The Parallax

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Adida’s new company, which he publicly announced at the Context Conversations event here Monday evening, which The Parallax co-sponsored, is the nonprofit VotingWorks. VotingWorks, Adida told the Context Conversations audience, will “build open-source voting machines on commodity hardware. How do you bake a pie? Adida said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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CIO

JULY 14, 2023

But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models. In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” As so often happens with new technologies, the question is whether to build or buy.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. This map shows which electronic voting systems are in use across the U.S., based on data from VerifiedVoting.org. Illustration by Pinguino Kolb/The Parallax. Following the 2016 election, the U.S.

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