Tag Archives: Skills

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google releases AI skills course in education push  Fox Business Source link

By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) – Google has pledged 25 million euros ($26.98 million) to help people in Europe learn to use artificial intelligence (AI). Announcing the funding on Monday, the tech giant said it had opened applications for social enterprises and nonprofits that could help reach those most likely to benefit from training. The firm will also run a series of “growth academies” to support companies using AI to scale their companies and has expanded its free online AI… Source link

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code  TechCrunch Source link

Disney (DIS) has hit back at activist investor Nelson Peltz amid its ongoing proxy battle with the hedge fund billionaire. “Nelson Peltz does not understand Disney’s businesses and lacks the skills and experience to assist the board in delivering shareholder value in a rapidly shifting media ecosystem,” Disney said in an updated proxy statement on Tuesday, adding: “The current Disney board is the right board for shareholders.” The company once again defended its stock performance under CEO Bob… Source link

SiliconRepublic.com headed down to Yahoo’s Dublin office to meet some of its senior leaders about the talent they’re looking for. Last month, we took a look at some top companies that were hiring for cybersecurity roles in Ireland. One of these was media and tech company Yahoo. To find out more about the talent it’s looking for, SiliconRepublic.com headed down to its Dublin office to speak to some of its senior leaders. Sean Zadig is Yahoo’s chief… Source link

Less than half of respondents to a new Yahoo/Maru poll said they feel very confident in their financial literacy of stocks and bonds. A new survey shows many Canadians feel they have a sufficient level of financial literacy despite acknowledging that investing is still one major area they don’t understand. Seventy per cent of respondents to a new Yahoo poll, conducted by Maru Public Opinion, reported feeling confident in their financial literacy skills and have a “thorough understanding” or… Source link

When Chad Dawson first got the call to serve as a sparring partner for Jake Paul, he was skeptical. Dawson is a fighter’s fighter. He was once a mainstay on pound-for-pound lists, had two stints as light heavyweight champion, fought the best of his era and has two wins each over Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver, and single victories over Bernard Hopkins, Tomasz Adamek and Eric Harding, among others. He was vaguely aware of what Paul, the social media star, was doing in boxing because it was… Source link

No one knew it at the time, but the 2022 Pro Bowl was the last Pro Bowl that will be played in quite awhile. The NFL announced Monday that it’s doing away with the Pro Bowl in its current form, which has been played since 1951, and will replace it with The Pro Bowl Games, a week of skills competitions that will end with a flag football game. NFL executive Peter O’Reilly told The Associated Press that the NFL has been looking for a Pro Bowl replacement for awhile, and after getting feedback… Source link

Google’s parent company Alphabet is bringing together two of its most ambitious research projects — robotics and AI language understanding — in an attempt to make a “helper robot” that can understand natural language commands. Since 2019, Alphabet been developing robots that can carry out simple tasks like fetching drinks and cleaning surfaces. This Everyday Robots project is still in its infancy — the robots are slow and hesitant — but the bots have now been given an… Source link