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    • Critics of Coupang, South Korea's online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety (Max Kim/Rest of World)

    Max Kim / Rest of World: Critics of Coupang, South Korea’s online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety  —  South Korea’s Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast.  A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.

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    • Inside YouTube Music's plans to compete with Spotify and others by putting the entire music business, including livestreams and tickets, onto a single platform (David Pierce/Protocol)

    David Pierce / Protocol: Inside YouTube Music’s plans to compete with Spotify and others by putting the entire music business, including livestreams and tickets, onto a single platform  —  For the last eight months, musicians and bands haven’t been able to tour, play festivals or go much of anywhere. Inside YouTube Music's plans to compete

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    • A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US (Drew Armstrong/Bloomberg)

    Drew Armstrong / Bloomberg: A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US  —  At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs.  Her mother had died about a year earlier, and

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    A Computer In The Game Of Life

    We often hear the term “Turing-complete” without giving much thought as to what the implications might be. Technically Microsoft PowerPoint, Portal 2, and Magic: the Gathering all are Turing-complete, what of it? Yet, each time someone embarks on an incredible quest of perseverance and creates a computer in one of these mediums, we stand back

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    • LA-based Credit Key, which offers a B2B buy-now, pay-later service for e-commerce merchants, raises $33.85M Series A from Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, others (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

    Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: LA-based Credit Key, which offers a B2B buy-now, pay-later service for e-commerce merchants, raises $33.85M Series A from Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, others  —  Bringing the buy-now pay-later model that transformed companies like Klarna and Affirm into billion dollar businesses … LA-based Credit Key, which offers a B2B buy-now, pay-later service for

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    • ClosedLoop.ai, which is developing AI-based tools to help hospitals predict factors like patient readmission and appointment cancellations, raises $11M Series A (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

    Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: ClosedLoop.ai, which is developing AI-based tools to help hospitals predict factors like patient readmission and appointment cancellations, raises $11M Series A  —  Even before a patient walks into the doctor’s office, ClosedLoop.ai aims to predict whether that patient may be admitted … ClosedLoop.ai, which is developing AI-based tools to help

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