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 Dec. 18, 2016.
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Oculus engineering leader arrested near Seattle, charged with soliciting sex from cop posing as 15-year-old girl
Dov Katz, head of the computer vision and machine learning group at Facebook-owned Oculus, has been charged in King County for attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor. … Read More
Microsoft is cool enough again to be spoofed on SNL
Microsoft has made it (again). The Redmond software giant landed a skit on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this week, spoofing the company’s efforts to be politically correct with a pair of very gay robots. … Read More
Starbucks offers free coffee for the holidays, but you have to find out where
Free coffee for the holidays? Starbucks is making is so, but the Seattle-based company is making you work for it online. … Read More
AT&T to customers complaining about DirecTV Now problems: We’re working on it
AT&T launched its new streaming service DirecTV Now last month, but it appears to still be working out some of the kinks in the system. … Read More
This 25-year-old just raised $5.8M for a startup that will make VR experiences ‘indistinguishable from real life’
Jake Rubin’s inspiration for launching a virtual reality company began inside his grandfather’s magnet lab at MIT nearly two decades ago. … Read More
A room with a changing view: Seattle artist watches as Amazon grows up and up around her
From the living room of her Seattle apartment, Melissa Anne McClain has a window on the rapidly changing city that she calls home. … Read More
Amazon will cover the cost of shipping your donations to Goodwill
Amazon takes some heat for the tsunami of cardboard it unfurls this time of year. … Read More
Here are the top 5 companies most likely to have an IPO in 2017
There will be more tech companies going public in 2017 than this year. … Read More
Elon Musk says he’s serious about boring tunnels, but he shouldn’t dig too deep
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, insists he’s really going to build a tunnel-boring machine to do something about road traffic. … Read More
This Microsoft researcher wants you to know he did not harass Ivanka Trump on a plane
Updated (9:40 p.m.) to remove tweets from an unverified source. … Read More