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Meet the two hard-working techies getting a ‘Geek Style Reboot’ ahead of the GeekWire Gala

GeekWire

Everyone gets a pass for slacking off on the fashion front over the past couple years. We caught up with Martija-Harris and Crouch to learn a bit more about what they do in tech, why they’re the hardest working geeks in town and what they think of their own fashion sense. Martija-Harris is a program manager at the Tacoma, Wash.,

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Tech Moves: Former Expedia leader joins Peerspace; Flexport adds another Amazon exec

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She also was previously director of product at Seattle mobile software development company Medio and spent nine years at Microsoft as a lead program manager. Mitz Banarjee is a new investor and board member at online fashion service GlamHive.

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Amazon is working on a mysterious AR smart home product, according to job listings

The Verge

Amazon might be the next big tech company to get into augmented reality, as the company is hiring for a “new-to-world smart-home product” that uses “XR” technology in some fashion, according to job listings reported on by Protocol. There aren’t many specific details included in the listings, unfortunately. Another listing for a “Sr.

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Rebooted in style: See the before and after as two techies put on fresh looks for the GeekWire Gala

GeekWire

Martija-Harris, a program manager at the Tacoma, Wash., ” Crouch, a self-deprecating techie who spends his day in front of a computer, joked throughout the experience about his approach to fashion and self care. incubator of Maritime Blue , was glowing as she emerged from an hour-long facial at the Nordstrom spa.

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OpenStack Summit 2015 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This topic, in turn, leads Jonathan into a discussion of OpenStack’s new program management guidelines (aka “the Big Tent” model). Jonathan feels that the open development model employed by OpenStack is better in that users and developers are interacting and working together at all phases of design and development.

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Expectations vs. reality: A real-world check on generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

million annually, principal program manager for Microsoft Copilot AI Noa Ghersin says. Embarrassingly, at one point in 2023, OpenAI’s own $175 million VC fund was under the control of a fake identity, but that appears to be just another example of someone using AI-powered tools to help them with good old-fashioned business fraud.

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Does ‘Kimi’ deliver the goods? Thriller aims to capitalize on Alexa, Siri … and Seattle’s tech cachet

GeekWire

Instead, the plot relies on old-fashioned human villains who aren’t always as smart as the devices they wield. “That is where regulating the application of AI can be important.” ” In contrast to many other tech thrillers, the AI isn’t the bad guy. “Including the bad guys.

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