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Articles from 2017

University of Washington engineers develop ‘breakaway’ tsunami-resistant buildings, prepping for ‘The Big One’

Engineers at the University of Washington are developing a first-of-its-kind building that can withstand powerful waves from tsunamis. The tsunami-resistant buildings… Read More

Xi and Trump

Boeing and China seal the deal for $37B worth of airplanes during Trump’s visit

With President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping looking on, Boeing and China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. today signed… Read More

LiquidPlanner CEO Liz Pearce steps down, replaced by League co-founder Todd Humphrey

Seattle tech executive Liz Pearce has left LiquidPlanner after more than a decade with the company. LiquidPlanner announced Pearce’s resignation Thursday… Read More

Sports jersey rental startup Rep the Squad expands to NBA, raises another $1M from athletes and VCs

Rep the Squad is growing. The Seattle startup, which launched its sports jersey rental service three months ago, today added… Read More

Amazon will open pop-up stores inside Whole Foods to sell more devices for holiday season

Amazon is using its Whole Foods acquisition to help sell more hardware devices and Prime subscriptions. The tech giant announced… Read More

The mind-blowing wealth of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett now exceeds the bottom half of the entire U.S. population, new report finds

A new report released this week titled Billionaire Bonanza points out the growing divide in the U.S. among the super… Read More

Podcast

Podcast: Professional life can be a tough, lonely experience — but ‘The Grind’ aims to help

A few years ago, Marc Casale started tutoring college students. Casale is a longtime consultant in the tech world, focusing… Read More

Blue Origin BE-4 engines

‘New Space Age’ gathering sets the stage for commercial spaceflight’s big year

If the dreams of commercial space ventures all come true, the year ahead could bring the biggest rush of rockets… Read More

It’s official: Jenny Durkan will be Seattle’s next mayor as Cary Moon concedes election

Former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan will become Seattle’s next mayor, leading the booming city as it grapples with the challenges… Read More

News Brief

NASA resets date for SLS moon rocket’s first launch to 2020 but still hopes for 2019

Will it fly on 2019 or 2020? NASA’s latest schedule for the maiden launch of its heavy-lift Space Launch System… Read More

Merlin engine testing

Next-generation SpaceX rocket engine goes up in flames during Texas test

SpaceX says its next-generation Merlin rocket engine experienced a fiery anomaly during preparations for testing at its facility in McGregor,… Read More

Seattle leader wants to double head tax because it’s still a fraction of Amazon’s $5B HQ2 plans

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant thinks that if Amazon plans to build a $5 billion second corporate headquarters, it can… Read More

Jeffrey Tambor

Report: Amazon investigating ‘Transparent’ star Jeffrey Tambor over ‘inappropriate behavior’ claim

Jeffrey Tambor, the star of one of Amazon Studios’ biggest television series, is being investigated by the company for inappropriate… Read More

Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 ARM-based server processor ready to take on Intel

Qualcomm’s new ARM server processor is ready for commercial deployment, the company announced Wednesday, officially launching the latest effort to… Read More

Uber air taxi boarding

Uber plans to extend its flying-car tests to Los Angeles in 2020 with NASA’s help

Thanks to a lift from NASA, Uber says it’ll be testing its flying-car prototypes in Los Angeles as well as… Read More

Postmates jumps into grocery delivery, challenging Amazon and Instacart with $4 delivery fee

Restaurant delivery powerhouse Postmates is expanding into the grocery world. The well-funded San Francisco startup today announced a new grocery delivery… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Playing the powerful but pricey Xbox One X — is it worth upgrading?

Microsoft made a risky bet Tuesday when it launched the brand new Xbox One X — a $500, superpowered gaming console… Read More

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon

Apple picks up two seasons of new show starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon

Embed from Getty Images Apple has made another high-profile move in its push to become relevant in the battle over… Read More

An Echo on every counter and a Google Home on every nightstand? Study says 55% of U.S. will own a smart speaker by 2022

A new study sheds some light on why tech companies across the world are in the midst of a digital… Read More

Worried about Amazon, Kroger will avoid Amazon Web Services in its cloud transition

Amazon Web Services has been the gold standard for cloud computing almost since its debut, but the relentless push of… Read More

Sprint CEO talks openly about T-Mobile merger, says company didn’t want to ‘relinquish control’

The potential merger between Sprint and T-Mobile ultimately didn’t happen because of a disagreement over control. That’s what Sprint CEO… Read More

Amazon Best Books 2017

You’ve got a lot of reading to do: Amazon releases Best Books of 2017 across multiple categories

It’s almost the end of the year, and if you still haven’t finished that pile of best beach books from… Read More

Microsoft’s new Resume Assistant uses LinkedIn data to help people write better resumes in Word

Microsoft today detailed one of the deepest integrations between Office 365 and its blue-chip acquisition LinkedIn: a new tool designed… Read More

Interview: Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh bends the rules of TV and movies with ‘Mosaic’ app for HBO

Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director and groundbreaking filmmaker known for Sex, Lies & Videotape, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich… Read More

Jenny Durkan leads in early Seattle mayor election results but Cary Moon says it’s not over yet

Jenny Durkan established a comfortable lead over her opponent, Cary Moon in early election results released Tuesday evening. Final election… Read More

Jupiter as seen by Juno

NASA’s Juno orbiter delivers a fresh batch of blimmin’ beauties from Jupiter

Artistic amateur astronomers have started leveraging the latest looks from NASA’s Juno orbiter to produce fresh views of Jupiter, including… Read More

Stephen Hawking in "Into the Universe" on Discovery Channel

Stephen Hawking’s latest doomsday prediction: Earth could go to hell by 2600

British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned repeatedly that Earth could well be doomed, but his latest warning gives us no… Read More

Halliday with A5

Baseball great Roy Halladay dies in crash of his brand-new, unorthodox Icon plane

Retired All-Star pitcher Roy Halladay died today when his plane, an amphibious light-sport aircraft known as the Icon A5, crashed… Read More

Exclusive: Bots spread propaganda to influence high-stakes Washington state race, researchers say

Update: Manka Dhingra was ahead with 55 percent of the vote in early election results released Tuesday at 8 p.m. Bots… Read More

‘Yelp for marijuana’ website Leafly lays off 15 employees

Leafly, a marijuana strain and dispensary resource platform, has laid off 15 employees. The Seattle startup confirmed the cuts to… Read More

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