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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests

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A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19 testing. Audere is building software for administering rapid result COVID tests that can be integrated into products being developed by U.S. Audere Photo).

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Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs

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In a LinkedIn post , Sharma said AI-powered advances will be “exponential, sparking the most important product making era yet, with significant gains in how billions of people program, work and live.” Sharma already lived in Seattle with her family but traveled each week for work.

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Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew

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Now he’s in line to travel to the final frontier with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. Kennedy to enter an Air Force flight training program that was regarded as a pathway to NASA’s astronaut corps, and went on to win an Air Force recommendation to join NASA. ” In 1961, he was chosen by President John F.

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Blue Origin sets the date for its first crewed suborbital space trip in 21 months

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Dwight’s flight is sponsored by two nonprofit organizations: Space for Humanity and the Seattle-based Jaison and Jamie Robinson Foundation. Hess, retired CPA and adventure traveler Carol Schaller, and airplane pilot and entrepreneur Gopi Thotakura. Hess developed.

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How climate concerns and incentives are driving solar installations on Washington roofs

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megawatts (MW) of solar power this year alone, a more than 10-fold increase over a decade ago, according to an industry nonprofit. More people will be driving electric vehicles, traveling on electric ferries and planes, and using electric heat pumps and heat-pump water heaters. “We Residents in the state installed an estimated 38.6

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Tech Moves: Icertis hires new CMO; Expedia Group board member steps down; and more

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He joined the Seattle-based travel company’s board a year ago following a $1 billion investment by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Silver Lake. ZoomInfo uses machine learning to help customers drive sales and marketing programs and went public last year. Vishal Ghotge. Remitly Photo). based SaaS company.

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7-year-old boy saves Seattle from robot invasion — with help from VR engineers and Make-A-Wish

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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.”.