Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players. Special thanks go to Charles Coward and Xavier Domènech of the Barcelona law firm Uría Menéndez. We invite you to check out the Bookshare catalog for updates on our Spanish collection.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

At a time when the legitimacy of the carceral state, and policing in particular, is being challenged on fundamental grounds in the United States, there is high demand in law enforcement for research of this nature,” write the group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???. At a university,?a Requirements allow vendors to prepare better informed and more accurate proposals in response to your request. An organization may have many funds supporting?its?mission. self-balancing accounts?that?must must be used for the specific purpose defined?by

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Over the past month, we’ve answered these questions a lot: How will changes to the federal overtime law will affect my organization? Before we delve into how the new overtime law affects the nonprofit industry, know that not all states have the same guidelines. (This also applies to the for-profit social enterprises we serve too!)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Laws that protect people’s data and/or image, meanwhile, present a legal and/or ethical challenge to creating such “digital clones” of living humans — at least not without asking (and most likely paying) first. But it’s still enough of a lag to ensure the bot can’t escape from being a bit tedious.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Photo by: Cristiano Minichiello/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. 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. He suggests that schools assign every student an identical generic, baseline image.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the law, citizens will be able to use Bitcoin to do everything from paying taxes and paying off debts to buying goods and services. The proposal was passed by El Salvador’s congress on Tuesday night, after Bukele announced it at a Bitcoin conference in Miami last week. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

should soon be able to determine how much lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury are in the food they feed their babies, thanks to a California law, the first of its kind, that took effect this year. I believe the new California law offers a solid first step in giving people the ability to limit the intake of these substances.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Much of the land is currently unused, though a sand and gravel mining business is still in operation in the heart of the proposed factory location. But some Travis County residents still took issue with the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting. The company has applied to buy the land, totaling around 2,100 acres, for $5 million.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Communications Director and Content Strategist Highway Twenty A Request for Proposal (RFP) is a common way nonprofit organizations invite bids for products and services. If you do issue an RFP, you should not assume all proposals you get back will be similar in scope, so that all you have to do is compare price tags. Bush, Ph.D.,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Writer and researcher Erica Neely says that laws and social norms aren’t prepared for how AR could affect physical space. “I The nonprofit XR Safety Initiative offers policy frameworks for safety and privacy in the industry, drawing on existing laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Other entertainers, especially female, have struggled to find work after run-ins with the law, including drunken driving or substance abuse, and experts say many of them are reluctant to seek treatment for mental health problems like depression, fearing further negative coverage.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

From the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act to "do not track" browser settings, Internet privacy has been at the forefront of discussions about our rights online. Alexandra graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law and has an undergraduate theater degree from Northwestern University.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Whole New Worlds Generative AI has already swept our existing digital universe. This means that an assistant AI should be flexible enough to easily adopt designer-proposed changes over and over. The characters and objects obeyed the games physical laws and branched out in new explorations that matched the games atmosphere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I propose a careful exploration of social enterprise strategies is a matter of relevance and survival for small nonprofits in low-income communities, as they cannot rely on their constituents for a high level of donations or otherwise support. Charitable giving declined in 2018 due to tax law changes. Begin with a business plan.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law center also has an intelligence project working to track and expose hate groups across the country and a Teaching Tolerance Program that produces and distributes (entirely for free) anti-bias documentary films, books, and lesson plans! Black Public Media.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

On the regulation point, Spain’s first startup law — which was adopted in draft and presented to parliament in December — has been well received by the local tech community. . So we are going to take this as a base scenario and try to propose different improvements,” says Szpilka. All the tax incentives.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. Tip: Make sure to discuss your proposed policy with a cross section of staff as. Is your policy in sync with state law or district policies on cyber bullying, cell phone use and filtering?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Brad Smith describes Microsoft’s vision for a “universal app store,” that will “enable any gamer on any device to access, download, and use any app” in his CNBC interview. The Open App Markets Act is a proposal that could blow up app stores, and one that Microsoft is backing. Image: Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

