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Grad student ‘ambassadors’ offer free clean-energy lessons and DIY solar kits to K-12 students

GeekWire

Volunteering as a clean energy ambassador, UW PhD candidate Abbie Ganas led a virtual class via Google Meet with 25 middle school students enrolled in a south King County middle school. A sign-up for teachers to schedule free, virtual visits from UW grad students students that last 30-45 minutes. Courtesy Abbie Ganas).

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‘That rhythm is gone’: Washington state legislators on the pros and cons of virtual government

GeekWire

The Washington State Capitol is quiet amid the pandemic as legislators work virtually. But the capitol grounds were eerily quiet in Olympia as the committee hearings took place virtually, like nearly all of the legislature’s proceedings this session. It’s not really working,” Barkis concluded of virtual legislating.

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The power players of retail transformation: IoT, 5G, and AI/ML on Microsoft Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Thanks to cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G technologies, every link in the retail supply chain is becoming more tightly integrated. It’s also about being able to capture the insights needed to better forecast energy consumption in the future.” With 5G-enabled smart mirrors, a person can virtually try on apparel.

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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO Business Intelligence

Count them: the home Wi-Fi, the ISP, the Internet, a Domain Name System (DNS) provider, a content delivery network (CDN), applications distributed among multiple providers in multiple clouds, credit authentication companies, a private customer information database. In networking today, complexity reigns. The journey is well underway.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

The industries these decision-makers represented include insurance, banking, healthcare and life sciences, government, entertainment, and energy in the U.S. Blockchain Opportunities Decentralization: Blockchain advocates hope to realign control of the Internet by taking away the power held by big technology companies seen as gatekeepers.

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Ransomware Exponentially Increasing as IoT Provides Physical Targeting Opportunities

CTOvision

Ransomware is increasingly targeting multiple industries with downtime and lost productivity as its attack surface expands beyond the virtual realm to the physical via the Internet of Things (IoT), however, organizations can posture against this threat with a comprehensive approach to risk management.

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The future that was once a dream may now be much closer

Dataconomy

When electrons flow through a typical conductive material, they encounter obstacles in the form of atoms, leading to resistance, which results in heat dissipation and energy loss. This lack of resistance leads to near-perfect energy transmission. Superconductivity, however, offers a fascinating phenomenon.

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