Articles from 2017 – Page 129 of 175

Startup Spotlight: Hazel wants to help managers be better leaders using software

As Wisam Abdulla and his co-founders were building Canadian payroll startup Rise, they encountered a common complaint from customers again… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2017: Last-chance for early-bird tickets for this annual tech tradition

Early-bird prices end Friday — that’s today! — for the GeekWire Awards, taking place at the Museum of Pop Culture on May… Read More

Cirque du Soleil’s new Luzia show combines technology with magical Mexican mythology

The big top is back with Cirque du Soleil’s newest show Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico. Two years in… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: A code-free hackathon; Thirsty Thursday with GeekWire; and more

If you’re not a techie, the world of software development can seem like an overwhelming, alien land. But knowing how… Read More

BMW’s ReachNow opens second Seattle parking lot, making it easier for drivers to travel to busy neighborhoods

ReachNow is expanding its dedicated parking lots, known as “Drop Zones,” in Seattle next month. The car-sharing service, which competes… Read More

Pilots give a ’10’ to the 787-10, Boeing’s biggest Dreamliner, after first test flight

The largest breed of its Dreamliner jet series, the 787-10, got a great review today after being put through its… Read More

Hacking The Hoff: Easy Amazon Alexa workaround gives this wannabe Knight Rider a talking car

I’ve always wanted a talking car. I don’t know whether it was the 1980s “Knight Rider” TV series, or generations… Read More

Geek of the Week: Usermind’s Michel Feaster builds on her experience — teams and partnerships follow

Michel Feaster likes to build software and teams, and as the co-founder and CEO of the Seattle-based startup Usermind, she’s… Read More

President Trump’s travel ban won’t go into effect without reaching the Supreme Court

President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order temporarily barring immigrants from a handful of majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. may… Read More

Amazon’s stock reaches another record, capping a big week of news

Amazon made even more news than usual this week — acquiring Middle East e-commerce company Souq.com, unveiling a new brick-and-mortar retail… Read More

Amazon greenlights new season of ‘All or Nothing’ behind-the-scenes NFL series

Amazon’s popular behind-the-scenes NFL series is getting another season. The tech giant announced today that it has greenlit season two… Read More

Ripl raises $3M to give small business owners ‘a marketing team in your pocket’

Ripl is raising more cash as the company sees more traction with its app that lets people create visual marketing content. The… Read More

Facebook lands 28-year Microsoft veteran Rico Mariani, in big hire for Seattle engineering office

Rico Mariani, a respected engineer who spent more than 28 years at Microsoft, earning the moniker of “perf guy” for his… Read More

Launch a rocket every day? SpaceX’s Elon Musk kicks it up a notch for reusability

SpaceX took nearly a year to relaunch its first “flight-proven” Falcon 9 booster, but within a year or two, company… Read More

It’s another first for SpaceX! Previously launched Falcon 9 rocket lifts off and lands a second time

Today SpaceX did something it’s never done before: reusing a Falcon 9 rocket booster that’s already been launched and landed.… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Code.org seeks software engineer to work on computer science education platform

Code.org is a different kind of tech workplace. This nonprofit was founded by twin brothers and tech entrepreneurs Hadi Partovi and Ali… Read More

Working Geek: TUNE’s marketing VP Jennifer Wong moonlights as a UW instructor

During her four years at TUNE, Jennifer Wong has risen from a member of the startup’s three-person market team to… Read More

Spacewalkers cope with lost cover; NASA’s Peggy Whitson sets a women’s record

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson set a new record for female spacewalkers at the International Space Station today, during an outing… Read More

This is chilling: Trailer for ‘Game of Thrones’ season 7 shows would-be rulers walking the walk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxWfvtnHtS0 The return to fantasy and high drama on television took a step in the right direction on Thursday with… Read More

GeekWire Picks: Star Trek ‘TNG’ Bluetooth ComBadge works with Siri, Google Now, Cortana

Technology moves quickly in the 21st Century. More so, perhaps, than in the 23rd or 24th. Last year, the Wand Company offered… Read More

Study: Startup ecosystems across the country are bouncing back — but there’s more work to be done

The Great Recession struck a major and lasting blow to entrepreneurship but the nation’s startup ecosystem appears to finally be… Read More

March for Science spotlights Bill Nye plus Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Mona Hanna-Attisha

Lydia Villa-Komaroff and Mona Hanna-Attisha may not be as well-known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, but all three scientists… Read More

Bezos family makes record-breaking $35M donation to Fred Hutch to fund cancer research

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced today that it has received a $35 million gift from the Bezos family, the… Read More

‘I love you, robot’ — watch this little girl make friends with a broken hot water heater

See? The robots are our friends! Watching this viral video of a little girl hugging a discarded hot water heater… Read More

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Father, son and AI bonding: A conversation with Amazon’s Alexa and the family she has joined

A week after my 10-year-old son received Amazon’s Echo Dot for his birthday, I started taking a look at what he… Read More

Study: ID Genomics’ bacteria ‘fingerprinting’ technology helps doctors diagnose infection more accurately

The idea is simple: when a patient has a bacterial infection, doctors should find out what kind of bacteria it… Read More

Twitter will no longer count @usernames toward 140-character limit in replies

Good news for those feeling constrained by Twitter’s 140-character limit when conversing with other users on the social media platform.… Read More

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

Sephir Hamilton is helping his organization grapple with major change. As the engineering and technology innovation officer at Seattle City… Read More

Microsoft will sell its own custom version of Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 smartphone

Microsoft will sell its own version of Samsung’s newest flagship smartphone inside its brick-and-mortar retail stores. The Redmond-based tech giant said… Read More

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in… Read More