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Tech Moves: Former Concur exec takes over Shiftboard, Indochino gets a new chief, and more
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Sterling Wilson
— Early Concur executive Sterling Wilson is the new CEO of Seattle-based employee management software company Shiftboard. He joins the 13-year-old company as the Shiftboard founder and former CEO Bryan Lhuillier transitions to a Chief Product Officer role, a position he has held from time to time over the years. Shiftboard makes cloud-based tools to help organizations — from nonprofits to 10,000-person...
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Space race! British astronaut Tim Peake gets set to run marathon on space station
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Tim Peake
British astronaut Tim Peake says he’ll follow in the footsteps of NASA’s Sunita Williams by running a marathon in orbit on the International Space Station. Peake is due to ride a Russian Soyuz craft to the station for a six-month stint on Dec. 15, which should give him plenty of zero-G training time for the London Marathon on April...
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Virgin Galactic gets a 747 jet to serve as flying launch pad for its LauncherOne rocket
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Virgin Galactic showed off its latest mothership today: a Boeing 747-400 jet that it acquired from its corporate cousins at Virgin Atlantic to serve as the platform for its LauncherOne rocket. LauncherOne is designed to be launched from a high-flying carrier airplane and send small-scale satellites into orbit. It will use a liquid-fueled engine called Newton, which...
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Wow! Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sends New Shepard rocket ship to space – and gets it back safely
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Blue Origin New Shepard launch
Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, successfully sent its New Shepard rocket ship to outer space for the first time on Monday – and even more amazingly, brought every piece back down to Earth for a soft landing. Exclusive: Jeff Bezos speaks out on Blue Origin, SpaceX and space trips: ‘I...
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Amazon Echo gets customizable voice commands thanks to deeper IFTTT integration
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While Amazon’s Echo can tell you about traffic and control your smart-home devices, users haven’t had much ability to develop their own commands for Alexa. But thanks to an improved integration with IFTTT, users can start building their very own voice commands to do everything from sending emails to finding a lost phone. IFTTT (which stands for “if this, then...
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