The Bored Ape Yacht Club was an unprecedented success for Yuga Labs, and with a fresh $450 million in capital, the crypto startup is aiming to build a full-fledged universe for its apes.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These are fundamental laws of economics. I no longer had the strength to read more papers, proposals or, even more so, write journal and conference papers to showcase my work. This highlights the urgency of companies to hire these kind of professionals. Multiple industry opportunities: Take my case for example. Image Source: DALL-E.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Whether it’s regarding Judaism or understanding economics, I believe that it is the particular that points to the universal. Come stand next to the Torah and simply witness those really cool letters, hand written while all kinds of crazy laws were followed. I too was thinking of it when reading these proposals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

.” I reached out to a few experts to get their take and one of the more interesting ones was from Matthew Wansley, former general counsel of nuTonomy (which Aptiv acquired) and a law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York. He did propose a solution that I will post below.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

A few weeks ago, we had Senator Amy Klobuchar on the show to talk about her proposed antitrust law reforms. But the reality is antitrust law was created in this country. Amy Klobuchar on the show a few weeks ago, she gave me the long history of American antitrust law. Sometimes the US has been at the forefront of that.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Wave after wave of proposed legislation threatens to strip away rights, from bathroom bills to laws severely restricting young trans people’s access to gender affirming health care. Many don’t have even basic health care, let alone insurance that will cover hormone therapy or surgeries.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For instance, some (though not most) dictators are almost universally hated and retain power for many years even though nearly everyone would prefer to replace them. How trustworthy are humans given the law enforcement that holds them accountable, and the voters that hold governments who hold law enforcement accountable?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

A new working paper from various university researchers suggests that age-verification laws aren't effective. Age-verification laws differ by state, but typically require visitors of websites with over a third of explicit content to submit ID as proof of age. Forms of ID can range from a digital ID to facial recognition.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Proposal The Proposal is a veritable romantic comedy archetype. There is nothing unpredictable about The Proposal. And for that very specific mood, The Proposal hits just right. And for that very specific mood, The Proposal hits just right. How to watch: The Proposal is now streaming on Hulu.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” The immigration fee increases proposed by the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Embark conducted a public demo to show how its autonomous trucks would interact with emergency vehicles and law enforcement in Texas. . Aurora Innovation announced a multiphase commercial pilot to haul freight for Schneider National’s customers in Texas. . Check out other key takeaways from Tesla’s Cyber Roundup. .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

As with most legislation, it is unlikely that this bill will become a law in its current form as passed by the House, however it begins a conversation among the House, Senate and Administration on the next phase of COVID-19 relief. Here are a few of the amendments proposed by the HEROES Act –. On May 15, the U.S.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector. These are all channels that your organization can direct and basically do whatever you want with, within reason and the law, at your own discretion. That what makes for a great partner is not necessarily understood in a proposal.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Although not presently incorporated into the framework of international law, there have been recent efforts for ecocide to be added as a crime under the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. Lesley Joseph is a research assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of South Carolina.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Both Google and Facebook threatened to leave Australia over the proposed law, until Google cut a deal with Australia’s biggest news organizations, and Facebook turned off their access to the news feed entirely. After a few days, the law was slightly changed, Facebook also paid the money, and access was restored.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Zico Kolter, Roger Grosse On Optimal Learning Under Targeted Data Poisoning Steve Hanneke, Amin Karbasi , Mohammad Mahmoody, Idan Mehalel, Shay Moran Learning With Little Mixing Ingvar Ziemann, Stephen Tu Block-Recurrent Transformers DeLesley Hutchins , Imanol Schlag * , Yuhuai Wu , Ethan Dyer , Behnam Neyshabur TabNAS: Rejection Sampling for Neural (..)

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2023, scientists at the University of Texas used fMRI, coupled with a version of the AI models that power ChatGPT, to decode the gist of unspoken sentences from brain activity. The data support a long-held hypothesis held by neuroscientists and linguists, proposing that we produce speech from the top down.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

We also proposed a new approach for recommender systems that uses natural language explanations to make it easier for people to understand and control their recommendations. Creativity and AI Research We initiated conversations with creative teams on the rapidly changing relationship between AI technology and creativity.

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