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3 years into war with Russia, this Ukrainian startup is powering a drone revolution

Fast Company Tech

The deployment of swarms of autonomous or group-controlled drones comes as a far cry from the early days of the conflict, when larger individual drones, such as the Turkey-produced Bayraktar UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), were put onto the battlefield. Theyre big targets, Chulyk says of the Bayraktars.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. This year Stacey and her flock (I'm one of the honorary turkeys) will launch this year's Tweetsgiving , another 48-hour celebration.

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Visionlink Supports: 2023 Colorado Emergency Management Conference

VisionLink

This year's event provides a forum for organizations to communicate and collaborate with other emergency management partners and state/national disaster response non-profits, government agencies, and practitioners from across the emergency management community.

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SoftBank-backed Tridge, a Korean platform that matches food agriculture buyers and sellers, bags $37.2M Series D at a $2.7B valuation

TechCrunch

Global food prices have dropped for three consecutive months but still remain relatively high compared to last year, per the 2022 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Brazil, Turkey, India, Vietnam, Australia, Tanzania, the Netherlands, and Canada,” Hoshik Shin, founder and CEO of Tridge, told TechCrunch.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Serving The LGBTQ+ Community

Bloomerang

Areas served: Canada, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia, The South Caucasus, Turkey, United States, and Western Europe. is the first national fund in the country dedicated to uplifting, resourcing, and building the capacity of Black trans social justice leaders. Visibility Impact Fund. The Black Trans Fund?is

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How eateries with breakfast menus are responding to high egg prices

Fast Company Tech

But an ongoing bird flu outbreak , which so far has forced farms to slaughter nearly 159 million chickens, turkeys and other birds including nearly 47 million since the start of December is making supplies scarcer and pushing up prices. Wholesale egg prices hit a national average of $7.34 hit a record $4.95 Department of Agriculture.

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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

The Verge

The source of all these stories is a 548-page report from the United Nations Security Council that details the tail end of the Second Libyan Civil War, covering a period from October 2019 to January 2021. there is critical mass building amongst nations and international organizations to push for a ban”. “I It’s cheery stuff, isn’t it?

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