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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

The Verge

To do this, we pulled data from the analytics tool Social Blade to track the Twitter following of every guest who went on Rogan’s podcast between December 2019 and July 2021. For comparison, in the week before he went on Rogan in 2020, Santino gained 1,173 followers on his own, so Rogan gave him a bump of 500 more followers the week after.

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Balancing act: What Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s short tenure says about running a tech hub

GeekWire

The divide separates business-friendly moderates who fear world-class tech hubs could lose their edge if policy swings too far left, and liberal progressives would like the cities to become test beds for social justice causes. The “Fare Share” program had support from Seattle labor unions. Taxing the tech industry.

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Make Money Amazon Marketing Review Guide

Galido

It might sound too good to be true but Amazon’s affiliate program, Amazon Associates, allows you to do just that. You might have heard about this income-generating avenue for the first time, but the Amazon Associates Program was established as early as 1996. So How Can You Make Money From Amazon Associates Program? Comparisons.

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Destination Spokane: How remote work and new arrivals are changing one tech community

GeekWire

The group runs a variety of events and programs for the tech, business, and startup community, including mentorship and networking. Spokane’s population influx In raw numbers, Spokane County grew by 7% from 2018 to 2023, to a population of 551,000 as of last year, according to U.S. There are downsides to the influx, as well.

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After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay

The Verge

And I have two kiddies, babies really, and there’s no social distancing you can do from a one-year-old and a two-year-old.”. Violet is the creation of Akara Robotics, a Dublin-based firm that builds robots providing social support in care homes. Violet, by comparison, can clean the room in just 15 minutes.

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The best AI drawing generators to add extra creativity to your artwork

Dataconomy

Neural style : The term “neural style transfer” (NST) is used to describe a group of algorithms used in computer programs to alter still or moving digital pictures so that they take on the aesthetic qualities of another image. But they also bring up some moral and social problems, like privacy, validity, control, and bias.

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

The Verge

It’s not some subtle game-playing program that can outthink humanity’s finest or a mechanically advanced robot that backflips like an Olympian. No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar. You start typing and it predicts what comes next. GPT stands for “generative pre-training.”) So far, so simple.