Articles from 2018 – Page 144 of 161

TAE Technologies pushes plasma machine to a new high on the nuclear fusion frontier

TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Whole Foods delivery via Amazon Prime Now, and a special dispatch from GeekWire HQ2

It was a busy news week from coast to coast at GeekWire. This episode of the Week In Geek comes… Read More

Intel sets a record with 1,218-drone salute for Olympics’ opening ceremony in Korea

The Winter Olympics’ first-ever drone light show has earned Intel the title from Guinness World Records for the “most unmanned… Read More

Tech Moves: NBC Entertainment exec takes over Amazon Studios; Seattle Art Museum hires first CTO; and more

Amazon Studios has named NBC Entertainment executive Jennifer Salke as its new leader, several months after Roy Price was forced… Read More

Fresh raw imagery from NASA’s Juno orbiter puts Jupiter’s fans in 11th heaven

NASA’s Juno orbiter has sent back its 11th crop of close-ups from Jupiter, and that means it’s time for another… Read More

Geek of the Week: UW’s new iSchool dean Anind Dey happy to be ‘home’ after 13 years in Pittsburgh

After 13 years in Pittsburgh, Anind Dey grew to love many things about the Steel City, including the people, his… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Glowforge seeks engineer to lead 3D printer software development team

It’s been more than two years since 3D printer maker Glowforge raised $27.9 million through its crowdfunding campaign, breaking a… Read More

Uber settles self-driving trade secret suit with Waymo for $245M in equity

The legal battle that threatened to upend Uber’s self-driving vehicle program is coming to an end. RELATED: Inside Uber’s self-driving… Read More

Private-equity firm acquires majority stake in Bellevue’s Nintex as CEO John Burton steps down

Workplace automation software vendor Nintex is getting a new majority investor and a new CEO, it announced Friday. Thoma Bravo… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company and 3 other firms vie to build Chicago airport tunnel

The Boring Company, created by billionaire Elon Musk to revolutionize the market for tunnels and flamethrowers, is one of four… Read More

Report: Amazon gearing up to roll out FedEx and UPS competitor ‘Shipping with Amazon’ in L.A.

Amazon is on the verge of rolling out a new delivery service that will compete with carriers like FedEx and… Read More

Trump travel ban prevents Techstars Seattle entrepreneur from entering U.S. for startup program

In late November, Saba Mohebpour arrived in Los Angeles from his home in Canada on a temporary visa. He was there… Read More

Single in Seattle? It could take you 17 years to save for a down payment on a house, Zillow says

“Singles” might have been a romantic comedy when it came out in 1992, with its grunge-infused take on dating in… Read More

The ethics of AI: Robots will rise, but will they rule us all?

PITTSBURGH — David Danks thinks a lot about the implications of artificial intelligence. In fact, the Carnegie Mellon University philosophy and… Read More

Did NASA pass up SpaceX offer for Falcon Heavy payload? Former NASA official raises questions

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk makes it sound as if he always wanted to put a Tesla Roadster, and not much… Read More

3.8 billion miles! New Horizons spacecraft sends pictures from farthest vantage point

Two and a half years after becoming the first probe to study Pluto up close, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff talks about his investments in SpaceX and other ventures

Zillow Group has just reported an eye-popping $1 billion in annual revenue — but the Seattle-based real estate data company’s CEO,… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds new at-rest encryption option for DynamoDB database users

DynamoDB users have a new encryption option from Amazon Web Services, as the cloud leader continues to try and make… Read More

Expedia stock drops more than 15% as travel giant misses earnings expectations

Travel technology giant Expedia missed the mark on its 2017 earnings report Thursday, sending its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.… Read More

Zillow Group hits $1B annual revenue milestone for the 1st time following record quarterly results

Zillow Group topped $1 billion in revenue for the first time in 2017, and the Seattle-based real estate data company… Read More

Study: Average tech worker salary in Seattle hits $132K, making city the top spot for relocation

Tech workers in Seattle are making more and their salaries go further than those in competing markets, making the city… Read More

Good news for Starman: Spacefaring Tesla Roadster will miss Mars and asteroids

It took a day or two, but astronomers have figured out where the Tesla Roadster launched into deep space aboard… Read More

At community forum on Amazon HQ2, Pittsburgh looks to avoid becoming the next Seattle

PITTSBURGH — Seattleites like to point to the San Francisco Bay Area as a case study in problems to avoid:… Read More

Here’s how much T-Mobile paid to acquire Layer3 for its upcoming TV service

T-Mobile paid $325 million for Layer3, the Denver-based company that will form the backbone of the self-proclaimed Un-carrier’s TV service… Read More

TurboPatent lands $3.25M to help companies protect their inventions using automation

Seattle startup TurboPatent has raised $3.25 million to bolster its growing suite of automation tools for patents and intellectual property. TurboPatent focuses… Read More

T-Mobile adds 1.9M customers in Q4, posts $2.7B in profits, boosted by U.S. tax reform

T-Mobile reported another big quarter this morning, maintaining its momentum against larger wireless carriers Verizon and AT&T and wrapping up… Read More

New details on Amazon’s private meeting with Seattle officials: Who’s going, and what they’ll discuss

Amazon’s private meeting with Seattle leaders is coming into focus. The Feb. 9 roundtable will convene Amazon executives and city officials… Read More

Twitter stock soars 25% after company reports first-ever profit

Shares of Twitter were up 25 percent after the company posted its first-ever profit for the fourth quarter of 2017.… Read More

How Andrew Carnegie set the stage for Bill Gates to give away his fortune, altering philanthropy forever

Bill Gates made his money in software, Andrew Carnegie in steel. And while roughly a century separates these two hard-charging… Read More

Icertis raises $50M, looks to become the Salesforce of contract management

Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Icertis, thinks the contract-lifecycle management industry his company serves could become as large… Read More