Articles from 2017 – Page 169 of 175

Amazon to add 100,000 full-time U.S. jobs in next 18 months, growing domestic workforce 55 percent

Amazon just made a big statement about its continued growth aspirations, announcing that it plans to add another 100,000 full-time jobs… Read More

Intel taps Tom Brady to star in new commercial touting its 360-degree replay technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTw7eten1no Intel is using Tom Brady to help show off its 360-degree replay technology. The tech giant today rolled out a… Read More

Madrona adds ex-King Digital CFO as partner; promotes ‘Soma’ Somasegar to managing director

Madrona Venture Group today announced three internal promotions and the hiring of a new venture partner. Hope Cochran, a long-time… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold explains why the nuclear power option is needed … with toasters!

If renewable energy is on the rise in America, why should we even bother with nuclear power? Seattle tech maverick… Read More

May the firewall be with you: Tech security lessons from Star Wars ‘Rogue One’

A brief time ago in a theater close, close by … I saw a group of heroic rebel hackers infiltrate… Read More

The ‘internet of oysters’: Microsoft Azure system uses underwater sensors and AI to boost shellfish yields

Tired of hearing about the internet of things? Well, how about the internet of oysters? The Yield, an agricultural-technology firm… Read More

New political reality? Why these lawmakers donned VR headsets in a committee hearing

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Legislators on the Washington state House Technology & Economic Development Committee were given some first-hand experience with virtual reality… Read More

Seahawks fans can have a hand in raising 12 flag thanks to augmented experience via team’s app

Only a privileged few get to raise the official 12 flag at Seattle’s CenturyLink Field and hear the roaring crowd… Read More

Working Geek: How Google Maps product manager Liz Hunt unplugs

Details about Liz Hunt’s work as a product manager for Google are kept tightly under wraps. That’s because she’s working on… Read More

Guest Post: U.S. Immigration Services issues new standards to make it easer for foreign entrepreneurs to get green cards

Two years ago, in my article titled, “What President Obama’s immigration announcement means for tech companies and entrepreneurs,” I discussed… Read More

Dramatic video footage shows drone circling and then crashing into Seattle’s Space Needle

Dramatic footage shot by a drone circling Seattle’s Space Needle shows workers preparing for the recent New Year’s Eve fireworks display… Read More

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GearedUp! Our 10 favorite products and technologies from CES 2017

CES was a wonderland of gadgetry and shiny new tech. And while some devices were gimmicky flops, other will doubtlessly find their… Read More

This video of monkeys mourning their adopted robot baby will hit you right in the feels

We could all use a good cry right about now. If you’re feeling jaded and cynical from recent news, watch… Read More

Amazon removes Indian flag doormat from site after official threatens to rescind employee visas

A doormat resembling India’s tricolor flag was removed from Amazon’s Canadian website after an Indian government official directed threats at… Read More

After a rocky year, enterprise virtual reality startup Envelop VR is shutting down

Envelop VR, a virtual reality startup out of Bellevue, Wash., has ceased operations, according to the company’s website. The startup,… Read More

Trump’s pick for transportation secretary plays it safe on Seattle transit spending

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, held back from a commitment to continue supporting transit projects that… Read More

Amazon falls behind Disney, but beats Netflix, in study ranking millennials’ intimacy with brands

Millennials seem to have an emotional attachment to the smiling cardboard boxes which bring them stuff, at least according to… Read More

New Amazon credit card includes 5% back on all Amazon purchases, but only for Prime members

Amazon just came out with another reason to get Prime: a new credit card that will let members get 5… Read More

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson is top-ranked athlete in social media — 2 more Seattle stars make list

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is trying to win another NFL championship, but on Tuesday he locked up the title… Read More

Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures attempt to patent a high-tech football helmet

Bill Gates wants to help improve the safety of football players. The Microsoft co-founder is listed on a recently-filed patent… Read More

Google Cloud looks to improve security with new encryption key-management services

Google Cloud Platform is moving to improve its cloud security, beta testing a variety of encryption key-management services that would let… Read More

State legislators grapple with drone privacy and safety issues as UAVs take off

OLYMPIA, Wash. — What’s the difference between photographing a piece of private property from a Cessna airplane and doing the same… Read More

Investments in learning technology soar to more than $7B: Here’s where the money is going

Learning technologies — everything from educational video games to online employee training — have been around for decades, chugging along… Read More

Facebook Journalism Project aims to work with publishers and journalists, curb fake news

Facebook announced a new initiative Wednesday, the Facebook Journalism Project, designed to strengthen relationships with publishers and journalists and stop the… Read More

Trump calls BuzzFeed a ‘failing pile of garbage’ in first press conference since the election

Donald Trump is known for a meandering, off-the-cuff verbal style but the president-elect’s first formal press conference since the campaign carried… Read More

Donald Trump says he’ll enlist tech titans to build a better ‘hacking defense’ system

President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll turn to the tech industry leaders he met with last month to help his administration… Read More

Samsung, not IBM, tops US patent wins in 2016, says Seattle public records startup Sqoop

Samsung and its subsidiaries won the most patents of any company in 2016, according to a new report from Sqoop,… Read More

Study: Microsoft Teams set to pass Slack, Google Hangouts as second most-used business chat app in next 2 years

Microsoft Teams isn’t even generally available to the public yet, but one report prognosticates that the new chat app will… Read More

VC investment activity dips in 2016, but still reaches $69B across 7,751 companies

Venture capital investment activity dipped last year from a record 2015, but returned to normal activity in 2016 and marked the… Read More

Hearing hints at clashes over immigration, pot and cyber issues with Jeff Sessions as attorney general

Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions faced a wide range of questions during today’s Senate hearing on his confirmation as attorney… Read More