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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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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.

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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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Lynk & Co will make you rethink outdated ideas of car ownership

The Verge

The €500/month fee covers insurance, warranty repairs, roadside assistance, and maintenance by Volvo’s dealer network. Lynk & Co has sold a non-shareable 01 model in China since 2017. Seats made from recycled fishing nets. For what it’s worth, I asked around my own social circle to see who’d be interested in sharing an 01.

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As funding and demand align, Nori CEO Paul Gambill is ready to grow his carbon removal startup

GeekWire

After two years of research and building connections around the globe, Gambill and his co-founders started Nori in the summer of 2017. Your preferred social network? Nori Photo). Using cryptocurrency, Nori sells carbon credits to individuals and businesses to offset carbon emissions. So if some email comes in at 7 p.m.

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