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Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality 

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By that same token, the new Climate Fund seeks to invest in startups that can help Toyota accelerate its goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Toyota Ventures has been an invaluable partner for Boxbot since they invested in our seed round in 2018,” said Austin Oehlerking, co-founder and CEO of Boxbot, in a statement.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

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billion by 2050, and members of this cohort — who are leading longer, active lives — have plenty of money to spend. Recruiting in Richmond. Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech. The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5

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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"

Erik Bernhardsson

With my endorsements for C on LinkedIn, I expect recruiters to reach out to me about C opportunities well into the 2050’s (actually taking that back – hopefully C will outlive LinkedIn). C is the lingua franca of how computer works and if people are still actively moving pieces of code to C then it’s here to stay.

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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"

Erik Bernhardsson

With my endorsements for C on LinkedIn, I expect recruiters to reach out to me about C opportunities well into the 2050’s (actually taking that back – hopefully C will outlive LinkedIn). C is the lingua franca of how computer works and if people are still actively moving pieces of code to C then it’s here to stay.

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COVID-19, Manufacturing Skills Gap and the Connected Worker

Strategy Driven

By 2050, the world population is estimated to grow from 7.6 This aging workforce, coupled with a tight labor market, has resulted in critical skills and talent gaps impacting the ability of asset-intensive industries to recruit, train and retain a workforce with suitable competencies. billion to 9.6

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

It’s something he’s promised to update at the start of every year until 2050, “as I will then be 95 years old, and I suspect I’ll be a little too exhausted by then to carry on arguments about why I was right or wrong on particular points.” Fair enough. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that.