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Washington testing car technology that could help prevent DUIs
KING 5 - Washington State
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August 13, 2025
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Developers of the "Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety" (DADSS) said the technology could be offered as an option in some 2029 car models. DADSS consists of infrared sensors tucked behind steering wheels that analyze a...
Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art
CBS News
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In the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, no one likely knows this glacier better than Mauri Pelto, who says, "My life has been shaped by this ice." For more than 40 years, Pelto, a glaciologist and a professor at Nichols College...
Seattle-area vacationers rank third for amount spent on travel
The Columbian - Washington State
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Summer is peak travel season, and many of us have a recent vacation under our belt or are looking forward to an upcoming one. But one part about vacations nobody looks forward to is their next credit card statement with all those travel expenses....
T-Mobile layoffs hit more than 120 Washington employees
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Claire Bernard / The Seattle Times (TNS) T-Mobile will lay off 121 employees in Bellevue, Bothell and Snoqualmie, according to a state filing Friday. These details of layoffs in Washington, starting in October, come days after the Bellevue-based...
Sana Biotech Bails on Factory in Old AT&T Call Center
Industrial Equipment News - Wisconsin
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WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00.159 --> 00:06.679 Last August, Sona Biotechnology opened a new 80,000 square foot manufacturing plant in an 00:06.679 --> 00:10.510 old AT&T call center in Bothell, Washington. 00:10.880 -->...
Fighting Game GOAT Justin Wong Joins BASILISK, Science's Esports Team
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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Nine-time Evo Champion and Guinness World Record Holder Brings Legendary Status to Captain New Team, Recruit Talent, and Advance Science's Role in Competitive Gaming NEW YORK and SEATTLE, Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BASILISK, the global esports...
Diamondbacks are first MLB team to offer device for sight-impaired fans
Phoenix New Times - Arizona
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In the heart of Arizona’s monsoon season, a dense, saturated air threatens to swell to full-on precipitation during the first leg of a recent three-game series between the Houston Astros and Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. The intense mixture...
Here’s why researchers say you shouldn’t release your pet turtle into the wild
Capradio - California
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August 12, 2025
California’s native Western Pond Turtle tends to lie low during the winter. But in the warmer months, it’s at its most active. You might occasionally spot the turtle basking on a sunlit log around freshwater, like the American and Sacramento...
Data show how Trump has changed Washington state immigration enforcement
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Nina Shapiro and Manuel Villa / The Seattle Times (TNS) Since President Donald Trump took office, promising mass deportations, many have been trying to assess exactly how dramatically immigration enforcement has changed in Washington state. Yes,...
What Trump’s cuts to vaccine funding may mean for Washington state
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS) Ahmed Ali has spent the last seven years building something for a South Seattle community he considers his home. Inside a small storefront a few blocks from the light rail stop, Othello Station Pharmacy has...
Corpsman Up: Naval Medical Research Command Medical Tech Administers Emergency Aid Mid-Flight; Receives Award for Actions
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 12, 2025
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES 08.12.2025 SILVER SPRING, Md. - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alvin Ciasico, from Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal on August 11th at an all-hands call...
Atwell in Southfield Acquires Testing Service in Washington State
DBusiness Magazine - Michigan
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August 7, 2025
Atwell’s acquisition Centurian Power gives the Southfield-based company the capability to offer third-party electrical acceptance testing, inspection, certification, and commissioning services. // Stock photoAtwell, a consulting, engineering, and...
Near Washington state nuclear stockpile, activists keep dream of disarmament alive
The Daily Chronicle - Washington State
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Josh Farley / The Seattle Times (TNS) About a year before his death in 2023, I got a chance to interview the legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg over Zoom, chatting with him from his home office near Berkeley, Calif. The topic was global...
Dragged into Moonlight Part III: Even More on the NPA and its Contemporaries
Puget Sound Anarchists
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August 17, 2025
submitted anonymously this is Part III of a multi-part series, click here for Part I, and here for Part II The Northwest Pioneer Association (NPA) is an attempt to revive Harold Covington’s (HAC) insurgent White Separatist project in the Pacific...
Linking data science and society
Yale University - Connecticut
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August 12, 2025
Twenty-eight undergraduate students from across the United States and the globe arrived at the Yale School of Public Health in mid-June with stories to tell about themselves. They had some foundations in data science, they said, but wanted to...
NSF and NVIDIA Partner to Enable Fully Open AI Models
Government Technology
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August 17, 2025
On Aug. 14, 2025, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that a new NSF and NVIDIA partnership will enable Ai2 to develop fully open AI models to fuel U.S. scientific innovation. Here’s how the story begins: “The U.S. National Science...
Three Washington state colleges rank among world's best for 2026
Kitsap Sun - Washington State
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The influential QS World University Rankings named three Washington state schools among its top global institutions for 2026. QS analyzed more than 1,500 universities around the world under several key metrics, including research and discovery,...
States rethink setting speed limits based on how fast people drive
WTAE 4 Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
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August 17, 2025
Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth sports leagues. "What are you waiting for,...
Today’s speed limits grew out of studies on rural roads from the 1930s and 1940s. Now states are looking to change guidelines
Fortune
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Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth sports leagues. “What are you waiting for,...
States rethink long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel
NBC Connecticut
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August 17, 2025
Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth sports leagues. “What are you waiting for,...