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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous. But, we're not for piracy.

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This Doom port runs (almost) entirely on a GPU

TechSpot

The list of Doom ports on Wikipedia should now be updated with a brand-new entry. The recently unveiled doomgpu project aims to run the forefather of modern shooters "almost" entirely on the GPU, requiring a somewhat complex software setup and a Linux operating system to get the job done. Read Entire Article

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

It’s reminiscent of how early internet users had to learn to navigate online information, eventually understanding that while Wikipedia might be a good starting point for research, it shouldn’t be cited as a primary source.

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Everything you need to know to create the next big company in Latin America

The Next Web

Rather than read news articles to formulate ideas for your next company, I encourage any budding Latin American entrepreneur to get on Wikipedia. Brazil-based Emprego Ligado helps low income workers find jobs close to home. What can the mirror tell us about the next big company? Let’s compare for a minute the “North” versus the “South.”

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. So, you shouldn’t ask ChatGPT whether to quit your job or if you should get a puppy—right?

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Microsoft launches Viva, a bet on the future of remote work

The Verge

Think of Viva topics as a Wikipedia for the organization,” explains Spataro. While there’s still a debate around how dramatically office jobs will change once the pandemic is over, Microsoft is very much betting that the way we’re working right now is the new normal. Image: Microsoft. The last module inside Viva is Topics.

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Crowdsourcing: A Value to Nonprofits?

Tech Soup

According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." Organizations are crowdfunding, crowd voting, crowdsourcing jobs, and even crowdsourcing films (see Life in a Day ).