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Boeing gets green light for satellite internet constellation

The Verge

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized a satellite internet project from Boeing first proposed in 2017. Boeing can now move forward with building, launching, and operating its own broadband internet network from space, joining its main aerospace competitor SpaceX.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

CEO of the Year finalists in the 2022 GeekWire Awards, clockwise from upper left: François Locoh-Donou, of F5 Networks; Maria Colacurcio of Syndio; Luis Ceze of OctoML; Chris Diorio of Impinj; and Xiao Wang of Boundless. Wang helped launch Boundless in 2017. As of March, there were 388,908 cases in the U.S. immigrant visa backlog.

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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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Scott Lowe

This one was supposed to be the last Tech Short Take of 2017, but I didn’t get it published in time (I decided to spend time with my family instead—some things are just more important). Networking. Lindsay Hill walks through using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana to monitor network statistics. Virtualization.

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How one of Google’s massive undersea cables detects earthquakes

The Verge

An operator works during the mooring of an undersea fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. In comparison, this new approach saves money because it doesn’t require any new infrastructure. Photo by Ander Gillenea / AFP via Getty Images.

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CIOs Have To Get Their Staff Ready For The Future

The Accidental Successful CIO

By comparison, large employers with 10,000 workers reported spending an average of $500 per worker on training in 2017. Although worrying about protecting the company’s network and planning where the next application will be deployed are critical CIO issues, planning for the future also needs to be done.

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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

GeekWire

The city this week shared its first batch of reports from the groundbreaking program, which has drawn comparisons to “Minority Report,” the 2002 film in which Tom Cruise anticipates and preemptively stops crime. Bellevue is leading the way on this,” said Roger Millar, Washington Secretary of Transportation. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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