GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck , a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. Among them: Data visualization company Tableau Software (the 2012 winner), acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

This moderated Slack channel is open to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning, as well as “any of the many other subgenres of people who are not generally considered both ‘straight’ and cis.” It’s a great way to connect with other LGBTQ+ individuals in tech in a casual and low-pressure environment.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. It takes people who are already programmers and removes the drudge work.”. “We

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Incoming Fred Hutch chief data officer Jeffrey Leek. Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has recruited a new vice president and chief data officer: biostatistician and data science educator Jeffrey Leek. Jeffrey Leek: I am excited about the chance of building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

RELATED: Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son. LS: That led Ramesh to employ a very techie idea: open-source engineering. We connect them with the right people who are necessary to advance their programs.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

.” A key component of AppDeployer empowers developers with point-and-click tools to rapidly prototype and deploy applications without programming. Its software development kit makes it possible to write add-on modules that integrate with open-source, third-party and legacy systems.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2023

Earlier this month Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released an open multimodal augmentation of the popular text-only corpus, c4. This new data set, which AI2’s researchers dubbed Multimodal C4, or mmc4 , is a publicly available model that interleaves text and images in a billion-scale data set.

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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. Satellites are not new, but small, commercial ones are a major emerging space for venture capital and new startups.

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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. OpenAI, the AI developer that built the ChatGPT language model, recently announced the release of APIs, or application programming interfaces, for its ChatGPT and Whisper, a speech recognition model.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

Following the late April release of a beta version of the technology, Apple and Google announced on Wednesday that the application programming interface (API) for its exposure notification tool is now being released to public health authorities. But now, Apple and Google admit the tool is not meant to be a silver bullet.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

The mobile data and analytics provider said demand for privacy-focused messaging apps has grown in the last few years, as internet privacy becomes a more mainstream issue and as people spend more time — 67 percent more time on average in the first half of 2020 — in messaging apps than on social media apps.

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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.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. David Ige recently announced plans to roll out a vaccine passport pilot program so that tourists eventually wouldn’t need to quarantine after entering the state, and North Carolina Gov. Hawaii Gov.

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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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