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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the impacts of factory farming: if you’ve been near a North Carolina hog waste lagoon or driven past the enormous cattle feedlot in Coalinga, CA, the smell travels for miles. We are far from clear in knowing which technology will be the best,” she said. “So yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. Sustainable travel at the forefront. Don’t buy a breach or a bad reputation: A more effective approach to M&A due diligence. “Where’s my flying car?”

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. Much of the work requires travel to remote regions of the world, and teams need to become operational almost immediately. “We Leaders need to walk the walk and talk the talk.”

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Incooling is building servers that use liquid to cool down

TechCrunch

For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. At the same time, acquiring improved, less power-sucking machines is becoming tougher both because of shipping backlogs and because hardware is quickly running up against efficiency limits.

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Craft Aerospace’s novel take on VTOL aircraft could upend local air travel

TechCrunch

Air taxis may still be pie in the sky, but there’s more than one way to move the air travel industry forward. Co-founder James Dorris believes that this fast, stable VTOL craft is the key that unlocks a new kind of local air travel, eschewing major airports for minor ones or even heliports.

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To cope with stricter data regulation, enterprises should look to fully open APIs

TechCrunch

While traveling in Russia or a European Union country on a mission to expand your business, you discover that you’re required to have data locally stored. This is where fully open APIs based on open source software are a great help and the technology of the future. Any technology that extends the extraterritorial application of U.S.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

Shaun Guthrie, Peavey Mart Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada Peavey Mart. As a result, “only two stores were directly impacted where they had no internet connectivity,” says Shaun Guthrie, the company’s Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada.

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