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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

Hardware for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi can be seen in the background. As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Efron most recently served as VP of marketing for Glytec, a technology solution for insulin management. Reynolds was most recently director of research and development at Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

GeekWire

This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). startup developing software for EV charging during energy off-peak hours that has raised $6.2 It was selected in May for the AWS Sustainable Cities Accelerator.

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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

GeekWire

. “We’re proposing to combine the hypersonic research of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and some of those geometries, with reusable rockets to attack the trillion-dollar air transportation market instead of the $11 billion space launch market.” The company has been awarded $2.25

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

I wanted to talk to Bryan about his partnership with Lyft, but I also wanted to know if the pandemic accelerated any of his investment or development. I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. Do you have any hardware demands?

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A love for sci-fi sparked Megan Brown’s STEM path and led to quantum computing at Microsoft

GeekWire

” A program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum, Brown calls the job a dream come true. Brown works on Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit (QDK), which was released in 2017 and intended to empower developers to create quantum applications. I’m a program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. Nisreen Lahham enjoys the trans-disciplinary nature of futurism. Zanelle Njapha. Location: South Africa.

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