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Articles from 2017

Microsoft will renovate Silicon Valley campus into its ‘smartest, greenest office yet’

A week after announcing plans for a historic redevelopment of its original Redmond, Wash., headquarters, Microsoft this morning unveiled plans… Read More

OneRadio signal display

Security researchers sign up to be the first customers for OneRadio’s signal receiver

OneRadio Corp., a University of Washington spinout that focuses on sniffing out radio signals across a wide spectrum, has signed… Read More

Amazon adds ‘Handmade’ artisan products to Prime Now 2-hour delivery service as it battles Etsy

Artisans who sell products on Amazon’s Handmade platform can now leverage the company’s 2-hour Prime Now delivery service. Amazon announced… Read More

Feeling blue? Biotech startup raises $13M to create ‘natural’ color pigments using algae

We all love a splash of color in our lives, but we seldom realize the technology that goes into the… Read More

Bremerton National Airport

Report: Stealthy Radian Aerospace gears up for rocket engine testing in Bremerton

News Brief: The Kitsap Sun reports that Radian Aerospace, a stealthy startup headquartered in Renton, Wash., will begin testing rocket… Read More

PSLV launch

Planetary Resources’ prototype asteroid prospector set for January liftoff in India

Redmond, Wash.-based Planetary Resources’ technology demonstrator satellite for asteroid prospecting is due for launch in early January, along with more… Read More

Starbucks teams with Alibaba for augmented reality experience at epic new Shanghai Roastery

Starbucks is going bigger and geekier with its second Roastery location. The coffee giant on Tuesday will open the Starbucks… Read More

Tenta browser for Android adds feature to keep ISPs and others from seeing which sites users visit

Tenta, the Seattle company behind an Android browser aimed at guarding the privacy of mobile web users, has built what… Read More

Sansaire’s WiFi sous vide cooking device delayed, spurring Kickstarter backers to demand refunds

Shipments of a new wireless WiFi-enabled sous vide cooking device from high-tech cooking startup Sansaire have been delayed as the company seeks… Read More

Better tattoo ink? A workout on the bus to work? Teens test startup ideas at Innovate ’17 bootcamp

REDMOND, Wash. — People are spending hours each week commuting to work, often via bus, so why not turn that… Read More

Magnetoshell aerocapture

UW team wins NASA’s nod for small satellites with magnetic braking systems

NASA says it’ll provide resources for a University of Washington research team that’s working on a concept to put small… Read More

President Trump

Trump’s travel ban can take full effect following Supreme Court ruling

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from six majority-Muslim countries to… Read More

Self-destruct drone

Why Amazon patented a delivery drone that’s designed to self-destruct

Most inventors look for ways to make their machines more robust, but Amazon has won a patent for delivery drones… Read More

Podcast

From Harry Potter to Star Trek Beyond, behind the scenes with Seattle Symphony’s multi-sensory tech

What do Casablanca, Star Trek Beyond, and Looney Tunes have in common? All have been accompanied on the big screen… Read More

Amazon’s flirtation with pharmaceuticals may have driven CVS to acquire health insurer Aetna for $69B

CVS is buying one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Aetna, for $69 billion, and analysts and observers say… Read More

Messenger Kids

Facebook launches Messenger for kids under 13 — let’s chat about how unnecessary that is

Facebook announced Monday that it is rolling out a new app in the U.S. called Messenger Kids, targeting young people… Read More

Top leaders depart police body camera-maker Axon, hint at plans to launch new startup

Four years after Axon acquired their startup, the founders of Familiar are ready for their next adventure. Marcus Womack, Josh… Read More

Time person of the year

Bezos, Trump, Kaepernick, #MeToo and more among final 10 for Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ honor

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made the shortlist for Time’s “Person of the Year,” a recognition of the person or group of… Read More

Immigrants and their children founded 43% of last year’s Fortune 500 companies, startup lobby finds

If a company lands on the Fortune 500, there’s a good chance it has a founder who is an immigrant… Read More

Instacart and Kroger’s QFC strike grocery delivery deal to counter Amazon-Whole Foods

QFC is teaming up with Instacart to provide grocery delivery at most of its stores in the Seattle and Portland… Read More

Code.org raises $12M from Gates Foundation, Infosys, PwC to expand computer science education

Code.org just raised another $12 million to help students around the world learn about computer science. The Seattle-based non-profit on… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates wants you to curl up by the fireplace with these five amazing books he read in 2017

Bill Gates travels the world to all sorts of exotic places and probably gets to meet with pretty much anyone… Read More

WMAP map of cosmos

Breakthrough Prize ceremony shines glitzy scientific spotlight on cosmic mappers

This year’s Breakthrough Prizes, cast as the “Oscars of Science,” are going to genetic engineers, disease fighters, math whizzes — and… Read More

Will Seattle benefit when Amazon grows elsewhere? An economist and an investor weigh in

Seattle has done its fair share of hand-wringing in the months following Amazon’s announcement that it will establish a second… Read More

With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria

Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 26, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 26, 2017. Read More

Falcon Heavy launch

Yes, Elon Musk will launch Tesla Roadster to Mars orbit on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Update: After a bit of back and forth, SpaceX is confirming that the Roadster to Mars is a real payload, and that it… Read More

Diagon Alley project

Dragons and a Dumbledore Santa! Magic continues into Christmas season at Seattle dad’s Diagon Alley

Jon Chambers wasn’t content with making just one holiday a magical experience in Seattle. A month after Halloween, when thousands… Read More

Preview: ‘AirMech: Wastelands’ from Carbon Games is an impressive collision of genres

If you aren’t into player vs. player or battle arena games, you may not be familiar with Carbon Games. It… Read More

Supermoon

‘Tis the season … for a holiday supermoon

Supermoon Sunday is at hand, and although some may scoff, the supermoon concept provides a good excuse to take a… Read More

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