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Tennessee just made an invisible update to its tourism site—and it’s brilliant

Fast Company Tech

This led VML and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development to launch Sound Sites an initiative to replace the alt text on the states official tourism website with lyrical verse from one of Tennessees best natural resources: songwriters. I can guarantee it will not break any bank of any travel or tourism department, he says.

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2025 Social Media Statistics for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. Rival IQ Social Media Industry Benchmark Report ] Nonprofits have an average engagement rate of 0.066% on Facebook. Facebook Facebook has 3.05 Similarweb ] 61.7% of its users worldwide are millennials and Gen Z.

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Buildots raises $30M to put eyes on construction sites

TechCrunch

Danon spent six months on construction sites talking to workers to understand what was happening and learned that control was one of the areas where efficiency was breaking down. There is no more blaming or cutting corners because the system validates that and also makes construction a healthier industry to work in.”.

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

TechCrunch

In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. trillion industry in the United States — a complex ecosystem of lenders, owners, developers, architects, general contractors, subcontractors and more.

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Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites including Mother Jones

The Verge

Facebook designed changes to its news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones on its platform, the Wall Street Journal reported , and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had personally approved the plans. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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How Polestar engineers EVs that can handle brutal winters

Ars Technica

Polestar provided flights from Los Angeles to Lulea and accommodation so Ars could visit Polestar's winter testing site. Yet the balmy weather serves as a constant reminder of the climate change that inspires much of the narrative around the electric vehicle industry. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.

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Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model

Ars Technica

The replacement, it turned out, could also be a trial for industrial-scale 3D-printing of custom rail shelters. The fabricated shelter was shipped in four parts by rail, then pieced together in a span that the site Futurism says is "just under three hours," but which the Times, seemingly present at the scene, pegs at six.

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