Articles from 2018 – Page 22 of 161

Washington state climate initiative with millions of dollars in support from tech leaders is defeated

Washington voters defeated an initiative to combat climate change that drew endorsements and millions of dollars in support from the… Read More

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

Two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back… Read More

‘Oumuamua, oh my! Was interstellar object actually an alien solar sail? Not so fast

‘Oumuamua is long gone from the inner solar system, but the mystery surrounding the interstellar interloper has been rekindled, thanks… Read More

Zillow Group hires Amazon veteran Allen Parker as new CFO

Zillow Group today announced the hiring of Allen Parker as the company’s new chief financial officer. Parker previously spent more than… Read More

Tableau crosses 4,000 employees for the 1st time as transition to subscriptions continues

Tableau Software’s primary initiative over the last 18 months has been transitioning to a subscription model for its data visualization… Read More

With new support from Amazon Web Services, AMD unveils its best shot in years at denting Intel’s data center dominance

Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for… Read More

Got what it takes to compete in the GeekWire Gala ugly sweater contest?

The rains are hitting. The cold winds are blowing, and darkness is starting to arrive earlier on the shores of… Read More

Zillow Group shares dip 20% after Q3 earnings; company reveals revenue from new home-buying business; hires CFO from Amazon

Zillow Group for the first time revealed revenue from its new home-buying and selling business as part of its third… Read More

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center signs collaboration deal with Chinese genomics giant BGI

Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and BGI, a giant in global genomics sciences, announced Tuesday that they are planning… Read More

Russia says one of its space station computers failed but two others are A-OK

One of the three computers on the Russian side of the International Space Station has crashed, but orbital operations are… Read More

Microsoft’s Cortana chief Javier Soltero is leaving the company

Javier Soltero, the leader of Microsoft’s Cortana division, is leaving the company. Soltero confirmed his departure on Twitter after it… Read More

How will the cooling housing market affect Zillow and Redfin’s new direct home sale programs?

When Seattle-based online real estate giants Zillow Group and Redfin jumped into directly buying and selling homes to the consumer,… Read More

Lyft and Uber promote Election Day discounts to get voters to polls or vote-by-mail ballot drop boxes

Ride-hailing services Lyft and Uber — and their community partners — are promoting discounts to get voters to the polls… Read More

Stratolaunch completes milestone preburner test firing for PGA rocket engine

Stratolaunch Systems, the space venture founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it has successfully completed the first hot-fire test… Read More

As enterprise computing prepares for a multicloud world, cloud-native startups like Heptio will be attractive targets

“Cloud native” has always had the ring of yet another enterprise computing buzzword, one designed to sound impressive to people… Read More

This Election Day, the battleground is shifting in the fight over fake news

Facebook and Twitter have been cracking down on political disinformation during the current election cycle, but there are signs that… Read More

Seattle zoo teams with Firefox to stream video of red panda as cute stress reliever on Election Day

Looking for a place to think about something other than Election Day and the drama that will play out as… Read More

CopperTree Analytics acquires BuildPulse, a competing building energy management startup

Surrey, B.C.-based CopperTree Analytics has acquired Seattle-based startup BuildPulse in a deal that brings together two building energy management competitors.… Read More

Smartphone stethoscope maker Steth IO launches AI assistant to help doctors detect heart problems

The stethoscope is an enduring symbol of medicine, but the long-serving tool isn’t actually as effective as you might think.… Read More

Dropbox Extensions another sign that walled gardens won’t fly in enterprise SaaS

Dropbox plans to unveil several new ties between popular document formats and enterprise-software applications later on Tuesday, part of an… Read More

The Star Wars fix we were looking for: Students turn their bipedal robot into a convincing AT-ST Walker

The Ewoks are going to want to run for their lives if this thing tramps through the woods of Oregon.… Read More

Seattle mayor celebrates reports that Amazon may split HQ2: ‘I’d call those branch offices’

Amazon’s desire to see other cities — revealed by its search for a second headquarters home — hasn’t always cast… Read More

VMware acquires Seattle’s Heptio to double down on Kubernetes

VMware’s ongoing transition into the cloud era took a big step Tuesday with the acquisition of Heptio, a startup that… Read More

Tethers Unlimited’s 3-D printer and recycler is ready for delivery to space station

There’s nothing new about having a 3-D printer in space, but how about a 3-D printer that also recycles plastic… Read More

Bill Gates opens ‘Reinvented Toilet Expo’ in China, promoting biggest sanitation advances in 200 years

Bill Gates has been thinking about sanitation and toilets ever since he stopped working full time at Microsoft. In those… Read More

Report: Amazon will split HQ2 between Long Island City in Queens, and Crystal City in DC

The latest update in Amazon’s HQ2 sweepstakes came Monday evening from The New York Times, which reported that Amazon is… Read More

Facebook set for major expansion of Seattle engineering center with huge new office leases

Facebook is dramatically expanding its engineering center in Seattle, leasing a huge chunk of office space in the South Lake… Read More

With a boost from Shell, HyperSciences blasts past $3M in crowdfunding campaign

HyperSciences’ hypersonic blaster technology can be used to send projectiles up into the air, or down into rock — either way,… Read More

For the first time, Amazon is hiring its own drivers as seasonal employees to help deliver packages

Amazon has used drivers from UPS, FedEx, USPS, third-party couriers, and other services — including its Uber-like platform Amazon Flex… Read More

Geek on the Street: What was the most memorable Uber ride you’ve ever taken?

Ah, memories. In this episode of Geek on the Street, we asked folks at Seattle Center to briefly tell us… Read More