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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. Sinha, based in Seattle, most recently oversaw Google Cloud’s commerce capabilities. Ankur Sinha. Remitly Photo).

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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams exec lands at Google; LeoStella names CEO; and more

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LinkedIn Photo) — Kristina Behr , a former exec at Microsoft, joined Google as vice president of product management for collaboration and apps at Google Workspace. Behr will report to Johanna Voolich Wright , who runs product management for Google Workspace, and Aparna Pappu , general manager of Google Workspace.

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Legal-tech startup uses AI to search relevant case history to better predict case outcomes

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Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. Applying AI and machine learning training on precedent case history and the fact patterns associated with those cases, Predict.law uses technology to replace the current process of manually searching for relevant prior cases.

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Google Glass Feeds from CTOvision, Delphi Brief, Analyst One: stay informed through Google Glass

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By Bob Gourley We announced two weeks ago that we are now part of the Google Glass explorer program. Our view is that we need to dive into this technology for several reasons, including a need to track the impact of trends to wearable computers will have on enterprise IT. You will need to activate your Google Glass channel.

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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

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The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.”

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Google Beats its own CAPTCHA

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Those tests happen to have a name, CAPTCHA – “Completely Automated Public turing tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart” – and Google programmers have developed an algorithm that can solve them. That is, the technology can interpret the image into letters and numbers. Big Data CTO Cyber Security'

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