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Friedman says he’ll go back to his “startup roots”

US-based a16z is one of the largest venture capital (VC) funds globally is planning to invest in more Indian startups, according to sources.

Tech Moves: Techstars Seattle adds director; Redfin’s head of industry relations departs; and more July 23, 2021 at 4:34 pm Underwritten by Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: tips@geekwire.com Sarah Studer. (Techstars Photo) — Former Impact Hub Seattle Managing Director Sarah Studer is joining Techstars Seattle as the director of platform. Studer was most recently assistant director at the University of Washington...

The company says developers eventually will be responsible for software "carbon efficiency" like they are for security and reliability.

26 May 2021 11:13am, by Darryl Taft Microsoft made its distribution of OpenJDK generally available at its Build 2021 virtual conference so that developers who want to use Java on the Azure cloud can do so. OpenJDK is the free and open-source reference implementation of the Java SE Platform, which includes the Java Development Kit (JDK). The GA release of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK follows swiftly behind an April preview release of the technology, which is a long-term support distrib...

Indian Government to 1.4 Billion People: Want a Vaccine? Learn How to Code. 07/05/2021 Photo: Ashish Joshi/Unsplash On April 28, when the Narendra Modi-led Indian government opened up vaccine registrations for all adult citizens, 29-year-old Mousumi Chatterjee felt left out. The government said citizens should sign up on CoWIN, its COVID-19 vaccine registration website, or download its coronavirus contact-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, on their phones. Vaccination slots would be made ava...

On April 28, when the Narendra Modi–led Indian government opened up vaccine registrations for all adult citizens, 29-year-old Mousumi Chatterjee felt left out. The government said citizens should sign up on CoWIN, its COVID vaccine registration website, or download its coronavirus contact-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, on their phones. Vaccination slots would be made available on May 1. But Chatterjee, a domestic worker in Kolkata, has no idea what the CoWIN website and the Aarogya Setu app are. ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unique societal stress as governments worldwide and their citizens have struggled to work together to contain the virus and mitigate its economic impact. This has been a trying time for democracies, testing the capacity of democratic governance to mobilise state and citizenry to work together. It has also tested the integrity of open information environments and the ability of these environments to deal with the overlapping challenges of disinformation, misinfor...

A hacker who exposed Verkada’s surveillance camera snafu has been raided Based on an “alleged hack that took place last year” Share this story Bloomberg reports — days after helping to reveal how Silicon Valley security startup Verkada’s own security was so poor that that hackers were able to access over 150,000 of the company’s cameras to see the insides of schools, jails, hospitals, police stations, and Tesla factories. The raid doesn’t have anything to do with Verkada, accor...