The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At this point, everybody has made the same comparison and nobody cares. It is, as with most things Boston Dynamics, either: cool. a harbinger of a terrible future in which people are hunted in the streets by robot dogs armed with knives. a harbinger of a wonderful future in which people, I don’t know, go to a dance party with robot dogs?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Prediction: The side that wins the metaphor battle will win the case,” tweeted University of Oklahoma College of Law professor Sarah Burstein. Tiffany Li, a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, cautioned against reading too much into the proceedings. The reliance on familiar analogies wasn’t necessarily surprising.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Thanks to a law passed in 2021 by the European Union and the EEA, Wefunder can follow one set of laws that unifies the 30 countries into the same framework. Still, the changing laws are setting off a race between US and UK platforms, all looking to enter the region in one fell swoop, the co-founder notes.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

now for a pack of 50 masks listed as “sold by Amazon,” it notes that the amount of new listings for face masks makes it “difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons.” We have referred the most egregious offenders to federal and state law enforcement across the country to hold them accountable,” the spokesperson said. “We

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

In granting standing, Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, part of a two-judge majority held “Although Fearless will presumably need to change its contest rules to bring itself into compliance with § 1981, that burden pales in comparison to the interest in rooting out race discrimination in all its forms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. This is because the process to open a bank account is very tedious in comparison to getting a sim card and adding cash through a local M-Pesa agent.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Vrbo previously stated it was evaluating new bookings and that it would “take appropriate action in coordination with law enforcement” if necessary. In comparison, Airbnb not only blocked new reservations, but it canceled existing ones as well.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

And today, Apple and Epic delved into one of the biggest questions of the trial: whether saying iOS violates antitrust law would make every major game console an unlawful monopoly too. But with Wright and Microsoft, Apple has a perfect comparison point: a major computing company that offers two very different versions of a big black box.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As of last week the Securities and Exchange commission is reportedly investigating whether misinformation posted on social media could have violated securities laws. As of December, Reddit boasted 52 million daily active users , For comparison, Facebook has around 1.85 Reddit recently acquired Dubsmash.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But the fact that it’s closing the curtains this month points at a blatant culprit: the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PIPL) , which came into effect on November 1.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. One noteworthy part of the report is a comparison among three performance companies, the Metropolitan Opera , Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre , and Misnomer Dance Theater.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

But those millions or even hundreds of millions pale in comparison to the billions Apple stands to lose if that App Store change is thoroughly adopted and legally enforced. (Here’s our just-published history of the App Store’s major policy changes , so you can see for yourself.) Apple makes roughly $19 billion a year from apps, $6.3

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Add padding to your estimate to cover for Murphy’s Law. Based on your experience and your gut, determine how many extra hours you should build into your estimate to cover for Murphy’s Law. Using that as a guide for our example, 10% would give us a new estimate of 44 hours, or four extra hours for Murphy’s Law.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Give your audience a real-life comparison to your statistic so they can grasp it immediately.”. A great example from last summer is from an opioid law suit — the State of Oklahoma v. Are we talking about a population the size of Rhode Island, or the number of people who can fit inside a stadium? Johnson & Johnson.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It’s much harder, by comparison, to snap a picture of someone’s hand and use that to spoof their vein patterns. Biometric information is protected in a way other data is not, by the EU’s GDPR regulations and by some state-level laws in the US. Even fingerprints can be picked up from touched objects or photographed from a distance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

It will aim to make the European Union the most attractive place to create a startup, in comparison with obvious global leaders like the U.S. Now, before you think I’m about to bore you to death, you might like to know that the SNS is a huge political initiative. Therefore, its significance is not to be underestimated. or, now, the U.K.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In the past, the company has sold racially biased facial recognition systems and hackable security cameras ; it aggressively partners with law enforcement and uses scare tactics to push its products on consumers. Looking at this history, I’m not sure why anyone would trust Amazon to oversee these sorts of systems.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 5, 2021

Banjo claimed to use software that automatically detected anomalies to help law enforcement solve crimes and respond faster. In behavioral science this is known as the blemish frame , where a small negative provides a frame of comparison to much stronger positives, strengthening the positive messaging. But things didn’t go as planned.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Value in social networks is calculated, depending on whom you ask, algorithmically (Metcalfe’s law) or logarithmically (Zipf’s law). As White House advisor Tim Wu argues in “The Curse of Bigness,” and Judge Boasberg acknowledges in his opinion, antitrust law does not hinge solely upon price effects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In comparison to Partech’s $2 billion figure for 2019, WeeTracker estimated that African startups raised $1.3 It’s a trend that may well continue as most foreign VCs prefer African startups to be incorporated in countries with business-friendly investment laws. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019?

