GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

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. Gaming company or social company?

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

If they did this to a customer, people would lose their goddamn minds,” says Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager. This meant that every time an employee picked up their phone, the device recorded a short video — hopefully of their face.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Social sites more often give users the ability to add alt text or captions to their content, and more people are learning to use them. You assume every game has remappable keybinds — it’s 2021, they should,” he says, “but you’d be surprised.”. Streaming platforms are slowly adding audio descriptions to more movies and shows.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s August 2021, and while that hasn’t happened, Argo has launched a small fleet of robotaxis in Miami and Austin in partnership with Lyft. For example, at certain peak times it is socially acceptable, in the heart of a city, to do what’s called blocking the box, or basically pulling into the intersection in order to get all the way through.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Need a little inspiration to make it out of 2020 and into 2021? We’ve been asking data scientists, video game designers, engineers, doctors, students and startup founders all year where they find theirs. ” Megan Brown, program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum. “Social media, mostly.

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