The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

The new Neo G9 now has a Mini LED backlit panel that can hit 2,000 nits of brightness, with full-array local dimming for the kind of deeper blacks and convincing HDR that the original didn’t quite manage. The Odyssey Neo G9 will ship globally August 9th, and we’ll be taking a closer look at this monitor then.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The uptake comes as telehealth is said to bridge the healthcare access gap in Africa, the continent that suffers the highest disease burden in the world and the lowest patient-to-doctor ratio. We look at strategic engagement by allowing API integration at a global level,” said Macharia. This means we do not build what is available.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

and many other areas globally, but especially where deserts meet the sea, like in the MENA region. Desalination produces fresh water and proportionately saltier brine, which generally has to be treated, as to simply pour it back into the ocean can throw the local ecosystem out of balance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Investors include 500 Startups, Kingsway Capital, 468 Capital, Presight Capital, Global Founders Capital and Maximilian Bitner, the former CEO of Lazada who currently holds the same role at secondhand fashion platform Vestiaire Collective. Una did not disclose the ratio of equity and debt in the round.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 10, 2023

The pangenome combines 47 individual genome reference sequences and better represents the genomic diversity of global populations. Evolving DeepVariant for error correction Google initially developed DeepVariant , an open-source CNN variant caller framework that analyzes the short-read sequencing evidence of local regions of the genome.

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TechNode

MARCH 26, 2024

Southeast Asia’s largest car producer and exporter, Thailand has also become a strategic location for Chinese automakers wishing to diversify their operations and reduce geopolitical risks, according to researchers from the Global Policy Institute. Rivals such as SAIC, Great Wall Motor, and Hozon Auto are also making their EVs locally.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds. He added: “We’re also in a fortunate situation where we have a much higher success ratio.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Thus, it could be beneficial for open-vocabulary detection if we build locality information into the image-text pre-training. This information is often useful for downstream recognition and localization tasks. The position, scale, and aspect ratio of the crop is randomly sampled.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Over time, companies become valued partners in addressing local issues, rather than occasional contributors. Companies Are Matching Employee Donations At Higher Ratios. They offer a generous 2:1 match ratio and will match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year. Connect with local business owners.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Over time, companies become valued partners in addressing local issues, rather than occasional contributors. Companies Are Matching Employee Donations At Higher Ratios. They offer a generous 2:1 match ratio and will match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year. Connect with local business owners.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For example, if a recurring donor lives in your local area, you might reference the community when sending them an invitation to an in-person event you’re hosting. . Philip Schmitz is the CEO and founder of cloud-services leader BIS Global, creators of the CharityEngine fundraising & communications technology platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Other backers include Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and Global Founders Capital. Mosaic wants to flip that ratio on its head. . Latin American nocnoc raises $7M seed round to help global sellers connect with local marketplaces across LatAm. Only 20% of their time is more strategic, making an impact on the business.”.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. . I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now.

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Double the Donation

MAY 25, 2021

Using Bright Funds, your company can create rapid disaster response campaigns and manage your global giving, matching gifts, company volunteer events, volunteer grants, payroll, and more. POINT is a collaborative volunteer platform that connects communities with local causes. Why This Corporate Giving Software Stands Out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. One of the most exciting things he talked about is the creation of a Global Citizen Center in downtown San Francisco. City governments are increasingly passing laws to strengthen the local, green economy.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Unlike previously popular SPMD partitioning strategies that separate communication from device-local computation, this approach uses the fast TPU ICI links to overlap them, leading to up to 1.38x performance improvements. Illustration of MLGO during inlining. “#bbs”,

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Invite local musicians to perform and give them some information about your nonprofit’s cause to discuss between songs. Supporters can tune in from the comfort of their home to hear their favorite local singers and support a good cause.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The accelerator, founded by Cyril Ebersweiler and Sean O’Sullivan and now part of the Global Accelerator Network , got its start two years ago, graduating 6 startups in its first class and 9 in its second. The 8 companies each got 8 minutes to pitch their projects to a room full of investors, media and fellow entrepreneurs in Beijing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Canada, CIS Region, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina — with the startup offering proprietary localized content for each target region (although its users are spread across some 40 countries). Kodland’s remote courses for children aged 6-17 are currently available in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S.,

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? Local university, my wife was working there as a major gift person. So the idea that globally speaking, or at least across the U.S. Harvey: Okay.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Then when we go back into next holiday, which we’re already thinking about with supply chain and build, we’re already in that framing, trying to look at what we think our ratio should be between the two. I don’t know that it’s inevitable that streaming games means that there’s no local [computing] capability that I want in my house.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Thanks to such efforts, energy is becoming cheaper and greener, benefiting local communities and society at large. Data centers boost the local labor market Like any business that sets up shop in a community, data centers create jobs for local people. The impact on local labor markets can be profound.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Today, Daye is announcing a £10 million (~$11.5M) Series A round — which includes investment from London-based Hambro Perks, global VC firm MassMutual Ventures and Canadian VC Cross Border Impact Ventures — and brings its total raised to £19M (or just under $22M) to date. Image credits: Daye.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Here’s Kurt Wagner at Bloomberg: Facebook typically works with law enforcement to follow local laws where the company operates, but said it has paused sharing user data with Hong Kong authorities while it conducts a “human-rights” assessment. Coming Tuesday : The Verge brings you further inside Clubhouse. Lauren Kaori Gurley / Vice ).

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

And so I think every creator will have their own twist on this, and will have their own sort of ratio of how they want to mix their content. We would be kidding ourselves if we thought we could be the police officers for all live audio conversations happening globally at any given point in time.”. We need to be smarter than just that.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The groups, which range in focus from video games to music to local communities, are moderated by other group members. Roop Mangat belongs to a pair of local community Facebook groups — one in which no people of color or women are moderators, and another that has a white woman moderator who serves alongside only white men.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

The incident took place that same week that global protests against the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, among others, galvanized the country — and brought a heightened sensitivity to ongoing racist oppression in the United States. The quote included the n-word. Linda Qiu / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. But in the Washington Post on Wednesday, Tonya Riley found that Boogaloo recommendations are still plentiful.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count,” she wrote. Trending up : Facebook is investing $5 million in local news organizations that serve historically marginalized communities.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Today felt like an unusual lull in the intersection of our many unfolding national and global crises, and so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about something different — a subject that, despite all my best efforts, I keep getting crushingly wrong. Instagram hired Melissa Waters as its new global vice president of marketing.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

And local governments are planning for much longer periods of lockdown. France voted to force social media platforms to take down child exploitation and terrorism-related content within the hour or face a fine of up to 4 percent of their global revenue. Apple is going to start having more employees return to its major global offices.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But WeChat, in addition to being a vital communication channel for the Chinese diaspora, is also a global conduit of Chinese state propaganda, surveillance and intimidation. It’s all a localization strategy, which allows you to not only achieve relevance but respect,” he said. Moscow Mitch will continue to have to take his lumps.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.) Perhaps realizing that the app may be caught up in an intractable conflict between global superpowers, TikTok stars have begun to panic.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The firm is said to be assembling a group of investors, and is actively looking for local partners. Will this help the feature take off globally? I have no doubt it will make Facebook a better place to work. And I wonder whether the version of Facebook the rest of us would not benefit from similarly decisive intervention. Bloomberg).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

To address ownership concerns, ByteDance plans to do an initial public offering of global TikTok on a U.S. Oracle will also own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the new global TikTok, two of the people said. As the conspiracy theories grows, hate campaigns against local laws and politicians could become more commonplace.

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