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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Space data on Brazil’s rainforests; Adele commands, Spotify says ‘anything for you’; plus, Sateesh Andra on investing in deep tech
Description: Brazil has seen an alarming acceleration in the destruction of its Amazon rain forests, fresh data from the country’s National Institute for Space Research shows, Deutsche Welle reports. The data shows a rapid reversal in the slowdown in the rate of deforestation—increasing by 22 percent in just the last year—in the south American nation, ever since president Jair Bolsonaro came to office in 2019, according to the report.
America lags China and Russia in hypersonic missile technology and it has some “catching up to do very quickly,” according to a top US Space Force official, Politico reports. T...