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A DoorDash worker's vehicle was carjacked with two of his kids inside, showing the precarious position of parents in the gig economy during the pandemic (Sara Ashley O'Brien/CNN)

Sara Ashley O’Brien / CNN: A DoorDash worker’s vehicle was carjacked with two of his kids inside, showing the precarious position of parents in the gig economy during the pandemic  —  (CNN Business)For Ashley Vincent, a single mom in Binghamton, New York, delivering for DoorDash often requires some negotiation with her seven-year-old son. A DoorDash

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Can You Code Without Google?

Imagine for a moment that something has taken out your phone line, cell, and fibre connection so you have no internet. For some of you this may even be reality, but go with it and imagine yourself deciding to use your unexpectedly disconnected lockdown time pursuing that code project you always promised yourself. You pull

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Following Bumble's IPO, CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is 31, became the youngest female CEO ever to take a company public in the US (Angel Au-Yeung/Forbes)

Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: Following Bumble’s IPO, CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is 31, became the youngest female CEO ever to take a company public in the US  —  [Update 7 pm ET: Whitney Wolfe Herd ended the day Thursday with a net worth of $1.5 billion based on Bumble stock closing at

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Spinach Photo Prints

Some people like spinach in their salads. Others would prefer it if it never gets near their fork. Still, other folks, like [Almudena Romero], use it for printing pictures, and they’re the folks we’ll focus on today. Anthotypes are positive images made from plant dyes that fade from light exposure. Imagine you stain your shirt

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Digital health care company Sharecare announces plans to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of $3.9B; the company has raised a total of $425M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Digital health care company Sharecare announces plans to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of $3.9B; the company has raised a total of $425M  —  Digital health care company Sharecare announced its plans Friday to join the public markets through a merger with Falcon Capital Acquisition Corp. …

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Out of about $150B raised by US companies in VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: Out of about $150B raised by US companies in VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders  —  Last year, U.S. companies raised record amounts of venture capital, at just under $150 billion.  But of that capital, only $1 billion went to Black … Out

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Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times: Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI’s founders  —  Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.  Then it disappeared. Examining the links between the

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