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The moment that many people will remember from Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner’s Wednesday debut was Jenner’s anecdote about a hangar-mate fleeing for Arizona. The point was intended to illustrate how a spiraling homelessness crisis has driven Californians away, but allies of Gov. Gavin Newsom exulted in what they saw as a foot-in-mouth moment. Not many voters can relate to conversations around personal airplanes, and based on the outpouring of social media mockery you can bet Jenner’s foes will use the episode to argue she’s disconnected from voters.
Climate change appears to be high on the agenda for tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates but some are questioning whether they’re focusing their efforts on the right areas.
Broadly speaking, the three richest tech billionaires who rank in the top five richest people on the planet are all trying to develop new technologies that can reduce the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.
Musk is largely focused on funding carbon capture technologies, Gates is particularly bullish on nuclear energy, and Bezos has created a dedicated “Bezos Earth fund.” All of them believe that technology has a major role to play in tackling climate change and they’re doing their utmost to ensure they’re pushing the boundaries when it comes to climate tech.
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The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford was approved for emergency use in the U.K. and is expected to be rolled out next week. The authorization is welcome news for Britain as cases have surged in London and southern England, pressuring hospitals capacity. People wanting to leave the U.K. have faced travel restrictions because a new coronavirus variant found in the U.K. is reportedly more transmissible. The U.S. confirmed on Tuesday the first case of the new Covid-19 strain was found in Colorado.
The U.S. is recording at least 188,167 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,257 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day average calculated by CNBC using Johns Hopkins University data.