Articles from 2017 – Page 116 of 175

Tech earnings extravaganza: Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Expedia set to report today

Thursday is the mother lode of tech earnings. Three of the top five most valuable tech companies by market cap —… Read More

First-of-its-kind stamp will use body heat to change images in celebration of Aug. 21 solar eclipse

When you press a stamp onto a letter this summer, be sure to take a second look after you release… Read More

Here’s how much Nintendo’s sale of its Seattle Mariners stake boosted its annual results

Nintendo’s bottom line got a nice bump last year thanks to Seattle’s professional baseball team. The gaming giant today reported its… Read More

Gates Foundation says it contributed $1.5B to the Seattle-area economy in one year

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says its economic impact in the Seattle region was $1.5 billion in 2015. That’s… Read More

Cassini orbiter survives first dive inside Saturn’s rings: 21 to go, and then the end

NASA’s Cassini orbiter zoomed inside Saturn’s rings overnight for the first time in its 20-year-long flight – and lived to tell about… Read More

Nintendo flips the Switch, selling 2.7M+ consoles in less than a month — topping Wii U’s first full year

Nintendo this morning confirmed a blockbuster launch for its new Switch hybrid console — reporting 2.74 million units sold from… Read More

Serverless computing might finally deliver on the promise of the cloud

The original promise of cloud computing was simple: no longer would you need to buy, configure, and maintain racks and… Read More

Amazon makes a ‘regional play’ with surprise Bellevue expansion — and it could be just the start

More than two decades ago, long before Amazon was the king of online retail and cloud computing, the company ran… Read More

This robot can build a 50-foot-wide house all by itself in 14 hours, at MIT or on Mars

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a double-armed, laser-guided robot that can basically 3-D print a 50-foot-wide… Read More

Blue Origin and other space companies urge Congress to boost FAA’s funding

When senators asked executives from Blue Origin and other commercial space ventures what they could do to help them at… Read More

F5 Networks disappoints investors with modest gains in quarterly revenue and net income

F5 Networks reported gains in revenue and net income for its second quarter Wednesday, but fell short of expected targets,… Read More

Take a stand for a better view at work — just expense this suction-cup desk thing on Kickstarter

If you’ve been waiting for an office with a window or a standing desk, you’re going to want to sit… Read More

UW study finds food in your Instagram feed helps some users track and maintain healthy habits

Whether your eyes roll or your stomach grumbles at the site of yet another food photo on Instagram, the popular… Read More

First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong

NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition… Read More

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and Paul Allen Foundation announce $35M plan to support homeless families

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s foundation announced a $35 million partnership Wednesday aimed at tackling the… Read More

Bad news for malaria: Innovations from Seattle deployed to fight one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases

Joseph Mutale’s career reads like many others in the tech industry. He graduated from the University of Austin in Texas,… Read More

Chocolate, underwear, and supertankers: Now on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft showed off five new Azure customers at an event in New York on Wednesday, more evidence that companies born… Read More

Instagram adds another 100M users faster than ever to reach 700M monthly actives

Instagram’s growth is showing no signs of letting up. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing platform announced Wednesday that its community… Read More

Scientists are wowed by claim that humans lived in North America 130,000 years ago

Scientists say the patterns of breakage in mastodon bones found 25 years ago near a San Diego highway suggest that humans… Read More

Twitter stock soars 10% after beating expectations for revenue and user growth

Shares of Twitter were up 10 percent on Wednesday after the company beat expectations for both revenue and user growth… Read More

Amazon unveils Echo Look, a new $200 Alexa-powered device with camera that offers fashion tips

Amazon’s newest Echo device doubles as a machine learning-powered fashion assistant. The Seattle tech giant today unveiled the Echo Look,… Read More

By age 6, kids already think boys are better than girls in programming and robotics

There’s a lot of effort to attract women to the computer sciences at universities and the workforce. But to shift… Read More

Alexa, it’s too damn hot in here! Be cool, and say hello to GE’s connected air conditioner

If the idea of household appliances becoming sentient and destroying the world keeps you up at night, avert your eyes… Read More

UW spinout WiBotic lands $2.5M to build technology that charges drones and robots wirelessly

University of Washington spinout WiBotic, which is building technology that wirelessly powers drones and other robotic devices, has raised $2.5… Read More

Here are the 21 finalists in EY’s 2017 Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year competition

The Pacific Northwest is known for its ruggedly independent character and entrepreneurial spirit. Nowhere are those qualities on better display… Read More

Waymo opens self-driving car testing in Phoenix – and scores in Uber legal battle

It’s been a good day on the streets and in the courts for Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun… Read More

Just a little r&R to break up the work week: Rainier and Reuben’s team up to create historic beer

In its 138 years, Rainier Beer has established itself as an icon of the Pacific Northwest. Since 2012, Reuben’s Brews,… Read More

Calendar Picks: Hear Glowforge CEO Dan Shapiro talk about his adopted city, grab a pint at Seattle Beer Week and more

There’s a lot of new people moving to Seattle — and we mean a LOT. That huge shift is creating tension… Read More

Former Bill & Melinda Gates digital chief sues organization, claims he was misled about his role

A former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation chief digital officer has filed a lawsuit against the organization, claiming he was… Read More

Working Geek: Why Aravind Bala left a lead engineer role at Microsoft to launch Nextio

Aravind Bala had been at Microsoft for nearly 15 years when he met Anoop Gupta, his manager on the Office… Read More