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Ford will idle its Kentucky plant this week amid semiconductor shortage

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Ford will idle its plant in Kentucky for a week as the automotive industry grapples with a shortage of semiconductors, ABC News reported The automaker’s assembly plant in Louisville produces the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair SUVs, and employs about 3,900 hourly workers, according to CNBC. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start

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It did away with formal grade structures and put a focus on problem solving, per Musk’s direction, and he paid for all the costs involved. Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education Julian Vasquez Heilig said he wishes Musk had tried to partner with existing online education programs. “I

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC demo days, pitching warm up drills, Kentucky’s Bitcoin miners

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Considering how many calls investors take on a daily basis, “this new pitching model presents a new problem for founders,” says Flint Capital partner Andrew Gershfeld, whose firm reviews approximately “1,500 online pitches per year.”. Bitcoin miners are dusting off Kentucky coal towns, spurred by state crypto tax incentives.

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Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

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We know that retail food waste is a global issue and the category potential is as staggering as the size of the problem. Solutions are urgently needed and ultimately, we’re building a company to solve the retail food waste problem at a global scale.”

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Craving ‘wild’ foods? Foraged’s marketplace uncovers all that and more

TechCrunch

That was when he met Andy Conner, a certified mushroom hunter, who was having the opposite problem — difficulty selling 10 pounds of seaweed he found. Colicchio told me that he invests in companies that fit into areas that he is interested in and are providing a solution to a problem.

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Ford nabs $884 million incentive package for EV ‘mega campus’

The Verge

Ford is also simultaneously spinning up battery factories in Kentucky. CEO Jim Farley said two main reasons were the low cost of energy in the state and the availability of an undeveloped site with no environmental problems. A $500 million grant, plus hundreds of millions more marked for construction costs.

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The ACLU is suing Los Angeles over its controversial scooter tracking system

The Verge

It’s growing into a bigger problem beyond LA. Cities such as Columbus, Ohio; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; San Jose, California; Seattle, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Louisville, Kentucky are demanding scooter companies agree to share data through MDS as a condition for operating on their streets.