GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G. Carl Bickford Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

This Friday, May 22, Future For Us has turned its second annual conference into a remote event rebranded as Virtual Assembly. A benefit to taking their message virtual is the opportunity to further expand their geographic reach. “We Favorite apps, cloud services and software tools: My favorite software tool is Zoom.

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenAI used GPT-4 to create a virtual assistant that can help people understand the context of what they’re seeing around them. Another big use case that OpenAI pitched involves helping people who are visually impaired. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful.

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2021

The more urgent question for many is this: what are the climate impacts of tethering the sales of virtual items to cryptocurrency? That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I BCfC Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. The company was also a finalist for Next Tech Titan this year and Pace was a finalist for Big Tech CEO of the Year in 2019.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. In another virtual event — which everyone hopes will be the last of the pandemic — GeekWire recognized more than 60 finalists and honorees across 14 categories, from Startup of the Year to CEO of the Year and lots in between.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

When players logged on to catch virtual monsters, many discovered parts of their neighborhoods they’d never thought to visit. They forged in-person connections by sharing virtual experiences, but those connections could also allow for real-world harassment. Those issues mostly haven’t been settled, she says.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side, again, all all around the InfoSec community, but looking at these different villages, and if you remember to 2014 Around that time before that or so, car hacking was starting to be in the news, people were talking about it. Yeah, 2019. And 20 times in 2019.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Axon also updated its virtual-reality peer intervention training product and made it easier for civilians and police to submit social media and internet evidence. A 2019 study by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences randomly assigned body cameras to a portion of more than 2,000 Washington, D.C.,

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. There’s an estimated shortage of 498,480 cybersecurity workers in the US, a 2019 report found.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP. Meron Menghistab for Vox.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

And it's not getting better in 2019 is certification organization ISC squared, released a study showing the extent of the problem here CNBC. Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. There's a serious shortage of InfoSec professionals.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

And it's not getting better in 2019 is certification organization ISC squared, released a study showing the extent of the problem here CNBC. Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. There's a serious shortage of InfoSec professionals.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global head of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. On the surface, Amazon’s diversity statistics look better than most tech giants: In 2019, 26.5

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Yes, grasshoppers invaded Las Vegas at the start of hacker summer camp in 2019. There's also so many virtual conferences. Vamosi: 2019 was last time I was at DEF CON and I remember there were a lot of activities going on in the car hacking village. And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore. — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 11, 2019. In 2009, he and his second wife, Judi Beck, turned the Oxbow Farm into a nonprofit that hosts school kids and grows sustainable crops and native plants.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

But will these virtual acts of employee resistance culminate in lasting systemic change? According to a 2019 Harris poll, workers under 35 expressed more “layoff anxiety” than their older counterparts. Still, it’s too early to tell whether this brazen anti-work ethos can effectively support and fuel labor organizing.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Many believe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime technological breakthrough that could impact virtually every aspect of society and disrupt industries from medicine to law. “AI In 2019, a VC firm’s study found that 40 percent of European “AI startups” didn’t really use AI in their main businesses. AI hype has existed for a while.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. Wanting to share the tricks and texture of New York delivery, he started filming his work in late 2019 and posting the videos to a Facebook page he started called Chapín en Dos Ruedas, meaning “Guatemalan on Two Wheels.”

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo. Webby Award for Entertainment : YouTube Rewind 2019 by Hook. Webby Award for Real Estate : Urby by Kettle.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Like, okay, you know, I don't have time to order more, but the next year in 2019, I took 5000 and I didn't attend a single talk. And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual. And you know, that's, that's the reality of running a nonprofit or a business or even even personally, people have personal branding, right.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. So let’s discuss it.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

As I reported on Thursday, the decision sparked an unusual amount of internal dissent among employees , and on Monday it spilled over into public with a virtual walkout of a few hundred employees. The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump. uh oh — Grosdoriane (@Grosdoriane) May 24, 2019.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She was on Avance Media’s list of Top 100 Most Influential Young South Africans in 2019. Raya was on the BBC’s 2019 list of 100 Inspiring and Influential Women , and a regular contributing journalist for the online publication Singularity Hub. LinkedIn: Zanelle Njapha. Katindi Sivi Njonjo. Location: Kenya. Twitter: @raya_bid.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

in 2019 and 1% in 2014, Facebook said in its latest diversity report. Related: Facebook is rife with misinformation about voting, according to an analysis by ProPublica and the nonprofit First Draft. Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany are back to talk about virtual dating during the pandemic. Women now make up 24.1%

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

A new nonprofit called VoteAmerica is trying to boost voter turnout by helping people vote by mail in the November election. Sojourn offered its last training to Google workers in 2018, four current employees said, and by 2019 it was cut completely. Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica). Chris Welch / The Verge ). million.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Twitter moved to add labels to one set of tweets and hid others behind a warning for “glorifying violence”; Facebook agonized but ultimately decided to take no action, triggering a virtual walkout of hundreds of employees earlier this week. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ordered Kunlun to divest Grindr in May 2019.

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Vox

MARCH 2, 2021

In part, it has to do with a 2019 study conducted by a nonprofit linked with Read Across America Day called Learning for Justice that concluded Seuss’s works traffic in “Orientalist tropes” and “anti-Blackness.” Why is this reevaluation of Dr. Seuss happening now?

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2024

As political scientists Robert Erikson and Christopher Wlezien have noted, “polls from the beginning of the election year have virtually no predictive power” when it comes to calling presidential races. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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