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Windows 11’s new emoji isn’t as 3D as Microsoft promised

The Verge

Microsoft originally promised new 3D emoji for Windows 11 and various other products earlier this year. The style is a lot different to the 3D emoji that Microsoft promised in July, and even in recent tweets from the official Windows Twitter accounts. Microsoft appears to have changed its mind on going 3D inside Windows 11. “

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Protective face shields made with help of Prime Air drone engineers now for sale at cost on Amazon

GeekWire

A protective face shield made by 3D printing enthusiasts in Washington state, with the help of Amazon Prime Air drone engineers, is now for sale on Amazon.com. To ensure that the shields could be produced quickly and at scale, an open sourced design package for both 3D printing and injection molding was created. Amazon Photo).

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

GeekWire

CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical. The pair co-founded BrainSpace this January.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

CIO Business Intelligence

“After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE). “We

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

And honestly that wasn’t an atypical year for us,” said Fajt, who previously was at Microsoft as a producer and program manager on HoloLens. The company is not yet profitable. “We saw a lot of growth last year. “We’ve basically had four years now of double digit or 100% growth.”

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

If you tuned into Microsoft’s Build developer keynote yesterday, one of the things you may have seen was a mysterious “RGV2cw” 3D-printed object on the shelf behind CEO Satya Nadella. As Build moved on from Nadella’s opening remarks to Scott Hanselman, a partner program manager at Microsoft, the Easter eggs ramped up.

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What it was like to fly — and land — in Alaska Airlines’ first commercial 737-MAX 9 flight

GeekWire

Among those signing the scale model with tail number N913AK, matching our full-size aircraft, is Bil Douglass, a 39-year Boeing retiree in seat 3D. He spent his final three decades at the company working on various military programs. Alaska program manager Susan Kostoff spent five years preparing the new aircraft for service.

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