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Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions

GeekWire

Bill and Melinda Gates at the University of Washington in 2017. In October 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5 million to the TED Foundation’s Audacious Project to “research and overcome barriers to large scale giving by ultra-high net worth donors.”. In 2017, ultra-wealthy American families donated just 1.2%

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T-Mobile Store Owner Made $25M Illegally Unlocking Cellphones

SecureWorld News

Department of Justice (DOJ) says Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, was found guilty of 14 federal criminal charges for the scheme he ran from 2014 to 2019 that netted $25 million in criminal proceeds. which was a T-Mobile store, in Los Angeles in January 2017. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Vizio files to go public, has sold over 80 million TVs

The Verge

Later in the filing, Vizio says: While we generate the significant majority of our total net revenue from sales of our Smart TVs and sound bars, our Platform+ net revenue has grown 304.4 Important background on Vizio’s data practices: the company agreed in 2017 to pay the FTC $2.2 percent from $36.4 million in 2018 to $147.2

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Redfin CEO says strength of housing market ‘almost feels eerie’ amid economic and health crisis

GeekWire

Redfin topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter , reporting $214 million in revenue, up 8%, and a net loss per share of $0.08. Redfin is investing in tech-enabled tools that aid the remote homebuying process, such as virtual tours, video appointments with agents, and more to help adjust for social distancing mandates.

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How Splash Made a Splash at Dreamforce (on a Budget)

The Investing Edge

For those of you still recovering from Dreamforce 2017 , I interviewed Amy Holtzman, VP of marketing at leading event marketing platform Splash , to get the inside scoop on how they planned and executed on their own Dreamforce presence. Splash found strong success generating high quality leads via paid social ads.

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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

How we got here The most notable enabling technologies in generative AI are deep learning, embeddings, transfer learning (all of which emerged in the early to mid-2000s), and neural net transformers (invented in 2017). The parameters of the neural net models are adjusted using the examples presented to the model in training.

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Russia has been working on creating its own isolated Internet for some time—tests have been conducted since at least 2017. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.