Vox

JANUARY 27, 2021

“I know for myself in that process, it was extremely difficult,” Lauren Cotter, a 66-year-old marketing director who helps seniors become computer literate through the San Francisco-based Community Tech Network , told Recode. “It Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. It has been extremely frustrating.”.

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

Still, Mutale Nkonde, a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford who leads the nonprofit AI for the People, told the AP that “the symbolic nature of this is important.”. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Life scientists have a data problem: information is fragmented, siloed and incomplete. But in the life sciences, “the standardization of the data is very challenging,” said panelist Maddison Masaeli , CEO of Deepcell, a startup that visually analyzes and categorizes single cells. Not all life sciences data are messy. IPD Image).

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking all those contracts “is an entire project that, in a just world, a team of people would be summarizing in real time,” says Jack Poulson, founder of the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry. We fought networked wars for some time, but always in the narrowband sense,” he told me.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. There are also concerns of bias due to a lack of diversity in the material and data that generative AI is trained on, or the people who are overseeing that training. Design platform Canva has one , too.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

Those included that users be kept anonymous; no location data be used; data stay on users’ devices rather than go to a centralized database maintained by a government authority; the system be opt-in only; and that the tool ends when the pandemic threat is over. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

A few days earlier on January 4, Facebook-owned WhatsApp had issued a new privacy policy, which many interpreted would mean users would be required to share personal information with Facebook’s ad network in order to use the platform. And unlike big tech companies, the service doesn’t sell ads or user data.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees. who may focus on pandemic case data , the virus’s impact on specific locations , or the industries affected. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. Some are worried that working with an app means their health data will be compromised. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. A screenshot of Carbon Health’s vaccine app notes two doses.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Early data shows that social media companies’ recent moves to boot President Trump, some of his allies, and tens of thousands of QAnon-affiliated accounts off their platforms have contributed to a massive decline in misinformation. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The center would allow visitors to learn about the company’s data storage and content moderation practices, and even to inspect the algorithms that power its core recommendation engine. “We We also got an overview of the app’s community guidelines, its approach to child safety, and how it keeps data secure. You can’t prove a negative.

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