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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

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Department of Energy , Activate Fellows , and Ocean Visions , a nonprofit advising carbon removal efforts. The nonprofit [C]Worthy lists 19 startups in marine-based carbon dioxide removal. ” Julian Sachs, cofounder and chief technology officer for Banyu Carbon, giving a demo of a reversible photoacid.

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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup battling deepfake content

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No one has been identified and prosecuted for creating the graphic and sometimes violent images of Swift using artificial intelligence tools. The man, a cybersecurity consultant, tried covering his tracks. The other two co-founders are the chief technology officer and lead data architect, both of whom also hold 9-to-5 jobs.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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Fed Tech Roundup August 20

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GCN names 2015's top tech solutions - Washington Technology. Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. NIH funds new tools to crack genomic big data - GCN.com. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. Here Are the Best TSA Yelp Reviews - Nextgov.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

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GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. 2014 Guest Judges Include: Merv Adrian. Pat Fiorenza. Dan Vesset.

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Seattle startup Atlas Health raises $40M to connect health systems with philanthropic aid for patients

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Its Atlas Navigator tool integrates the database with customer clinical and financial systems, and aids in enrollment and reimbursement. Atlas links customers with organizations that can alleviate some of these expenses, such as nonprofits that help cancer patients afford costly drugs. million.

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