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Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army with tens of thousands of augmented reality headsets based on the company’s HoloLens tech. This

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Pentagon Releases New Policies Enabling Transgender People To Serve In The Military

President Biden signed an executive order repealing the Trump transgender ban in his first week in office, directing the Pentagon to begin the process to allow transgender people to serve openly. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik/AP)

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Tucker Carlson livid after Rep. Matt Gaetz tries to rope him into controversy, source says – CNN

Tucker Carlson livid after Rep. Matt Gaetz tries to rope him into controversy, source says  CNN Matt Gaetz Under Investigation Over Possible Sex Trafficking  The New York Times Matt Gaetz’s dad says he wore a wire for FBI probe into DOJ extortion

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Pentagon ends “ugly and shameful chapter” by again allowing open trans military service

Transgender Army veteran Tanya Walker speaks to protesters in Times Square after then-President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from serving in the US military on July 26, 2017, in New York City.  | Spencer Platt/Getty Images The decision

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Facebook says Trump can’t skirt its ban through daughter-in-law’s account

Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoted a new interview with the former president on Facebook and Instagram Tuesday, but a workaround to Trump’s ban on two of the world’s most popular social networks wasn’t long for this world. She was apparently

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Think the System is Broken? You’re Not Alone

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Grievance is one of the most potent weapons in any political system. It nursed

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A Donald Trump Painting Is Coming to the National Portrait Gallery – Washingtonian

A Donald Trump Painting Is Coming to the National Portrait Gallery  Washingtonian

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Report finds going remote made workplaces more hostile for already marginalized groups

The last year wasn’t an easy one for just about anybody, but a new report from Project Include shows that the shift to remote work affected some groups more negatively than others. Unsurprisingly, it was people already struggling against harassment

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Datapeople announces $8M in raised capital as it works to make recruiting more equitable

This morning Datapeople, a startup that sells software designed to make recruiting more equitable, announced that it has raised $8 million across two funding events, including a $5 million round in mid-2020. The company, which counts Uncork Capital, NextView Ventures

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Watch Live: President Biden Unveils $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

The package has a heavy focus on the climate, and is sure to draw Republican criticism for its size and scope. (Image credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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