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How public radio is trying to save print

The Verge

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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COVID-19 exposure app helped prevent thousands of cases in Washington state, new study shows

GeekWire

How it works: WA Notify uses a system developed by Apple and Google that maintains anonymity. ” WA Notify uses a system developed collaboratively by Apple and Google, now widely used for exposure notification tools worldwide. notifications generated on average through the state’s conventional contact tracing program.

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Test ride: GeekWire hops in BellHop, a free electric shuttle service in downtown Bellevue

GeekWire

Rather than try that second option, I downloaded the app on my iPhone and quickly filled in some of the vitals: name, email, phone number. After the initial pilot program, if Visit Bellevue sticks with the service, it will pay for it all by selling advertising on the vehicle. Jones found the Circuit job via Indeed.

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This next-generation video game requires a prescription

Vox

This approach promises to make it much more affordable to deliver treatment and suggests that we can transform the phones, tablets, and computers we already own into medical devices, simply by downloading an app. Patients with a prescription are sent an access code they can use to download the game.

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Vaccine showdown at the radio station conglomerate

The Verge

While public media has something newspapers want: a way to raise money — memberships — and nonprofit status. Obviously, if you want to increase advertiser investment in a space, you have to make sure enough people are listening to the programming, so if this ad is successful, it not only means more ears but also more money.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” They are being developed to improve drone targeting and detect missiles. To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Javier Zarracina/Vox. Why some people fear AI, explained. They play strategy games.

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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. An open-source reproduction of DeepMind’s Flamingo model, OpenFlamingo was developed to make its capabilities more widely available.

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