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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

GeekWire

Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. ” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies. .”

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Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon

GeekWire

In addition to the bar and the loo, Space Perspective plans to provide a solid wireless internet connection to ensure that passengers will be able to share their experiences on social media in real time. in 1993, followed by World View in 2012. “It’s the ultimate Facebook status update,” MacCallum said.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Tesla’s Model S IVI system is designed to allow drivers to navigate using Google Maps with live traffic information, listen to streaming music from any online radio station and have access to an Internet browser for news or restaurant reviews. With Google Maps, Tesla drivers can also locate recharging locations.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

In many ways, these advances are similar to the leap forward in AI image processing that took place from 2012 onward. Any type of text that’s been uploaded to the internet has likely become grist to GPT-3’s mighty pattern-matching mill. And, yes, that includes the bad stuff as well. It’s all there, feeding the machine.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

The Verge

While the use of the term in this way dates to at least 2012, it has gained new prominence after a series of violent incidents linked to its adherents. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere?

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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What a new book reveals about Facebook and Russian interference

The Verge

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack.