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Articles from 2017

BMW’s ReachNow investigating cases of cars getting stuck on Washington State Ferries

Update: State ferry system advises drivers to avoid driving BMW ReachNow cars aboard until technical issue is resolved Original story: Be… Read More

Tech innovation meets military service: GeekWire’s Memorial Day remembrance and update

As the first warm-weather holiday weekend of the year, it’s easy to get caught up in barbecues and road trips and lose… Read More

Top Marine tries HoloLens

Microsoft HoloLens takes augmented reality to next level for warfighters

Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality system is scoring victories with the U.S. military, which means the goggle-eyed headsets are more likely to… Read More

Inside Sonos’ Seattle office, where the music is bumpin’ and the team is growin’

Sonos, the high-tech connected speaker maker that opened a Seattle office about two years ago, is turning up the volume… Read More

Northern lights

Northern lights, cameras, action: Night sky watchers capture dramatic aurora over Seattle

The beautiful sunshine in Seattle on Saturday gave way to an equally awesome display in the night sky as the… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 21, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of May 21, 2017. Read More

Mount St. Helens eruption

When Facebook is a total blast: Rare Mount St. Helens eruption photo gets new life on social media

Maybe we blew it by not spotting this photo a week ago, on the actual anniversary of the eruption of… Read More

Terror at 30,000 feet: I can’t get the WiFi to work

SOMEWHERE OVER MEMPHIS – I’ve never been a fan of tech support. Perhaps it comes from having survived the most… Read More

This Week in Seattle: A booming city, an expectant giraffe, Trump’s travel ban, etc.

Seattle is the fastest-growing city in the country The Seattle Times ‘FYI Guy’ Gene Balk crunched the latest Census data… Read More

Molecule filter maker Membrion wins top prize at University of Washington Business Plan Competition

A team of chemical engineering and business students from the University of Washington earned the top prize at the 20th… Read More

Tankfest NW puts military lore on the front lines at Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Museum

This weekend’s Tankfest Northwest serves as the coming-out party for the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, the recently rebranded… Read More

Spektra VR

Seattle designers seek $50K on Kickstarter to build Spektra, an interactive VR experience room

Promising a “fun, mind-bending experience with friends that doesn’t involve legal marijuana,” a new Seattle-based Kickstarter project called Spektra is… Read More

Report: Google planning AI venture capital group led by engineers

Google has always been a company run by engineers for engineers. It looks like it’s also going to give some… Read More

Click to trunk in 15 minutes? Testing Amazon’s new ridiculously fast order fulfillment

AmazonFresh Pickup is the tech giant’s new experiment in brick-and-mortar retail, but it’s also a new frontier for the rapid fulfillment… Read More

Raspberry Pi

CoderDojo and Raspberry Pi team up to turn kids into engineers

Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo — two organizations working to get kids interested in computing at an early age — are… Read More

ShakeAlert earthquake simulation

Trump budget puts ShakeAlert earthquake warning system on shaky ground

The Trump administration wants to eliminate federal support for the West Coast’s ShakeAlert earthquake warning system, but its backers in Congress won’t let… Read More

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman leads $30M investment in social petition site Change.org, joined by Bill Gates

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million investment round in the social petition site Change.org, and he is… Read More

Luke Smith

Geek of the Week: Game director Luke Smith finds his ‘Destiny’ with sequel to popular franchise

Luke Smith is all about community and connecting with people, whether it’s the friends he chats with in Slack or the… Read More

UW honors long-time entrepreneurship program leader Connie Bourassa-Shaw at 20th Business Plan Competition

The University of Washington held an award dinner for its 20th Business Plan Competition on Thursday evening in Seattle. But it also… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: We finally get to try AmazonFresh Pickup, and your driver’s license might be coming to your smartphone

Thursday morning, we awoke to a surprise: AmazonFresh Pickup, the company’s previously secretive grocery pickup service, was finally opening to… Read More

Bezos in robot

As Amazon flirts with $1,000/share, shareholder questions Jeff Bezos about stock split

Amazon stock is close to hitting $1,000 per share for the first time, another indication of the e-commerce giant’s growing strength.… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Point B seeks analyst to help implement and support Salesforce

A new Salesforce implementation is a big step for any company, and consulting and venture capital company Point B is looking… Read More

Concure Oncology raises $5M to bring breast cancer treatment to the U.S.

One of the greatest fears for a recovering cancer patient is relapse: the return of cancer years or decades after it… Read More

Pizza, soda, Oreos and breathing: 7 key lessons I learned in the startup trenches

Becoming a startup CEO was never an explicit career goal. I started PitchBook because of a simple and pure motivation… Read More

Biological NOR gates

UW researchers reprogram genetic code to create digital circuitry inside living cells

Researchers from the University of Washington have taken advantage of synthetic biology to turn yeast cells into building blocks for digital… Read More

Bulletproof coffee

Bulletproof, the lifestyle startup fueled by butter-coffee, gets a $19M jolt of new funding

Bulletproof 360, the Bellevue, Wash.-based lifestyle brand with a focus on “clean coffee” and other high-performance food and drinks, has… Read More

Working Geek: Paul Allen’s climate change guru Spencer Reeder moonlights as a musician

It’s easy to see why Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen brought on Spencer Reeder to run Vulcan’s climate change-focused philanthropic initiatives.… Read More

Drone

Proposed bill reportedly could let the government take over and search drones

In a dystopian episode of “Black Mirror,” a hacker tracked and seized control of robotic bees, and the Trump administration is… Read More

Steve Ballmer says potential income tax in Seattle would cause ‘unfavorable business climate’

Seattle is the fastest-growing big city across the U.S., but a potential new income tax would sway folks away from the… Read More

T.J. Miller

Farewell, Bachman: ‘Silicon Valley’ star T.J. Miller is leaving the HBO comedy after this season

Curl up in your bathrobe and hold that bong rip a few extra seconds for this news: T.J. Miller, the… Read More

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