Crunchbase is expanding the scope of its tagging options in Europe to start tracking how much venture capital funding goes to minority founders on the continent. Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves. For example, a company can opt-in to label itself as Black-owned […]
3rd Gen K-Pop Idol Praised For Spotlighting Diversity During Comeback
MAMAMOO‘s Solar recently made her solo comeback in about two years with the mini-album COLOURS. MAMAMOO’s Solar | RBW As always, she impressed fans with her talents. Yet, she has earned praise for even more. For Solar’s title track, “Colors,” she became the first K-Pop idol to do full voguing choreography. According to Wikipedia, “Vogue, […]
Space diversity initiative builds steam with new leadership and K-12 focused National Space Day
A growing effort to attract more women and people of color into the space industry has shared some of its first results and a new occasion to rally around: National Space Day, May 3, when thousands of students will learn that not only can they do space stuff, but they really should start now. Space […]
BTS’s V Praised For Diversity Inclusion In His New Music Video
BTS‘s V is being praised for his diversity inclusion. BTS’s V | BIGHIT MUSIC V released his new pop single, “FRI(END)S,” which is unique from his Layover EP. Along with its release, a “dark comedy” style music video dropped, starring V as a man hopeless for love in a world full of couples. | HYBE […]
Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical image diversity issue within weeks
Google is hopeful it will soon be able to ‘unpause’ the ability of its multimodal generative AI tool, Gemini, to depict people, per DeepMind founder, Demis Hassabis. The capability to respond to prompts for images of humans should be back online in the “next few weeks”, he said today. Google suspended the Gemini capability last […]