The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s paperwork

The museum constructing homes the biggest reference library for Gandhian philosophy within the state of Karnataka, and over the subsequent yr, these staff will undertake the enormous process of digitizing these books and recording their metadata on the Internet Archive: a searchable library of books, speeches, magazines, and different paperwork and media.

It’s an effort to make up for the shortage of library assets in India, and to liberate entry to libraries that aren’t usually freely accessible to the general public. Read the full story.

—Ananya 

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2 Chinese VC companies are quietly investing in US startups
In spite of worsening geopolitical relations between the 2 international locations. (The Information $)
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