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NASA provides funding for way-out space proposals, including a flying boat for Titan

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A couple of years ago, Morley and a co-investigator won a Phase 1 grant to look into the development of a low-cost robotic system capable of deep drilling on Mars. USNC-Tech is already developing EmberCore as a potential source of heat and power for lunar rovers.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

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Miami was also where he was introduced to computer programming. He landed his first job at 15 years old, helping to develop a patient record system for Jacksonville Hospital. ” Shurtleff, now managing partner at Divergent Ventures, called Vellon “one of the smartest, nicest people you will ever meet.”

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

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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

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This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). But when drivers travel long distances that exceed their battery’s capacity, they need to tap into publicly available DC fast-chargers to keep them going.

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

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military’s interest in hypersonic aerial vehicles that travel at more than five times the speed of sound. million to develop the craft’s 3D-printed Mjölnir rocket engine , which is named after the hammer wielded by Thor in Norse mythology (and in Marvel movies ). The company has been awarded $2.25

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

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” 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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She has worked on projects about diverse issues such as water security, the future of energy, the future of youth, intelligent buildings, the development of cities over the next few decades, and planning for Egypt in 2030. Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft.

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