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The water at these schools comes almost entirely from rain

Fast Company Tech

Later this year, the organization plans to also begin adding the technology to buildings in a city in Massachusetts. What we’re really trying to do is modernize rainwater harvestingto take this ancient technology to solve a modern-day problem, says founder Danny Wright. The tech can also be helpful in places like the U.S.,

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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

NVIDIA developed and continues to develop GPUs that are at the heart of AI and machine learning that are changing the world, including precision medicine, said Dr. Gad Getz, an internationally acclaimed leader in cancer genomics and the director of bioinformatics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as he presented the award.

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TD Bank is closing dozens of branches across 10 states: Here’s the full list of doomed locations

Fast Company Tech

The move will impact communities in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast, with affected branches spanning Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

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Healthcare Worker Shortfall Getting Expensive

The NonProfit Times

Shortages are projected for Georgia (11,308), Massachusetts (12,329), Tennessee (16,719), New Jersey (17,769), and New York (61,474). States with projected surplus of workers include are California (16,591), Pennsylvania (16,036), Texas (9,035), Minnesota (8,614), and Washington State (8,414).

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What a wartime housing boom reveals about solving America’s housing crisis

Fast Company Tech

In Quincy, Massachusetts , for example, the agency built a 22-acre neighborhood with 236 homes designed mostly in a Colonial Revival style to serve the nearby Fore River Shipyard. Eran Ben-Joseph is a professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At a moment when the U.S.

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Minter-Jordan Picked As New CEO At AARP

The NonProfit Times

Minter-Jordan joins AARP from the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health in Boston, Massachusetts where she was president and CEO. Before joining CareQuest Institute, Myechia was chief medical officer and CEO of the Dimock Center, one of the largest community health centers in Massachusetts. Myechia Minter-Jordan, M.D.,

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How people secured their secrets before encyption

Fast Company Tech

Dambrogio, a conservator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, traces her interest in the subject back about 25 years, to a fellowship at the Vatican’s archives.

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