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Kitimat, British Columbia: As Canada tries to position itself as an emerging leader in global liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, it risks locking in multidecade, multibillion-dollar contracts with companies whose current and past ventures include human rights abuses and environmental damage.

Mark Wahlberg has started companies of his own and backed plenty of others. But the gym he’s opening in December, he says, has him more excited than anything he’s done in his entire career. It also goes after a corner of the market where venture money keeps flowing: pricey, diagnostics-heavy wellness.

Aisata Diallo, 24, calls herself a lifelong braider. “I’ve always braided my hair growing up and, at some point in my college career, started braiding other people’s hair,” she said. At Northeastern University in Boston, she found limited access to braiders and textured-hair specialists, so she decided to fill that gap by starting a small…

Bluesky plans to introduce payments in the coming months, a first step in its strategy to make money without relying on advertising. CEO Toni Schneider and COO Rose Wang outlined the plans Thursday at TechCrunch Disrupt, explaining how the company hopes to build on the commerce and fundraising activity already happening on its decentralized social…

Sepsis, an acute inflammation triggered by infection, is a leading cause of childhood mortality, claiming roughly 3 million children under the age of five annually.

The Left group in the European Parliament is set to demand that MEP salaries are halved, arguing that lawmakers taking home tens of thousands of euros a month are increasingly disconnected from ordinary voters.

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider teased long-term plans on Monday when he shared that the company has applied to make “.bsky” an internet domain suffix, like .com or .org. If approved, users will be able to turn their longer social handles into shorter, cleaner domain names.

“This is a Park Hyatt,” Sam Kirby, the general manager of the highly anticipated Park Hyatt Riviera Maya, told TPG in a recent sit-down interview. “First and foremost, it’s a Park Hyatt — it just happens to have an all-inclusive lens over the top.”

Meta’s Muse, a personal AI agent that books travel, fills out forms, and shops on a user’s behalf, has already proven popular with the masses, but a new side project could be particularly alluring to tinkerers and hackers.

Although acquiring cryptocurrencies is called mining, the process has little in common with extracting natural resources. Crypto mining requires large amounts of electricity to run specialised computers that solve complex mathematical equations in exchange for digital coins.