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Shhh, ships: Program to help save orcas by quieting vessels touts early success in Washington state

GeekWire

Orcas, also known as killer whales, swim in and around Puget Sound with the Seattle skyline in the background. (NOAA Photo). A pilot program to help orca whales in Puget Sound by asking commercial vessels to slow down saw 61% participation in its first month, reported program leaders at an event Friday at the Seattle Aquarium. The voluntary program is an initiative of Quiet Sound , an effort to research and reduce the effects of vessel noise and physical disturbance on southern resident killer w

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Chinese newspaper claims the US "tricked" TSMC into building Arizona fabs, is stealing tech from "our Taiwan"

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The South China Morning Post reports that an editorial post in the Chinese nationalist tabloid Global Times slammed TSMC's investment in its Arizona plant as "a dark turn" in the global semiconductor industry.

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Resetting Amazon: Why the tech giant should rethink its business from scratch

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GeekWire File Photo. Amazon is resetting its business. Is it doing enough to change its mindset? In an analysis published this week , former Amazon executive John Rossman presents a blueprint for turning the company around — advocating a “zero-based” approach in which every initiative and project needs to be justified from scratch, and a “brutal rationalization of capital expenses,” among other steps. “I honestly think that Jeff’s biggest concern about Amazon

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Someone tried auctioning off an EVGA RTX 4090 prototype on eBay

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EVGA met with Gamers Nexus and JayzTwoCents quite a while ago to tell them that they were terminating their partnership with Nvidia. When the YouTubers shared the news afterward there was an outpouring of appreciation and support for the beleaguered AIB partner. About a month ago, EVGA sent two working.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Scientists tangle over a Jurassic mystery: Could the tail of a dinosaur go supersonic?

GeekWire

Apatosaurus had a 50-foot-long tail. (National Park Service Illustration / Bob Walters / Tess Kissinger). The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long tail — but just how fast could that tail whip? Years ago, a team of researchers — including Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive who’s now the CEO of Bellevue, Wash.

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Cyberattack has kept an entire nation's government offline for over a month

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Since early November, the government of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has been offline due to a cyberattack. Details on the nature of the attack are still unclear, and only around 70 percent of government services have been restored after a month.

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10 trailers from The Game Awards that left us wanting more

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Senators ask regulators to investigate bank and crypto ties, citing Washington state bank

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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a 2019 campaign rally in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop). Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) are pressing U.S. bank regulators to investigate the ties between the banking industry and cryptocurrency firms including Farmington, Wash.-based Moonstone Bank. “Banks’ relationships with crypto firms raise questions about the safety and soundness of our banking system and highlight potential loopholes that crypto firms ma

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4 Methods to Achieve Agility in Software Development

Flexagon

We can all acknowledge that large projects are harder than small projects. This is to say that it is harder to: identify and coordinate dependencies across multiple teams. maintain a prioritized backlog. maintain accuracy and consistency in estimation. If, like me, you have worked in organizations that have successfully implemented scrum within your product teams, you are familiar with the scaling challenges across teams: managing dependencies, aligning and coordinating work, maintaining consist