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Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies (Andrew Leonard/Wired)

Andrew Leonard / Wired: Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies  —  Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy.  Her plan might even work in the US. Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is

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While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft's Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat  —  Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday.  After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams … While Slack files an antitrust complaint

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AB Tasty, a startup focused on improving UX on e-commerce sites, travel portals, fashion sites, and more, announces $40M Series C, bringing total raised to $64M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: AB Tasty, a startup focused on improving UX on e-commerce sites, travel portals, fashion sites, and more, announces $40M Series C, bringing total raised to $64M  —  AB Tasty has raised a new $40 million funding round led by Credit Mutuel Innovation with existing investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge

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The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Electronic Frontier Foundation: The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump’s appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF’s president and the board  —  Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet Freedom  —  San Francisco—The Electronic … The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge

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A look at Randonautica, an app that generates random coordinates that users can explore, and has been downloaded 6M times since the beginning of April (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

{$inline_image} Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A look at Randonautica, an app that generates random coordinates that users can explore, and has been downloaded 6M times since the beginning of April  —  It took me a week to find a plastic water bottle full of what could only be pee.  —  That was after the

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