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CIT (@CITorg) Announces New Solicitation for Commercialization Fund (pls help spread word)

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Eligible applicants invited to apply for nearly $5M in CRCF funds. The solicitation targets research and commercialization performed by Virginia public and private universities, nonprofit research institutions, and young companies. Questions regarding this solicitation should be directed to crcf@cit.org.

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Twitter is launching its new verification policy on January 20th

The Verge

Twitter’s revamped verification policy is launching on January 20th, 2021 , after Twitter pressed pause on the formal application process for more than three years. That January date isn’t when the formal application process will relaunch, so you’ll have to wait a little bit longer if you’re itching to try and get a blue checkmark.

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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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We were pleased to receive applications in a wide range of technologies and including from colleges and universities new to CRCF. Proposals underwent a four-step review process beginning with guideline compliance performed by CIT and followed by a review by subject matter experts from industry, academia and government.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. What we must do is continuously train our people.

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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

Vox

“To my knowledge, they are the only company that is currently planning clinical trials for implantable medical neural interfaces while making public statements about future nonmedical applications of neural implants for cognitive enhancement. Nevertheless, the FDA has cleared the company to begin human trials.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

Meta also fine-tuned its model to mitigate against this kind of behavior and put out new guidelines barring certain illegal and harmful uses. The model has become foundational in cutting-edge AI models, and is used in many applications including in ChatGPT (the “T” in GPT stands for transformer).

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District Medical Group transforms its approach to data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Not only was it the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the nonprofit integrated medical group practice had just purchased five primary care clinics that had to be integrated into the existing organization. My predecessor was really applications-focused and our applications team is top-notch,” Rhode says.

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