Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and deliver even bigger. @e...
A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
championed by colleagues like @trevordarrell, @pabbeel, @istoica05, and others—is leading the nation, unleashing the creativity of top students and research labs through industry-sponsored open-source...
Sources: in January 2018, Alameda got a $110M loan from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and a $6M loan from philanthropist Luke Ding, who back Effective Altruism
The big money behind Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of crypto exchange FTX, came from two influential backers … Tweets: @lizrhoffman , @mikekoob , @timnitgebru , @woodhull , @timnitgebru , ...
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent. Source: U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Copyright O...
Profile of VR pioneer Jaron Lanier, his early warnings about the dangers of social media, why Facebook is bad, and why BLM activism felt constructive
Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media. Too few of us listened. Now, in the most chaotic of moments … Tweets: @andygreenwald , @teh_aimee , and @zachbaron Tweets: And...
Stories from tech workers who are women, people of color, and LGBTQ-identifying, describe discrimination, microaggressions, feelings of isolation, and more
Los Angeles Times : Tweets: @jmbooyah , @ekp , @csforca , @miscadooch , @danbeucke , @alexpadilla4ca , @cdiaz916 , @scrivenix , @latimes , @latimes , @jeffbercovici , @jmbooyah , and @jmbooyah Tweets...
UrbanFootprint, which provides cloud-based urban planning software to cities and companies, raises $11.5M Series A
UrbanFootprint, a Berkeley, Calif.-based location intelligence and urban planning software platform provider, raised $11.5m in Series A funding.
Facebook's deepfakes policy is a good move but remains deeply flawed, covering only certain videos created by AI and creating loopholes for misleading “satire”
good old fakes—will easily slip by annoticed. And how many writers on propaganda have warned that irony/satire are anyone's game & a hair's breadth away from disinfo? https://www.theverge.com/... @ael...
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps
New York Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @suchitrav , @snowden , @paulkidd , @campuscodi , @nytopinion , @dirktherabbit , @michellerobbins , @cwarzel , @cwarzel , @chadloder , @bora_dimpy , and @mand...
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps
New York Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @snowden , @suchitrav , @paulkidd , @campuscodi , @nytopinion , @dirktherabbit , @michellerobbins , @cwarzel , @cwarzel , @chadloder , @bora_dimpy , and @mand...