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Amazon Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke to leave next year, will be replaced by operations chief Dave Clark

GeekWire

He oversees businesses that generated more than $200 billion in net sales in 2019, representing nearly 90% of Amazon’s overall net sales last year. Clark graduated from Auburn University with a music education degree. He worked shifts at Publix Supermarket and Service Merchandise in high school.

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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

It isn’t a random group of people: one preprint paper found that working-class Americans were five times more likely to die from Covid-19 than college-educated Americans. Working-class Hispanic men had a mortality rate 27 times higher than white college-educated women.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. So the ICS village started about eight years ago at DEF CON to bring education awareness and exposure to industrial control systems.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Award for Education: People Not Property : Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North by C&G Partners. Webby People’s Voice Award for Education : Pussypedia. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Net Art : 150 years of Nature by IBM Research AI - Northeastern University. Reality : Drummers. Disruptors.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Zanele is also a Forbes Contributor, award-winning speaker, career coach, and faculty member at Duke Corporation Education. Ayesha Khanna is an entrepreneur and expert on the future of education, technology, and urbanization. She has authored over 60 journal articles and book chapters, many with a focus on educational futures.

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Mark Cuban on America’s future

The Verge

It’s like Fox News does its damage, and Facebook does even worse damage because it gets reinforced by people you actually know that are in your physical, your life bubble, in addition to just being on some wide social media net that you really don’t know the people and they’re abstract. Facebook’s not abstract, and that’s the huge difference.

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