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Google Saved Lives In The Brazil Floods - Then Cut Back The Team Behind The Rescue
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Google Saved Lives In The Brazil Floods - Then Cut Back The Team Behind The Rescue

ByThomas BrewsterForbes Staff

Google shrunk the team that has helped police save lives and investigate major crimes, even as it promised the DOJ it would keep it adequately staffed.

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Google Saved Lives In The Brazil Floods - Then Cut Back The Team Behind The Rescue

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Un análisis de Forbes encontró que el país, el cual tiene una inflación del 276%, tiene la tasa de adopción de criptomonedas más alta del hemisferio occidental, pero poco uso de las plataformas de criptomonedas más confiables.

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Why Applications To Historically Black Colleges Are Surging

The schools have long produced an outsized share of the nation’s Black PhDs, doctors and lawyers. Now, the end of affirmative action and threats to DEI are giving them a new boost.

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