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texas Austin's guaranteed basic income pilot program was a hit. A GOP state senator doesn't want it to happen in Houston Jennifer Sandlin
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Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
surveillance The New York Times's chilling multimedia package on China's use of "smart city" tech to create an open-air prison Cory Doctorow
Business In two days, an EU committee will vote to crown Google and Facebook permanent lords of internet censorship Cory Doctorow
scholarship Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel Cory Doctorow
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