With thousands of Americans telecommuting and self-isolating to slow the spread of COVID-19, Amazon’s Prime and Fresh delivery services are grappling with high demand and inventory issues, as warehouse workers… Read More
Washington state will temporarily close restaurants, bars, and entertainment/recreational facilities statewide starting Monday, March 16 in the latest move to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Gov. Jay Inslee made… Read More
Amazon on Wednesday announced it will donate $25 million to help its network of independent delivery drivers, Amazon Flex workers, and seasonal employees deal with disruptions caused by the COVID-19… Read More
Washington state is canceling events with more than 250 attendees in three counties through the end of March, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday at a press conference. The moratorium is… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee plans to announce new restrictions on large events in the state to curb the spread of novel coronavirus, banning gatherings of more than 250 people, according… Read More
Amazon pledged Tuesday to donate $5 million to small businesses around its Seattle headquarters that will be impacted by thousands of tech workers telecommuting in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.… Read More
Microsoft, Amazon, and other Seattle-area companies are partnering with nonprofits and governments to launch a relief fund in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 Response Fund will provide grants… Read More
An Amazon employee at the company’s Seattle headquarters has tested positive for the novel coronavirus spreading across the country, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire. The employee went… Read More
Microsoft is canceling its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit and moving the event online due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The company has been notifying attendees that the event, which was… Read More
Nearly 150 vendor employees at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., will need to be evaluated for tuberculosis after a fellow vendor was recently diagnosed with active TB disease. Public Health —… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. Technology is increasingly influencing the science of health, and the delivery of health care. Scientists and… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend up to $100 million to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus that has infected thousands of people in China and… Read More
Starbucks is offering employees free subscriptions to the meditation app, Headspace, as part of a push to improve the mental health of its workforce. Employees — or partners, as Starbucks… Read More
Shyam Gollakota has come a long way since his first day as a university undergraduate. “I didn’t know how to program. In fact, I didn’t even know how to type,”… Read More
Alexa could soon be the ultimate baby monitor. Researchers at the University of Washington created a speaker system that is capable of monitoring the breathing and movement of sleeping children.… Read More
The digital revolution hasn’t upended the multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry, at least not yet. But transformative technologies including artificial intelligence, the cloud, robotics and IoT could finally push the industry… Read More
If you want a glimpse at medicine’s track record against Alzheimer’s, look no further than the numbers: Pharmaceutical companies have recorded a 99 percent failure rate against the disease, spending… Read More
Stefan Weitz is untroubled by long odds. As a former Microsoft director, he was the one who the company turned to whenever it had “a project which probably has no… Read More
Do the secrets to a healthier future lie in untapped healthcare data? Microsoft and UCLA Health want to find out and have built a platform that will make it easier… Read More
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle wants to raise awareness about colorectal health in underserved communities across Washington state. But first it needs your help in naming a… Read More
A Seattle startup that sells a device to help bodily cells recover has accumulated some big-name endorsements. Detroit Tigers pitcher Matt Boyd is a fan of NanoVi and he recently… Read More
Peter Nelsen wants to get back to fishing. So he told some surprise visitors who stopped by his room at the Harborview Stroke and Neurology Center in Seattle on Friday.… Read More
It has been nearly two years since Google quietly acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle startup that figured out how to turn ordinary smartphones into monitoring devices to detect pulmonary function,… Read More
A team of students at the University of Washington had the winning prototype during presentations in the school’s Neural Engineering Tech Studio after they developed an app to help people… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is looking for smart ideas to fight Ebola and has opened a call for applications for an accelerator program. An outbreak of the disease… Read More
Microsoft data scientists and researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital have teamed up to give a high-resolution picture of the link between unexplained death in newborns and smoking. In a paper… Read More
More than two years after taking its Band fitness tracker off the market, Microsoft is killing off the accompanying health service for good. From 2014: Can the Microsoft Band change… Read More
Seattle-area health technology company Aduro has landed a $22 million investment to help company employees “be great at anything.” The funding, announced Wednesday, is Aduro’s first outside investment. It came from… Read More
After two hours of pickup basketball the previous evening, I woke up on Friday morning last week feeling pretty sore. It was the perfect segue into my next story assignment:… Read More
It’s almost hard to remember the Bill Gates of yesteryear — the brash, competitive, hard-charging business leader known to dismiss Microsoft managers by telling them they’d just presented the “stupidest”… Read More