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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

GeekWire

Starbucks has accelerated the rollout of its mobile-focused Starbucks Pickup stores , designed for customers who order ahead using the Starbucks app. Haiyan Song joined Seattle-based F5 Networks as EVP of security. She will be based out of F5 Networks’ San Jose, Calif. She joined the clean energy marketplace in 2018.

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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

GeekWire

When his Seattle-based mobile analytics company Ground Truth underwent a merger in 2011 , he decided to try something else. Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. Your preferred social network?

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5G coronavirus conspiracy theorists are endangering the workers who keep networks running

The Verge

Schools, hospitals, and businesses all relied on this invisible network, and with the pandemic forcing people to work from home, there was more strain on the system than ever before. Attackers had set cellphone masts on fire and shared the videos on social media to the applause of fellow conspiracists. He’s spreading all this virus.”.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

With 2022 now in our rearview mirror, we still reflect on a time marked by global upheavals, like the Russia – Ukraine war, to the skyrocketing energy prices and global inflation. Modern advancements like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and blockchain-based networks specifically have an impact in this area.

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5G: everything you need to know

The Verge

1G networks were the first cell networks back in the 1980s. 2G networks added basic data for things like SMS messages, which 3G internet expanded even more. 5G promises to take things a step further, with faster speeds and latency that could put mobile internet on par with home Wi-Fi. In short, no.

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Testing T-Mobile’s ‘MLB Next’ app: AR tech adds boost to in-stadium All-Star baseball experience

GeekWire

A screenshot of the augmented reality feature in the MLB Next app shows the path and trajectory of hit balls during an early round of Monday night’s Home Run Derby at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. based T-Mobile, believes it is. T-Mobile also promotes its 5G network as a nice way for its own customers to connect at the ballpark.

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The potential massive social impact of gamification for weight loss and savings

Trends in the Living Networks

As such, we certainly need to apply what is being learned in the field of gamification, particularly its social aspects, to see how it can help positively change behaviors. The insurer also has a mobile app for smartphones, called OptumizeMe, in which users can create and challenge each other to fitness competitions.

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