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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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Blues Wireless , an IoT startup founded by former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie , has raised $22 million from investors including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Blues came out of stealth mode in February 2019 , announcing its Notecard device that runs on AT&T’s wireless network. LinkedIn Photo).

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

GeekWire

— Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. — Brian Crowley is now vice president of engineering at WiBotic , which provides wireless charging hardware and energy management software for the mobile, aerial and underwater robotics markets.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. Last year, the startup sold off its fundraising product for universities and nonprofits. Seattle-based Snap! Based in the Washington D.C.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Founded in 1935, BECU traces its roots to The Boeing Company and is the largest nonprofit credit union in Washington state with 50 locations. The team is building a combination of hardware and software to study the human proteome, the body’s full set of proteins. Vancouver, Wash.-based Bellevue, Wash.-based

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

Iyer has previously attached a small wireless camera to the back of a beetle and developed tiny sensors that can be dropped from moths. They come from universities, public schools and nonprofits, and are working with kids from elementary school into college and supporting fellow teachers as well. Winner: Deako.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

Vox

As multiple networks gear up to launch more and more satellites into space, regulators are preparing for a battle over physical space in orbit as well as the bands of spectrum that wireless satellite internet providers will need to operate their services. Changes are also coming to older satellite-based internet providers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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The wireless Bill has been around for quite some time. There's other ones such as the car hacking village and stuff but ICS village we were probably one of the longest running and nonprofit organizations out there but when it comes to villages we started it we excuse me, let me start. We have challenges for their skins also.

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