The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the state’s supreme court on Tuesday, claiming the company failed to protect its workers early on in the COVID-19 pandemic and also retaliated against employees who voiced concerns over what they felt were inadequate safety measures.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Amazon has informed workers that it will end on-site COVID-19 testing at its US warehouses, as first reported by The Information. The company confirmed to The Verge that it will begin ramping down its testing operations in the US by July 30th. The company had instituted a massive testing operation.

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Candid

JUNE 4, 2024

In the 2021 New York City municipal elections, low-propensity voters who were engaged by nonprofits providing support and services in their communities and therefore seen as trusted messengers turned out at double the rate of those who were not. GoVoteNYC is a funder collaborative housed at the New York Community Trust.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

New supporter welcome email example: Four Freedoms Park Conservancy The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy is a nonprofit that maintains the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park memorial in New York City. The following email is a welcome message for new email newsletter subscribers. Provide your address.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The suit claims that Ripple violated securities laws by selling XRP, which The Wall Street Journal calls “the third-largest cryptocurrency by market value,” over a seven-year period starting in 2013. In 2016, Ripple admitted to the New York State Department of Financial Services that buyers were “purchasing XRP for speculative purposes.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

So Unit, a New York-based company, is tackling perhaps the most elusive and controversial topic in mainstream tech today: labor unions. The startup works with a Boston law firm that files the petitions on behalf of employees. “So labor laws. ” Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In those recordings, Holmes claims that Theranos worked with the military, was currently working with pharmaceutical companies, that the company could do more than a thousand tests on its proprietary machines, and that the results were “at the highest level of quality.”. He asked Holmes if Theranos did all those tests, too.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The FBI has confirmed to The Washington Post that the agency had a license to use NSO’s Pegasus spyware and that it tested out the software’s capabilities. The confirmation comes after The New York Times released a sweeping report last week , which included details about the FBI’s relationship with NSO.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With Protector, users or "Protectees," in the app's lingo can scroll through a selection of law enforcement and military retirees, which includes their name, photo, service background, and a brief bio. The app is sleek and black, invoking the same minimal startup vibes as Uber or Vrbo. None of this comes cheap.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

This includes ensuring they have a license to share this content, if a license is required by law.”. The news follows a legal defeat for Newsweek earlier this week, when a New York judge ruled that the magazine couldn’t dismiss a photographer’s complaint based on Instagram’s terms of service.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The company’s shares will be listed as DASH on the New York Stock Exchange. The company also notes that if “Dashers are reclassified as employees under federal or state law, our business, financial condition, and results of operations would be adversely affected.”. Its valuation has gone from $1.4

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. The US Constitution enshrines privacy into law.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This article is for the overworked techie in charge of all of the digital things who just panicked that it is 2020 and there are new privacy laws. There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Amazon is facing new questions over failed COVID protections in its fulfillment centers, spurred on by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Workers at Amazon’s JKF8 warehouse said in March 2020 that they didn’t have enough protective equipment and were not informed if their co-workers tested positive for the coronavirus.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Gabe Teninbaum, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, is calling on ExamSoft to fix a serious bug with its test-taking software: failure to recognize faces. It’s a problem that can delay test takers — or bar them from starting their exams altogether — and per reports, it disproportionately impacts people with dark skin tones.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

C2i Genomics’ solution is based on research performed at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) by Dr. Zviran, along with Dr. Dan Landau, faculty member at the NYGC and assistant professor of medicine at WCM, who serves as scientific co-founder and member of C2i’s scientific advisory board.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

CTA will follow applicable federal, state and local laws, adapting CES plans accordingly and sharing updates with you and other CES audiences. The announcement comes at the same time as New York City rolls out its Key to NYC Pass plan, and concert promoter Live Nation says it will require vaccination or a negative test for attendees and crew.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is suing India’s government over new internet rules it claims are unconstitutional and will “severely undermine the privacy” of its users, The New York Times reports. According to Reuters , WhatsApp argues that the new rules fail the tests established by a 2017 Supreme Court ruling.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the weeks since that announcement, I've spoken to some of the country's leading corporate law experts to gain a better understanding of OpenAI's plan, and, more importantly, what it might mean for its mission to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2013 , Delaware enacted its own version of the law. As of 2022 , 68.2

