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Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

GeekWire

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’ George retired from Amazon in July 2017 after nearly 20 years at the tech giant, where he held multiple leadership positions spanning hardware to HR. “Most important among those will be genuine, intense customer obsession,” the website reads.

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Dimension Data: Dedicated to Making the Greatest Impact on the Planet, the Economy and the Communities it Serves

CIO Business Intelligence

Now Dimension Data is in the midst of an aggressive effort to achieve net-zero emissions across all of its operations by 2030. A year ago, we set out our sustainability ambitions which put us on the path to achieve operational and net zero emissions by 2030,” says Turnley-Jones. Our approach, guided by the U.N.’s

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Microsoft’s accessibility chief on the benefits of closing the ‘disability divide’

GeekWire

That includes creating technology software and hardware that is accessible to people with wide-ranging physical and neurological abilities, increasing the percentage of the Microsoft workforce that has disabilities, and helping people with disabilities gain education and job skills and connecting them with employers.

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Employee Spotlight – Alex Lozada, Product Designer

Linux Academy

I always was drawn to education, because I want my job to have a net positive on others’ lives. I collect computers and computer hardware. UX especially is a process that takes a lot of practical problem solving and analysis, and it’s partly why I enjoy it so much. The game Cyberpunk 2077 looks neat. It just happens.

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

GeekWire

Bild is a platform that empowers collaboration and more productive engagements for hardware teams, reducing risk in the design process and getting products to market faster. We’re a team that’s lived the painful experiences that hardware teams go through day-in and day-out. What makes you different from the competition?

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking.

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Mick's IT Blogs: SCCM: Deploying Autodesk Revit 2013

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My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.