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Microsoft and Seahawks help lead new initiative connecting Washington students to remote learning

GeekWire

We have a really serious issue right now that needs to be fixed — the students out of school have no other option,” said Joyce Walters, executive director of the nonprofit InvestED. Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, and the public, private, and nonprofit sectors have come together to make this possible.”.

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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?

GeekWire

When it comes to removing carbon there are two approaches: natural solutions such as planting and protecting forests and farming practices that trap carbon in the soil, and industrial solutions including technology that captures carbon from the air for permanent storage. But an overall greening of the airline industry is long, long ways off.

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

GeekWire

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. “I I learned that paper airline tickets are wildly inefficient!

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Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

Vox

Thanks to the rise of the commercial space industry, the cost of space launches has declined tremendously over the past few years. Satellite internet can be a real upgrade for people living or traveling in remote areas, according to Sylwia Kechiche, a principal industry analyst for enterprise at the network intelligence firm Ookla.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. Still, it was part of the industrial control systems or ICS village and episode 45. Leale: I've been working with and in the automotive industry. DEF CON 18: I'm Robert Vamosi. Vamosi: Yes that.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

At the market research firm she specializes in the future of finance, working mainly with brands in B2B and financial industries. As the CEO and Co-Founder of The Keys Academy , Khanna has developed an “externships” model where secondary school students can apply their skills to critical twenty-first century industries. Youngsook Park.

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