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Articles from 2017

ZTF first light image

Super-wide-angle Zwicky Transient Facility celebrates ‘first light’ with help from UW

A sky survey that draws upon the data-crunching skills of researchers at the University of Washington has reached a milestone… Read More

Microsoft promises to cut carbon emissions 75% by 2030 and hit Paris climate agreement targets

Microsoft said this morning it plans to cut carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030, taking another step in a… Read More

$50 ‘Muse’ device puts Amazon’s Alexa in the car, connects via smartphone

Another technology company is aiming to bring Amazon’s Alexa into the car. San Francisco-based Speak Music, the company behind the… Read More

Mercedes-Benz to open Seattle software engineering center with up to 150 people in first 18 months

Mercedes-Benz has tapped former Amazon software development manager Mike Dosenbach to lead a new engineering center in downtown Seattle that… Read More

Skytap adds support for Amazon Web Services, hires Microsoft veteran to strike new partnerships

Fast-growing Seattle startup Skytap will now offer its customers the choice of running their workloads on Amazon Web Services in… Read More

MoPOP Marvel

Bam! Pow! MoPOP! Seattle museum to feature huge new exhibition, ‘Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes’

The largest exhibition ever staged at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture will feature hundreds of original artifacts and much more as… Read More

Seattle lawmakers approve new Airbnb tax, charging short-term rental hosts $8-$14/night

The Seattle City Council approved a new tax on short-term rentals Monday, taking the first step toward regulating hosts who… Read More

Update: Amazon Web Services denies reports of China exit, confirms some asset sales

Updated 10:35pm: Amazon Web Services responded to reports out of China that it was exiting the country’s cloud computing market… Read More

Arkyd-6 preparations

Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 prototype imaging satellite has left the building

Planetary Resources has been working on its Arkyd-6 imaging satellite for years, and today the company reported that the printer-sized… Read More

Fuzzy dice on Dream Chaser

SNC shows off video of what could be Dream Chaser space plane’s last test flight

Last weekend’s drop test of a prototype Dream Chaser space plane went so well that the next flight might be… Read More

KUOW streaming

Nasty Seattle windstorm knocks KUOW and KEXP off air, but public radio stations stream on

UPDATE, Nov. 13, 9:30 p.m.: The radio signals for KUOW and KEXP were back on after 9 p.m. Monday after… Read More

William + Kaven Portland plans

Portland architecture firm aims (really) high with proposal for tower to be tallest on the West Coast

A proposed redevelopment project in Portland would reshape that city’s skyline, with plans that include, among other things, towering skyscrapers… Read More

Bill Gates linked to $80M property deal to build a smart city in Arizona

Bill Gates is apparently joining the ranks of technologists who want to build a better city. One of his investment… Read More

SPiN ping pong

New York-based ping pong social club SPiN opening a giant location in downtown Seattle

Ping pong players who can’t wait until next spring for GeekWire’s annual bash to get their sporty geek on will… Read More

News Brief

Steve Jurvetson leaves DFJ venture capital firm amid sexual harassment allegations

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson is leaving Silicon Valley’s Draper Fisher Jurvetson investment firm to fight accusations related to a sexual… Read More

Key cloud computing group launches interoperability certification for Kubernetes

Thirty-two cloud computing companies building software around Kubernetes, the popular container-orchestration project, received a stamp of approval Monday from the… Read More

News Brief

Lighter Capital partners with Intuit to launch $15M fund for QuickBooks developers

Seattle-based Lighter Capital, which offers an alternative to venture capital and traditional bank loans, today announced a new $15 million fund in… Read More

Vahana aircraft inside hangar

Airbus’ Vahana flying car makes itself at home for flight tests in eastern Oregon

Call it a flying car, or an air taxi, or a pilotless passenger aircraft: Whatever it is, Airbus’ Vahana aircraft… Read More

Research groups awarded $48M to boost treatments and prevention of infectious diseases

The Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) announced Monday that it and its sister research group will receive… Read More

Microsoft Alumni Network announces new executive director as organization grows

The Microsoft Alumni Network is getting new leadership. The organization, which counts 35,000 Microsoft alums as members, announced that director… Read More

‘Mr. Robot’ Rewind: Hacking an HSM during a riot in Episode 5

 [Spoiler Alert] This article deeply analyzes the technical details of the latest Mr. Robot episode (Eps3.4_runtime-err0r.r00). If you haven’t watched… Read More

Geeks Give Back: Help us raise more than $1 million for STEM education

We’re in the midst of our largest philanthropic fundraising effort of the year. And we hope you can join us… Read More

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Amazon to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ books into new fantasy television series

“The Lord of the Rings,” the celebrated fantasy book series by J.R.R. Tolkien that became a worldwide film phenomenon is… Read More

NY startup Intersection wants to retrofit Seattle bus stops with WiFi kiosks that serve up ads

Seattle bus stops could get a high-tech makeover if New York-based Intersection gets its way. The company, which has rolled… Read More

Seattle’s Cray jumps on Arm server train with new XC50 supercomputer

The strongest effort yet to see server processors based on Arm cores infiltrate the data center is well underway, and… Read More

Amazon reportedly developing free ad-supported video service to complement Prime Video

Update: In a statement shared with GeekWire, Amazon said “we have no plans to create a free, ad-supported version of Prime… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Report: Amazon Web Services planning AI-friendly version of its data warehouse

The Super Bowl of cloud computing — Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference — is two weeks away, and the company… Read More

New data: Software as a Service industry revenue up 23% this year as shift to the cloud continues

Global revenue in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry topped $43 billion in the first half of 2017 —… Read More

Bill Gates commits $100 million to fight Alzheimer’s

Bill Gates has invested billions of his personal wealth to fight polio, malaria and other devastating diseases in the emerging… Read More

Killer drones unleashed

Seven minutes of terror: AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a movie

As if the mere phrase “killer robots” weren’t scary enough, AI researchers and policy advocates have put together a video… Read More

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