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 May 22, 2016.
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Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash, as tech sector accumulates wealth
Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. … Read More
Viral video star visits Facebook, rides bikes with Chewbacca, laughs with ‘Star Wars’ director
Candace Payne’s Internet fame showed no signs of slowing Tuesday as the Texas mom paid a visit to Facebook headquarters, rode bikes with Chewbacca and met the team responsible for the video platform that launched her stardom. … Read More
Zestimiss: Why did CEO Spencer Rascoff’s home sell for 40% less than Zillow estimate of $1.75M?
Home owners across the country love to debate whether their Zestimates are too high or too low. … Read More
NASA fires back at Nathan Myhrvold in spat over asteroid mission’s data
BELLEVUE, Wash. – NASA issued a statement today disputing Seattle tech icon Nathan Myhrvold’s critique of asteroid data analysis from the space agency’s NEOWISE mission. … Read More
Amazon ranks the most well-read cities in the U.S., and the winner is …
Amazon released its annual list of the 20 Most Well-Read Cities Tuesday and named its hometown of Seattle the most bookish in America. … Read More
Why a sewage survey gives the Gates Foundation’s CEO new hope for eliminating diseases through innovation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann thinks a Nigerian health officer’s work collecting sewage is “a thing of beauty.” It may seem like an unusual way to describe the work of Haliru Usman, but his samples are part of a disease surveillance program that led to the first year without a single child being paralyzed by wild poliovirus on the African continent. This landmark, Desmond-Hellmann says, proves that many of the world’s deadly diseases can be eliminated through innovation. … Read More
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster leans in for a landing at sea after launching satellite
For the third time in a row, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sent a payload into space and then came back for a landing on an oceangoing platform. … Read More
Large power outage in downtown Seattle causes ‘Internet snow day’
A “large” power outage affected hundreds of workers in downtown Seattle on Wednesday afternoon. … Read More
Video: Futuristic Chinese bus glides over the top of cars in concept for mass transit
A video making the rounds on Facebook shows off a futuristic bus that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen on the clogged streets of Seattle or elsewhere. … Read More
Microsoft and Facebook plan 4,100-mile cable under Atlantic, capable of record-breaking 160Tbps
Microsoft and Facebook will place a cutting-edge undersea cable across the Atlantic Ocean, stretching 6,600 kilometers or more than 4,100 miles from Virginia Beach, Va., to Bilbao, Spain, capable of hurtling data under the ocean at speeds of 160 Terabits per second. … Read More
