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Meta, the owner of popular social media companies like Instagram, Threads and Facebook, has unveiled a 'comprehensive approach' to limit misinformation, eliminate voter interference and increase…

For a country with some very sunny regions, Mexico has strikingly little solar power. At just over 10 gigawatts of solar capacity, it has one-eighth that of Germany, a country with less sunlight and 40% fewer people. German government incentives have helped, but there’s more to the story than that. In Mexico, the solar market is still nascent, which means customers are not very familiar with the technology and the market remains highly fragmented. For two entrepreneurs, that spelled opportunity. A couple years ago,…

Jamey Simpson was 10 when he watched the space shuttle lift off from Kennedy Space Center with his mother, astronaut Cady Coleman, on board. A voice from a hand-held radio counted down as fire spewed from the rocket and propelled it skyward in a chest-crushing roar. Now 23, Jamey recalls the existential weight that followed. “It was in that moment, I realized, `My mom is really gone and she’s not on the planet anymore.’”Space: The Longest Goodbye, which premieres March 8 in theaters and on Amazon and AppleTV, is not your…

Frequency of occurrence of different landscape change trajectories in the retained papers. Boxes are scaled to the number of data records for that trajectory. Note that n = 325 because some papers contained multiple trajectories. The “plantation other” category groups low frequency plantation trajectories for brevity (plantation forestry to peatland/moorland or grassland, or agriculture/peatland to plantation). Credit: WIREs Water (2024). DOI:…

Interview Kickstart, a profitable startup helping tech professionals acquire career-advancing skills, has raised $10 million in its maiden funding from Blume Ventures, the companies said on Monday. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2014, assists engineers learn from employees of top tech companies or their alumni. Though always profitable, 2023 was pivotal for Interview Kickstart after the startup found immediate wide-adoption in its newly launched AI vertical aimed at engineers looking to switch to…

In September 2021, director Destin Daniel Cretton made his first big splash in the blockbuster filming space with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which was part of the Phase Four slate of the Marvel movies in order. The Simu Liu-led superhero movie was well received, with CinemaBlend’s Shang-Chi review giving it 3.5 out of 5 stars, and by the following December, Shang-Chi 2 was announced to be in development. But there hasn’t been much news on the sequel’s progress since then, and with word now coming in that…

Tal, who has been obsessed with infectious disease since losing an uncle to HIV/AIDS and a cousin to meningococcal meningitis, wondered what this striking diversity could reveal about our immune response to infection. According to one hypothesis, the wide array of these receptors is the result of an evolutionary arms race between disease-causing microbes and the immune system. Think of the receptor as a lock, and the “Nothing to see here” message as a key. Pathogens might evolve to produce their own chemical mimics of…

Byju’s got a much-needed breather after the Karnataka High Court said any resolutions proposed at an EGM called by a set of investors would be invalid. Details on this and more in today’s Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ Interview with Accel partner Arun Mathew ■ Fintechs await govt word on MDR subsidy■ PhonePe launches Indus Appstore Byju’s secures stay on EGM resolutions from Karnataka HC Byju's parent Think & Learn has filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court against a group of investors alleging that…

A simple and effective framework to build confidence in your data presentations“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. “ — Albert EinsteinIf you are a Data Person, it’s very much possible that you spend a substantial amount of time in your career going through various phases of lowered confidence levels in creating effective data presentations. We all get trained extensively in college, grad schools and boot camps on the various steps required to perform Data mining and gather insights from…

Injection pens of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy are shown in this photo illustration in Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21, 2023.Victoria Klesty | ReutersThe insatiable demand for weight loss drugs is trouncing supply, leaving many patients struggling to find the injectable treatments. The dominant weight loss drugmakers, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, have said supply woes likely won't go away anytime soon, as the popularity of those medicines continues to soar. But both companies are showing encouraging progress in their…