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Salty, subterranean water could relieve world’s lithium shortage

TechCrunch

Things have stabilized since then, but prices are still five times above the average price from 2016 to 2020. Lee, a program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Then it got worse in February, with spot prices rising to $52,000 per metric ton before rising again to $62,000 in March.

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Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

TechCrunch

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio.

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At Chaos, a chaotic response to assault allegations

The Parallax

His ex-girlfriend Dina Solveig-Jalkanen had accused him of assaulting her on December 31, 2016, just after last year’s conference. ”—Dia Kayyali, tech and advocacy program manager, Witness. On December 24, it banned Solveig-Jalkanen too, following a counterclaim by Hukkanen. And then on December 26, it lifted both bans.

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Backing WebAuthn, tech giants inch closer to killing passwords

The Parallax

According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Report , 81 percent of data breaches involved weak, default, or stolen passwords, and 1 in 14 phishing attacks were successful in 2016. Data breaches increased 45 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the ID Theft Resource Center. But the process isn’t likely to happen quickly.

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Registration Open For The 4 Oct 2016 Synergy Forum: CTOvision readers can save 10%

CTOvision

The Second Annual Synergy Forum will be held 4 October 2016 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. October 4, 2016. Bob Gourley. Cognitio organizes this event with a focus on helping decision-makers share lessons learned and best practices. With this post we are asking that you block the day to join us there.

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The 4 October Synergy Forum: Fantastic speakers, even more fantastic attendees

CTOvision

We really look forward to meeting with CTOvision readers at the Second Annual Synergy Forum which will be held 4 October 2016 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. October 4, 2016. Bob Gourley. Cognitio organizes this event with a focus on decision-makers. future direction of the Internet of Things (IoT).

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The Good and the Bad of.NET Framework Programming

Altexsoft

In 2014, Microsoft announced a dramatic shift in the way.NET exists by presenting.NET Core, a new cross-platform, cloud-friendly, and open-source version of the framework.NET Core made it to a release in 2016, becoming the main technology to consider for new.NET projects. It’s a cross-platform re-build of.NET Framework.