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Black IT leaders weigh in on what DEI means for IT

CIO Business Intelligence

leadership diversity is also convincingly associated with holistic growth ambitions, greater social impact, and more satisfied workforces. And so as I bring new people in, Im thinking about how I am casting a wide net to bring in a wide array of talent. He started the group after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.

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Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions

GeekWire

Bill and Melinda Gates at the University of Washington in 2017. In October 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5 million to the TED Foundation’s Audacious Project to “research and overcome barriers to large scale giving by ultra-high net worth donors.”. In 2017, ultra-wealthy American families donated just 1.2%

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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, in my 2017 “ State of Digital Transformation ” report, I learned that only 37% of businesses viewed digital transformation as an investment in the fight against market evolution and disruption. That would make generative AI potentially more disruptive than the internet, social media, and the mobile revolution.

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T-Mobile Store Owner Made $25M Illegally Unlocking Cellphones

SecureWorld News

Department of Justice (DOJ) says Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, was found guilty of 14 federal criminal charges for the scheme he ran from 2014 to 2019 that netted $25 million in criminal proceeds. which was a T-Mobile store, in Los Angeles in January 2017. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Redfin CEO says strength of housing market ‘almost feels eerie’ amid economic and health crisis

GeekWire

Redfin topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter , reporting $214 million in revenue, up 8%, and a net loss per share of $0.08. Redfin is investing in tech-enabled tools that aid the remote homebuying process, such as virtual tours, video appointments with agents, and more to help adjust for social distancing mandates.

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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

How we got here The most notable enabling technologies in generative AI are deep learning, embeddings, transfer learning (all of which emerged in the early to mid-2000s), and neural net transformers (invented in 2017). The parameters of the neural net models are adjusted using the examples presented to the model in training.

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Cantwell report warns that Google and Facebook are killing local journalism as CEOs testify at Senate

GeekWire

Maria Cantwell discusses net neutrality at a 2017 town hall in Seattle. The wide-ranging hearing covered content moderation, privacy, next week’s election, and alleged political bias on social media. GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state.

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