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High schoolers developing accent-softening tool for call center agents win teen startup competition

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Soundwave created an artificial intelligence-enabled accent softening program for call center agents aimed at increasing customer satisfaction. The finalists were part of the TYE 2023-2024 program, which aims to guide and mentor young entrepreneurs in creating and launching their first real businesses. They won the top prize of $2,750.

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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

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The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.”

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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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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” He will continue to support the program as a co-founder.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

GeekWire

Two years ago the professors co-founded Banyu Carbon , a Seattle-based startup developing technology for extracting carbon dioxide from the ocean, which in turn lowers the levels in the atmosphere. It has support from programs including the U.S. The nonprofit [C]Worthy lists 19 startups in marine-based carbon dioxide removal.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications. Bamboo previously offered voice-based apps for Amazon’s Alexa devices.

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CIT (@CITorg) Announces New Solicitation for Commercialization Fund (pls help spread word)

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.) – The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 spring solicitation. About the Center for Innovative Technology, www.cit.org . About the CRCF and R&T Roadmap.

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