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Massachusetts Lawmakers Voted To Ban Police From Using Facial Recognition Tech

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Massachusetts lawmakers voted on Monday to pass a police reform bill that would outlaw the use of facial recognition technology by police departments and other public agencies in the state. Read more.

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Washington and Massachusetts Mull Bans of New Gas-Powered Cars, Following California

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Since then, officials in Washington state and Massachusetts have announced their own similar plans, also citing the need to lower emissions. Last week, California became the first state to officially announce the phase-out of gas-powered cars in order to significantly lower emissions by the middle of this century. Read more.

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Carmakers Launch Desperate Attempt to Delay Massachusetts Right-to-Repair Law

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Major car manufacturers aren’t giving up on their efforts to stymie Massachusetts’ right to repair legislation. Less than two years after residents in the state voted in favor of updated right to repair laws that would let independent auto repair shops receive telematics data from vehicles, groups representing auto… Read more.

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VR Training Program Teaches Underserved Population Soft Skills to Increase Their Employment Chances

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However, an initiative by Viability, funded by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), promises to make things easier for the underserved, thanks to an innovative VR training program. The initiative of Viability could not have reached its full fruition without funds from the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.

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Rideshare Drivers Could Make as Little as $4.82 Per Hour if Uber Gets Its Labor Law in Massachusetts, Study Finds

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Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart are looking to buy another law in Massachusetts by replicating Prop 22, the disastrous, virtually irrevocable California ballot measure that deprived their workers of employee status. Now, leading rideshare labor researchers from the UC Berkeley Labor Center have predicted how bad… Read more.

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Rocket VR Health Enters Newchip Accelerator

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The news comes after the Massachusetts General Hospital partnered with Rocket VR Health in March to co-develop clinical therapies for cancer patients. HCT patients often become bedridden, and Rocket VR Health’s product aims to improve the quality of life for these individuals undergoing HCT treatments at the Massachusetts location.

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Texas Climate Deniers Are Trying to Kill a Massachusetts Wind Farm

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A Texas-based conservative think tank is joining fishermen in the North Atlantic to fight an offshore wind farm. That may sound like a mad lib fever dream, but it’s real and it shows how fossil fuel money is everywhere. Read more.

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