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XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling offers $5M to boost innovations in job training

GeekWire

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space travel and computerized avatars, but its latest contest hits closer to home: XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling is offering $5 million in prizes for innovations that could revolutionize job training for under-resourced communities.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

. “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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Tech Moves: Leafly hires general counsel; Skilljar and LevelTen add execs; and more

GeekWire

She spent more than eight years at CarGurus, an online automotive marketplace, as SVP of business development. Recent investments include AI platform Yoodli , social platform Game Jolt and London-based startup Troop. Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere announced Dino Rech as its new CEO. He is based in Seattle.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

.” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

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. We were trying to make sure we still maintain social distancing at our CTF and and in vehicles.