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YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years

The Verge

In Wojcicki’s first letter to creators of 2021, the CEO spent some time addressing YouTube’s growth. The number of new channels that joined the company’s Partner Program , which allows creators to earn advertising revenue, more than doubled in 2020. YouTube also “contributed approximately $16 billion to the U.S.

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Facebook bans academics who researched ad transparency and misinformation on Facebook

The Verge

Facebook has banned the personal accounts of academics who researched ad transparency and the spread of misinformation on the social network. Facebook does provide information on ad targeting through a special research program called FORT , but this is controlled and filtered by Facebook itself.).

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Security Standoff: IT Department vs. City Councilman

SecureWorld News

The mandatory training for all Mobile city employees was initiated on March 15, 2021, with a six-week window to complete the training. Mobile's CTO, Scott Kearney, extended the deadline from eight weeks to 19 weeks to allow for all employees to complete the new training program, yet Richardson still failed to do so.

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A list of good things that happened this year in the world of tech, science, education, and more

GeekWire

For a dose of inspiration and optimism as we head into 2021, here’s a list of stories highlighting people and organizations using tech and innovation for good. ” Microsoft committed millions of dollars to Black-owned suppliers and internal diversity and inclusion programs as part of a sweeping racial justice plan.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

But since 2021, at Rackspace, he’s been driving a far more complex and holistic view of environmental, economic and equitable sustainability measures, as both a consumer and a supplier of technology, he says. Europe is driving a lot of the standards and wants to make sure that we are pretty accurate in what we’re reporting,” he says.

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Integrating Cybersecurity, Psychological Factors, and Governance in AI

SecureWorld News

Preceding this, UNESCO's "Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" earned the nod from an impressive 193 Member States in November 2021. Simultaneously, numerous nations are charting their courses with distinctive guidelines to anchor ethical AI practices.

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Clubhouse, the invite-only audio app, explained

Vox

Clubhouse is currently an invite-only audio app, but influential entrepreneurs and investors are crowning it the next major social media network. Influential entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are bullish on crowning Clubhouse the next major social network; it’s reportedly valued at $1 billion after its latest round of funding.

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