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Articles from 2018

Microsoft HoloLens brings 300-year-old 3D model to life and offers new view of French landmark

The historic island commune of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, is a stunning visual display, with its medieval monastery rising up… Read More

Alaska Airlines begins ticket sales for 18 daily flights from Paine Field north of Seattle

Travelers in Seattle and cities to the nearby east and north of the major tech hub can now start buying… Read More

Hands-on with the $350 Surface Headphones: Why is Microsoft making them, and are they any good?

Though the surprise announcement of Microsoft’s new wireless headphones seemingly came out of nowhere, the final product was the culmination… Read More

Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise

Salesforce Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount of money in container pioneer Docker as part of an extension of a… Read More

Odysseus drone

Boeing subsidiary says its solar-powered Odysseus drone will fly high in 2019

Aurora Flight Sciences, a pioneer in experimental flying vehicles that became a Boeing subsidiary last year, says its solar-powered, high-altitude,… Read More

Polar bears

Census shows that U.S.-Russian polar bear population is stable … at least for now

The first census of polar bears living around the Chukchi Sea, straddling Alaska and eastern Siberia, suggests that the population… Read More

Chef cutting 10 jobs amid ongoing shift to new application-focused product strategy

Seattle’s Chef is eliminating ten jobs as it reorganizes the company around the ongoing shift to cloud computing, GeekWire has… Read More

Game review: Archiact’s ‘Evasion’ is a challenging but rewarding VR trip through bullet hell

“Bullet hell,” or danmaku (Japanese; lit. “bullet curtain”), is a sub-genre of shoot-’em-up games that’s all about dodging constant streams… Read More

Barnard's Star b

Scientists report a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, a mere 6 light-years away

The astronomical team that found the nearest exoplanet at Proxima Centauri has done it again with the reported detection of… Read More

Amazon Web Services promises to support OpenJDK through 2023 with release of internal tool as new open source project

Developers using the popular OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) software tool can breathe a little easier Wednesday after Amazon Web Services… Read More

Microsoft releases new diversity numbers, says it’s ‘closer to the beginning of the journey than the end’

Like much of the tech industry, Microsoft says it is focused on making its workplace more diverse and inclusive, and… Read More

Tech Moves: Rep the Squad CEO joins Bulletproof as startup closes; Banzai adds AI2 exec; and more

As sports jersey rental startup Rep the Squad winds down operations, its founder and CEO is on to a new… Read More

Oracle’s protest of the $10B Pentagon cloud contract dismissed by federal auditors

The U.S. Government and Accountability Office has rejected a protest leveled by Oracle against the process for awarding the ten-year,… Read More

Seattle Symphony’s immersive Octave 9 space to open in March and feature 24-hour music marathon

If you want to completely immerse yourself for a day in a technologically advanced, 360-degree music environment, you’re about to… Read More

Podcast

New Yorkers protest Amazon HQ2: ‘We should be investing in housing … not in helicopters’

NEW YORK — Shawn Dixon’s life changed overnight. On Tuesday he was surprised to learn that Amazon plans to build… Read More

Need a Geek Style Reboot? You could win an amazing day of pampering at Nordstrom before our GeekWire Gala

The holidays are fast approaching and that means family, food, good cheer and … stress! Let us help you out… Read More

Microsoft acquires bot studio XOXCO to boost conversational AI offerings

Microsoft has acquired XOXCO, an Austin-based company that builds bots and conversational artificial intelligence tools, the latest in a series… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Museum of Flight

Dan Primack is right: Amazon has not sparked a startup wave in Seattle

Dan Primack is one of my favorite journalists on the startup and venture capital beat, and his Pro Rata newsletter… Read More

Educative raises $2.3M from Trilogy and other investors for its programming education platform

Seattle-based coding education startup Educative on Wednesday announced it has raised a $2.3 million seed round to help it further… Read More

Pacific Northwest-made indie video game ‘Celeste’ picks up long shot Game of the Year nomination

The Vancouver, B.C.-made indie game Celeste picked up a surprise Game of the Year nomination as the annual Game Awards… Read More

Software robot startup UiPath lands funding from Madrona and others, plans Seattle-area expansion

New York-based UiPath, a startup specializing in Robotic Process Automation, a new arena also known as “software robots,” has reeled… Read More

Microsoft plans to support Carnegie Mellon’s edge computing research with hardware, Azure services

Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University are set to receive hybrid cloud hardware and service credits from Microsoft as it… Read More

Vacation rental company Vacasa moves deeper into big cities with new apartment leasing offering

Vacasa today unveiled a new program to add apartments and condos in big cities to its growing vacation rental platform.… Read More

Virgin Orbit taxi test

Virgin Orbit puts flying launch pad through speedy taxi test with a rocket in its pocket

British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit space venture notched another milestone over the Veterans Day weekend: the first high-speed taxi… Read More

Empire State Building glows orange for Amazon and New Yorkers are seeing red on Twitter

The Empire State Building in New York City has been bathed in light to celebrate everything from the Fourth of… Read More

The Riveter and Alaska Airlines partner to create ‘The Official Airline of the Future of Work’

Coworking just became coflying. Seattle-based coworking space provider The Riveter announced Tuesday that it’s partnering with Seattle-based Alaska Airlines to exchange… Read More

Jeff Bezos and New Glenn

How Blue Origin space venture’s HQ2, HQ3 and HQ4 blazed a trail for Amazon HQ plan

The process that Amazon went through to choose New York, Northern Virginia and Nashville as key sites for expansion isn’t… Read More

Podcast

Virginia forms new neighborhood for Amazon, bracing for radical change in a sleepy DC suburb

ARLINGTON, Va. — Tell residents of this city that Amazon is moving into their National Landing neighborhood, and they’ll have… Read More

Flying to HQ2? Amazon’s picks intensify competition between Alaska and Delta in Seattle

Want to get from Amazon’s HQ1 city to all three of the new cities revealed by the tech giant on… Read More

Lime plans to launch 1,500 ‘LimePod’ cars in Seattle, creating largest car-sharing fleet in the U.S.

Shared bikes and scooters from transportation company Lime are already rolling across cities all over the U.S. But soon, the… Read More

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