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Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

GeekWire

Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Quantz joined the telecommunications giant in 2014 and has been a sales leader in its Chicago, Oregon and Southwest Washington regions. Milton Lang.

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Meet ADP's 'business anthropologist,' putting human thought behind chatbots

ComputerWorld IT Management

has developed her craft over 15-plus years at a variety of organizations — a nonprofit, a telecommunications company and an e-commerce firm. I was brought in to ensure that we are addressing real human needs in the tools we build," she says. Bird, who ran a family farm in New Hampshire before earning an anthropology Ph.D.,

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Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon

The Verge

The company was constructing a landing site for an undersea telecommunications cable when it hit an unexpected snag. Facebook also left behind a drill tip, tools, and 1,100 feet of pipe. Facebook abandoned broken equipment and thousands of gallons of drilling fluid under the ocean floor just off the coast of Oregon in April.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

With a background in economics and IT, as well as experience in sectors as diverse as telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and agriculture, Tarhan is well placed to advise a variety of stakeholders. This powerful combination has helped her become one of Australia’s leading futurists in the telecommunications space.

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The clock is ticking on a TikTok ban

Vox

In its effort to convince regulators that its app is walled off from China and ByteDance, TikTok partnered with Texas-based company Oracle, which is hosting US user data on and running traffic through its cloud infrastructure as well as reviewing the source code for TikTok’s recommendation algorithm and content moderation tools.