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As the world eats more meat, methane emissions from livestock are becoming a bigger climate concern. It’s time to take that seriously.

Our food habits are a big cause of climate change. Because the world wants to eat more animal products these days, the cow, sheep and goat population is growing (3.6 billion at last count), and consequently more emissions are going into the atmosphere. We tend to associate global warming with industry and energy generation, but ruminants shouldn’t be forgotten. Collectively, they produce more than 11% of human-related greenhouse gas emissions, a study last year showed.

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The comedian came up with his new Adult Swim series “Neon Joe” as a joke for Fallon, so we had him make up MORE show concepts on the fly.

It’s the kind of story that could drive anyone with a polished script languishing on their hard drive to an appointment with the nearest ledge: Comedian, actor, and writer Jon Glaser got a series greenlit based entirely on an off-the-cuff joke.

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“Everything we do is about storytelling,” Stout says.

The cover of Texas Monthly‘s July 1992 issue features an portrait of then governor Ann Richards sitting on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. She’s dressed head to toe white leather, her hair is coiffed in her signature gray bouffant, and she stares confidently at the camera. To DJ Stout, the cover’s designer, this portrait of Richards, 60 years old at the time, was “the perfect metaphor for capturing her salty wit and irreverent personality,” he once wrote. In a fleeting glance, readers knew it wasn’t business as usual at the Texas statehouse. The audacious concept is also one of the perfect examples of Stout’s evocative, eclectic approach to visual design.

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Presence Capital was started by HTC Vive founder Phil Chen and serial entrepreneurs and investors Paul Bragiel and Amitt Mahajan.

Virtual reality and augmented reality have finally arrived in consumer form, and together are predicted to be a $150 billion industry by 2020. So it’s no surprise that investors want a piece of the action.

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As platforms like Facebook and Twitter struggle with safety, an insurance company is selling a policy to compensate.

A U.S.-based insurance company announced a new policy this week that specifically covers the damage of online abuse.

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Code-named “Big Sur,” the new computing architecture is the result of 18 months of design work with partners like Quanta and Nvidia.

Facebook said today it has developed a new computing system aimed at artificial intelligence research that is twice as fast and twice as efficient as anything available before.

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Product Hunt’s newly overhauled iOS app turns the recommendation site into something much more useful.

When Product Hunt launched over two years ago, it seemed like an unlikely success story: A site for posting, up-voting, and commenting on apps, websites and other products? Isn’t the Internet awash in enough recommendation engines?

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Despite generous paid leave policies, examples set by the CEOs of Facebook and Yahoo may have a bigger impact on how much employees use.

Paid parental leave has become one of the most talked about issues in 2015. Netflix just revised its already expanded policy to offer between 12-16 weeks off to its hourly workers.

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Airbnb hosts were less inclined to book renters with stereotypically African-American names, Harvard Business School researchers found.

A new study from Harvard Business School finds that Airbnb hosts are more likely to book reservations with users who have “distinctly white” names, according to Bloomberg. Researchers discovered that renters who had stereotypically African-American names were less likely to score bookings on the platform.

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The camera is ideal for firefighting, search-and-rescue, agriculture, inspection, and other industries.

China’s DJI, the world’s largest maker of drones, has teamed up with FLIR, a leader in thermal imaging technology, on an aerial camera capable of detecting subtle differences in heat signatures.

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