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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. ThruWave spun out of the University of Washington in 2017. “Not to mention the dog friendly office perk!”

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Three options for seeing the solar eclipse, from expensive to iffy to absolutely free

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Skywatchers gather at Seattle’s Gas Works Park to watch the progress of 2017’s solar eclipse. That’s in contrast to the 2017 total solar eclipse , when the moon’s shadow crossed the Oregon coast to begin its continent-spanning sweep. Check out NASA’s news release for the full schedule and video links.

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

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Amazon Photo) Ring has also weathered a series of controversies inside Amazon, including revelations about its policies and practices for sharing video footage with law enforcement; and previously lax security measures that gave hackers access to private home cameras, allowing them to see and talk with children in footage that quickly went viral.

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

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based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. . — Vancouver, B.C.-based GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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

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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. DeLorenzo joined Amazon in May 2016 as the new head of sports for Amazon Video. Carmen Rojas.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

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“After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE). “We Today, it employs more than 200.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

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On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. The company is not yet profitable.

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