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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

As announced in Brazilian press in October of 2013, a new version of a law in Brazil just took effect, mandating that smartphones give visibility to Brazilian-made apps , by either pre-loading phones with these homegrown apps or providing a dedicated marketplace on smartphones to display them. What’s good about the “Good Law”.

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

As the technology becomes more embedded in daily life, researchers and educators face two distinct hurdles: teaching people to use these tools responsibly rather than over-relying on them while also convincing AI skeptics to learn enough about the technology to be informed citizens, even if they choose not to use it. .

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This college class will teach you how to build a tiny house for just $5,000

Fast Company Tech

In his last semester at college, in between studying labor law and environmental impact assessment, Alex Elderbroom took a class on something very different: how to build a tiny house. Sometimes, it wasn’t apparent that some of them had even held a hammer before, says associate professor Deb Naybor, who teaches the class.

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New Benetech board member, Robert Wexler

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He’s a principal at Adler & Colvin, San Francisco's top law firm specializing in nonprofit law. Rob is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. Rob has a deep understanding of what makes nonprofits successful.

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Meet the creators who bait scammers for fun and profit

Mashable Tech

Now Bingham and Art Kulik, a Russian immigrant and former Olympian who met Bingham prior to a Law and Order audition, have turned baiting scammers into their full-time job via Trilogy Media, a YouTube channel with more than 1.6 Long story short, it went viral" when the scammer ended up blocking Bingham's number — and changed his life.

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7 Reasons Why You Should Attend Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

Clooney is a globally recognized, high-powered barrister in the field of international human rights and criminal law. Speakers represent globally-recognized organizations, like Gavi , International Justice Mission , Unicef, Teach for America, CDC Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society, and more.

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5 Reasons to Support Environmental Organizations on Earth Day

Neon CRM

They are working to shape policy, get laws passed, and defend current protections in court. Whether the laws theyre addressing are for their region or the entire country, environmental nonprofits tackle the inequities that impact the Earth and the public. Their biggest event, Earth Gives Day , will be on October 7, 2025.