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    • Kickstarter reaches agreement with its union on four months of severance pay, up to six months of healthcare coverage, and more for laid off employees (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

    Kim Lyons / The Verge: Kickstarter reaches agreement with its union on four months of severance pay, up to six months of healthcare coverage, and more for laid off employees  —  The workers voted to unionize in Feburary  —  The union for Kickstarter employees reached an agreement with management on Friday … Kickstarter reaches agreement

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    • One year after the passage of Russia's domestic internet law, a look at the uneven past and uncertain future of Moscow's attempts to regulate the internet (Justin Sherman/Wired)

    Justin Sherman / Wired: One year after the passage of Russia’s domestic internet law, a look at the uneven past and uncertain future of Moscow’s attempts to regulate the internet  —  The Kremlin’s path toward censorship, surveillance, and repression has many more layers than meets the eye. One year after the passage of Russia's domestic

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    Mass Mask-Making Masterclass

    Just as 3D printers around the world have been churning out face shields, the thread injectors of home sewists have been stitching up fabric masks. Over the past several weeks, [Becky Stern] has made them for friends, family, neighbors, and anyone in her community who happens upon the box of free masks she’s left at

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    • Profile of Canada-based Draganfly, which is piloting "pandemic drones" that use machine vision and AI to track social distancing and monitor health vitals (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

    Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Profile of Canada-based Draganfly, which is piloting “pandemic drones” that use machine vision and AI to track social distancing and monitor health vitals  —  Like the rest of the world, Canadian drone maker Draganfly has been anxiously watching the spread of the novel coronavirus. Profile of Canada-based Draganfly, which is piloting

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    • An inside look at the dropshipping scene in Bali, where expats typically purchase items on AliExpress and have them shipped directly to buyers in the West (Sirin Kale/WIRED UK)

    Sirin Kale / WIRED UK: An inside look at the dropshipping scene in Bali, where expats typically purchase items on AliExpress and have them shipped directly to buyers in the West  —  In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they’ve never handled, from countries they’ve never visited, to consumers they’ve never met An inside look

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    • How researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling (John Pavlus/Quanta Magazine)

    John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: How researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling  —  The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. How researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning,

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