Articles from 2018 – Page 25 of 161

SpaceX reorganizes Starlink satellite operation, reportedly with high-level firings

SpaceX says it has reorganized its satellite development operation in Redmond, Wash., to accelerate design and testing of the elements… Read More

Scary, funny and everything in between: Tech companies share their geekiest Halloween get-ups

What do you dress up as for Halloween when you’re already a geek every other day of the year? Turns… Read More

The Power of Personalized Medicine: How tech is unlocking a new way of thinking about health

There have been a number of astronomical shifts in medicine over the centuries, from the discovery of antibiotics to the… Read More

T-Mobile gets shareholder sign off on pending merger with Sprint

T-Mobile has cleared another hurdle in its pursuit of merging with Sprint to create the “New T-Mobile.” The self-proclaimed Un-carrier… Read More

Inside Renton’s new STEM-focused elementary school that is preparing students to fill job skills gap

RENTON, Wash. — Science, technology, engineering, and math have long been rooted in the DNA of this city, home to… Read More

Podcast

How this geneticist went from struggling student to startup founder to selling her company for $102M

More than 20 years ago, Claudia Mitchell arrived in Paris to pursue a doctorate degree in molecular biology — with a… Read More

Will Amazon HQ2 mean relief for Seattle’s frenzied housing market? Redfin thinks so

Seattle home prices have been soaring for years, pitting buyers against each other in fierce competition as the city’s tech… Read More

Why in the universe is a blockchain company buying the assets of a formerly high-flying asteroid miner?

After months of financial uncertainty, the Planetary Resources asteroid-mining venture says its assets have been purchased by the Brooklyn-based ConsenSys… Read More

Lime pulls electric scooters after learning of defect that can cause batteries to catch fire

Over the summer, Lime quietly removed scooters from circulation in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Lake Tahoe after learning a… Read More

Boeing CTO sees new wave of rivals from tech billionaires, says big challenge is to act like a 2-year-old startup, not a 102-year-old company

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other heavyweights from the technology world are spending billions to tackle the next frontier of… Read More

6 ways your vote could be hacked during the midterms

We know every vote counts, but will your vote actually be counted? Or will it be hacked? I’ve spent the… Read More

Timelapse video: Miss the corpse plant blooming in Amazon’s Spheres? See it now in just 15 seconds

The Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse plant, takes about seven years to produce a bloom which only lasts about 48 hours.… Read More

How a 43-second outage on a key network connection staggered GitHub’s services for a day

One of the first things GitHub did under its new owner over the past week was put the finishing touches… Read More

Farewell, Kepler: NASA’s planet-hunting probe runs out of gas, but mission goes on

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope now belongs to the ages, with its fuel completely spent and its instruments shut down — but… Read More

How the internet of things is changing the design of office buildings and factories

As the internet of things makes its way into industrial and commercial settings, the real acceleration will come when people… Read More

Report: Microsoft picks new chip maker for AI co-processors on Azure, cutting Intel’s business in half

Xilinx is reportedly the beneficiary of a decision by Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure wizards to add another chip supplier to its… Read More

Facebook hiring at record pace, adds more than 10k people to headcount in one year

Facebook is making regular headlines for expanding its footprint with big new office leases in the Seattle region, and new… Read More

T-Mobile reports ‘best financials ever,’ adds 1.6M new customers in 3rd quarter

T-Mobile added 1.6 million customers in the last three months, marking the 22nd straight quarter with more than 1 million… Read More

Building X? Facebook reportedly plans major expansion of Oculus campus in Seattle suburbs

Facebook appears to be eyeing even more expansion in Redmond, Wash., where it has amassed a sprawling campus near Microsoft’s… Read More

Docker hires former Microsoft exec Neil Charney as CMO, also taps new CTO from VMware

Docker added three enterprise computing veterans to its executive roster Tuesday, filling the chief technology officer role vacated by its… Read More

Counting votes: Inside look at how King County uses tech to tally ballots as voter turnout surges

RENTON, WASH. — Seattle-area voters are coming out in force for this year’s midterm elections. More than 300,000 early ballots… Read More

Here’s everything Apple announced at its hardware event in New York City today

Six weeks after announcing a slew of new iPhones, Apple was back on stage today, this time giving a first… Read More

Kymeta’s Nathan Kundtz leaves CEO post to make way for growth-focused executive

Kymeta Corp., the antenna company backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says that CEO Nathan Kundtz will be leaving his… