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Articles from 2018

Trident sub

Trident sub base and Boeing cited in closure of Seattle’s Russian consulate

News Brief: Twenty-five years ago, the opening of Russia’s Seattle consulate was a symbol of the post-Cold War thaw, but… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Gov. Jay Inslee at Seattle’s GoGreen Conference; Mine for talent at the UW Startup Job Fair; and more

Battling climate change is one of the many points of disagreement between West Coast leaders and the Trump Administration. In… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2018: Nominations open, early-bird tickets on sale

The Oscars, Grammy’s and Golden Globes are in the books, and now it’s time to recognize the very best that… Read More

Myriota communications system

Boeing HorizonX joins $15M funding round for Australia’s Myriota IoT satellite venture

Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm has made its first investment outside the U.S., as part of a $15 million Series… Read More

Pokemon Go

Big ‘Pokémon Go’ update this week includes research quests and mythical monster Mew

Game developer Niantic gave “Pokémon Go” fans reason to celebrate on Monday morning, with word that a major update is… Read More

Microsoft Edge browser debuts on iPad and Android tablets

NEWS BRIEF: Starting today, Microsoft’s Edge browser is available on iPads and Android tablets, four months after it debuted on… Read More

Smartsheet files for IPO, aims to become Seattle region’s next public company

Smartsheet is getting ready to go public. The Seattle-area company that helps Fortune 500 customers manage and automate key work… Read More

A travel site by any other name: Expedia modifies moniker

Expedia is changing its name. It’s only a minor alteration, as Expedia Inc. has become Expedia Group. The new name… Read More

FTC investigating Facebook as social network’s public trust and stock price plummet

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is opening an investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices, following reports last week that political consultancy… Read More

Elon Musk in his tunnel

Elon Musk takes the wraps off the Boring Company’s next product line: bricks

What do you do for an encore after you’ve sold 20,000 flamethrowers? If you’re billionaire Elon Musk, you sell rocks.… Read More

787-10 delivery

Boeing delivers first 787-10 Dreamliner, marking a first for South Carolina factory

Boeing delivered its first stretched-out, wide-body 787-10 Dreamliner jet tonight, scoring yet another first in the process. The ceremonial handover… Read More

Saga Pop!

How Funko pops out a Pop! Inside the process of creating collectible figures, from idea to product

Alana and Marko are interspecies lovers. They erupt onto comic book panels amid scenes of childbirth, intense battles, and robot… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 18, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of March 18, 2018. Read More

Can Apple return to the head of the class? Tech giant to reveal new education plans after long slide

One-time education technology leader Apple is now a distant third in new computing device shipments to K-12 schools in the… Read More

SpaceX rocket exhaust

Do rockets blast away the ozone layer? It’s no biggie today … but watch the skies

Thanks to Blue Origin, SpaceX and other space ventures, the skies could well be filled with rockets in years to… Read More

Inside ‘Avalara Hawk Tower,’ sales tax automation company brings island roots into a new era

It has been nearly a decade since Avalara had all its Seattle-area employees under one roof. But that changed last… Read More

‘I’m still a humble toymaker’: A chat with veteran indie RPG developer Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software

Jeff Vogel, indie game development’s self-declared “Crazy Old Uncle In the Attic,” has been a one-man production studio for computer… Read More

Spheres

Amazon Spheres and other Seattle landmarks lit up in purple to mark Special Olympics countdown

Amazon’s Spheres are already a head turner on a normal day, thanks to the unique architectural nature of the plant-filled… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: What will it take for us to quit Facebook?

Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data.… Read More

Space station crew

Space station crew returns to full strength with trio’s arrival on Russian Soyuz craft

News Brief: Two days after their launch, a fresh trio of spacefliers floated through the International Space Station’s hatch today… Read More

Anglerfish

Deep-sea video captures the sexual hookup of live anglerfish for the first time

Scientists studying deep-sea anglerfish have long known about the bizarre mismatch between the species’ whiskered females and teeny-tiny males. But… Read More

Clear

Safeco Field to use biometric security system for fan entrance and potentially alcohol purchases

Getting through security lines and into Safeco Field to see a Seattle Mariners baseball game could be a smoother process… Read More

TLDR

TLDR: Water bottle gets the lead out, WiFi changes at Starbucks, and student activists powered by web

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube to catch every episode, check back… Read More

Working Geek: Usermind security officer Ted Bardusch on why diverse teams are more functional

Ted Bardusch remembers the good old days of the 1980s when men and women were more equally represented in the tech… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Rainway lets people play PC games on any device

If you just can’t stop playing your favorite PC game but need to be mobile, Rainway thinks it has an… Read More

One piece of the Dell puzzle becomes clearer as Pivotal files for an IPO with revenue of $509M

Pivotal, the company behind the popular Cloud Foundry application development platform, submitted its filing for an initial public offering Friday… Read More

Evie Powell

Geek of the Week: Evie Powell’s epic gaming adventure has taken her from PhD to CEO

When Evie Powell enters the world of a video game, she doesn’t just lose herself in the experience for the… Read More

U.S. Capitol

From Earth’s depths to the stars, there’s good news for science in spending bill

The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law today preserves several of the scientific initiatives his… Read More

How ‘Tacklytics’ can make football safer; video replay approved for World Cup; and more sports tech news

TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: Can better tackling make football safer? That’s the thesis behind Atavus Football, a Seattle-based… Read More

Elon Musk axes Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX (after finding out they’re there)

Facebook suffered another blow today: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, had those two companies’ official pages… Read More

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