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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

GeekWire

Gold Card: Residents ages 60 and older can save on retail, services, art, entertainment, and tourism, including free passes to the Seattle Aquarium. FLASH Card: Residents ages 18-59 with qualifying disabilities can save on retail, services, art, entertainment, and tourism, including free passes to the Seattle Aquarium.

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Is AI technology the future of travel?

Dataconomy

Travel industry players are excited about predictions that AI could add around $1 trillion extra to the global tourism industry by 2025. AI must have enough knowledge of your social life and party habits to take this into account, too. Or are you the type of person who will fling your normal preferences aside when you’re abroad?

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Virtual internships: Tech companies and students adjust as pandemic forces remote experience

GeekWire

The information technology sector trailed only travel and tourism as the hardest hit industries. Others have reached out to connect socially, and he’s determined to not let the virtual setting get in the way of introducing himself to a broad range of co-workers. due to the coronavirus. Tyler Menezes. LinkedIn Photo).

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Startup survival: How a pandemic pivot helped this photo booth company see a bigger picture

GeekWire

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. By June of that year, the web application called Snapshot launched and in the first month it was clear there was interest from organizations and companies conducting gatherings of all kinds online.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Charity

ForAllSecure

Today Jinja is known for its tourism. Or with social media. It's not what it used to be because of the noise level but there's still a ton of good content that comes out in social media if you curate your lists and don't engage with the trolls, which is hard to do. its whitewater rafting, kayaking, and quad biking. It's there.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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2021+ 9 themes for next year and beyond

Trends in the Living Networks

After the enforced shift to remote work in 2020, few organizations will ever resume work as we knew it, with most gradually adopting ‘hybrid’ models in which staff come to the office when useful but frequently work from home or local ‘third spaces’ that allow social connections and a change of scenery. – Pew Research Center.

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