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Hawa Dawa monitors air quality block-by-block to help cities make decisions

 

If city governments had a block-by-block understanding of their city’s own ever changing air quality, how might it impact the decisions they make?

Thats the concept behind Hawa Dawa, the first company pitching today in the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield. Hawa Dawa combines data sources like satellites and dedicated air monitoring stations to build a granular heat map of air pollutants, selling this map to cities and companies as a subscription API.

While the company notes it’s hardware agnostic, it does build its own IoT sensors for companies and cities that might not have existing air quality sensors in place.

(Curious about the name? Co-founder Karim Tarraf tells me it’s roughly based on the words for “air purity” or “air medicine” in a number of languages, including Swahili, Turkish, and Persian.)

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MakerDAO Responds to Dev Accusing Network of $340M Vulnerabilty

The Maker Foundation has announced a series of governance polls aimed at security after software developer Micah Zoltu explained how any hacker with $20 million at their disposal could stage an attack on the MakerDAO network and steal close to $340 million.

In a Dec. 9 blog post, the Maker Foundation interim risk team announced a series of governance polls into its voting system, with one poll asking the Maker community whether the governance security module (GSM) should be upgraded from 0 seconds to

The State Encourages ICO Fraud. The Free Market Minimizes It  

The State Encourages ICO Fraud. The Free Market Minimizes It  

Many Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been and are frauds. The state enables this con game in various ways, including the establishment of accredited investors and the regulation of businesses that sell equity. Shut off from the most lucrative aspects of investment, average people rush into the few sources of profit still available to them. ICOs are a prime example of how state interference in the market increases the risks of doing business.

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‘Affordable Housing Solutions in America’ Presentation Draws High Praise at the IAAO 2019 Annual Conference

NTLA Executive Director and County Collector in MO, address a looming crisis with real solutions

JUPITER, FL, USA, December 10, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — A packed house came together to celebrate affordable housing solutions at the 85th Annual Conference of the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The presentation covered the affordable housing crisis in America, imbuing a renewed concern among IAAO’s constituency, made up of professionals in the fields of property valuation and propert

10 Stocking Stuffers You Can Get for $10

Fill those stockings up this year without going broke.

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Similar to how Thanksgiving isn’t complete without a turkey and a food coma, the holidays simply isn’t the holidays without some stocking stuffers to open the morning of. And, while stocking stuffers are generally small, inexpensive gifts, they can still add up to a hefty sum when you’re shopping for your family, friends and coworkers. To make your morning a happy one for you-and your checking account-we went ahead and rounded up 10 stocking stuffers for around $10 that are sure to please everyone this holiday season. Read on for det

Zetwerk, an 18-month-old Indian B2B marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $32M

Zetwerk, an Indian business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, has closed a significantly large financing round as it scales its operations in the nation and also helps local businesses find customers overseas.

The 18-month-old startup said on Wednesday it has raised $32 million in a Series B financing round led by Lightspeed and Greenoaks Capital. Zetwerk co-founder and chief executive Amrit Acharya told TechCrunch in an interview that the startu

World’s 2nd-Largest Bank CCB Launches Blockchain Refactoring: Report

China Construction Bank (CCB), the world’s second-biggest bank by operated assets, has officially launched its blockchain-based refactoring platform.

Targeting commercial factoring business, CCB aims to bolster operations and reduce major risks in its refactoring business while providing shared data access by multiple participants, Chinese news outlet Sina Tech reports Dec. 6.

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s “People’s Justice Guarantee” Is The Most Sweeping Weed Legislation Proposal Yet. But Will It Pass?

Pressley’s massive criminal justice reform would also decriminalize sex work and end the cash bail system, solitary confinement, and the death penalty.

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While there are many proposals on legalizing marijuana, few are as sweeping as the recent “People’s Justice Guarantee” from Rep. Ayanna Pressley, the Democrat from Massachusetts who is best known nationally as a member of a group of young, progressive legislators called “The Squad.”

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Ripple’s Revamped Xpring Platform Looks to Boost XRP Development

With the wallet, which is currently available on XRP Testnet, developers can generate and manage account credentials, view balances, send and receive cryptocurrency and monitor transaction history. Developers can also expect to see future new Xpring platform functions launched on the wallet in the future, Beard said. 

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Sweet Flower Aims To Destigmatize Cannabis Shopping

Their latest store in downtown LA is bright, open, and friendly.

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It’s no secret that cannabis has a long and colorful association with all sorts of artists, from Shakespeare to Snoop Dogg. And whether you think smoking weed makes people creative, or creative people just like smoking weed (hey, can’t it be both?) clearly there’s a connection here.

Which is why it seems only natural that cannabis companies are finding their way into the LA Arts District. The latest to plant a flag downtown is Sweet Flower, whose newest dispensary opened November 21st — and it may not be the biggest or the splashiest, but it’s certainly one of the nicest.

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