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NASA provides funding for way-out space proposals, including a flying boat for Titan

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“Both projects have a lot of public-domain intellectual property, since I’m a maker and subscribe to the ideals of open hardware,” Morley told GeekWire in an email. Morley’s TitanAir proposal calls for building a winged craft with a network of sample-collection capillary tubes built into the leading edge of each wing.

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

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

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This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). But when drivers travel long distances that exceed their battery’s capacity, they need to tap into publicly available DC fast-chargers to keep them going.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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He has a background in technology development and management including working on micro-displays for military head-mounted systems and founding the MicroOptical Corporation, which created industrial and consumer eyewear-based AR products. Cohn founded government training tool Wonful and travel site Amazing Airfare. Carmen Rojas.

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

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military’s interest in hypersonic aerial vehicles that travel at more than five times the speed of sound. “The program plan there is to start in earnest bending hardware for that,” he said. The chairman is Alex Tai , who previously served as Virgin Galactic’s chief operating officer.

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A love for sci-fi sparked Megan Brown’s STEM path and led to quantum computing at Microsoft

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” A program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum, Brown calls the job a dream come true. As a full-stack, open cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions, software, and hardware, Brown calls Azure Quantum a “one-stop-shop” that gives developers the freedom to create their own path to scalable quantum computing.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She travels across the globe to present speeches and lead workshops. One of her favorite poems is “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whitman, a poem that embraces travelling the road into the future. Rotich also co-founded Kenyan hardware company BRCK Inc. Twitter: @BlakeMichelleM. Nancy Murphy. Location: San Francisco, CA, USA.

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