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In honor of the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s masterpiece Moulin Rouge!, I want to take you back to 2001. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Northern California. And when I say “middle of nowhere,” I mean that my parents had to drive 100 miles into a town in Oregon just so I could be born because my hometown hospital was not equipped to perform C-sections. Like many youths, I struggled to connect my fellow teens. I just had nothing in common with the people I went to high school… Source link

A Yandex self-driving car in Las Vegas, during the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Yandex Yandex Self-Driving Group has driven seven million autonomous miles (11.5 million kilometers) since the team was founded in 2017, more than any other company has announced, save for Alphabet’s Waymo. That’s up from two million miles in February, 2020, showing the company’s continued progress, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Artem Fokin, Head of Business Development for the group,… Source link

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images Executives from Apple and Google fielded accusations of anti-competitive behavior from lawmakers and other technology companies during an antitrust hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee. Much of the testimony was aimed at Apple’s App Store and the Google Play app marketplace, with executives from music streaming platform… Source link

The unique device identifier that Apple uses for personalized ad tracking, the IDFA, has been in the news lately. You may soon be hearing just as much about Google’s equivalent for Android, the Android Advertising Identifier (AAID). Unlike Apple, Google is not voluntarily throttling the third-party tracking of Android users that the AAID facilitates. But it is facing a new privacy complaint in the EU brought by noyb, the group that disrupted EU-US data transfers… Source link

Google research manager Samy Bengio, who oversaw the company’s AI ethics group until a controversy led to the ouster of two female leaders, resigned on Tuesday to pursue other opportunities. Bengio, who managed hundreds of researchers in the Google Brain team, announced his departure in an email to staff that was obtained by Bloomberg. His last day will be April 28. An expert in a type of AI known as machine… Source link

Tricor Group (Tricor), Asia’s leading business expansion specialist providing integrated business, corporate, investor, human resources and payroll, corporate trust and debt services and strategic business advisory, operating in 21 countries and jurisdictions with over 2,700 associates globally. In October 2020, we hired a Chief Digital Officer to accelerate efforts to advance our external customer facing platform and technology. In 2021, Tricor Group is continuing to make further investments… Source link

HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tricor Group (Tricor), Asia’s leading business expansion specialist providing integrated business, corporate, investor, human resources and payroll, corporate trust and debt services and strategic business advisory, operating in 21 countries and jurisdictions with over 2,700 associates globally. In October 2020, we hired a Chief Digital Officer to accelerate efforts to advance our external customer facing platform and technology. In 2021, Tricor Group is… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A new technology industry group led by the former head of U.S. public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google is looking to remind Democrats that technology companies are on their side when it comes to progressive priorities like voting rights, fighting climate change and reducing income inequality. Adam Kovacevich, who most recently led government relations for electric scooter company Lime, launched the Chamber of Progress on Monday to promote “a progressive high-tech society,… Source link

A new tech industry association, led by a former Google public policy director and with funding from Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google, is coming to Washington. But instead of starting its efforts with traditional tech policy issues, the group is leaning hard into another Democratic linchpin: voting rights. Just a few days after House lawmakers ripped into the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter Inc. for myriad issues, the Chamber of Progress launches Monday with the… Source link

Adam Kovacevich Source: AdamKovacevich.com Source: AdamKovacevich.com A new technology industry group led by the former head of U.S. public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google is looking to remind Democrats that technology companies are on their side when it comes to progressive priorities like voting rights, fighting climate change and reducing income… Source link