Revenge Of The Nerds

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) Last month, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) committed to sending $27 billion to a range of organizations to support community climate and clean energy projects. Within a matter of months, the funding will help accelerate everything from local solar to residential energy efficiency improvements, bringing the benefits of the energy transition to backyards around the United States. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Jahi Wise, who oversaw the implementation of the GGRF before stepping down last week, told me on Sept.

More space, more savings, less going out. Three people share how much their lifestyles changed when they moved out of one of the most expensive places to live. New York City has long been one of the most expensive cities in the world, but its price tag has only become heftier in recent years with housing prices and inflation.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is among the latest stadiums to implement facial recognition for ticketing and concession sales. When fans come to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to watch the Atlanta Falcons play this football season, they’ll be able to enter the stadium—and even buy food and drinks—without having to pull out their phones, ID, or credit cards.

A young company that formed during the pandemic and chose the Denver area as its base has big ambitions: to become the world’s leading supplier of advanced electric motors. The company, H3X, was founded by a team of engineers and has grown since its start in 2020 to 33 employees. “We’re aiming to get to 45 to 50 by end of the year,” said Jason Sylvestre, co-founder and CEO. The startup’s mission, Sylvestre said, is to help decarbonize the aviation, aerospace, marine, defense and heavy-industry sectors by designing and producing high-density, lightweight electric motors.

At a Safeway grocery store in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, customers planning to peruse aisles 2 and 3 first must enter a secure shopping area cordoned off from the rest of the store. Security cameras monitor an extensive list of products stocked on those protected shelves, including batteries, lightbulbs, laundry detergent, pregnancy tests, deodorant, candles, medicine and baby food.

PARIS — Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov promised to step up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app, his first public comments since French authorities handed him preliminary charges for allegedly allowing the platform’s use for criminal activity. In a Telegram post late Thursday, Durov defended himself against the French judicial investigation, suggesting that he shouldn’t have been targeted personally. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,” the post said.