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Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
The book received a variety of reviews. The book was well covered in The New York Times [1] and given a warm reception on The Colbert Report. [2] Genevieve Fox wrote in The Telegraph, "If the humanists are in the ascendant, then Grayling's self-help book for the spiritually rudderless will be snapped up", [3] while Christopher Hart, reviewing it in the Sunday Times, concluded that: "Compared ...
CapitalG Management Company LLC [1] [2] (formerly Google Capital) is the independent growth fund under Alphabet Inc. [3] Founded in 2013, it focuses on larger, growth-stage technology companies, and invests for profit rather than strategically for Google. [4]
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives is a 2011 book by American technology reporter Steven Levy.It covers the growth of the Google company from its academic project origins at Stanford to the company that is rolling in billions of long-tail advertising dollars, forms the central exchange for information on the internet, having by then already grown to 24,000 employees.
The book has received mostly positive reviews. According to Book Marks, 60% of reviewers gave the novel rave reviews, while 20% reviewed it positively, and another 20% expressed mixed feelings. [6] This is a notable step up from the reception of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, which (according to Book Marks) received only 25% rave reviews. [7]
On Friday morning, Google announced a $75 million grant in an upskilling initiative called the AI Opportunity Fund. The fund—meted out through Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm ...
Prior to the publication of Carr's Atlantic essay, critics had long been concerned about the potential for electronic media to supplant literary reading. [6] In 1994, American academic Sven Birkerts published a book titled The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, consisting of a collection of essays that declaimed against the declining influence of literary culture ...
(Reuters) -Alphabet-owned Google has agreed to pay News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, between $5 million and $6 million annually to develop new AI-related content and products, the ...