Articles from 2017 – Page 98 of 175

Intellectual Ventures’ president and general counsel are both leaving their roles

Adriane Brown, the president and chief operating officer of Intellectual Ventures, is stepping down from her executive role at the Bellevue,… Read More

SpaceShipTwo’s test flight makes a splash

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane took another step toward lighting up its engine in flight today, by simulating the shift… Read More

New study on Seattle traffic lauds efforts by Amazon, Bill & Melinda Gates and others

Last year, a coalition of Seattle’s top business and political leaders unveiled a new effort called Challenge Seattle, with a goal of finding… Read More

Microsoft goes along for ‘The Ride,’ uses Kinect to produce unique motion-activated art of bike race

The art of cycling took on a whole new meaning during last month’s Amgen Tour of California, thanks to a… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI group built a voice search for Alexa skills, but Amazon rejected it

Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is very skillful, now at more than 12,000 third-party capabilities, but it can sometimes be difficult… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Limeade seeks engineers for its corporate wellness platform

“Wellness” can be a bit of a fuzzy concept, but it’s an important one to think about when it comes… Read More

GeekWire Sports Tech Summit: Last chance for early-bird prices at this action-packed event

Our second annual GeekWire Sports Tech Summit on June 21-22 in Seattle is shaping up to be another action-packed event featuring top leaders… Read More

Jeff Bezos gave Jill Soloway, creator of the Amazon hit ‘Transparent,’ an artistic and political pep talk

Jill Soloway’s Amazon Video series “Transparent” has been an award-winning success for the tech giant’s streaming service. During an appearance… Read More

Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other tech companies urge Trump not to pull out of Paris Agreement

Dozens of the country’s biggest corporations are mounting a last-ditch attempt to dissuade President Donald Trump from abandoning the Paris Agreement,… Read More

Wireless tech company Rigado raises $3M to expand overseas and grow IoT product line

Rigado, a Portland company that provides wireless services for Internet of Things (IoT) companies, has secured $3.3 million in seed… Read More

Microsoft gives Skype a Snap-y new redesign, adds Stories-like feature and custom options

Microsoft this morning announced a redesign of Skype that will look pretty familiar to Snapchat users. Billed by the company as… Read More

This black hole crash expands the frontier for gravitational wave hunters at LIGO

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has detected its third confirmed black hole merger, and this one’s a doozy: LIGO’s latest discovery… Read More

HashiCorp’s Mitchell Hashimoto: Security needs to be part of your devops team

Speed is an extremely important component of modern application development, but sometimes when you’re running fast to get out the… Read More

Human and computer vision unite to help Microsoft engineers stop traffic deaths

In the U.S., car crashes kill roughly 40,000 people a year. That’s a loss of life equivalent to four to… Read More

Here’s how to watch weekly MLB games in virtual reality for free

You can now watch MLB games in virtual reality. Starting June 6, MLB will launch a VR livestream of one… Read More

The Bill Gates Taco Bell story: Walt Mossberg talks world’s richest man, $10, and late-night food

Legendary tech columnist Walt Mossberg is retiring this month, shortly after the annual Code Conference wraps up, but not before… Read More

McDonald’s expands UberEATS McDelivery to 92 Seattle restaurants and more U.S. cities

Forget the drive thru. McDonald’s is focused on “drive to” with an expansion in Seattle and across the U.S. of… Read More

Redfin takes #1 spot in GeekWire 200, topping DocuSign for first time

There are great rivalries — Yankees and Red Sox, Duke and North Carolina, Amazon and Walmart, Uber and Lyft —… Read More

Check out this real estate: Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff shows off remodel of San Francisco office

Like a post straight out of Zillow Digs, Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff showed off a little remodeling of his… Read More

5 revelations about the future moon from ‘Artemis,’ the next book by ‘Martian’ author Andy Weir

The writer who made such a splash with “The Martian,” Andy Weir, is sharing the first chapter from “Artemis,” a… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Microsoft cybersecurity vets launch Seklarity to help companies understand hacking risk

During the years Joe Donahue spent running Microsoft’s cybersecurity threat detection team, he observed a recurring problem. The team helped… Read More

Hillary Clinton says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ‘saved’ The Washington Post

Hillary Clinton thinks Jeff Bezos saved The Washington Post. The former presidential candidate spent more than an hour on stage at… Read More

Starbucks rolls its own coffee truck in front of Seattle HQ to replace store being remodeled

There’s probably better coffee out there than traditional truck stop coffee. But what if the truck is a Starbucks truck,… Read More

Elon Musk says he’ll break with Donald Trump if Paris climate pact is nixed

Tech billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll have no choice but to leave his posts on the White House’s advisory councils… Read More

Why the Pacific Northwest will be a data center powerhouse for years to come

Abundant clean energy sources, business friendly tax incentives, and new undersea fiber-optic cables will keep the Pacific Northwest as one… Read More

Will robots take your job? Tell this website what you do and then hope for the best

Stop what you’re doing if you want to figure out whether what you’re doing could someday be done by THE ROBOTS.… Read More

Kleiner Perkins’ Meeker: Concerns over cloud vendor lock-in are soaring

As part of this year’s sprint through more than 300 slides on the state of technology, Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker… Read More

Working Geek: Arlan Collins’ architecture firm uses VR and ‘modular building’

Arlan Collins has been in architecture for more than 40 years. For the past 30, he’s owned his own firm,… Read More

Charts: Tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are world’s most valuable companies

Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is out, and the 355-page dive into all things tech shows just how big… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems brings monster plane out of hangar for first time

Six years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen started up Stratolaunch Systems, the billionaire’s air-launch venture brought its humongous twin-fuselage airplane… Read More