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Seattle’s Technology Matching Fund awards $343k to 15 nonprofits helping to bridge digital divide

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Organizations have pledged a total of $480,795 to match City dollars with at least 50 percent in cash or in-kind contributions of labor, professional services and donated hardware and software. The fund is investing $343,000 in 15 organizations, with grants ranging from $11,000 to $25,000. Here are 2021 Technology Matching Fund recipients.

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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

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He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. Its hybrid cellular-satellite terminals can facilitate communications in hard-to-reach areas — an application that’s been of particular interest to defense customers. Bergman left AMD in September after four years at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. CIO Wetmur is taking things a step further at Morgan Stanley with a more sustainable approach to application development.

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Seattle entrepreneurs are building autonomous robots to deliver hassle-free EV charging

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I think it’s kind of a neat solution,” said Matthew Metz, co-founder and executive director of Coltura , a nonprofit promoting EV use. Autev is based at the UW’s CoMotion Labs in Fluke Hall as part of its Hardware Incubator. But Metz had questions about the system’s practicality.

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X-ray vision in the warehouse: ThruWave raises $6.4M to help online retailers see through packages

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Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using the company’s hardware and software, which was first developed at the University of Washington. ThruWave is also working with In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investor for U.S. government agencies, to use its packing screening technology for national security applications.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications.

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Launch success brings Blue Origin closer to resuming crewed suborbital space trips

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This mission, known as NS24, carried 33 science payloads in the crew capsule, providing a few minutes of zero gravity to study the effects on samples and hardware. Meanwhile, New Shepard’s capsule rose to an unofficial maximum altitude of 66.5 As was the case today, no crew members were aboard New Shepard for that NS23 mission.

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