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☆ I moved from New York to Taiwan for work. I had to take a pay cut to my $40,000 salary — but I have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Alex Teachey is a New Yorker who moved to Taiwan in 2020. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alex Teachey, a 38-year-old astronomer and New Yorker who moved to Taiwan in 2020. I landed my current job as a postdoctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, that same year. It's in a neighborhood that I love, in New Taipei City, the enormous donut that sprawls around the center of Taipei. I live a 20-minute bike ride from my office — I never could have have afforded anything remotely similar if I'd stayed in New York City.

Persons: Alex Teachey, —, I'd, New York Alex Teachey, it'd, I've, — it's, we're Organizations: New Yorker, Service, Yorker, New York University, Columbia University, Academia Sinica, Tap, Google, Taiwan's Locations: New, Taiwan, New York, Taipei, Here's, Tap Taipei, York City, New York City, Yonghe, New Taipei City, Qingshui Cliff, Hualien

☆ How Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy’ educated Google Bard on how AI can help save the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

You may not know this, but Bill Nye, "The Science Guy," has professional experience overseeing new and potentially dangerous innovations. Still, computer science is not the skill that Nye thinks is the most important for students to learn. We don't want a smaller and smaller fraction of people understanding a more complex world," Nye said. During the conversation with CNBC's Tyler Mathisen at the TEC Summit on AI, CNBC surprised Nye with a series of questions that came from a prompt given to the Google generative AI Bard: What should we ask Bill Nye about AI? Watch the video above to see all of Bill Nye's answers to the AI about how it can help save the world.

Persons: Bill Nye, Guy, Nye, CNBC's Tyler Mathisen, Bard, —, Bill Nye's Organizations: Boeing, CNBC Technology, Summit, TEC, CNBC Locations: New York City

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried's old penthouse roommate insisted on immunity before testifying because he feared he unwittingly facilitated a crime
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Yedidia insisted on immunity to testify because he was worried he may have facilitated a crime. AdvertisementAdvertisementBefore Adam Yedidia could testify against Sam Bankman-Fried at the FTX cofounder's criminal trial, he needed reassurances. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis courtroom sketch shows Adam Yedidia, former FTX and Alameda Research employee and former friend of Sam Bankman-Fried, testifying, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. In 2017, he worked at Alameda Research for two months as a trader before leaving to pursue a PhD. Yedidia said he lived in a $35 million penthouse apartment in the Bahamas, which he said Alameda Research purchased at Bankman-Fried's direction.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Adam Yedidia, Yedidia, —, Fried, Elizabeth Williams, Lewis Kaplan, who's, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Prosecutors, Wang, Yedida Organizations: Service, Prosecutors, Alameda Research, AP, MIT Locations: Alameda, Manhattan, FTX, Bankman, Bahamas

☆ Here's the 12-slide pitch deck Prolific, a startup providing quality data to train AI models, used to raise $32 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Prolific, a startup providing quality data for AI training, has raised $32 million in fresh funds. The Y Combinator graduate company aims to help AI models avoid biases and inaccuracies. A startup that gathers quality data to help train AI models has raised $32 million in fresh funds. The company offers researchers access to "fast smart human feedback at scale" that can help AI data sets avoid biases and inaccuracies. Prolific's £25 million (around $32 million) Series A funding comes from Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises (formerly Oxford Science Innovation).

Persons: Phelim Bradley, Bradley Organizations: Oxford Science Enterprises, Oxford Science Innovation, Google, Meta, Stanford University, University of Oxford Locations: London, Partech

