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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. Parkhurst said this was an opportunity she “could not pass up” to use her skills to rebuild trust in local media. Tony Bacos. Frontdoor Photo).

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

GeekWire

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

GeekWire

The idea is to reduce the grunt work of M&A due diligence, creating more time for high-level analysis and human expertise. Wokelo CEO Masson and CTO Nanda experienced both ends of this spectrum in their prior roles. It also offers a secure data room where users can upload files, and a Q&A chat function for directed research.

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The top tweets from Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010 #foc10

Trends in the Living Networks

silverton: #FOC10 In journalism, “What happens when a user is better than your reporter?” – Larry Dignan, ZDNet. roneo: Kevin Bloch Cisco Aust CTO says the iPad is already out if date b/c it can’t capture events & conversations on video. amylyden: Crowdsourcing is the ability to hire 1/10 of a person - gr8 4 startups.

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Insider’s Guide to the New Holographic Computing

CTOvision

But don’t worry, the company just hired a novelist as its Chief Futurist.). CTO DoD and IC Government Mobile The Future Video AR Augmented reality Augmented Reality Headset holographic Holography microsoft Virtual reality VR' Let me know your ideas. He also writes at www.ShepherdsPi.com.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

The Verge

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Bender / The Wall Street Journal ). Jeff Horwitz / The Wall Street Journal ). Industry. ?

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Parler, the “free speech” Twitter wannabe, explained

Vox

It’s social media — minus the curation algorithms and content moderation. Overall, the site appears like an amalgamation of some of the most odious factions of social media, centralized on one platform that’s attracted millions of users. Parler, which has been around since 2018, looks at first glance a lot like Twitter and Facebook.

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