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