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

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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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How Starlink transformed tech operations for Journey Beyond

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The launch of satellite internet provider Starlink has been operationally transformative for Journey Beyond, one of Australia’s premier destination tourism companies, and it’s driving a new era of progress and innovation. When Starlink came, the game changed,” explains Madhumita Mazumdar, GM of ICT at Journey Beyond. “We

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

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And we did it not only to be closer to operations, but to take advantage of the potential that Spain offers in human capital within the tourism sector. We were clear that IT — both from the point of view of applications and infrastructure — security, and data, were in the company’s DNA. How have you rebuilt all the IT talent?

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When natural disasters strike Japan, ?ita University’s EDiSON is ready to act

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The solution has wide application for disaster response, prevention and mitigation education, and reconstruction support, helping improve global and regional disaster prevention.” “EDiSON provides an important way forward to achieve advanced disaster preparedness and countermeasures,” says Professor Yoshihisa Tsurunari of Ōita University.

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Virtual reality storyteller creates project showcasing historically Black community in Seattle

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She has ideas for applications in education and tourism promotions. RELATED: How a VR project documenting Seattle’s music history revealed the risk of a new digital divide Barton is an evangelist for the potential uses of VR and AR, or augmented reality, beyond the sector’s focus primarily on gaming to date.

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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

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The application that typically comes up would be their use as space hotels, or maybe zero-gravity research labs and factories. Space tourism and in-space manufacturing no longer seem as far out as they once did, and Meyerson believes Axiom Space is well-placed to capitalize on the possibilities. Axiom Space Illustration).

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact. AI and machine learning will be leveraged to continue making enterprises more efficient and although still in its infancy, its application for specific use cases will separate the technology leaders from the laggards,” he says. IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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