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Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

GeekWire

Rec Room is a free app described as a “universally accessible online community,” where users create a cartoony virtual avatar to participate in a variety of activities, many of which were designed by the application’s community. 2020, Rec Room ’s userbase had tripled.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

GeekWire

As a development manager, he worked on early versions of technologies including the Windows 1.0 software development kit and the C++ programming language. He was instrumental in the creation of the TIFF image file format, developed by Aldus and Microsoft, and co-founded the Redmond company’s Virtual Worlds Group.

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Telenor proves the potential of zero-touch orchestration for slicing in EU 5G enterprise project

TM Forum

million) which was set up in 2018, as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 initiative. Virtualized functions from the network and service layer can be called upon from any facility, regardless of location. Virtualized functions from the network image. external_url.

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Seattle vanlife gurus see tech and AI’s potential as a copilot, to boost human connections on road trips

GeekWire

The two have strong tech chops that date back to stints at Microsoft, where Sitner was a senior product manager for five years and Schwartz spent more than 10 years as a program manager. The startup built mobile apps for conferences, pivoted early in the pandemic to focus on virtual events, and was acquired in 2020.

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Sustainable Petrochemical Company Expands Risk-Based Inspection Philosophy

CIO Business Intelligence

Instead of a holistic view, plant operators had to access data silos — outside of the EAM system — from disparate software solutions developed to manage inspection, maintenance, risk, pressure relief, safety instrumented systems, and other critical functions, like hazard and operability (HAZOP).

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She helped lead the fight against Amazon’s return to office — and then had to leave a job she loved

GeekWire

A former executive assistant and program manager who has only ever worked for Amazon since moving to Washington state from Virginia, Hayter became a leading critic in the push back against return-to-office mandates. And I think that really got to me.” She said she enjoyed working with smart and capable people.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.