LAUREL, Md. — Hundreds of well-wishers took part in a different kind of New Year’s countdown, 33 minutes past midnight, to celebrate the moment when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew… Read More
LAUREL, Md. — After you’ve participated in NASA’s New Horizons mission to the edge of the solar system, and written a rock anthem for the mission as well, what is… Read More
U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it said it was ready to “drop something much, much bigger”… Read More
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today maneuvered into an orbit that takes it within 4,000 feet of the surface of Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid that’s 70 million miles from Earth. The orbit… Read More
In this episode of TLDR, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and most fun GeekWire moments of 2018. It was a big year for our reporters… Read More
LAUREL, Md. — The science team for NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft released its first multi-pixel view of an icy world more than 4 billion miles from Earth, and the analysis… Read More
It was another big year for tech, in Seattle and around the world. Amazon dominated headlines, this time with a high-profile HQ2 search and big acquisitions. Facebook came under scrutiny… Read More
Just when you thought 25 years might be enough time for mainstream fashion designers to forget they ever tried to borrow from Seattle’s memorable grunge aesthetic, a $115 T-shirt emerges… Read More
I spend a lot of time talking to my parents about the shows they’re watching on TV or the films they’re seeing at the theater. They subscribe to Netflix, they… Read More
In 2018, President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to reshape the U.S. immigration system. While stories of immigrant children separated from their families and military forces deployed… Read More
LAUREL, Md. — The sleeping bags are rolled out and the videos are cued up for a New Year’s celebration of cosmic proportions here at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory,… Read More
The roof of Seattle’s Space Needle is crawling with workers installing fireworks this weekend and lighting for the T-Mobile New Year’s at the Needle fireworks show on Monday. New this… Read More
Amazon is laying the groundwork to return Whole Foods to growth mode, adding new stores in the suburbs and states where the upscale grocery chain doesn’t currently have a presence,… Read More
Rocketsrocketsrockets is one of those games where the title is a near-perfect encapsulation of what the game is all about: you play as a rocket, firing rockets at other rockets. There’s… Read More
Startups are a long slog and can be incredibly difficult. Like any marathon, you need to know what you’re in for and be prepared. Last summer I had a similar… Read More
In my home, we’d rather run out of toilet paper than fresh coffee. The former can be replaced by facial tissue. But nothing adequately substitutes for the latter as a… Read More
It’s almost hard to remember the Bill Gates of yesteryear — the brash, competitive, hard-charging business leader known to dismiss Microsoft managers by telling them they’d just presented the “stupidest”… Read More
In his year-end letter, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says his to-do list for 2019 includes persuading U.S. leaders to regain America’s leading role in nuclear energy research and embrace advanced… Read More
A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and other states was caused by a faulty network management card,… Read More
2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing of Seattle tech pioneer PGA: Paul G. Allen. It was… Read More
Venture capitalists are in the business of placing big bets on new technologies. That’s why it’s fun to get their yearly predictions — and then assess how well they forecasted… Read More
In science, it was the best of times, and the worst of times. 2018 was a year when researchers focused in on ways to head off disease by reprogramming a… Read More
They work for companies as big as Amazon or as small as the startup they created by themselves this year. Some are still students, some are longtime technology veterans. But… Read More
Don’t look now, but 2019 is almost here. Hope you had a refreshing break, because the new year, as it always does, kicks things off with a technological bang. CES,… Read More
Well-funded tech giants could produce an epic 2019 for tech IPOs. But will any Washington-based companies make the leap? Possibly not, as higher-profile brand names such as Uber and Airbnb take… Read More
The Federal Communications Commision has initiated an investigation into a widespread CenturyLink outage that interrupted 911 service across the country Thursday night and Friday. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called the outage… Read More
An explosion in demand for applications with real-time data analytics has created scaling problems inside companies trying to run those applications on conventional hardware, which is just one reason why… Read More
Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get a handle on all the data that medical devices were… Read More
A 911 outage affected agencies across Washington state on Thursday and continued into the early hours of Friday, as people received emergency alerts on their smartphones late Thursday evening with alternatives… Read More