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This startup just raised funding to turn wood pulp into sustainable, biodegradable plastics

by Lisa Stiffler on April 29, 2024April 30, 2024 at 9:34 am

A Vancouver, B.C.-based startup making biodegradable plastics out of wood pulp has raised up to $5 million from Brazil’s Suzano Ventures, the investment arm of a manufacturing giant turning farmed… Read More

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FlowLight flashes red when workmates should leave you alone ‘in the zone’

by Alan Boyle on May 5, 2017May 5, 2017 at 2:09 pm

It’s a classic conundrum for coders: Sometimes you get so absorbed in what you’re doing that you hate being interrupted, and you can’t even stop to put up a “Do… Read More

Microsoft donates $1M to new partnership of UW-UBC aiming to solve urban issues like traffic and homelessness through data

by Nat Levy on February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 at 1:19 pm

Microsoft is donating $1 million to a new partnership between the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia called the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, which seeks to use data to solve… Read More

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