Articles from 2017 – Page 173 of 175

Live Blog: T-Mobile introduces ‘KickBack’ data refund, vows to include taxes and fees in rates

LAS VEGAS — T-Mobile this morning announced a new “KickBack” program that will credit customers up to $10/month for unused… Read More

‘I just have to pinch myself’: The Linux Foundation is still adjusting to AT&T’s embrace of open source

LAS VEGAS — “AT&T is an open-source software company now — I just have to pinch myself.” That’s how Linux… Read More

Audi teams up with Nvidia to create an advanced autonomous car by 2020

Nvidia may be best-known for video games, but its deal with Audi to provide the smarts for an autonomous vehicle… Read More

Microsoft plans big reorganization of partner and services groups starting Feb. 1

Microsoft is planning to consolidate many of its partner and services teams in a reorganization, as well as add a new… Read More

Live blog: CES show floor up and running! GeekWire takes in the weird and wonderful

Massive crowds are gathering at the Las Vegas Convention Center to spot celebrities, connect with key members of the electronics… Read More

Guilty parents will feel good about this $149 exercise bike from Fisher-Price that keeps your preschooler active during screen time

LAS VEGAS — Kids love their screen time, a period to tune out from rest of the world. But for… Read More

GeekWire CES Dispatch, Day 2: High-tech celebrities, Alexa in the fridge, and VR barf bags

LAS VEGAS — The final CES media day was packed with surprises, reveals, and more than anything, Amazon’s Alexa. As… Read More

Amazon to open new brick-and-mortar bookstore in New York City this year

Amazon plans to open its first physical bookstore in New York City — and its sixth overall. The store will be… Read More

Ford is turning its cars into Amazon Alexa devices starting this month

LAS VEGAS — Ford will begin rolling out Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant this month, starting by allowing hybrid and electric vehicle owners to interact… Read More

Twitter inks live streaming deal with PGA Tour to air free coverage of 31 PGA tournaments in 2017

Twitter continues to amp up its live streaming ambitions in the sports world. The social media company today announced that… Read More

Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian checks out car tech at CES, confirms fiancée Serena Williams is a geek

LAS VEGAS — We know Alexis Ohanian is a geek. The entrepreneur co-founded Reddit and helped start companies like Hipmunk… Read More

Nvidia unveils cloud service that turns your PC into a powerful gaming machine

LAS VEGAS — It’s difficult for many people to play the latest and greatest computer games because they don’t have a… Read More

Intel goes all out at CES media event, gives 260 reporters and analysts VR demos with barf bags

LAS VEGAS — Intel’s event at CES last year was pretty epic, with flying drones and twisting BMX bikers wow-ing… Read More

Sony’s PlayStation 4 hits 53.4M in lifetime console sales, including 6.2M this holiday season

Sony has sold 53.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide in a little more than three years. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai said… Read More

AlphaGo AI program goes into stealth mode to beat the pants off Go game pros

For the past week or so, a mystery player has been logging into online Go game servers and beating the… Read More

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A.I. isn’t as smart as you think it is. Take Microsoft’s Clippy, for example

LAS VEGAS — As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes part of our daily lives, it’s easy to see the technology as… Read More

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s 3 problems with the Internet — and how to fix them

LAS VEGAS — Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ready for the Internet to “grow up.” It needs to happen, he told… Read More

Samsung doubles down on smart refrigerators with second generation of tablet-as-a-door technology

Last year Samsung raised eyebrows when it slapped a giant 21.5-inch LCD touch screen on the front of a refrigerator. This… Read More

Amazon gently stresses several ways Alexa could have stopped 6-year-old girl’s dollhouse order

Step away from the Dot, tiny online shopper. When a 6-year-old girl in Texas managed to get herself a big… Read More

Drone no-no: State legislation could ban flying over someone else’s property

Flying your drone over another person’s private property could get harder. A bill to forbid privately owned drones from flying… Read More

Intel and New Balance reveal new $299 RunIQ smartwatch; runs on Android Wear and Intel Atom

New Balance is getting into the smartwatch game with a little help from Intel. The shoemaker today announced RunIQ, a new… Read More

Nordstrom CTO Kumar Srinivasan leaving retailer in latest departure for digital team

After a year in which Nordstrom navigated layoffs, departures and revamped strategies related to its digital efforts, the Seattle-based retailer announced… Read More

The internet of beds? Microsoft exec teases the future of IoT, which could include 50 billion devices

LAS VEGAS — You may have heard about the internet of cows, but we may soon see the internet of beds… Read More

Report says Amazon may be among those looking to acquire bankrupt American Apparel

Amazon’s big push into apparel could get even bigger based on a new report that says the Seattle-based online retail giant is… Read More

Toyota unveils ‘kinetic warmth’ concept car at CES that uses AI to nurture driver-vehicle relationship

LAS VEGAS — Can technology help our cars behave more like humans? Toyota is betting on it. The company unveiled… Read More

CES: Samsung faces up to Note 7 recall, promises root-cause report ‘very soon’

LAS VEGAS — Opening its news conference here at CES this afternoon, Samsung didn’t shy away from the company’s biggest… Read More

Study: Genetically engineered malaria vaccine could be a breakthrough in fighting deadly disease

When Dr. Sebastian Mikolajczak joined Seattle’s Center for Infectious Disease Research eleven years ago, he had a job to do: create… Read More

Samsung and Google unveil Chromebooks with built-in stylus, challenging Microsoft Surface and Apple iPad Pro

LAS VEGAS — Samsung today is unveiling a pair of new Google notebooks, the Intel-powered Chromebook Pro and ARM-powered Chromebook… Read More

Asteroid fans get psyched up over NASA’s new Psyche and Lucy space missions

Today is a great day for asteroid miners: NASA announced that it will provide full funding under its Discovery Program… Read More

Say please, kids! Mattel’s new Cortana-powered smart hub can require good manners

LAS VEGAS — A new smart hub announced today by Mattel, targeted to kids and parents, is notable in part because… Read More