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An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games (Shannon Liao/Washington Post)

Shannon Liao / Washington Post: An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games — Kate Edwards works to foresee blind spots — and help companies steer clear. — In “Stray,” the adorable cat video game that's become … https://bit.ly/3JlnJWz

Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products" (Gizmodo)

Gizmodo: Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products” — Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as … https://bit.ly/3OMswSi

Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World)

Rest of World: Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day — Hidden behind the perfect faces of China's $16 billion virtual celebrity industry is an angry, overworked labor force. https://bit.ly/3bhshAL

How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired: How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges — Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results. — For years, the anonymity service Tor … https://bit.ly/3vpkgjZ

A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks — TAIPEI — In the sweltering Asia summertime of mid-June, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. urgently dispatched a team … https://bit.ly/3cUkY2z

Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker)

Cal Newport / New Yorker: Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook — Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms. https://bit.ly/3Jm8lt5

The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia)

Rieko Miki / Nikkei Asia: The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan — Economic and diplomatic chiefs to discuss supply chains at 2+2 meeting Friday — Taiwan hosts the lion's share … https://bit.ly/3cOWqYG