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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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6 Benefits of Fund Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Users enjoy access to real-time information such as expenses, sub-awards, obligations; all presented in easy-to-understand displays. Productivity goes up compared to maintaining separate information “silos”; everyone has access to the same information, reducing “back and forth” communications that waste time. 2) Increase efficiency.

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‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters say they’re just getting started denouncing DOGE at dealerships

Fast Company Tech

More protests at Tesla will follow this weekend, all aimed at Musks work to control swaths of the government with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The layoffs also included workers responsible for the country’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, though the government then scrambled to attempt to rehire them.)

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a non-profit working in the water and sanitation sector, we knew our organization had reason to join the conversation given access to safe water enables handwashing which is a first line of defense against the spread of COVID-19. We want to make it safe, accessible, and cost-effective. Watch Video. Instagram.com/water.

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BadVR is using government grants to build a business that’s independent of venture capital

TechCrunch

The first step was finding money from the government’s Paycheck Protection Program to get more capital coming in and maintaining its headcount. Eventually, the company managed to land additional financing in the form of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. That’s how BadVR got most of its $3.5

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Apple intensifies battle against UK government's push for iCloud backdoor

TechSpot

Apple is taking its fight against the UK government's attempt to access iCloud user data to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that reviews complaints against national security services. According to unnamed sources cited by the Financial Times, Apple's legal challenge is the first of its kind and.

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

Lambda Labs For accelerating AI development by sharing GPUs with everyone AI breakthroughs have traditionally relied on access to lots of GPUscapacity that has been available mostly through expensive, long-term contracts with long wait times for service. IBM says that some 600,000 people have registered to use its quantum systems.

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