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Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more

GeekWire

She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. After selling her startup OwnTrail, Seattle tech vet Rebekah Bastian joined Seattle 3D printer maker Glowforge as senior vice president of product. He worked as a software engineering manager at Qualtrics for seven years.

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‘Most unusual and difficult year of my life’: Personal and pandemic struggles aside, Bill Gates is hopeful

GeekWire

In a new end-of-the-year post on his GatesNotes blog on Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder starts by saying that when he and Paul Allen started their software company, the current state of affairs wasn’t exactly their screen-time vision. “The result has been the most unusual and difficult year of my life.” GeekWire Photo).

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

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3D content platform Unity Technologies appointed Scott Pitasky as chief people officer. He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. Roberts was previously CTO of cybersecurity company DomainTools, Rouxbe Online Cooking School and SixthEye, a social network for wine enthusiasts.

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Parkinson’s meds are hard to grab, so TikTok users crowdsourced a solution

The Verge

He started sketching designs for a 3D-printable bottle that would remove the need to dig for an individual pill. Alldridge has graphic design experience, but he had never tried making a 3D-printable object before. But the 3D printmakers of TikTok had already latched on to the idea. Illustration by Brian Alldridge. And it didn’t.

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If it doesn’t take our jobs, AI could make work better

Vox

While much has been made about AI’s potential to destroy our jobs, Grennan and other American workers whose tasks overlap with capabilities of software like ChatGPT are embracing the technology to do away with drudge work, to be more creative, and to level up their skills. The reason I [wanted] to be a 3D artist in the first place is gone.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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

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She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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