Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one (Antonio Garcia-Martinez/The Pull Request)

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The Wikileaks-style group DDoSecrets claims that Parler-like site Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Military trials training for missions in virtual reality BBC's Zoe Kleinman experiences software which creates virtual training simulations for the military. March 01, 2021 at 11:31AM

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Pres. Biden says there should be "no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda" by Amazon amid its warehouse workers' vote on whether to form a union in AL (Jennifer Epstein/Bloomberg)

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A look at Biden's efforts to partner with allies to boost key tech sectors and counter China, going beyond Trump-era measures like restricting sales of SMIC (Bob Davis/Wall Street Journal)

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An oral history of #hugops and the growing community of operations engineers who offer support for their peers before and during major cloud service outages (Tom Krazit/Protocol)

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Twitter Super Follows and Clubhouse portend a shift from algorithmic, scale-focused, low-attention feeds to low-volume, high-attention relationships with users (Will Oremus/OneZero )

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Profile of Discovery+, which has hit 12M paid subscriptions globally and offers a reality TV-focused catalog with 55K episodes, rivaling Netflix in sheer volume (Ben Smith/New York Times)

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'Farms are going to need different kinds of robots' A growing number of tech firms are helping farmers better look after their animals and crops. March 01, 2021 at 05:37AM

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Profile of lawyer and activist Cori Crider who is suing Facebook and outsourcing company CPL in Ireland's High Court on behalf of traumatized content moderators (Ed Siddons/The Guardian)

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How Reddit, at ~$6B arguably one of the most undervalued companies in world, can unlock the next step-change in valuation and protect against niche competitors (Mario Gabriele/The Generalist)

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Skydio raises $171M led by a16z at a valuation of $1B+, the first significant fundraising by a US-based drone maker after China's DJI was blacklisted by the US (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

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Verizon support is now advising its users on Twitter to "turn on LTE", which would turn off 5G, to preserve battery life (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

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Modi's government is abetting a vicious campaign against Indian climate activists simply for using organizing tools like shared Google Docs and WhatsApp groups (Naomi Klein/The Intercept)

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Report: the number of malware strains written in Go have increased by around 2,000% since 2017, after APTs and cybercrime groups adopted the language (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

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The person behind "Your Fave Is Problematic" Tumblr blog, which listed regrettable actions by celebrities, says she looks back on her blog with shame and regret (Liat Kaplan/New York Times)

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How platforms like Spotify and tools like Community, Audigent, and Unitea help artists find their superfans and target them for monetization opportunities (Tatiana Cirisano/Billboard)

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A look at Clubhouse's privacy flaws: room audio is "temporarily" saved for trust and safety purposes, user accounts or personal data can't be deleted, and more (Jason Aten/Inc.com)

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How ACLU and activist Kade Crockford convinced Massachusetts lawmakers to pass a police reform bill banning the use of facial recognition tech in criminal cases (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

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The influencer effect: 'Love Island star transformed my business' Influencers can have a bad reputation but for some people they have proved to be a business lifeline. February 28, 2021 at 07:08AM

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Cryptocurrencies: Why Nigeria is a global leader in Bitcoin trade A devaluing currency and hard economic conditions make cryptocurrencies attractive despite the risks. February 28, 2021 at 05:42AM

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Critics say the policies of Amazon, Google, and Facebook from the early days of the pandemic to restrict the sale of medical-grade masks are now outdated (Andrew Jacobs/New York Times)

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Sources: UK is preparing to announce a new tech visa and a £375M fund, with matching VC funding, to be made available to some promising tech startups (Financial Times)

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Profile of Roblox, which outsources game development to its own players and says more than 300 of such developers earned $100K+ in 2020, ahead of its March IPO (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

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Mississippi is using its $1.2B COVID stimulus to roll out high-speed broadband, which could make it one of the most connected states in the US within six years (Marguerite Reardon/CNET)

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Experts say lessons marketed by digital education platforms like Byju's and Yuanfudao are more an innovation in test-prep delivery than in learning outcomes (Meaghan Tobin/Rest of World)

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Interview with co-CEO of Jumia, whose stock is up 3,000%+ in the last year and remains unprofitable, on African e-commerce, its path to profitability, and more (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

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Monsters, mania and the unstoppable march of Pokémon Several waves of Pokémania have swept the globe, keeping this lucrative franchise relevant for 25 years. February 27, 2021 at 06:05AM

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Social media platforms are struggling with how to handle ISIS-related fundraising campaigns, which are often slipping through by disguising as humanitarianism (John Beck/Rest of World)

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How Anduril and other startups are building military ready, self-piloted drones, away from Silicon Valley, where such projects have become politically untenable (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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Some schools and organizations are abandoning exam monitoring software made by Proctorio amid a barrage of complaints from students over privacy (Todd Feathers/VICE)

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In a hearing with US lawmakers, ex-SolarWinds CEO blamed an intern for the "solarwinds123" password leak discovered in 2019 that had exposed a SolarWinds server (CNN)

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Genealogy tracker MyHeritage releases Deep Nostalgia, a Live Photo-like feature for old photos, which uses AI to show subjects prepping for their portrait (Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo)

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Public docs show that ICE used private database run by Thomson Reuters with 400M+ names, addresses, and utility service records to pursue immigration violations (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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Sources: Biden admin plans to allow a Trump-era rule in March enabling Commerce Dept. to ban tech business transactions with China it feels are security threats (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Robinhood is planning to confidentially file for an IPO as soon as next month (Bloomberg)

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Sources detail Google's troubles with game development as the company couldn't stomach the complicated creative process amid Stadia's poor streaming numbers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Wired)

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Covid-19: How would an NHS vaccine passport app work? There is growing speculation that a certificate scheme could be built into the main NHS app. February 27, 2021 at 06:01AM

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Bitcoin energy use 'bigger than most countries' Could the cryptocurrency's huge electricity consumption also sink it? February 27, 2021 at 05:52AM

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Sources: SentinelOne, which develops AI-based endpoint security for all devices and services in a network, is preparing for an IPO that could value it at $10B+ (Bloomberg)

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Google is sharing data about distortions in light waves passing through its undersea cables with seismologists to help them detect earthquakes (Justine Calma/The Verge)

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The SEC suspends trading of 15 lesser-known stocks after suspicious social media promotion raised concerns that their stock prices were artificially inflated (Bloomberg)

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Analysis finds bots programmatically hyping "meme" stocks across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, but did not measure their influence (Michelle Price/Reuters)

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Ros Atkins on... Is Facebook too powerful? Ros Atkins looks at the consequences of Facebook's power on events in Myanmar, Washington DC and Australia. February 27, 2021 at 05:31AM

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Cairngorms recreated in video game Minecraft The initiative is designed to help young people find out how the Cairngorms national park is managed. February 26, 2021 at 11:37AM

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Cision, a media monitoring company that is the parent of PR Newswire, buys online consumer intelligence and social media analytics service Brandwatch for $450M (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

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Apple begins showing a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Mac in France, due to local regulations set by the Minister of Ecological Transition (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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Sources: China's Tencent-backed trucking startup Full Truck Alliance has confidentially filed for an IPO that could raise at least $1B as soon as this year (Bloomberg)

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MyHeritage offers 'creepy' deepfake tool to reanimate dead Genealogy firm admits some might find the controversial technology "uncanny or creepy". February 26, 2021 at 07:18PM

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TikTok agrees legal payout over facial recognition The video site has agreed to a $92m settlement in a case over how it uses biometrics to track users. February 26, 2021 at 06:43PM

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