Twitter Promised Them Severance. They Got Nothing
Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.
U.S. VC investments and exits plummeted in 2022 | NVCA
The deal count in 2022 for the full year was 15,852, down 14% from 18,521 in 2021. And deal value was $238.3 billion, down 30% from $344.7 billion a year earlier, according to a report by Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). U.S. VC exit activity was 1,208 deals valued at $71.4 billion, …
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Twitter Data Leak: What the Exposure of 200 Million User Emails Means for You
The exposure of hundreds of millions of email addresses puts pseudonymous users of the social network at risk.
No One Will Escape the FTX Fallout
Try as they might, crypto companies pressured by the trading platform’s collapse are failing to bail themselves out.
Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer
The next big thing in tech isn’t the blockchain or the metaverse—it’s a mind-bending wave of algorithmic content machines.
Algorithms Need Management Training, Too
Automated systems are increasingly making decisions in the workplace. Here’s how to curb the potential harms and abuses.
Detecting additive manufacturing defects in real-time
A research team led by Tao Sun, associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, has made new discoveries that can expand additive manufacturing in aerospace and other industries that rely on strong metal parts.
AI tech exaggerates biases in facial age perception more than humans
Artificial intelligence is the future. In fact, it’s already here. One of the latest advancements is using it for automatically estimating age based on a person’s face, a technology used for determining who can enter a bar or potentially view age-restricted content online.
Data architecture strategy for data quality
Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues. Just one of these problems can prove costly to an organization. Having to deal …
SAVI transforms global surgical instrument tracking with Google Cloud
Powered by Vertex AI (Google Cloud’s platform for accelerating development and deployment of machine learning models into production), SAVI (Semi Automated Vision Inspection)1 is transforming surgical instrument identification and cataloging, leading to fewer canceled surgeries and easing pressure on surgery waitlists. Max Kelsen, an analytics and software agency that specializes in machine learning, has worked …
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