Articles from 2017 – Page 97 of 175

Snooping on snoopers: UW researchers create new system to identify cellular surveillance devices

Security researchers at the University of Washington have developed a system designed to spot anomalies in cell networks that could indicate… Read More

Why the Russians keep running circles around the U.S. on the hacking story

Vladimir Putin has been far more visible lately with statements on the Russian-U.S. election story. Well-schooled in the art of Russian… Read More

Seattle writers join XPRIZE’s sci-fi advisory council; air travel tales get set for takeoff

The non-profit XPRIZE foundation has recruited an all-star lineup of science fiction masters, including Seattle authors, to help create a series… Read More

AEG drops out of Key Arena renovation bid, criticizes city’s RFP process

Seattle Partners, one of two groups aiming to renovate Key Arena, dropped out of the city’s bid process on Sunday.… Read More

STEM students turn Trump’s climate decisions into national call to action

As leaders including Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Microsoft president Brad Smith, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and many others have vowed… Read More

Amazon shares close above $1K, market cap nears $500B; Bezos may pass Gates as world’s richest

Amazon shares have officially closed at four digits. The tech giant saw its stock stay above $1,000 per share for the first… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 28, 2017

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of May 28, 2017. Read More

SpaceX launches its first refurbished Dragon cargo ship to the space station

SpaceX took one more step in its campaign for rocket reusability today by sending a previously flown Dragon cargo spacecraft… Read More

Apple WWDC: Siri Speaker, iPad Pro, artificial intelligence and more rumors on our radar

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference starts Monday in San Jose. Here are a few of the areas we’ll be watching closely.… Read More

I tested McDonald’s new UberEats delivery service at midnight — here’s how it works

For better or worse — in regard to my physical and mental health — I had McDonald’s delivered to my… Read More

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Week in Geek: Amazon’s parachute plan, big hotels challenge Expedia, and AI in the NBA

This week on the Week in Geek: Amazon has had some wacky ideas over the years, but this might take the… Read More

LinkedIn maps out where new Seattleites are coming from, and it’s exactly what you’d expect

Seattle is the fastest-growing big city in the country, its population just passed 700,000, and more than 1,000 new people… Read More

Nina, meet Alexa: Nuance brings its enterprise assistant to Amazon’s voice-integrated devices

Thanks, Alexa, you’ve been a big help, but we’ve got some questions for Nina now. The enterprise virtual assistant from Nuance… Read More

Mysterious Seattle digital marketing startup New Engen, led by former Zulily employees, raises $8M

New Engen, a digital marketing startup led by veterans of online retailer Zulily, has raised $8 million, according to a filing with the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Spotted Places maps out travel recommendations from friends

Bryant Hawthorne and Dan Taylor met as neighbors and quickly bonded over a love of travel and similar careers in… Read More

Sign of the times: ‘Twin Peaks’ is back, and so is iconic marker outside Washington town

Fans looking to scout the location of the celebrated television series “Twin Peaks” got a new roadside marker to help… Read More

Geek of the Week: Shyam Gollakota of Jeeva Wireless and UW is a pioneer in preserving power

Shyam Gollakota envisions a future in which his research and technological breakthroughs will transform computing as we know it. It’s… Read More

Want to fill that Seattle job opening? Textio lists 2017’s best and worst words for your listing

Your place of work might be an equal opportunity employer, but if you want to fill a job in Seattle… Read More

One-time high-flyer DataSphere sells assets to Sinclair Broadcasting and CoStar

Bellevue-based DataSphere Technologies has sold off all of its assets, the company said this week. DataSphere was founded by former… Read More

Nintendo Switch online service coming in 2018, with $20 annual membership cost

Nintendo will launch a paid, online gaming service for the popular Switch hybrid console next year. Right now, Switch players… Read More

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Geared Up: Testing T-Mobile’s DIGITS and debating Comcast’s gigabit service

What happens when your phone number becomes a portable feature? That’s one of the benefits of T-Mobile’s new DIGITS service.… Read More

French-Russian crew leaves space station while NASA crewmate stays behind

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed safely on Earth today after leaving the International Space Station in… Read More

Seahawks legend and former Congressman Steve Largent on tech, sports, politics and Trump

To say Steve Largent has kept busy after an illustrious 14-year NFL career would be an understatement. The former Seattle… Read More

Sphere of influence: 46-story tower near Amazon campus will have domed top reminiscent of tech giant’s new landmark

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Amazon, get ready to be flattered. The idea for the… Read More

When standards aren’t standard: Inside a growing movement to shape the booming cloud industry

What’s the best way to shepherd the promising technologies underpinning a sea change in computing? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation… Read More

Media Partners raises $1.1M to produce ‘Hollywood-grade’ training videos

Pretty much everyone has, at some point in life, been sequestered in a room and made to watch a series… Read More

LAUGH app helps kids find their zen — using scientific research to test effectiveness

Listen up, game developers and marketers. Catherine Mayer and Dr. Dimitri Christakis have a challenge for you. If you want… Read More

‘Long Strange Trip’ indeed — Amazon’s 4-hour Grateful Dead film hits Prime Video on Friday

Decades of music, concerts, films and countless hazy recollections about the Grateful Dead will give way Friday to a new documentary on… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow CFO joins Apptio board, Starbucks SVP joins Salesforce as communications chief, and more

— Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash. company that makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments, has added Zillow… Read More

As Trump pulls out of Paris climate deal, Elon Musk quits advisory councils and more tech giants react

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord was rippling through the tech community… Read More