GeekWire
JUNE 23, 2020
Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. (Jordan Stead / Amazon Photo).
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Even though Google Cloud revenue growth showed signs of slowing, it nevertheless provided something of a bright spot as parent company Alphabet — hit hard by the tightening of customer budgets — posted a year-over-year decline in net income for its 2022 fourth quarter. Net income (profit) was $13.6 billion, up just 1% from $75.3
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Vox
JANUARY 25, 2024
A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Microsoft’s global employee count grew to nearly 190,000 people at the end of the September quarter, a net increase of 23,500 people globally over the past year, or 14% year-over-year growth. About 14,000 of the new employees, or 60% of the total net additions in the past year, were added outside the United States.
GeekWire
MAY 10, 2023
Helion’s co-founders, left to right: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer; David Kirtley, CEO; and George Votroubek, director of research. “If commercial fusion energy becomes available by the end of this decade, it could ease all the various possible pathways to [carbon] net-zero by 2050.” The reactor in Everett, Wash.,
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
By comparison, a test designed to detect antibodies produced in response to the disease identified past infections at a 77% rate (54 out of 70 cases). ” The company, a spin-out of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is partnering with Microsoft and using its machine learning technology as part of the initiative.
Dataconomy
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
“The last 10 years, there’s been this remarkable increase in the scale that we’ve used to train neural nets and we keep scaling them up, and they keep working better and better. That’s the basis of my feeling that what we’re going to see in the next 2, 3, 4 years… what we see today is going to pale in comparison to that,” he stated.
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