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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands. — Most (@Most) October 20, 2021. .

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Food Rocket blasts off after securing funding, grocery delivery deal with Circle K parent

TechCrunch LA

We first met the Chicago-based company and its founder and CEO Vitaly Alexandrov last year when we reported that Food Rocket launched in the Bay Area , going up against the likes of Amazon Fresh, DoorDash, Instacart and Gopuff, which is no easy feat given each of the company’s footprint.

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Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets

TechCrunch LA

Investment into alternative proteins, for example, plant-based meats and dairy substitutes was $5 billion in 2021, according to both the Good Food Institute and Crunchbase data. This includes a $2 million pre-seed round from 2021. The round was led by Stray Dog Capital, with additional strategic support from Standard Meat Co.,

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Down bad

TechCrunch LA

Few companies have to deal with the stressed of both crypto and public markets like Coinbase which laid off more than 1,100 people this week, but plenty of startups raised mega-rounds in 2021 to theoretically future-proof their companies. As Celsius accelerates the crypto sell-off, who pays the price?

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

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With the ITRC 2021 End-of-Year Data Breach Report revealing a 68 percent increase in stolen sensitive personal information, there is a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Internet users need to start watching out for themselves, like looking both ways before you cross the street.

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What Is Claude AI and Anthropic? ChatGPT’s Rival Explained

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It comes courtesy of Google and Amazon-backed startup Anthropic, which was only founded in 2021. It was founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, and now has more than 150 employees. However, another highly capable chatbot burst onto the scene earlier this year called Claude. trillion parameters.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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Meanwhile, Twitter began taking steps to replace those terms earlier this year and hopes to finish replacing that terminology by the end of 2021, according to CNET. . Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology.

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