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 handle meals waste, introduced at present that it’s acquired a $1 billion funding settlement to assist construct and deploy this know-how.
It’s simply certainly one of numerous corporations focussed on turning one individual’s desk scraps into one other individual’s power—with the upside of a local weather profit. Read the full 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 may be shocked to seek out they’re dominated by Chinese packages.
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 packages are made by Chinese social media or e-commerce corporations.
It’s clear that Chinese-made apps are having a second within the US, which is especially fascinating given how governments the world over are presently attempting to crack down on TikTok use on workers units. The identical therapy might simply be utilized to different Chinese apps.
But whereas there are actual considerations about these apps’ privateness protocols, a lot of the nervousness round having Chinese apps on our telephones is overblown and politicized. Read the full story.