Articles from 2018 – Page 140 of 161

Conservative group’s ad attacks ‘corporate welfare’ deals with Amazon in HQ2 cities

The center-right millennial advocacy group, Generation Opportunity, is targeting Amazon in a new ad that will run in the U.S.… Read More

Early-bird tickets on sale for the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, board of advisors announced and speaker submissions opened

The Seattle region sits at the epicenter of cloud computing. And that’s why we’re excited to formally announce the return… Read More

High-tech cooking startup Sansaire shutting down, ceasing production of new sous vide device

High-tech cooking startup Sansaire is closing its doors. The Seattle-based company is halting development of its latest WiFi sous vide cooking device,… Read More

How Microsoft’s Brad Smith navigates the Trump era as the tech industry’s ‘de facto ambassador’

As the tech industry’s unofficial diplomat to Washington, D.C., Microsoft President Brad Smith found himself in a bit of a… Read More

Our robot neighbors: Hanging out with the mechanical inhabitants of ‘Robotics Row’

PITTSBURGH — I’m sitting on the floor of a small office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood surrounded by machines that would… Read More

Tech Moves: Insitu CEO departs; Thunder hires Microsoft vet to expand Seattle office; BitTitan taps Dell EMC exec to lead marketing

San Francisco-based Thunder is making a big investment in Seattle. The company announced Wednesday that it has hired longtime Seattle… Read More

Amazon Alexa accelerator expands, will host up to 3 startups in London for 2nd cohort

Amazon is now accepting applications for its second Alexa Accelerator cohort. The 13-week program, which launched last year and is run… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: BEST Robotics Director Rosemary Mendel works to get kids into STEM

PITTSBURGH — Rosemary Mendel’s job is getting kids excited about robotics, a technology at the heart of her city’s innovation… Read More

Charging your smartphone with lasers? Engineers say it’s not as scary as it sounds

Engineers at the University of Washington have demonstrated that it’s possible to charge up your smartphone using laser beams. Perhaps… Read More

Vice President Mike Pence at National Space Council meeting

Boeing and Blue Origin CEOs listed among National Space Council’s advisers

News Brief: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith are among 29 candidates for the National Space… Read More

DNA data storage system rises past 400 megabytes — find out how to store yours

Scientists from the University of Washington and Microsoft are improving their system for preserving digital data in strands of synthetic… Read More

Billionaire Robert Bigelow sets up new company to operate future space stations

Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace has had space modules in orbit for more than a decade, but now billionaire founder Robert Bigelow… Read More

Mayor Jenny Durkan: Seattle is and always will be the city that ‘invents the future’

Despite the outsized impact it has on Seattle’s growth, the tech industry was largely absent from Mayor Jenny Durkan’s State… Read More

Bill Gates to guest star on ‘The Big Bang Theory’

It’s only taken eleven seasons, but Leonard and Sheldon may finally get to meet Bill Gates. Warner Bros. and CBS,… Read More

Jeff Bezos shows how installation of 10,000 Year Clock is ticking along in Texas

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is highlighting the start of installation of the 10,000 Year Clock, a $42 million project that’s… Read More

New version of Chef’s open-source project InSpec lets you check for leaky cloud storage buckets

Despite months of wake-up calls to cloud storage administrators about the consequences of insecure storage buckets lost in the shuffle,… Read More

Tech Moves: Algorithmia adds AI vet to board; Heart experts to advise Cardiac Insight

Algorithmia, a Seattle based marketplace for AI and machine learning algorithms, named prominent artificial intelligence executive Andy Jacques to its board… Read More

New analysis picks Washington, D.C., as frontrunner for Amazon’s HQ2

Another day, another Amazon HQ2 analysis. This time, researchers at Hamilton Place Strategies, an analytic PR consultancy, crunched the numbers… Read More

See you later, Swype: Popular text input keyboard discontinued as Seattle creators lament its demise

Not many technology products become a verb, as in “I Googled it” or “We Ubered.” But mobile keyboard startup Swype, created… Read More

Electromagnetic brain cancer treatment moves towards the market, but critics question its effectiveness

Nativis, a Seattle-based company developing a device that uses low-frequency radio energy waves to treat cancer and other diseases, announced… Read More

Amazon plans to more than double its Pittsburgh engineering center with 125 additional jobs

PITTSBURGH — Amazon will add 125 new jobs to its engineering center here, more than doubling its footprint and escalating… Read More

The price is right: What if I left Seattle and had Amazon money to shop for a home in Pittsburgh?

I bought my house in Seattle way back when people who didn’t build software for a living were still able… Read More

A walk through Pittsburgh’s East Liberty: Scenes from a neighborhood in transition

PITTSBURGH — Neighborhoods across this city have been through lots of change over the past several decades, but perhaps none… Read More

Amazon extends 5% back Prime credit card benefits to Whole Foods purchases

A credit card that gives Amazon Prime customers 5 percent back on all Amazon purchases now offers those benefits for… Read More

Cerebrawl: The inside story of Seattle’s own hyperkinetic, tag-match fighting game

For the last twenty years, the Marvel vs. Capcom series has been (in)famous among fighting-game fans. It’s a franchise that… Read More

We tested Amazon’s new Whole Foods delivery service in Austin, the upscale grocer’s hometown

AUSTIN, Texas — Gray skies, cops on bikes, microbrews and transit turmoil: If Texas’ state capital gets picked as Amazon’s HQ2,… Read More

What Seattle can learn from Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Copenhagen about navigating economic upheaval

In this period of political, economic, and technological upheaval, Bruce Katz believes we should look to cities to solve societal… Read More

T-Mobile’s ‘abominable carriers’ holiday ad sparks formal complaint from ‘major miser’ AT&T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0beXaPUlMzQ T-Mobile loves to get under the skin of its rival carriers and an ad over the holidays struck a… Read More

Planetary Resources asteroid venture misses fundraising target, forcing cutbacks

Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Wash.-based venture that aims to make a fortune mining asteroids, is facing a more down-to-earth challenge:… Read More

Is this really a tech ‘tahn’? Pittsburghers talk Seattle, Amazon HQ2, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos

PITTSBURGH — Longtime residents of this city like the idea of Amazon HQ2 in their city, have strong impressions of… Read More