GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Can a nonprofit research institution operate more effectively by taking a page from the commercial biotech industry? The goal is to boost the development of new cell and gene therapies for pediatric cancer and other diseases afflicting children. Developing pediatric treatments is a challenging, lengthy, expensive process.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

. — Catherine Buell is stepping down as director of Amazon’s housing equity fund, the Washington Business Journal reported. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Greater Washington Partnership, and president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority. and Nashville.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Audio is a growth business,” says Jim Friedlich, chief executive of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism , who advised CPM on the potential merger. Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. WBEZ reaches 550,000 weekly broadcast listeners.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

How it works: WA Notify uses a system developed by Apple and Google that maintains anonymity. ” WA Notify uses a system developed collaboratively by Apple and Google, now widely used for exposure notification tools worldwide. notifications generated on average through the state’s conventional contact tracing program.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Price was born with a syndrome that caused his heart to develop unevenly and has required three major surgeries to correct; someday he will need a heart transplant. Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help. “It screamed innovation and technology.”.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

. — Brad Porter, the longtime Amazon robotics leader, has surfaced as the first chief technology officer of Scale AI, a San Francisco-based company seeking to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence through its machine learning technology for labeling data. He will continue to support the program as a co-founder.

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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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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 4, 2020

CIOs need to find a way to solve the shortage of skilled security workers Image Credit: Merrill College of Journalism Press Releases. Peace Corps program. The program would place workers at nonprofit firms and with other organizations that traditionally could not afford to have them. What All Of This Means For You.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

” The company is hiring a new city editor to lead the initiative , seeking someone to “develop and write a daily newsletter that delivers sharp, insightful and useful news to the Seattle community, building on the strong journalistic legacy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

The company’s website says its satellite internet program is in the beta stage right now, meaning it is still in the final phases of development and testing. Otherwise, Rosenworcel warned, the broadband subsidy program would become “more publicity stunt than policy.”

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APRIL 7, 2023

Operational costs in Phoenix are 36% less than in California, according to the Phoenix Business Journal , making it an appealing spot for tech companies looking for a less expensive home base for headquarters. The average tech salary in Charlotte is $118,465 per year — a 11.1% increase from 2021, according to Dice.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

” In her role as CEO for Washington STEM , a nonprofit that promotes science and engineering education and careers through advocacy and coalition building, Jones sits at a hub at the center of many of today’s challenging and often emotionally charged issues. based goal-setting and coaching program for professionals.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stephen Hawking has said , “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” They are being developed to improve drone targeting and detect missiles. To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Javier Zarracina/Vox. Why some people fear AI, explained. They play strategy games.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

Initiative supporters say the program amounts to a “hidden gas tax” that is harming Washington residents by raising prices at the pump and jacking up electric bills. And the auctions pay for programs that directly and indirectly benefit the tech sector, supporting job creation and climate tech companies working on decarbonization.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

But with our vast excess of atmospheric carbon, experts agree that it’s essential that we develop new technologies to remove and hold on to carbon — and that we move fast. Here’s a roundup of some key Pacific Northwest efforts to develop and support new carbon capture technology: PNNL’s research innovation.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Shobhit Agarwal Agarwal studied computer science and was a program manager at Microsoft before pursuing an acting career. In their words: “My career in business development and being an entrepreneur should lend creative solutions and partners to make them a reality.” She’s also a cellist in the Rainbow City Orchestra.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But we can tackle them all with the same solution — rebuilding our economy and country with a massive and ongoing public works program. Journalism majors could cut their teeth covering local politics, while business majors could explore new sources of income. They want pathways to develop and grow. So where do we start?

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But a new series of reports from the Wall Street Journal, “ The Facebook files,” provides damning evidence that Facebook has studied and long known that its products cause measurable, real-world harm — including on teenagers’ mental health — and then stifled that research while denying and downplaying that harm to the public.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

Following the late April release of a beta version of the technology, Apple and Google announced on Wednesday that the application programming interface (API) for its exposure notification tool is now being released to public health authorities. But now, Apple and Google admit the tool is not meant to be a silver bullet.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Nisreen Lahham enjoys the trans-disciplinary nature of futurism. Zanelle Njapha. Katindi Sivi Njonjo.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I thought Bankman-Fried was going to commit billions toward tremendously beneficial causes, a development I chronicled in a long piece earlier this year on how EA was coping with its sudden influx of billions. Journalism, as an industry, is struggling badly. Maybe the problem was a theory of change that involved billionaires at all.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Whether or not private companies want to undertake every connection project themselves, they don’t want competitors to, either, because they’re afraid models would develop that would threaten their business. Erik Schelzig/AP. Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke stands in front of an aerial image of the city in 2014.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Yesterday’s issue was the most-read in Interface history, and we wanted to make sure you had all the latest developments. The advertiser boycott that’s under way right now has called for a C-level executive that will, among other things, review products that are in development to assess their impact on civil rights. How exactly?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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