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Google announced one of the biggest green pledges from tech yet

The Verge

Google’s new pledge comes as California, home to Google’s headquarters, continues to burn and choke on the smoke from blazes made more devastating by climate change. “We So Google may need to think about working in places with healthy renewable energy markets and favorable energy policies. Google released 4.9

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Starbucks is the latest big company to halt advertising on social media

The Verge

The coffee giant says that it stands “against hate speech” and believes “both business leaders and policy makers need to come together to affect real change.”. “We The Coca-Cola Company went a step further and announced Friday it was pausing all digital advertising on all social media platforms globally beginning July 1st.

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Microsoft’s latest environmental pledge tackles water scarcity

The Verge

Microsoft plans to address dwindling water resources in its latest environmental pledge. Microsoft made a new commitment to replenish even more water than it uses for its global operations by 2030, making the company “water positive.”. Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images. We’re going to invest as much as we need”.

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WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram users

The Verge

WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page to its website outlining its stances on user privacy in response to widespread backlash over an upcoming privacy policy update. That’s something the company feels it is required to disclose in its privacy policy, which it’s now doing after previewing the upcoming changes to business chats back in October.

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

EsTech seems likely to press that line of argument — although at the time of writing it was still preparing its policy plan. As EU eyes ‘balance’ on precarious gig work, Glovo offers pledge of ‘fairer’ conditions for couriers. mostly U.S.) Big Tech giants at the pan-EU level. ” Super scalers?

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COP16 talks on biodiversity resume in Rome. Here’s what’s at the top of the agenda

Fast Company Tech

That is, how to spend what’s been pledged so farand how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth. Those included putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030, known as the Global Biodiversity Framework. And a big part of the talks will be about raising more money.

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Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo unite on new set of safety principles for online gaming

The Verge

Back in 2017, PlayStation global sales and marketing head Jim Ryan told Eurogamer that the reason the company wasn’t supporting crossplay in Rocket League or Fortnite was that the company didn’t want to expose its players to online environments outside of its control. “This partnership signifies our commitment to work together”.

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