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More than 40 founders, investors, engineers and others in the tech industry are today announcing a coalition called Tech for Palestine to build open source projects, tools and data to help others in the industry advocate for the Palestinian people. The launch of the group comes during a tense time in the region. Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel led to the deaths of more than 1,100 individuals. The war in the Gaza Strip that followed has seen the displacement of millions of Palestinians and tens of thousands of…

Apart from sparking widespread protests and renewing conversation around inequalities in the United States, George Floyd’s murder in the spring of 2020 also spurred a slew of promises from Corporate America that they’d do something to address the inequities in the system. But how much has actually been accomplished? Reading our coverage of those months, it feels like the venture capital and startup world was on to something, going by their commitments to start doing something to address the lack of diversity in their…

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have written to the United States’ Acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, expressing concerns over the disproportionate impact tech layoffs could have on Black workers, according to a letter seen by TechCrunch. First reported by The Grio, the letter contains a list of questions regarding the steps the Department of Labor has taken to monitor the impact of tech layoffs on African Americans, its regulations around business practices and what the Department of Labor has done to…

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Black founders in the UK are also seeing the impact of venture’s winter year. Black founders in the United Kingdom raised only 0.95% of all venture investment allocated in the country so far this year (or just $165 million out of around $17.3 billion), according to a new report by Extend Ventures. That would put 2023 behind 2022, when such founders raised 1.02% ($316 million of $30.88 billion), and 2021, when Black founders were allocated 1.13% ($454 million out of $40.03 billion) of all venture investment in the…

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch. A source sent me a photo of a peculiar notebook received by someone who attended Google’s K&I Black Summit in August but only recently looked through the merchandise from the event. On the front of the Google-branded notebook given to its Black attendees is the summit’s name alongside the event’s theme: “Seize the moment.” That’s completely normal. On the inside of the notebook, however, it reads verbatim, “I was just cotton the moment, but I came back to take your…

Calling all psychologists. Perhaps there’s an easy explanation for how a team that loses the first meeting always seems to win the second in the annual high school football showdowns between Mater Dei and St. John Bosco.A month after looking confused and uninspired while being shut out in a Trinity League loss, Mater Dei came to the Coliseum on Friday night and got sweet revenge, returning two interceptions for touchdowns to win the Southern Section Division 1 championship, 35-7 over St. John Bosco before 11,622.“I don’t…

I’ve been excited for Pax Dei since developer Mainframe Industries showed off the sandbox MMO earlier this year. As per the announcement back then, the MMORPG is preparing for an upcoming Alpha test starting on November 14. I had the opportunity to jump onto the test server a few days early and get a feel of what it would be like to live in this medieval fantasy world. Screenshot by Destructoid A massive open world Nicknamed “Home Valley”, this Alpha test focuses primarily on the peaceful gameplay aspects of Pax Dei.…

I can’t wait to build my homestead in the wilderness of the Heartlands Look, I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for innovative MMORPG’s, especially those that can successfully pull off sandbox-style gameplay. A few months ago Finland studio Mainframe Industries revealed their own medieval sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei. While MMORPG gamers are very familiar with the medieval era, Pax Dei looks to immerse players in an open-world playground where you choose the role you want to play. Everything in the world is produced by other players…

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