Bill Gates masked up for his ninth “Ask Me Anything” event on Reddit on Friday, taking questions related to climate change, vaccines, conspiracy theories, meatless burgers and more. The Microsoft… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Tom Alberg, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, was an Amazon investor who served on the company’s board of directors from 1996 to 2019.… Read More
Amanda Gorman touched a nerve. With her words, the National Youth Poet Laureate stirred a nation and worldwide audience watching the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Online, those… Read More
If billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos really want to maximize their efforts to solve the global climate crisis, they should focus less on gadgetry and more on getting… Read More
Bill Gates is spending plenty of time these days looking forward to the solutions that will get us out of the COVID-19 pandemic or begin to address climate change meaningfully.… Read More
Amazon’s big move into the pharmacy business last week wasn’t a surprise at all, and it’s just part of a larger plan to reinvent a trillion-dollar industry. Coming up from… Read More
What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that’s likely to become a complicated question — and the humans who nurture those robots… Read More
Two of the authors who created the iconic Dragonlance setting for Dungeons & Dragons are taking Wizards of the Coast to court. According to the terms of their lawsuit, filed… Read More
Independent bookstores across the country put out the unwelcome mat for Amazon and the tech giant’s Prime Day shopping extravaganza this week, trying to call attention to the dire straits… Read More
MacKenzie Scott hasn’t given any interviews about her split from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos or her philanthropic pursuits in the time since. But a new story from the Medium business… Read More
Powell’s Books, the venerable independent bookstore in Portland, has had enough with Amazon and will no longer sell books through the tech giant’s marketplace. In a letter to the store’s… Read More
[Editor’s note: Amy Balliett is founder and CEO of Seattle-based creative content agency Killer Visual Strategies. This excerpt is from her new book of the same name.] While visual content… Read More
Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission was “censored” by Amazon. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX… Read More
We’re all looking for some sort of distraction from the daily deluge of coronavirus news and stress, and ways to occupy ourselves while stuck at home during the lockdown. For… Read More
You might think it’s depressing to contemplate the view that the universe is likely to end in everlasting darkness — but that’s not how physicist Brian Greene rolls. “I am… Read More
Another chapter in Seattle’s storied literary and retail history is coming to a close on Saturday. Barnes & Noble is vacating its downtown location after 22 years, leaving the core… Read More
In the recent Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain,” books are a constant for the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. We get to see a lot of the book bag that is… Read More
Parallel universes are big in science fiction, popping up in shows ranging from the “Terminator” movies to “The Man in the High Castle” to “Hot Tub Time Machine.” And strangely… Read More
If you’re still riveted by the all-too-believable and creepy nature of “The Handmaid’s Tale” on streaming television, you should know there’s more where that came from — and it was… Read More
Mina Yoo didn’t actually recognize that she was an inventor until she’d received two utility patents during her journey toward creating Heroclip, the do-everything carabiner/hook that has attracted fans and… Read More
Do animals possess consciousness? Can consciousness be uploaded into a computer? Can we measure objectively whether someone is conscious or not? Those may sound like deep, imponderable questions — but… Read More
Nothing like an email from Taylor Swift’s lawyers to get your attention during vacation. That was the case for Microsoft President Brad Smith, who recounts in his new book a… Read More
Microsoft President Brad Smith has a light-up globe, a neon blue miniature likeness of Earth, spinning on his desk inside the company’s Redmond headquarters. When we sat down with him… Read More
Maria Semple’s best-selling 2012 novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” has been championed for its hilarious take on Seattle as well as its painstakingly accurate portrayal of Microsoft and the tech… Read More
As a young girl, Amanda Sullivan never met any female engineers or scientists. She was never encouraged to pursue a hobby or club around STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).… Read More
Even after 50 years, it’s still possible to find new angles on one of history’s most widely witnessed events — as this year’s retellings of the Apollo 11 moon saga… Read More
Seattle author Neal Stephenson’s works of fiction often play off the potential for future facts — for example, the virtual world described in “Snow Crash,” the nanotechnology at the heart… Read More
Today, Seattle’s South Lake Union district is a beehive of tech activity, dotted with campuses for Amazon, Facebook and Google. The neighborhood retains that role in “Fall; or, Dodge in… Read More