CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Prior to joining Ovum, he was an independent analyst whose company ‘onStrategies’ delivered software development and integration tools to vendors with technology assessment and market positioning services. Analysis Big Data Health IT Open Source ApacheHadoop Cloudera Hadoop'

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. Jeffrey Leek: I am excited about the chance of building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale. It’s a tricky thing to navigate.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And if you listen to some experts and developers, generative AI will eventually be able to make almost anything, including entire apps, from scratch. Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. It can help developers make software.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Millions of people are already using apps like ChatGPT to write books, create art, and develop code. The key difference is that millions of people can — and already are — using generative AI to write books, create art, or develop code. It’s going to be the “ greatest force for economic empowerment ” society has ever seen.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These moves, part of a broader push by the company, are significant because with nearly 3 billion users, Facebook is one of the most influential social media networks in the world. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She has worked on projects about diverse issues such as water security, the future of energy, the future of youth, intelligent buildings, the development of cities over the next few decades, and planning for Egypt in 2030. Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. What makes Signal different?

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Like Wikipedia, social media companies run on user-generated content, and they’re once again scrambling to come up with ways to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But over the coming weeks and months, she’ll be far from the only person showing up in social media feeds getting inoculated. At the dawn of the pandemic, celebrities and influencers flooded our feeds with content urging us to take preventive measures, like hand-washing, social distancing, and mask-wearing.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are some of the most pervasive election conspiracy theories and false claims being shared on social media around Inauguration Day. That these theories continue to spread on social media impacts all of us, regardless of whether or not we believe them. We live in a social world, and people’s beliefs do have consequences.”

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