TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Like other companies in the meat alternative space, the startup is founded on the premise that the traditional meat industry is unsustainable. This is seeing demand for meat alternatives soaring, but, argues Steele, these products still aren’t good enough. They don’t taste right and they aren’t healthy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most big accelerators tend to dedicate some of their resources to dauntingly hard science problems and the companies taking them on… but for SOSV’s IndieBio , it’s the primary focus. Image Credits: Kinoko. The company currently has both chicken and steak prototypes in development. Image Credits: TomTex.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Brain imaging studies have shown that in the presence of external stimulation, introverts show more activity in the regions of the brain that process information, make meaning, and problem solve compared to extroverts. Incubation (the problem enters your unconscious mind and nothing appears to be happening externally).

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The company says that its solution offers a lower cost per mile with fewer carbon emissions than conventional transportation alternatives. Swyft sees this as a new form of urban mobility that can solve transportation problems in densely developed areas, including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stop Creating Bad DAGsOptimize Your Airflow Environment By Improving Your PythonCode Valuable tips to reduce your DAGs parse time and save resources. However, anyone who has already worked with Airflow in a production environment, especially in a complex one, knows that it can occasionally present some problems and weirdbugs.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As we do this, we’re transforming robot learning into a scalable data problem so that we can scale learning of generalized low-level skills, like manipulation. In this blog post, we’ll review key learnings and themes from our explorations in 2022. Example PaLM-SayCan-RT1 executions of long-horizon tasks in real kitchens.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

Created by Twitch streamers ShineyPen , Lucia Everblack , and RekitRaven , the walkout aims to bring greater awareness to the problems creators are suffering on Twitch. ShineyPen, a Filipino, trans streamer, thought more should be done in addition to talking about the problem, so he decided to organize a walkout. “A However [.]

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them. Dash’s alternative payment network brings together this mobile money and traditional banks and facilitates transactions for consumers and businesses.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Activities they considered “service” included “working with others to make the community or campus a better place” (81%), “acting to benefit the common good” (80%), “everyday acts of kindness” (76%), “acting to raise awareness about a campus, community, or global problem” (72%), and “working with others to address social inequality” (68%).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Meat has been part of the human diet since before we found fire, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the production of meat at scale is more of a detriment to the environment and the world than a benefit.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Starting with OpenAIs pivotal o1 model, researchers began to apply more computing power to the real-time reasoning a model does just after a user prompts it with a problem or question. Gemini is one of the first AI models capable of working autonomously and reasoning its way through complex problems on the behalf of the user.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 7, 2025 7:35 PM GMT TL;DR: If you are thinking of using interpretability to help with strategic deception, then there's likely a problem you need to solve first: how are intentional descriptions (like deception) related to algorithmic ones (like understanding the mechanisms models use)? What is the problem?

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 25, 2010

to make it easier to work within the 3rd party tool's own environment. You can click on a user name and force reset their password, set nicknames (alternate usernames) and include them in the shared contacts directory (more on that later). For a nonprofit/education environment the cost is just $2/user per year. That's about it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

The motivation behind this work comes from our concerns about the environment, especially relating to carbon emissions and plastic waste, combined with our love of enzyme engineering – being able to apply its skills to solve a global problem, change the system, and create a truly circular economy,” Riley said in an interview. .

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stop Creating Bad DAGsOptimize Your Airflow Environment By Improving Your PythonCode Valuable tips to reduce your DAGs parse time and save resources. However, anyone who has already worked with Airflow in a production environment, especially in a complex one, knows that it can occasionally present some problems and weirdbugs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. In the U.S., The Chafee Amendment has been crucial for this accomplishment.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Moreover, these models cannot be easily reused in new clinical contexts as they often require the collection, de-identification and annotation of site-specific data for every new deployment environment, which is both laborious and expensive. However, REMEDIS is equally compatible with other contrastive self-supervised learning methods.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Blue skies, smiling at me : Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey–backed Twitter alternative, is now available on Android, writes Sarah. “It’s better to ask: Do we have hustle problems? Product problems? Process problems? People problems? Don’t worry, this is a Primo tool : Also by Romain , French startup Primo raised $3.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“There’s very much this infrastructure and proximity problem. The alternative to Hookdeck would be to build all this your own,” Bouchard said. One of the challenges for developers is that it requires a lot of work to manage the webhooks as the data they transmit comes into the system and interacts with applications.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

