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

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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?

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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. Rachel Praetorius , Amazon’s lead on sustainability and hardware operations for its Devices & Services.

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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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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 learned that paper airline tickets are wildly inefficient!

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Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

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But even though our devices connect to satellites all the time for services like GPS, these more-advanced features will require new hardware that most of today’s phones don’t have. ViaSat already provides satellite internet to several major airlines. Changes are also coming to older satellite-based internet providers. Challenges ahead.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

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And so that's really our main goal is to just through gamification of CTF and other events there to have people interact with vehicle hardware that they are might be afraid to do otherwise on their own vehicle. And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side. Vamosi: Yes that. I think he was a citizen.

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

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She has written for publications including The Future magazine, Hotel Business Review , and Delta Airlines’ Sky magazine. Blake has interviewed several power players in the industry, including the CEO of 1-800 Flowers, the CEO of Ace Hardware, and CMO of the Marriott, as well as many others. Twitter: @BlakeMichelleM. Nancy Murphy.

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