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Amazon, Microsoft, Breakthrough Energy share climate news as ‘Climate Week’ kicks off

GeekWire

Climate Week is kicking off Monday in New York City and major companies including Amazon and Microsoft as well as Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy are sharing news of their efforts to decarbonize. based company is donating $100 million to Breakthrough Energy Catalyst. (Climate Pledge Arena Photo).

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COP26 updates: Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, Gates Foundation and Amazon tout climate efforts

GeekWire

On Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder took the stage in Glasgow to announce a pledge of $315 million from the foundation to support agricultural research to help farmers in the developing world cope with climate change, as well as an update on the progress being made through his Breakthrough Energy initiative. Catalyst has secured $1.5

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How Melinda French Gates’ fortune has ‘transformational potential’ to boost women’s equity

GeekWire

-based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. Recipients include: Till Financial , a platform for helping kids learn about savings and banking.

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Startup founders at new 5G Open Innovation Lab explain how they’ve adjusted to the COVID-19 crisis

GeekWire

It’s certainly been a unique inaugural cohort for the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) , a new startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA. based lab debuted in early May and will wrapped up its first program — held virtually due to the pandemic — this week. The Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: NJVC® VP and GM, Cloud.

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. About NJVC.

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Gen Z just wants a stable job

Vox

When it came to applying for work, there was huge growth in the number of applications to jobs in government, law, and politics (84 percent); energy (53 percent); and pretty much every industry that isn’t tech, although that grew too (8 percent). Chevron, Boeing, Bank of America, and NASA also topped the list as far as growth in interest.

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Defense Innovation Unit explores Pacific Northwest’s national security tech frontier

GeekWire

“This is a really critical decade,” Johannes Schonberg, program director for the National Security Innovation Network’s Mission Acceleration Centers, told attendees at Tuesday’s regional roadshow in downtown Seattle. Jim Banks, R-Ind., “The Pacific Northwest, I think, plays a really critical role.”

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