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Microsoft allies with community colleges to help U.S. train 250k new cybersecurity workers by 2025

GeekWire

Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. The company isn’t disclosing the total funding it’s commiting to the program initially.

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AWS launches Skills Center in Seattle, boosts efforts to give free cloud training to 29M people

GeekWire

Amazon on Thursday is opening the doors to its first Amazon Web Services Skills Center in downtown Seattle. In addition to opening the center, Amazon announced additional efforts to provide free training: Expanding AWS re/Start , its in-person,12-week program that provides training for entry-level cloud computing careers.

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Amazon’s BigCommerce deal seen as ‘important signal’ of tech giant’s broader shipping ambitions

GeekWire

Post reiterated his past prediction that Amazon could generate as much as $15 billion in additional revenue annually by 2025 by providing shipping services for items beyond those sold on its own e-commerce platform. A separate program called Amazon Shipping was paused by the company during the pandemic last year.

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Amazon begins the ‘huge’ lift to shrink the carbon footprint of its devices to reach climate goals

GeekWire

Amazon has a program for taking back its electronic devices. Amazon’s effort to green its own products is being spearheaded by Rachel Praetorius , who leads sustainability and hardware operations for Amazon Devices & Services. Items can be repaired, recycled or refurbished and sold through its pre-owned channel.

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Amazon’s Black employees say the company’s HR department is failing them

Vox

Sources pointed out that the head of diversity efforts within Amazon Web Services was for years a white woman who had significant HR experience but no specific expertise in the field of diversity and inclusion. The program was at the time only open to corporate employees.

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10 edge computing innovators to keep an eye on in 2023

Dataconomy

This development is not surprising, given that the International Data Corporation (IDC) has forecasted a robust expansion of the global enterprise and service provider expenditure on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions until 2025, with spending expected to surpass $274 billion.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. For example programming interfaces that developers can use to analyze images, change text into true-to-life language or create chatbots.

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