NASA and Honeywell boost supersonic flight by tackling sonic boom problem The historic Concorde supersonic airliner set a record flying from New York to Seattle in just under four hours, but… Read More
Judge partially overturns $8.3M copyright verdict against Zillow, orders new trial A copyright battle between Zillow and VHT Inc. over photographs took a sharp turn this week when U.S. District Judge… Read More
Geek of the Week: Amazon Robotics’ Beth Marcus helps machines and humans work better together After founding and leading several successful startups, Beth Marcus took a job with Amazon because it afforded a greater chance… Read More
Read a book: Pew survey finds Millennials most likely generation to use public libraries You hear a lot of stereotypes about the millennial generation: They’re tech-centric, have low brand loyalty and will never be… Read More
SpaceX leads off its rocket doubleheader with Falcon 9 re-launch and re-landing For the second time ever, SpaceX has sent a telecommunications satellite into orbit on a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket –… Read More
Seattle Police end use of Twitch video game channel after controversy over shooting discussion The Seattle Police Department is ending its use of the Twitch online video game streaming service as a form of… Read More
Expedia completes majority stake acquisition of train travel tech company SilverRail Expedia, the Bellevue, Wash. travel giant with a big appetite for acquisitions, has completed its purchase of the majority stake… Read More
Bleacher Report CEO to Facebook: Think hard about what you are doing to the publishing industry Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finocchio has some advice for Facebook. Speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Sports Tech Summit the co-founder… Read More
GeekWire Sports Tech Summit recap: NFL COO, Mariners GM, Sue Bird highlight 2nd annual event There is more happening at the intersection of sports and technology than ever. That much was evident at the second… Read More
Hey, parents: Don’t worry if your kids love competitive video games, says former NBA star Many parents have serious trepidation when it comes to video games, fearing that the content will lead to violent impulses, inactivity… Read More
Code.org gears up to get 30,000 students psyched up about computer science Code.org is giving low-income students a chance to learn how to code through a free course called “Computer Science Discoveries.”… Read More
Google’s new AI investment arm leads $10.5M round in Algorithmia machine-learning marketplace Google’s new artificial intelligence investment arm has made one of its first bets, leading a $10.5 million Series A round… Read More
Updated: Amazon Web Services US-East region back to normal after Lambda and Lex issues (Update 8:00am, June 23rd: All AWS services were restored overnight, according to the company’s status page. No cause of the… Read More
Amazon’s delivery drone hive looks like it came from a sci-fi movie nightmare If filmmakers ever decide to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with drones instead of birds, they could… Read More
Why Amazon’s rapid growth encourages developer of $564M Key Arena renovation The area around Seattle’s Key Arena — Seattle Center, South Lake Union — is a lot different than it was… Read More
Robotic telepresence could be the best way for humans to explore Mars, scientists say Robotic telepresence could save future Mars explorers from the perils that faced fictional astronaut Mark Watney in “The Martian” —… Read More
GeekWork Picks: PushSpring seeks data scientist to help make sense of mobile data Mobile devices provide millions of data points to app publishers every day, but without some help, that data is useless.… Read More
Working Geek: How this theater major became an engineering lead at Chef Nell Shamrell-Harrington isn’t your typical software engineer. She studied theater at the University of Puget Sound and uses those skills… Read More
Could data analytics have prevented a painful, last-second goal in the Seattle Sounders FC match? If you’re a fan of the Seattle Sounders FC, you’ll grasp at anything that might explain away that painful 1-1… Read More
Why the NFL loves Amazon: Key league exec explains tech giant’s football streaming deal Everyone these days wants to be like Amazon, even the NFL apparently. At the 2017 GeekWire Sports Tech Summit, NFL… Read More
Stephen Hawking lays out plan for settling space, from moon and Mars to the stars British physicist Stephen Hawking has repeatedly warned us that we have just a century or two to move off Earth,… Read More
NFL audience bigger than ever, despite declining TV ratings, says COO Tod Leiweke Despite widespread reports that NFL television ratings were down this past season, the chief operating officer of the league insists… Read More
Google’s data-driven pitch for the cloud: ‘finding the needle of value in the haystack of data’ For most of its existence, Google Cloud Platform has been fighting just to get a seat at the table for… Read More
Uber is delivering on-demand drag shows for Seattle Pride As the first lady of drag would say, “Uber drivers, start your engines!” That RuPaul catchphrase will no-doubt be repeated… Read More
Seattle Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto: Team is at cutting edge of analyzing players’ mental health — and they eat right, too Seattle Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto has been around baseball for a lot of years, as a player and as an… Read More
UW tops list of most influential schools in tech Facebook may have been born in a Harvard dorm room but all things considered, the Ivy League isn’t as influential… Read More
Here are the kinds of technology and data Sue Bird wants to see come to the WNBA Technology and data are revolutionizing basketball, from the style of play to how players train and workout. But some of… Read More
Bleacher Report CEO: NFL fantasy football ‘peaked five years ago’; legal betting could disrupt industry The fantasy football craze is over. That’s what Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finocchio said at the GeekWire Sports Tech Summit… Read More
WNBA legend Sue Bird: Athletes who don’t embrace sports tech are idiots WNBA legend and Seattle Storm veteran Sue Bird is still going strong 14 years into her pro career, and a… Read More
Riot Games co-founder Brandon Beck and NBA champ Rick Fox hope more women join male-dominated world of eSports In a stadium built for a nearly 100-year-old sports league, Brandon Beck and Rick Fox talked about eSports and what the… Read More
