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Zeno Power wins $7.5M Pentagon contract for underwater radioisotope power system

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The program, funded through the Pentagon’s Operational Energy Innovation Office and the Office of Naval Research , calls for the demonstration to take place by 2025. and one of its partners in the program is Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, which is headquartered in Kent, Wash. Space Force by 2025.

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Bellevue awarded $1.4M to test tech that adjusts traffic signals in real time for pedestrian safety

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intersection as part of the city’s application for a U.S. Bellevue’s grant is part of more than $50 million awarded by the USDOT to 34 technology demonstration projects across the country as part of the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) program. Department of Transportation SMART grant.

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Deutsche Telekom calls on SAP for Rise all-in-one offer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s following in the footsteps of IBM and Microsoft, which like the German telco have an edge over regular companies contemplating a similar move to Rise in that they have their own clouds in which to host the applications and their own IT services divisions to make the move. Some of them are still running on ECC 6.0,

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Amazon expanding ‘upskill’ training for software developer roles to workers outside of company

GeekWire

Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who are interested in acquiring training for roles in software engineering. Building on that coursework foundation and graduate success, Amazon is now bringing the program to students outside Amazon.

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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. Smith also sees Germany in second place in Europe for the development of AI-based applications, an assessment he bases on code contributions on GitHub, Microsoft’s source code repository. Microsoft will invest €3.2

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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

CIO Business Intelligence

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Here are four steps to getting the most out of cloud computing resources in an economical manner.

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Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates

The Verge

Such software is used by employers to filter job applicants, but is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable candidates, say the study’s authors. These programs are used by 75 percent of US employers (rising to 99 percent of Fortune 500 companies), and were adopted in response to a rise in digital job applications from the ‘90s onwards.

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