Articles from 2018 – Page 11 of 161

GeekWire Gala is Thursday: Last chance for tickets to our annual holiday party

The cold, chilly air signals that winter is here, and that means it’s time for one of our favorite events… Read More

NHL approves Seattle expansion franchise, set to begin play in 2021 near Amazon campus

Professional hockey is coming back to the Emerald City. The NHL Board of Directors on Tuesday awarded an expansion franchise… Read More

Walmart employees can now complete online orders for in-store customers seeking sold out items

Few things are as frustrating as trucking down to the store to find a particular item, only for it to… Read More

Microsoft and Docker release new open-source project that’s basically a container for containers

Containers upended traditional software application deployment practices by opening up a whole new range of possibilities across multiple machines, and… Read More

Seattle’s Upbound introduces Crossplane, an open-source project to help companies manage applications across multiple public clouds

If you’re a company that wants to run workloads across multiple cloud providers but need some help making it happen,… Read More

Is Microsoft Edge on the edge? Report cites new Chromium-based replacement for Windows 10

The underappreciated web browser that’s standard with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system may be getting an overhaul, from the inside… Read More

Eclypsium raises $8.75M Series A round led by Madrona Venture Group to tackle hardware security

Chip vulnerabilities and supply-chain concerns have directed fresh eyes at the critical issues around hardware security, and a Portland-area startup… Read More

Microsoft expands broadband initiative to bring internet to 3 million people in rural communities

In metropolises like Seattle, it’s hard to imagine a day without internet. Urbanites are used to getting online for just… Read More

On-demand childcare startup Poppy shuts down despite building ‘rave-worthy’ service for parents

As a Seattle transplant and mother of two young children, finding childcare was a frustrating experience for Avni Patel Thompson — so… Read More

Scientists add four black hole collisions to LIGO’s list, including the biggest so far

Four more mergers of black holes, including the biggest one recorded to date, have been added to a catalog generated… Read More

Clues in Microsoft Windows builds point to new streamlined standalone operating system, report says

Microsoft appears to be working on a new stripped down operating system that might be branded separate from Windows, the… Read More

Amazon tweets about Flex driver who lost weight on job; internet ties it back to a Comedy Central show

Amazon promoted a news story on Sunday with a tweet from its official news account about how a woman in… Read More

Working Geek: Microsoft’s Justin Spelhaug is drafting a new blueprint for tech philanthropy

Justin Spelhaug likes to make lists, to enumerate things. Maybe it’s because he has a big role running the Tech… Read More

Smartsheet beats estimates with $46.9M in revenue, up 59%, in 3rd earnings report as public company

Smartsheet beat analyst estimates with its third quarter earnings report, posting $46.9 million in Q3 revenue and a GAAP net… Read More

Fresh trio arrives at space station and is ‘having a blast,’ two months after bad trip

A Russian Soyuz rocket sent three spacefliers to the International Space Station today, marking a return to normal operations after… Read More

Tumblr to block explicit sexual content and nudity in bid to make site a safer place

A month after having its app removed from the iOS store because child pornography content was found on the site,… Read More

Third time’s the charm: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches a record 64 satellites for Spaceflight

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Seattle-based Spaceflight’s first-ever dedicated rideshare mission, a satellite extravaganza aimed at placing 64 spacecraft in… Read More

Bundle up in Columbia’s new Star Wars parka, just like cast and crew wore for ‘Empire Strikes Back’

If it gets as cold where you live as it did on the ice planet Hoth, hold tight before you… Read More

‘Amazon.com’s got a lot’ … of vintage holiday ads worth watching, to see how tech giant got started

Amazon has come a long way as a company over the past couple decades. The online bookseller turned into a… Read More

Microsoft commits $10M to Code.org as survey finds obstacles to teaching computer science

Underqualified. Overwhelmed. Underfunded. Those are among the reasons teachers give, in a new survey, as to why they or other… Read More

Streem raises more cash for AR-powered home improvement tech, hints at larger vision

Investors are pouring more money into Streem, the Portland, Ore.-based startup that develops augmented reality technology for home service professionals and… Read More

OSIRIS-REx probe reaches asteroid Bennu for close-up survey and sample return

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx today made its official rendezvous with a promising and potentially perilous asteroid named Bennu, after two years of… Read More

Bill Gates picks his 5 favorite books for 2018

The billionaire bookworm is back with his best book picks of 2018. Bill Gates revealed his five favorite titles today,… Read More

GeekWire Gala 2018 FAQ: Here’s what you need to know for this week’s geeky holiday party

The geekiest holiday party is just around the corner. We’ve got a great crowd coming out for the GeekWire Gala, presented… Read More

Uber reportedly considering Bird or Lime acquisition to grow micro-mobility business

Uber is exploring the possibility of acquiring one of the hot new scooter startups that sped headlong onto the transportation… Read More

Amazon reportedly testing much larger, Amazon Go-like cashierless grocery store in Seattle

The Amazon Go concept may be getting ready to go bigger. Amazon is said to be testing even larger-format cashierless… Read More

Microsoft makes real-time captions and translation standard in Office 365 PowerPoint

The next PowerPoint presentation you see may have live captions or subtitles, as Microsoft rolls out a real-time voice translation… Read More

12 years after launch, New Horizons probe zeroes in on mysterious Ultima Thule

Act Two of the 12-year-old New Horizons mission to Pluto and the solar system’s icy Kuiper Belt is heating up, with… Read More

Police use new maneuver to stop Tesla car on autopilot after driver falls asleep at wheel

Officers with the California Highway Patrol invented a new maneuver to stop a Tesla Model S vehicle after its driver… Read More

Valve’s new Steam revenue-sharing tiers spur controversy among indie game developers

You may have missed it, since Nov. 30 was a big news day (the G20 economic summit in Buenos Aires,… Read More