GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

The half-day program runs for four weeks in the summer and is virtual so that it can reach a larger geographical area, including rural areas of Washington state. The Seattle-based group is backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp through his Camp.org nonprofit foundation. The Geeks Give Back category is presented again this year by BECU.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. Conversica provides virtual assistants for revenue teams using conversational artificial intelligence. Milton Lang. Washington STEM Photo).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

The nonprofit just wrapped up 10 weeks of camps, with nearly 1,500 kids participating at the spacious Seattle campus and three partner locations, and another 1,500 kids enrolled in the Science Center’s virtual camps, including students from out of state. ” That was the case for Elissa Fernandez and her three sons.

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2020

Volunteering as a clean energy ambassador, UW PhD candidate Abbie Ganas led a virtual class via Google Meet with 25 middle school students enrolled in a south King County middle school. It includes: Videos, lesson plans, information on DIY solar kits, and reading materials for upper grades. Courtesy Abbie Ganas). CEI Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2023

Seattle film nonprofit SIFF acquires historic theater from Paul Allen estate Seattle film lovers got their Hollywood ending. … Read More Cinerama is saved! … Read More Wood or would not? .” … Read More

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on women and minority founders. ” The company uses virtual, augmented, and mixed reality along with AI to create interactive learning experiences. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Open up your networks.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

This crisis is the “result of the ongoing pandemic, which has been exacerbated by continued isolation, difficulty engaging with virtual learning, and lack of regular in-person interaction with educators, school personnel, mentors and peers,” states an emergency proclamation signed by the governor on Monday.

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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

MARCH 14, 2022

For the food delivery program, the nonprofit coordinates with DoorDash, food banks and community partners to send weekly boxes of groceries to 5,700 homes in the county, which includes Seattle and Bellevue. That’s avoided when the grocery cart and checkout are virtual, and people can easily move items in and out of their cart.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Hartley Riedner, new head of operations at Seattle-area startup Docugami, with CEO Jean Paoli on a video call this week. I have no idea,” said Hartley Riedner, the company’s new head of operations, laughing with Paoli on a video call with GeekWire this week. The company has hired 50 people since going virtual.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G. Carl Bickford Photo).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Kids continued to explore nature and science through virtual and in-person camps. This spring the scientists and parents running Seattle-based Oceans Initiative applied their marine mammal expertise in a different way this year through their Virtual Marine Biology Camp , which ran via livestream from March to May.

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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. A benefit to taking their message virtual is the opportunity to further expand their geographic reach. “We Favorite apps, cloud services and software tools: My favorite software tool is Zoom.

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

In partnership with Be My Eyes, an app that lets visually impaired people get on-demand help from a sighted person via video chat. OpenAI used GPT-4 to create a virtual assistant that can help people understand the context of what they’re seeing around them. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful.

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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. While the nation is going through dramatic changes, Gates said in his video message, the innovative spirit of the region he calls home hasn’t changed.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. GeekWire video screen grabs). Anoop Gupta, co-founder and CEO of SeekOut, accepts the first award of the night on Thursday via video link. It’s been a tough year for people everywhere. Winner: SeekOut.

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2021

The more urgent question for many is this: what are the climate impacts of tethering the sales of virtual items to cryptocurrency? That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2021

A meeting in Microsoft Mesh, with an animated avatar (left), in-person participant (center) and photorealistic avatar (right) collaborating on a live virtual simulation. Screenshot from Microsoft video.). He appeared in a presentation hosted in Mesh via Altspace VR, the virtual reality platform that Microsoft acquired in 2017.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.

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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.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Axon’s in-car video technology for police. For example, transcripts of body camera videos that detect use of racial slurs will be automatically ranked higher for supervisor review. Related: As protests spread across the country, mobile video creates mosaic of violence and tool for change. Axon Photo).

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

is an AI-powered software that provides automatic speech recognition and transcription for audio and video files. You may submit voice-containing audio or video files to Otter, and it will begin transcribing the content into text. The app allows you to record audio and video directly from your device or import files from other sources.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. We had a video feed showing a bug bounty effort that was being done on an FFT maintenance system. Next to that we had a virtual reality training that the Air Force uses for pilot training.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

But will these virtual acts of employee resistance culminate in lasting systemic change? Some users make retrospective videos, detailing how their lives have changed since quitting a toxic or unsatisfying job. Signifier in a YouTube video critiquing the buzzy, anti-capitalist phrase.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In an effort to keep things simple, Egan also recommends creating small 3-minute videos because this makes training more manageable. We [Western Governors University] released games about phishing where they [users] could go in and drag and drop stuff— these interactive things, watching videos are voluntary.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The video game industry came into 2021 with a lot of momentum , with millions of new customers, high sales, and venture capitalists falling over each other to put more money into the system. Bungie, makers of Destiny 2 (above), are one of several video game developers rocked by allegations of misconduct in 2021. Bungie Image).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore. In 2009, he and his second wife, Judi Beck, turned the Oxbow Farm into a nonprofit that hosts school kids and grows sustainable crops and native plants. ” Video production by Kevin Lisota, and videography by Tiffany Grunzel.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

There's also so many virtual conferences. I can't think of any that are completely but I guess it's probably a few totally virtual ones out there but hybrid conferences and a lot of the hybrid ones are are for free occasionally you'll find one that that are not but there's a there's quite a few that that that are for free. at DEF CON.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. Cesar, who hopes to be a video editor, livestreamed his nightly broadcast to the Deliveryboys page. As contractors and, often, undocumented immigrants, they have few protections and virtually no safety net.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

And I’ve got this thing that I have now, because of remote work, which is serendipity in virtual spaces. And when I look at the entities that do that, it’s government, it’s nonprofits, it’s kind of loosely organized communities, your neighbors, your friends, it’s individuals and it’s business. Nonprofits can do that.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon also held a virtual “career enrichment” summit called Represent the Future that was attended by 5,000 Black, Latinx, and Native American professionals interested in learning about working at Amazon. pic.twitter.com/dNTGIQ4lFT — WIRED (@WIRED) October 12, 2018. “I of racial equity, fail — period.”.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon also held a virtual “career enrichment” summit called Represent the Future that was attended by 5,000 Black, Latinx, and Native American professionals interested in learning about working at Amazon. pic.twitter.com/dNTGIQ4lFT — WIRED (@WIRED) October 12, 2018. “I of racial equity, fail — period.”.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

You can learn a lot by following along with their videos. 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. It looks like a video game. You can get sidetracked more often than not.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The annual awards show celebrates the wide variety of things that happen online, from websites and podcasts to design and data visualizations to video series and social media accounts, and they tend to touch on a big swath of what happened in the preceding year. Here’s the full list of winners. Special Achievement.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. And it's, no it's this short video. They've been showing up at conferences, and in some infosec videos. And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. every platform struggled to moderate live video.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

And he’s learning to make pizza from scratch by watching YouTube videos. “It I saw the intro to the video where you said, “This phone sells more than the Galaxy.” I actually watched the video. I think I learned it from watching your video. He’s doing it all virtually now. It came out okay,” he said. We took inputs.

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