🏴☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2020-351-AM Edition
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🏴☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2020-351-AM Edition
🌎 Planet News
- “People are going to move. Because people need to eat.” No country stands to gain more from the climate crisis than Russia.: The Morning News
- Shaded Relief of the Mediterranean Seafloor. by mappdoutofficial: Maps on the Web
- The Brazilian Engineers Who Created an Open-Source Ventilator: VICE US
- Gina McCarthy will be Biden’s ‘climate czar.’ What the heck is a climate czar??: Grist
- Made-in-China Vaccines: What You Need to Know: VICE US
- China fact of the day: Marginal REVOLUTION
Can #technology help save #democracy?
— Avast (@Avast) December 16, 2020
According to Chess Grandmaster & Avast #Security Ambassador, Garry @Kasparov63: "It's hard to find a balance between the public good & private companies needing to make a profit."
Check it out 👉 https://t.co/6hX00jciul.
🏪 Business
- This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off: TechCrunch
📲 Tech
- ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell, and Bill Gates-backed fund: TechCrunch
- Motional and Lyft target 2023 to deploy driverless robotaxi services in major U.S. cities: TechCrunch
- Capella Space now offers the highest resolution SAR imagery commercially available: TechCrunch
- OpenSensors secures $4M for air-monitoring platform which allows offices to be more Covid-safe: TechCrunch
- This year will see lobbyists and Big Tech fighting off federal regulation to prohibit the use of facial recognition.: The Morning News
💾 Software
- Firefox 84 arrives with native support for Apple Silicon: Engadget
- Google Structured Data Testing Tool Moving To Schema.org; SEOs Now Happy: Search Engine Roundtable
🌊 Drifts
- He Sold a Meteorite That Hit His Home. Then Things Got Weird.: VICE US
- Flickr’s top 25 images of 2020: all rights reserved: Boing Boing
- Sweet Corn Tamales Recipe: VICE US