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Kid Cudi on Updating ‘A Kid Named Cudi’ Cover for Tape’s Streaming Release

Fresh off the release of Kid Cudi’s The Boy Who Flew to the Moon (Vol. 1) compilation, fans are getting another chance to reflect on all that Cudi has accomplished over the past 14 years with the upcoming streaming release of his 2008 mixtape A Kid Named Cudi.Ahead of the tape’s long-awaited streaming arrival this Friday, Cudi unveiled new cover art for the project, featuring a black-and-white photo captured by Mel D. Cole and graffiti graphics crafted by @crashone.Per Cudi, the photo was taken on Sept. 22, 2008, “right…

Custom Named Entity Recognition with BERT | by Marcello Politi | Jul, 2022

Photo by Alexandra on UnsplashHow to use PyTorch and Hugging Face to classify named entities in a textNamed-entity recognition (NER)is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc.Image By AuthorBackground:In this article we will use some concepts that I have already introduced in my previous…

Kid Cudi Reveals When ‘A Kid Named Cudi’ Will Hit Streaming Services

In a series of tweets shared on Monday, Kid Cudi announced plans to bring his debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi to streaming services this month.“July 8th The Boy Who Flew To the Moon Vol. 1 (Best of). July 15th A Kid Named Cudi. I love u. Ur welcome,” he tweeted on Monday, to much enthusiasm from fans. The 2008 project, which is what led to Cudi working with Kanye West, features Cudi’s breakthrough single, “Day ‘n’ Nite.” “A Kid Named Cudi dropped July 17th 2008. This official release is 2 days shy of the 14th anniversary,”…

These Newly Discovered Viruses May Have Shaped The Rise of Complex Life on Earth

Scientists discovered the "fingerprints" of mysterious viruses hidden in an ancient group of microbes that may have helped fuel the rise of all complex life on Earth: from fungi to plants to humans.  These microbes – known as Asgard archaea after the abode of the gods in Norse mythology – lurk in the frigid sediments deep in the ocean and in boiling hot springs, and existed on Earth prior to the first eukaryotic cells, which carry their DNA inside a nucleus.By infecting Asgard archaea, viruses may have influenced how…

European entrepreneurs launch 250 million euro tech fund named ‘Plural’

Four European entrepreneurs, including Taavet Hinrikus who co-founded money transfer company Wise Plc, announced the launch of Plural, a venture fund worth 250 million euros ($263.20 million) aimed at backing new European tech companies. The four entrepreneurs - Ian Hogarth, Khaled Heloui and Sten Tamkivi, as well as Hinrikus - said Plural would focus on early-stage financing rounds worth 1 million-10 million euros. The launch of Plural comes as Europe tries to catch up with the United States in the technology sector.…

GE Chairman, CEO Culp Also Named CEO of GE Aviation

General Electric Co. on Monday said H. Lawrence Culp Jr., the architect of the conglomerate’s plans to split into three public companies, is taking on the additional post of chief executive officer of GE Aviation.Mr. Culp remains chairman and CEO of Boston-based GE, which in November announced plans to spin off its healthcare and power businesses while retaining its aviation operations. The breakup of the more than century-old company is the culmination of a yearslong process of shrinking GE after Mr. Culp took the helm

The Marvel Universe Has A Queer Youth Center Named After Matt Baker

| The publication of today's Marvel's Voices: Pride 2022 #1 establishes the Matt Baker House as an LGBTQIA+ Youth Centre, located in Queens, New York. Matt Baker was a Golden Age comic book creator, working in the forties and fifties on comic books such as Phantom Lady. The first known African-American artist to find success in comics, he was also a gay man, though closeted to his family. He also co-created the very first graphic novel in 1950, It Rhymes With Lust. If that's not enough, he created the first known black…

Pharrell Named Chief Brand Officer of Doodles NFT Project

Doodles has enlisted Pharrell as its new Chief Brand Officer.The web3 NFT, media, and entertainment brand made the announcement at an NFT-focused event in New York on Tuesday, per a report from Decrypt. In a video statement shared at the event in question, Pharrell said he’s a “big fan” of Doodles, adding that his new role (which is also said to see him joining the board) will enable him and the larger Doodles team to “build from the core community outward.”Another Pharrell-centered announcement from Tuesday’s proceedings…

Former Amazon Executive Dave Clark Named CEO at Flexport

Dave Clark, who led the sweeping logistics expansion at online retailer Amazon. com Inc., will become chief executive of Flexport Inc., the digital-focused freight forwarder that has emerged as one of the biggest in a stable of tech-forward shipping startups. Mr. Clark, who resigned last week as CEO of Amazon’s consumer business, will join Flexport on Sept. 1, the company announced on Wednesday. Ryan Petersen, Flexport’s…

Estes Park’s Donut Haus named in Top 100 donut shop in U.S.

In celebration of National Donut Day last week, Yelp! created a list of the Top 100 Donut Shops in the United State and three Colorado shops make the list. “Thank you Estes Park and all our wonderful visitors each year,” Donut Haus posted on Facebook. The Estes Park favorite ranked 96th on the list. To create this year’s Top 100 U.S. Donut Shops list, Yelp! employees scoured the nation for the best bakers of America’s glazed, iced, dipped, sprinkled, and cream-filled confections. “Among the Top 100, we found a surprising…