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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back. Vollmer previously served as chief engineer on the space station program. NASA awarded Boeing a $4.2

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Comcast expands low-cost Internet Essentials program to include Pell Grant recipients

TechSpot

Comcast as part of its acquisition of NBCUniversal back in 2011 agreed to make high-speed Internet access available to qualifying low-income families for just $9.95 per month plus tax. As of today, the 50 / 5 Mbps service doesn’t require a credit check and isn’t hampered by term contracts or cancellation fees.

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Meta adds Quest 2, Portal, and Ray-Ban Stories updates to its bug bounty program

The Verge

Meta added some hardware products to its bug bounty program | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook parent company Meta is adding updates to its bug bounty program for products from its metaverse division Reality Labs , including its Quest 2, Portal, and Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses , the company announced Friday.

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US Navy pays German company $154,400 after losing piracy lawsuit

TechSpot

The complaint claimed the Navy agreed to license the 3D virtual reality software BS Contact Geo on a limited and experimental basis in 2011 and 2012. The trial involved installing the program on 38 computers for. German company Bitmanagement Software brought a federal lawsuit against the Navy back in 2016.

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Techstars Seattle is shutting down as accelerator shifts focus to cities with more VC activity

GeekWire

Techstars announced Wednesday that it is shutting down the Seattle program. GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Techstars Seattle, one of the first accelerators to emerge from the Techstars program and a longstanding institution within Seattle’s tech ecosystem, is shutting down. They have collectively gone on to raise more than $2.5

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and.

Sean Daniel

Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. Abstract : Join Sean Daniel, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft Corp.

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The most successful accelerator cohort ever: How this Techstars Seattle class produced 3 unicorns

GeekWire

The Techstars Seattle 2011 cohort. In 2011, the world was still recovering from the financial crisis a couple of years earlier. I was also lucky to be part of the Techstars Seattle 2011 cohort with my startup, EveryMove, that I co-founded with Russell Benaroya. Techstars Seattle 2011 had a unicorn-rate of 30%.