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ZmBIZI’s $550 Z2 phone pays you for your data usage

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Perhaps you’d prefer the Smilecheck app, where “the more you smile, the more you get paid” — my guess is that you’d be feeding the AI valuable facial recognition information. It’s not clear whether each app will disclose how and where it will be using the information it collects about you.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

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odeo feed My Odeo Channel (odeo/c0183b725bcb8b19). And finally, if you want more information about Big Vision Career and Project Consulting, you can check out my website at brittbravo.com. Thanks for listening. Ilyse Hogue activism rainforest women This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5

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A ‘thorn forest’ once covered 1 million acres in the Rio Grande Valley. This man is trying to bring it back

Fast Company Tech

That doesnt necessarily doom an ecosystem, but it does create opportunities for guinea grass and other nonnative fauna to push out endemic plants. The plants feed and shelter a staggering array of orioles, green jays, and other birds, whose whistles, caws, and tweets filled the air.

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Heat Listed

The Verge

The data feeding forecasting software for police are typically built around police stops and arrests. Unbeknownst to McDaniel, he was a sort of guinea pig, one of the first individuals to be put on Chicago’s “heat list.”. But there are all sorts of terrifying implications in this kind of geographic forecasting for police.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

It will come up in their feed either on Instagram, or Facebook, or even on LinkedIn, and then they will start to comment, or like, or share, or do some of that engagement. And I’d love to try them out with you all as my guinea pigs to see what their tool is like and if I like it so I can tell others about them. bloomerang.

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How I used AI to boost my self-esteem and how you can do the same

Fast Company Tech

Months of helping them connect the dots on their founder stories, only to have them feed everything into ChatGPT for perfectly polishedbut utterly lifelessfinal scripts. But first, I used myself as the guinea pig. Running my video storytelling company, I watched in frustration as students submitted soulless AI-generated scripts.

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How a fake “Real Oversight Board” is putting pressure on Facebook

The Verge

My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday. Some say they feel like guinea pigs, building cool stuff so that Facebook can see what works and eventually buy them out or copy them. The remarks come in response to concerns that Facebook’s algorithm favors conservatives. Anybody know who the executive quoted here is?