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

A group of three Amazon warehouse employees who work out of the company’s New York fulfillment centers have filed a lawsuit alleging the company put them and their families at risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a report from Bloomberg. The lawsuit, filed in New York, is not seeking damages for illness or death, Bloomberg reports.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It seems to me that it’s incumbent upon those who are behind these efforts to show evidence that they’re having some effect,” says Ryan Calo, law professor and a director of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington. “So Anyone who tested positive for the coronavirus would still, ideally, get a phone call from a contact tracer.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Photo by Soheb Zaidi on Unsplash It’s midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times currently serving as the “situation room.” The 5 Laws Of Data Chaos Engineering The principles and lessons of chaos engineering are a good place to start defining the contours of a data chaos engineering discipline.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amazon employees in Florida, New York and Washington State will be the first to try the tool. On the same day of the updated SPAC filing, the WSJ reported that the SEC is examining whether Better.com violated federal securities laws, per a disclosure from the company.) Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” You were born to do this!”

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

Unfortunately, Judge Hurley wrote those words in an injunction, filed today, to stall a piece of progressive legislation which would have mandated affordable internet availability to all living in New York State — and which would have come into effect early next week. Those who do can receive $50 off their monthly bill.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Monday, May 9, is upon us, and today is a day of browser-cache-powered drama in the form of a Wordle word The New York Times decided was too controversial, but still existed for people who hadn’t refreshed their browser in a while. Instagram is testing NFTs with some of its creators. PT, subscribe here.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

The case, which centers on a warehouse in Queens, New York, was settled before it went to trial. The NLRB investigation found that warehouse managers may have violated US labor law on four accounts, Motherboard reports. He’s not alone in this assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

And despite two officers showing up at his front door with the cohort, neither of them, nor anyone else in the cohort, accused McDaniel of breaking the law. This new way of organizing crime data helped to increase arrests in their jurisdictions. They were not there to arrest him. No one was there to investigate a crime.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

This campaign needs to communicate details about all hunting laws, most of which are completely unknown to the average person. The first message introduced the Rare Pride campaign on protecting gazelles in the area, and the second message announced a special TV show on gazelle hunting laws that Bogii and her partners put together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Amy Webb, futurist, professor of strategic foresight at New York University and founder of the Future Today Institute, said, “If our current habits continue unchanged, it’s easiest to map pessimistic and catastrophic scenarios. People will be surrounded by more misleading or false information, not less.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 9, 2021

For instance, the New York Times recently reported, “ We Need Laws to Take On Racism and Sexism in Hiring. ”. If an international law is passed that requires auditing of machine learning models, all institutions using machine learning in critical applications will be looking for a solution.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Beamery is among the vendors that could be subjected to a New York City regulation — the Automated Employment Decision Tools law, set to go into effect in January — that would ban employers from using AI hiring tools unless a bias audit can show they won’t discriminate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, NYC Department of Transportation and the Partnership for New York City are behind the Transit Tech Lab. That’s one big task.). Here’s the gist of the lawsuit.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

The definition of what makes for a refurbished product varies depending on the seller, though something that may ease some worry is that there are US laws that prevent once-used tech from being sold as new. It says that you can expect your purchase to have been “inspected, cleaned, and tested to function and look like new.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Just like in cases of regulatory audits, when regulators turn directly to the financial institute, law enforcement agencies may request data directly from our customers,” Gutzeit clarified. TechCrunch wasn’t able to test this, though, so we can’t say how well it works in practice.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Astro-affiliated developers receive PTO depending on their country’s local laws and get paid at the beginning of every month, she said; hours are dependent on agreements between Astro’s clients and individual developer teams. Samira — while declining to give Astro developers’ average salary compared to U.S.

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