Some folks may look in a grocery retailer’s dumpster and see rubbish. But others are beginning to see greenback indicators.
New amenities are popping up within the US to assist deal with meals waste utilizing a course of referred to as anaerobic digestion, which makes use of microbes to interrupt down natural supplies. Divert, an organization working to deal with meals waste, introduced at this time that it’s acquired a $1 billion funding settlement to assist construct and deploy this know-how.
It’s simply considered one of various firms focussed on turning one particular person’s desk scraps into one other particular person’s power—with the upside of a local weather profit. Read the total story.
—Casey Crownhart
Why the stress round Chinese apps within the US is overblown
If you check out app shops within the US proper now, you is likely to be stunned to search out they’re dominated by Chinese applications.
On Monday, the three most downloaded free apps on Apple’s App Store have been Temu, TikTok, and CapCut (a TikTok video editor); the identical chart within the Google Play Store was led by Temu, TikTok, and Shein. All 4 applications are made by Chinese social media or e-commerce firms.
It’s clear that Chinese-made apps are having a second within the US, which is especially attention-grabbing given how governments the world over are at the moment attempting to crack down on TikTok use on workers gadgets. The identical remedy may simply be utilized to different Chinese apps.
But whereas there are actual issues about these apps’ privateness protocols, many of the anxiousness round having Chinese apps on our telephones is overblown and politicized. Read the total story.