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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Cloud’s New AI and Cyber Training Initiative  Bloomberg Source link

When I finished my formal education, the worldwide web had not been built. Yet for the last 20 years, my working life has depended on the revolution it began. Today, technology is at another, potentially bigger inflection point. AI has huge potential to make people’s lives better — and to solve some of society’s biggest challenges. AlphaFold, for example, is helping over 1.7m researchers understand diseases and find new biorenewable materials, while Project Relate is helping people with… Source link

Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products with openly available databases members can contribute to and reuse across companies and apps. It will additionally use open data that already exists from… Source link

Several large online publishers are taking steps to abandon a program from Alphabet Inc.’s Google that was billed as a way to optimize readers’ mobile-browsing experience, saying it generates less advertising revenue. Companies including Vox Media LLC, BuzzFeed Inc.’s Complex Networks and Bustle parent BDG said they have started testing or are considering using their own versions of mobile-optimized article pages, instead of building them using the Accelerated… Source link

DoorDash is making all its employees — even the CEO — work as delivery drivers at least once a month.Noam Galai/Getty Images DoorDash is reinstating its WeDash program. The program requires staff — including the CEO — to work as delivery drivers at least once a month. One employee who said they make $400K a year vented on social media about having to do the program. The delivery service DoorDash is making all its employees — even the CEO — deliver at least once a month, but not… Source link

CEO Sundar Pichai announced Monday that the company would devote 1 billion Australian dollars (about $736 million) to the country over the next five years. The funds will go, in part, toward launching the firm’s first research hub in Australia, as well as helping develop the nation’s cloud computing sector. Google (GOOGL) also plans to team up with an Australian government agency on scientific research, which will include projects on clean energy and protection of the Great Barrier Reef…. Source link

Google leaves no doubt: it will pursue DOD’s new cloud initiative The competition around “JEDI: The Sequel” is starting to heat up as more reports surface that the Defense Department is making progress on the restart of its enterprise cloud initiative formerly known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative. JEDI had an ignoble end as DOD cancelled the contract after nearly two years of protests and lawsuits. DOD appears to eschewing the Star Wars theme this time around…. Source link

IndexNow – new initiative by Microsoft and Yandex to push content to search engines Your privacy means the world to us. We share your personal information only when you give us explicit permission to do so, and confirm we have your permission each time. Learn more by viewing our privacy… Source link

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (WIAT) -– Google will provide a $50,000 grant to the Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation for the creation of a Rural LISC Alabama chapter. The Google Alabama Rural Works P3 Cohort will identify and train a diverse workforce, focusing on historically underrepresented populations in the state’s northern counties, and utilizing Northeast Alabama Community College as a hub for delivering short-term career technical tracks. Potential training tracks… Source link

Several influential business leaders have recently started a $250 million initiative dedicated to serving 23 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the nation. Members of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)launched the initiative on Monday. According to its organizers, the initiative is the “largest-ever philanthropic effort to support the AAPI community,”Reuters reported. In the last five years, TAAF’s board members have contributed around $125 million. The nonprofit… Source link