquared Local program asked why they couldn’t participate – and I told them that of course they could! Getting Started.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

As Tesla made its first public pitch to bring its Cybertruck factory to Austin, Texas on Tuesday, the company faced concerns from citizens about its treatment of workers, the proposal’s impact on the local housing crisis, the need to give the automaker tax breaks, and most of all, CEO Elon Musk. Greg Abbott.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. Note from Beth: Within a year new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) will be launched worldwide, joining the likes of.ORG,COM, and.NET.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. We'll continue to explore that key question in a couple of months when we meet again.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Facebook will restore news content to its platform in Australia after the government agreed to amend its proposed News Media Bargaining Code. In response to the proposed bargaining code, Facebook took the extreme measure last week of blocking news from being shared on its platform by Australian users and publishers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

billion acquisition of BillDesk it announced last year, once slated as European technology giant’s largest acquisition, saying “certain conditions precedent” were unfulfilled in a surprising move a month after the proposed acquisition received an approval to proceed from the local antitrust watchdog.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Travis County Commissioner’s Court, the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government, approved an agreement on Tuesday that will save Tesla around $14 million in property taxes over the next 10 years. But, he said, “If another week is going to force Tesla to leave, then, I will, you know for maybe the first time, say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2018

” The way the book was produced also embraces the idea of sharing through collaboratively publishing with a team from nine countries to crowd source the book proposal and write the book. The Walking School Bus (and the Bicycle Train) have become a global phenomenon, widely adopted in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the US.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

TechCrunch reported last month — twice — that the two firms were in talks to back the Indian startup and had proposed a valuation of $1.9 Existing investors Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India also participated in the new round, which is also the largest for a cryptocurrency startup in India.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Hyundai Motor, which has said it aims to secure 7% of the global electric vehicle market by 2030, earmarked $9.2 South Korean local media Korean Economic Daily first reported the news, citing anonymous sources, that Hyundai is in talks to invest at least 400 billion WON (~$306.4 The news comes nearly nine months after 42dot raised $88.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global strategy officer to lead its growth in international markets. Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform. last month.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

While Vietnam’s government hasn’t implemented subsidies for electric motorbikes yet, the Ministry of Transportation has proposed new regulations mandating electric infrastructure at parking lots and bike stations, which Nguyen said will increase the adoption of electric vehicles. Gogoro unveils Eeyo, its new ebike brand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The proposal also includes a loosening of strict EU state aid rules that will allow Member States to provide financial support to novel “first of a kind” chip fabs. “Chips are at the centre of the global technological race. “Chips are at the centre of the global technological race.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Among those saying severe cold was among the types of extreme weather they experienced, about three-quarters say climate change is at least a partial cause of those eventssuggesting that many understand global warming can create an unstable atmosphere that allows cold air from the Arctic to escape farther south more often. About 7 in 10 U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

year on year, based on a local media report. Fount’s AI-based BlueWhale product analyzes more than 52,000 cases of global economic data and market indices and automatically proposes a customized and diversified portfolio that it can later rebalance as necessary. . of millennials. . trillion in 2025 from $1.37 billion in 2021. .

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Various techniques such as image-text pre-training , knowledge distillation , pseudo labeling , and frozen models, often employing convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones, have been proposed. Thus, it could be beneficial for open-vocabulary detection if we build locality information into the image-text pre-training.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Fisker, which went public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Apollo Global Management Inc. The company lays out some of its proposed strategies on its website , where it splits the vehicle lifecycle into five phases: upstream sourcing, manufacturing and assembly, logistics, the use phase and end-of-life.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

Whether it's political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Maybe you want to run a campaign for awareness around one of your proposals and want to showcase teachers in the process. Campaigns in Action.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Yet, relatively little has been written outside of Israel about the major concerns local entrepreneurs are currently dealing with. Israel’s tech scene is also remarkably resilient and relatively immune from the country’s global and local political woes. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Note from Beth: With the hurricanes, gun violence, and fires, I gave generously, including donations to Global Giving funds. Alison Carlman, Director of Impact and Communications at Global Giving, offers a deep dive into some Global Giving data to find the answer. I surpassed my giving budget for disaster relief giving.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The global supply chain was one of the major industrial casualties of the pandemic, so it perhaps goes without saying that companies tackling issues related to the global supply chain would remain an alluring proposition for otherwise hesitant venture capitalists. million) Series A round eight months ago.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. Global delegates. Oct 9 - 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We'll soon be unveiling a full set of tools to let you manage your local event and build a strong local climate group in the lead-up to 24 October." org model enables any individual or organization around the world to create and promote events ("actions") - with a call to action for a fair global climate treaty. Then check out.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Over the next few years, Reliance will independently build Shein’s supply chain in India, with all products sold through Shein India produced locally. The Ministry of Textiles, after consulting with other relevant departments, has also approved Reliance Retail’s proposal.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 30, 2024

Grants come in many forms, from large federal funds aimed at helping national organizations push for systemic change to smaller local grants focused on community projects. Step two through step infinite is delivering on the promises you made in your proposal. Securing a grant is only step one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic. And where is the local community in all of this?

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