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- Cloudy day: Google’s first cloud area in Africa launched in South Africa. Annie and Tage write that this transfer “permits for the localization of purposes and providers” and for companies to extra rapidly deploy capabilities — for instance, synthetic intelligence, machine studying and knowledge analytics.
- Duck, duck, goose: French meals tech startup Gourmey took in $48 million of recent funding to prepare dinner up its slaughter-free and lab-grown foie gras. Romain has extra.
- Show a little more, show a little less: Fb is testing out a brand new characteristic with Reels to let customers say how a lot or how little they wish to see of sure issues of their feed, Aisha reviews.
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Headline included, I loved Paul’s story in the present day on Whistleblower Software, an aptly named firm that took in a $3 million seed spherical to proceed growing its product aimed toward making it simpler for employees to report company wrongdoings.
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Pricey Sophie: Any suggestions for negotiating visa and inexperienced card sponsorship?
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Pricey Sophie,
I’m presently on an F-1 scholar visa. I’ll obtain my bachelor’s diploma in pc science in December and can apply for OPT. I’d like to remain and work within the U.S.
Do you could have any suggestions for negotiating visa and inexperienced card sponsorship? The rest I ought to bear in mind as I begin contacting potential employers?
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A cybersecurity incident disrupted enterprise at U.S. hospital chain CommonSpirit Well being, inflicting it to take a few of its data know-how programs offline, Carly reviews. It’s not but identified what sort of incident it was or what, if any, private data was taken within the course of.
Right here’s 5 extra for you:
- How we doing?: It’s been one yr since Google’s $1 billion pledge of support to Africa’s digital economy, and Tage and Annie do some efficiency assessment.
- M&A motion: Spotify acquires Kinzen, a content material moderation tech firm, in a transfer that Sarah writes will deal with platform issues of safety.
- We take your sale and lift you one: Walmart just isn’t letting Amazon’s Prime Early Entry Sale get the most effective of it and is countering with its own sale, Aisha reviews.
- That is solely the start: Simply as Elon Musk introduced he was transferring ahead with the Twitter deal, a choose was granting the social media large time to do some digging. Loads of twists and turns certainly, as Taylor put it. Additionally, Alex weighs in on how expensive Elon’s Twitter buy is.
- Battle, to your proper, to partAI: The White Home is proposing an AI Bill of Rights, which “mandates that AI programs be confirmed protected and efficient by way of testing and session with stakeholders, along with steady monitoring of the programs in manufacturing,” Kyle writes.
