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Future of work with an app which works on various platforms, with and without headsets

Engaged journnalism: how newsrooms work with communities

Zapier is a native remote work company and they have tons of advice about the subject

The Future of work as imagined at Facebook, the company which now stimulates its employees to work from home

Oculus Quest, hence Facebook, tries to make inroads into the market for company and work-related products and services

"What is a human? What are social relations? Thinking about robotics and artificial intelligence is dealing with big philosophical questions. uni:view talked to Mark Coeckelbergh, philosopher of technology, about the ethics of robotics, his daily work and personal balance."

"The Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC) networks and builds capacity for community resilience leaders working at the regional and translocal scale in the USA. We bring together diverse stakeholders to collaborate and allocate resources together, to share best practices and build organization capacity. Through relationships and trust, we form collaborative projects to build movement capacity. Some of the organizations we bring together include Art of Hosting, BayLocalize, Bioneers, New Economy Coalition, Post Carbon Institute, Shareable, Transition US and more. "

"As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines 'the useless class' and a new quest for purpose"

"To continue advances in a Moore's Law Plus world requires co-engineering and a cooperative approach across the semiconductor industry with different manufacturers, working with academia, and open standards to create an easy-to-program environment. That is why I'm confident companies will be able to add more transistors, and manage the cost curve."

""Wikitribune is news by the people and for the people," Wales said in a statement. "This will be the first time that professional journalists and citizen journalists will work side by side as equals, writing stories as they happen, editing them live as they develop, and at all times backed by a community checking and re-checking facts.""

From the research side of things, we continue to see a strong correlation between the size of the model and the performance on many popular benchmarks. Universities can no longer compete on this. Academics can still make valuable research contributions by showing new ways to do things that work on smaller, publicly available models. However, it does put a number of research goals out of the realm of possibility without collaborating with large tech firms.

This tool turns tables from any Wikpedia Article into a working JSON API.

Remote work guide by GitLab

Basecamp is another specialist in remote working. They even have a book about it.

in their best moments, American cities offered the chance to slip the bonds of prejudices, second-guessing and limited horizons. They offered opportunity. Then, cities worked. Now, they don't.

Jon Bell worked on Twitter's Abuse team as the lead designer in 2016, and is haunted by his team's inability to take the threat seriously and make significant progress towards addressing it.