GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

The City of Seattle launched a new program this week designed to provide necessary technology to people of color and other marginalized groups who are looking for jobs. The first round of refurbished laptops were donated to 20 participants in the program earlier this month. (Flickr Photo / Daniel X. O’Neil).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. Microsoft is also offering Codex as a service in the form of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based pair programming tool that can generate code fragments from natural language prompts.

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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. She asked her kids if they were game for going in person.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. The free and virtual 10-week program, funded by the U.S. Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

“This past year made clear both how essential reliable internet is and how many obstacles to access remain for historically disadvantaged groups and neighborhoods,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a news release.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work. Blues only charges customers $49 for the module itself, and nothing more after that.

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CTOvision

MAY 29, 2015

Governor McAuliffe said , “The CRCF program advances research with potential for economic growth in Virginia. The following CRCF proposals will be awarded, contingent upon acceptance of award terms and conditions: Commercialization Program. Eminent Researcher Recruitment Program. Matching Funds Program. CyberRock Inc.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

SpaceX’s Starlink antenna connects with a network of satellites to provide high-speed internet access. He’s under direction from Washington’s Legislature to bring the entire state up to superfast internet speeds by 2028. Melissa Santos is a reporter for Crosscut , where this story first appeared. SpaceX Starlink Photo).

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The program, officially called “Connecting Heroes,” provides free access to the company’s network over the next decade for members of state and local public and nonprofit law enforcement, fire, and EMS agencies. T-Mobile’s offer of free mobile service for first responders for 10 years is now available, CEO Mike Sievert announced today.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 8, 2021

Due to both internal and external pressure for directing maximum funding to their program work, non-profit associations generally tend to underinvest in technology. Some of the areas where non-profit organizations can make use of computers, internet and other networking technology include. Program evaluation. Donor management.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2019

These organizations, which are more often than not nonprofit associations, still store their sensitive data in the form of hard copies. Fortunately, this attitude of nonprofits is slowly taking a turn for the better, and many have started espousing the idea of creating a digital archive of their current data. It Frees Up Space.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

That rule specifies that “video services” must pay a quarterly franchise fee to local governments, unless they’re part of a larger internet service package or operate wirelessly. It’s a remnant of how we did cable franchising,” says John Bergmayer, legal director of the internet-focused nonprofit Public Knowledge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. It takes people who are already programmers and removes the drudge work.”. “We

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2020

But as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced education out of classrooms and onto the internet, the UW clean energy ambassadors are likewise making the shift to remote teaching. CEI receives financial support from the state of Washington, which includes funding for the K-12 outreach program. “It’s refreshing.”. CEI Photo).

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2021

AI systems learn by absorbing billions of words scraped from the internet and generate text in response to a variety of prompts. OpenAI started life as a nonprofit, but for the last few years, it has been trying to make money with GPT-3 as its first salable product. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

That’s according to Doug Levin , co-founder and national director of the K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX) , a national nonprofit tackling school cybersecurity issues. Exposure due to online systems or programs that are out of date and needing a patch or are insecure in general. In August 2023, the U.S.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Now a few weeks into remote back-to-school, some of Washington’s K-12 students and educators are finding that internet connectivity is a digital divide that they still can’t span as COVID-19 has forced much of life online. For more than 20 years, E-Rate has paid for schools and libraries to connect to the internet.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Ismail was chief product officer at Marchex, and is also a veteran of Microsoft, where he was director of product management for Internet Explorer. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Greater Washington Partnership, and president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

Three years later, the high school graduate is doing her own teaching for the nonprofit. In the spring she completed her associate degree in computer science through the Running Start program at Highline College. Ambachew, of SeaTac, Wash., is an 18-year-old graduate of Mount Rainier High School.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

As schools shifted online, an alarming number of students, families and schools did not have access to technology devices and reliable internet essential for learning. Government programs, nonprofits and educators have hustled to connect kids with digital resources, with varying success.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2022

The InfraGard ® program turned 25 years old last year. The private sector component of the InfraGard program is represented by InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA), an FBI-affiliated independent nonprofit organization. When the program was established in 1996, the idea of InfraGard was truly ahead of its time.

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GeekWire

MAY 16, 2020

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. Selected companies, known as “fledglings,” enroll in a two-month accelerator program and receive a $15,000-to-$20,000 investment in exchange for revenue-based equity.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Shoultz’s resume runs deep in Seattle health companies and nonprofits. Other former positions include leadership roles at the Gates Foundation and directing the global drug development program at PATH. Prior to Phase Genomics, he was co-founder and chief operating officer for the Institute for Protein Design spinout Monod Bio.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

of Commerce Photo) Applying for a job, scheduling a doctor appointment or even ordering a beer now often requires internet access, yet many Americans — somewhere between 14 and 120 million, depending on whom you ask — still cannot connect to the web at home, or live in areas where service just isn’t up to the task. Washington State Dept.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2024

DemocracyLab , a “tech for good” nonprofit, ran the hackathon, which had support from the National Science Foundation LEAP-HI project , and the UW’s Department of Urban Design and Planning. Planning Communications for Disasters ResilComm was a favorite of the review panel and audience participants.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 24, 2023

In his spare time, he volunteers as a national leader among the InfraGard National Members Alliance, assisting in governance, audit, and program development. I applied at a local shop and worked as a field tech, ultimately helping the business add a new line of service for internet business capabilities. They are quite successful.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2024

When the startup launched in 2000, the internet was in its infancy. What started with a few rescue geese — yes, that’s a thing — has become more than 100 animals including pigs, sheep, goats, donkeys, llamas, ducks, geese, chickens and two cows living at her nonprofit, Heaven on Earth Animal Retirement Sanctuary.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Techstars Seattle, which hosts a three month accelerator program, graduated its 11th cohort this year and is led by Managing Director Isaac Kato. Anu Sharma (left) and Daniel Li. Redmond, Wash.-based

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2020

Pass an Internet of Things Security Law. With a significant portion of the workforce working from home during the COVID-19 disruption, household internet of things (IoT) devices, particularly household routers, have become vulnerable but important pieces of our national cyber ecosystem and our adversary's attack surface.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. It’s just a matter of making it available to anyone who posts work on the internet. Photo: Matt Buchholz. Image: Matt Buchholz.

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Vox

JULY 12, 2024

Frequent internet use can impede a child’s ability to create interpersonal relationships. Ziegler suggests modifying the template created by Common Sense Media — a nonprofit focused on media and technology safety for children — to your family’s needs. This can range from Roblox to Google Docs.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. Enrolling in the FBA program is the only way that most sellers can qualify for Prime. Getting that Prime badge is huge for a seller.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. So, reporting is vital.". Liebes ended on an encouraging note. deep fakes. ransomware.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The story here, reportedly, is that Roblox developers end up with few useful skills, since programming for Roblox bears little resemblance to making a game anywhere else, and the poor conversion rate on the in-game “Robux” awards means they’re effectively working for pennies. You can’t have an Internet of Things if there aren’t any things.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2023

“That’s the wrong approach, because that doesn’t actually build for the future,” said Hermida, who also co-founded The Conversation Canada, a nonprofit news startup. And, yes, the internet has decimated the journalism industry. What it does is support a failing commercial legacy media model.”

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Tesla’s Model S IVI system is designed to allow drivers to navigate using Google Maps with live traffic information, listen to streaming music from any online radio station and have access to an Internet browser for news or restaurant reviews. With Google Maps, Tesla drivers can also locate recharging locations.

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