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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Musk justified poaching a Google scientist to a ‘betrayed’ Larry Page  Business Insider Source link

Twitter owner Elon Musk and the platform’s cofounder Jack Dorsey.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Jack Dorsey said Twitter was defenseless against Elon Musk’s acquisition, per a data scientist. Emily Gorcenski said she exchanged messages with Twitter cofounder about Musk’s involvement. Dorsey said Twitter “should have never gone public” and that anyone could buy it, per Gorcenski. Jack Dorsey said Twitter had no defenses against Elon Musk acquiring the company in October, according to a data… Source link

Hawking, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark “A Brief History of Time,” which has sold more than 10 million copies. A Google Doodle, which is a temporary alteration of the search engine’s logo to celebrate special occasions, was created by Matthew Cruickshank in honor of Hawking. “Today’s video Doodle celebrates one of history’s most influential scientific minds, English cosmologist, author,… Source link

Google on Saturday is paying tribute to renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, who overcame a debilitating disease to continue probing the mysteries of the universe, for what would be his 80th birthday on Earth. Hawking, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark “A Brief… Source link

Dec 2 (Reuters) – Timnit Gebru, the computer scientist whose disputed exit from Google’s (GOOGL.O) artificial intelligence research team prompted debate across the tech industry about diversity and censorship, said on Thursday she has launched a small lab to continue her work freely. The Distributed AI Research Institute has raised $3.7 million from foundations and aims to critically study services from big tech companies as well as propose AI-based solutions to issues such as food insecurity… Source link

Sea levels will continue to rise over the next century as a result of climate change, and this could drastically alter the lives of the 127 million people in the U.S. who live in coastal areas. “We do need to back away from the coast,” Christian Braneon, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit (video above). “And I think what we need to do is actually proactively set up areas with affordable housing before the real… Source link

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Raia Hadsell, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, believes “responsible AI is a job for all.” That was her thesis during a talk today at the virtual Lesbians Who Tech Pride Summit, where she dove into the issues currently plaguing the field and the actions she feels are required to ensure AI is ethically developed and deployed. “AI is going to change our world in the years to… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link

By Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. FILE PHOTO: The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo Though at least two Google… Source link