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EDF Renewable Energy Puts Google Wind Farm Into Operation

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San Diego-based renewable energy developer EDF Renewable Energy says that it recently put a 225 megawatt, wind farm--which is supplying electricity to Google--into operation. All of the power at that plant is going to Google, under a long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the output of the wind farm. READ MORE>>.

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Qualcomm Backs MapR's Hadoop Technology

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San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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

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In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average. So perhaps it’s no wonder why some tech companies struggle to retain Black employees.

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Tech Industry Lobby Proposes Data Privacy Laws; Critics Call Them Weak

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The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

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On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

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The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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Interview with Darrius Thompson, OpenCandy

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Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M We were looking for a couple of things, one is someone who could take a step back and figure out how to get to self-sustainability, and a person with the background and framework on building a business model. That happened with David.