Michael Connor

5 days ago | stpetecatalyst.com | Michael Connor

Tampa Bay Tech will host its annual poweredUp Tampa Bay Tech Festival May 14, at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg. Every year, the event brings tech professionals, enthusiasts and students together, providing them with opportunities to meet industry leaders and learn about new innovations. Arnie Bellini, co-founder and former CEO of Tampa-based ConnectWise, is scheduled to deliver keynote remarks at the 11 a.m.-6 p.m. event.

1 week ago | stpetecatalyst.com | Michael Connor

OrderlyMeds, a Georgia-based medical weight loss and health technology company, is expanding to the Tampa area. It will start leasing a 50,000 sq foot Falkenburg Road facility in August for pharmaceutical manufacturing and office space. Founder and CEO Chris Spears said his team chose Tampa out of a national search. “Tampa was above and beyond in their receptiveness, just being open, friendly, communicative to what we were trying to accomplish”, he said.

2 weeks ago | quadrant.org.au | Michael Connor

On October 7, 1945, Mr Kanehiro wrote from Ambon, in […]Apr 28 202511 minshen I first took an interest in family history as […]Apr 28 202514 minsIn modern democracies, the weeds are whatever prevents paradise on earth from materialisingApr 28 202515 minsOn October 7, 1945, Mr Kanehiro wrote from Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies, to Barney Porter, 25 Newland Street, Bondi Junction:Dear Mr Porter,How are you and your beloved family?

3 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Michael Connor |Yoni Tobin

Undersea fiber-optic cables serve as not only the economic and communications backbone of much of the civilian world, but for military operations as well. And while recent incidents in which cables have been cut — accidentally or not — have mostly been confined to European and Asian waters, threats to undersea cables will inevitably expand to the Middle East, too — urgently requiring more US action to protect them.

3 weeks ago | rhizome.org | Michael Connor

Rhizome’s pop-up in NYC is now open, through May 11. In the early days of the web, Rhizome emerged as an online gathering place for artists working with new media. Dreamers and tinkerers who glimpsed the possibilities and problems of code, networks, and machines—not just tools, but collaborators in evolving creative languages and communities, and new systems of power and knowledge. From our beginnings as an email list, Rhizome has grown into a mature nonprofit.