The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

They’re the final exams taken before university, and they have a huge impact on which institution students attend. Universities make offers based on students’ predicted A-level grades, and usually, a student will have to achieve certain grades to secure their place. pic.twitter.com/P15jpuBscB — huck (@HUCKmagazine) August 16, 2020.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Main Sequence , the venture firm founded by Australia’s national science agency, announced today a new $250 million AUD (about $194.3 Especially in the deep tech space, you don’t always have a company for every problem you’re trying to solve. million USD) fund to invest in deep-tech startups.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 12, 2025

Except for one problem. But somewhere else in the universe, something like me will continue existing. If you really think about the problem, it's actually pretty simple to solve. Surely, the aligned ASI will help us solve this problem before we run any big simulations. But can't we just shut the simulation down?

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Current research efforts Understanding social problems Our motivation for providing rigorous analytical tools and approaches is to ensure that social-technical impact and fairness is well understood in relation to cultural and historical nuances. Dana Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Universal City Studios, Inc., Imagine the benefit to society when we go from solving less than five percent of a social problem to most of it, while using less money! Challenges and Opportunities I am highly optimistic about the opportunity to solve the accessibility problem through innovative applications of technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Beyond the tech world, universities, businesses and NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) regularly use these platforms to hire translators, graphic designers or IT experts. And if they have any problems with the client, there is not always a clear appeal process, putting them at risk of not getting paid at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2011

A group at Stanford University hopes the answer to both questions is yes. The Problem: A 1 in 20,000 Chance of Finding a Match. We’d love your ideas for solving this significant problem. Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2022

Her technical and management experience working with many of our clients, such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and The Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation , has informed the way that she supports staff and sets up systems for success. It’s wonderful to see Molly’s hard work and dedication recognized.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While Curry says he appreciates the scope of the problem and the good intentions of those making the statements, he believes that venture capital networks still have a lot to learn about what being an “underserved” founder means, and that plenty of the existing efforts feel like “lip service.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

These insights can be used to solve social change problems. The development of the tool is through a joint funding partnership between the British Heart Foundation and the Alan Turing Institute and is being carried out by a team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge. Source: National Geographic ).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Terri has over 30 years of success in higher education, politics, international affairs, and nonprofits, including roles as Provost at Menlo College, Vice Provost at University of Texas at Austin, and positions on numerous boards. Do we recognize the signs of these problems? Stand for Human Rights with Craig Foster. She has a B.A.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. There's so much to talk about here with Amazon, so let me focus on just a few key points: The Closed Platform problem. The Textbook problem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Sophie was also struck by the diversity of the people she witnessed going through coding bootcamps, but she realized that those graduates weren’t getting access to the same opportunities that students from traditional universities do. Formation co-founder and CEO Sophia Zhou Navati.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I'm sitting in the press area at the Presidential Forum on Service at Columbia University in New York City. You can watch the Presidential Forum on Service on CNN, or streaming live on the event host's site, Service Nation. SN08 service Service Nation Barack Obama John McCain volunteer.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. Site visitors can browse the data at the national and district level via Metric Maps or review all metric values for individual districts via Congressional District Snapshots. Congressional Districts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. Her broader national goal notwithstanding, Majora remains deeply passionate about and involved in revitalization of the South Bronx.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

When Aruna ’s founders first met at university, they wanted to find a way to use their studies in information technology to help family members who were running small fisheries. But Aruna’s founding team saw two major problems while analyzing coastal communities. The sector creates about $4.1 The second was access to working capital.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Some of the results include: Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site amongst young people - used by over 7 in 10 (72%) of all 11-25 year olds; rising to 80% of 17-25 year olds, those of college/university age – and to 83% of those who are currently at, or who have already been to, university.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Dear Between, What your campaign plan is coming “between” is an age-old problem; one that can be addressed and fixed with a little creativity and understanding. The problem you describe is that of accounting and development not speaking the same language. . — Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“There is a current debate about whether drylands are suitable for reforestation for the purpose of global climate mitigation purposes,” said Niall Hanan, professor of dryland ecology in the Plant and Environmental Sciences Department at New Mexico State University. But that’s one problem Undesert has innovated around.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Abernathey , who is an associate professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, said he saw his lab’s work on tools having a greater impact than the results of their research projects. The scale of the data, and of the problem, is why Abernathey and Hamman’s new company, Earthmover , raised a $1.7

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

There's just one problem. Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal. But here at M+R, we've seen hard data contradict brilliant theories often enough to know that testing is essential, so we put personal stories to the test for a major national health organization. and they're not working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2010

Whole Foods is donating a $1 for each Re-Tweet of this Tweet to support The National Domestic Violence Hotline. And, that is not a problem, it’s just the way it is. The campaign also helps us save a universal problem - what should we get our mother's for that special day?

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Getting into university and getting that degree was the most important thing imaginable when I was young. The bottom of the graph is literally crowded with European nations! The colleges that tend to have work placement initiatives prepare students better for hands-on work, but are “less reputable” than the research-based universities.

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

One such initiative is Demographics via Candid , a national campaign to address the surge of interest in nonprofit demographic data. The report highlights declines in philanthropic support for historically Black colleges and universities.

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

“The motivation behind this work comes from our concerns about the environment, especially relating to carbon emissions and plastic waste, combined with our love of enzyme engineering – being able to apply its skills to solve a global problem, change the system, and create a truly circular economy,” Riley said in an interview. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The problem is, extracting lithium is expensive , time-consuming, labor intensive and takes a serious toll on the environment. A wave of so-called direct lithium extraction startups are raising their hands with solutions to all of these problems. The two went from regional to national intensive programs, traveling all over the U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

The new coverage has sparked a debate among experts that goes to the heart of our problems confronting the rise of autonomous robots in war. The problem is that even if it did happen, for many experts, it’s just not news. The problem of defining “killer robots”. As you might guess, it’s a hard question to answer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The round was led by Main Sequence, a venture firm founded by Australia’s national science agency that recently launched a new $250 million AUD fund. Founded by Australia’s national science agency, Main Sequence launches $250M AUD deep tech fund. When asked to explain MGA tech in layperson’s terms, Kisi used a delicious analogy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you were the president of the womens chess club at your university, that should count extra for you, right? What are the five biggest problems that we need to make progress on rapidly? But what the algorithm was doing was downranking any application where the word woman or womens appeared, or any proxy for that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

The problem that Innovamat is tackling is one that’s been in the sights of educators, parents and larger institutions for a while now. That is a problem for a number of reasons, but they might be most generalized into two categories. . There has been a global problem with mathematics education for decades.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2017

In philanthropy, one way you see leadership is in someone’s response to a problem or issue – instead of saying, “Who will fix this?” When you put that tapestry together, you have a powerful way to solve problems and advance social change. Of course, this “powerful way to solve problems” has its power when it’s put into action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany. A recent graduate of Rice University, Lum is working on her PhD in statistics at Duke University. As an intern, Kristian has spent her summer doing what she loves: statistical analysis.

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