USDA Will Not Regulate CRISPR-Edited Crops

Restrictions will remain on transgenic plants, which contain artificially inserted genes from other species.
Read more: https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/52209/title/USDA-Will-Not-Regulate-CRISPR-Edited-Crops/?source=Snapzu

The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam

Don’t buy the oily declarations from the tech billionaires and others that they want to help you survive financially. What they want is to more fully stuff their own pockets. By Chris Hedges.
Read more: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-oligarchs-guaranteed-basic-income-scam/?source=Snapzu

Nobody Knows Anything About China

Including the Chinese government. By James Palmer.
Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/21/nobody-knows-anything-about-china/amp/?source=Snapzu

I gave up my IBM job to become an organic farmer—and learned a bitter truth

It had been only five months since I quit my corporate job at IBM and I had a decent first crop. By Venkat Iyer.
Read more: https://qz.com/1228797/an-indian-techie-turned-farmer-explains-why-agriculture-is-so-unprofitable/?source=Snapzu

World View raises Money to take People to the Edge of Space in High-Altitude Balloons

Space tourism company World View just got a Silicon Valley-boost toward its goal of sending humans to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/world-view-series-c-stratosphere-space-company-raises-26-point-5-million.html?source=Snapzu

Amazon Selects LA for $5 Billion HQ2

Over the next nine years, Amazon will hire as many as 50,000 employees with an annual payroll of over $5 billion, an average of more than $100,000 per employee. Amazon has committed to spending over $5 billion in capital expenditures, in large part on more than 8 million square feet of Class A office space. The company has also indicated that it will aid in the revitalization of its portion of the Los Angeles River, help finance nearby affordable and market rate housing for its workers, develop permanent supportive housing for up to 2,000 homeless veterans in DTLA, and work with LAUSD on mentoring programs.
Read more: http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/la-watchdog/15166-amazon-selects-la-for-5-billion-hq2?source=Snapzu

More family members of woman killed in Uber self-driving car crash...

More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm’s legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car. Phoenix attorney Patrick McGroder said he has been retained by the mother, father and son of Elaine Herzberg, 49, who died after being struck by an Uber self-driving SUV while walking across a street in the suburb of Tempe earlier this month.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-uber/more-family-members-of-woman-killed-in-uber-self-driving-car-crash-hire-lawyer-idUSKBN1H700H?source=Snapzu