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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

Signers of any skill level can contribute by signing specific words to help build an open-source video dataset for ASL. Attendees of NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference taking place March 17-21 in San Jose, will be able to participate in Signs live at the event.

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Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

NVIDIA AI Blog

Wild Me supports over 2,000 researchers across the globe running AI-enabled wildlife population studies for marine and terrestrial species.

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Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C

TechCrunch

The company began developing its modern data orchestration tools, powered by Apache Airflow, an open source platform for data engineering pipelines, that enables users to build, run and observe pipelines-as-code, and started driving that project in 2018. At that time, the scrappy data analytics company had scooped up $3.5

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Daily Crunch: Twitter CEO admits he purchased platform for $44B because ‘I kind of had to’

TechCrunch

Standing By in San Jose Ask Sophie: How many employment green cards are available each year? Meanwhile, Kyle tells you all about Databricks’ new open source model that has a super-cute name, but also some flaws. I have two questions for you: How many employment green cards in each category are available every year?

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Cruise acquires Voyage in another autonomous vehicle merger

The Verge

Cameron headed the startup’s open-source self-driving project before launching his own venture. The company operates a fleet of self-driving cars in two retirement communities, one near San Jose, California, and the other north of Orlando, Florida, both called The Villages.

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The ACLU is suing Los Angeles over its controversial scooter tracking system

The Verge

Cities such as Columbus, Ohio; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; San Jose, California; Seattle, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Louisville, Kentucky are demanding scooter companies agree to share data through MDS as a condition for operating on their streets. It’s growing into a bigger problem beyond LA.

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Goodbye, Game Friday. Hello Open Source Museum.

Museum 2.0

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment.