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How Pacific Science Center ran safe, successful summer camps — in-person — despite COVID-19

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The nonprofit just wrapped up 10 weeks of camps, with nearly 1,500 kids participating at the spacious Seattle campus and three partner locations, and another 1,500 kids enrolled in the Science Center’s virtual camps, including students from out of state. “We These superheroes campers stayed 6 feet apart and wore masks to stay safe.

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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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The CRCF program is a state fund designed to advance, in Virginia, targeted areas of research with commercial promise. The following CRCF proposals will be awarded, contingent upon acceptance of award terms and conditions: Eminent Researcher Recruitment Program . Matching Funds Program .

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Seattle startup Truveta raises $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems

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The 17 partners provided funding for the Series A round in roughly equal amounts, reflecting shared ownership and governance of the company. And it will de-identify the data, assuring patient anonymity, in accordance with guidelines issued by the U.S.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

Meta also fine-tuned its model to mitigate against this kind of behavior and put out new guidelines barring certain illegal and harmful uses. To try to contain the spread of misinformation, companies creating AI models can put some restrictions on how their programs can be used.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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It’s time to close the gene synthesis loophole that could lead to a human-made pandemic

Vox

If you wanted to send some money to the government of North Korea, you’d find it pretty difficult. Banks are required to check who their customers are, and when they learn theirs is a foreign government subject to economic sanctions , they’ll decline to do business. Weirdly enough, that’s easier to do. “But