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US ranchers want to use the federal government as a proxy to fight high-tech meat companies The entire American beef industry is worried about Silicon Valley’s cell-cultured meat companies, and most want to take down the tech interlopers. But the industry is divided over how to do it. The US Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) in February asked federal government regulators to adopt a definition for meat that would exclude cell-cultured products (often called “clean meat”). This week, though, the more-powerful National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) asked the same regulatory agency to rule the opposite. Both groups find the new food technology...

How To Become A Top Seller In A New Industry When I joined ConsumerAffairs nearly four years ago, I didn’t realize that I had jumped into the deep end. I had some great results in other sales roles, and I had owned my own businesses and helped grow several companies across different industries, but selling a software as a service (SaaS) product was a whole new ballgame for me. I started out as one of the lower performers on the team. In my first eight months, I closed very few deals and was ranked last among the company’s sales account...

The Energy Industry Reaches Out To Its Future Workforce The energy industry is engaged in a tug of war – it sees itself as playing a crucial role in helping mankind, while many Americans possess a deep-seated mistrust of oil and gas companies. That’s especially true of today’s school-age students. According to Gallup, almost half of Americans (47%) had a negative view of the oil and gas industry in 2015, while just more than one-third (34%) viewed the industry positively. By 2017, the gap had narrowed, but negative opinions still topped positive ratings by 2%. Public opinion has dampened energy...

SpaceX’s Earth views need a license now Friday morning, SpaceX was prepping for what should have been an otherwise routine launch — sending 10 satellites into orbit for longtime customer Iridium — when the company made a strange announcement. During the live stream leading up to the mission, a SpaceX employee explained that the company would have to cut off footage from the Falcon 9 rocket once the vehicle reached orbit. And the host said restrictions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were to blame. Viewers were immediately confused. SpaceX had cut off live streams early before, but only...

Apple’s redesigned Mac Pro is coming in 2019 Apple’s long-awaited update to the 2013 Mac Pro won’t be released until sometime next year, the company confirmed in an interview with TechCrunch. We’ve known since a press roundtable in April 2017 that Apple was “completely rethinking” the Mac Pro, in the words of marketing chief Phil Schiller. Now, we have confirmation that the product is arriving next year after some speculation that it could make an appearance this year at a fall hardware event typically reserved for MacBook announcements. “We want to be transparent and communicate openly with our pro community...