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How Citizen sparked a $30,000 manhunt for the wrong guy

Vox

It’s essentially a social network based around virtual voyeurism of everything from fiery car wrecks to gunshots to the foibles of animal neighbors. Big day for raccoons I guess pic.twitter.com/PLB0QoGFEa — Sara Morrison (@SaraMorrison) March 20, 2021. pic.twitter.com/7AjOhEZbm3 — Citizen (@CitizenApp) April 16, 2021.

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A list of good things that happened this year in the world of tech, science, education, and more

GeekWire

For a dose of inspiration and optimism as we head into 2021, here’s a list of stories highlighting people and organizations using tech and innovation for good. Kids continued to explore nature and science through virtual and in-person camps. Have you heard that 2020 was a tough year? Entrepreneurs helped educators.

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Open for a surprise: The endearing results of Twitter’s new image crop

Vox

The sudden shift — one among a slew of changes Twitter began testing in March — gave many people the impression that the social media site had done away with automatic image cropping overnight. (In Here is a favorite that I took recently in NYC pic.twitter.com/uJUu3S2gaT — Rishi (@rishi_kara) May 5, 2021. vyxnilla) May 6, 2021.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

But since 2021, at Rackspace, he’s been driving a far more complex and holistic view of environmental, economic and equitable sustainability measures, as both a consumer and a supplier of technology, he says. Europe is driving a lot of the standards and wants to make sure that we are pretty accurate in what we’re reporting,” he says.

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What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

Vox

Wall Street analysts blamed a number of setbacks specific to the company: rising competition from TikTok, slowing ad sales because of Apple’s new privacy restrictions , and skepticism about Zuckerberg’s $10-billion-a-year investment in building a virtual- and augmented-reality metaverse. Zuckerberg says he has a plan to reverse the slump.

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Clubhouse, the invite-only audio app, explained

Vox

Clubhouse is currently an invite-only audio app, but influential entrepreneurs and investors are crowning it the next major social media network. Influential entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are bullish on crowning Clubhouse the next major social network; it’s reportedly valued at $1 billion after its latest round of funding.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ first year: a timeline

The Verge

With museums and other educational institutions closed due to the pandemic, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s social media team came up with a clever way to keep teaching people about the natural world: they invited educator Emily Graslie from the Fields Museum to talk about the fossils on display in Blathers’ museum live on Twitch.