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NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishri…

Feeling Sad, Excited Or Bored? This Startup Claims Its AI Can (Mostly) Tell
The company, which is building “empathic” conversational AI, is now valued at $219 million.

WATCH: In My Feed – This Aint Texas, But These Are Some Western Films to Watch | Essence
https://www.essence.com/news/watch-in-my-feed-this-aint-texas-but-these-are-some-western-films-to-watch/

WATCH: In My Feed – This Aint Texas, But These Are Some Western Films to Watch
These are the Western films to add to your watchlist.

I’m in ur git tools, crashing them with emoji.
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https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/547

Crash when path contains emoji · Issue #547 · newren/git-filter-repo
Tried the git-clean contrib script on a project that has paths that contain emoji (platform: Fedora Silverblue) and got the following crash: $ git-clean --force Error: Passed b'web/\xf0\x9f\x94\x92...

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf…

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft
The complete list of undrafted free agents signed

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts that call for violence against trans people and describe trans and gender nonconforming people as "satanic" and more (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/27…

Meta is failing to curb anti-trans hate, new report says
In the report, GLAAD catalogued dozens of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets, that it said Meta had not acted against.

Filing: Alibaba calls off a Hong Kong IPO for its Cainiao logistics arm, and now plans to buy out all remaining stock held by investors and employees for $3.75B (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Calls Off Cainiao’s IPO After Market Slump Worsens
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is calling off an initial public offering for its Cainiao logistics arm, shelving a much-anticipated debut that could have raised more than $1 billion.

Filing: Applied Materials discloses "multiple subpoenas" as recently as February from US agencies, including the SEC, about the company's Chinese business (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US Renews Inquiry Into Applied Materials’ Chinese Business
US government agencies have issued a new round of requests for information about Applied Materials Inc.’s shipments to Chinese customers, reviving a sensitive topic as Washington tries to sever sales of advanced chipmaking gear to its geopolitical rival.