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Articles from 2017

Amazon continues to grow lead over Google as starting point for online shoppers

Where do you start when shopping for something online? For a majority of people, it’s Amazon — not Google. That’s… Read More

SpaceX gets ready to return to flight amid revelations about rocket finances

As SpaceX prepares for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch in five months, a new report about the company’s finances… Read More

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Inside an avalanche: Watch snowboarder’s inflatable backpack save his life during disaster

A quick-thinking snowboarder who pulled the trigger on his inflatable backpack has the device to thank for his life after… Read More

Microsoft buys Canadian deep-learning startup Maluuba to advance in natural-language processing

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company that uses deep learning to develop natural-language understanding, especially question-answering and… Read More

Kitchenbowl acquired by Japanese cooking school as founders head to Uber and Instacart

It started with a cold email and ended with an acquisition. Kitchenbowl, a Seattle-based startup that built a social recipe… Read More

How Facebook’s Instant Games went from one Seattle engineer’s side project to reality in 6 months

Guilherme Campos has a passion for games. For much of his career, that passion mostly manifested itself in his free… Read More

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Take a 360-degree tour of the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama

In exactly one week, the Obamas will vacate the White House. As a farewell, the president and first lady teamed… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Azure win higher federal security ratings to deal with national-security data

The public-cloud services offered by both Amazon and Microsoft have received new, higher levels of federal authorization to deal with… Read More

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Zillow Group grows New York footprint, acquiring Hamptons Real Estate Online

Zillow Group, the Seattle-based real estate tech titan, just bought another New York web property. Hamptons Real Estate Online, a… Read More

Washington state grapples with obstacles to implementing ultrafast 5G wireless

OLYMPIA, Wash. — 5G sounds cool. Who doesn’t want a faster Internet? But real-world problems — including safety, costs and… Read More

Nintendo Switch hybrid console priced at $299.99, will debut March 3

You can get your hands on Nintendo’s newest handheld console in March. The Japanese video game giant announced today that… Read More

Michael Snyder's biosensors

How wearable sensors knew this scientist was getting sick long before he did

Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder’s research into wearable biosensors has turned into a case study demonstrating the promise of predictive medicine –… Read More

Expert panel cites marijuana’s medical benefits and calls for more research

For years, drug experts have issued warnings about marijuana, but an authoritative report issued today acknowledges its potential benefits – and… Read More

Why Intel is investing in sports: Tech giant sees opportunity to help athletes, fans, leagues

If you’re an avid sports fan, it’s likely you’ve recently seen or heard about Intel. That’s because the 48-year-old tech giant… Read More

BMW’s ReachNow car-sharing service hits 40K members as it eyes self-driving car technology

As the headquarters for BMW’s ReachNow car-sharing service, Seattle will be one of the first places people get to try out… Read More

Envelop VR CEO discusses why his venture-backed VR startup shut down: ‘We were way early’

A day after news broke that Envelop VR was shutting its doors, the CEO of the Bellevue-based virtual reality startup… Read More

Startup Spotlight: On-demand beauty service Tousled brings salon professionals to your door

When Priya Dandawate was studying engineering at the University of Illinois, she moonlighted in local beauty parlors. She saw big inefficiencies in… Read More

Sound Transit in talks with Amazon to place package delivery hubs at Seattle-area rail stations

Here’s one way for Amazon to reduce package delivery times: decrease the number of places drivers have to go. Traffic… Read More

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Portland makes the best viral snow videos: Watch zoo animals play after this week’s storm

Something about big snowstorms in Portland brings out the best in viral video makers. It must be the rare nature… Read More

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Jeff Bezos is the reported buyer of the largest house in Washington, D.C., for $23M in cash

First he bought the town’s newspaper, now Jeff Bezos has picked up Washington, D.C.’s biggest home. A report in The… Read More

Economist: Washington state can’t succeed without income tax, tech investor disagrees

Washington state’s lack of income tax is either one of its greatest assets or one of the main issues holding… Read More

University of Washington approves funding plan for new computer science building

Update, 1:45 p.m. PT: The Board of Regents officially approved the funding and budget plan this afternoon.  The University of Washington… Read More

Apple Music

Report says Apple wants to make original TV shows and movies to add to its streaming music service

Apple TV is a piece of hardware, but it could become a new mindset for the tech giant. Looking to… Read More

Seattle City Council hopeful says he’ll let constituents control his decisions with an app

What happens when a politician crowdsources every policy decision? Ryan Asbert, a 31-year-old freelance web developer, intends to find out. He’s planning… Read More

Despite ‘dumb-ass Tweets’ from president-elect Trump, Seattle’s economic forecast is ‘awesome’

The economic forecast for the Seattle region: Sunny and warm, with a few patchy clouds.  That was essentially the message… Read More

New Amazon Web Services initiative aims to build supply of trained AWS workers in UK

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest public-cloud company, has created enormous demand for AWS expertise at the growing number companies that… Read More

ID Genomics consortium to build national database of bacterial ‘fingerprints’ to help doctors diagnose infection

There’s a reason bacteria take up almost an entire kingdom in our map of life: they are an endlessly complex… Read More

Tech Moves: Cray hires new SVP of R&D; RealSelf adds former Amazon, Microsoft execs; and more

Cray, the Seattle supercomputer maker, announced a new addition to its leadership team: tech veteran Stathis Papaefstathiou has joined the… Read More

Microsoft releases StaffHub, an Office 365 app for shift workers without desks or computers

Microsoft today debuted StaffHub, a no-extra-cost Office 365 application meant to help staff workers manage their work day through shift-schedule management,… Read More

Lawsuit: Ex-Microsoft employees claim PTSD from jobs reviewing child porn and other ‘toxic content’

Two former Microsoft employees and their families have sued the company, alleging that they developed post-traumatic stress disorder due to their… Read More

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