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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites ace orbital tests — including video streaming and online sale

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Amazon Photo) Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network streamed its first video and facilitated its first online sale during a monthlong series of orbital tests that the company says achieved a “100% success rate.” Engineers test the Project Kuiper satellite network in McAllen, Texas. Everything gets done here.

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Tech Moves: Former Lyft, Remitly exec named PCC CEO; Leafly adds engineering leader; and more

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Online cannabis marketplace Leafly appointed startup veteran Jeff Oberlander as SVP of engineering. He was most recently CTO at Seattle startup Pipeline CRM and previously and engineering leader at Navigating Cancer and Getty Images. He was most recently director and general manager of global marketing for Amazon Web Services.

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NASA releases jaw-dropping video and audio from Mars, with an assist from AWS

GeekWire

For the first time ever, NASA has captured video of a rover landing on the surface of Mars, plus audio of the wind whistling past it after the landing — and Amazon Web Services is playing a key role in making all those gigabytes of goodness available to the world.

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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

GeekWire

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. He joined UiPath in 2018 after a long stint at Microsoft, where he held various engineering leadership roles. .

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Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic is growing its Seattle workforce

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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, right, speaks with Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas on Nov. Brian Delahunty , head of engineering. Delahunty started in September and was previously an engineering chief at Nearside and Stripe. Andy Stewart , member of technical staff. Redmond, Wash.-based

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

I can keep going – Kindle Fire’s FreeTime, our customer service Andon Cord, Amazon MP3’s AutoRip – but will finish up with a very clear example of internally driven motivation: Amazon Web Services. In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services.

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Former Cisco Engineer Pleads Guilty to WebEx Attack

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Sudhish Ramesh was an engineer at Cisco. Like engineers at a lot of companies, he resigned and moved on. Former Cisco engineer admits delete hundreds of virtual machines. How did the former engineer access Cisco cloud environment? Ramesh just pleaded guilty to the crime in a Silicon Valley courtroom.