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Washington state and Finland sign MOU to establish smart port in Tacoma

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Denny Heck signed a timely memorandum of understanding on Thursday with the government of Finland to build a so-called smart port in Tacoma as early as next year. The initial step in this process, a feasibility study for a 5G edge computing network in the Tacoma Tideflats area, was first reported by South Sound Business on Sept.

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Washington state’s space industry doubles its economic impact in just four years

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A newly published report says that the economic impact of Washington state’s space industry has more than doubled in just four years — and lays out strategies for keeping the growth curve climbing. The report estimates Project Kuiper’s workforce at 800 employees, and Starlink’s workforce at 900. GeekWire Photo).

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Microsoft calls for ‘safety brakes,’ licensing, and a new federal agency to avoid AI pitfalls

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Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks Thursday morning at Planet Word, a language arts museum in Washington, D.C. Implement and build upon new government-led AI safety frameworks based on the U.S. It addresses current and emerging issues, brings the public and private sector together, and ensures this tool serves all society.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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“As our CTO, Brad will help continue to improve the efficiency and sophistication of our technologies and processes by orders of magnitude, building new tools to continue to accelerate the development of AI systems,” wrote Alexandr Wang, the company’s CEO and founder, in a post Monday morning.

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America’s first moon landing in 50 years, explained

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For this project, Intuitive Machines received $118 million in funding from NASA to build the lunar lander and transport experiments. As ABC News Australia reported , frozen water at the moon’s south pole could be used to make fuel, a potentially helpful prospect for astronauts in the future.)

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How power is blazing a trail for America’s space effort — and for nuclear startups

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That’s one of the questions under consideration at a State of the Space Industrial Base workshop that’s being conducted this week at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Meanwhile, Amazon’s Project Kuiper is gearing up to build thousands of satellites at a facility in Kirkland.

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UAB IT helps fuel genomic breakthroughs

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took over as CIO at University of Alabama-Birmingham in 2015, he confronted a “computer science museum,” as he calls it — instances of every operating system, storage device, and application on the market for the past 30 years. This is aimed at helping users find reports and the associated data more quickly, she adds.