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Former Amazon Prime Air employees raise $4.5M for stealthy solar airplane startup

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Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo). ”

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Inside the satellite factory: How LeoStella uses software to track spacecraft hardware

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LeoStella’s satellite factory has tons of hardware spread out over 22,000 square feet of space, but the secret ingredient for its manufacturing process may well be the software. Army’s Tactical Geospatial Intelligence prototype program, or TACGEO. TUKWILA, Wash.

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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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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a higher orbit. The newly announced seed funding round was led by Hyperplane, with participation from Riot Ventures, Ravelin Capital and John Capodilupo, former chief technology officer and co-founder of Whoop. million in funding and secured a $1.25

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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

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He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts. based company.

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Gates-backed Neurophos raises $7M to create metamaterials-based chips for AI

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Tom Driscoll — the founder and chief technology officer of yet another Gates-backed metamaterials venture, Kirkland, Wash.-based based Echodyne — is listed on Neurophos’ website as its CTO and co-founder. Kymeta’s former CEO, Nathan Kundtz , is listed as a board member.

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Context on D-Wave Systems from President and CEO Vern Brownell

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He was also the Chief Technology Officer at Goldman Sachs. Having CTO roots and experience founding and running a very successful firm seemed to have positioned Vern well for leadership at D-Wave. Programming the computer takes skill. It is about the “so what” of the technology.

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