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Articles from 2017

Working Geek: Bitlume CEO Lakshmi Shankar is building a new type of video startup

When Lakshmi Shankar was working as a technology consultant she noticed a recurring problem. Clients often had trouble integrating paid… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: GeekWire’s Great Race, Sounders drop Ticketmaster, and Microsoft’s mystery outpost

What’s the best way to beat the nightmarish traffic in Seattle? We decided to find out. GeekWire reporters raced a… Read More

Russians unsuccessfully tried to hack into Washington state election systems

Today, the Department of Homeland Security told Washington state officials that Russian hackers tried to access voting systems before the… Read More

OSIRIS-REx Earth flyby

OSIRIS-REx probe buzzes Earth on its way to an asteroid – and earthlings wave back

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took pictures — and had its picture taken — as it zoomed past Earth today on its… Read More

Alex Mariakakis

Geek of the Week: Duke grad Alex Mariakakis finds a home at UW and a vision for continued success

Growing up in Chapel Hill, N.C., Alex Mariakakis got his first taste of research in a region known for its… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up: Nest bets big on smart home security, and Google makes a deal with HTC

Google’s Nest is taking its smart home tech to a whole new level. The company has been pretty quiet over… Read More

Transparent

Amazon’s hit series ‘Transparent’ returns for season 4 — where in the world are the Pfeffermans?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EsXMS1YfYs For three seasons, members of the Pfefferman family in Amazon’s award-winning series “Transparent” have grappled with who they are… Read More

Pete Carroll and Satya Nadella

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella inspires Pete Carroll at Seahawks practice and gets signed ball from coach

The Seattle Seahawks know a thing or two about rallying around inspirational voices — whether it’s head coach Pete Carroll… Read More

Ganaz uses technology to connect farmers with workers amid uncertainty in the agriculture industry

Hannah Freeman and Sri Artham believe the current system farmers use to get labor is broken, expensive, and fertile ground… Read More

T-Mobile and Sprint reportedly close to merger, bringing 3rd and 4th-largest U.S. carriers together

After several months of rumors and talks of a T-Mobile-Sprint merger, it looks like the deal may finally happen. Reuters… Read More

Microsoft and Facebook team up to build fastest underwater cable across the Atlantic

Microsoft, Facebook and a subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica have completed the highest-capacity undersea cable to travel across the… Read More

One year later, Microsoft AI and Research grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence

Microsoft’s first mission statement envisioned a computer on every desk and in every home, but Bill Gates also had another… Read More

Erica Raine

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Orion engineers win a Silver Snoopy and other NASA accolades

REDMOND, Wash. — One of NASA’s most celebrated awards was handed out today, but it didn’t go to an astronaut. Instead,… Read More

Make it so, Alexa: Amazon adds a few new Star Trek skills to AI assistant’s repertoire

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has said the Alexa voice-activated AI assistant was inspired by the talking computer on “Star Trek,”… Read More

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking, take heart: Revalesio’s ALS drug gets regulatory boost from FDA

Revalesio, a biomedical company headquartered in Tacoma, Wash., says it’s been cleared to benefit from federal incentives for the development… Read More

Here’s how much Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom will make in his new job

New Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom will make a $1 million annual base salary for his role as the company’s top… Read More

Beast Mobile

Marshawn Lynch calling: Wireless carrier partners with NFL star to launch ‘Beast Mobile’ cell plan

Marshawn Lynch may no longer be a Seahawk, but that’s not stopping a Seattle-area wireless carrier from teaming with the… Read More

One less car: Amazon engineer gets to work by kayak — and enjoys unique perspective of Seattle

Good luck beating this commute, Amazon HQ2 hopefuls. While the major influx of tech workers to Seattle is often a… Read More

GeekWork Picks: T-Mobile seeks product manager to take charge of its T-Mobile Tuesdays app

T-Mobile isn’t your average corporate office. The company has become well-known for its wacky ad campaigns, fervent anti-establishment attitude (calling itself… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook to hand over 3,000 Russia-linked ads to Congress in ongoing election investigation

Faced with the decision over whether to adhere to its standard of protecting user content or to help safeguard the… Read More

How to detect fake news: UW professor teaching ‘Calling Bulls**t’ class offers tips to spot misinformation

There is a fake news problem across the internet. The spreading of misinformation is having a direct affect on society,… Read More

Social media AI startup Meshfire is closing, founders aim to find a new home for the technology

Meshfire, an artificial intelligence-backed social media management company based in Kirkland, Wash., will shut down Sept. 30. Meshfire CEO Eli Israel… Read More

Jimmy Kimmel

‘Amazon knows everything!’ Jimmy Kimmel got that baby email, too, and then went shopping

Add late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel to the list of nonexpectant parents who received an email from Amazon this… Read More

Amazon hiring 2,000 people in New York City, opening big new Manhattan office for AWS, Amazon Fashion and more

Amazon is gearing up for a big expansion in the Big Apple. The company will open a new 360,000-square-foot office… Read More

The Loge

Big names in outdoor recreation back Loge Co. motel and camping chain for surfers, skiers and adventurers

When Cale Genenbacher worked at Microsoft, he used to like to get away from his desk and walk the trails… Read More

Google pays $1.1B to HTC for Pixel team, licenses key technology from smartphone maker

Google announced Wednesday evening that it has signed a $1.1 billion “cooperation agreement” with HTC, the Taiwan-based consumer electronics company,… Read More

Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger on innovative thinking, intellectual curiosity and that fateful day on the Hudson

Just a second while I pick my jaw up off the floor. OK, there we go — today on the… Read More

Spaceborne Computer

One small teraflop: HPE’s supercomputer takes a giant leap on the space station

The most powerful computer ever sent into space proved its mettle this month by registering a processing speed in excess… Read More

Jay Inslee

Climate Alliance is ‘on track’ for Paris pact with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s support

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee joined with other governors today in New York to declare they’re “squarely on track” to… Read More

Microsoft opens mysterious office in small town a ferry ride away from Seattle

Microsoft has quietly opened a small office in Silverdale, Wash. a town of close to 20,000 across Puget Sound from… Read More

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