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thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Microsoft makes largest corporate solar deal in U.S. history, buying 315 MW from 750,000 solar panels - Bigstock Photo Microsoft just announced what it calls “the single largest corporate purchase... ow.ly/q5I050gXa5j

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! TLDR: Zuckerberg responds to Facebook scandal, Starbucks ends pay gap, Amazon’s workplace reigns - [Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Subscribe to Gee... ow.ly/C8TZ50gWWj1

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Starbucks CEO says company is ‘rare exception’ among struggling brick-and-mortar retailers torpedoed by tech - Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson at the company’s annual shareholders meeting in Seattle o... ow.ly/91Wf50gWG17

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Sift Science raises $53M to bolster machine learning for fighting fraud online - Matt Green leads Sift’s Seattle office. (Sift Photo) Sift Science, a San Francisco company that builds software to ... ow.ly/G9rG50gWpyM

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Even after death, Stephen Hawking stirs up fresh cosmological tiffs and tributes - Physicist Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider’s underground tunnel in 2013. (CERN Photo / Laurent E... ow.ly/Byla50gWdY7

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! TLDR: Fatal accident raises questions about self-driving cars; Waze expands carpool service; Buff Bezos’ robot dog - [Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco... ow.ly/oyqH50gVYYX

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! #WakandaForever! Record-breaking ‘Black Panther’ is also the most-tweeted about film of all time - “Black Panther” has topped the box office for five straight weeks. (Walt Disney Pictures Photo) T... ow.ly/8bF650gVJTt

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Star seismologist Lucy Jones sizes up Seattle’s readiness for ‘the Really Big One’ - Earthquake expert Lucy Jones says Pacific Northwest residents tend to be less motivated than Californians to pr... ow.ly/sRsS50gVhsY

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Startup Spotlight: Ex-Amazon employees draw inspiration from Bezos, apply lessons from retail powerhouse at e-commerce marketing upstart - Connor Folley, Downstream co-founder and CEO. (Downstream... ow.ly/WXAG50gV1KN

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Why Walmart wants to patent robot bees - Robotic bees were the subject of a dystopian video four years ago. (Greenpeace via YouTube) Robot bees have hit the big time. In the 10 days since Walmart’... ow.ly/3PFG50gUNhr

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! As Congress considers the tech-backed CLOUD Act, privacy and human rights groups raise concerns - (Pixabay Photo / cc0) The modern world of cloud computing, where data can moves seamlessly across ... ow.ly/daqp50gUbTd

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thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Do shared bikes need their own parking spaces? Seattle tests designated zones on sidewalks - A bike parking area in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) One of the best p... ow.ly/ScDW50gTqUD

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thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Aging icebreaker Polar Star returns to Seattle after challenging Antarctic voyage - Videographers document the return of the icebreaker Polar Star to Seattle. (USCG Photo) The U.S. Coast Guard’s o... ow.ly/eu2K50gSVaE

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thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Did space scramble Scott Kelly’s genes so much he’s no longer a twin? Um, not really - Retired astronauts Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly are still identical twins. (NASA Photo / Robert Markowitz) My T... ow.ly/W3i950gS12f

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Boeing HorizonX gets in on $15M funding round for Fortem drone radar venture - Fortem Technologies’ DroneHunter UAV is designed to detect intruder drones, using its onboard radar system, and snare... ow.ly/2UJz50gRMGh

thank you @geekwire for the great content! #PDX Enjoy! Drake plays Fornite, breaks Twitch streaming record with 600K concurrent viewers - Drake helped create a moment of game streaming history on Wednesday night. The world famous rapper joined top str... ow.ly/j0lh50gRlbC