Articles from 2018 – Page 105 of 161

He shoots, he scores: Basketball star Chris Bosh geeks out over Mars InSight mission

While retired NBA All-Star basketball player Chris Bosh plans his next career moves, he and his wife Adrienne are taking… Read More

TLDR: Instagram in-app payments, testing out Prime Wardrobe, Paul Allen’s immersive reality project

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

NASA looks into fixing James Webb Space Telescope after fasteners come loose

NASA says it’s reviewing its options for repair and corrective action for the multibillion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope after tests… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Node offers airy energy efficient homes that aim for easy, pre-fab installation

It’s pretty ambitious to launch a business that’s trying to address one of the big challenges confronting the world. A… Read More

Podcast

Amazon’s tax fight explained, and why it could have a huge effect in Seattle and among HQ2 hopefuls

There’s a rumble in the concrete jungle. A conflict between the Seattle City Council and Amazon boiled over this week,… Read More

Tinder not working out? Three Day Rule blends algorithms with matchmakers, expands to Seattle

A new dating service that blends algorithms with human matchmakers just launched in Seattle. Three Day Rule (TDR) expanded to… Read More

Geek of the Week: Playing video games pays off big time for Madden Bowl champion Shay Kivlen

Stop telling your kid that playing video games will never pay off — or, maybe don’t let them see this… Read More

Meet Microsoft’s Abolade Gbadegesin, ‘fixer of things that are broken’ and a driving force behind Windows’ evolution

In 20 years at Microsoft, Abolade Gbadegesin has seen his share of major transitions. He’s worked under all three of… Read More

Tech Moves: Why Mighty AI’s new president took the job; Concur CTO joins Tableau; and more

Mighty AI has a new leader. The artificial intelligence data company announced this week that Isaac Kato, former CFO and co-founder… Read More

Police body cam maker Axon buys Vievu, ending competition between rivals

Axon has acquired Vievu, its main competitor in the police body cam industry. The deal brings together top U.S. police body… Read More

Q&A: Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam on 5G wireless, T-Mobile/Sprint, net neutrality and acquisitions

Verizon Communications held its annual shareholder meeting Thursday morning south of Seattle, in Renton, Wash. Why Renton? That’s one of… Read More

Welcome to Holodome, Paul Allen’s beautiful first step into the future of shared immersive reality

When it comes to the side projects of Seattle’s richest tech titans, billions of pixels are apparently as fun to… Read More

It’s showtime for launch of NASA’s Mars lnSight lander (and its piggyback probes)

NASA’s Mars InSight lander is being prepped for a launch that will send some magical science and engineering toward the… Read More

Testing Prime Wardrobe: Can Amazon’s Stitch Fix competitor change the way we buy clothes?

Can Amazon help me dress better? Is technology going to change the way we purchase clothes? And do I have… Read More

TLDR:Amazon responds to proposed tax, Gates Foundation commits $158M to reduce poverty, Rover expands to Europe

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Kubernetes in Europe: The most significant news from Kubecon this week

The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue… Read More

Clash at Amazon HQ: Construction workers shout down councilmember over plan to tax big business

On an unseasonably warm day at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, tension over a proposed tax on the city’s wealthiest businesses reached… Read More

Working Geek: Artificial intelligence engineering leader Michael Schmitz loves GitHub, Google Pixel and list making

For Michael Schmitz, working at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is arguably the best of all worlds. Schmitz,… Read More

Twitter tells users to change passwords following internal glitch, but company claims no evidence of breach

Twitter is advising users to change their passwords after a bug “unmasked” credentials that were stored internally and disguised so… Read More

Can Seattleites learn to play well with others? Ion Collaborators tries to forge relationships

Seattleites do not always play well with others. There’s the notorious “Seattle freeze” — a personality trait that puts a… Read More

Twitter moves its part of its massive Hadoop data platform to Google Cloud

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing… Read More

Amazon’s pet play: Tech giant unveils in-house dog food brand Wag

First it was Dogs of Amazon, and now we have Dog Food of Amazon. Amazon this week debuted its in-house… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: Using precision medicine to kill cancer — with artificial intelligence

In December of 2012, Su-In Lee was working at the University of Washington in Seattle. One day, she got the… Read More

Is Amazon serious about slowing its Seattle growth? Tech and community leaders weigh in

There are two ways to read Amazon’s surprise announcement that it will pause construction on one big Seattle office tower… Read More

Amazon unveils new ways for developers to earn money from Alexa Skills

Developers building “skills” for Amazon’s Alexa platform now have new ways to make money off their voice-enabled technologies. Amazon today… Read More

Identity solutions company Visualant changes name to Know Labs

News Brief: Visualant, a Seattle-based company that offers identity, authentication and diagnostic solutions, has changed its name to Know Labs. In addition… Read More

Microsoft expands ad business beyond Bing search results with help from LinkedIn data and AI

Microsoft, which has quietly built a $6.9 billion/year advertising business through its Bing search engine, will attempt to expand its… Read More

Hate working in a web browser? How a new breed of software is bringing cloud-based apps into a single interface

In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It… Read More

Gates Foundation commits $158M to new 4-year effort to reduce U.S. poverty

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $158 million over the next four years to fund research,… Read More

Ask tech questions in private with Stack Overflow’s new enterprise product for smaller teams

Millions of technical professionals each month use Stack Overflow to answer tricky questions about coding, architecture, and other complicated aspects… Read More