GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sawant’s proposed legislation would be a first-in-the-nation attempt to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. She announced last week that she won’t seek re-election when her term is up at the end of 2023. Without going into specifics related to his time in the U.S.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

. — Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues. He was also VP of marketing, sales and business development at online photography platform SmugMug.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2023

Twitter Photo via @hadip ) When the Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org launched in 2013 with a mission to spread computer science knowledge, co-founders Hadi and Ali Partovi enlisted some of the most successful coders on the planet to champion their cause. The latest developments in AI are one example of that.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Tiziana Figliolia.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2022

Up until a week ago when he started on the Pledge Ukraine site, Lytvynov was keeping in touch with friends and family in Ukraine via phone or social media, and he was sending money. On her own time, she put to use some of the skills and knowledge she’s developed. But he was frustrated that he wasn’t doing enough.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2024

EdXeno is developing a mobile app to provide free college advising and resources to students, and give universities a recruiting platform by communicating directly with interested students. He ultimately decided to chart his own path in the field — initially founding a nonprofit called Equitable College Counseling before founding EdXeno.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

The novel coronavirus has brought with it fears of infection, massive job losses, the challenges of teaching kids at home, social isolation, and the list goes on. Today the startup announced the release of a new telehealth platform that uses Lyssn’s own secure video-conferencing system to provide remote mental healthcare.

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Vox

APRIL 16, 2020

Experts have argued for years that the social network is rife with misleading information that taints public discourse and asked Facebook to take the retroactive approach. “We For Facebook’s critics, the move toward retroactively notifying users about misleading Covid-19 content, even if incremental, is a welcome development.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

. “Many teachers have never received training in the techniques and tools to use for remote online instruction, either in initial teacher education or ongoing professional development,” added Frank Cat alano, a Seattle-based ed-tech industry consultant and analyst. Fewer meaningful social connections.

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Vox

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Twitter’s US user base was already in decline prior to the takeover by Musk,” said Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst for social media at Insider Intelligence. Lots of features on Twitter developed as a kind of demand from how a particular community used it,” Bell said. Hive Social, for instance, says it has 2 million users.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G. Photo courtesy of Gatwiri).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Hartley Riedner, new head of operations at Seattle-area startup Docugami, with CEO Jean Paoli on a video call this week. I have no idea,” said Hartley Riedner, the company’s new head of operations, laughing with Paoli on a video call with GeekWire this week. Software development openings on jobs site Indeed are down 32.8%

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2022

I’ve been privileged enough to find success and develop a patron-like relationship with several collectors since. It’s also enabled me to give back both to more indie artists and an array of nonprofits, which I intend to continue doing. Now video and moving images are able to exist and have a platform that elevates them.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As outrage and protests spread across the nation and social media after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May, major tech companies issued statements of solidarity , startup founders spoke out about racism and investors announced funds dedicated to entrepreneurs of color. TikTok for the workplace?

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

In partnership with Be My Eyes, an app that lets visually impaired people get on-demand help from a sighted person via video chat. GPT4’s API is also available to developers who can build apps on top of it for a fee proportionate to how much you’re using the tool. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

My role was to develop the “Distributed File System” in Windows. This kind of work needs developers to be very precise in development work and to write code that is very optimized since any sloppiness in performance here affects all applications on Windows. What were your responsibilities there? “My

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

She moved to Seattle, worked briefly at a web development company and then convinced a colleague to start a company with her that focused on UX. Outside of work, Cole is the founder of Girls Can Do , a nonprofit that hosts events akin to “TED Talks for girls,” particularly girls from racially diverse and low-income families.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. On May 22, a fake photo of an explosion at the Pentagon caused chaos online. The photo was quickly determined to be a hoax, likely generated by AI.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

This buzzy phrase , popularized on social media in the pandemic, rejects work as a basis for identity, framing it instead as an act to pursue out of financial necessity. These age-based categorizations are usually reductive, and exclude key factors like education level, social class, race, and gender in their analyses.

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The Verge

JANUARY 23, 2021

Stitching together a pill bottle prototype Jimmy Choi’s TikTok page is filled with the typical videos of a high-level athlete: clips of himself doing one-armed pushups, climbing ropes, holding planks with weights on his back. In late December, he posted a video showing his struggle to grab a pill from a container.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Axon’s in-car video technology for police. develops technologies for police, such as Tasers and body cameras, intended to reduce violence and use of force. For example, transcripts of body camera videos that detect use of racial slurs will be automatically ranked higher for supervisor review. Axon Photo).

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

The nonprofit, which provides rapid SMS-based access to counselors for people in crisis, had been trying to make inroads in black communities for years. But Jo, who worked at the company as a social media coordinator, found that her white boss did not agree. It’s very sad, but I’m struggling to see relevance,” she said.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

Musk saw TruthGPT as a way to change the direction of OpenAI, the AI software nonprofit he helped start and which now has a for-profit branch. ” -Elon Musk So-called TruthGPT can be used for various purposes, such as education, research, journalism, entertainment, and social media. Elon Musk responded with a picture and a video.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2020

Performative social media is just a step toward lasting, impactful change. Navigating social media in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent national wave of protests has been a frustrating experience for many people — especially if they’re trying to figure out what to do and what not to do.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

Reminder : If you’re not familiar with ChatGPT, it is a groundbreaking language model developed by OpenAI based on the highly advanced GPT architecture. ChatGPT may make money from companies that wish to advertise to its user base by placing such adverts on its website and social media pages.   Will AI replace designers ?

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Vox

JUNE 24, 2020

For most people, Instagram has long been the social media platform where they escape from the real world — and politics — to share a curated highlight reel of their lives. Of course, political activism on social media platforms, including Instagram, isn’t new. Zac Freeland/Vox. But recently, that’s changed.

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Vox

APRIL 10, 2023

He was recently granted the additional title of head of generative AI at Stern, and is helping develop an AI initiative for Stern’s MBA program so students, faculty, and administrators can become comfortable with AI tools in the workplace. All that other stuff just takes me away from making videos,” he said. said Grennan.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

While the nation is going through dramatic changes, Gates said in his video message, the innovative spirit of the region he calls home hasn’t changed. In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. Auth0 CEO Eugenio Pace accepts the Award for Deal of the Year: Funding.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 12, 2020

That includes where and how we work,” REI President and CEO Eric Artz told employees in a video call today. Facebook has leased more than 500,000 square feet in the Spring District, a new development with 3 million square feet of office space. ” REI President and CEO Eric Artz.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The video game industry came into 2021 with a lot of momentum , with millions of new customers, high sales, and venture capitalists falling over each other to put more money into the system. Bungie, makers of Destiny 2 (above), are one of several video game developers rocked by allegations of misconduct in 2021. Bungie Image).

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger. Absolutely.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The big difference is that generative AI can create new content, such as images, text, audio, video, and even code — usually from a prompt or command. And if you listen to some experts and developers, generative AI will eventually be able to make almost anything, including entire apps, from scratch. It could improve education.

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