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LaDuke’s journey began in 1985 when she co-founded and co-chaired the Indigenous Women’s Network, a coalition dedicated to empowering women to take active roles in tribal politics and culture. In 1989, she founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based organization that focuses on land acquisition, environmental advocacy, and cultural preservation and has grown […]
The Defense Department remains committed to strengthening its technical advantage in a strategic environment that is increasingly being shaped by high-tech competition, a senior Pentagon policy official said yesterday. Mara E. Karlin, performing the duties of deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, said DOD’s ability to accelerate innovation and adoption of key technologies is […]
Beijing’s success in making advanced 7-nanometer (nm) semiconductors will likely result in Washington further tightening its tech export restrictions on China, experts say, as the current curbs have failed to prevent Chinese firms from finding loopholes. Apparently made using less-advanced Western lithography machines, the silicon chips powering Huawei’s new Mate 60 Pro smartphone series represent […]
An anonymous Slashdot reader shares this report from the Associated Press: The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool […]
LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – The progress on climate technology in the United States is unlikely to be threatened even if a new, less climate-focused president, were to win U.S. elections next year, investors and developers told the Reuters IMPACT conference on Thursday. U.S. President Joe Biden’s democratic administration last year signed into law the […]
Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, told the Michigan Advance during a visit to Detroit this week that passing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s climate package would be a game-changer for ensuring communities most impacted by climate change can benefit from federal investments. From the introduction of Senate Democrats’ “Clean Energy Future” plan in March […]
In the midst of the U.S. commerce secretary’s good will tour to China last week, Huawei, the telecom giant that faces stiff U.S. trade restrictions, unveiled a smartphone that illustrated just how hard it has been for the United States to clamp down on China’s tech prowess. The new phone is powered by a chip […]
Aug 25 (Reuters) – Klaviyo’s revenue rose 51% for the recent quarter, the data and marketing automation company disclosed in its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) submitted on Friday. The filing comes when investor interest in IPOs has renewed as a flurry of deals hit the United States and European markets, which […]
Washington – The Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo regions have joined forces to apply for a federal designation as one of 20 technology hubs in a nationwide competition run by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The winning regions would share up to $10 billion in federal aid to stimulate investment in new technologies, including artificial intelligence, […]
“It was difficult to maintain a poker face when the leader of a big US tech firm I was chatting to said there was a definite tipping point at which the firm would exit the UK,” writes a BBC technology editor: Many of these companies are increasingly fed up. Their “tipping point” is UK regulation […]