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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

GeekWire

The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.”

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The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure 

Vox

AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru — a well-respected pioneer in her field and one of the few Black women leaders in the industry — said earlier this week that Google fired her after blocking the publication of her research around bias in AI systems. A representative for Google declined to comment. What led to Gebru’s departure.

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Google’s ‘Gemini’ bridges the AI divide, but artificial general intelligence remains elusive

GeekWire

This Google video of Gemini was revealed to have been heavily edited, raising questions about real capabilities of the new AI model. Google Video) In the past year, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Google is promoting Gemini as natively multimodal.

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Microsoft shares updates on its $750M affordable housing effort as homelessness crisis continues

GeekWire

based company boosted its initial investment of $500 million up to $750 million, and it has allocated most of the funds to a variety of programs that support people struggling with housing and to increase the housing inventory. Facebook and Google have each launched housing programs valued at about $1 billion, while Apple is putting $2.5

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Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic

The Verge

The CEO of Google and Alphabet joins The Vergecast Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues. One, how Google is handling the pandemic. But there were two big stories about Google that are important [from last week].

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AI2 researchers release new multimodal approach to boost AI capabilities using images and audio

GeekWire

The c4 and mmc4 corpuses are both derived from data collected by Common Crawl, a nonprofit organization that crawls the web, then provides its archives and datasets to the public for free. In addition to the full version of the corpus, two additional subsets have been constructed to make mmc4 more usable, secure and environmentally friendly.

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As tech is rocked by layoffs, climate jobs and tools for landing them are on the rise

GeekWire

Globally, the current 6 million jobs in clean energy manufacturing could more than double to 14 million by 2030, according to a new report from IEA, an intergovernmental nonprofit. In the meantime, a slate of new nonprofits and startups have cropped up to share jobs listings, compile resources, hold workshops and connect people.

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