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Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon sports leader lands at DraftKings; Seattle tech vet launches advisory firm

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Marie Donoghue , who previously helped lead Amazon’s sports content initiatives, is now chief business and growth officer at sports betting giant DraftKings. Debique is a former longtime Microsoft leader and also co-founded a startup called SyncFloor which aimed to provide licensed commercial music to businesses and creators.

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Uncommon Thinkers: UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare ‘creative brilliance’

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He isn’t a licensed electrician. ” Patel working with K-12 students as part of an outreach program organized by the UW computer science school. But he does find time for hobbies — tinkering with cars and watching sports (Patel is a huge Alabama football fan) — and family. . Read other profiles here.

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Another Seattle startup trying 4-day workweek in bid to enhance productivity, well-being and culture

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Uplevel makes software tools to help engineering teams better measure how developers use their time and how they could best avoid burning out. Two years ago Microsoft introduced a program called “Work Life Choice Challenge” in Japan, shutting down offices every Friday during one month. The startup is 100% remote. Uplevel Photo).

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Shift AI Podcast: Riding the wave of AI startup innovation with Pioneer Square Labs’ T.A. McCann

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Her encouragement led us to venture into diverse activities, from sports to building websites. A licensing assistant that detects unauthorized use of copyrighted material like music or videos, then notifies the owner. It takes direction to complete programming tasks efficiently. Listen to the full episode of Shift AI with T.A.

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Microsoft is giving businesses access to OpenAI’s powerful AI language model GPT-3

The Verge

Now, Microsoft is making an upgraded version of the program, OpenAI’s autocomplete software GPT-3, available to business customers as part of its suite of Azure cloud tools. Then, in September 2020, Microsoft bought an exclusive license to directly integrate GPT-3 into its own products. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Hacker Revolution Will Be Televised

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In a moment I’ll introduce you to the person who has done this, and given his experience with live broadcasts of CTFs, is working now to make live CTFs a regular e-sport. WIENS : Yeah, so people when they asked me what I do, I say I build software that takes apart other pieces of software. Does it have vulnerabilities?

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Gogoro Eeyo 1S electric bike review: unapologetic fun

The Verge

In sport mode, the 250W Smartwheel starts powering the single-speed Gates Carbon Drive from the first downward press of the pedal for instant starts. Gogoro says the cutoff is necessary to protect the battery, but it’s an unexpected limitation on a bicycle billed as the “sports car” of e-bikes. Eeyo is software upgradeable.

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