Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenAI used GPT-4 to create a virtual assistant that can help people understand the context of what they’re seeing around them. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful. Another big use case that OpenAI pitched involves helping people who are visually impaired.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. Founded in Boston in 2000, the nonprofit training program launched in the Puget Sound region in 2011 with a mission to “close the opportunity divide.”

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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. It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. So what is the metaverse, really?

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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. When players logged on to catch virtual monsters, many discovered parts of their neighborhoods they’d never thought to visit. But the EFF’s concern wasn’t premature.

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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. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. And so it was interesting learning experience. That run large cloud infrastructure.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Vamosi: So she founded Black Girls Hack to help others. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. If you follow members and ask questions, you're likely to get answers.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Vamosi: So she founded Black Girls Hack to help others. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. If you follow members and ask questions, you're likely to get answers.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Verge spoke with seven backup drivers for Waymo and Cruise (six current, one former), who raised concerns about being stuck in a vehicle for hours a day with another person without the ability to socially distance. Waymo followed suit , resuming limited operations in June delivering packages for two Bay Area nonprofits.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

also integrates with popular platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Dropbox, and YouTube to make your workflow easier and more efficient. You can choose from various options, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Zoom, YouTube, and more. is more than just a transcription tool. will automatically generate a transcript for you.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Many believe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime technological breakthrough that could impact virtually every aspect of society and disrupt industries from medicine to law. “AI Now that major tech firms Google and Microsoft are in a race to beat each other at this technology, we’re seeing this tech rolled out to the masses while it still has problems.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

The CEO of Google and Alphabet joins The Vergecast Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues. One, how Google is handling the pandemic. But there were two big stories about Google that are important [from last week].

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual. And he, you know, hits, hits a button, and he gets his IO error for Heroku something, whatever it was, and he goes over to Google to troubleshoot.

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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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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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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

According to Trump, Google was building a website to streamline the entire process. There are areas where tech companies have made significant contributions — like collecting mobility data that helped officials understand the effects of social distancing policies. But Google wasn’t actually building a nationwide testing website.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

As I reported on Thursday, the decision sparked an unusual amount of internal dissent among employees , and on Monday it spilled over into public with a virtual walkout of a few hundred employees. The optimists argue that social media is neither good nor bad , but simply a powerful new tool for society to use. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. of the social media company’s technical roles, up from 1.5%

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and election interference ; the very next, you’re watching a live stream of the same company’s foray into virtual reality helmets and designer mixed reality glasses. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But the TikTok Transparency and Accountability Center is now open for (virtual) business — and on Wednesday I was part of a small group of reporters who got to take a tour over Zoom. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Trending up : Google is giving more than $8.5 Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists. They are savvy media manipulators, effective communicators and experienced at exploiting the weaknesses of social media platforms. Reported cases in Illinois: 83,168. Data from The New York Times. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Spiegel’s memo, which Snap later made public, also came as the big social companies were reckoning over what to do about President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose posts about voting by mail and peaceful protesters. Social platforms, for better and for worse, offer only the president’s words. Russell Brandom / The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Which he reiterated at a virtual shareholders’ meeting today.). He said “big action” would follow.

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