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The Italian fashion brand Progetto QUID is an example of a social enterprise that has successfully scaled up. Credit: © Marco Penazzi - Quid Even with brilliant, original ideas, social innovators are often limited by funding and skills shortages when it comes to scaling up. A new Horizon Europe call is opening on May 12, 2022, to set up a European Social Innovation Catalyst Fund that will help social innovators grow their…

The controversial Texas social media law HB 20 will take effect following a ruling today from a US appeals court. The tech industry trade groups NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) managed to block HB 20 in court last year, but that victory has been undone by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which today granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for a stay in NetChoice and CCIA v. Paxton. NetChoice and the CCIA were successful in blocking a similar law in Florida last…

Horses and Gers near Khoton (Syrgal) Lake near the Altai Mountains of Mongolia. Credit: N. Bayarkhuu, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest to researchers, but few scholars have linked the introduction of herds and horses to the rise of complex societies.…

Hawaiian Holdings Inc. HA 0.51% is investing in a company developing electric seagliders that the airline hopes to fly on short hops between islands.The battery-powered seagliders being developed by Regent, a Boston-based startup, are a hybrid of a boat and a plane. They would cruise five to 30 feet above the waves on average, flying on a cushion of air that keeps the plane aloft, known as the “ground effect.” Flying between the Hawaiian islands is a major source of…

Kohl’s Corp. KSS -2.73% shareholders rejected an activist investor’s push to replace up to 10 directors, endorsing the existing board as the retailer is exploring a potential sale. The company said Wednesday that its slate of 13 directors were all re-elected according to a preliminary tally of votes at its annual shareholder meeting. Kohl’s has been under pressure from activist investor Macellum Advisors GP LLC, which has…

BTS singer Kim Taehyung aka V took fans by surprise by dropping a new English song he had created over social media, on Wednesday. However, he deleted the track ‘for good’ soon after. An Army had posted a message for the K-pop star “Daddy Taehyung, are you sleeping?" In reply, Taehyung opened up about the song. “I have one more song to delete, do you want to listen it?" Soon, he took to Twitter and shared a couple of videos in which he was seen seated on his workstation, dressed…

CORINTH, Miss.—Construction equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. CAT -1.04% wants to sell engines—again and again.Every day, old, beat-up and broken-down engines from mining trucks and compactors return to a factory here to be inspected, taken apart and rebuilt again as new. The effort, which in 2021 took in an estimated 127 million pounds of equipment to be reprocessed, is part of a push by the construction equipment giant to meet environmental goals and boost revenue from…

Credit: Indiana University Press Public concerns about the influence of religion on politics have garnered much attention in recent years. These concerns have been particularly evident in regard to the intertwining of religion and politics for devout Muslims. But whether that's a fair assessment when compared to other religions—or even when measured against fellow Muslims—remains one of the many questions tackled by a new…

Editor's note: Martin Moore book, Democracy Hacked, shows us how democracies across the world are mutating and during the election cycles, how various governments and elites are using social media as the new political battlefield. Moore, who is the director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King’s College London, observes in his book that Facebook, Google, and Twitter - where political dialogues now takes place - have lost control of how…

BEIJING—Fast-growing car maker BYD Co. 1211 -4.11% is being investigated by local authorities in the central Chinese city of Changsha, after people living near one of the company’s biggest factories raised concerns about its emissions and complained of health problems.The city’s government said Sunday that it has formed a team to look into gas emissions from BYD’s plant, “in response to the public’s feedback.” It has roped in third-party testing agencies and other…