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  Andreas Richardson

  

  Apple Health: Blood Pressure, Glucose, Sleep Apnea; Team Issues

  Bloomberg - By Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett

  The company is working on big things, but employees disagree over whether they should be serving people who are healthy or sick. In 2011, a startup …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  The Energy Chief Trying to Get the UK to Speed Up Carbon Capture

  Bloomberg Green - By Priscila Azevedo Rocha and Elena Mazneva

  Centrica plans to start storing CO2 in an aging gas field in the Irish Sea Centrica Plc boss Chris O’Shea is on a mission to show the UK government …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  What Should You Do with an Oil Fortune?

  The New Yorker - Andrew Marantz

  The Hunt family owns one of the largest private oil companies in the country. Leah Hunt-Hendrix funds social movements that want to end the use of fossil fuels. Let’s say you were born into a legacy that is, you have come to believe, ruining the world. What can you do? You could be paralyzed with …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  ‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy

  WIRED - Lauren Smiley

  In 2018, an Uber autonomous vehicle fatally struck a pedestrian. In a WIRED exclusive, the human behind the wheel finally speaks. Rafaela Vasquez …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  Positive feedback: the science of criticism that actually works

  Financial Times - Esther Bintliff

  Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Years ago, after I received some negative feedback at work, my husband Laurence told me something that stuck with me: when we receive criticism, we go through three stages. The …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  How a southern Italian crime family’s reign ended in tragedy

  Financial Times - Miles Johnson

  Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rented Lancia Y10 flew down the darkened motorway. Reginald and Margaret Green had come from Bodega Bay, California, for an Italian road trip with their seven-year-old son, …