GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

Ramesh, a software engineering manager at Amazon, is founder and CEO of OpenTreatments Foundation , which this week launched an open-source platform called OpenTreatments. The nonprofit works on ocular diseases and assists patient groups desperate for therapies. Image from the OpenTreatments platform. Click to enlarge.).

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2021

But America’s digital divide is getting in the way: Nearly 30 percent of people in the US over the age of 65 do not use the internet, and more than 40 percent did not have broadband access at home, according to a 2019 report from the Pew Research Center. “If Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. They’re going out.

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

The Associated Press, meanwhile, reported that IBM’s decision “is unlikely to affect its bottom line,” as the company is heavily focusing on areas like cloud computing and other companies had more success in the market for facial recognition technology. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s always enlightening to give privacy reports like that a read, just to get a sense of who is tracking you, how often, and where. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Help keep Vox free for all.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

We previously reported on Ramesh and Raghav’s doctors and their efforts to treat Raghav. RELATED: Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son. LS: That led Ramesh to employ a very techie idea: open-source engineering.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Square added bitcoin trading to its Cash app in 2018, and last year, it formed Square Crypto, an independent team that contributes to bitcoin open-source work. In May, Square reported its bitcoin revenue for the first quarter was $306 million, on total revenue of $1.38 Bitcoin’s price is around $10,775 at present.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

Such bosses tend to micromanage and keep tight control on their direct reports, rather than allowing managers the autonomy they want and need to be good leaders themselves, Kozlo says. Barrett notes that managers also tend to flee when companies are stagnant or contracting.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

Between May 2019 and May 2020, nonprofit organization Avaaz found that Facebook saw a whopping 3.8 A study by his organization found that of more than 500 anti-vaccine posts reported to Facebook by volunteers as misinformation, less than 6 percent were eventually removed or flagged by the platform.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. You find clues.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

months and Twitter two years to hit the same milestone), according to a recent Morgan Stanley report. Media companies like BuzzFeed are using it to generate listicles and help with the reporting process. Which is why so many businesses, giant and small, are jumping to capitalize on it. In 2022, investors poured more than $2.6

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking all those contracts “is an entire project that, in a just world, a team of people would be summarizing in real time,” says Jack Poulson, founder of the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry. Satellites are not new, but small, commercial ones are a major emerging space for venture capital and new startups.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. This is a demonstration of its abilities as well as a source of even more data for OpenAI’s models to learn from. Bing also told an AP reporter that he was acting like Hitler.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

The internet trust tool NewsGuard reports that Natural News “severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency.” During the first three months of 2020, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue reports, there were 18,000 links to Natural News-affiliated sites in public Facebook pages and groups.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

A recent ProPublica report suggests that this may still be the best method, with health experts saying that something like the Apple-Google tool, which relays no data back to public health authorities and relies on widespread adoption to be effective, will be of limited use. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Her recent trend reports and presentations include “Transhumanism, How to Train Your Cyborg,” “The Blockchain Effect,” and “The Fragmented Future of Finance.” She is the Chair and President of the South Korean Node of the Millennium Project and the author of the 2018 UN State of the Future report, Korean edition.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In the United Kingdom, where the Pfizer vaccine was rolled out in early December, the National Health Service is planning to get celebrities to encourage people to take the vaccine, with soccer player Marcus Rashford and members of the British royal family identified as optimal candidates, the Guardian reported.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he planned to ban TikTok from operating in the United States , and a few days later he did. 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.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The company made changes to its crime reporting feature after criticism that the platform enables racial profiling and an exaggerated fear of crime , and there have been reports of police digitally patrolling Nextdoor neighborhoods and discrimination against Black users. Nextdoor tries to discourage discussion of national politics.

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