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This new Seattle VC firm raised a $10M fund to back women-led startups

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The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president of marketing. Graham & Walker Photos).

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

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Founded in 2017, Core Scientific is building blockchain infrastructure technology related to hosting, transaction processing and application development. It manages a fleet of more than 130,000 cryptocurrency miners. Magic AI co-founder Alexa Anthony has joined Seattle startup ThruWave as business operations manager.

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SpaceX provides a ride to the space station for ‘kidney on a chip’ and new solar arrays

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Another big payload on this resupply flight is a pair of roll-out solar arrays developed for the space station by Boeing and its Spectrolab subsidiary, along with Redwire and its Deployable Space Systems subsidiary. The technology was given its first on-orbit test back in 2017, but this mission marks its operational debut.

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Its staff developed a diagnostic test dashboard for health officials to help low-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Interoperability Clearinghouse Launches "Agile Cloud" Collaboration

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This industry-wide effort is targeted at developing an open and inclusive cloud service brokerage environment capable of rapidly provisioning innovative technologies to the US Government on a fee for service basis. The target for implementing these changes is 2017. We’re talking about pay-per-use and pay-per-impact on mission." "The

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Who will be the Next Tech Titan? Cast your vote in the GeekWire Awards

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It developed a silicon-carbon composite material that can replace the graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries, improving their performance by 50% and providing faster recharging times. CEO background: Nick Fajt spent several years at Microsoft, including as a producer and program manager on HoloLens.

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Thanks Darpa: Minimally Invasive “Stentrode” Shows Potential as Neural Interface for Brain

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The technology was developed under DARPA’s Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program , and offers new potential for safely expanding the use of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) to treat physical disabilities and neurological disorders.

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