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• Opinion: Bad things will happen when the AI sentience debate goes mainstream

  27-06-2022 19:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Google AI engineer recently stunned the world by announcing that one of the company’s chatbots had become sentient. He was subsequently placed on paid administrative leave for his outburst. His name is Blake Lemoine and he sure seems like the right person to talk about machines with souls. Not only is he a professional AI developer at Google, but he’s also a Christian priest. He’s like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of science and religion. The only problem is that the wh
  
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• Work in tech? Here’s 6 ways you can support and protect reproductive rights

  27-06-2022 16:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Friday saw the overturning of Roe V Wade, giving US state governments the right to restrict abortion or ban it altogether.  The result is a massive loss of bodily autonomy for women, trans, and non-binary folk (basically anyone with a womb). For those living in banned states, it means difficulty accessing abortions elsewhere or being forced to give birth in a country with no universal healthcare, childcare, or science-based sex education.  Understandably, there’s a huge pouring
  
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• 3 Essential Design Trends, July 2022

  27-06-2022 16:30 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  There are a lot of dark, retro vibes trending in website design right now. Although there are still some light projects popping up – including a pastel trend below – a lot of what we are seeing has a quite moody feel.
  Here’s what’s trending in design this month.
  Pastel Color Palettes
  Let’s start with the trend with a lighter feel – pastel color palettes. While much of the web is trending toward dark aesthetics, there’s a segment that’s going in th
  
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• Pay compression is widening the gap between new and existing employees

  27-06-2022 15:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Business owners have known the value of loyalty for a long time. From customers collecting stamps for retail loyalty programmes, to Air Miles, coupons, plastic cards and mobile apps, the mechanism has changed but the rationale remains: repeat purchases are key for growth in almost all businesses. Similarly, businesses also know that employee loyalty will help a company advance. From driving positive customer experiences to improved productivity and production, the benefits of employee loyalty a
  
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• Watch this Batmobile-style EV smash a speed record

  27-06-2022 14:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  A unique electric car has broken the speed record at the 2022 Goodwood Hillclimb track, an annual demonstration of racing vehicles in the UK. Driven by ex-F2 driver Max Chilton, the so-called McMurtry Spierling set a new record of 39.08 seconds on the 1.86km course. This shaved off about 0.8 seconds from the previous record holder, the Volkswagen ID.R. And, for your enjoyment, here’s footage of the Spierling smashing the record:     The 90s Batmobile-like design isn’t the
  
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• We need to remove the stigma around leadership burnout

  27-06-2022 11:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  When it comes to leadership in today’s startup world, founders, and CEOs are chained to their work more than ever before due to high investor demands, increasingly blurred lines between personal and professional life thanks to remote work, and tech that enables them to be reached — and reach out to employees — 24/7. But this always-on approach can also lead to higher risk of stress and even burnout. While, since the pandemic started, employee burnout has been put in the spotli
  
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• How to bootstrap your startup with €50K – €200K of European funding

  27-06-2022 10:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  In my previous job at a startup based in Amsterdam, my job description was – how to put this – ‘flexible’. As a non-technical member of a company developing a new kind of scalable, real-time graph database that was still under development, possibilities for marketing were limited, sales would be preliminary, and branding was still dependent on positioning. As any early-stage startup member, I had to find something to do that would contribute to the company. I had a vague
  
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• Why women in the US must hide their digital footprint now

  27-06-2022 09:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  In overturning Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs case does not merely deprive women of reproductive control and physical agency as a matter of constitutional law, but it also changes their relationship with the online world. Anyone in a state where abortion is now illegal who relies on the internet for information, products , and services related to reproductive health is subject to online policing. All women of child-bearing age, regardless of how secure and how privile
  
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