GeekWire

MAY 14, 2023

Seattle film nonprofit SIFF acquires historic theater from Paul Allen estate Seattle film lovers got their Hollywood ending. … Read More Cinerama is saved! … Read More Wood or would not? . … Read More . … Read More .” … Read More

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Scener co-founder Joe Braidwood departed the virtual watch party platform to join San Diego-based Vektor Medical. Joe Braidwood. TraceMe Photo). Apprenti Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

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. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board. Investors rely on the board to ensure they get the return they expect.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As the situation escalated, Schiffmann’s site drew millions of visitors seeking the latest and most accurate data about the pandemic. Both internal and public pressure has kept the social justice drum beating, challenging tech ecosystem stakeholders to reflect on racial bias within companies, products and financing.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Seattle startup 98point6 raised $43 million earlier this month to help increase development capacity for its virtual healthcare technology. Maria Hess, partner at Seattle-based Madrona Venture Labs , said it’s primarily data and security startups that are hiring at its studio. The company has hired 50 people since going virtual.

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenAI used GPT-4 to create a virtual assistant that can help people understand the context of what they’re seeing around them. Researchers worry we don’t know what data it’s being trained on. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful. GPT-4 still has serious flaws.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. In a major shakeup of the Seattle tech scene, Salesforce placed a big bet on data visualization and business intelligence when it acquired Tableau for $15.7

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

The rise of local blogs, social media, and now newsletters have chipped away at the audience for major news sites over the past decade. newspapers fell 45% between 2010 and 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Seattlepi.com is far from alone in experiencing this trend.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

While there isn’t yet any hard data, turnover seems higher, says Michael Platt of Inside Public Accounting, who is in the middle of doing surveys for the 2021 calendar year. Now, if an auditor is on-site virtually, fraudsters may not have to go to such lengths. “If Working from home was a big shift.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

Blink’s current projects include a 7-year partnership with NASA to redesign NASA.gov, unifying 3,000 sites into a modern web experience that will allow them to share data internally and with the public. It spans everything from satellite data to information for kids to content on space missions. Your preferred social network?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. I shouldn't say I launched I along with a number of InfoSec women leaders launched the nonprofit and we have about 85 cyber and high tech leaders in the group and it is a networking and support group for senior women in cyber and technology. about diversity inclusion.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

When players logged on to catch virtual monsters, many discovered parts of their neighborhoods they’d never thought to visit. But they also found a world built on data that placed more gyms and PokéStops in white and affluent neighborhoods. Others, like Facebook and Snap, made their names on ad-supported social networks.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. So what is the metaverse, really?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Verge spoke with seven backup drivers for Waymo and Cruise (six current, one former), who raised concerns about being stuck in a vehicle for hours a day with another person without the ability to socially distance. It says data is more important than humans,” John said. Cruise then revoked Slack access.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Vamosi: So she founded Black Girls Hack to help others. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. If you follow members and ask questions, you're likely to get answers.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. Vamosi: So she founded Black Girls Hack to help others. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. If you follow members and ask questions, you're likely to get answers.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Axon also updated its virtual-reality peer intervention training product and made it easier for civilians and police to submit social media and internet evidence. ” Data on whether body cameras reduce excessive use of force or bias are mixed. No department satisfied all of the criteria.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

This buzzy phrase , popularized on social media in the pandemic, rejects work as a basis for identity, framing it instead as an act to pursue out of financial necessity. But will these virtual acts of employee resistance culminate in lasting systemic change? Naturally, this has major consequences for social attitudes about work.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. An d all of our charts and navigation data can be stored on these these iPads and so that was my first exposure to just how vulnerable is aviation data? Here’s CBS news.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to both Wilson and Egan, promoting lesser known cybersecurity social media holidays, like Data Privacy Day and Digital Spring Cleaning, can help up interaction, too. Now, one of the things that people automatically asked, 'How am I going to host a virtual summit? data privacy. social media safety.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Many believe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime technological breakthrough that could impact virtually every aspect of society and disrupt industries from medicine to law. “AI The AI can reflect racist and sexist biases from the data it’s trained on, as seen with the image-generation app Lensa sexualizing its female avatars.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. Instead, the US government did, saying quote Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or crowbar and whether you take documents data or dollars. And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual. I don't know.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In addition to a few interesting data points, like behind-the-scenes details for the Epic Games Store, the trial revealed that in 20 years, Microsoft has never made money on Xbox hardware sales. Dungeons & Dragons takes over the world. Even so, Twitch’s actual content has continued to diversify over the course of 2021.

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2021

The message might have drawn racist comments on Twitter or Facebook, but this was the world’s biggest professional social network — one where people had to use their real names and list their employer. What was the worst they would say? Martin in The New York Times.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud. So let’s discuss it.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

Health departments relied on fax machines and paper printouts to ferry data around. There are areas where tech companies have made significant contributions — like collecting mobility data that helped officials understand the effects of social distancing policies. But Google wasn’t actually building a nationwide testing website.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Human needs are pretty fundamental, I think, in terms of being social, wanting to meet people. I felt that, given a lot of our work could be done from home, it made sense for us to contribute to social distancing. I want to be driven by data here, and so I view it as a research phase, and [we’ll] see where the data leads us.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. Data from The New York Times. Test data from The COVID Tracking Project. Total test results (positive and negative) in New Jersey: 425,933.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

As I reported on Thursday, the decision sparked an unusual amount of internal dissent among employees , and on Monday it spilled over into public with a virtual walkout of a few hundred employees. The optimists argue that social media is neither good nor bad , but simply a powerful new tool for society to use. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. of the social media company’s technical roles, up from 1.5%

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and election interference ; the very next, you’re watching a live stream of the same company’s foray into virtual reality helmets and designer mixed reality glasses. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge.

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