Alaska Airlines sets up flight to chase total solar eclipse – with a two-seat giveaway Alaska Airlines has scheduled a flight from Portland to chase views of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse over the… Read More
Apple’s Seattle job listings reveal desire to attract AI talent to work on Siri in the land of Amazon’s Alexa When Apple announced plans earlier this year to expand its engineering operation in Seattle, the company said it would be… Read More
As Amazon expands beyond online commerce, retailers look to compete with unique experiences It’s been another rough year in the brick-and-mortar retail world, as retailers of all sizes search for answers to deal with… Read More
Zillow threatens architecture critic who runs ‘McMansion Hell’ website over her use of images Update: Follow this link for the latest developments on this story. The creator of the popular architecture criticism website “McMansion… Read More
Amazon rolls out Alexa intercom function, letting users ‘drop in’ on Echo speakers remotely Amazon is taking a big step forward in its quest to turn Alexa into the operating system for the home.… Read More
Reviews: Appearances aside, Amazon’s Echo Show looks like a hit The first reviews are in for the Echo Show, Amazon’s newest $230 Alexa-powered device, and it appears the company has… Read More
Tech Moves: LinkedIn China president resigns; Amperity adds to leadership board; and more Derek Shen, the president of LinkedIn China, has reportedly resigned from his role at the Microsoft-owned company. The news was… Read More
Ketchup to this news, hot dog lovers — Oscar Mayer adds a drone to its WienerFleet of vehicles Just in time for Fourth of July celebrations, hot dogs will be falling from the sky. Oscar Mayer announced Monday… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin picks Huntsville, Alabama, as ‘rocket city’ for BE-4 engine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, plans to invest $200 million to build its BE-4 rocket engine in… Read More
Report: AWS set to add machine-translation services for developers It sounds like Amazon Web Services is getting ready to bring translation technology used on the Amazon.com side of the… Read More
Take a Pokémon Go-style tour of the University of Washington’s future computer science building Seattleites impatient to see what the University of Washington’s new $110 million computer science building will look like can get… Read More
Nintendo announces Super NES Classic Edition with surprise ‘Star Fox’ sequel, coming in September Rumors that Nintendo would release a Super NES follow-up to its successful NES Classic Edition have been circulating for months,… Read More
MetaBrite raises another $2.2M for receipt-scanning business intelligence platform MetaBrite continues to see more demand for its technology platform and just raised more cash to help support the company’s… Read More
JFrog acquires Seattle startup CloudMunch as the market for DevOps tools stays hot Cloudmunch, a DevOps monitoring startup based in Seattle, has been acquired by JFrog for an undisclosed amount to help round… Read More
Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More
Boeing’s HorizonX joins $32.5M funding round for SparkCognition AI venture Boeing’s recently established venture arm, HorizonX, has joined with other investors in a $32.5 million funding round for SparkCognition, a… Read More
Clobotics raises $5M and opens office in Seattle area for drone data monitoring Small drones, big data and computer vision: That’s the tech-frontier trifecta for Clobotics, a Shanghai startup that says it’s raised… Read More
ExtraHop’s network analysis technology gets a boost from Cisco partnership Networking giant Cisco plans to draw on technology developed by Seattle’s ExtraHop in a new partnership aimed at improving network… Read More
SpaceX closes out a rocket doubleheader with Iridium launch and booster landing Two days after launching a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida and landing it again, SpaceX accomplished the same feat in California,… Read More
Morgan Stanley: Cloud computing is at ‘an inflection point’ — but how big will it get? Over the next few years, we will learn whether cloud computing is a nice little business that will settle into… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 18, 2017 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of June 18, 2017. Read More
Podcast The art of ‘naive innovation’: Tips from a tech genius on creative problem-solving Shwetak Patel is a certified genius. The University of Washington computer science and electrical engineering professor won a 2011 MacArthur… Read More
Are asteroids leaving the spotlight? No way, say Asteroid Day activists NASA may be closing down its grand plan to study a piece of an asteroid up close, but the researchers… Read More
Thousands of Kickstarter backers still waiting on Coolest Cooler may have to wait another 3 years The 20,000 Kickstarter backers who have been waiting two years for their high-tech Coolest Cooler to arrive learned they may… Read More
Whale of a ride: Why this techie and his teen daughter are traversing the U.S. on a tandem bike A Seattle girl with a love and concern for endangered orca whales hopped on a tandem bicycle with her tech-savvy… Read More
This Week in Seattle: Mayoral frontrunners, Seattle PD’s Twitch exit, and fun facts about the Emerald City SPD shuts down Twitch channel amid backlash over Charleena Lyles discussion The Seattle Police Department has taken down its Twitch… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Uber launches in-app tipping, Amazon unveils Prime Wardrobe, and more Uber has faced some controversy over the past few months, to put it lightly. The company has been the subject… Read More
Microsoft calls DOJ’s Supreme Court appeal in email case ‘backward’ given progress on new law The U.S. Justice Department petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court late Friday to overturn a ruling that blocked its warrant to… Read More
India’s PSLV rocket puts Spire satellites in orbit – with an assist from Spaceflight SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket wasn’t the only launch vehicle that took to the air today: India’s PSLV-C38 rocket sent an… Read More
Report: Walmart has no appetite for challenging Amazon’s $13.7B Whole Foods deal As investors continue to speculate about a potential rival bidder to Amazon’s $13.7 billion price for Whole Foods Market, Reuters… Read More
