Death Valley National Park on July 15, 2023, near Furnace Creek, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images Venture capital firm World Fund said Friday it’s closed a 300 million euro ($325 million) fund to back startups tackling climate change. World Fund, a European climate technology investor incubated by the environment-conscious search engine Ecosia, said … Read more
John Barnett, a former quality control engineer at Boeing who—just last week—testified against the company as part of a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, has been found dead, the BBC reports. The M3 MacBook Airs are as Good as Ever, and That’s the Problem Barnett, 62, who previously worked for Boeing for three decades and retired from … Read more
JERUSALEM — When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi for allegedly assaulting Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, his supporters quickly sprang into action. Within days, an online fundraiser collected over $140,000 for Levi and his unauthorized settler outpost from over 3,000 donors worldwide. Now, those contributions may … Read more
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which will be used to power the growth of Poe, Quora’s AI chat platform. What makes Quora’s AI chatbots different from the rest of the pack? Quora is … Read more
An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest used her profile to raise money for charity she then spent it on herself, a judge said as she was jailed for two and a half years. Xahra Saleem, now aged 23, gained a high public profile as a member of the BLM march in Bristol in … Read more
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the release of the Fed policy decision to leave interest rates unchanged, at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 20, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is set to deliver what could be a key policy address, with … Read more
Recently, Twitter user @yeezyree asked: “What immediately tells you that a person wasn’t raised right?” The responses ranged from everyday courtesy, like being kind to customer service workers, to deeper character flaws, like disrespecting their mother or children. So, let’s get into the most common replies: 1. Twitter: @DAQUANDSG 2. Twitter: @whymarjan 3. Twitter: @longlive_reuben … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Monday that at least nine American citizens have been killed in the weekend Hamas attacks on Israel, raising the toll from four. It says an undetermined number of American citizens remain missing and unaccounted for. On Sunday, an official said that number was fluid and had ranged from between … Read more
The unnamed lady argues with a younger Black man over a rental bike.Twitter/@Imposter_Edits Individuals are giving cash to a girl who was criticized over a viral Citi Bike dispute. A video of Sarah Comrie’s dispute with a Black man over a motorbike went viral, and she or he bought flak for it. Now a GoFundMe … Read more
Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, speaks in the course of the Unbiased Neighborhood Bankers Of America (ICBA) Capital Summit in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Could 16, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Photos Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen mentioned Sunday that “exhausting selections” will must be made about which payments will go unpaid if … Read more