Articles from 2017 – Page 151 of 175

Incoming! Amazon patents a plan to turn its drone delivery packages into gliders

Amazon has come up with some wild and crazy patents, but a patent issued today has to rank among the wildest:… Read More

T-Mobile beats expectations for profit and revenue as it adds another 2.1M customers

It was a good quarter for T-Mobile. The Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier beat expectations for both revenue and profit during… Read More

The future city is dense, connected and walkable — and that means the death of old-school office parks

We are witnessing the death of the office park. Those were the bold words of noted New York architect Vishaan Chakrabarti, who… Read More

Get a sneak peek at Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 jet – and the pioneering technology behind it

RENTON, Wash. – One year after Boeing’s super-fuel-efficient 737 MAX 8 jet made its aerial debut, its bigger sibling – the… Read More

Amazon taking its bricks and mortar to the Bay Area with another bookstore location

Amazon has picked the next location for another of its brick-and-mortar bookstores. Amazon Books is coming to Walnut Creek, Calif., according to… Read More

Microsoft’s upgraded Outlook.com premium email service rolls out to U.S. users

Microsoft appears to have officially launched its premium email service, Outlook.com Premium, in the United States. The service, which offers features such… Read More

Dating in Seattle: Here’s what smartphone app habits say about how Seattleites date

Ask someone in Seattle about the dating scene, and you’re bound to get some emotional responses. They might bring up the “Seattle… Read More

Video Highlights: Inside the world of Bill Gates, nearly a decade after he left Microsoft

Nearly a decade ago, in 2008, Bill Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft. A daily newspaper reporter… Read More

Championed by Bill Gates, innovative autopsies could unlock mystery of early childhood deaths

Aid organizations and public health agencies are spending billions of dollars each year to save the lives of babies and… Read More

Bill Gates is still mixing it up at Microsoft in his spare time: ‘I love what’s going on there — it’s fun’

It has been nearly a decade since Bill Gates left his day-to-day role at Microsoft, but he still has a… Read More

DDoS denied: ExtraHop’s newest product detects security breaches and other network anomalies with machine learning

Last October, when a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks knocked out major websites like Amazon and Twitter, one… Read More

What Bill and Melinda Gates are doing with Warren Buffett’s $30 billion, a decade after historic gift

“It was the biggest single gift anyone ever gave anybody for anything.” That’s how Bill and Melinda Gates describe Warren… Read More

Interview: Why Bill Gates is still optimistic about the world, and what he wants from President Trump

If the world were a PC operating system, some of us would probably be ready to reboot. You know, just to… Read More

Amazon unveils Chime, looks to reinvent the conference call with new Skype and GoToMeeting competitor

Amazon is looking to transform just about every industry. Now, the Seattle tech juggernaut wants to reinvent how you conduct… Read More

Google quietly donates $10M to University of Washington in another major computer science gift

We already know that Microsoft, Amazon, and Zillow made multimillion-dollar donations to help build a new University of Washington computer science and engineering building. But… Read More

Students pitch everything from non-toxic pesticides to fashion startups at collegiate entrepreneurial contest TigerLaunch

A club at the University of Washington is ready to help launch the next big thing. Startup UW is a… Read More

T-Mobile beefs up unlimited data plan as John Legere calls out Verizon for ‘caving’

Verizon and T-Mobile are going at it again. One day after Verizon announced its new unlimited data plans, T-Mobile added upgrades… Read More

OneEnergy Renewables raises more cash to develop solar projects across North America

Seattle-based solar energy startup OneEnergy Renewables has raised more cash to help develop large-scale solar energy projects across North America.… Read More

Vintage Kurt Cobain guitar being offered on eBay; Portland charity to receive a portion of the sale

Nirvana fans feeling particularly nostalgic about the upcoming 50th birthday of the band’s late frontman Kurt Cobain can try to… Read More

Apptentive raises another $1.7M to help app-makers better understand customers

Apptentive has a new investor and more cash to help fuel its growth. The Seattle startup, which helps mobile app… Read More

White House likely to avoid Supreme Court, continue immigration fight in Ninth Circuit Court

It doesn’t look like the Supreme Court will be hearing an appeal to Washington state’s hold on President Donald Trump’s… Read More

YouTube to launch new children-centric original TV shows this spring, bring Kids app to smart TVs

Last February, YouTube launched its first original content with more than two dozen movies and TV shows. The plan was… Read More

Apple teases ‘Carpool Karaoke’ series and the song show remains the same with singing stars

“The Late Late Show” host James Corden has created a viral hit with his “Carpool Karaoke” bit, and it looks… Read More

Return engagement? NASA picks its three favorite landing spots for 2020 Mars rover

NASA has whittled down its choices for its next Mars landing site to three spots, including the hills where the… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow adds Slack VP to board as Trulia co-founder departs; Utrip names COO; etc.

Seattle online real estate powerhouse Zillow Group announced today that Slack executive April Underwood has joined the company’s board of directors.… Read More

Valentine’s Day Google Doodle game calls attention to cute — and endangered — animal

It’s not all hearts and candy when it comes to Valentine’s Day this year on the Google landing page. Sure,… Read More

Microsoft’s new HoloLens ‘Spectator View’ lets users share mixed reality experiences with others

Microsoft today debuted a new way for HoloLens users to share their mixed reality experience with others. Called “Spectator View,”… Read More

San Francisco’s Sift Science opens new Seattle engineering center, led by Amazon vet

Sift Science, a heavily-funded San Francisco-based company that builds software to fight fraud online, is opening up a Seattle outpost,… Read More

Google to compete with Foursquare with new Maps feature for creating and sharing lists

Google has set its sights on Foursquare, announcing Monday a new feature for Google Maps for creating and sharing lists of… Read More

Salesforce adds ‘Einstein’ artificial intelligence tools to its customer service platform

Call centers ain’t what they used to be. That’s because customers rely on an increasingly wide range of tools to… Read More