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Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’

The Verge

The comparison is a troubling euphemism for a company whose workers have almost double the amount of serious injuries as the rest of the warehousing industry and who reportedly are often unable to take bathroom breaks. One thing Amazon doesn’t bring up is that athletes train for an event with a definite end date.

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Three options for seeing the solar eclipse, from expensive to iffy to absolutely free

GeekWire

Skywatchers gather at Seattle’s Gas Works Park to watch the progress of 2017’s solar eclipse. That’s in contrast to the 2017 total solar eclipse , when the moon’s shadow crossed the Oregon coast to begin its continent-spanning sweep. You can still get in on the thrill of the event. and Atlantic Canada.

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Microsoft makes tiny dent in annual carbon footprint but says ‘it’s not happening fast enough’

GeekWire

It also described its programs to help Microsoft customers measure and reduce their climate impacts and its work on international initiatives and policies to address climate change. Washington state , by comparison, had carbon emissions of more than 102 million metric tons in 2019. gigawatts of energy.

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CIOs Have To Get Their Staff Ready For The Future

The Accidental Successful CIO

Those who have studied retraining programs said the “reskilling” can boost employee morale and keep workers from leaving a company, but that not everybody has the capacity or will to prepare themselves for a new role. By comparison, large employers with 10,000 workers reported spending an average of $500 per worker on training in 2017.

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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Go will start at $550, as pandemic puts PCs back in the spotlight

GeekWire

With the new device, Microsoft is searching for the sweet spot between premium machines and entry-level laptops, looking to compete with Google Chromebooks and Apple MacBooks, clear a path for other Windows PC vendors, and boost usage of Microsoft Teams and other Office programs. By comparison, the base price is $999.99

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

A transformer is a type of AI deep learning model that was first introduced by Google in a research paper in 2017. ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). It’s only one example of generative AI.

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How the sport of rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’ — and how it’s stayed the same

GeekWire

” On paper, the performance of the rowers at the center of the movie — and at the center of the bestselling book on which the movie is based — pales in comparison with current Olympic and world records. Pocock Racing Shells Photo) John Tytus became the president of Pocock Racing Shells in 2017.

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