Articles from 2018 – Page 13 of 161

Starbucks says it will block the ability to view pornographic content on its stores’ Wi-Fi in 2019

Starbucks wants the Third Place to be a more welcoming place. The Seattle-based global coffee giant is planning to take… Read More

NASA picks nine commercial teams for moon deliveries – including dark horses

NASA says it’s partnering on lunar delivery services with nine commercial teams, headed by companies that run the gamut from… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals a managed Kafka service for streaming data

LAS VEGAS – Yet another popular open-source project is now available as a managed service from Amazon Web Services with… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands serverless computing strategy with support for a wider variety of software development tools

LAS VEGAS – Developers building serverless applications on top of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda service will now be able to… Read More

Microsoft and law enforcement in India partner, shutting down alleged ‘virus alert’ call centers

There may be very slightly fewer disturbing — and fake — virus infection pop-ups in your web browser or phone… Read More

We tested Lime’s new car-sharing service, LimePod, that will take on BMW and Daimler in Seattle

Lime bikes, Lime scooters, and now, Lime cars. Lime, the high-flying transportation startup valued at $1.1 billion, already has thousands… Read More

Germany launches investigation after Amazon sellers complain of unfair treatment

German regulatory officials have launched an investigation to find out whether Amazon’s business practices toward sellers in its marketplace are… Read More

Signature Microsoft Office apps get new-look logos

Microsoft has updated the logos of its signature Office programs, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, to fit with the… Read More

Expedia shows off latest plans for sprawling Seattle waterfront campus with room for 5,000 employees

Expedia is less than a year away from opening the doors of its massive new Seattle campus, and today it… Read More

Microsoft Surface roadmap revealed in new book — including mysterious ‘Andromeda’ device

Next year will be a busy one for Microsoft’s Surface division, if a new book about the organization is any… Read More

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Review: New book goes inside Microsoft’s Surface business, as an emblem of tech giant’s rebound

Microsoft was at a crossroads, and Surface was at risk of becoming roadkill. RELATED: Microsoft Surface product roadmap revealed in… Read More

Washington state to roll out broad new paid leave policy: What workers and employers should know

On Jan. 1, Washington state will begin implementing one of the most generous paid family and medical leave programs in… Read More

T-Mobile Money mobile banking launches with special incentives for T-Mobile wireless customers

If you thought T-Mobile was just a wireless carrier that takes your money, now it’s giving you a place to… Read More

Tech Moves: Highspot taps Adobe exec as CMO; conDati adds CMO to Seattle office; and more

After raising a $35 million Series C round in September, Highspot is adding a prominent new leader to its team: Former… Read More

Former MIT and Google researchers raise $5.3M for ‘artificial intelligence compiler’ startup Canotic

Canotic is a new artificial intelligence startup based in Seattle and Berlin that today announced a $5.3 million seed round… Read More

India’s PSLV rocket launches BlackSky’s Global-1 satellite (plus 30 other satellites)

The first Earth observation satellite for Seattle-based BlackSky’s Global constellation has been sent into orbit aboard an Indian rocket. Global-1… Read More

Microsoft wins $480M contract to supply U.S. Army with 100K HoloLens headsets

Microsoft won a nearly $480 million contract to provide the U.S. Army with 100,000 HoloLens headsets, a major boon for… Read More

New features from Amazon Web Services aim to make cloud security easier to manage

Even after all these years, during which private data centers have fallen victim to countless security breaches while cloud providers… Read More

Leading University of Washington professor joins AI2 as artificial intelligence talent wars continue

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research organizations, has hired yet another… Read More

Pixvana helps develop therapy in virtual reality aimed at kids dealing with depression and anxiety

https://vimeo.com/298293172 Inside the world of virtual reality, young people can learn how to cope with depression and anxiety by better… Read More

Human gene-editing experiment is put on hold in China amid international furor

The Chinese researcher behind a controversial experiment to produce gene-edited children took the stage at a Hong Kong conference to… Read More

‘Not your father’s Big Mouth Billy Bass’: Amazon’s Alexa now comes out of the novelty fish’s lips

Hoo boy, look what we done caught in the inter-net. Big Mouth Billy Bass, the flopping, singing, plastic sensation mounted… Read More

Podcast

The biggest take aways from Black Friday and the ultimate challenge for Alexa: Cook our lunch

Black Friday and Cyber Monday (or “the turkey five,” as Amazon calls the post-Thanksgiving shopping season) are done, and with… Read More

Microsoft execs field questions on diversity, Windows 7 holdouts, and offbeat campus plan at annual Q&A session

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Q&A portion of Microsoft’s annual meeting is the one time each year that shareholders in the… Read More

Teens and social media: Study finds connections and support outweigh the drama and pressure

When it comes to teens and social media, it’s not all pressure and drama. But there is a fair amount… Read More

Amazon Web Services will sell hardware to hybrid cloud customers to run in their own data centers

LAS VEGAS – The hybrid cloud has become an essential part of enterprise computing, and Amazon Web Services has decided… Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Washington STEM Summit: ‘There’s an opportunity deficit’

This year, the Washington STEM Summit brought together more than 300 leaders in government, education, community and business — including… Read More

Amazon debuts new self-driving racing league with tiny machine learning-powered race cars

Amazon’s investment in the sports world continued at the company’s signature cloud technology conference this week, but not in the… Read More

New machine-learning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brand-new custom chip

LAS VEGAS — Machine learning is one of the fastest growing cloud services at the moment, and Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon Web Services joins the blockchain party with managed blockchain service for Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum

LAS VEGAS — Last year at re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy questioned whether blockchain technology was really… Read More