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Senior Producer @businessinsider | Doing what I love most | Past: @NBCScottsbluff, @OSNPraha | @ColumbiaJourn ‘20.
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How families risk their lives harvesting toxic mussels in Indonesia Original

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By Olivia Nemec Verified, Yuelei Song, Sufiani Dartunis Luan, Ibnu Hadi Rachmat
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In Indonesia's Jakarta Bay, thousands of families are trapped in debt as they harvest green mussels, one of the last surviving life-forms in the increasingly polluted waters. But as the bay offers less, their loans snowball, trapping them in an endless cycle of debt. That pushes them back into the toxic waters that have already killed two-thirds of shellfish in the bay.
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I visited Intel's robot-run AI chip factory, where the biggest danger is human skin and hair

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By Olivia Nemec Verified
| Yahoo Singapore Verified
Olivia Nemec Updated Sun, 7 June 2026 at 3:47 pm UTC 8 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I got rare access inside Intel's factory, where it makes some of the world's most advanced chips. The plant is so tightly controlled that paper, white light, and even footsteps can become problems. The trip made me realize that making the chips powering everyday life means protecting them from us.
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I visited Intel's robot-run AI chip factory, where the biggest danger is human skin and hair

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By Olivia Nemec Verified
| Business Insider Verified
I knew visiting Intel's chip factory would be different when they told me I couldn't wear my regular deodorant. Or lotion. Or hairspray. Or makeup. Before I'd even boarded the plane to Oregon, Intel sent my videographer and me a long list of things we couldn't wear or bring into its factory in Hillsboro. No Velcro. No Bluetooth. No phones unless they were on airplane mode. The list kept going. That was my first clue I was about to step into a place governed by a very different set of rules.
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