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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

The move was announced by Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack , who stepped down from his full-time role as CTO in 2019 to focus on his work as an independent AI researcher. Facebook is unlocking the bootloader of its discontinued Oculus Go headset and giving users full root access.

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Katie Buss and Ben Howard take command at KinectAir travel service as co-CEOs

GeekWire

Buss previously served as KinectAir’s chief operating officer. Howard, who co-founded the privately held company in 2019, was chief technology officer before his promotion. The new management arrangement aims to facilitate scaled-up operations at KinectAir.

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Finding my way to tech entrepreneurship: An immigrant’s perspective

GeekWire

As a black entrepreneur and CTO in this fast growing healthcare technology space, I have often found myself in spaces where I am usually the lone black person at the table. I have since realized how grossly underrepresented black CEOs, CTOs or other C-Suite executives and founders of VC-backed startups are in this space.

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The Big Tech antitrust report has one big conclusion: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are anti-competitive

Vox

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying in Congress in 2019 | Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. In one email, Zuckerberg told Facebook’s former CTO that “ that he had “been thinking about. The report scrutinizes the ways that the four biggest tech companies have amassed enormous market power.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. But I think we also need to understand that the transportation industry, especially the aviation industry, is world class in setting up their systems for redundancy for security. Yeah, 2019.