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Seattle-based First Mode says it’s partnering with Anglo American in a multi-year joint development deal that includes an $8.5 million investment in First Mode.

Chrome HTTPS-First Mode will show a full-page warning on insecure connections JC Torres - Jul 14, 2021, 10:13pm CDT Google has been driving a crusade against elements that make the Web insecure and dangerous. Knowing that not all users might be aware of or want to make an effort to change their bad security practices, Google is trying to enforce security on its end using Chrome as its carrot and stick for website owners and administrators. For years, it has been pushing HTTPS as the one and only way for websites to serve content, but it hasn’t been 100% successful. Now it...

The outfit conquered Baja with its Boot—next it aims to do the same with a fuel-cell truck before building them for fleet use.

The outfit conquered Baja with its Boot—next it aims to do the same with a fuel-cell truck before building them for fleet use.

First Mode President Chris Voorhees and engineers Brian Geddes and Sophia Kim check out the newly completed goniometer before shipping it to Western Washington University. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The 3-foot-wide contraption that was built in First Mode’s Seattle workshop looks like something from a science-fiction movie, complete with spinning cogwheels and a flashing light beam — and it really does have an out-of-this-world purpose: helping scientists interpret readings from Mars. Even the word that describes the gizmo has a sci-fi sound: “goniometer.” Today, First Mode‘s eng...