Articles from 2018 – Page 106 of 161

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg foresees busy commercial ‘ecosystem’ in Earth orbit

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg predicts that the number of space destinations will grow from one — the International Space Station… Read More

Study finds AI algorithm can diagnose blindness-causing disease more accurately than doctors

Artificial intelligence is only getting more powerful. Today, we’re able to build computer programs that can master complex strategy games… Read More

Tesla stock goes through twists and turns as analysts focus on Model 3 car outlook

Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon… Read More

Jeff Bezos is in on the joke as he shares Conan O’Brien’s playful dig at Amazon and Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos continued his happy-go-lucky streak across social media on Wednesday by showing he has a sense of humor when… Read More

TLDR: Jeff Bezos and philanthropy, $6 lunch pickup service, 8-year-old coder

[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

Amazon will offer more Whole Foods discounts for Prime members, report says

More Whole Foods discounts are coming for Amazon Prime members. CNBC reported this week that Amazon is set to roll… Read More

Stephen Hawking’s ‘Final Theory’ goes into publication – but it’s not the final word

Weeks after the death of British physicist Stephen Hawking, his final research paper on the nature of our universe and… Read More

Calbucci’s comeback: Longtime tech exec joins Whitepages spinout Hiya, plans to return to Seattle from London next year

Marcelo Calbucci is getting back into the Seattle startup scene. The longtime technology entrepreneur and executive, known for his past… Read More

United Nations CITO believes tech can solve some of the world’s biggest challenges if the private sector steps up

To hear the United Nations Chief Information Technology Officer tell it, the world is a scary place. 1.2 million people… Read More

Verizon CEO brushes off T-Mobile’s Sprint merger: ‘We don’t care, is the answer to that’

RENTON, Wash. — Sitting across from Verizon Communications Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam in a conference room overlooking Lake Washington… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Speakers from Apple, Cloudflare and Google added to conference agenda

Ready to boost your technical chops? Our biggest technical conference of the year — the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit —… Read More

Tableau stock soars powered by ongoing switch to subscription products

Tableau Software’s migration to subscription offerings for its data visualization software continues to be ahead of schedule, as the company… Read More

Will new Amazon service box out another small bookstore? One seller’s take on staying relevant

Like many small, independent book sellers, The Reading Bug has done everything in its power to create a space and… Read More

Amazon suspends construction in Seattle while the city considers a new tax on its biggest businesses

Amazon is pausing construction on a new office tower at its Seattle headquarters and may put one of its biggest… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Is Oculus Go the future of VR? Plus: T-Mobile, Sprint and Trump

Oculus Go, a new VR headset from the Facebook-owned company, sprang onto shelves in a surprise launch Tuesday. It’s lower-powered… Read More

NASA’s Kilopower project demonstrates a nuclear reactor that’s made for space

That’s one small step for nuclear reactors on the moon and Mars, and several giant leaps to go. Eventually, the… Read More

Startup and researchers get $3.1M grant to bring personalized, cancer-fighting tech to patients

Every patient’s cancer is unique and every patient responds to cancer drugs differently. But right now, all patients with the… Read More

Facebook announces major update to the PyTorch AI framework that paves the way for production use

Facebook wants to make sure the open-source PyTorch machine-learning framework supports the needs of developers who want to use its… Read More

MealPal takes on Uber, Amazon, Peach with new $6 lunch pickup service in Seattle

Venky Ganesan, an investment partner at top Silicon Valley firm Menlo Ventures, isn’t coy about his optimism for MealPal. “We… Read More

Google launches startup investment program to bolster its digital assistant ecosystem

Google has kicked off a new investment program to back early-stage startups building capabilities and devices using the tech giant’s… Read More

Is Washington, D.C., worthy of Amazon HQ2? We tested the nation’s capital to find out

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stylish Italian restaurant Masseria is easy to miss, hidden between a construction site and an industrial… Read More

Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes

As more software factories add Kubernetes to their container strategies, a lot of people are getting excited about the container… Read More

Will this 8-year-old girl stick with coding? Fun project with dad attracts gifts from tech community

Catherine Rabasa was already a cool tech kid thanks to her love for coding at such an early age. But… Read More

Former Microsoft, Oracle execs raise $3M for digital identity enterprise blockchain startup Trusted Key

A new Seattle startup is using blockchain technology to help companies in finance, healthcare, and other industries identify their users… Read More

Rover expands dog-sitting business to Europe, takes aim at more segments of pet industry

Rover is going global. The Seattle-based pet-sitting marketplace company today announced the launch of its service in the United Kingdom… Read More

Steve Ballmer sells his Twitter stake, keeps his Microsoft shares, says he’s still bullish on both

Steve Ballmer has sold all of his shares in Twitter — but not because he doesn’t believe in the future… Read More

2020 or bust? GAO watchdogs foresee further delays for orbital spaceships

The Government Accountability Office issued a downbeat report on NASA’s major space projects today, saying that cost and schedule performance… Read More

TLDR: Facebook F8 Conference Highlights, 98point6 virtual clinic, OfferUp now ships across the continental U.S.

[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

SETI Institute gives Drake Award to Univ. of Washington astrobiologist Vikki Meadows

University of Washington astrobiologist Victoria Meadows has become the first woman to receive the SETI Institute’s Frank Drake Award, named… Read More

Podcast

Interview: Sen. Maria Cantwell on the fight for net neutrality, Facebook hearings and T-Mobile merger

Senate Democrats are planning to force a vote to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality repeal and Sen. Maria… Read More