Meggie
@Meggie
418 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie
@Meggie -
about 3 years ago
Sports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play?
In-line skating, soccer, hockey — my 5-year-old didn’t take to them. Was I doing something wrong?
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Meggie upvoted the following post about 3 years ago:
Iva
@Iva -
about 3 years ago
Australia to scrutinise foreign research collaboration on 'emerging' technology - Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will draw up a list of critical and emerging technologies that are subject to restrictions on foreign research collaboration, a parliament intelligence committee heard on Thursday.Security agencies already screen international collaboration on...continued
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Pablo
@Pablo -
about 3 years ago
11 Ideas for Boosting Your Business Marketing
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.You know you can do something else to get your business off the ground and you still don't know for sure what. There was no shortage of someone who came offering you the gold and the moor, it seemed wonderful a...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
about 3 years ago
Desktop Metal launches a health-focused business line
Desktop Metal launches a health-focused business manufacturing may be the future of 3D printing (one hopes), but health products are very much its present. From orthodontics to prosthesis, medical needs are right in the sweet spot for additive manufacturing. Prototyping ...continued
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Josiah
@Josiah -
about 3 years ago
Curran Biotech’s new nanocoating could prevent indoor transmission of COVID-19
A new nanocoating from Curran Biotech could dramatically improve air filtration to prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors.Their Capture Coating technology acts as a supplement to any household or commercial HVAC system by bonding to the filter fibers, giving them greater ...continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
about 3 years ago
Eying sustainability gains for its supply chain, BMW backs Boston Metal’s CO2-free iron productio...
Eying sustainability gains for its supply chain, BMW backs Boston Metal’s CO2-free iron production has joined the cohort of investors that are backing Boston Metal’s carbon dioxide-free production technology for steel.The Boston-based startup had targeted a $50 million r...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
about 3 years ago
Packers keep RB Jones with 4-year, $48M deal
4:23 PM ETRunning back Aaron Jones has reached agreement with the Green Bay Packers on a four-year deal worth $48 million, including a $13 million signing bonus, agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN's Adam Schefter."We anticipated bigger offers in free agency, but Aaron wanted ...continued
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Liliane
@Liliane -
about 3 years ago
Optibus picks up $107M for a planning and operations platform aimed at mass transportation
Mass transportation is a critical part of how metropolitan areas keep moving, and today a startup that has built an AI-based platform to help mass transportation work more efficiently is announcing a huge round of funding to grow its business and tackle a new set of oppor...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
about 3 years ago
How to Create Business Momentum
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.One overlooked ingredient to successful organizations and leaders is the ability to create and sustain momentum. Businesses and leaders need to both acquire and maintain momentum to grow revenues and enhance ma...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
about 3 years ago
Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security compan...
Snyk, a developer of application security technology, is now worth $4.7 billion after a new fundraising and secondary sale that totaled $300 million.In all, investors have poured $470 million into the company after this new investment, which was led by Accel and Tiger Glo...continued
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Elian
@Elian -
about 3 years ago
Tackling deep-seated bias in tech with Haben Girma, Mutale Nkonde, and Safiya Noble
Advances in technology provide all kinds of benefits, but also introduce risks — especially to already marginalized populations. AI for the People’s Mutale Nkonde, disability rights lawyer Haben Girma and author of “Algorithms of Oppression” Safiya Umoja Noble have studie...continued
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
about 3 years ago
Sarah Everard: Met Police officer charged with murder
"I would like at this stage to pay tribute to Sarah's family for their fortitude and forbearance through what can only have been the most intensely difficult few days, our thoughts remain with them as this matter progresses," he said.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Casper
@Casper -
about 3 years ago
Legl gets $7M to help law firms upgrade to digital workflows
B2B SaaS startup Legl has bagged $7M in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures for its platform for law firms which offers tools to streamline core business processes such as customer onboarding, due diligence and payments.Existing investors Backed, Samaipata and First ...continued
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Jany
@Jany -
about 3 years ago
How ByteDance plans to crack the gaming industry
For the last few years, ByteDance, the parent company of short video app TikTok, has been working to diversify its revenue streams beyond advertisement and find more ways to monetize its hundreds of millions of users. One area it is targeting is gaming, which has historic...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
about 3 years ago
Dutch court rejects Uber drivers’ ‘robo-firing’ charge but tells Ola to explain algo-deductions
Uber has had a good result against litigation in the Netherlands, where its European business is headquartered, that had alleged it uses algorithms to terminate drivers — but which the court has rejected.The ride-hailing giant has also been largely successful in fending o...continued
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Manley
@Manley -
about 3 years ago
Sarah Everard: Human remains confirmed as those of missing woman
He was treated, discharged and returned to the police station where he is being held, after an application to extend his detention was granted by magistrates. A woman in her 30s, who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail until mid-A...continued
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Greyson Beier
@Greysonbeier3722 -
about 3 years ago
Permanent Weight Loss Solutions
Permanent Weight Loss Solutions There are many people who attempting to lose weight, some will succeed and others will fail, however the biggest battle for people who are able to reduce their weight, is often to keep to their ideal weight. Many people will find that they ...continued
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Moises
@Moises -
about 3 years ago
Let’s Talk Periods
CommunicateHealthMar 11 · 2 min readAlt: Doodles in the background say, “Aunt Flo’s in town!” and “Guess it’s that time of the month!” A doodle in the foreground says, “Just call it a period — period.”Here at We ❤ Health Literacy Headquarters, periods are our second favor...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
about 3 years ago
The Shocking Truth | History Today
Writing in the tenth century, the Italian bishop and diplomat Liudprand of Cremona was horrified by the Byzantine imperial court at Constantinople. Liudprand sneered that the Emperor Nikephoros II dressed and acted more like a woman than a man and jeered that he did not d...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
about 3 years ago
3 Quick Steps to Get Your Message Out to a Wider Audience
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.I’ve had some service professionals — speakers, coaches, trainers, consultants — ask me what they can do to get their message out to a wider audience and start impacting more lives in 2021.It's a good question ...continued
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Ezequiel
@Ezequiel -
about 3 years ago
10 Truths About Marketing After the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic upended a marketer’s playbook, challenging the existing rules about customer relationships and building brands. One year in, there’s no going back to the old normal. Here are 10 new marketing truths that reveal the confluence of strategies, operation...continued
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Elliott
@Elliott -
about 3 years ago
Could 'The Simpsons' Replace Its Voice Actors With AI?
+++lead-in-textIn May 2015, *The Simpsons* voice actor Harry Shearer—who plays a number of key characters including, quite incredibly, both Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers—announced that he was [leaving the UKThis story originally appeared on [WIRED then, the animated ser...continued
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Joe
@Joe -
about 3 years ago
Texas Opens for Business, No Masks Required
Here’s what you need to know:Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston last week. Some experts have raised concerns about intensifying the spread of the virus while the vaccination process is underway.Credit...Mark Felix for The New York TimesHOUSTON — Orders requiring masks and limi...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
about 3 years ago
This Fingertip for Robots Uses Magnets to ‘Feel’ Things
+++lead-in-textImagine, if you will, the home robot of the future. It picks clutter off the floor, sweeps, and does the dishes. And it has to do so *perfectly*: If the robot has an error rate of just 1 percent, it will drop one dish out of a hundred. Totally unacceptable....continued
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Immanuel
@Immanuel -
about 3 years ago
Two European companies are mapping a future service for direct air capture to sequestration of CO2
The Swiss-based, venture capital-backed, direct air capture technology developer Climeworks is partnering with a joint venture between the government of Norway and massive European energy companies to map the pathway for a business that could provide not only the direct c...continued
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