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Amid a trial in India, researchers say blocking Sci-Hub would benefit wealthy North American and European universities that can pay to access published papers (Meaghan Tobin/Rest of World)

Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: Amid a trial in India, researchers say blocking Sci-Hub would benefit wealthy North American and European universities that can pay to access published papers   —  Dozens of Indian academics say blocking the site would have catastrophic consequences.  —  The doctoral researchers …

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Founders Fund raises $5B+ in two new funds across early and late-stage investing, increasing the assets under its management to $11B (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Founders Fund raises $5B+ in two new funds across early and late-stage investing, increasing the assets under its management to $11B   —  Founders Fund said that it has closed more than $5 billion in two new funds across both early and late-stage investing, increasing the assets under its management to…

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Google says it is pausing all ad sales in Russia including on Search, YouTube, and outside publishing partners, following similar moves by Twitter and Snap (Paresh Dave/Reuters)

Paresh Dave / Reuters: Google says it is pausing all ad sales in Russia including on Search, YouTube, and outside publishing partners, following similar moves by Twitter and Snap   —  Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Thursday that it had stopped selling online advertising in Russia, a ban that covers search, YouTube and outside…

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NonFungible: the average NFT selling price has declined to ~$2K, after an all-time high of ~$6.9K on January 2, with a ~40% drop since Russia attacked Ukraine (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: NonFungible: the average NFT selling price has declined to ~$2K, after an all-time high of ~$6.9K on January 2, with a ~40% drop since Russia attacked Ukraine   —  While anecdotal evidence that the NFT market is beginning to cool abounds, there are no bigger red flags that what's going on…

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Outside of Russia, Apple Maps and Weather apps now display Crimea as part of Ukraine, after displaying the region as not part of any country starting in 2019 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Outside of Russia, Apple Maps and Weather apps now display Crimea as part of Ukraine, after displaying the region as not part of any country starting in 2019   —  In 2019, Apple made a controversial change in its Maps and Weather apps to show the Crimean Peninsula as a region…

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US surgeon general formally requests Big Tech turn over information about the scale of COVID-19 misinformation on their platforms before May 2 (Davey Alba/New York Times)

Davey Alba / New York Times: US surgeon general formally requests Big Tech turn over information about the scale of COVID-19 misinformation on their platforms before May 2   —  Dr. Vivek Murthy also demanded information from the platforms about the major sources of Covid-19 misinformation.  Companies have until May 2 to submit the data.

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