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9:00 AM PST Impact Series9:00 AM PST $10B Bezos Earth Fund hires a long-time global leader on climate issues as president and CEO
8:49 AM PST Amazon8:49 AM PST Amazon leases another Bellevue office tower as it makes room for planned 25k employees in city
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10:48 AM PST Microsoft10:48 AM PST Microsoft’s response to Exchange Server hacks scrutinized as scope of attack grows
9:54 AM PST Civic9:54 AM PST BIPOC students gain web design skills while building sites for Black-owned businesses
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8:00 AM PST Geek of the Week8:00 AM PST UW’s Os Keyes takes on tech’s ethical challenges, from gender bias in AI to facial recognition
9:00 AM PST Health/Life Sciences9:00 AM PST Vaccine expert on U.S. missteps and what we can learn from successful inoculations in Africa
8:00 AM PST Tech8:00 AM PST The curse of neural toxicity: AI2 and UW researchers help computers watch their language
3:06 PM PST Amazon3:06 PM PST Tech meme wars: Shopify takes a shot at Amazon over alleged copycat products
2:50 PM PST Space2:50 PM PST NASA names Perseverance rover landing site on Mars after Seattle sci-fi pioneer Octavia E. Butler
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