Articles from 2018 – Page 17 of 161

Holy sheets: Multifactor authentication bug locks out Office 365 users

Microsoft Azure’s multifactor authentication system was down for an extended period of time Sunday evening into Monday morning, preventing users… Read More

Skype calling comes to Alexa devices, furthering Amazon and Microsoft’s surprising partnership

Skype audio and video calling is now available on Alexa-powered devices, the latest integration to come out of the alliance… Read More

Virgin Orbit jet aces its first captive-carry flight with LauncherOne rocket attached

Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 jet, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, has made its first test flight with a LauncherOne rocket tucked… Read More

GM’s Cruise Automation self-driving car venture plans Seattle office with up to 200 engineers

Cruise Automation, General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle subsidiary, says it’s getting ready to open up an office in the Seattle area that… Read More

Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approach

At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an existential crisis. There’s no question that the concept of… Read More

Uber launches dockless bikeshare in Seattle, rolling out hundreds of red JUMP electric bicycles

Today, Uber is launching its JUMP service in Seattle, rolling out 300 electric-assist bicycles to start. The company will continue… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 11, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 11, 2018. Read More

Steve Carell as Jeff Bezos on ‘Saturday Night Live’ trolls Trump just days after Amazon picks HQ2 sites

Amazon announced its intentions this week to go live from New York with one of its new headquarters locations. On… Read More

GeekWire’s HQ2 tour: 5 takeaways from the front lines of Amazon’s ambitious headquarters experiment

NEW YORK — Beginning in 2019, Amazon employees will be traveling between the company’s original Seattle home and its two new… Read More

Antares rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship, doubling up space station deliveries

Two uncrewed cargo craft are now en route to the International Space Station, thanks to the launch of a Northrop… Read More

Elon Musk celebrates Boring Company’s big breakthrough at end of test tunnel

The Boring Company’s “cutting-edge technology” got a shout-out from billionaire founder Elon Musk tonight after the venture’s tunneling machine, nicknamed… Read More

Working Geek: As PitchBook soared, so did career of employee No. 5 Adley Bowden

Sure Adley Bowden has been with the same company for a decade. But the PitchBook that hired him practically straight… Read More

Bandai Namco Entertainment abruptly shutters mobile-focused studio in Vancouver, B.C.

Bandai Namco Entertainment’s Vancouver, B.C.-based development studio has been shut down, according to senior VP of development Landon Nguyen, who… Read More

44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up

The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years… Read More

Microsoft reportedly working on low-cost, disc-less Xbox One, with ‘disc to digital’ trade-in program

Microsoft is reportedly building a new Xbox device that doesn’t have a disc drive and costs less than today’s Xbox… Read More

Amazon Web Services tries to make it even harder to leave your cloud storage buckets unlocked

In hopes of preventing more customers from inadvertently releasing their secrets onto the internet, Amazon Web Services introduced a new… Read More

Geek of the Week: From software developer to urban developer, Liz Dunn rethinks Seattle spaces

Liz Dunn started her career as a software developer at Microsoft two years after the company moved to Redmond, Wash.… Read More

Russia’s ‘perfect’ launch of cargo ship to space station clears way for crew’s trip

Russia successfully launched an uncrewed Progress cargo spaceship today to the International Space Station, using a Soyuz rocket similar to the one… Read More

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene stepping down, to be replaced by former Oracle cloud exec Thomas Kurian

Three eventful years after veteran tech executive and longtime Google board member Diane Greene was brought in to run the… Read More

SEC orders cryptocurrency companies to return money to ICO investors in groundbreaking settlement

A pair of cryptocurrency companies have been ordered to offer money back to investors who participated in their initial coin… Read More

‘I predict one day Amazon will fail’: Jeff Bezos offers sobering message amid tech giant’s growth

As competitors crumble under the pressure to keep up in the age of online retail, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had… Read More

Spaceflight Industries goes through financial restructuring as key launch nears

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries laid out the status of a debt restructuring plan this week in advance of its most ambitious… Read More

Rocket Lab reports $140M in fresh funding, cementing space unicorn status

Fresh on the heels of a successful satellite launch, Rocket Lab today announced that it has received $140 million in… Read More

SpaceX launches Qatar’s Es’hail-2 telecom satellite, and then lands Falcon 9 booster

SpaceX sent the Es’hail-2 telecommunications satellite into orbit today, then brought the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster back down for… Read More

In New York and Washington D.C., Amazon is moving into President Trump’s stomping grounds

NEW YORK — Amazon’s plan to move at least 25,000 employees with annual salaries averaging $150,000 into skyscrapers in Long… Read More

Here’s how much Zillow is paying its new CFO to come over from Amazon

Zillow Group disclosed how much it is paying its new CFO, long-time Amazon veteran Allen Parker. Parker will receive a… Read More

FCC OKs SpaceX’s plan for 7,500 satellites in very low Earth orbit (and its rivals’ plans)

The Federal Communications Commission today gave the go-ahead for SpaceX to operate a constellation of more than 7,500 broadband access… Read More

T-Mobile Field? Uncarrier Park? Report says wireless giant to assume naming rights for Seattle baseball stadium

The Safeco Field signage came down from Seattle’s baseball stadium a week ago, and according to a new report, the… Read More

Lyft to add default tipping to its app and automatic 5-star driver ratings starting in December

If you forget to tip or rate your driver, don’t worry — Lyft says it has your back. Even if… Read More

Shyft lands $6.5M to help retail and service workers easily swap schedules

Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised… Read More