TechFlash: State's low high-school graduation rate hurts tech company recruiting

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State's low high-school graduation rate hurts tech company recruiting New data from the Education Department revealed this week that Washington state has one of the worst high school graduation rates in the country. From farm to app to table: Pierce County dishes info for locovores Pierce County, through a partnership with the University of Washington Tacoma and Cascade Harvest Coalition unveiled a new application this week that connects customers with local farms and farmers markets, lists events and provides recipes. Still bleeding: Plenty of vendors still haven't patched Heartbleed bug The Heartbleed bug is now more than three weeks old and industrial equipment in particular still remains vulnerable Microsoft targets China's half-billion gamers with Xbox One Company will start selling consoles in China in September, in what it calls a "monumental" move. Amazon launches 'wearable technology' site ​Calling wearable technology "an exciting category with rapid innovation," Amazon.com Inc. Tuesday launched a new site dedicated exclusively to the products. Good news, bad news for supercomputer maker Cray ​The Seattle company has received a $70 million contract but also reported a first-quarter loss of $12.9 million. Cost transparency movement leads to boom for health software companies With the movement toward greater cost transparency gaining momentum, software companies are experiencing increased demand. National Tech News An Upstart April: Careers implode, IPOs pile up, Airbnb rakes in $450M, and more Dueling visions for bitcoin: Cody Wilson's Dark Wallet and MIT's cryptocurrency giveaway New Adnimation ad-technology brings GIFS into the third dimesion Twitter is dead and buried (unless it isn't) Back 9 Links: The Science of Spider-Man Dead giveaways you're an entrepreneur The Pipeline: Elon Musk's two-factory solution, an accelerator for the faithful, and Amazon's wearable play Mercedes teams with Tesla on $41K electric car

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