Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group leave to join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit

Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group have announced their departures from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Senior researcher Alex Hanna, and software engineer Dylan Baker, will join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit research institute, Distributed AI Research (DAIR). In a post announcing her resignation on Medium, Hanna criticizes the “toxic” work environment at Google, and draws attention to a lack of representation of Black women at the company. “Prior to… Source link

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The Joe Rogan controversy has exposed Spotify’s biggest weakness

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Spotify needs to keep its artists happy, or it will have nothing Spotify (SPOT), the world’s most popular music streaming service, faces an existential threat in the form of a boycott by the very artists it needs to survive. So far, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have… Source link

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Yahoo Cup Fantasy Golf Picks This Week for the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

There’s not much better than free when it comes to DFS. So with Yahoo and Yahoo Fantasy offering a $15,000 freeroll called the PGA “Yahoo Cup,” now is the time to join for free cash prizes week in and week out. Additionally, there is a season-long points chase with even more money handed out at the end of the year. It will go for 39 weeks, with the lowest nine weeks of scoring being dropped from your total score, so join now for the best chance to win even more prizes. Let’s dig into… Source link

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All that COVID aid included $366 billion for the wealthy

Congress is getting better at heading off devastating recessions. Yet the gusher of stimulus money Congress provided to offset the COVID recession during the last two years included hundreds of billions of dollars for wealthy Americans, with little benefit to the ordinary workers the money was supposed to help. New research by MIT economist David Autor and nine others finds that the Paycheck Protection Program, an $800 billion aid package Congress passed in March 2020, was one of the… Source link

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Purdue University lawsuit says Google copied smartphone technology

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register University’s patent covers tech for fixing software code Complaint says Google engineer copied code for Android software (Reuters) – Purdue University’s Purdue Research Foundation has sued Google LLC in Texas federal court, alleging that Android software for eliminating programming errors in smartphones copies… Source link

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S&P 500 gains 0.9%, Dow adds 224 points, or 0.6%

Stocks rose in a choppy session Wednesday as investors mulled a fresh batch of earnings results from some major index components and tried to further shake off January’s volatility. The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq gained just after noon in New York.  A spate of better-than-expected corporate earnings helped partially offset some more concerning signs of an Omicron-induced slowdown in growth at the start of the year. ADP reported Wednesday morning that private-sector U.S. employers cut 301,000… Source link

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Most firms that went public via SPAC ‘should be deemed uninvestable’

Famed short-seller Carson Block raised the alarm on special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) at the height of their activity, building his bets while warning retail investors about “a scam” in the market. Now, the CEO of investment research firm Muddy Waters Capital is starting to see the reckoning. Since raising a record $144 billion through 613 blank check IPOs last year, investors have begun to turn on these companies, in the face of poor returns and choppy market conditions. From… Source link

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Jim Harbaugh did what he set out to do at Michigan

On the National Signing Days of 2016 and 2017, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh presided over an event he’d created — “Signing with the Stars.” It was part unveiling of the high school recruits who would play for the Wolverines — prospects such as Rashan Gary, Devin Bush and Donovan Peoples-Jones. Mostly, though, it was a celebration of Michigan football and the carnival barking of Harbaugh hopefully gaining the attention of future recruits. He was newly arrived in Ann Arbor and… Source link

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Nasdaq Rises on Google Earnings, Stock Split as Other Indexes Waver

Tech stocks on the Nasdaq are rising, led by big gains from shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) after the company posted strong earnings and announced a 20-for-1 stock split. The Dow Jones wavered and S&P 500 gained.  The indexes rose yesterday in another choppy day of trading, as markets reacted to earnings. So far, more than 36% of the S&P 500 companies have reported results, with more than 78% topping analyst expectations. Among the companies reporting earnings today… Source link

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Google parent Alphabet posts surge in search advertising revenue

Shares in Alphabet soared nearly 8 per cent on Wednesday, pushing the company’s market cap back towards $2tn after an unexpectedly strong surge in search advertising revenue raised Wall Street’s hopes that its momentum would continue as the coronavirus pandemic recedes. The Google parent had announced its earnings on Tuesday alongside a rare 20-for-1 stock split, only the second time it has split its shares since going public in 2004, adding to the stock market enthusiasm that… Source link

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