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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board. They become familiar with the map, which is our change model.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist? Their children are three times as likely to grow up in poverty and stay poor throughout their lifetimes.

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

TechCrunch

And making the raw components of the system freely available leaves the door open to bad actors who could train them on subjectively inappropriate content, like pornography and graphic violence. Stability AI used a cluster of 4,000 Nvidia A1000 GPUs running in AWS to train Stable Diffusion over the course of a month.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Reset Their Expectations In 2024

Crunchbase News

By acknowledging strengths and weaknesses, leaders can build the foundation for authenticity. This authenticity empowers entrepreneurs to assemble teams with diverse skill sets. By embracing limitations and building strong teams, entrepreneurs can foster an environment where innovation thrives. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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How European startups are aiding Ukrainian refugees

TechCrunch

We are well connected with the mayor whose team knows how and where to help as situation changes from minute to minute.”. Sennder , a platform that connects large commercial shippers with small freight carriers, teamed up with other startups to collect donations in Berlin and drive them to the Ukrainian border. Supplies on the ground.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

mRNA vaccines have given us a promising path to COVID immunity, developed in record time. And mRNA vaccines are also easily tweaked, raising the possibility of even quicker response to mutations, and even the creation of a framework for rapid development of many more vaccines.