Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 26, 2016.
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Study: Seattle rises to 3rd best tech city in the U.S., surpassing New York
Seattle is the third best tech market in North America, trailing only the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington D.C., according to a new report from real estate services company CBRE. … Read More
Stephen Hawking warns of ‘AI arms race’ – and reveals what most mystifies him
British physicist Stephen Hawking says the potential threat from artificial intelligence isn’t just a far-off “Terminator”-style nightmare. … Read More
Airbnb creates Seattle engineering outpost, led by former Facebook and Amazon execs
Airbnb is establishing a downtown Seattle engineering operation, GeekWire has learned, making the alternative accommodations giant the latest Bay Area company to set up shop in Seattle in a quest for software development talent. … Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)
Taking a page from Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn up six “musts” for the revolution in artificial intelligence that he sees coming, plus four musts for the humans living in the AI age. … Read More
Azure rising: Microsoft will be largest Infrastructure as a Service vendor by 2019, says new Morgan Stanley survey
A new, international survey of 100 CIOs has good news for cloud companies — especially Microsoft — and, predictably, bad news for hardware vendors as the trend toward cloud computing continues to swell. … Read More
UW mulls disciplinary action in sexual harassment case involving Ebola researcher Michael Katze
The University of Washington says that an internal investigation has found virus researcher Michael Katze violated sexual harassment policies – and that disciplinary action is currently under consideration. … Read More
Amazon biospheres: What will happen inside those giant glass orbs, and why the company is building them
In a couple years, Amazon employees will be able to walk on a suspension bridge over a forest and settle into a nest perched within a mature tree for a brainstorming session. … Read More
Amazon’s new ‘Page Flip’ feature for Kindle is like a virtual thumb in an e-book
One of the most natural habits when reading a physical book is to save your place with a thumb or finger and flip through the rest of the pages to reference a related passage or graphic, or to see how much is left until the next chapter. … Read More
Amazon launches education content sharing service for K-12 teachers and schools
Updated below with details of a copyright issue related to the site. … Read More
App of The Week: Microsoft’s ‘Word Flow’ adds swipe-to-text functionality to iPhone
Word Flow is a fully customizable, super fast, swipe-to-text keyboard that allows iOS users to type easily and efficiently with one hand. … Read More