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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

Advancements in AI translation and community moderation tools will facilitate increased global collaboration. Nonprofits will be able to form partnerships and work together on a global scale more easily, leading to increased efficiency, resource sharing, and a broader reach. These are all hard problems without an obvious solution.

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Why microplastic pollution in soils and crops is ‘raising alarm’ among experts

Fast Company Tech

It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. But the agriculture industry itself only accounts for a little over 3% of all plastics used globally. “Through global warming, we have less and less arable land to make crops on.

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Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. The most popular card schemes globally are Union Pay, Visa, and Mastercard. Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API. — Perseus Mlambo (@perseusmlambo) January 13, 2022.

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AI advances mean we need to double down on this one skill

Fast Company Tech

Algorithms reinforce biases More and more, our capacity to think, create, and problem-solve is being challenged by algorithms delivered through social media. Burnout is a global issue, costing humans their well-being and businesses millions in lost productivity. Heres why: 1. Burnout is the result of prolonged work stress.

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An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others

The Verge

Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers are causing slow loading or failures for significant chunks of the internet. Amazon’s widespread network of data centers powers many of the things you interact with online, including this website, so as we’ve seen in previous AWS outage incidents , any problem has massive rippling effects.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. But generic AI solutions are going to produce generic results.

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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey

Ars Technica

The researchers presented their initial findings today at the American Physical Society's Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. Our lab investigates biological problems using robot physical models," team member Eugene Lin told Ars.