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For decades, searching for such hard-to-reach plants and collecting samples was carried out by intrepid botanists who rappelled by rope down dangerous cliffs to hunt for what was lost. Now, we may have a little more time before extinction.”DIRE SITUATIONToday, two in five plant species globally are threatened with extinction. Kauai has 250 plant species that can be found only on the island. To protect species in the long run, botanists need to collect samples — seeds and genetic material — which they can cultivate in greenhouse nurseries. They might even use drones to bomb down collected seeds, packing them into sticky fertilizer balls that can adhere to steep cliffs.

☆ How AMD became a chip giant and leapfrogged Intel after years of playing catch-up
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

After AMD and Intel parted ways, AMD reverse engineered Intel’s chips to make its own products that were compatible with Intel’s groundbreaking x86 software. Intel sued AMD, but a settlement in 1995 gave AMD the right to continue designing x86 chips, making personal computer pricing more competitive for end consumers. For those, AMD turned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which now makes all of AMD’s most advanced chips. AMD’s data center customers include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft Azure. And so now it suddenly makes sense to do more customized solutions.”Former Xilinx CEO Victor Peng and AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage in Munich, Germany, at the AMD

☆ Burger King's owner just opened a delivery-focused food hall where customers can order from Popeyes, Firehouse Subs, and other chains. The company is one of many expanding the ghost kitchen model to r
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Burger King's owner recently opened its first ghost kitchen, or digital food hall, in Miami. And recently, the parent of Burger King, Restaurant Brands International, opened its first ghost kitchen in Miami. Wonder is part ghost kitchen, part food delivery van, part meal-kit provider. These ghost kitchens on wheels, outfitted with cooking equipment and chefs, can be hailed through an app. The company, which ended its partnership with Miami-based Reef Technology this year, is not labeling the facility as a ghost kitchen.

☆ Intel and Google Cloud launch new chip to improve data center performance
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Jane Lanhee Lee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An up-close look at the Intel Infrastructure Processor Unit (IPU), co-developed by Google and photographed at Google Cloud's engineering lab in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., in September 2022. Google/Handout via REUTERSOct 11 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers more secure and efficient. The E2000 chip, code named Mount Evans, takes over the work of packaging data for networking from the expensive central processing units (CPU) that do the main computing. Google Cloud is starting to offer the E2000 in a new product called C3 VM which will be powered by Intel's fourth-generation Xeon processors, said Vahdat. Xeon chips are Intel's most powerful CPUs and Google Cloud is the first cloud service to deploy the latest generation of those chips, Intel said.

☆ Waymo workers form union in the latest push to organize Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Food service employees at the autonomous driving company Waymo are forming a union, the latest push by support workers to organize at Silicon Valley's most prominent companies. The workers are employed by Sodexo, which contracts service work for Google and other companies. "We are confident this one will also reach an amicable agreement for workers, the union, and our client very soon." The workers are part of Silicon Valley's ranks of contractors who support and supplement the work at tech companies. Her team unionized in 2020, and some of them have been joining meetings with the Waymo workers to show them the ropes of organizing and talk up the union.

☆ I'm a software engineer who ditched the Bay Area for an up-and-coming tech hub. I pay more in rent, but I still don't regret breaking up with Silicon Valley.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Charlotte Lytton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She moved away from Silicon Valley for Santa Cruz and then Sacramento. But during Covid, students leaving Santa Cruz meant we could afford to rent there again with our combined salaries, so we moved back. I once saw graffiti on a trash can down in WestCliff that said 'Silicon Valley ppl go home'. I do wonder if that's the reason it's been hard to make firm friends in Sacramento's tech community. I'm hopeful this will improve, and ultimately, the splitting up of Silicon Valley is an amazing thing.

☆ Burger King's owner opened its first ghost kitchen in Miami. Meet 7 innovative ghost-kitchen startups expanding the multibillion-dollar segment beyond the models developed by CloudKitchens and Reef Te
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-27 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Burger King's owner recently opened its first ghost kitchen, or digital food hall, in Miami. Meet 7 nontraditional ghost kitchen startups. And, recently, the parent of Burger King, Restaurant Brands International, opened its first ghost kitchen in Miami. These ghost kitchens on wheels, outfitted with cooking equipment and chefs, can be hailed through an app. The company, which ended its partnership with Miami-based Reef Technology this year, is not labeling the facility as a ghost kitchen.

☆ California cities dominate the list of those in the US with the lowest gender pay gap. These are the 10 cities where women earn the most in comparison with men.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-31 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The area around Los Angeles has the smallest gender pay gap, according to a report by GoodHire. Across the US' 100 biggest cities, women earn $44,220 a year, or 19% less than men, per the study. In comparison, women living in Provo-Orem, Utah, earn just under two-thirds of the amount men earn. Here are the 10 areas with the smallest gender pay gap, per GoodHire's study:Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California – women earn 9% less than men Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina – women earn 10% less than men Fresno, California – women earn 11% less than men Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida – women earn 11% less than men Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Florida – women earn 12% less than men Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada – women earn 12% less than men Winston-Salem, North Carolina – women earn 14% less than men Springfield, Massachusetts – women earn 14% less than men San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, California– women earn 14% less than men Albuquerque, New Mexico – women earn 14% less than menGoodHire also ranked the cities with the biggest gender pay gap:Provo-Orem, Utah – women earn 38% less than men Baton Rouge, Louisiana – women earn 32% less than men Ogden-Clearfield, Utah – women earn 31% less than men San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California – women earn 28% less than men Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Michigan – women earn 25% less than men Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia/South Carolina – women earn 25% less than men Tulsa, Oklahoma – women earn 25% less than men Salt Lake City, Utah – women earn 25% less than men Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – women earn 25% less than men Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – women earn 25% less than menAcross the US, the gender pay gap shrank slightly in 2020. On average, across the 100 most populous cities, women earn $44,220 a year, which is 19% less than men, per GoodHire's study.

☆ LinkedIn agrees to pay $1.8 million to female workers after the DOL said they were paid less than their male counterparts
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-04 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some female LinkedIn workers in California were paid less than their male counterparts, the DOL said. LinkedIn has agreed to pay $1.8 million to nearly 700 affected workers in a conciliation agreement. The OFCCP said that after controlling for other factors, LinkedIn paid some female employees "at a statistically significant lower rate than their male counterparts, which if proven, could result in a violation of the Executive Order." Under a conciliation agreement between the company and the DOL, LinkedIn will pay around $1.75 million in back wages and more than $50,000 in interest to 686 workers. Full-time female workers in the US on average earned 16.9% less than male workers in 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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