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How volunteers from tech companies and epidemiologists worked together to build the US-focused COVID-19 data aggregation website covidnearyou.com in six days (Christina Farr/CNBC)

Christina Farr / CNBC: How volunteers from tech companies and epidemiologists worked together to build the US-focused COVID-19 data aggregation website covidnearyou.com in six days  —  – Volunteers from Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and other tech companies worked every night for a week to make a website called covidnearyou. How volunteers from tech companies and epidemiologists

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Sansar, a social VR platform from the makers of Second Life, is acquired by SF-based Wookey Project Corp, a social search engine, for an undisclosed sum (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)

Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Sansar, a social VR platform from the makers of Second Life, is acquired by SF-based Wookey Project Corp, a social search engine, for an undisclosed sum  —  What Sansar’s story so far teaches us about the next crop of social platforms.  —  After over five years of development, Sansar … Sansar,

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Internet Archive debuts National Emergency Library, allowing users to borrow 1.4M+ digitized books without joining a waitlist during the COVID-19 crisis (Chris Freeland/Internet Archive Blogs)

Chris Freeland / Internet Archive Blogs: Internet Archive debuts National Emergency Library, allowing users to borrow 1.4M+ digitized books without joining a waitlist during the COVID-19 crisis  —  To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020 … Internet Archive debuts National Emergency

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WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies on #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon to develop software tackling COVID-19 challenges, starting Mar. 26 (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies on #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon to develop software tackling COVID-19 challenges, starting Mar. 26  —  – The World Health Organization has partnered with Facebook, Microsoft and several other tech companies for a hackathon to promote … WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech

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