The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

All the other biometrics that are becoming commonplace — face, fingerprints, iris — are all quite observable and visible from the outside,” Elizabeth Renieris, a law and policy researcher who focuses on data governance and human rights issues, told The Verge. There’s definitely something to say for the advanced security [of palm scanning].”.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. . Areas served: Illinois. California Community Foundation. Lilly Endowment Inc.’s

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

If a reasonably-priced insurance or replacement policy is available, it’s usually worth the extra expense.”. Aryan Nambiar, a student at Barrington High School in Illinois, has an iMac at home and enjoys using an iPad for his schoolwork. Another universally-lauded feature: battery life. Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Some states and cities are also dedicating money to the efforts, including Illinois , Detroit and San Mateo, California. That study, conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University, found 25% of each school day was lost transitioning children to another activity, including walking to bathrooms and lining up to go to lunch.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 19, 2025

To Contact Alison, please: *protected email* Dr. Bigelow graduated from the University of Illinois-Urbana in May 2004 with a Ph.D. After completing his education, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a year.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Amazon had ended the hazard pay it implemented at the beginning of the pandemic, as well as its policy of allowing workers to take unlimited time off without pay. “You come into work and need to be treated like a human being.”. By the summer, other issues had arisen. Meanwhile, COVID cases in the South were spiking. (A

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

The survey is only 15 minutes long, and the value of the data will continue to help nonprofits benchmark their technology planning (to help them change the world). 16NTC Steering Committee We would like to thank our great group of Community members who answered the call back in April for volunteers to be on the 16NTC Steering Committee.

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MAY 21, 2008

Now the Sudan Divestment Task Force has divested over two dozen US states, 50 universities, more than 15 cities, and placed Federal restrictions on Sudan linked investments. I came into it when I was a junior at Northwestern University, and I was living in New York at that time. This was in 2006.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tragic collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois during last week’s historic tornado outbreak in the Midwest is raising questions about the safety of the e-commerce giant’s packing facilities and the policies and protocols Amazon has in place to protect workers during disasters. It’s the private sector.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published in the Journal of Urban Economics , examined weekday traffic data from Los Angeles County highways between 2017 and 2019 and compared it with cellphone GPS data tracking customer visits to fast food restaurants in the same county during the same years.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

I like to think of good analogies, says Luke Jackson , an assistant professor of physical geography at Durham University in the U.K. Its not only crops and livestock that are affected, says Gerald Nelson, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigns College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Tan , University Service Learning /. Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. AmeriCorps Coordinator. ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

To improve video content moderation, we developed new approaches for helping human raters focus their attention on segments of long videos that are more likely to contain policy violations. New Datasets: Fairness: We released a new dataset to assist in ML fairness and adversarial testing tasks, primarily for generative text datasets.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In Illinois , organizations reported feeling the pinch from changes in fundraising strategy and inconsistent federal and private relief. Organizations identify funding, policy, and communication as the top ways they want funders to support their work. Small grassroots organizations are most at risk of permanent closure.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Three states are working on projects so far, Russell Brandom reported today at The Verge : Alabama is developing an app in connection with a team from the University of Alabama, while the Medical University of South Carolina is heading up a similar project in collaboration with the state’s health agency. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

Seventeen states and Washington, DC have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s policy that would prevent international students who are taking online courses from remaining in the US. Prior to the July 6th announcement, there was no indication that the fall 2020 semester would not be subject to the same policy.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 15, 2025

Harvard University is the latest in a growing list of higher education institutions that had its federal funding targeted by the government in order to comply with the Trump administration’s political agenda. universities have become an unprecedented tool for the administration to exert influence on college campuses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

I came to the United States after earning a degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a technical university known as the MIT of India. at the University of Illinois because of its top-ranked computer science program. Consider my story.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

The Evanston effect Evanston, Illinois, launched the countrys first publicly funded housing reparations program in 2019. Yet they prove that governments can craft targeted, achievable, and meaningful policies to address colonialism and enslavement. Yet their effects continue to harm Black and Native communities generations later.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. Reported cases in Illinois: 124,279. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 959,175.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

On the campaign trail, Trump called for universal coverage of IVF treatment after his Supreme Court nominees helped to overturn Roe v. Mexico border, Venezuela policy, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Illinois Sen. and Russia had begun negotiations to end fighting without Ukraine playing a role.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

. “The Department of Labor is the agency where people in building are supposed to wake up every day thinking about how they can improve the lives of working people,” said Adam Shah, director of national policy at Jobs with Justice, a nonprofit organization that promotes workers’ rights.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. And our policies are grounded in trying to give people as much voice as possible while saying, if you’re going to harm people in specific ways. we will take them down no matter who says that.

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