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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

Sightline Institute Photo used under Creative Commons License ) As the Seattle area’s housing crisis continues, Housing Connector is trying to level the playing field for the region’s most vulnerable renters. It works with partners to provide conflict mitigation, behavioral support and other social services for renters.

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Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax that targets stocks

GeekWire

The law imposes a 7% tax on capital gains of more than $250,000 from the sale of stocks and bonds, excluding revenue from real estate and retirement accounts, among other exceptions. The video below, published by Invest in Washington Now, a nonprofit that supported the tax, shows how much a person would owe based on the new tax.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

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Description: Global mobile and web-based community, including social networking and messaging such as IM, email, text and photo sharing. Description: Social networking platform covering sports from national to school level for sports enthusiasts, players, teams and parents, allowing discussions and photo and video sharing.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

For example, at certain peak times it is socially acceptable, in the heart of a city, to do what’s called blocking the box, or basically pulling into the intersection in order to get all the way through. The stereo in a car always has some brand that has been licensed, right? It is extremely valuable real estate.

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Think you own your stuff? Think again.

Vox

At the same time, three-quarters of American households subscribe to at least one video streaming service, whose revenues now dominate the home market. In Fairfield’s writing, four rights of traditional ownership are lost in this shift to a license-based system. Home automation systems can introduce IP rights debates into real estate.

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We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

GeekWire

Game spaces like Roblox, social spaces like Discord, digital conference spaces like Demio — to me these are all currently existing manifestations of the metaverse.” SyncFloor provides micro-licensed music to digital creators. Scatter is democratizing hologram creation and enabling real time streaming of photorealistic avatars.

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How Anjali Sud stopped worrying about YouTube and reinvented Vimeo

The Verge

Anjali Sud on building a profitable video business by moving from streaming to software Today on Decoder I’m talking to Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo. But when Anjali took over as CEO, she stopped all that to reinvent Vimeo as a software company that serves video creators. Much more like a Slack or a Dropbox model, but for video.

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