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Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

GeekWire

(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person. Just as Spaceflight Inc.

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Redfin lays off 201 employees as housing market continues to retrench

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Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. Redfin said last November that it would wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and eliminate 862 positions, or 13% of its workforce. The company also reported a net loss of $61.9 A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Wednesday.

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Redfin ready for a ‘revolution’ after commissions verdict

GeekWire

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. Net loss: $19 million, an improvement over the previous quarter’s net loss of $27.4 million, and significantly better than the net loss of $90.2 Some version of the program could go out nationwide in a year if it’s profitable for Redfin and agents alike.

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Uber reportedly may sell its self-driving car division to rival Aurora

The Verge

In March of 2019, Uber avoided criminal charges in the 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, the first-ever death involving an autonomous car. The accident ended Uber’s test program in Tempe, but the company resumed testing in Pittsburgh, where UberATG is headquartered. Uber settled the case unexpectedly in February of 2018.

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Amazon adds new Prime benefit with One Medical virtual and in-person health care service

GeekWire

billion in revenue last year, up 68% from the year prior, with a net loss of $144.1 The company launched its Amazon Pharmacy service in November 2020 , following its $753 million acquisition of prescription-by-mail company PillPack in 2018. Based in San Francisco, One Medical had 836,000 members and 221 medical offices in the U.S.

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Application List Report

Mick's IT Blog

They can be filtered out by populating the add/remove programs exclusions file ($ARPExclusionsFile). There are going to be applications installed that you do not care about such as video driver packages that got installed automatically.

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Climate change reversal startup Nori raises $4M for its CO2 offsets marketplace

GeekWire

An increasing number of companies are pledging to shrink their carbon footprints, including Microsoft’s vow to become carbon negative and Amazon’s promise to be net carbon zero. Reaching these goals will require investments in carbon-removal programs. Nori was featured in GeekWire’s Startup Spotlight in 2018.

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