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Articles from 2017

Gene Cernan

Last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, leaves behind a dying wish

Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan, the last human to leave footprints on the moon, passed away today – but his family says… Read More

Xbox One tops PlayStation 4 for U.S. sales in second half of 2016

More than three years after debuting, Microsoft’s Xbox One console still continues to rack up the sales. The Redmond company… Read More

Life Accordion to Trump

Is today the most depressing day of the year? Not if you watch ‘Life Accordion to Trump’

I clicked on a link today that said the third Monday in January — sometimes referred to as “Blue Monday” —… Read More

Bill Gates

Eight richest men, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, have same wealth as 3.6B of world’s poorest

Eight men own just as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the… Read More

Man convicted after out-of-control drone hits building, knocks woman unconscious during Seattle Pride Parade

It is not a great time to be a drone pilot in Seattle right now. On the heels of a drone… Read More

Oracle opens second cloud accelerator program, attempting to court startups

Database giant and cloud contender Oracle has opened a cloud accelerator program in Tel Aviv, with the aim of helping… Read More

Salesforce’s Quip buys Unity&Variety to add visual elements to document-management tools

Quip, a maker of cloud-based document-management tools that is owned by Salesforce, has acquired Unity&Variety, a small San Francisco maker of productivity tools,… Read More

On MLK Day, here’s what 7 black tech leaders say about diversity and the state of the industry

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day and nearly the end of Barack Obama’s presidency. America has made tremendous strides in… Read More

Online pet sitting service Rover sniffing around IPO, CEO says they’re targeting 2018

Is Rover barking up the IPO tree? The fast-growing Seattle based online pet sitting and dog walking marketplace is targeting… Read More

Tech Moves: WTIA names new chairman; Amazon poaches talent to lead Prime overseas; and more

The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Board of Directors has a new chairman: John Suk, a Harvard and University of Chicago graduate… Read More

T-Mobile CEO scolds Sprint CEO for laughing at Chelsea Handler’s Twitter joke about car crashing into T-Mobile store

John Legere did a bit of scolding on Twitter this afternoon. The T-Mobile CEO called out Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure… Read More

How this reluctant Fitbit investor almost missed a $1.6 billion windfall

Tech investor Brad Feld remembers his first call with Fitbit CEO James Park. It was in 2010, during a major… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 8, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 8, 2017. Read More

SpaceX launch

SpaceX returns to flight with Iridium satellite launch – and rocket landing!

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off for the first time in five months to put 10 advanced Iridium Next telecommunication sateliites… Read More

Amazon campus

Amazon wants FCC approval to test mysterious wireless communications system

A cryptic filing with the Federal Communications Commission reveals a plan by Amazon to test a new wireless communications system at its… Read More

LEGO Batmobile

Life-size LEGO Batmobile uses 344,000 bricks — and needs one superhero behind the wheel

When it comes to concept cars, they don’t get much more super than this. A life-size LEGO Batmobile was unveiled… Read More

Moon Express selfie

Moon Express reportedly has the money for moonshot – but launch is up in the air

An executive at Moon Express has been widely quoted as saying his company has reached its funding goal for this year’s… Read More

Seattle is shutting down its bike-share program, will reallocate funding to other projects

So long, Seattle bike-share program. The City of Seattle on Friday announced that it will shut down the Pronto bike-share service on… Read More

Carrie Fisher in "The Force Awakens"

Reality check: Lucasfilm won’t put virtual Carrie Fisher in future Star Wars films

Spoiler Alert: This item avoids discussing major plot twists in any of the Star Wars movies, but wait to read it… Read More

Protein structures

Here’s a twist: UW biochemists find clever ways to pick a protein’s pockets profitably

Researchers at the University of Washington have cracked the code for producing molecular structures with tiny pockets – structures that… Read More

Vicis raises another $4M as it prepares to equip teams with high-tech football helmet

Vicis has raised more money to help scale development and production of its high-tech football helmet. The Seattle startup confirmed today… Read More

Digital advertising company AudienceScience cuts jobs amid shift in business

Digital advertising company AudienceScience is cutting as much as a quarter of its staff, GeekWire has learned. AudienceScience, formerly known as… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: How tech is disrupting politics and economics; SciFi and fantasy short film festival; and more

The tech community typically views disruption as a good thing. But the ever-widening fault lines in the U.S. — particularly the… Read More

Obama’s edict to help immigrant entrepreneurs start companies in the U.S. is finalized

(Updated Jan. 18 to reflect the correct date the rule takes effect). The Department of Homeland Security has officially published a… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence seeks DevOps Lead to drive technical operations

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has emerged as a leader in AI research after its launch by Microsoft… Read More

Spacewalkers finish swapping batteries

Two astronauts made quick work of a battery upgrade today during the International Space Station’s second spacewalk in a week.… Read More

Leslie Alexandre

Geek of the Week: Life Science Washington CEO Leslie Alexandre gets elbow-deep in health policy

Leslie Alexandre was born in Vancouver, Wash., but much of her career revolved around the other Washington — the nation’s Capital.… Read More

Podcast

The Week in Geek: Envelop VR closes its doors; drone crashes into the Space Needle; and more

Seattle is proud of its growing virtual reality community and already boasts several promising VR and AR startups. But the young… Read More

Stranger Things

Greenpeace parody slams Netflix over dirty energy use with a little help from ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘House of Cards,’ other originals

In an appeal to binge-watchers everywhere, Greenpeace is using favorite Netflix characters to call out the streaming giant for its dependence… Read More

Facebook grabs another Seattle office building, flexing its muscles again in the heart of Amazonia

Facebook is starting to look a little Amazon-like in the speed with which it is gobbling up Seattle real estate. The… Read More

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