Boeing boosts its 787 Dreamliner order book with $15.1 billion Emirates deal The Boeing Co. and Emirates Airline wowed the 2017 Dubai Airshow today with a commitment for the purchase of 40… Read More
Rekindling Amazon’s old flame: 10 years later, can we get the original Kindle e-reader to work again? Amazon wants to make money when people use its devices, Jeff Bezos says, not when people buy them. In other… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 5, 2017 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 5, 2017. Read More
Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station with a ‘nation’ Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket today sent a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the first step of its journey to the International… Read More
Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser space plane glides successfully through a big test Sierra Nevada Corp. said its Dream Chaser prototype space plane glided to a successful landing in California’s Mojave Desert today… Read More
Diversity, harassment and intersectionality: New insights from ‘Hopper x 1’ on making tech inclusive Diversity. Inclusion. Intersectionality. There are a lot of code words for having an open and welcoming culture, and we see… Read More
Amazon vets develop $20 WyzeCam home camera, end up competing against their former employer The four founders of Wyze Labs are all former Amazon employees, and they’ve hewed closely the company’s well-known leadership principles… Read More
Deadline 2020: Regulators need to catch up to social media propaganda by the next big election Social media’s greatest strength and weakness is the egalitarianism that defines it. Facebook and Twitter have given a voice to… Read More
Book Excerpt: How technology is enabling a new era of ‘deep listening,’ and why you should pay attention [Editor’s Note: Aaron Painter is a vice president and general manager at Microsoft, based in Beijing. This excerpt is from… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Bots meddle in a pivotal election and Twitter finally goes to 280 characters At this point, it’s clear that foreign actors tried to impact the 2016 presidential election through social media, often using… Read More
Why data analytics is becoming the next frontier for the commercial space industry Thanks to incredibly shrinking satellites and launch costs, thousands of satellites are sending down streams of data about the state… Read More
Moon vs. Mars and asteroids: Watch space advocates debate where we should go SpaceX founder Elon Musk has famously said he’d like to die on Mars — “just not on impact.” But where will… Read More
Geek of the Week: Ex-Marine Solaire Sanderson combats new threats in Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center As a signals intelligence analyst in the United States Marine Corps, Solaire Sanderson was deployed twice to Afghanistan and had… Read More
CuePath raises $1.8M for smart medication organizer and monitoring system CuePath is raising cash for its smart medication system that helps patients keep track of their pill dosages and timing.… Read More
NFL players call Thursday Night Football ‘illegal’ after injury-ridden Seahawks game [Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every… Read More
Steve Bannon calls ‘Amazon Washington Post’ a partisan mouthpiece amid Roy Moore allegations Steve Bannon accused the Washington Post — and its owner, Jeff Bezos — of intentionally targeting conservative politicians, hours after the… Read More
72 years after fighting together in WWII, Navy pilots reunite at Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Museum Surrounded by the vintage aircraft they remembered from their days in the U.S. Navy, two aviators who fought alongside each… Read More
Tech Moves: Spin bike-share service hires Seattle transportation official; F5 CMO stepping down; and more Kyle Rowe is very into bikes. He spent the past four years in the Seattle Department of Transportation working on… Read More
SpaceX backer Steve Jurvetson shares financing lessons from the final frontier Few space geeks are geekier than Silicon Valley venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson: His office at Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo… Read More
Billionaire Yuri Milner discusses his plan to look for life on Saturn moon – and his Russian connections Russian billionaire Yuri Milner today laid out his vision to send the first privately funded interplanetary space mission to look… Read More
Toyota’s futuristic 3-wheeler; Jaguar’s high-tech circuit; and more from the Seattle International Auto Show I’m not exactly a car junkie, but I just had a lot of fun at the Seattle International Car Show… Read More
More changes at Chef, as another head of sales is leaving the company Chef’s Ken Cheney, who stepped in to run the Seattle DevOps startup’s sales organization in June after the departure of… Read More
GeekWork Picks: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence seeks director for Semantic Scholar search engine The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has been working on an intelligent search engine for the past two years.… Read More
Redfin stock down as tech-powered real estate brokerage falls short of expectations in second quarter as public company Redfin nearly doubled profits over this time last year and revenue is up 35 percent, but the tech-powered real estate… Read More
Working Geek: Threshold Communications’ Rick Crabbe can recruit talent everywhere by letting employees work anywhere Since Threshold Communications opened its (virtual) doors in 2001, the global voice and data service provider has operated almost entirely… Read More
Take it to the house: Two Seahawks play real estate pros for Zillow, taunt 49ers fans on home tour Two of the biggest defensive stars for the Seattle Seahawks take it to the house, as they say in touchdown… Read More
‘Stranger Things’ fans crash science museum’s website in rush to buy purple hoodie worn by Dustin The fashions of the Netflix hit series “Stranger Things” may be straight out of the 1980s, but one particular sweatshirt… Read More
Microsoft’s Brad Smith: Tech giants must be the first line of defense in cyberspace arms race Cyberspace has become our generation’s battlefield, replacing gunfights with hacks, and it’s up to tech companies and governments to come… Read More
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh: Virtual reality ‘is never going to work’ for real movies Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is known for pushing the boundaries of filmmaking — from his classics like Sex, Lies & Videotape and… Read More
Introducing SHIFT, a new video series from Intel and GeekWire on the digital transformation of business The cloud computing landscape is evolving rapidly, with new technologies emerging regularly to redefine and reshape a movement that has… Read More
