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What Can A CIO Do About The Problem Of Airline Overbooking?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Times have been tough for United airlines in the past. There was that event where a passenger was removed from a flight forcibly and everyone filmed it and put it on social media. A bit before that the airline had had to delay 500 of their flights because of a second glitch in two weeks of the computer systems that run the airline.

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CIO as fact finder, fixer, and framer in a post-truth IT world

CIO Business Intelligence

However… Renée DiResta, the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, has coined the wonderful phrase “ bespoke realities ,” referring to the effects of a “Cambrian explosion of bubble realities,” communities “that operate with their own norms, media, trusted authorities, and frameworks of facts.”

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Luni Libes’ Fledge accelerator takes flight as socially conscious investing keeps growing

GeekWire

Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. ” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies. No commercial web yet.

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results.

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Top Technology News Ticker for 6 June 2016

CTOvision

American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity (Mike Freeman/Los Angeles Times). Hackers claim hijack of Mark Zuckerberg's social-networking accounts - CNET. Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts (Nataliya Vasilyeva/Associated Press).

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

CTOvision

Lewis and Dr. Rhonda Anderson of the ODNI National Intelligence Council will be moderating a panel of Dr Chris Reed (IARPA), Mr. Mark White (Deloitte) and myself on topics of the Internet of Things and its implication for intelligence. United Airlines. I hope to see you there. Tom Conway. Director, Federal Business Development.

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Seattle cutout artist Rudy Willingham teaming with singer Lil Nas X for TikTok’s first foray into NFTs

GeekWire

Rudy Willingham , the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil Nas X to release TikTok’s first-ever NFT. Willingham, a former GeekWire Geek of the Week , made a name for himself in the city and across the internet with his unique cutouts of pop culture icons.

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