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    • An in-depth look at how Figma, a browser-based collaborative design tool, has found success, as it seeks to become a platform by building out a plugin ecosystem (Kevin/kwokchain)

    Kevin / kwokchain: An in-depth look at how Figma, a browser-based collaborative design tool, has found success, as it seeks to become a platform by building out a plugin ecosystem  —  Companies are a sequencing of loops.  While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works … An in-depth look at how

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    • A look at Toronto's growth as a tech hub, selling itself as a gentler, kinder version of Silicon Valley (Brian Barth/MIT Technology Review)

    Brian Barth / MIT Technology Review: A look at Toronto’s growth as a tech hub, selling itself as a gentler, kinder version of Silicon Valley  —  The Canadian tech hub is selling itself as an antidote to the tech industry’s worst impulses.  But what does that entail?  —  It is a frigid February day when

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    • TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump's Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance (New York Times)

    New York Times: TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump’s Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance  —  Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla.? TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets

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    TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump's Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance (New York Times)

    {$inline_image} New York Times: TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump’s Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance  —  Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla.? TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of

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    • Urbint, which uses AI to predict and prevent threats to energy infrastructure and worker safety, raises $20M Series B (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

    Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Urbint, which uses AI to predict and prevent threats to energy infrastructure and worker safety, raises $20M Series B  —  Urbint, an artificial intelligence company for infrastructure and utility safety, secured $20 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Energy Impact Partners and Piva, the company said Thursday.

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    Nextdoor discontinues a feature that let users forward posts directly to police departments, but retains other ways, like DMs, to contact police via its app (Sarah Holder/Bloomberg)

    {$inline_image} Sarah Holder / Bloomberg: Nextdoor discontinues a feature that let users forward posts directly to police departments, but retains other ways, like DMs, to contact police via its app  —  “Forward to Police,” one of several Nextdoor programs to strengthen law enforcement relations, has been criticized for elevating racial profiling. Nextdoor discontinues a feature

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    • Amazon secures its first permit to deliver alcohol in India, in the country's fourth most populous state West Bengal with a population of 90M+ (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

    Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Amazon secures its first permit to deliver alcohol in India, in the country’s fourth most populous state West Bengal with a population of 90M+  —  NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has secured clearance to deliver alcohol in India’s eastern state of West Bengal … Amazon secures its first permit

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