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

GeekWire

Anthony previously led Magic AI, a Seattle startup that developed AI software to help monitor horses. Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using ThruWave’s hardware and software. Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using ThruWave’s hardware and software.

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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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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. company building charging infrastructure and payment software.

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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.

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

The Verge

The pushback is real, and it starts with the introduction of one software tool to Apple’s workplace: Slack. Women at Apple started talking about his hiring, specifically in this Slack channel called Women in Software Engineering. He also talked about former colleagues, etc. Or did you just not read the book?

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Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns

GeekWire

GeekWire coverage : Freight forwarding software startup Logixboard lands $13M. Quote : “They’ve executed really well on building low-cost consumer hardware devices with a strong onramp to consumer adoption of computer vision and subscription services.” ” CEO : Tushar Garg , former program manager at Microsoft.