Waymo, Google’s former self-driving car project that is now a separate business unit of Alphabet, is expanding its presence in the eastern US in the steel city. The company will initially hire about a dozen engineers, a source familiar with the move told TechCrunch, and they will be based in Google’s existing offices in the … Read more
Kelly Breslin Wright. (Gong photo) – Former Tableau executive Kelly Breslin Wright has been named President and COO of Gong, an AI sales startup based in Palo Alto, California. Wright joined Gong’s board of directors in March. A former Tableau employee, Wright spent 12 years with the Seattle-based company leading sales. Before leaving in 2016, … Read more
Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) built with the help of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen. (Photos by Virgin Galactic and Michael Pereckas) The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Spaceline may look completely different, but financially … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO – President Biden and many Washington lawmakers are currently concerned about computer chips and China’s ambitions with basic technology. But a huge machine that was sold by a Dutch company has turned out to be an important lever for politics – and shows how unrealistic a country’s hopes for building a completely self-sufficient … Read more
Upcoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos on July 5th (GeekWIre Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will join the company’s board of directors as he takes over Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s new CEO on July 5, the company said in a new filing on Friday. Jassy, who joined … Read more
Toni Townes-Whitley (left) and Kate Johnson. (Microsoft and UPS photos) Microsoft’s US President Kate Johnson and Toni Townes-Whitley, President of the US Government and Regulated Industries, are leaving the company. The company confirmed both exits and said a search for Townes-Whitley’s replacements was ongoing. Deb Cupp takes over the management of the US subsidiary of … Read more
India-based tech startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that has spilled private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup. According to historical data from Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, the server has been unprotected since at least June 14th. … Read more
Großbritannien wird immer beliebter als ein großartiger Ort, um ein Technologieunternehmen zu gründen. Das Land holt China bei den Technologieinvestitionen schnell ein, wobei die VC-Investitionen laut TechNation im Jahr 2020 einen Rekord von 15 Milliarden US-Dollar erreichten. Ungeachtet einer globalen Gesundheitskrise blieb London ein Liebling der Anleger. Britische Städte machten ein Fünftel der Top 20 … Read more
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In recent years, hackers have increasingly targeted the physical systems we rely on to run our society. Electricity utilities, food processors, and aluminum manufacturers are just some of the industries that have been attacked recently, causing huge disruptions in the supply chain. Fortunately, the innovative research of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory offers a new … Read more