TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. Hugging Face raises $40 million for its natural language processing library.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Working with documents is very nearly the last frontier in which computers are still superior to mobile devices. It is free for a version that just views documents.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty. Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. And it''s hard for us to document. Our programs end up being the hub of the local science learning ecosystem--especially in communities where there isn''t a science center for miles in any direction.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Named the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), it would establish new rules compelling social media platforms to share data with “qualified researchers,” defined as university-affiliated researchers pursuing projects that have been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Among other things, these orders prohibit people from having gender markers that differ from the sex they were assigned at birth on their federal identification documents, including passports. They also seek to excise teaching about historical discrimination, including about slavery, from K-12 curricula.

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