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Daily Crunch: Overnight, Russia’s invasion puts Ukrainian tech industry on a war footing

TechCrunch

How tech is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine : The technology world is a global industry, which means that when geopolitical conflicts arise, it impacts the world that TechCrunch covers directly. Promise wants to help you pay your government bills : If you don’t track your checking account balance, this isn’t for you.

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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

Energy: the size of the oil and gas industry. These tools include skill development through volunteering, a sense of personal confidence, finding employment through social networks, information gained through participation, a trust in and willingness to help others, stronger government, and importantly, community attachment.

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It’s game over for Arizona’s controversial App Store bill

The Verge

The fight is being led by the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), an industry group consisting of Apple critics and competitors like Fortnite maker Epic Games and Spotify, that has taken the fight against alleged app store monopolies to the local stage. Apple declined to comment for this story.

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U.S. lobster catch keeps dropping as warmer waters prompt migration

Fast Company Tech

lobster industry’s catch keeps sliding as fishermen contend with the northward migration of the valuable crustaceans. The industry is based mostly in Maine, where lobsters are both a cultural signifier and the backbone of the coastal economy. Janet Mills, a Democrat, praised the industry for its perseverance.

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Malaysia is looking to data centers to boost its economy, but experts warn of risks

Fast Company Tech

Once touted as an Asian tiger on the cusp of becoming rich, its industries shrunk in the late 1990s after the Asian financial crisis. Data centers, the government hopes, will modernize its economy and indirectly create thousands of high-paying jobs. It has since languished in the middle-income trap.

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How DOGE cuts are hurting fishermen’s decarbonization efforts

Fast Company Tech

Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors looking to switch to new, lower-carbon-emission systems say the federal funding they relied on for this work is either frozen or unavailable due to significant budget cuts promoted by President Donald Trumps Department of Government Efficiency.

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What a damning civil rights audit missed about Facebook

The Verge

Rhode Island has opened up movie theaters, restaurants, museums, and daycare centers — not because Governor Gina Raimondo is ignoring the risks of the novel coronavirus, but because she is actually controlling for them. Luckily for those in Rhode Island, she took on much of this instead. — Governing. ? Industry. ?