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Massachusetts governor won’t sign facial recognition ban

The Verge

Massachusetts Gov. Massachusetts legislators passed the first major state-level facial recognition ban, following a model set by individual cities like Boston and San Francisco. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts urged lawmakers to reject the proposed changes. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition

The Verge

Massachusetts lawmakers this week voted to ban the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and public agencies in a sweeping police reform bill that received significant bipartisan support. Massachusetts’ bill institutes a statewide ban on police use of facial recognition. Illustration by Alex Castro / Th. Charlie Baker.

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Looking to decarbonize the metal industry, Bill Gates-backed Boston Metal raises $50 million

TechCrunch

The Woburn, Massachusetts-based company has also been able to continuously operate its three pilot lines producing metal alloys for over a month at a time. The first close of the funding actually came in December 2018 — two years before the most recent financing round, according to Tadeu Carneiro, the company’s chief executive.

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Interview: Colin Rhinesmith, CCTV Cambridge

Amy Sample Ward

As we continue to offer more social media trainings for seniors, we hope to contribute our own Creative Commons licensed materials that other community-based individuals and nonprofit organizations can use in their work. Creative Commons licensed training materials would be particularly beneficial.

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Miami startup Asteya launches to provide ‘income insurance’

TechCrunch

New York and Massachusetts are a few of the states that outlawed the policy in 2019, and following their lead, Asteya’s first product is gender-neutral, Williamson said. . Why VCs are dumping money into insurance marketplaces.

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Scammers allegedly earned $195,000 referring fake drivers to delivery apps

The Verge

It accuses 14 people — all Brazilian nationals and most living in Massachusetts — with identity theft against five unnamed companies. They allegedly used alcohol orders as an excuse to scan users’ driver’s licenses. The indictment was revealed on Friday and adds to wire fraud claims first revealed in May.

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Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences

TechCrunch

Quantori , a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup, is building a platform-as-a-service tuned specifically to the needs of this vertical. So there will always be a license component and a service component.”. Life science businesses like big pharmaceutical companies have a singular set of needs when it comes to building applications.

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