I’ve always found that education and learning can be so much more engaging, and successful, when you tie topics to a wider culture phenomenon. As a cybersecurity professional, this is… Read More
A rotorcraft that could flit around the Saturnian moon Titan and a probe that could bring a sample back from an already-famous comet have emerged as top prospects for a… Read More
The Boeing Co. is moving ahead on $300 million in charitable contributions and workplace investments as a response to the tax bill approved by Congress today. The commitments were laid… Read More
Microsoft is out with a pair of updates to its AI-powered photo app Pix for iOS to let users take bigger, wider photos and turn videos into comic strips. Photosynth,… Read More
Wave Broadband, an internet and TV service company based in Kirkland, Wash., filed a suit with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday against Comcast, citing “unfair business practices” related to… Read More
One of the most popular tourist attractions in Seattle is also the top spot in Washington state to be dropped off by an Uber according to year-end stats shared Wednesday… Read More
Are Republicans delivering a big Christmas present to the tech community in the form of a sweeping tax overhaul? You might think so based on the generally cheerful sentiment from… Read More
It’s now well established: Seattle is cloud city. But in the shadow of major platform players Amazon and Microsoft, a growing ecosystem of software-as-a-service startups is also attracting investment and… Read More
Amazon said today that it has added web-browsing capabilities to Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices through Mozilla’s Firefox and its own browser, Silk. Amazon said web-browsing is available… Read More
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket just got more real, now that billionaire founder Elon Musk has tweeted out pictures of the triple-barreled launch vehicle. The late-night tweet was accompanied by three… Read More
Just because you can remember how to count to six doesn’t mean you should be using it as a password to get into your online accounts. But apparently “123456” and… Read More
The ever-mysterious augmented reality startup Magic Leap has come out of hiding with its first ever product: a headset with a portable computer pack and controller. The product, dubbed Magic… Read More
Updated below with details on additional games and user experience updates from Amazon. Wait a couple months before getting Amazon’s new Echo Buttons. Hopefully, by then, Amazon and its partners… Read More
Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans who watched Thursday Night Football this season on Amazon. But… Read More
News Brief: A high-altitude balloon reportedly exploded at Spaceport Tucson in Arizona today after a test that was being conducted by World View Enterprises. No injuries were reported, but the… Read More
NASA isn’t saying it’s aliens — but the space agency is touting its ability to identify organisms using the first DNA sequencer in orbit. Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ palm-sized MiniON sequencer was… Read More
It’s been just three days since NASA’s Juno orbiter had its most recent close encounter with Jupiter, but image-processing gurus are already sharing sweet views of the giant planet’s cloud… Read More
You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting on human superiority in the game of poker, it may… Read More
Hemex Health, a Portland, Ore.-based global health startup, has added more cash to fuel its lab-in-a-box devices that can diagnose killer diseases like malaria and sickle cell disease. The company… Read More
It seems like Seattle is home to more and more tech companies by the day — and today is no different. GeekWire has learned that San Francisco-based startup Coffee Meets Bagel,… Read More
Artificial intelligence will change the world, for better and for worse — and we need to be prepared. That’s the takeaway from Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for… Read More
Update 2:30 p.m. An Amazon spokesperson shared the following statement with GeekWire: “Amazon’s public policy team works on a variety of issues on behalf of our customers in cities and states… Read More
Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging you since the Reagan administration, Google Cloud Platform and the… Read More
Amazon is going to the Rose Bowl. The tech giant said Tuesday it will enter a float into the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., which will precede a College Football… Read More
The derailed train making its inaugural trip from Seattle to Portland Monday was not using a recommended technology system designed to prevent certain types of accidents. According to reports from Crosscut… Read More
Boeing pulled back the curtain on an autonomous plane designed to refuel U.S. Navy fighter jets in midair to extend their range. In October, the Navy issued a request for proposals… Read More
Electronic signature and digital contract giant DocuSign has acquired the key technology behind machine learning company Appuri and hired the majority of the Seattle-based startup’s team, planning to integrate its artificial intelligence… Read More
News Brief: The International Space Station’s crew is back up to its full complement of six, thanks to today’s arrival of three fresh spacefliers aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. NASA’s… Read More
A Portland startup wants to help home service professionals speed up their workflow and waste less time by using augmented reality, live streaming, and smartphones. Streem today announced a $1.7… Read More
Some of the world’s top global investors continue to bet big on Maana. The company today announced a $28 million Series C round led by China International Capital Corporation, a… Read More