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Compass Health COO on leading a century-old healthcare org into telemedicine amid a pandemic

GeekWire

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. The earlier effort included connecting with patients through mobile units that hold a tablet and allow a clinician to turn the device and its camera 300 degrees and pan up and down.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

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Transportation analyst at Cambridge Systematics.”. I helped city and state governments make better use of their transportation dollars by modeling strategic investment scenarios over long range planning horizons. I also got involved in a few special projects related to socially responsible / ESG investments.”.

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Two climate investors on the hot technologies, market trends and the urgency to act

GeekWire

But the climate tech sector — which includes low-carbon innovation in clean energy, construction, transportation, agriculture and carbon removal — is getting buffeted and bolstered by larger forces at play. Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit that has invested in more than 150 climate startups. GPT-4 is going crazy.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device. For example, the way, mobile phone pings the local cell tower are used by the Transportation Department to report traffic conditions on major roads and highways. But what if the feeling that someone was watching you was persistent. In early September 2021.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

In 2015, shortly after the Jeep hack, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released a study suggesting that someone could take wireless signals within an airplane and perhaps cause mischief. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system.