Watch astronauts flip when they get to play with a fidget spinner on the space station We’re not entirely sure if fidget spinners are still a thing on Earth. But judging by a new video from… Read More
Elon Musk will chat about his big rocket plans with SpaceX fans on Reddit Two weeks after SpaceX founder Elon Musk updated his vision for a monster rocket designed to take settlers to the… Read More
Blastoff for 3-D printing: How Virgin Orbit harnesses high tech for low-cost rockets LONG BEACH, Calif. — Virgin Orbit aims to blaze a trail on the final frontier, but in order to do that,… Read More
Here’s the line of poetry Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says best describes the future When he isn’t reimagining Microsoft’s culture and direction, Satya Nadella is a man of many varied interests, from cricket to… Read More
Microsoft CEO on lessons from sports, MLB instant replay controversy, and more from the week in sports tech [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
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Behind the scenes at the GeekWire Summit and a peek at GeekWire HQ2 GeekWire reporters travel all over the country covering some of the most prime tech events on the planet. But this… Read More
Amazon Web Services chief Jassy on HQ2 plans: ‘That’s above my pay grade’ As cities across the U.S. fall all over themselves to pitch themselves as the best destination for Amazon’s second headquarters,… Read More
Why Stripe co-founder John Collison thinks his company is the Amazon Web Services of payments There’s not a lot of regular folks who realize that mobile payments processor Stripe is one of the most influential… Read More
Geek of the Week: Rakhi Voria found the startup life inside Microsoft on the Inside Sales team Like many students looking for potential answers to where their career path might take them, Rakhi Voria was at a… Read More
Stripe co-founder John Collison explains why online payments powerhouse opened an office in Seattle Online payment powerhouse Stripe just opened an office in Seattle, its first engineering outpost outside of Silicon Valley, and it’s… Read More
‘Stranger Things’ trailer features bigger, badder beast as supernatural hit set to return to Netflix Friday the 13th seems like as good a day as any to drop a new trailer for season two of… Read More
Glowforge delays shipment of 3D printers again as buyers express frustration with Seattle startup It’s been two years since Glowforge set a crowdfunding record for its innovative 3D printer and the company is still… Read More
The #WomenBoycottTwitter protest, over women being silenced, has made women louder on Twitter A one day protest aimed at calling out Twitter and bringing attention to the way women are treated on the… Read More
Seattle considers employee head tax for the city’s top-grossing companies Two Seattle councilmembers want the city’s highest-grossing businesses to pay for a new program to curb homelessness. The H.O.M.E.S —… Read More
Visual Vocal raises $3.6M for virtual reality enterprise collaboration platform Visual Vocal, a Seattle startup that develops virtual 3D environment productivity tools, has raised a $3.6 million investment round. The… Read More
Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens to lead new ventures team at retail powerhouse QVC, shopping for acquisitions Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens sold his online retailing company to QVC two years ago for $2.4 billion. Now, Cavens is… Read More
Amazon suspends studio chief Roy Price after TV exec reveals details of sexual harassment claim Amazon suspended Roy Price, the head of its studio division, indefinitely on Thursday after an executive producer for the television… Read More
NASA’s carbon-monitoring OCO-2 satellite confirms that El Nino weather boosts CO2 Readings from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 have confirmed that the El Niño weather pattern of 2015-2016 was behind the biggest… Read More
Will AI create a new god for us? Sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown thriller Imagine an age when artificial intelligence takes the sum of human experience and turns it into a “global consciousness” that… Read More
Microsoft’s quantum future: Satya Nadella gives company alums a glimpse of what’s coming Will Microsoft’s quantum computing technology be a hardware division unto itself, like Xbox, or something that the company offers to… Read More
High tech 365 by Whole Foods store in Seattle area closing, but company says Amazon not to blame A little more than a year after it opened, the tech-heavy 365 by Whole Foods Market store in the Bellevue… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Tinitell helps parents keep track of their kids with wearable mobile phones Kids don’t need the latest and great new iPhone. But a mobile device that lets parents call their children and… Read More
‘You can’t wash your hands of this.’ Watch a top University of Washington professor sound off on Facebook and Russia Ed Lazowska, a leading computer science professor at the University of Washington, wants Facebook and other big tech companies to take… Read More
Deep in the heart of … nope: This city won’t be ‘blindly giving away the farm’ to lure Amazon HQ2 No cactus. No plans to rename a city. No crazy stunts or corporate tax breaks or promises they wouldn’t be… Read More
Virgin adds its investment (and its brand name) to Hyperloop One transit venture British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has invested in the Hyperloop One rapid-transit venture, which will soon be rebranded as… Read More
Rose McGowan goes after Amazon and Jeff Bezos in latest tweets calling out abuses in Hollywood Rose McGowan regained access to her Twitter account on Thursday following a temporary suspension by the social media platform for… Read More
Univ. of Washington names new computer science building after Bill & Melinda Gates Before they launched Microsoft and changed the personal computing world forever, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent their teenage years… Read More
Snow way! Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., will make bid for Amazon HQ2 as one metro corridor The cities of Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., are joining forces as one economic corridor in hopes of convincing Amazon that… Read More
New open-source project led by Google aims to help companies track the history of their software A large amount of modern software development involves re-using components from older applications, open-source projects, and across teams within a… Read More
Video: Microsoft President Brad Smith explains why the company took a stand on DACA Microsoft President Brad Smith has become a vocal critic of President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals… Read More
