Articles from 2017 – Page 40 of 175

Boeing plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences in bid to boost autonomous flight

Boeing says it has struck a deal to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, a leader in the field of autonomous flight,… Read More

Nvidia to open robotics lab near University of Washington, expanding Seattle-area footprint

Nvidia already has an engineering center in Redmond, Wash. Now the tech giant is looking to tap into the engineering… Read More

Zunum unveils its electric airplane design for 2022 – and adds to its team in Chicago

Zunum Aero is fleshing out its plan to build an electric-powered airplane that could be delivered to airlines as early… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Pulse Labs makes it easy for voice developers to test their Alexa apps

Voice-controlled devices, like the Amazon Echo, are driving what Abhishek Suthan calls a “tectonic shift” in computing — and he… Read More

Element Data acquires Philadelphia startup’s ’emotional analytics platform’

Fast-growing Element Data has acquired the technology assets and patent of BehaviorMatrix, a Philadelphia startup that specializes in understanding the… Read More

French car maker launches Free2Move in Seattle as one app for multiple transportation options

In the increasingly crowded world of on-demand transportation options and the apps designed to hail and use those options, a… Read More

Scientists point to dust rather than aliens as cause of star’s odd behavior

Are aliens building a huge energy-generating megastructure around a weirdly dimming star? That way-out hypothesis has suffered another blow, thanks… Read More

Koru raises $3M for predictive hiring platform that helps companies identify ideal candidates

Koru’s pivot seems to be working well so far. The Seattle startup just reeled in a $3 million round from… Read More

Loftium co-founder expects Airbnb revenue share to become a ‘standard’ down payment source for homebuyers

Yifan Zhang believes that in the next five to 10 years, prospective home buyers will have three standard options for… Read More

Boeing wins seven more contracts for its growing data analytics business

Seven more companies have joined the list of customers for data analytics services from Boeing AnalytX, bringing the total of… Read More

Tune House welcomes new tech-minded women scholars at UW and Melinda Gates pays a visit

Melinda Gates is obviously a champion of creating opportunities for women in technology. On Wednesday morning she was in Florida… Read More

Google targets parents and pet owners with new $249 AI-powered, hands-free ‘Clips’ camera

As part of its hardware launch event today, Google unveiled a new camera. Called “Google Clips,” the $249 device is… Read More

Google unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones with Always On display and high-powered camera

Google this morning showed off its latest smartphones, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, following up on the release… Read More

Google moves into premium laptops with new $999 Pixelbook Chrome OS notebook

Google unveiled a new laptop called the Pixelbook this morning, expanding the Chromebook line well beyond the budget pricing that… Read More

News Brief

Chilled-down views of biomolecules win chemistry Nobel Prize for international trio

This year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the invention of cryo-electron microscopy, a method for chilling down biomolecules to produce… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Dave Parker launches founder development program; the return of geek market Galaxaar; and more

Dave Parker has seen his fair share of programs and incubators designed to help startups. He’s the former CEO of… Read More

Google expands smart speaker lineup with $49 Home Mini and $399 Home Max

Google today debuted a pair of smart speakers this morning meant to complement the Google Home, the search giant’s initial… Read More

Microsoft adds support for Java to its Azure Functions serverless service

Developers interested in using Java to build serverless apps using Microsoft Azure Functions will now have that option, Microsoft plans… Read More

Sonos debuts $199 Alexa-powered smart speaker, with Google Assistant coming next year

Sonos today showed off the fruits of a partnership with Amazon first announced last year. At an event in New… Read More

Melinda Gates on women in tech, her first love, and the origins of Comic Sans

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, opened a revealing speech Wednesday by talking about her first love,… Read More

Smart sports apparel startup Sensoria gets into healthcare, forms new company with top provider

Sensoria is getting into healthcare in a big way. The Seattle smart apparel startup today announced a new spinoff company,… Read More

A little-known reason why Pittsburgh could have an inside track on Amazon’s HQ2

Pittsburgh was Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, but a couple key connections could make it a front runner to become Mr. Bezos’… Read More

Review: Visually stunning ‘Blade Runner 2049’ returns to a bleak and increasingly believable future

For 35 years, the original “Blade Runner” has been my all-time favorite film. I haven’t experienced anything like it since… Read More

GeekWire Podcast: Why this early Essential Phone buyer is giving up on Andy Rubin’s dream device

In a smartphone market dominated by two giant, multinational corporations, Apple and Samsung, it’s exciting to see a new name… Read More

Six tips from Seattle Startup Week for fostering women in engineering

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The title of the panel was “Women in Hardware,” but the focus turned out to be more about… Read More

Video: Amazon’s Alexa mourns the loss of the Seattle SuperSonics

Somebody at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is having some fun. Here’s what happens when you ask Alexa to name her favorite… Read More

Seattle IT department accidentally releases nearly two months of emails from city employees

The City of Seattle’s IT department is dealing with the all-too-familiar feeling of giving out too much information — on… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Oracle exec joins F5 as EVP of global services; Meet Blue Origin’s new CEO; and more

F5 Networks announced in July that its longtime chief operations officer Edward Julian Eames is retiring at the end of… Read More

Microsoft Azure fire system glitch shows why everyone benefits from transparent cloud outage reports

Outage reports issued by most cloud companies tend to be meaningless exercises in brevity, designed by lawyers and put into… Read More

The City of Amazon? Community in Atlanta suburbs offers tech titan its own town

“Welcome to Amazon” is a phrase commonly heard on the tech titan’s Seattle campus but typically reserved for new employees… Read More