GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

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. They’re studying the GPX4 gene and the biology of SSMD. She didn’t quite understand what was going on at that time.

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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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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 6, 2023

And open source generative AI firm Stability AI says it has paying clients in the film industry who use its software to autogenerate images. In 2019, a VC firm’s study found that 40 percent of European “AI startups” didn’t really use AI in their main businesses. AI hype has existed for a while.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

It was a “breakthrough,” says Yilun Du, a PhD student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who studies generative models. Stable Diffusion is open source, so anyone with any motives can build their own thing on top of it. They all have their own rules for what is or isn’t allowed.

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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. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees. One professor who studies misinformation told the Washington Post that Wikipedia was “a ray of hope in a sea of pollution” and handled the virus “exceptionally well.”.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Over the coming weeks and months, the nonprofit is laying the groundwork for a $50 million campaign to encourage Covid-19 vaccination, which the organization thinks could be one of the largest public education efforts ever run in the US. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

“[If] you’re not a keyboard warrior, and you don’t argue with people and you’re ultimately even-keeled about it, that doesn’t mean that you get to ignore it,” says Gordon Pennycook , who studies the psychology of believing misinformation at the University of Regina in Canada. “We Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

“The danger in that is that smaller sub-communities could be forming around highly salient, mini-echo chambers of people who strongly buy into this like-minded community,” explained Catherine Delcourt, a computer science professor at Wellesley who has studied social media and political polarization. Will you help keep Vox free for all?

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