Articles from 2018 – Page 143 of 161

Center for Infectious Disease Research awarded $17.2M to tackle tuberculosis ‘global health crisis’

Seattle’s Center for Infectious Disease Research announced Tuesday that it has received a new, $17.2 million grant from the National Institute… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates join Lin-Manuel Miranda to talk ‘Hamilton,’ global health, AI and more

Bill and Melinda Gates answered “10 tough questions” in their annual letter, released Tuesday morning. Later in the day, they… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Trainiac puts a personal trainer in your pocket to help you get fit

If you really want to get a fitness program going, it’s not enough to just count your daily steps. Instead,… Read More

Researchers use computing power to raise the bar for ultrathin metasurface cameras

Imagine a camera that captures pictures on a flat surface, without any need for a glass lens. Such cameras already… Read More

Amazon reportedly venturing into healthcare supplies, targeting hospitals and clinics

Amazon is expanding its reach in the healthcare supply market, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Hospital… Read More

Casting call: GeekWire is looking for top entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas on the ride up Seattle’s Space Needle

Got a great entrepreneurial idea? Want to tell the world about it? GeekWire is excited to bring back The Elevator… Read More

Pittsburgh research giants unveil landmark $200M immunotherapy center to combat cancer and aging

PITTSBURGH — Far before humans understood the basics of modern medicine, our immune systems protected our bodies from microscopic invaders… Read More

County exec on Pittsburgh’s Amazon HQ2 secrecy: ‘You can’t have 1.3M people negotiating a deal’

PITTSBURGH — Rich Fitzgerald is confident he can forge a mutually beneficial partnership between Amazon and Pittsburgh if the region… Read More

Bill Gates warns tech giants that a government crackdown may be in their future

Bill Gates believes the world’s biggest tech companies are “absolutely” behaving in a manner that risks major government intervention. The… Read More

Seattle Children’s receives $60M donation to fund care for sick children, second largest in its history

Seattle Children’s, the largest children’s hospital and pediatric research center in Washington state, says it has received the second largest… Read More

Google’s new ‘AMP for Email’ project expands Accelerated Mobile Pages to Gmail

Google is bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to Gmail, making it possible to update a meeting invitation, get updated flight information… Read More

More beer for your buck: PicoBrew Z Series brewing machines target restaurants, bars and more

PicoBrew, the Seattle-based makers of craft beer brewing appliances suitable for the homebrewer’s kitchen counter, is upping the game with… Read More

Gatorade partners with Seattle startup Volt, will integrate nutrition advice into workout app

Volt Athletics is teaming up with one of the biggest names in sports business. The Seattle startup today announced a… Read More

Gates Foundation’s annual letter answers ’10 tough questions’ routinely put to Bill and Melinda

This year’s annual letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — their 10th such correspondence with the world —… Read More

IBM sues Microsoft’s new chief diversity officer over non-compete agreement

UPDATED below with Microsoft comment and McIntyre declaration. Also see this follow-up story about how employment lawyers are reacting to… Read More

Titan unleashed: OceanGate’s Titanic sub takes to the water with a new name

Don’t call it Cyclops 2: The five-person submersible built by Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has been renamed Titan, befitting its role… Read More

You can close the door, but you can’t hide from Boston Dynamics’ latest robot dogs

We all laughed at the video of a robot falling over while trying to turn a doorknob. Who’s laughing now?… Read More

How Carnegie Mellon researchers are preparing for the rise of edge computing, with a $27.5M grant

Edge computing will change many of the underlying assumptions that applications make in the era of cloud and mobile computing,… Read More

Podcast

Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech

If you were to ask globally known clean energy expert Ramez Naam what makes him optimistic about technology and the… Read More

Commercial space ventures hail NASA opportunities in orbit and on the moon

The Trump administration’s proposed shift to commercial partners for space operations in low Earth orbit as well as on and… Read More

Travel giant Expedia cuts jobs in tech infrastructure and operations teams

Expedia Inc. has cut about 30 jobs from its technology infrastructure and operations teams, most of them at the online… Read More

T-Mobile CEO John Legere lists ornate New York penthouse overlooking Central Park for $22M

John Legere moved on up and now he’s moving on out. The T-Mobile CEO has listed his deluxe penthouse in… Read More

NASA budget proposal boosts commercial role in space station and moon missions

The White House’s proposed five-year budget plan would provide a bigger boost to commercial space efforts, including a potential handover… Read More

Amazon confirms job cuts at Seattle headquarters, hundreds of positions impacted

Fast-growing Amazon is cutting hundreds of staffers as the Seattle-based company makes adjustments in its core consumer retail business. “As… Read More

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts, aiming at Echo, cameras, and AI

Amazon has been designing its own chips for a few years, ever since acquiring Annapurna Labs in 2016, but it… Read More

Merck subsidiary StayWell acquires Portland digital health startup Provata Health

StayWell, a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Merck, announced Monday that it has acquired Portland, Ore., based digital health company… Read More

Former Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid on the rise of ‘invisible’ tech, robotics, AI, and Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — So much has changed, in this city and in the technology world, since Rick Rashid arrived in 1979… Read More

SpaceX set to launch first prototype Starlink satellites for global internet

The first test satellites for SpaceX’s global internet constellation are being prepped for launch — three years after SpaceX CEO… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 4, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 4, 2018. Read More

‘Whose City? Our City!’: Pittsburgh citizens worry about consequences of Amazon HQ2

PITTSBURGH — Economic development officials around the country are competing for Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters, which promises 50,000 jobs… Read More