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Seattle tech co. breaks ground on world’s first ‘net zero energy’ high-rise apartment building

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An artist’s rendering of 303 Battery, billed as the world’s first net zero energy apartment building, which is being erected in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood by Sustainable Living Innovations. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and King County Executive Dow Constantine were onsite Thursday to celebrate the new development.

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Generative Adversary Networks: A very exciting development in Artificial Intelligence

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Perhaps the most exciting domain of research in this area was kicked off by a 2014 research paper titled Generative Adversarial Nets. It describes ways to use unsupervised machine learning to help systems improve, including improving in environments that include deception.

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Microsoft adds 23k employees in one year, growing 14% despite pandemic and tight labor market

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Microsoft’s global employee count grew to nearly 190,000 people at the end of the September quarter, a net increase of 23,500 people globally over the past year, or 14% year-over-year growth. About 14,000 of the new employees, or 60% of the total net additions in the past year, were added outside the United States.

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Decentralizing Energy

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The book was originally published in 2014, but Zeihan has updated it by inserting chapters talking about what he got right in 2014, what he got wrong, and why. My wife, Lynne, recently gave me a copy of Peter Zeihan's book, The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On. Much of what changes has to do with energy.

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Biotech companies fuel IPO boom in Washington state over the past year

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Since early July alone, three of those companies went public: drug discovery platform company Absci raised $200 million, vaccine developer Icosavax raised $180 million and nervous system therapeutics company Eliem Therapeutics raised $80 million. There have been 92 biotech IPOs this year, raising a collective $12.9

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Hello, Texas: Seattle venture capital firm Madrona hires first partner outside of the Pacific Northwest

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But the Acceleration Fund — which reeled in $161 million for its second fund in December — and the hiring of Torrey signal Madrona’s move to cast a wider investment net. Concur was acquired by SAP in 2014; SAP also acquired Qualtrics, and recently took the company public last month.

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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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Jim Duffey, Virginia’s Secretary of Technology, said, “This solicitation continues the CRCF mission to advance outstanding projects in the Commonwealth that leverage public and private investments to strengthen and expand economic development across the state.”. “We Matching Funds Program . About the CRCF and R&T Roadmap.

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