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Tech Moves: Flying Fish adds principal; Tanium names new CEO; and more

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That consumer interest provides extra momentum to a field with a growing talent base and will yield new applications that will be met with broader market acceptance, she said. ” Gorham also previously worked at sensing technology company Onsemi as a market analyst and at Tesla as a product specialist. .

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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

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Libes, who is also an author , additionally operates a nonprofit called Realize Impact that allows people to make philanthropic investments in socially conscious companies. In the latest round, Seattle’s Fledge had 842 accelerator applicants from 45 countries. Nine made the cut. A lot of my work is networking.

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I want to fly to Hawaii, but I don’t want to wreck the planet. With carbon offsets, can I do both?

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I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. But an overall greening of the airline industry is long, long ways off. So can I visit Kauai with a mostly clear conscious through carbon offsets? “I

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

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This kind of work needs developers to be very precise in development work and to write code that is very optimized since any sloppiness in performance here affects all applications on Windows. This was back when you had to have a physical airline ticket to board a flight.”. I learned that paper airline tickets are wildly inefficient!

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As worries spark over the carbon impacts of NFTs, some unexpected boosters come to their defense

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That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I “NFTs are provably unique assets, and so using an NFT to represent a unique carbon certificate is the perfect application for solving this problem.”

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

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The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. It plans to fly again on Saturday but United Airlines kept them off the plane. Vamosi: And yet the airlines continued to dismiss of this work? I think he was a scissor, the woman talking I think she was a chief pilot at one of the airlines. Here’s CBS news.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

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ViaSat already provides satellite internet to several major airlines. For commercial passenger aircraft, airlines installing these systems have to show the agency that new technologies don’t interfere with a plane’s communications and safety systems. Challenges ahead.