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Articles from 2017

Tune adds former Oracle and Simply Measured execs to leadership board

Tune, the fast-growing Seattle-based mobile marketing analytics company, announced two big additions to its leadership board Monday: former Oracle exec Ryan… Read More

Alphabet’s Waymo will partner with Lyft on self-driving technology

Google parent Alphabet and Lyft will work together on self-driving technology. The New York Times reported Sunday that Waymo, the… Read More

Blue Origin BE-4 powerpack

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin says BE-4 rocket test goes awry, but tests will resume soon

In a rare update, the Blue Origin space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos reported that it lost a… Read More

This high-school freshman went to Microsoft Build: What he learned about AI, the cloud and the future

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a ninth grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast and blogger who was invited by Microsoft… Read More

Microsoft calls out NSA, CIA for ‘stockpiling of vulnerabilities’ after major ransomware cyberattack

Microsoft criticized U.S. government agencies for “stockpiling of vulnerabilities” in light of the recent widespread ransomware attack targeting institutions around the world.… Read More

Paul Allen calls inaugural Upstream Festival a success with 30K attendees, 360 performances

Paul Allen seems happy with his first attempt at creating a new festival for the Northwest. The Microsoft co-founder and… Read More

Inside a ‘secret show,’ Shins frontman James Mercer talks apps, musical inspiration and more

Just a few blocks away from the bustling tech hub that is Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, dozens of people who represent what Seattle… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 7, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of May 7, 2017. Read More

Saturday Night Live spoof: Amazon ‘Echo Silver’ is ‘designed for the greatest generation’

It is “super-loud” for the hard of hearing, responds to “any name even remotely close to Alexa,” scans the room to help… Read More

Seattle entrepreneur Matt Hulett joins Pioneer Square Labs to pursue new ideas in eSports

Pioneer Square Labs is adding some bench strength. The Seattle-based startup studio, which has already spun out companies such as… Read More

The race for machine learning talent continues, as Apple acquires Madrona-backed Lattice Data

Data-crunching startup Lattice Data has been acquired by Apple, as the battle for machine learning talent continues between big tech… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Explore art and science at Consilience; get feedback on your next great startup idea; and more

How do we understand science? That’s the question posed by the Institute for Systems Biology’s annual event, Consilience, and this year’s… Read More

Seattle Children’s Hospital to test new VR medical technology that could change the lives of patients

A medical diagnosis can be one of the most terrifying and confusing days of a patient’s life. Doctors often struggle… Read More

Massimino and Hubble

Interview: Astronaut Mike Massimino looks back at Hubble – and looks ahead to space tourism

NEW ORLEANS – It’s apparently not enough that Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut, a best-selling author and an… Read More

Echo Dot

Amazon says caller blocking for Alexa/Echo is coming, amid customer complaints

Some early adopters of Amazon’s new Alexa voice-calling feature for the company’s Echo devices have been surprised to find that they can’t keep specific… Read More

Microsoft issues ‘highly unusual’ ransomware patch for XP and other old Windows versions

Microsoft today took the “highly unusual step” of releasing a public patch for older Windows versions that are otherwise only… Read More

This Week in Seattle: AG won’t stop suing Trump, Amazon HQ to host homeless shelter, new bike shares ride into town

Mayoral candidates line up in the wake of Murray’s exit Seattle Mayor Ed Murray ended his bid for re-election Tuesday… Read More

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Microsoft Build recap and analysis: Key takeaways from the big developer event

Microsoft’s Build 2017 conference just ended, and GeekWire has been busy covering the news, from the new Azure Cosmos DB… Read More

Podcast

The Week in Geek: A historic Echo-to-Echo call, a new direction for Windows, and tech’s ‘megalopolis’

Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant, is getting smarter by the day. Her most recent trick is pretty impressive: users can now… Read More

Hip-hop star Macklemore on handling success, working with radio, and his loyalty to Seattle

Ben Haggerty has a complicated relationship with radio. The 33-year-old rapper, better known as Macklemore, credits the traditional radio distribution model for… Read More

Podcast

Did Code Fellows go too far? GeekWire debates the coding academy’s controversial ad

https://soundcloud.com/geekwire/a-controversial-ad-divides-the-geekwire-team Seattle-based Code Fellows is facing a backlash over a transit ad that touted the financial benefits of software careers with the message, “You… Read More

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RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser commits $250k for Mother Jones project to investigate Trump-Russia connection

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser is putting his money where his mouth, or in this case, keyboard, is. His Glaser Progress Foundation… Read More

Working Geek: Amazon media chief Robin Mendelson is living a childhood dream, writ large

Robin Mendelson is one of the few people who actually became what she wanted to be when she grew up,… Read More

Massive ransomware cyberattack keeps getting worse, reaches 99 countries, using stolen NSA tools to target Microsoft vulnerability

A global cyberattack using ransomware, malicious code that locks down computers and files until users pay a ransom, that began Friday… Read More

NASA Orion and SLS

NASA decides against putting crew on first SLS rocket launch, now delayed to 2019

NASA has broken the news to the White House and the world that speeding up the first crewed flight of… Read More

Geek of the Week: Byron Rakitzis focuses on storage at Igneous — and leaves room for music

Byron Rakitzis is the co-founder and architect at Igneous Systems, a Seattle-based data-storage startup. He’s also an accomplished classical musician,… Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit next week

The celebrity appeal at the 2017 Microsoft CEO Summit has been decidedly ramped up with the news that Canadian Prime Minister… Read More

Spacewalk in progress

Water leak forces NASA to scale down 200th spacewalk, but Job 1 gets done

A small water leak cropped up in one of the hoses designed to keep NASA astronaut Jack Fischer’s spacesuit cool… Read More

AI, DevOps, and microservices highlight tech talks at GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Cloud computing is turning into a real business, but the pioneering work of the engineers and product teams at cloud… Read More

Report: T-Mobile and Sprint merger talks have started up again

Rival wireless companies T-Mobile and Sprint are once again talking about merging. According to a report from Bloomberg, Sprint, as well… Read More

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