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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager for Windows, in a statement to The Verge. While the ads might have appeared for some Windows 11 users, Microsoft says it was a mistake.

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

GeekWire

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. ThruWave spun out of the University of Washington in 2017. The startup raised $6.4 million last year.

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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

GeekWire

She started at Microsoft in 1995 as a group program manager, before working in marketing leadership roles at companies including Jawbone, Plantronics, and Dropcam.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

He has a background in technology development and management including working on micro-displays for military head-mounted systems and founding the MicroOptical Corporation, which created industrial and consumer eyewear-based AR products. Carmen Rojas. Marguerite Casey Foundation Photo).

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

Seattle’s Female Founders Alliance is an organization founded by Leslie Feinzaig in 2017 that supports women and non-binary entrepreneurs. Hardware/Gadget of the Year, presented by ALLTech. She said she left the tech giant in 2017 “with a vision to enable every enterprise to operate AI reliably.”. Winner: Deako.

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A love for sci-fi sparked Megan Brown’s STEM path and led to quantum computing at Microsoft

GeekWire

.” A program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum, Brown calls the job a dream come true. Brown works on Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit (QDK), which was released in 2017 and intended to empower developers to create quantum applications. I’m a program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum.

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How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer

The Verge

So the next big thing is that in early August, Apple places Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager, on administrative leave. Ashley raising those contamination concerns brought up all of these other concerns that she had while working in the hardware organization, which was very male-dominant.

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