WhiteFox Wins First Place in AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards

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WhiteFox is humbled to announce we’ve won two 1st place AUVSI XCELLENCE awards in Tech Innovation: DroneFox Mobile for UAS Mitigation & Security, and WISDM for Innovation. The winners were announced yesterday at AUVSI XPONENTIAL in Chicago, the largest most comprehensive trade show for unmanned and autonomous systems. Our flagship counter-drone product, DroneFox Mobile, is an intelligent RF system that detects, identifies, and mitigates safely and selectively. WISDM is a Secure Remote ID product that can physically be attached to a drone or input directly into drones’ software. Thank you AUVSI for your recognition—we’re honored to receive both awards at such an important event in the industry.

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Slack, Match Lead Firms Pledging to Find and Close Gender Pay Gaps

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Analyzing employee pay data is hard and expensive, but a Seattle data firm is pushing companies to hew to a common standard 

Are women paid the same as men in your office? How about people of color compared with white people? If you work in the U.S., there’s a good chance you don’t know—and neither, to be honest, does your employer.

The only companies legally required to analyze their payroll to assess whether or how they may be contributing to racial or gender inequalities in pay are government contractors.  A few others do it anyway, whether out of some altruistic belief in fairness or in response to public pressure, but the vast majority of U.S. companies don’t bother.

To properly assess the sprawling salary data of thousands of employees gets expensive. Large businesses will usually hire an outside consultancy to do it for them, and even then, pay gap reports can take months to produce.

“Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a 150-page report plopped on their desk that took six months to produce. That’s nuts,” says Maria Colacurcio, CEO of theSeattle analytics company Syndio. “This is something that could be automated so quickly.”

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Daily Pay for Caregivers Helps BrightSpring Improve Recruitment, Retention

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As the aging population continues to grow, so does the need for home-based care services. But supply isn’t keeping up with demand when it comes to the caregivers required to provide those services, creating fierce competition for workers. 

To win over prospective employees, at-home care providers must differentiate themselves. For BrightSpring Health Services, that means offering daily pay to caregivers, whose profession is often characterized by low wages and demanding labor.  

“Traditionally in our organization, we’ve paid people in a semi-monthly cycle, and that’s the way we’ve always done it,” Rexanne Domico, president of home health care services and neuro rehabilitation at BrightSpring, told Home Health Care News. “The idea really came up when we started talking about how do we pay more frequently? How can we crack that code?”

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Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic

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What is Niantic? If they recognize the name, most people would rightly tell you it’s a company that makes mobile games, like Pokémon GO, or Ingress, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

But no one at Niantic  really seems to box it up as a mobile gaming company. Making these games is a big part of what the company does, yes, but the games are part of a bigger picture: they are a springboard, a place to figure out the constraints of what they can do with augmented reality today, and to figure out how to build the tech that moves it forward. Niantic wants to wrap their learnings back into a platform upon which others can build their own AR products, be it games or something else. And they want to be ready for whatever comes after smartphones.

Niantic is a bet on augmented reality becoming more and more a part of our lives; when that happens, they want to be the company that powers it.

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