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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau was an American author and philosopher famous for his observations...

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AI accurately identifies whether objects can be recycled from a glance

AI accurately identifies whether objects can be recycled...

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A neural network trained on a dataset of images can identify recyclable objects...

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Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping species in the Arctic

Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping species...

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Climate change may increase the risk of viruses infecting new hosts in the Arctic,...

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How domesticating the African baobab tree could secure its future

How domesticating the African baobab tree could secure...

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Farmers seldom plant the African baobab because it takes up to 23 years to fruit,...

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Interview with a16z General Partner Martin Casado as the company rolls out a new $400M fund focused on seed investments (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Interview with a16z General Partner Martin Casado as the...

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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:Interview with a16z General Partner Martin Casado as...

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Head of the Reserve Bank of India says the central bank may launch its first digital currency trial programs by December (Saheli Roy Choudhury/CNBC)

Head of the Reserve Bank of India says the central bank...

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Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC:Head of the Reserve Bank of India says the central bank...

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Microsoft says it won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most older PCs if they install directly using ISO files, and not via Windows Update (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft says it won't block users from getting Windows...

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Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft says it won't block users from getting Windows...

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Firemaps, which uses drones to make 3D models of houses and provides a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires, raises a $5.5M seed round led by a16z (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)

Firemaps, which uses drones to make 3D models of houses...

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Danny Crichton / TechCrunch:Firemaps, which uses drones to make 3D models of houses...

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The City of Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly deceiving customers and using unfair business practices (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

The City of Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly...

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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:The City of Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly...

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot demands records from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, TikTok, and other tech companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

The House select committee investigating the January 6...

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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot...

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Amazon partners with Affirm to roll out monthly installments for purchases over $50 to some US customers; Affirm stock is up ~30% after hours (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Amazon partners with Affirm to roll out monthly installments...

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Kate Rooney / CNBC:Amazon partners with Affirm to roll out monthly installments...

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About 15 of top 20 posts in Facebook's Q2 content report were effectively plagiarized, showing the best path to virality on Facebook is to copy someone's idea (Casey Newton/Platformer)

About 15 of top 20 posts in Facebook's Q2 content report...

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Casey Newton / Platformer:About 15 of top 20 posts in Facebook's Q2 content report...

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Chinese AI startup SenseTime files for IPO in Hong Kong two years after being blacklisted by Trump; sources say it is looking to raise at least $2B (Chad Bray/South China Morning Post)

Chinese AI startup SenseTime files for IPO in Hong Kong...

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Chad Bray / South China Morning Post:Chinese AI startup SenseTime files for IPO...

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China says it has surpassed 1B internet users for the first time, up 8% from 2020; internet penetration rose to 71.6% and delivery services rose to 468M users (Nikkei Asia)

China says it has surpassed 1B internet users for the first...

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Nikkei Asia:China says it has surpassed 1B internet users for the first time, up...

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Customer-relations management software provider Freshworks files for an IPO, looking to raise $100M; Freshworks was last valued at $3.5B in 2019 (Bloomberg)

Customer-relations management software provider Freshworks...

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Bloomberg:Customer-relations management software provider Freshworks files for an...

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Toast, a cloud management software provider for restaurants, files its S-1, reports it had $494M ARR at the end of June, up 118% YoY, and $38B in GPV (Joe Guszkowski/Restaurant Business)

Toast, a cloud management software provider for restaurants,...

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Joe Guszkowski / Restaurant Business:Toast, a cloud management software provider...