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

The decision was made last week by the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board as they were found to be “ obvious inventions ,” according to Bloomberg Law. In 2018, it alleged Flywheel had copied its patented tech , specifically the leaderboard which displays where a user stands in comparison to others in a given class.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

It seemed to work very well for me and the experience was solid — PCMag has a full review and comparison if you’re curious how it stacks up. If you don’t live in a state with a privacy law, you literally have no right to opt out, which is pretty sad and crazy in this day and age,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Companies in the same industry, product stage, revenue, fundraising are some of the comparisons made. for law school. Pariti then assesses each company across more than 70 information points ranging from the team and market to product and economics. After this is done , Pariti benchmarks each company against its peers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2010

Metals are the most readily sought after material to recycle, due to their high commodity value, while the recycling of plastics remains stunted by comparison due to poor labeling, its multiple varieties, the current cheap cost of virgin plastic, and the relative difficulty in finding manufacturing uses for post-consumer plastic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For comparison, the site tracked 12,463 layoffs in October. According to layoffs.fyi, more than 23,000 tech workers have been laid off so far this month. Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the first major job cuts in its history this week, eliminating 11,000 jobs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

For comparison, the W20 batch had 25 Indian startups, up from 14 in S20, 12 each in S19 and W19 and one each in W16, S15, and W15.). “YC The startup says recent laws such as GDPR and CPRA have helped drive adoption of SigNoz. India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Not that NSA : Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari signs the Nigeria Startup Bill into law , reports Tage. Home is where the insurance is : Amazon is entering the home insurance marketplace game in the United Kingdom by launching an insurance comparison site, Ivan reports. That’s Dutch for “that’s enough.”).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Much like the term “community service” once thought to be voluntary, altruistic service to others in the community has changed and is now used as a term for forced service hours for breaking a law in lieu of or in combination with fines. Although the laws may give rules and guidelines to follow, government entities and nonprofits are exempt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

ET on Twitter Spaces , Managing Editor Danny Crichton and immigration law attorney Sophie Alcorn will discuss whether remote work is making H-1B visas less critical for international founders. Twitch has an average of almost 3 million concurrent viewers; by comparison, on the night of the 2020 U.S. Today at 2 p.m.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By comparison, the commercially available machines failed much less frequently. As a result, she was served with threatening legal papers by Theranos’ law firm. Her position in both labs was largely the same — an entry-level job that involved running quality control tests to make sure the machines were working properly.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Dubal has been studying the impact of the casual labor force of ride-sharing companies in comparison to the mostly unionized, professional labor force in the cab industry. Janelle Orsi, CEO and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center , a project of the nonprofit Community Ventures, on how The Sharing Economy Just Got Real.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 24, 2024

In comparison, 40% said large businesses were more likely to make things worse, 59% said the federal government would make things worse and 60% indicated the media would make things worse. The public has higher trust in the sector providing people with voting information than with assisting in writing/revising laws/regulations.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

A few weeks ago, we had Senator Amy Klobuchar on the show to talk about her proposed antitrust law reforms. Horacio unsurprisingly pushed back on these comparisons — citing a range of statistics from Spotify’s Loud and Clear website that lays out exactly how and how much it pays artists around the world. We had Sen. I take that point.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

A more logical comparison is a casino that runs skill-based gambling tables: a system where people play specifically for the thrill of putting real money on the table and only the most skilled can hope to regularly earn a profit, while the house always takes a cut. I don’t think we hide that fact,” Ryder says of the gambling comparison. “It

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

Charles Duan, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and specialist in intellectual property law, described possible outcomes that could range from financial redress to an effective ban on the infringing software should the plaintiff win the case. OpenText intends to vigorously enforce its intellectual property rights.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? My wife teaches high school and they don't like it. When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. And what if they put their paper into wikipedia. The student is contributing the body of knowledge.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

There were repeated comparisons to Big Tobacco , and a “Big Tobacco moment.” Congress should pass a law requiring large platforms to make data available to outside researchers for the study of subjects in the public interest. For their part, senators sought to paint the hearing in historic terms.

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