New Horizons team celebrates history’s farthest flyby with New Year’s sparkle LAUREL, Md. — Hundreds of well-wishers took part in a different kind of New Year’s countdown, 33 minutes past midnight,… Read More
Queen’s rock-star astrophysicist Brian May debuts his space anthem for a far-out trip LAUREL, Md. — After you’ve participated in NASA’s New Horizons mission to the edge of the solar system, and written… Read More
U.S. Strategic Command ‘joke’ about dropping something on New Year’s Eve bombs on Twitter U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it… Read More
OSIRIS-REx probe goes into close orbit around asteroid Bennu and sets a record NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today maneuvered into an orbit that takes it within 4,000 feet of the surface of Bennu, a… Read More
VIDEO: Our favorite GeekWire moments of 2018 In this episode of TLDR, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and most fun GeekWire moments… Read More
New Horizons team gets first fuzzy glimpse of elongated icy world on solar system’s edge LAUREL, Md. — The science team for NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft released its first multi-pixel view of an icy world… Read More
Top GeekWire stories of 2018: Amazon HQ2, Paul Allen, Seattle’s boom, equality financing, and more It was another big year for tech, in Seattle and around the world. Amazon dominated headlines, this time with a… Read More
Nirvana not smiling after filing lawsuit against designer Marc Jacobs over ‘Bootleg Grunge’ shirt Just when you thought 25 years might be enough time for mainstream fashion designers to forget they ever tried to… Read More
I got my parents an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas and here’s how they’re getting along with Alexa I spend a lot of time talking to my parents about the shows they’re watching on TV or the films… Read More
5 immigration actions the Trump admin took in 2018, and how they impact the tech industry In 2018, President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to reshape the U.S. immigration system. While stories of… Read More
Watch New Horizons probe ring in the New Year with record-setting Ultima Thule flyby LAUREL, Md. — The sleeping bags are rolled out and the videos are cued up for a New Year’s celebration of… Read More
New light shows will highlight New Year’s fireworks extravaganza at Seattle’s Space Needle The roof of Seattle’s Space Needle is crawling with workers installing fireworks this weekend and lighting for the T-Mobile New… Read More
Amazon to add new Whole Foods stores, expanding reach of Prime Now delivery, report says Amazon is laying the groundwork to return Whole Foods to growth mode, adding new stores in the suburbs and states… Read More
Game review: ‘Rocketsrocketsrockets’ on Nintendo Switch is exactly what it sounds like it should be Rocketsrocketsrockets is one of those games where the title is a near-perfect encapsulation of what the game is all about: you… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 23, 2018 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 23, 2018. Read More
Want to launch a startup in 2019? Founders should examine this checklist before making the leap Startups are a long slog and can be incredibly difficult. Like any marathon, you need to know what you’re in… Read More
Hands-on with Bottomless coffee: Can the internet really keep refilling a caffeine addict’s endless cup? In my home, we’d rather run out of toilet paper than fresh coffee. The former can be replaced by facial… Read More
What Bill Gates is thinking about as 2018 concludes It’s almost hard to remember the Bill Gates of yesteryear — the brash, competitive, hard-charging business leader known to dismiss… Read More
As China option fades, Bill Gates urges U.S. to take the lead in nuclear power, for the good of the planet In his year-end letter, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says his to-do list for 2019 includes persuading U.S. leaders to regain… Read More
Report: Huge CenturyLink outage caused by bad networking card in Colorado A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and… Read More
Year in pictures: Amazon’s amazing growth, SpaceX blasts off, the passing of Paul Allen and more 2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing… Read More
Can tech investors forecast the future? How our panel’s 2018 predictions turned out Venture capitalists are in the business of placing big bets on new technologies. That’s why it’s fun to get their… Read More
Year in Science: Genetic breakthroughs make dreams (and nightmares) come true In science, it was the best of times, and the worst of times. 2018 was a year when researchers focused… Read More
What’s one piece of tech you couldn’t live without? Here’s what our 2018 Geeks of the Week had to say They work for companies as big as Amazon or as small as the startup they created by themselves this year.… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: CES set to exhibit the latest on 5G, AI and more Don’t look now, but 2019 is almost here. Hope you had a refreshing break, because the new year, as it… Read More
As Wall Street preps for huge IPO year, will any Seattle companies go public in 2019? Well-funded tech giants could produce an epic 2019 for tech IPOs. But will any Washington-based companies make the leap? Possibly not,… Read More
FCC launches investigation into CenturyLink following 911 outages The Federal Communications Commision has initiated an investigation into a widespread CenturyLink outage that interrupted 911 service across the country Thursday… Read More
Portland’s Megh Computing raises $1.75M to help companies use flexible chips for real-time data processing An explosion in demand for applications with real-time data analytics has created scaling problems inside companies trying to run those… Read More
How Fred Hutch spinout LabKey bootstrapped its way to compete in health care’s big data Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get… Read More
Widespread 911 outage hits Washington as emergency alerts sent to smartphones A 911 outage affected agencies across Washington state on Thursday and continued into the early hours of Friday, as people… Read More