☆ Yellow-crested cockatoos find an unlikely urban refuge in Hong Kong
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Hong Kong CNN —It’s dusk in Hong Kong Park. On a sweltering summer day in Hong Kong Park, nestled between skyscrapers in the urban center of the Asian metropolis, a yellow-crested cockatoo perches on a branch. Noemi Cassanelli/CNN Yellow-crested cockatoos nest in old trees, typically more than 100 years old, which form cavities in the trunk. Hong Kong, despite its urban sprawl and concrete veneer, is a stronghold for several endangered species, including Chinese pangolins, Hong Kong groupers, and the black-faced spoonbill. (According to the AFCD, it has “not received any report related to poaching of yellow-crested cockatoos in the past three years.”)Extremely picky about where they roost, the yellow-crested cockatoos use cavities that form in the trunks of trees that are typically older than 100 years.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN —, –, Astrid Andersson, it’s, ”, Andersson, Quadrupling, Noemi Cassanelli, Cassanelli, CNN Andersson, CNN There's, they’ve, “, Tom Booth, Fox, It’s, ’, Fiona Woodhouse, Woodhouse, Hong Kong’s, Jovy Chan, Chan, “ They’ve Organizations: CNN, Hong Kong CNN, Press, University of Hong, Timor Leste, International Trade, Fisheries, Conservation Department, CITES, Scottish wildcats, ADM Capital Foundation, Society for, Bird, Cultural Services Department, Facebook, Hong, SPCA HK, WWF Locations: Hong Kong, Swedish, Indonesia, Timor, Australia, University of Hong Kong, Hong, ”, Mainland China, HKD28,000, Indonesian

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Say goodbye to the US car market as we know it, TikTok will pay for AR filters, and YouTubers share how they make money
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm taking a few days off to watch my best friend graduate with their PhD. (Don't worry, my colleagues in London will be bringing you your daily dose of tech news while I'm away.) Pharmacy startup TruePill is searching for its panacea. Employees told to "drink the Kool-Aid" at Larry Page's startup. Current and former employees told Insider about the recent turmoil.

☆ 'The Santa Clauses' review: Tim Allen loads up the sleigh again for Disney+ series
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —“The Santa Clauses” doesn’t bother trying to reinvent the sleigh, but it does splash a new coat of paint on it, in mostly agreeable and mildly clever ways. After three movies over a 12-year span beginning in 1994, Tim Allen is back in a Disney+ series that, at six half-hour episodes, puts some additional cheer in holiday streaming. Still, producer/showrunner Jack Burditt (a veteran of “Modern Family” and “30 Rock”) does fill his bags with some surprises, and “The Santa Clauses” does a nifty job of cliffhanging its episodes, even the ones that drag a bit, to pull the audience along from one into the next. “The Santa Clauses” extends that relationship, in a festive package that’s bright, colorful and unburdened by loftier pretensions – just the kind of easy lift that should deliver a few good nights. “The Santa Clauses” premieres November 16 on Disney+.

Numbers don’t lie (Madonna is one of the bestselling pop stars of all time), but they don’t often tell the whole story. Without question, I view Madonna as someone who pushed the boundaries of overtly and unabashedly sexual performances in popular culture. But Black artists often get excised from predominating narratives about U.S. popular culture. But Black artists often get excised from predominating narratives about U.S. popular culture. The risks were much higher for the Black women and the Black and Latinx queer people across genders who chose to be sexually provocative entertainers.

☆ A former executive assistant to Jeff Bezos, Marissa Mayer, and Eric Schmidt shares her career tips from working with Amazon and Google's top talent
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-19 | by ( Stephen Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ann Hiatt worked as Jeff Bezos's executive assistant and as chief of staff at Google for Eric Schmidt. Hiatt tells readers to find managers who they admire and who have an aspirational career path. That's the advice of Ann Hiatt, who worked as an executive assistant to Jeff Bezos and Marissa Mayer, and as chief of staff to Eric Schmidt. Amazon founder Bezos hired Hiatt in 2002 and they worked together until 2005, when she left to study for a PhD. Hiatt wrote in her book: "My next career steps have always been inspired by asking myself the key question of 'What do I want to learn in the next phase of my career?'"

☆ Молдавские студенты могут поступить в вузы Латвии. Крайний срок подачи заявки
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-05 | by ( ) ru.diez.md time to read: 1 min

Молдавские студенты могут поступить в вузы Латвии. Крайний срок подачи заявки – 1 апреляЛатвия объявила о запуске государственных стипендий Латвии на 2021/2022 учебный год для студентов и научных сотрудников из Молдовы, пишет Infotag. Процесс подачи заявки происходит онлайн. Крайний срок подачи заявки – 1 апреля. Размер государственных стипендий в Латвии на 2020/2021 учебный год составляет:# 500 евро в месяц для бакалаврских и магистерских программ;# 670 евро в месяц для программ PhD.

Organizations: апреляЛатвия Locations: Латвия, Молдова

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