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Articles from 2017

Blue jet

Blue lightning caught on video from space

For years, scientists have been piecing together evidence of peculiar phenomena known as red sprites, blue jets, pixies and elves – exotic… Read More

Global health leaders seek new ties to tech industry, while aiming to avoid ‘innovation addiction’

It’s easy to see global health as a far-off issue, one that doesn’t have much impact outside isolated parts of… Read More

Cloud software monitoring startup Sensu raises $2.5M from Foundry Group

What started as an open source software project more than five years ago has turned into a legitimate startup that… Read More

Startups and VCs join legal fight against Trump’s immigration ban, claiming ‘immediate harm’ to the innovation economy

Tech giants, like Amazon, Expedia, Google, and Microsoft, have thrown their considerable weight behind Washington state and Minnesota in a… Read More

Bill Nye

Science! Stars! ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ trailer reveals the formula for fun in new Netflix show

“Let’s do something fun!” Bill Nye says at the start of a trailer for his new series, “Bill Nye Saves… Read More

Facebook updates Safety Check to allow people to offer and find relief during natural disasters

When a series of tornadoes hit the New Orleans area on Tuesday, many locals turned to Facebook to alert friends… Read More

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised last year that public cloud titan Amazon Web Services would achieve $10 billion in sales for 2016, reaching that milestone… Read More

Tech Moves: Apple poaches Amazon Fire exec; Tune promotes Koch to CTO; Nohla names CEO; etc.

—Apple and Amazon are on a collision course in many industries, but the battle for tech talent looks to be… Read More

Electronic Flight Bag screen

NASA tests next-generation air traffic software in Washington state’s skies

Landing planes at busy airports can be a challenging work of aerial ballet, and this week, NASA is testing a… Read More

Microsoft, AT&T join in $25M funding round for SnapRoute, networking startup founded by Apple engineers

SnapRoute, a networking startup formed by Apple engineers, announced Tuesday that it secured $25 million in a Series A venture… Read More

Trump administration seeks to reinstate immigration ban in court hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEK8FCBMkMQ Today, attorneys representing Washington state and the U.S. Department of Justice are presenting oral arguments to try to sway… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Twitter rant on aisle 7! Jeff Bezos slams NY Post report on automated Amazon grocery stores

As owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is clearly a fan of newspapers. But the Amazon CEO let it… Read More

Zillow Group shares dip after Q4 earnings report; real estate giant says it will surpass $1B in 2017 revenue

Zillow Group expects to reach a new milestone in 2017: the $1 billion revenue mark. The Seattle-based online real estate… Read More

Donald Trump

The terrible trifecta: What the Trump administration means for tech, and how to stop it

An economic crisis looms in Washington State as a result of three actions by the new President and his team.… Read More

Court documents show Tesla tweaked its Model 3 logo amid a trademark fight with adidas

This post was updated with a comment from Tesla on Wednesday, Feb. 8. A little over a week ago, Tesla quietly… Read More

Trump With Love

Make America love again: Website lets users turn president’s words into more tender messages

Love trumps hate. That’s the takeaway from a website called Trump With Love that allows users to type in more… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Concur co-founders on their new venture, and the transformation of Seattle’s startup scene

When Raj Singh and Mike Hilton co-founded Concur with Steve Singh more than two decades ago, the technology startup scene in Seattle… Read More

Time for a listicle! Tech terms make appearance on list of 1,000 new Merriam-Webster words

Merriam-Webster, the world’s original listicle, just added 1,000 new words to the dictionary on Tuesday, including, you guessed it, listicle.… Read More

How to stream today’s immigration showdown between the Trump administration and the states

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEK8FCBMkMQ This is escalating quickly. Today, three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments to… Read More

MetaBrite raises another $3M to grow consumer purchasing data platform

MetaBrite is raising more cash to bolster its receipt-scanning and business intelligence technology. The Seattle startup just reeled in an… Read More

Moment battery case

Moment focuses on owning mobile photography with new Kickstarter for iPhone lens and cases

Marc Barros has spent three years building a team and a product and learning about his customer. Now, his Seattle-based… Read More

Twitter

Twitter will block abusive accounts and hide tweets, expanding fight against harassment

Twitter is taking a harder stance on trolls, announcing Tuesday a series of updates aimed at reducing abuse on the… Read More

Rightside extends domain registry deal with Donuts after turning down acquisition bid

Domain companies Rightside Group and Donuts Inc. have inked a multi-year extension of Rightside’s deal to provide back-end registry services… Read More

Microsoft’s AI group debuts customizable speech-to-text technology, rapidly expanding ‘cognitive services’ for developers

  Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, a major new engineering and research division formed last year inside the Redmond… Read More

Ossia hires new CEO to help commercialize its wireless charging technology

Ossia has hired a new leader as the Bellevue, Wash.-based company prepares to commercialize its wireless charging technology. Long-time tech… Read More

ZTE integrates spam blocker and fraud protection tech from Hiya into Axon 7 smartphone

ZTE is teaming up with a Seattle startup to help customers block unwanted calls. The China-based company announced today that… Read More

Amazon adds 10M users to its payments service, escalating PayPal rivalry

PayPal said recently that it has been talking with Amazon about adopting its payments service on Amazon.com, but the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is reporting significant growth… Read More

Jupiter snapshots show lots of spots

We all know Jupiter has a Great Red Spot, but the latest pictures from NASA’s Juno orbiter turn the spotlight… Read More

Musk and Weeks and Trump

Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX (and 29 other companies) back immigration lawsuit

If you can join them, you can try beating them, too. Today SpaceX and Tesla signed on to the legal… Read More

The U.S. House just passed an act requiring a warrant to search your old email

The government needs a warrant to search your home or listen to your phone calls and, soon, it may also… Read More

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