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This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

TechCrunch

Essentially serving as a virtual general contractor, Homebound combines technology and a network for “vetted” and licensed building “experts” to manage the new home construction from the design phase to completion. It raised a $35 million Series B last April and then closed on a $20 million convertible note late last year.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 2

Tech Soup

Alberto Cairo is the Knight chair in visual journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami. This headset device allows users to experience augmented reality by projecting virtual objects in their fields of view and letting them interact with those objects. Visualizations Bring Good Data to Life.

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Inside the ‘slow-rolling catastrophe’ of Trump’s NOAA cuts

Fast Company Tech

Mass layoffs struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) late last week , throwing into jeopardy the core mission of the agency tasked with observing the skies and seas nationwideand a key piece of the federal disaster preparedness apparatus. In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go.

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Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

The year started with atypically high inflation rates and featured several significant weather-related disasters, ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and an acrimoniously contested, highly polarizing and wildly expensive election season. People giving to natural disasters this fall is a bigger concern than election giving.”

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump had tweeted — quoting a former Miami police chief who, in 1967, called for a violent crackdown on the city’s black community. And on Monday, dozens of employees staged a virtual walkout, making themselves unavailable for the day and joining in protests. The walkout.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Contrast that with last month’s content moderation disaster, which was essentially a bunch of nonsense that was uttered during a live stream of a press conference. Miami police used Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology to arrest a protestor who they say was involved in a standoff on May 30th. Sara Fischer / Axios ).

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