Contact tracing has quickly emerged as the go-to method of tracking the spread of the coronavirus among the general population, but there have been crucial questions around the most effective, ethical, and legal ways of doing so. New legislation introduced this week, the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), seeks …
Read More »A Survey of Essential Workers Shows a Political Divide
Helping customers from behind a plastic barrier in a convenience store in Gap Mills, W.Va., this month.Credit…Jenny Harnish/The Register-Herald, via Associated Press Democrats and Republicans differ on attitudes toward coronavirus risks and in workplace behaviors meant to reduce them, according to a new survey. This partisanship has the potential to …
Read More »Poll of NYC VCs shows hope for early-stage startups
Last week, our team took the temperature of the VC ecosystem by surveying 33 early-stage VC funds in and around NYC. The survey looked at everything from investment activity in the near term to the importance of face-to-face meetings to what percent of a venture firm’s portfolio companies were at …
Read More »New TV Shows + Overnight Treatments
Unless you’re a professional TV watcher (probably the second best job in the world, right after Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor taster), binging for hours on end might leave you feeling…less than productive. Technically you could be reading, or teaching yourself guitar, or learning quantum physics. But you’re not …
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