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Big Lots store closures update: Other retailers are swooping in to take over locations in several states

Fast Company Tech

Ocean State Job Lot, a discount retail chain with locations across New England and the Mid-Atlantic region, is seeking to assume control of at least 15 Big Lots leases, court records show. The list includes locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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Caravan Studios for the Win: ReImagine: Opportunity Winner!

Tech Soup

This workshop brought together all the finalists with a broad group of experts ranging from architects to public relations professionals to law enforcement to, of course, human trafficking survivors. And then they asked us the question: would we be willing to consider chucking our proposals and going into the final round with together?

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

TechCrunch

The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint. He did propose a solution that I will post below.

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News by the Spoonful: The $10 USB Condom (Seriously)

Tech Soup

A USB Condom is a small $10 device that prevents data theft when your device is plugged into a computer or a public charging station. Several prominent nonprofits participated, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, WordPress, Mozilla Foundation, Public Knowledge, Greenpeace USA, Sierra Club, Common Cause, and MoveOn.org.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. Architect Stephen Cassell, for example, proposed protecting New York’s financial district with a ring of tidal salt marshes and wetlands around lower Manhattan. It’s not a nightmare,” I said, “It’s for real.”.

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Amazon shareholders are calling for independent audit of how the company treats workers

The Verge

All the incidents “have raised serious questions and drawn scrutiny from legislators, regulators, and the public,” Gallagher said in a statement emailed to The Verge. Amazon did not reply to a request for comment from The Verge about the proposal.

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