GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help. A team of AIE students took on the project, first meeting with Price to better understand what he’d like and to give him an initial experience with VR.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Even though employees could donate to any eligible US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the late 1990s, the money was still processed by United Way and employees paid a pass-through fee. Employees expected their entire donation to go directly to the nonprofit of their choice and not to have to pay this fee.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2022

The private sector component of the InfraGard program is represented by InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA), an FBI-affiliated independent nonprofit organization. The InfraGard model: education, networking, and information sharing. Security begins in hometowns across America.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

This Friday, May 22, Future For Us has turned its second annual conference into a remote event rebranded as Virtual Assembly. Some 500 participants have purchased tickets for the day-long meeting, beating last year’s count of 350 attendees. Your preferred social network? How do you run meetings?

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Riedner interviewed for the role and has been working at the company without yet meeting Paoli or other members of the team in person. Telemedicine and cloud computing startups, for example, need help meeting demand due to the outbreak. And certain tech sectors are still booming. ” Recent funding fuels hiring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

Another project is with a virtual reality company, designing the equipment worn for VR experiences. Outside of work, Cole is the founder of Girls Can Do , a nonprofit that hosts events akin to “TED Talks for girls,” particularly girls from racially diverse and low-income families. Your preferred social network?

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. Department of Energy’s broad network of government-funded research institutions across the country, PNNL’s research on national security and energy is worthy of recognition.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

We sold the company to Palo Alto Networks, I think less than four years from its founding date, which is a very interesting growth story, obviously. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. And those systems are very different than cloud it's and they, you know, run virtual machines on them.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Back in 2015 there really wasn't a way for hackers and aerospace vendors to meet in the middle. He wasn’t just some stunt hacker.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon’s top lawyer, David Zapolsky, later referred to Smalls as “not smart, or articulate” in notes from a meeting with Bezos and other company leaders. The teams had gathered for the first-annual internal diversity summit to share feedback, learn from their peers and leaders, and discuss goals and the right strategies to meet them.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Ransomware is malicious computer code that blocks and owners access to their computer network until a ransom gets paid. What's in there?

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon’s top lawyer, David Zapolsky, later referred to Smalls as “not smart, or articulate” in notes from a meeting with Bezos and other company leaders. The teams had gathered for the first-annual internal diversity summit to share feedback, learn from their peers and leaders, and discuss goals and the right strategies to meet them.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore. ” Anderson recalled her dad showing up for her track and cross country meets — and for taking his support a step further. McCaw Cellular was growing its communications empire, launching the first nationwide cell network in the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, I have a laptop and it runs Linux so I can get into network security. There's also so many virtual conferences. There was also a hack of the internal Wi Fi network of a commercial airplane. We have some technicians all the way to upper management to senior leadership and companies that get involved.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

Turns out, SANS Institute -- which stands for SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security -- has launched some programs to find out. You go into those rabbit holes and you find yourself looking at Python programming and next day you're trying to figure out how to install the virtual machine to test some things on your computer.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. The appeal of the Arrow is the network of shops that sell it. Workers developed the whole system — the bikes, repair networks, shelters, charging stations — because they had to. You meet someone here and start a family.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Who can devote nights and weekends to getting something built to show that they have started solving their problem, that has a network or a set of relationships with other people devoted to the same problem. I look at our own staff meeting, which is now in Zoom. And the chat in our staff meeting is rockin’. It’s a rigor.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. And we were sitting down after a meet up having a beer. And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual. Morris's defense and includes that he intended only a low grade.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The demand’s still here; it’s just been tricky to meet it. This has ranged from the unfortunately common reliance on “crunch” to meet strict deadlines to truly bizarre, wide-ranging allegations of harassment. This hasn’t meant that games have lost their audience gains from 2020, as was initially the question.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, the social network agreed to pay damages to American moderators and provide more counseling to them while they work. Last year I published some leaked audio from a Facebook all-hands meeting in which CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged this range of experiences.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

On Tuesday morning, Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting with employees over video chat to address concerns related to the company’s decision not to take action on some recent posts by President Trump. Today’s meeting can help us understand how Facebook might react when that happens. My colleague Adi Robertson listened in with me.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But the TikTok Transparency and Accountability Center is now open for (virtual) business — and on Wednesday I was part of a small group of reporters who got to take a tour over Zoom. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? The new social-networks-are-bad documentary is now on Netflix.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

Biden’s plan focuses on local and nonprofit telecoms, prioritizing publicly owned networks over giants like Verizon and Comcast that dominate better-served markets. As of January 2020, over 500 US communities are served by a publicly owned network, according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Twitter moved to add labels to one set of tweets and hid others behind a warning for “glorifying violence”; Facebook agonized but ultimately decided to take no action, triggering a virtual walkout of hundreds of employees earlier this week. But I can see a reason for product teams to decline to help him build his megaphone.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Which he reiterated at a virtual shareholders’ meeting today.).

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2024

As political scientists Robert Erikson and Christopher Wlezien have noted, “polls from the beginning of the election year have virtually no predictive power” when it comes to calling presidential races. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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