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Senators revive bill requiring tech sector to report online terror activity
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One of the shooters in last week's deadly attack pledged her allegiance to ISIS on Facebook the same day she and her husband went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people in a San Bernardino County government building. In response, high-ranking Senators revived legislation Tuesday requiring the tech sector, like Facebook and Twitter, to...
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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies
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Some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals are forming a new organization known as the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in technologies that could help solve problems associated with climate change and other clean tech initiatives. The coalition includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg; Alibaba...
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Bill Gates to reportedly unveil ‘biggest’ clean energy fund ever at Paris climate talks
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Reports on the upcoming Paris climate talks are stating that Bill Gates’ next big project will be focusing on clean energy. According to ClimateWire, Gates will announced the “world’s largest clean energy research and development partnership” on Monday. “The multibillion-dollar announcement will come at the opening day of landmark U.N. climate change negotiations in the French...
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Asteroid mining riches await: President Obama signs space resource bill into law
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President Barack Obama today put his signature on a law supporting the rights of space miners to extract, use and sell resources from asteroids, the moon, Mars and other celestial bodies – giving space-minded entrepreneurs something extra to be thankful for. “This is the single greatest recognition of property rights in history,” Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Redmond-based Planetary...
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