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Shhh, ships: Program to help save orcas by quieting vessels touts early success in Washington state

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A pilot program to help orca whales in Puget Sound by asking commercial vessels to slow down saw 61% participation in its first month, reported program leaders at an event Friday at the Seattle Aquarium. Quiet Sound emerged as a result of guidance from the Southern Resident Orca Task Force , established in 2018 by Washington Gov.

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Amazon Delivery Service Partner program creates nearly 85K jobs, 1,300 small businesses in 2 years

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Amazon Delivery Service Partner business owner Olaoluwa Abimbola, left, with Amazon SVP Dave Clark at an Amazon press event in 2018. Amazon revealed growth data around its Delivery Service Partner program that launched two years ago to bolster the company’s logistics network. GeekWire Photo).

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T-Mobile data breach 2023: The telecom giant got hacked eight times in the last six years

Dataconomy

T-Mobile data breach 2023 title made the headlines again. T-Mobile has been suffering from data breaches since 2018, and this time 37 million accounts were affected. One of its Application Programming Interfaces was compromised, […]

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Univ. of Washington program Nature and Health studies link between environment and well-being

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The two recently secured $18 million and $22 million in funding and grants, respectively, due in large part to data collected by Nature and Health researchers. . Doctors and policymakers joined in, wrote a framework paper, and in 2018 a $1 million investment from REI turned the loose collaboration into an official program.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. What is the difference between business analytics and data analytics? Business analytics is a subset of data analytics. This is the purview of BI.

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Seattle moves ahead with scooter-share pilot program that could begin this fall

GeekWire

The Seattle City Council will vote on a scooter-share pilot program Sept. It cited data showing that post-COVID scooter rides in Portland, Detroit, and Baltimore are 2X longer and 2X more likely to be used for “essential” trips. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Seattleites may be scooting around town later this fall.

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July 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

July 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 7 (July 2018) Hello and welcome to the July 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter. In cased you missed it, the June 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter can be viewed here ( HTML and PDF).

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