Articles from 2017 – Page 58 of 175

Valve’s Steam and Microsoft’s Halo coming to Windows Mixed Reality headsets

Microsoft revealed new details about its Windows Mixed Reality headsets this morning. The company confirmed that headset and motion controller… Read More

Whole Foods employees work late on eve of Amazon takeover, prepping to lower prices

Amazon’s influence on Whole Foods has begun. Whole Foods employees were working late Sunday at multiple stores to prepare for… Read More

Germany’s WARR team wins SpaceX’s Hyperloop II race with 201 mph pod run

The speediest team from SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first Hyperloop pod competition has done it again: WARR Hyperloop from Germany’s… Read More

Surprise: Uber’s next CEO will be Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, multiple reports say

Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will be Uber’s next chief executive, taking the wheel of the embattled ride-hailing company after… Read More

‘World’s most comfortable shoe’? Maveron among those to step up for techie favorite Allbirds

How many times have Silicon Valley geeks been credited with setting a style trend? Whether it was Steve Jobs and… Read More

Aldus and Visio founder Jeremy Jaech’s latest racket is a state-of-the-art tennis and events center

Jeremy Jaech and his wife Jacquelyn have had plenty of singular successes as tech entrepreneurs over the years. Now the… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 20, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 20, 2017. Read More

Podcast

Random Channel Podcast: Who has the best burgers? And why is that guy dressed as a car seat?

Are crimped fries the same as waffle fries? What’s an Instant Pot? And what on earth is going on with… Read More

Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight delayed due to PPV outage

The highly-anticipated Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor is delayed due to cable system outages. A Showtime executive told ESPN that “capacity of cable systems around… Read More

3 fantasy football tips from an ex-Microsoft director who just wrote a book about losing for 24 years

Mike Harms hopes you can learn from his two decades of disastrous fantasy football performance. Harms, who led digital media… Read More

Working Geek: ‘Cirkled in’ founder Reetu Gupta aims to streamline college admissions

Three years ago, Reetu Gupta found herself asking the agonizing question that plagues thousands of parents of high school students:… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Amazon reveals its Whole Foods plan and the psychology of how we use apps

It’s official: Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods will finalize Monday, and the tech giant is already planning big changes for… Read More

63 days, 3,523 miles: How a Seattle techie and his teen daughter feel after tandem biking across U.S.

Olivia Carpenter turned 15 on Friday, and to celebrate she happily got off the tandem bike that she rode across… Read More

Teams from UW and other schools gear up for SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod showdown

Teams from the University of Washington and more than 20 other universities and colleges around the world are converging on… Read More

MLB star Aaron Judge wears ‘Destiny 2’ batting gloves and shoes, promoting new Bungie game

MLB star Aaron Judge is taking “Player’s Weekend” to a geeky level. Pro baseball players are sporting unique uniforms and… Read More

Five ways to look back at this week’s total solar eclipse in a totally different light

This week’s total solar eclipse ranked among history’s most widely documented celestial events, thanks to streaming video and social media.… Read More

Bill Nye the Science Guy sues Disney for millions in dispute over TV show payout

Bill Nye the Science Guy, a veteran of tussles over climate change and evolution, has just sparked a legal battle… Read More

Starbucks closing online merchandise store to focus more on broader digital initiatives

Starbucks is always happy to attract customers to its physical stores, but things are changing for shoppers online as the… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy to lead Uber? Nope, not going to happen

As the summer-long search for a new Uber CEO rolls along, a new name surfaced Friday as a possible candidate:… Read More

Zillow shifts Zestimate home valuation tool to the cloud, claims better accuracy than ever

As thousands of scientists work to improve Zillow’s Zestimate, the company said today its home valuation tool is more accurate… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ head designer Mark Rosewater wouldn’t trade his 22 years at dream job

Mark Rosewater got into the trading card game “Magic: The Gathering” as a hobby when it was first released, back… Read More

Landmark Uber-Lyft driver union law can move forward after federal judge tosses lawsuit

Seattle’s first-of-its-kind law that allows drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft to bargain collectively has survived another legal challenge… Read More

Report: Amazon investigated its studio head over alleged sexual remarks to show producer

Amazon Studios chief Roy Price, who has presided over the tech giant’s rise into a major Hollywood film and TV… Read More

Unicorn report: Fewer companies reaching a $1B valuation than in years past

There are more unicorns in the startup world than ever before, but fewer are being birthed compared to years past.… Read More

Amazon’s new Seattle-area bookstore shows how its first major brick-and-mortar concept has evolved

Amazon unveiled its latest brick and mortar bookstore on Thursday, its 10th opening in less than two years, and it… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Zipwhip seeks senior software engineer to power flexible text messaging platform

There’s virtually no limit to the way we communicate these days: Skype, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter — the list goes… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8, first impressions and favorite features

Samsung’s last Galaxy Note didn’t go so well — you might remember that it had a habit of burning up. But… Read More

Why Seattle’s Omeros continues to be dogged by questions over its next big drug

Omeros, one of Seattle’s biggest biotech companies, may have its hands on a lucrative new drug — but questions about… Read More

SpaceX launches Formosat-5 satellite, then lands booster on Pacific drone ship

SpaceX chalked up another successful satellite launch and booster landing today, putting Taiwan’s Formosat-5 Earth observation satellite into orbit in… Read More

At Boeing town hall, House Speaker Paul Ryan talks about taxes, tech – and Trump

EVERETT, Wash. – House Speaker Paul Ryan came to a town hall with workers at Boeing’s biggest airplane factory today to… Read More