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Macroscope, which was founded by Periscope's Kayvon Beykpour to help developers find bugs, raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed, following a $10M seed (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/periscopes-beykpour-raise…

Ten years after selling Periscope to Twitter, startup's co-founder raises $40 million for Macroscope
Kayvon Beykpour said he built Macroscope because of how difficult it was to track what developers were working on at Twitter.

Growing Perspectives: Modelling Embodied Perspective Taking and Inner Narrative Development Using Large Language Models
Sabrina Patania, Luca Annese, Anna Lambiase, Anita Pellegrini, Tom Foulsham, Azzurra Ruggeri, Silvia Rossi, Silvia Serino, Dimitri Ognibene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11868

Growing Perspectives: Modelling Embodied Perspective Taking and Inner Narrative Development Using Large Language Models
Language and embodied perspective taking are essential for human collaboration, yet few computational models address both simultaneously. This work investigates the PerspAct system [1], which integrates the ReAct (Reason and Act) paradigm with Large Language Models (LLMs) to simulate developmental stages of perspective taking, grounded in Selman's theory [2]. Using an extended director task, we evaluate GPT's ability to generate internal narratives aligned with specified developmental stages, a…

Study: 63% of Consumers Have a More Positive Perception of Brands That Use Sustainable Packaging https://vegconomist.com/packaging/study-consumers-associate-sustainable-packaging-positive-brand-perception/

Study: 63% of Consumers Have a More Positive Perception of Brands That Use Sustainable Packaging - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new study by global management consultancy Simon-Kucher has concluded that consumers expect sustainable packaging, but are not willing to compromise on

prosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper

Who are top 2026 NFL Draft prospects for Indiana, aside from QB Fernando Mendoza? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6719678/2025/10/16/nfl-draft-2026-prospects-indiana-football-elijah-sarratt/

Incompetent and militarized
‘emergency response’
is on track to be a
trillion-dollar industry
by the end of Trump’s second term
https://prospect.org/power/2025-07-17-meet-disaster-capitalists-alligator-alcatraz/

Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz
Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.

The “dark money” linking Donald Trump and the UK Right
- Some of the President-elect’s biggest donors have been secretly funding UK thinktanks
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/68486/dark-money-donald-trump-british-right-farage

The ‘dark money’ linking Donald Trump and the British right
Some of the President-elect’s biggest donors have been secretly funding UK thinktanks

Stunning New NASA Perseverance Rover Images Show Mars Clearer Than Ever Before
https://scitechdaily.com/stunning-new-nasa-perseverance-rover-images-show-mars-clearer-than-ever-before/

Considering seminary or divinity school? We are having an open house for prospective students on October 27, and you're invited. Join us and learn about our offerings, meet faculty, staff, and students, and gain an insider's perspective on YDS.
Learn more about the Oct. 27 Open House and start your application process here: h…

Exploring Gender Bias in Alzheimer's Disease Detection: Insights from Mandarin and Greek Speech Perception
Liu He, Yuanchao Li, Rui Feng, XinRan Han, Yin-Long Liu, Yuwei Yang, Zude Zhu, Jiahong Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12356

Exploring Gender Bias in Alzheimer's Disease Detection: Insights from Mandarin and Greek Speech Perception
Gender bias has been widely observed in speech perception tasks, influenced by the fundamental voicing differences between genders. This study reveals a gender bias in the perception of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) speech. In a perception experiment involving 16 Chinese listeners evaluating both Chinese and Greek speech, we identified that male speech was more frequently identified as AD, with this bias being particularly pronounced in Chinese speech. Acoustic analysis showed that shimmer values in…