Articles from 2017 – Page 32 of 175

Virtual reality takes you on a trip to Mars with NASA rover – and to alien worlds, too

NASA has been offering virtual-reality tours of Mars for years — but now, with Google’s help, the space agency has come… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company digs into a plan for tunnel from Baltimore to D.C.

One of billionaire Elon Musk’s lesser-known ventures is taking the spotlight with word that The Boring Company is planning to… Read More

Blue Origin space venture fires up BE-4 rocket engine, marking a win for Jeff Bezos

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has successfully test-fired its BE-4 rocket engine, marking a key… Read More

Amazon and Techstars host first-ever Alexa Accelerator Demo Day — here are the top pitches

Part of Amazon’s strategy to get Alexa everywhere in the world is to encourage entrepreneurs to test the boundaries of… Read More

Apple shows off its ‘newest and most ambitious store’ on Chicago’s riverfront

Apple Michigan Avenue, a first in the tech giant’s reimagining of its premiere store locations, opens on Friday along Chicago’s… Read More

Amazon gives $350K to group supporting Jenny Durkan for Seattle mayor, its biggest local political contribution ever

Amazon, and a cadre of Seattle area tech and business heavyweights, are key contributors to a political organization supporting Seattle… Read More

Wall Street likes databases, as MongoDB soars over 30 percent in its IPO

Shares of fast-growing cloud database provider MongoDB closed well above the initial asking price of $24, finishing the day at… Read More

Mighty AI co-founder Matt Bencke dies at 45 after battle with pancreatic cancer

Matt Bencke, a fixture in Seattle’s technology community and co-founder of the startup Mighty AI, passed away on Wednesday after… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Amazon Alexa hits the road, iPhone 8 Plus review and Microsoft’s new Surface Book 2

For some people, talking to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in the home has become second nature. It’s so natural that… Read More

Microsoft and Green Bay Packers team up to create new tech hub near Lambeau Field

Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers are teaming up for a unique partnership designed to spur innovation and economic growth… Read More

Amazon HQ2 deadline day: Everything you need to know about the biggest headquarters contest ever

At midnight tonight, Amazon will close applications for the most high-profile and high-stakes corporate headquarters competition in history. It has… Read More

Let’s be frank: This Snap hot dog costume could turn you into a total Hallowiener

OK, OK, I’m sorry for that headline. But if you had to write a story about an $80 Halloween costume… Read More

Boeing HorizonX invests in Near Earth Autonomy, boosting self-flying tech

Boeing’s venture capital arm, Boeing HorizonX, says it has made a substantial investment in Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based startup… Read More

Watch Jeff Bezos open Amazon’s new Texas wind farm, perched atop a giant windmill like an action star

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos celebrated the opening of Amazon’s newest wind farm, and he did it in style. A tweet… Read More

Hiya raises $18M to build business search and spam blocking into native smartphone dialer app

Nearly every major smartphone app built over the last several years has gone through countless improvements and iterations. But the… Read More

Atlas Informatics to shut down, pulling the plug on its encrypted personal search engine

Seattle startup Atlas Informatics, led by Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter, plans to shut down and stop offering its search technology… Read More

Google Maps expands its interplanetary domain all the way out to Pluto

If you zoom way, way out on Google Maps, you can now find your way around places like Sputnik Planum,… Read More

Podcast

Satya Nadella, the full GeekWire Summit interview: Microsoft’s transformation and the future of tech

Satya Nadella is most well known for transforming Microsoft as its third, and current, CEO. He’s taken the company in… Read More

Mohawk tribe sues Amazon and Microsoft in complicated supercomputer patent spat

A Native American tribe and a small computer company have reportedly sued Amazon and Microsoft, claiming that they’re infringing on… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Comet is building a GitHub-like management system for machine learning

Gideon Mendels has spent the past three years in machine learning research, studying at Columbia University, building hate speech detection… Read More

Ex-Madrona principal David Rosenthal launches new VC firm with former Airbnb exec

David Rosenthal, a former principal at Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group, has formed a new startup investment firm with ex-Airbnb exec… Read More

Blue Apron cutting 6% of its workforce in ‘company-wide realignment’ as it competes with Amazon

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with a more accurate estimate of the number of jobs affected by the cuts.… Read More

Google’s Deepmind AI unit releases new version of AlphaGo that learns on its own

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation… Read More

Relativity Space lifts the curtain on its plan to make rockets with robotic 3-D printer

Can a robotic 3-D printer spit out all the parts of a rocket without humans stepping in until the end?… Read More

Not a Halloween drill: New York City to turn lights ‘Amazon orange’ in show of support for HQ2 bid

Bright lights, big city — and big dreams about landing Amazon’s second headquarters. New York City is sending a signal… Read More

Surf’s up near Seattle? Couple looks to bring high-tech, deep-water wave to a new indoor facility

Surfing in the Pacific Northwest generally comes across as a more hardcore pursuit than the vision of the sport popularized… Read More

New Amazon office building sells for $313M in one of Seattle region’s priciest real estate deals

Amazon just moved in to a big new office building on the other side of Lake Washington from its Seattle… Read More

Amazon expands in Brazil, begins selling electronics in Latin America’s largest market

Amazon entered Brazil five years ago, but ever since it has focused its efforts on its original wheelhouse: books. But… Read More

Lego shows off its ‘Women of NASA’ toy set, without ‘Hidden Figures’ star

Seven and a half months after its selection, Lego unveiled a set of minifigures celebrating NASA women researchers and explorers,… Read More

New partnership between Apple and GE another sign the industrial internet is getting real

Software developers interested in creating applications that use GE’s Predix cloud-based industrial analytics services have a new mobile outlet for… Read More