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AI makes its mark in ‘Innovation of the Year’ category at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Last year’s winner was First Mode , developer of a hydrogen fuel cell generator that can power massive trucks, retrofitting big vehicles to provide a clean source of energy. This category recognizes breakthrough innovations with the potential to change the way we live and work.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Fictional plans for building a space station beyond the moon reflect Jeff Bezos’ vision

GeekWire

To try to lift polluting and heavy industries into space, to avail ourselves of new energy and resources without further impacting the planet.” Suarez says the key to unlocking space resources is to develop methods for in-situ resource utilization , or ISRU. Critical Mass” by Daniel Suarez.

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AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

Vox

DeepMind’s AlphaFold system, which uses AI to predict the 3D structure of just about every protein in existence, was so impressive that the journal Science named it 2021’s Breakthrough of the Year. That’s what drives the breathless energy that pervades so much of AI right now. The more you put in, the more you get out.

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Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Founded in 2010, Dance Church is a non-religious, high-energy dance workout set to pop music that attracted thousands to its livestreams during the pandemic. Social media management platform Hootsuite named Manish Kamra senior vice president of software development and head of CENX product development. Uzo Akotaobi.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She has worked on projects about diverse issues such as water security, the future of energy, the future of youth, intelligent buildings, the development of cities over the next few decades, and planning for Egypt in 2030. Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

We started off really building one product in Sydney called Jira — which is still our largest product — that started off as a bug tracker for software developers. Politicians, once they’ve sort of fixed the thing the first time, there’s not as much energy in politics to go back and revisit something and make it right.