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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Your car is about to go open source

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. “Today, automakers are having a hard time getting their customers to buy informatics systems because they only can do 10% of what a mobile phone can do,” said Rudi Streif, who leads the Automotive Grade Linux workgroup for the Linux Foundation. “It doesn’t enable the radio to interface to the user.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

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Leale: I've been working with and in the automotive industry. I live in the Detroit metro area, Vamosi: and he's been working with the automotive industry for years as a consultant and a hacker. And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side. Vamosi: Yes that. Again, all all around the InfoSec community.

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GeekWire Awards 2023 revealed: Community honors top innovation in Pacific Northwest tech

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GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: The nonprofit A Way Home Washington a nonprofit uses tech to tackle youth homelessness. In November, Impinj introduced new tag chips, which work with automotive parts, pharmaceuticals and food products. Ganaz is a public benefit corporation serving agricultural workers and employers.