CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

“It seemed too good to be true — free classes for six months, a paid internship, partnerships with great companies in my area, high graduation and employment rates, and lastly, an emphasis on social justice,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. Mariya Burrows.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2020

In his interactions with customers in the nonprofit space, many wanted a tool to help them integrate different platforms to manage subscribers, but the only options available were costly packages from big companies that provided additional services they didn’t want. Your preferred social network? Twitter @Colleran !

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. Chima was most recently global CIO for Adidas in Germany and previously led technology teams at Fox Network Group, Burberry and Walmart.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

For example, Seattle-based on-demand freight network Convoy , which raised $400 million in November , has a long list of open positions. Other Seattle-area startups that are ramping up hiring to meet demand include voice tech developer WellSaid Labs ; social support platform Give InKind ; cloud services provider BitTitan ; and more.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It had tons of other products that a reverse image search on Google showed were stolen.”. One semester, Sandra Aistars, director of the Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University, had law students do takedown notices for artists and nonprofits and tracked their interactions.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

Last but not least, Google Drive is still my favorite cloud service. Your preferred social network? I think most millennials my age (I’m 29) have not fully leveraged the power of this social media platform. My second favorite software tool is Gusto. Describe your workspace. Why does it work for you?

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

CSA Archive / Getty Images Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and other tech companies are trying new ways to label content made by AI. Companies like Google, Adobe, and Microsoft are all supporting some form of labeling of AI in their products. On May 22, a fake photo of an explosion at the Pentagon caused chaos online.

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Tesla’s Model S IVI system is designed to allow drivers to navigate using Google Maps with live traffic information, listen to streaming music from any online radio station and have access to an Internet browser for news or restaurant reviews. With Google Maps, Tesla drivers can also locate recharging locations.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

And after that I joined Forrester because my husband and I moved out to the West Coast and he was recruited by Google and he was also a CMU professor and recruited by Google. We sold the company to Palo Alto Networks, I think less than four years from its founding date, which is a very interesting growth story, obviously.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Google launched its ambitious Glass platform as a potential successor to phones, then helped propel the AR startup Magic Leap toward billions of dollars in investments. More recently, telecoms have partnered with AR companies like the Chinese startup Nreal, hoping high-bandwidth holograms will create a demand for 5G networks.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

A lot of charities and nonprofit organizations aren’t set up yet to do peer-to-peer fundraising for a variety of reasons — some, for example, would rather rely on recurring donations, and others just aren’t aware that Twitch and other live-streaming sites can be a reliable source of income. Collect receipts.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It has great handwriting to text conversion, and syncs with Google Drive and Dropbox!” And outside of that, if you aren’t able to shop small this year and shop on Amazon, be sure to double-check that you’re using smile.amazon.com so that a great social impact organization gets at least a piece of every gift you give.”

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Google, the undisputed king of search for decades now, is planning to release its own version of AI-powered search as well as a chatbot called Bard in the coming weeks, the company said just days after Microsoft announced the new Bing. And the battles may not just be over search engines. But generative AI is more sophisticated.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. The Oregon company also added Symantec and Google vet Stephen Gillett to its board of directors in December. Tagboard originally launched as a social media aggregator. Vigeo Alliance President and CEO Cassandra Chandler. Merida Merger Corp.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar. These regularities are unknown to humans, but they’re stored as billions of weighted connections between the different nodes in GPT-3’s neural network. It’s like Google but for questions and answers. You start typing and it predicts what comes next.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Then why haven't we seen more talks on the social science aspect of security, Grooten: My personal motivation for spinning to Black Hat in particular, was that, I think that if you are a technology expert, a security expert, and you're going to do some work on stock because someone contacts you about something they think they have on their phone.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You find clues.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Any area of the Google ecosystem fits the mold of such a juicy target. Google Docs comments functionality mishandled for phishing In early 2022, analysts at email security firm Avanan spread the word about a new unorthodox technique for delivering toxic links to numerous users. relatedlink.html?

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Ally’s software helps companies manage their Objectives and Key Results (OKR) , a popular framework for running teams and businesses that gained traction across the industry thanks in part due to its use at Google. Students also receive “wraparound” support including career skill development and social services. Part of the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. But it's a means to an end of maybe some of the other ones right, the social, political, economic, whatever.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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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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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Among the biggest beneficiaries has been Signal, the encrypted messaging app whose development is funded by a nonprofit organization. We’re organized as a nonprofit because we feel like the way the internet currently works is insane,” CEO Moxie Marlinspike told me. That’s not a strategy — that’s just hoping things don’t go bad.”.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Then-Google AI research scientist Timnit Gebru speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 in San Francisco. She says she was fired in 2020 (Google says she resigned) over a conflict related to one of her research papers. Speaking out against a powerful company like Google, Facebook, or Apple isn’t an easy choice. “No

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. Many powerful political actors — including the National Rifle Association — similarly operate with the aid of “social welfare” groups.

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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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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. for 5G networks. Accountable Tech, a progressive nonprofit, launched a campaign to push the board to demand more authority over content decisions.

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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. Signal, for the first time, became the most downloaded app on the App Store and Google Play. Use Signal — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The optimists argue that social media is neither good nor bad , but simply a powerful new tool for society to use. The pessimists argue that social networks are getting played by bad actors who have gamed it to re-enforce and worsen existing power imbalances. Another way of saying this is that there are optimists and pessimists.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you’re looking for up-to-the-minute results on election night, Wikipedia might be one of the first sites to pop up in your Google search. 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.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The latter app also drove growth in kids’ social app use by 100% in 2019 and 200% in 2020, the report found. So basically, before TikTok, kids used social apps a certain amount. If you are working on a social app, this is a good sign that you are doing something right. Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine ).

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

Similarly, Carbon Health, which has partnered with the city of Los Angeles for vaccinations, has launched a digital health pass that will soon work with Apple Wallet and Google Pay. The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health.

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