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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

Congress multiple times regarding e-waste policy. The events draw nonprofit and commercial refurbishers, environmentalists, policy makers, and green technology innovators, as well as international refurbishers who offer a global view of electronics refurbishing and recycling. He has testified before the U.S. spanhidden.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. In India, the most populated country in the world, some 600 million people will feel unprecedented heat outside this niche.

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can't Stop Tweeting Out the N-Word

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In one post, for example, an overtly racist user tagged Grok and asked if "Niger," the name of both a river and a nation in West Africa, was a "slur." After suggesting that neither itself nor Musk is exempt from hate speech policies and noting that "enforcement varies," Grok, again, deployed the term that needs little introduction.

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