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AI-Powered Tech Supercharges Ocean Cleanup, Boosting Plastic Collection by 60%
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Facebook Thinks Opinions Don’t Require Facts, How Interesting!

Facebook Thinks Opinions Don’t Require Facts, How Interesting!

CXO Today, July 16, 2020

Last August, five climate scientists were tasked with fact-checking an article on climate change by Climate Feedback, a global network of academics sorting fact from fiction. Under the lens was a piece titled “The Great Failure of the Climatic Model” that appeared in the Washington Examiner. It was gaining popularity on Facebook, which outsourced the fact-checking. 

Study: First Impressions Have Long-Term Impact on Career Success

Study: First Impressions Have Long-Term Impact on Career Success

The Business Journal, July 15, 2020

A study by an accounting professor at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business shows that first impressions can have a long-term impact on career success. In an article to be published in Management Science, professor Marshall Vance found that first impressions can weight future decisions regarding promotion decisions, even if on-the-job performance “tells a different story.”

Rethinking Professional Meetings and Conferences

Rethinking Professional Meetings and Conferences

Inside Higher Ed, July 16, 2020

Colleges and universities are wrestling with how to reopen their campuses for the fall semester. With social distancing requirements likely in place through the rest of the year, any environment that brings large groups of people together in close proximity can create new opportunities for the coronavirus to flourish.

A Race is on to Make Enough Small Glass Vials to Deliver Coronavirus Vaccine Around the World

A Race is on to Make Enough Small Glass Vials to Deliver Coronavirus Vaccine Around the World

The Washington Post, July 14, 2020

As scientists race to test coronavirus vaccines in humans, a parallel scramble is underway to produce billions of medical-grade vials and syringes that will be needed to inoculate the world’s population. The job of delivering a vaccine to a majority of humans is so vast that global production of pharmaceutical vials needs to be ramped up by 5 to 10 percent within two years, a job the industry says requires immediate preparation and increases in production but is not an
insurmountable challenge. 

Thiel: Coronavirus is About to Own College Ball

Thiel: Coronavirus is About to Own College Ball

SportspressNW.com, July 15, 2020

Jen Cohen is about as earnest, enthusiastic and successful an athletics director as there is in the ruthless world of big-time college sports. As a Tacoma kid, she grew up enthralled by University of Washington sports. Since her 2016 appointment to succeed Scott Woodward as athletics director, she’s been in her dream job.

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