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 July 24, 2016.
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Revealed: Here’s the ‘secret product’ Amazon is selling at midnight on Sunday
It’s Harry Potter. Amazon’s “secret product” release at midnight on Sunday, which we first reported on last week, is the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. … Read More
Photographer suing Getty Images for $1 billion after $120 demand on photo sparks copyright dispute
Getty Images is being sued by photographer Carol M. … Read More
Neither Trump nor Clinton is addressing the biggest challenge to jobs: automation
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither of them has addressed one of the biggest challenges looming ahead: the impact of automation and the rise of artificial intelligence. … Read More
Romanian team wins 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup with wearable balance and posture tracking device
Three Romanian computer science students from the University Politehnica of Bucharest won the 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup with a wearable device that tracks inner ear balance and spinal posture. … Read More
New badges for Amazon employees spark controversy over black-and-white design
Amazon is redesigning employee badges, but not everybody is happy with the new look. … Read More
Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings
Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services, which the research firm released yesterday. That placement denotes that, in Gartner’s view of the eight competitors ranked, AWS has both the most complete vision and the strongest ability to execute. … Read More
If you’re so moved, find out what that ‘Muck Foving’ billboard is all about in Seattle
Well, hello, Dolly. The Seattle-based startup that connects people who have trucks to people who need to move something big has a new billboard in town that moved us enough to click. … Read More
Geocaching co-founder: Pokémon Go has been great for our business
Before there was Pokémon Go, gamers wanting to get a breath of fresh air and actually hunt for something outdoors may have turned to geocaching to fill that need. … Read More
Taste test: We pitted Amazon’s new private-label coffee against Starbucks, Folgers and Stumptown — and you won’t believe who won
Can the king of e-commerce become a titan of coffee? … Read More
Walgreens to shut down drugstore.com, 4 years after $429M acquisition
Walgreens today announced that it will shut down drugstore.com, the Bellevue, Wash.-based distributor of drugs, vitamins, and beauty products that traces its roots to the early days of the e-commerce revolution. … Read More