The Social by Social Game really took off at Net Tuesday this week when some 20 participants invented a south London borough, created a set of project ideas for better health, happiness and the environment, and then went on to plan how social technology could yield these social benefits. All within 90 minutes. Social by Social game cards.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To do this, the platform enables users to quickly “generate, optimize, and iterate on” design alternatives, taking into account design criteria and data like terrain, maps, wind, lighting, traffic and zoning, etc. Spacemaker then returns design alternatives optimized for the full potential of the site.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While countless companies are developing alternative and more sustainable ways for humans to get their protein fixes such as through lab-grown meat , others are tackling the underlying problem from a different angle by exploring new ways of fostering the traditional meat and fish populace through insect protein.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But as awareness of climate change and interest in hydrogen-powered freight grows, so too has demand for an environmentally friendlier alternative. The team decided it would be their mission to create a solution that could sustainably cut grass in a controlled environment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That’s the problem that startup TomoCredit is trying to solve. I had to help them understand that the environment is changing,” she said. One of those themes is in establishing and maintaining good credit and having an alternative to predatory lending. Tomo is not the only fintech with an alternative credit model.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. PDLP has been used to solve real-world problems with as many as 12B non-zeros (and an internal distributed version scaled to 92B non-zeros).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The horrors of slavery may be the most damning legacy of industrial sugar, but it’s far from the only problem caused by the human craving for sweeteners. That’s another problem for the environment as water becomes the next resource to be stressed by the currents of climate change. Sugar hangover.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The fact that the startup has managed to raise this amount of capital in such a challenging fundraising environment is impressive, but the fact that it has also increased its valuation i s notable considering that many companies these days are either struggling to raise or raising at flat or even down rounds. billion valuation. and abroad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Likewise, for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, similar challenges exist because of the impact of new technologies and alternative forms of entertainment on audience tastes and behavior. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

To Koster, online worlds are digital spaces — from rich 3D environments to text-based ones — focused on one main theme. Support for users creating their own virtual items and environments. On the contrary, people like Raph Koster think it’s one of the metaverse’s toughest problems. Finally, a way to mingle with brands.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The game features 32 songs and several remixes that bridge eras and genres from ‘80s hip-hop to modern alternative. The Climb 2 features 12 peaks of steadily increasing difficulty spread across four distinct environments ranging from alpine mountain ranges to urban cityscapes. Time only progresses when you move. In Death: Unchained.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Written in partnership with Equivolve Consulting, we capture lessons from the BMA Fellowship as a case study of what’s possible when Black social innovators exist in an affirming environment of support and respect. They’re dreaming and building an alternative world that commits to removing oppression—not reforming it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“I think the pandemic has been a big problem for everyone. But the rise in D2C brands combined with the decline in young people’s use of Facebook for discovery purposes could potentially breed an environment where an alternative gifting startup could grow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In a keynote address Zennström gave a blunt assessment of the economic environment, while unpacking how he failed several times in his own career during tough economic conditions. In this environment a lower valuation is no reflection on you. Technology investment in Q3 is around 30% down on the same period in 2021.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

Facebook hasn’t named a specific alternative it supports, but it generally favors the government having more control (and receiving more blame) for moderating inflammatory speech online. Relying on surveys and hiding its division problem rather than directly addressing it feel like steps back. Image: Facebook.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Many startups rely on venture debt: it’s both a cheaper alternative to raising equity and can serve as a capital tool that helps companies build in ways that equity isn’t great for. We’re still actively investing in climate tech startups that have been focused on execution and solving problems. -based startups.

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

The Importance of LMS Security Given the LMS’s role in handling sensitive data and delivering the learning experience, a secure environment is paramount. This system creates a multi-faceted environment characterized by reduced risk, enhanced reputational standing, and an elevated workplace environment.

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