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Weallknowmitigating the climate crisis is important… but it’s still weirdly easy to push any action to ‘tomorrow’ — especially if you’re a founder stuck in the daily chores of keeping a startup running. But you and I both know you need the push to act today. Not only to save the planet (this big round thing we live on), but also to make sure your business will survive. That’s why I spoke to Tom Raftery, SAP’s Global Vice President and its Futurist & Innovation Evangelist, who’s made it his mission to inspire organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late....

Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox bysigning up for his newsletter! There’s a story about one of the chief innovators at Nokia, who receives a call while walking at the beach. After a few minutes, the person calling him asks about the noise in the background, prompting the Nokia chief to explain where he is....

Unprotected tweets are fair game for press coverage, it’s been ruled in the UK today. The decision by the Press Complaints Commission follows a complaint from a government official whose tweets about being hungover at work were published in the Daily Mail and Independent on Sunday newspapers.The BBCreports that Sarah Baskerville claimed that she had a reasonable right to expect privacy on Twitter. However, the PCC didn’t see it like that – they sided with the newspapers who pointed out that the posts were publicly available to anyone who wanted to read them and that Baskerville should have protected her tweets if she didn’t want them read by a wider audience....

If you’ve not been able to keep up with who favorited or retweeted your tweets in the past, Twitter has a way to fix this. Now, according to theTwitter blog, your mentions column will now populate with a wealth of information: The other major change comes in a new column called “Activity”. This is where you’ll now be able to see what people you follow are doing. So if they’re retweeting or favoriting, you can now discover even more great people to follow on Twitter....

This week, Microsoft began to roll out one of the biggest visual changes for Windows 10 since its launch: a news and weather widget that lives in your taskbar. No, I don’t mean one of those Start Menu tiles that hardly anyone ever uses, but rather an entirely new icon and menu that lives towards the bottom right of your taskbar. The new taskbar button shows the weather by default; click on it and you’ll get a personalized feed of news, traffic, weather, sports, and finance....