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Articles from 2018

Death of the Steam Machine? Valve removes links to third-party consoles from Steam hardware tab

Valve has quietly removed links and references to Steam Machine game consoles from the hardware section and drop-down menu on… Read More

Zuckerberg in 2017: People share on Facebook because they trust ‘privacy is going to be protected’

When Mark Zuckerberg sat down to record an episode of Freakonomics Radio’s “Secret Life of CEOs” last summer, he couldn’t… Read More

TLDR: Seattle wants to raise Uber and Lyft rates, Blockbuster’s last stand, fact-checking Trump on Amazon

[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

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch

SpaceX sends reused cargo ship to space station on reused Falcon 9 rocket … again

SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9… Read More

Trump

Amazon stock slides 5.2 percent amid broad tech selloff and another tweet from Trump

U.S. trade policy, continued scrutiny of tech companies and another tweet from President Trump about Amazon were in the volatile… Read More

Seaplane Seattle

Seaplane flights from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., close to reality with addition of customs facility

Direct seaplane flights between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., have moved another step closer toward becoming reality and providing an efficient… Read More

Microsoft launches new online training courses for aspiring AI engineers

A new ten-course seminar for engineers looking to add machine-learning skills to their resumes is now available through the Microsoft… Read More

OECD report dials down the risk to jobs from automation – but it’s still daunting

A working paper written for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that about 14 percent of the jobs… Read More

Seattle considers raising rates for Uber and Lyft rides to boost driver compensation

Uber and Lyft rides could become more expensive in Seattle. The city is considering setting a minimum fare per ride… Read More

Analysis: After Amazon’s TenMarks shuts down, what then for K-12 schools and Amazon?

The sudden, relatively quiet notice late last week that Amazon would shutter its TenMarks business and end its TenMarks Math… Read More

Metricstory raises $2M to decipher Google Analytics data with AI and machine learning

Metricstory is raising cash to help e-commerce companies extract more value from their Google Analytics data. The Seattle startup today… Read More

Tiangong-1 breakup

China and U.S. say Tiangong-1 space lab plunged to a fiery doom over the Pacific

China’s Tiangong-1 space lab is no more. The 8.5-ton spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere at about 5:15 p.m. PT today (00:15… Read More

Elon Musk, "bankwupt."

Elon Musk turns Tesla’s troubles into April Fools’ joke — but flamethrowers are real

Between Model S recalls and Model 3 production snags, Tesla has been having a hard time lately — but not as… Read More

Blue Origin rocket landing

Bezos, Musk and more: Space billionaires take the spotlight in books and on TV

Space is hard: That used to be the excuse for explaining why sending people into space would always be something… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Facebook and Microsoft vets build coding education marketplace Educative

Unable to find a continuing education platform to learn new coding techniques, languages, and skills, Fahim ul Haq and Naeem ul… Read More

Can you go paperless on an overseas trip? The Geek’s Guide to International Travel, 2018 Edition

It’s amazing the difference five years makes when traveling with tech. In April 2013, I felt as though I was… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 25, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of March 25, 2018. Read More

The need for speed (and security): Cloudflare has developed a new DNS service for PCs and phones

Despite the timing, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince would like to emphasize that his company’s latest announcement is not an April… Read More

Blockbuster’s last stand: Inside the iconic video rental chain’s only remaining store

[Update, July 13, 2018: The last remaining stores in Alaska are now closing, which will make the Bend location officially… Read More

Trump

Trump says Bezos-owned Washington Post should register as a lobbyist for pushing Amazon agenda

President Donald Trump continued to beat his anti-Amazon drum early Saturday morning. In two tweets, he once again accused the… Read More

High-powered laser maker nLight files for IPO, looks to raise $86 million

Another day, another IPO filing. Vancouver, Wash.-based nLight, a maker of high-powered lasers which are used in aerospace, defense and… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: Trump vs. Bezos, and the next wave of Seattle tech IPOs

President Trump went on the attack against Amazon and Jeff Bezos again this week, making veiled threats to regulate the… Read More

Ted Laetsch

Cancer researchers report positive results for larotrectinib, a ‘tumor-agnostic’ drug

Two clinical studies have provided evidence suggesting that an experimental precision-medicine drug called larotrectinib can fight soft-tissue tumors regardless of… Read More

Amazon to close TenMarks online education service after 2018-19 school year

Amazon will close its TenMarks online math and writing learning service after the 2018-2019 school year, the latest surprise twist… Read More

TLDR: April Fool’s comes early, new broadband service from SpaceX, Apple AirPods giveaway

[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

World View balloon

Investors provide a $26.5M lift for World View stratospheric balloon venture

News Brief: Arizona-based World View says it has closed a $26.5 million Series C financing round, led by Accel with… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Ganaz wants to connect farmers with millions of seasonal farmworkers

Many farmworking jobs are seasonal, short-lived and tricky to find. Seattle-based startup Ganaz hopes to solve those challenges by connecting workers… Read More

Tiangong-1

No fooling: Skywatchers zero in on fiery fall of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab

After months of tracking China’s uncontrollable Tiangong-1 space lab, satellite watchers have narrowed down the time frame for its final,… Read More

The problem with Trump’s claim about Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service

Donald Trump has made a habit of lashing out at Amazon throughout his campaign and presidency. He’s criticized the company… Read More

Haptic suit

5 tech twists from ‘Ready Player One,’ Steven Spielberg’s film about gaming’s past and VR’s future

“Ready Player One,” the Steven Spielberg movie that blends memes from the 1980s with a virtual-reality vision of 2045, is… Read More

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