GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

million to develop the craft’s 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine , which is named after the hammer wielded by Thor in Norse mythology (and in Marvel movies ). In June, New Frontier received an additional $150,000 from NASA for Mjölnir development. The company has been awarded $2.25

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Dataconomy

MARCH 19, 2024

It was developed through a partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The GHG Protocol provides standards, tools, and guidelines to help companies develop comprehensive, corporate-level GHG inventories.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C. Senthil Sankaran , a principal for Amazon’s housing equity fund, will serve as interim head of the Amazon program. billion campus development plan and its effort to achieve net-zero emissions. and Nashville.

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Network World

JULY 1, 2016

Freshly minted CISOs as well as other mid-career professionals with a need for a broad grounding in cybersecurity can get an advanced degree in the topic through a new program at Brown University. What the industry is crying out for is interdisciplinary training,” says Alan Usas, the program director.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

The new capital will fund some 40-50 startups, according to Bloomberg News , and will focus on some of the trickier green technologies in development, including climate-friendlier steel and cement production, long-haul transportation, and technologies for capturing carbon from the air. Penn State climatologist Michael E.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

But with our vast excess of atmospheric carbon, experts agree that it’s essential that we develop new technologies to remove and hold on to carbon — and that we move fast. Here’s a roundup of some key Pacific Northwest efforts to develop and support new carbon capture technology: PNNL’s research innovation.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The order is part of a package of policy changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions as California deals with a rash of deadly wildfires. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an ambitious executive order Wednesday that would ban the sale of new combustion-engine vehicles in the state starting in 2035, the Desert Sun reports.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The talks did make gains in important policy areas, including hashed out rules for establishing carbon markets for trading greenhouse gas offsets, a treaty on methane cuts, and the inclusion of language about curbing coal use. led Net-Zero World Initiative launched and Breakthrough Energy is one of its private partners.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

When the Senate finally announced the bill text earlier this month, it included a provision that could impose devastating new tax requirements for wallet developers and miners. Once the controversial language was added to the infrastructure bill, those same groups used the tactics they’d perfected in the net neutrality fight to push back.

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

But carbon offsets and removal are in ever greater demand, and folks are working to develop legitimate programs and technology in the space. I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. ” Max Scher, Salesforce.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2022

The ethical concerns surrounding this news are glaring: A tech billionaire with an obvious personal interest in shaping government tech policy is giving money to an independent government agency devoted to tech and science, albeit through his private philanthropic foundation. It’s a form of shaping public policy,” said Soskis.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The JumpStart tax, originally passed in 2020, targets payrolls at the city’s largest companies and was designed to pay for affordable housing and homeless services, equitable economic development projects, and Green New Deal investments to help the city meet its environmental goals. million in its first year — $48.1

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

-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.”. One of her early programs to get computers into U.S. Ada Developers Academy CEO Lauren Sato. Ada Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. Last year saw a 1.2%

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Nisreen Lahham enjoys the trans-disciplinary nature of futurism. Zanelle Njapha.

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Vox

MARCH 29, 2023

Just on Wednesday evening, a group of AI experts and leaders, including OpenAI co-founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on advanced AI model development as we figure out just what this technology is capable of doing to us. More about that in a minute.)

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Battle’s departure was not due to any disagreement with the company or on any matter related to its operations, policies, or practices, Expedia said in a SEC filing. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 Expedia has been crushed by the pandemic as travel restrictions slow its business. billion in 2019.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But getting the internet to everyone is not just about tech: It’s even more a policy question, one tied up in politics. Whether or not private companies want to undertake every connection project themselves, they don’t want competitors to, either, because they’re afraid models would develop that would threaten their business.

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Vox

AUGUST 8, 2022

I had asked the people at the “let’s all give our money to buy the world’s poor malaria bed nets” conference to buy me a plane ticket ? Obviously the money should go to bed nets! Those opportunities were overwhelmingly found outside developed countries, primarily in global health. Flash forward to 2021.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

A recent spinout from the studio, Weekdays, is one of several companies developing new solutions to help parents and families grapple with consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Seattle startup Leg Up aims to help parents find daycare, after-school care and classes, enrichment programs, and other activities. Weekdays Photo).

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Vox

MAY 10, 2022

But for Gates, philanthropy is the cure for inequality, and business-driven tech and science development will save us from another Covid-19. “I You can’t get a redistributive policy that comes out of profit obtained through exploitation.”. I am a technophile,” he writes. “As Stevano agreed.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. But among the other major characters — the Linux developers — there was no such hesitancy. This was a community eager to speak; it was a community betrayed.

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Vox

MAY 10, 2022

What we don’t know yet is whether these events are enough to meaningfully combat longstanding headwinds, from anti-union policy to the rise of gig work, that have caused union membership to decline for decades. It’s not clear where this will all net out. Meanwhile, public approval of unions is at its highest level since 1965.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. Markey sat down for an interview with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy reporter Makena Kelly to discuss these issues, his proposed solutions, and. So that’s the debate that I had with him over net neutrality.

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Vox

JANUARY 4, 2022

Housing costs have skyrocketed in these places, because supply has been artificially constrained by the labyrinth of regulations and veto points in the housing development process. America’s “superstar cities” are lucrative labor markets — but the price of entry has become the cost of living, namely, the price of shelter.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” They are being developed to improve drone targeting and detect missiles. To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Javier Zarracina/Vox. Why some people fear AI, explained. They play strategy games.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2020

Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive, based on technology that they had developed in their spare time for themselves and their friends. (Photo Courtesy Matt Salsamendi). What was it like to compete against Amazon and Twitch? pic.twitter.com/bvAktSSpPh.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

They’re the makers, the developers, those people that are working with software and beyond. We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. Mike and I both did a scholarship co-op program. Why enterprise software?

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. The Obama administration adopted a “cloud-first” policy as part of its earlier referenced 25-point federal IT reform plan. This policy is part of the 2012 budget process.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Early moves by Microsoft and Amazon to implement work-from-home policies, setting the tone for much of the industry. . Implosion of the global travel industry, restaurants, traditional retail, events businesses and others sectors that relied on physical interaction, and didn’t have a digital strategy as a safety net.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

While it’s certainly easy to group workers by age, more emphasis should be placed on when people enter the workforce, the coinciding state of the economy, and the various safety net programs in place, said Sarah Damaske, an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Penn State University.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Then design the program. Then you can look at the organizational structure of the company to determine policies, regulations and laws that must be followed and who in the company is directly and indirectly involved in the process you are trying to enable. KM should reflect a top-down approach in terms of processes and procedures.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 28, 2013

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. The Cloudcuity Management Portal also will provide advanced monitoring, consolidated billing, chargeback and policy governance to ensure provider compliance and NCOIC satisfaction. ###.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I thought Bankman-Fried was going to commit billions toward tremendously beneficial causes, a development I chronicled in a long piece earlier this year on how EA was coping with its sudden influx of billions. You need policy. Maybe the problem was a theory of change that involved billionaires at all.

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, told Vox in a statement that it was led by a team of diverse experts in climate science, philanthropy, public policy, and other fields.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. He threatened to shut down social media companies.

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