Articles from 2017 – Page 80 of 175

Here are 8 questions we have for Seattle’s mayoral candidates: What else should we ask?

Seattle’s highly unusual mayoral race has 21 candidates vying for the city’s top executive office. The election comes at a… Read More

UW’s lip-syncing Obama demonstrates new technique to turn audio clips into realistic video

Researchers at the University of Washington are putting former President Barack Obama’s words into his own mouth to demonstrate breakthrough… Read More

New UW-China tech innovation school near Seattle plans to graduate 3,000 students in 10 years

The University of Washington and Tsinghua University have big ambitions for their new joint technology innovation institute. The Global Innovation… Read More

Audi-owned Silvercar expanding to Seattle airport as it seeks to disrupt the car rental industry

Silvercar, an Austin-based company that is looking to disrupt the car rental business, is coming to Seattle. On July 31,… Read More

Updated: Washington’s Sen. Cantwell prepping bill calling for AI committee

Artificial intelligence research is going to have major effects on the world, one way or another, and Senator Maria Cantwell… Read More

Tune launches ‘tunebot,’ a Slack-powered chatbot that answers queries on marketing data

Interpreting data is a hard job, especially when you need answers on the fly. Tune, the Seattle-based marketing technology company,… Read More

Amazon gives sneak preview of ‘hundreds of thousands of deals’ for Prime Day 2017

Amazon is gearing up for the third installment of its summer shopping event Prime Day, giving a sneak preview of… Read More

Trump delays Obama-era ‘startup visa’ with plans to overturn the rule

President Donald Trump’s administration has officially delayed implementation of a policy that would allow foreign entrepreneurs to spend several years… Read More

Microsoft expands HoloLens partner program to develop better mixed reality experiences

Microsoft is expanding the network of companies eligible to build mixed reality applications for HoloLens. The new Mixed Reality Partner… Read More

New ‘Microsoft 365’ package bundles Windows and Office for businesses

Microsoft is giving its partners a new package of some of its most popular PC software to sell, rather than… Read More

Amazon hires gadget experts for door-to-door smart home installs, taking on Best Buy’s Geek Squad

Having problems with your smart thermostat, Wi-fi setup or home entertainment system? No worries. Amazon is here to help. As… Read More

Parallels updates its virtual desktop software with better navigation for mobile apps

Parallels is set to release the next major version of its virtual desktop management software, Remote Application Server, with an… Read More

How to watch August’s total solar eclipse without actually going outside

Even though the track of a total solar eclipse will stretch from America’s West Coast to the East Coast on… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 2, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of July 2, 2017. Read More

Elon Musk shows off the first official Tesla Model 3 car in a tweet – and it’s his

The hundreds of thousands of customers who have plunked down deposits for the mass-market Tesla Model 3 electric car are… Read More

Inside the luxury apartments in the $1.2B Lincoln Square expansion: 10-year leases, $25k/month penthouses and a ‘tech concierge’

Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts… Read More

This Week in Seattle: Paid family leave passes, bike shares hit the streets, income tax gets one step closer, and more

Washington state passes one of the nation’s most generous paid leave programs On Wednesday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill… Read More

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Week in Geek: Everything we know about Microsoft’s layoffs and Redfin’s IPO announcement

It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First… Read More

Gamers celebrate Pokémon GO’s first anniversary in Bellevue this weekend

Gone are the days where Seattle’s streets were flooded with Pokémon GO players, pointing their phones at augmented-reality beasts and… Read More

Rover takes its dogged pursuit of new pet sitters to the streets with old-school flyers

Even in the high-tech world of startups built around the ease of the internet, sometimes you just have to catch… Read More

‘This is just going to make it more expensive’ — Sen. Cantwell warns business owners about net neutrality rollback

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) is calling on all her constituents to fight a Federal Communications Commission action that would roll… Read More

NASA says it’s OK for VP Mike Pence to touch that hardware marked ‘Do Not Touch’

You know that viral photo of Vice President Mike Pence putting his hand on a piece of space hardware marked… Read More

Hip-hop star Ryan Lewis using epic 20-minute video to help sell his Seattle home for $7.45M

Ryan Lewis, the famed DJ and producer who rose to hip-hop fame alongside Macklemore, has busted out on his own… Read More

How Amazon’s $13.7B acquisition of Whole Foods came together, and what happens if it falls apart

Documents filed by Whole Foods Market today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveal new details about the $13.7… Read More

Geek of the Week: Smartsheet’s Todd Fasullo scales his company’s application — and nearby mountains

Todd Fasullo has seen it all at Smartsheet. He joined the engineering team at the project and work management technology… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Accolade seeks engineers to fuel artificial intelligence revolution in healthcare

Anyone who’s visited a hospital or clinic in the United States knows that being a healthcare consumer is a difficult… Read More

It takes a village to work and live near Facebook: Housing, retail part of plans for California campus

It’s one thing to live on Facebook in a virtual sense, as 2 billion people worldwide do on a monthly… Read More

Elon Musk touts Tesla’s plan to build the world’s biggest battery in just 100 days

One hundred megawatts. That’s how much electrical power the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system will store when Tesla builds it… Read More

Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois departs amid layoffs; Kurt DelBene named chief digital officer

Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer Jim DuBois has left his post, the company confirmed Friday. DuBois was on sabbatical and decided… Read More

Zulily-parent QVC is buying the Home Shopping Network to better compete with Amazon

Liberty Interactive, the parent of QVC and grandparent of Seattle-based Zulily, will acquire the Home Shopping Network in a $2.1… Read More