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Let’s get Kraken! Seattle hockey team has a name and logo as sports mystery finally surfaces

GeekWire

In the time since, Seattle sports fans who grew up on Mariners, Seahawks, Supersonics, Sounders, Storm and more have speculated about all the possible names which could befall a new hockey franchise. The team will play in a reimagined and expensively remodeled version of what was KeyArena, the sports and concert venue at Seattle Center.

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Tech News Roundup March 16

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Consumer Electronics Net. IT Business Net. March Madness contest: Join GeekWire’s bracket for a chance to win tickets to our Sports Tech Summit. Trifacta Expands Federal Market Presence to Accelerate the. CSRA Adds Former Jacobs CEO Craig Martin to Board of Directors; Mike Lawrie Comments. CrowdStreet raises $3.5M

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Amazon discloses 20% stake in electric vehicle startup Rivian, makers of future delivery van

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billion, and are recorded within “Other assets” on our consolidated balance sheets with adjustments recognized in “Other income (expense), net” on our consolidated statements of operations. The EV maker has begun production and delivery of its R1T all-electric pickup truck and will launch the R1S sport utility vehicle in December.

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Those fake baseball fans are creeping people out

The Verge

As part of an attempt to make Major League Baseball games in this weird, coronavirus-shortened season seem as close to normal as possible, Fox Sports decided to create virtual fans , digital versions of cheering people who would react to the games broadcast on Fox the way real fans do. | Photo by Joe Sargent/MLB Photos via Getty Images.

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena is the first arena in the world to land Zero Carbon certification

GeekWire

The company’s investments helped make it the first net-zero carbon certified arena in the world. Amazon secured the naming rights for Seattle’s rebuilt KeyArena, dubbing it the Climate Pledge Arena. Among its enviro features is a living wall.

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Microsoft, Brooks, Unilever and others join Amazon’s Climate Pledge, topping 30 signatories

GeekWire

Amazon’s Climate Pledge is taking on a higher profile, with its name on a Seattle sports arena , and more than a dozen new companies on its list. Amazon announced the Climate Pledge last year , promising to meet the net-zero emissions goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change by 2040, 10 years ahead of schedule.

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