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Malaysia’s Mosti Prioritizes Tech Innovation and Startup Ecosystem in its Annual Budget

AsiaTechDaily

Register Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ( Mosti ) plans to push emerging technology and promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education within the framework of Budget 2024. million electric vehicles (EVs) on Malaysian roads by 2040.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Robotics and automation are not only important, but they are also likely the only way to address the challenge of delivering the built environment we need by 2040. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. A key trend I’m watching in construction robotics is the rise of prefab and modular construction.

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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

Overall, improvement in women’s health could add as much as $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040. “I’ve already begun directing substantial, unrestricted grants to a wide range of organizations doing critical work to support women and girls in the United States.”

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ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell and Bill Gates-backed fund

TechCrunch

For corporate investors like Amazon that have committed to decarbonize by 2040, the innovations and industry adoption can’t happen quickly enough.

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Japan’s Terra Drone lands $70M Series B funding to accelerate global expansion 

TechCrunch

trillion by 2040, according to Terra’s IR deck. . We will be able to scale up operations and innovation faster.” . The global drone surveillance market is expected to grow to $476.5 million in 2028 , from $142 million in 2021. The global UAM market is projected to increase to $1.5

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From root to crown, Mast Reforestation is regrowing the tree economy for the 21st century

TechCrunch

DroneSeed, having innovated on the (equally outdated) processes on the demand side, decided to go all in and build a new company combining the resources and networks of century-old forestry companies with a new generation of tech. It simply wasn’t done. With wildfire season in the U.S.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

Other options for workers can be taking collective action, solidarity unionism, forming independent unions, employee resource groups (ERGs), guilds, joining a worker center, new innovations/ideas, etc. All of which have merit, and may be best in different circumstances. Being honest, unionizing is f **g hard. Intentionally. I don’t know.