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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

” The longtime Microsoft hardware chief and executive vice president led the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams. Yusuf Mehdi will take on the responsibility of leading the Windows and Surface businesses with our OEM and Retail partners. He also led development of Windows 11.

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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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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

GeekWire

Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using ThruWave’s hardware and software. “There is a computer vision and hardware component, an industrial market, incredible talent on the team, great progress with customer contracts in place, and early revenue,” she said. The startup raised $6.4

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

Multi-factor authentication for both cloud-based accounts and on-premise Active Directory will now be part of Windows, rather needing a hardware solution to complete. Security has already been front and center early in 2015 with data breaches hitting some of the biggest names in the retail, financial and healthcare sectors.

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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

GeekWire

This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Retail spaces including hotels, grocery stores and other businesses have started installing chargers for customer use. FlexCharging , a Redmond, Wash.,

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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. It’s kind of now an expectation among customers that there’s a delivery option for most retail businesses. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves. You don’t make cars.

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How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer

The Verge

So the next big thing is that in early August, Apple places Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager, on administrative leave. Ashley raising those contamination concerns brought up all of these other concerns that she had while working in the hardware organization, which was very male-dominant.

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