Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. Born Accessible: The Final Frontier Which brings us to our third phase: the one we have started but not yet completed. everybody in the field of social justice understands that governments are probably spying on them.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So there are some things like that that you might want to consider, especially if you’re maybe looking into government grants. Some of the funding is going to go to the state’s local government, so just to be mindful of all of those things, especially when you start thinking about what you can do in-house to prepare.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

and thats a conservative estimate. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. It’s going to continue afterwards, and temperatures and extreme weather will continue to get worse until we’ve managed to phase out fossil fuels. Indeed, we already have.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Zhavoronkov explained to TechCrunch that the last round “was very substantial and was intended to allow us to fund clinical development” and the company is “trying to be very conservative and careful with the money.” It has nominated eight preclinical candidates since 2021.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A labyrinth of Facebook groups and right-wing media After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. And while the convoy itself may soon be broken up by the Canadian government, those online pathways are much stickier. Photo by Steve Russell / Toronto Star via Getty Images.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels. The government needs to get involved. The government doesn't need to put everybody to work necessarily, though it may get to that point. And that costs money. We spend all this money housing them and feeding them.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 9, 2025

The Netherlands expanded a government-run initiative on Monday allowing legal cannabis sales. A trailblazer in decriminalizing pot since the 1970s, the Netherlands has grown more conservative. The government will evaluate the experiment after four years. Selma said he is happy to be working without concerns about prosecution.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

government and its private contractors free rein to withhold evidence of unidentified craft traveling well above our skies — in outer space. An unassuming loophole might be giving the U.S. Scientists found a compelling reason why. Credit: U.S. Space Force.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

But this method also poses some challenges: It necessitates using rice varieties that can grow fast in water to outcompete the weeds, but that can also withstand the dry, hot phase, plus have a high enough yield to meet consumer demand. Photo: Lundberg Family Farms] This twofold approach has multiple benefits.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Whether it’s helping people find reliable information in search, working with the government on testing, building an exposure-tracking system into Android and iOS in partnership with Apple, or battling misinformation on YouTube, Google’s capability — and responsibility — has never been greater. So it’s definitely been a building phase.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 5, 2025

However, this is only half of the picture: technical solutions should be complemented by effective governance. For example, by developing techniques to align models to arbitrary training targets, we provide governance efforts with an affordance to regulate models to fuzzy specifications.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

To continue its expansion into the government sector and beyond, in January, Budderfly secured $400 million in debt financing from Nuveen and Vantage Infrastructure, bringing its total financing to nearly $1 billion. The Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Last year Antora also earned a $14.5 million award from the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

Meta is phasing out third-party fact-checking. It’s paid for and funded by foreign governments looking to divide the American people. For example, the K-pop network BTS Army has been mobilized by liberals, while Formula 1 networks might lend themselves to similar manipulation from conservatives.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator who now heads up Beyond Plastics, said she hopes that people react to the executive order by committing to using fewer plastic straws and that local and state governments do, too. Its easy to just kind of almost poke fun of this, ignore it, she said Tuesday.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

.” The 216-214 vote pushed the budget plan forward, one more milestone for Johnson, and next step in a lengthy process to unlock the centerpiece to the presidents domestic agenda of tax cuts, mass deportations and a smaller federal government. Two conservative Republicans voted against it, as did all Democrats.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 28, 2025

With Republicans now in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, rules that quietly save Americans money on utility bills while conserving energy and water are suddenly at risk. But as political polarization has deepened, dishwashers, laundry machines, showerheads, and other household staples have begun to take on a new charge.

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