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Amazon may launch healthcare business line with at-home COVID test and other diagnostic services

GeekWire

The company first started building out its testing capabilities last year at the start of the pandemic, when it redirected workers from its Lab126 hardware group , best known for creating its Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets and Echo smart speakers.

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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

GeekWire

Kennedy references to outer space as part of his “New Frontier.” “The program plan there is to start in earnest bending hardware for that,” he said. Even its name — New Frontier Aerospace — is a callback to the earlier days of America’s space effort, going back to John F.

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The simple solutions to better games

The Verge

“I’d love to see, at some point, the industry come together to say, ‘Look, here’s some standard ways we can talk about this stuff and let people know about this stuff ahead of time, before they preorder a game, before they purchase a game,’” says Brannon Zahand, senior gaming accessibility program manager at Xbox.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

GeekWire

“Our Program Management team ate lunch together most days; it was an informal opportunity for the group to get to know each other outside of our separate projects and created a culture where we could all learn from each other.” “He made the workplace lighter and more fun, every day you could interact with him.”

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

The company listed these key priorities for its security initiatives: Making its software, cloud services, firmware and hardware secure by design. Corrected to remove reference to Harv Bhela, who had been one of Bell’s direct reports but recently left to become NetApp’s chief product officer.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves. Do you have any hardware demands? Is it the Ford program manager for a car? You don’t make cars. Make it better.”?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Inside DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: That's Mike Walker, former program manager for DARPA Cyber Grand challenge in 2015 at DEF CON 23 no less Walker announced the first Cyber Grand Challenge would be held the following year in that same ballroom at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Guests: Alex Rebert, Tyler, and Ned.

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