After 7,000-mile odyssey, Kymeta’s satellite connected car comes home REDMOND, Wash. — Kymeta Corp.’s Toyota RAV4 sport utility vehicle and the flat-panel satellite antenna on its roof are back at… Read More
Amazon Web Services acquired technology behind new ‘Sumerian’ AR/VR tool from a bankrupt startup LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services appears to have acquired technology for its new AWS “Sumerian” 3D modeling tool from… Read More
Can AI help prevent suicide? Facebook hopes to better identify posts and get aid to users in need Facebook already relies on the connections between people to help identify and prevent its users from harming themselves. The social… Read More
Survey finds a big name in Seattle missing from list of tech companies where people most want to work A recent survey of tech professionals around the world about which company they would most want to work for produced… Read More
Despite Google ties, Sidewalk Labs CEO says there’s no intent to sell data from Toronto smart city project When Sidewalk Labs announced plans to create a high-tech innovation district in Toronto, some privacy advocates heard alarm bells go off.… Read More
Cyber Monday on pace to be biggest U.S. shopping day ever with $6.6 billion in sales Update: Adobe reported that a record $6.59 billion was spent online in the U.S. on Cyber Monday, an increase of 16.8… Read More
Amazon Web Services releases five new Elemental cloud tools for video publishers For those pivoting to video, or others who are just getting started, Amazon Web Services released five new video tools… Read More
Bitcoin price nearing $10K in watershed moment for cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, the most valuable among the rising market of cryptocurrencies, is flirting with a price of $10,000 this morning, an… Read More
How Amazon Web Services will attempt to set the industry agenda at the biggest show in the cloud For one week, at least, Amazon’s HQ2 is in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services will get the last word on… Read More
Amazon moves into AR and VR with ‘Sumerian’ service to create 3D scenes for Oculus, Vive, iOS, Android Amazon Web Services made the first major announcement of its re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas overnight: a new service… Read More
That flipping robot sparks new warning from Elon Musk about an AI apocalypse Boston Dynamics’ video of a humanoid robot executing a perfect backflip sparked a lot of dark humor, and now billionaire… Read More
Blast from the past: Watch Jeff Bezos describe Amazon’s business in 1999 https://youtu.be/6cTjhzSgdwE Amazon’s rise to the top of the tech world is remarkable. A company that started out selling books online… Read More
Inside the X ‘moonshot factory’: Here’s where Google’s ideas take flight (or fizzle) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Why does the Captain of Moonshots wear roller skates to work? That may sound like the start… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 19, 2017 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 19, 2017. Read More
Podcast Tech fad or real trend? Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs places bets in newest exhibits What makes a tech development a fad or a trend? Sometimes, the answer isn’t clear. Yet trend-or-fad math appears to… Read More
Inside Hulu’s Seattle office: A rapidly growing workforce building a cadre of new apps For much of Seattle’s tech workforce, a Friday at 2 p.m. is when things start to wind down, but not… Read More
Gates Foundation’s Seattle exhibit center gets refreshed with a new name, more interaction The Gates Foundation Visitor Center is no more. Instead, say hello to the Gates Foundation Discovery Center. The public education… Read More
Meet the Seattle composer who scored the latest ‘Call of Duty’ blockbuster video game A video game changed the life of Wilbert Roget, II. Roget was raised in Philadelphia, and began receiving classical piano… Read More
The $100 billion man: Jeff Bezos’ net worth hits milestone as Amazon soars on Black Friday Jeff Bezos’ net worth soared above $100 billion on Friday — meaning the Amazon founder is now richer than the… Read More
Startup Spotlight: GrailAI hopes to use AI to detect cancer’s most subtle red flags Anand Prakash is taking an unexpected path toward building GrailAI, a startup that he recently launched to fight cancer. He’s… Read More
Mariners hire performance analytics guru; Russell Wilson invests in Vicis; and more sports tech news [Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every… Read More
Interview: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich on the intersection between serverless and edge computing For Microsoft Azure, 2017 will probably be remembered as the year of serverless and edge computing; the two concepts have… Read More
Geek of the Week: Lorena Martin brings edge to Seattle Mariners as physical and mental data guru If baseball is a numbers game, who better to have on your team than a true data geek? For the… Read More
Amazon warehouse workers in Germany and Italy reportedly on strike as peak holiday season begins Some workers at Amazon fulfillment centers in both Italy and Germany have gone on strike, according to a new report,… Read More
A tale of two Amazons: Why Seattle’s boogeyman has the opposite reputation outside its hometown Seattle is experiencing some serious growing pains, and many longtime residents blame Amazon for forcing their town to grow up… Read More
Podcast 2017 Holiday Tech Gift Guide: Games, gadgets and more top picks from our Geared Up podcast It’s that time of the year. Thanksgiving is officially over, fall is giving way to winter and, like it or… Read More
Smartphone shopping: Amazon says Thanksgiving mobile orders spiked 50% from last year New data from Amazon shows how consumers are becoming more and more comfortable purchasing items with their smartphone. Amazon released… Read More
How Facebook made Messenger actually usable around the world, from its office in Seattle It has been more than three years since Facebook split off the chat function from its main platform to create… Read More
Thanksgiving Day online sales already up from last year as more people shop with smartphones Update: Adobe reported that U.S. consumers spent $2.87 billion on Thanksgiving, up 18.3 percent year over year. Mobile purchases (smartphones and… Read More
Commentary: ‘We don’t need net neutrality, we have a free market,’ and other lies Standard Oil committed many sins on the way to infamy, and Teddy Roosevelt’s s**t list, but a big one was… Read More
