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New Customer: Crisis Call Center

VisionLink

This is the Crisis Call Center of Nevada, established as an outreach effort of the University of Nevada, Reno, due to the high rates of suicide across the state. The center is supported by individual donations, government sources, corporate and foundation grants and the United Way.

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Tesla’s readying a ‘million mile’ battery that could greatly lower the cost of EVs

The Verge

Information about Tesla’s next-generation batteries has steadily trickled out over the last year or so thanks to the experts Musk hired and their public works, like patents, academic papers, and university presentations. The group has been funded by Tesla since 2016 , according to Reuters.

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Tesla faces criticism of Elon Musk in bid to bring Cybertruck factory to Texas

The Verge

About 45 residents of Austin and the surrounding area spoke about the factory deal on Tuesday at a virtual public meeting held by the Travis County Commissioners Court , the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government. The tax rebates being discussed in Texas are, to date, far less significant than the $1.3

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Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test

The Verge

The test took place on Sunday afternoon at the company’s DevLoop test track in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. And the federal government has recently laid out the framework for regulating the hyperloop, giving hope to companies like Virgin Hyperloop that it may eventually break ground on a full-sized operational hyperloop system.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . BackRubbing doesn’t work.

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It’s not your imagination — that vaccination website really is crawling along

The Verge

Nevada’s state vaccine site was the slowest to load, taking 15.7 The situation is reminiscent of other times government organizations have been tasked with building out essential online infrastructure, like the rollout of healthcare.gov. seconds to fully load in comparison to the fastest (Puerto Rico) at 1.4 Image: The Markup.

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Reviver is building a company one licence plate at a time

TechCrunch

” It’s a perfect storm, in a way: Old systems ripe for modernization, run by an almost universally hated institution. It turned out to be a long conversation because it’s a sea change from what had been done before, and there were people that were a little nervous because, especially in government, nobody likes change.”