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Microsoft is (mostly) killing off Flash at the end of 2020

TechSpot

Back in July 2017, Microsoft, Adobe, and other tech giants, including Facebook, Apple, and Google, announced that Flash would no longer be supported after 2020. Now, Microsoft program manager Suchithra Gopinath writes that the company is dropping support for Flash Player in Edge, Edge Legacy, and Internet Explorer on December 31, 2020.

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Microsoft says Windows 11’s File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’

The Verge

This was an experimental banner that was not intended to be published externally and was turned off,” says Brandon LeBlanc, senior program manager for Windows, in a statement to The Verge. While the ads might have appeared for some Windows 11 users, Microsoft says it was a mistake.

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This new Seattle VC firm raised a $10M fund to back women-led startups

GeekWire

The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president of marketing. Graham & Walker Photos).

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Microsoft hires Google and Facebook product vet, building out ‘Teams for Life’ consumer group

GeekWire

” A job posting from May 28 , for a senior program manager on the Teams for Life group, sheds additional light on Microsoft’s plans, indicating that the goal is to “revolutionize the way friends and families communicate and collaborate.” Most recently, Fulay led the product team for the Facebook News Feed.

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Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary to pay $25M to settle whistleblower complaint about used drone parts

GeekWire

Special Operations Command and the Department of the Navy between 2009 and 2017, according to the U.S. According to his LinkedIn page , O’Hara left Insitu in 2014 to become a program manager at TIV. The parts were put into drones that Insitu built for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington.

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SpaceX provides a ride to the space station for ‘kidney on a chip’ and new solar arrays

GeekWire

The technology was given its first on-orbit test back in 2017, but this mission marks its operational debut. Researchers at UW Medicine, UW’s School of Pharmacy and the Kidney Research Institute are conducting parallel kidney-tissue experiments in earthly labs.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

GeekWire

Founded in 2017, Core Scientific is building blockchain infrastructure technology related to hosting, transaction processing and application development. It manages a fleet of more than 130,000 cryptocurrency miners. ThruWave spun out of the University of Washington in 2017. The company raised $11.5 Liberty Lake, Wash.-based

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