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GeekWire Gift Guide: 10 ideas for last-minute stocking stuffers

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Fisher Space Pen , Raw Brass model. Fisher’s Space Pen will write at any angle, any temperature, underwater, and, if your day really goes in an unexpected direction, in zero gravity. If you order a Space Pen through Fisher’s website , you can grab a few extras, as well as one free line of customized engraving.

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Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses

The Verge

But in recent years, the company has increasingly focused attention on the logistics space, and today is unveiling a new robot with just one application in mind: moving boxes in warehouses. But Stretch doesn’t have a price-tag yet, and it could be that for businesses with low margins, a robot isn’t worth the hassle no matter how mobile it is.

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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Hype Aviation , a news aggregation site that you might think of as Techmeme for aviation, space and defense news. Robin Koenig: Yeah, while I was going to school, I was doing, for six months, a project with Airbus in Germany back then, Airbus Defense and Space.

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‘Just watch us’: Gates-backed TerraPower is bullish on being the first next-gen nuclear plant in U.S.

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An enclosed space nearby features a network of insulated pipes that bear a vague resemblance to an oversized hamster Habitrail, but in fact are used to study heat transfer between melted salts and metal. . The companies are still forging ahead, but been forced to readjust their plans.

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VW’s CIO Looks For Ways To Catch Up With Tesla

The Accidental Successful CIO

The person with the CIO job has been studying the car market and has seen the rise of Tesla in the electric car space. One of the reasons for its success it that it has a price tag that is about $12,000 less than Tesla’s model. They are the German company who makes cars – remember the Beetle from the 1960’s?

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Recent Revisions to the Sovrin Governance Framework

Phil Windley

Others in the blockchain space might wonder why Sovrin spends so much time, energy, and money complying with regulations. In addition to the revisions to the SGF, we've promoted the Guardianship Task Force to an indepedent working group. Tags: sovrin identity governance gdpr privacy i4a.

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Launch of the Influence Landscape framework (Beta)

Trends in the Living Networks

A few quick comments on the framework: DRIVING FORCES: A wide array of forces are shifting value and attention to the influence landscape and from traditional media, advertising, and marketing. It is not an attempt to be comprehensive, more an indication of the key issues in the space. Tags: Influence Social networks.

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