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2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pairwise and its climate-adapted crops

October 6, 2025
Climate change will make it increasingly difficult to grow crops across many parts of the world. Pairwise is leveraging CRISPR gene editing to develop plants that can better withstand adverse conditions. Pairwise uses cutting-edge gene editing to produce crops that can withstand increasingly harsh climate conditions, helping to feed a growing population even as the…

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

October 6, 2025
People over Papers, a crowd-sourcing project that maps sightings of immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.  A Padlet customer service representative told Celeste, one of the…

Waffles eat Bluesky

October 5, 2025
A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.