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

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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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X-ray vision in the warehouse: ThruWave raises $6.4M to help online retailers see through packages

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Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using the company’s hardware and software, which was first developed at the University of Washington. ThruWave’s sensors mount alongside conveyor belts and make 3D images of the items inside via antennas and what the company calls “compressive sensing.”

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Tech Moves: AWS product head joins Faculty; Bezos Earth Fund hires BlackRock leader; and more

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He was also founder and CEO of i3D, which enhanced the interconnectivity of web platforms with the virtual 3D world of the product Second Life, and was an engineer at Redmond, Wash.-based Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance.

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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. Seattle-based business solutions software firm Changepoint hired Ingrid Rood as VP of its North America sales organization. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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

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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. Ever the optimist, even Bill Gates was challenged by everything 2021 threw at him. GeekWire Photo).

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

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AXON AI, LLC (Harrisonburg), Echosight Modeling and Prediction Software , Dr. Sven Brueckner, $50,000, Modeling and Simulation. SoundPipe LLC (Charlottesville), Patient Tailored 3D Drug Delivery with Intravascular Ultrasound , Dr. Joseph Kilroy, $50,000, Life Sciences. About the Center for Innovative Technology, www.cit.org.

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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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