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Some Business Owners Say They'll Hire Fewer Employees Because of A.I. - Inc.com

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Meet The Texas Startup That Recycles Rare-Earth Magnets, Bypassing China - Forbes

At a factory in San Marcos, Texas, workers gather Bird scooters, computer hard drives, MRI machines and motors from hybrid cars in order to separate out the old rare-earth magnets so they can be ground down and shaped into new ones. These strong permanent magnets are everywhere, even if most people know nothing about them. They go into everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines to consumer electronics to missile guidance systems. Yet for years, the U.S. has been largely dependent on China for rare-earth processing. Noveon Magnetics, the startup behind this recycling effort, has a grand plan — and some patented technology — to make a dent in that dependance.

“We didn’t realize till the last decade how big the potential shortfalls were,” says Scott Dunn, Noveon’s cofounder and chief executive. “You don’t just get to turn on the spigot and produce these. They’re not a commodity.”

Magnets go into motors and generators that enable electricity to be transformed into motion and motion into electricity. Permanent magnets, made with rare earth materials, are a key element of the country’s efforts to decarbonize with electric vehicles and wind turbines. Because of their higher performance — allowing smaller, more powerful motors than alternatives — their use has spread and continues to rise. Global demand for rare-earth magnets will increase at 7.5% compounded annually through 2040, according to Adamas Intelligence.

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From CEOs to billionaires to Harvard students, everyone is struggling to discuss the Israel-Hamas war. Here’s what you need to know before you talk about it - Fortune

The war in the Middle East has not (yet) metastasized into a broader regional conflict, but the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war has entered every boardroom, classroom, and living room. CEOs around the globe instantly issued messages of solidarity with Israel, while students at America’s top colleges, particularly Harvard, issued messages of solidarity with Palestine. On both sides, such statements have drawn criticism for being discriminatory—either anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.

There is money and reputational risk at stake. Harvard, in particular, has been roiled, as one of Israel’s richest men withdrew from the executive board of its Kennedy School of Government in protest over the university’s response to the students’ actions. American Jewish billionaires including Bill Ackman and Les Wexner have been outraged, too, and some Harvard seniors have already lost high-profile job offers for putting their name to a pro-Palestinian statement.

Decades of contentious arguments between Arabs and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians, right and left, and hard-liners and moderates all coalesced in early October with a cross-border terrorist attack from Gaza into Israel that left 1,400 Israeli civilians dead. CEOs fear they can’t support Israel without blowback, and students feel they can’t support Palestinians without fear of damaging their nascent careers. The thorny history of the region engenders deeply held opinions among both supporters of Israel and Palestinian causes.

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The View from My Window in Gaza - The New Yorker

It is Thursday, October 12th, and half sheets of paper are falling from the sky in Beit Lahia, the city in northern Gaza where my family’s house is. Each sheet is printed with an Israeli military emblem, along with a warning: stay away from Hamas military sites and militants, and leave your homes immediately.

When I go downstairs, I find my parents and siblings packing their bags. Local schools, many of them run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, are already crowded with displaced families. But my uncle has called my mother to say that we can stay with his wife’s family in Jabalia camp, the largest of Gaza’s refugee settlements and home to tens of thousands of people.

My wife, sister-in-law, mother, sisters, and children travel to the camp by car. My older brother, brother-in-law, and I ride our bicycles. On the road, we see dozens of families, walking with whatever they can carry. Israel will soon tell more than a million residents of northern Gaza to evacuate immediately, an order that the U.N. calls “impossible.”

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