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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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Sequoia Capital and former Stripe exec Lachy Groom led the Series A round, which will fuel growth for the company’s technology that helps product manufacturers send data from their physical assets to cloud-based apps over cellular networks. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work.

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GM-backed Cruise begins testing self-driving cars in Seattle to learn from hilly, wet environment

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Cruise joins other self-driving vehicle companies currently testing in Seattle, including Zoox and NVIDIA , both of which received permits from the Seattle Department of Transportation under its Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit program. Cruise was founded in 2013 and has raised $10 billion. Miami; Nashville; and Atlanta.

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Microsoft’s accessibility chief on Bing’s chatbot, the disability divide, and more

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie. Participants are interested in technology, policy, partnerships and networking, she said, “and how to build their own programs.” And it’s hard to plan accessible transport.

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Networking the Cloud for IoT – Pt 3 Cloud Network Systems Engineering

Cloud Musings

Dwight Bues & Kevin Jackson (This is Part 3 of a three part series that addresses the need for a systems engineering approach to IoT and cloud network design. Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. 1: IoT and the Government , Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. This is the beginning of the CONOPS document referenced earlier.

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Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. 2 Stressing the Cloud

Cloud Musings

Dwight Bu e s & Kevin Jackson This is Part 2 of a three part series that addresses the need for a systems engineering approach to IoT and cloud network design. Part 1 is Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. How will these parochial and business-centered decisions drive networking priorities across the cloud?

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SpaceX to acquire small satellite startup Swarm Technologies

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36 SpaceBee smallsats launch to space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in January 2021, during SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission with 107 other satellites on board. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring the small-satellite data provider Swarm Technologies, scooping up the startup’s roughly 30 employees and its network of 120 tiny satellites.

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Tech Moves: Adriane Brown joins KKR board; AI2 adds HR exec; Ossia and LevelTen hire CFOs; more

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Brown previously served as president and COO of Intellectual Ventures, and president of Honeywell Transportation Systems. F5 Networks Photo). — F5 Networks named Equinix Chief Information Security Officer and Microsoft alum Michael Montoya to its board of directors. Read the story. Michael Montoya. (F5

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