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When Luke Stark sought money from Google in November he had no idea he’d be turning down $60,000 from the tech giant in March. Stark, an assistant professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, studies the social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence. In late November, he applied for a Google Research Scholar award, a no-strings-attached research grant of up to $60,000 to support professors who are early in their careers. He put in for the award, he said,… Source link

He put in for the award, he said, “because of my sense at the time that Google was building a really strong, potentially industry-leading ethical AI team.” Soon after, that feeling began to dissipate. In early December, Timnit Gebru, the co-leader of Google’s ethical AI team and a prominent Black woman in a mostly White, male field, abruptly left Google. On Wednesday, December 2, she tweeted that she had been “immediately fired” for an email she sent to an internal mailing list. In the email… Source link

Many people reported trouble with the Gmail app on Android.  James Martin/CNET Google says it’s resolved an issue… Source link

TipRanks Wells Fargo: 2 Compelling Stocks With Over 70% Upside Potential The analysts at Wells Fargo have been scrutinizing the market, or more specifically, scrutinizing the winners and the losers of the current market conditions. In a recently published note, senior equity analyst Chris Harvey writes, “Risk-on and small-cap outperformance has turned this equity market into a stock picker’s paradise.” Obviously, then, Harvey sees small-cap stocks doing well right now, with plenty of… Source link

Bitcoin hit an all-time high — Here’s why Warren Buffett still won’t touch it The past year has been groundbreaking for Bitcoin. And just recently the cryptocurrency hit an all-time high: Over $61,000 for one unit — late-to-the-party investors bemoaned having missed out. So what does the world’s most famous investor think of Bitcoin? It’s “probably rat poison squared,” Warren Buffett once said. If you listen to the billionaire, cryptocurrency may not be the big financial opportunity… Source link

The Google Home can play audiobooks, which are perfect for listening to while you do chores. Chris Monroe/CNET … Source link

You can now draw in missing roads on Google Maps. Google Google has a new solution for adding any new or hidden… Source link

Right from Google Play Store to the features like Google Assistant, Google has introduced Dark Modes for various apps in the past. Now, Google has rolled out this Dark Mode feature for Google Search on Desktop. As Google has started testing dark mode for Search on desktop, it’s available to select users, and it works with the system theme on your desktop. This means if your system’s theme is set to dark then your Google Search should automatically switch to… Source link

Roblox (RBLX) opened strong on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Shares began trading at $64.50 each, well above their reference price of $45 set by the exchange on Tuesday. The online gaming platform went public via a direct listing, allowing current investors to sell shares. In direct listings, banks do not set an IPO price, like those seen in initial public offerings. Instead a “reference price” is used — which in this case was $45 a share. At that price, the company’s market cap… Source link

“Google, please don’t do this,” wrote the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, in a blog post. In the post, EFF technologist Bennett Cyphers argued that, depending on how small each cohort is and the ability for clever companies to cross-reference that data with other available information — such as your email address — it may well be possible for third parties to figure out who you are, anyway. Source link