Tag: tech

The Trailblazers Behind the Tracks: Introducing the 2025 Conference Track Sponsors

admin — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:00:08 +0000

Liza Treyger Is Having a Time

admin — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:00:02 +0000

Photo-Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne

Comedian Liza Treyger’s first Netflix special, Night Owl, debuted on January 28, and she still isn’t over it: “I keep taking pictures of myself on the home page,” she says. She spent the week having celebratory lavish dinners — and the occasional afternoon cocktail — before inevitably coming down with the flu.

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Chicken N Pickle splits spotlight with the Chiefs as FOX News broadcasts live from OP location

admin — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:21:39 +0000

While the national focus this week is on football — and the Kansas City Chiefs’ drive for their third straight Super Bowl championship on Sunday — hometown pickleball got its share of the spotlight early Thursday thanks to a visit from “FOX & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy.
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‘It’s pretty gross’: Nearly 30,000 federal workers in Kansas City brace for layoffs

admin — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:45:11 +0000

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Kansas City Beacon, a member of the KC Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and Missouri Business Alert.
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Kansas brothers launch speedy trial for app that eases reentry for the wrongfully incarcerated

admin — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:12:01 +0000

Podcast host-turned-innovator Dylan Carnahan is a man built for talking, he said, but there’s a time when words aren’t enough — when action is needed in the face of injustice. For Carnahan and his brother, that moment is now.

“While media spreads awareness, software facilitates action,” said Carnahan, teasing the tech he’s developing alongside Alex Provenzano, an experienced software engineer, and a group of impact stakeholders.
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Meet six coalitions earning grants through Kauffman Foundation’s new ‘Collective Impact’ funding pathway

admin — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:22:06 +0000

Systemic change happens when communities come together to drive transformation through collaboration, said Dr. DeAngela Burns-Wallace, announcing a half-dozen grants to high-capacity organizations with strategies to close economic mobility gaps in the Kansas City region.
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Author Andrew Lipstein Believes There Are Two Kinds of Bagel Shops

admin — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:25 +0000
Photo-Illustration: Ryan Inzana
Andrew Lipstein lives a double life. In one, he’s a novelist whose books often reflect on contracts of power and the ways people fall prey to their own insecurities. In another, he’s a tech guy.
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Convince Your Boss to Send You to SXSW 2025

admin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:00:36 +0000

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Aussie livestock tech company tags Johnson County for its new North American HQ

admin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:49:58 +0000

An Australian leader in direct-to-satellite animal monitoring technology announced its plans Wednesday to establish North American headquarters at the Aspiria Campus in Overland Park — bringing a half-dozen jobs and paving the way for more tech innovators from Australia to land in the local market.
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Expanded Quantum Programming Coming to SXSW 2025

admin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:00:06 +0000

We’re on the brink of a groundbreaking new era in technology — artificial intelligence has already reshaped the world as we know it, and now, quantum computing is set to take the spotlight as the next frontier of innovation.
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Down for donuts: How this team is sweetening Chiefs’ Super Bowl sugar rush with Mr. D’s(fense)

admin — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:50:01 +0000

Another return trip to the Super Bowl has Kansas City small businesses joining the Chiefs as behind-the-scenes special teams fueling the Kingdom. For entrepreneur Johnny Chen, the mere taste of victory just a few years ago has multiplied into a box-full of opportunities.
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Future Today Institute’s Multi-day Foresight Master Class Returns to SXSW 2025

admin — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:00:24 +0000

Each year, world-renowned futurist and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute, Amy Webb, takes the SXSW audience into a master-level deep dive of emerging technologies. Webb's reports have become a beacon of insight for industry leaders and innovators—and she's ready to share her secret with YOU.

Returning for a second year to SXSW, the multi-day Foresight Master Class from the Future Today Institute will provide skills to unlock the incredible superpower of peering into the future of tech trends.
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Kansas student’s mobility tech for visually impaired users wins Congressional App Challenge

admin — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:32:21 +0000

An Overland Park eighth grader’s app idea — using object detection and text-to-speech technology to help visually impaired individuals navigate their surroundings — earned him a visit to the principal’s office, then an opportunity to showcase his innovation in Washington, D.C.
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Exclusive: Records Detail Hefty Higher Ed DEI Spending As Trump Orders DEI To Die

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:12:03 +0000
An Open the Books review of payroll records finds diversity, equity and inclusion programs pay well at Berkeley and Georgia Tech.

Chatterbox speaks the language of reluctant learners: games featuring global cast of AI tutors

admin — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:56:25 +0000

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro.
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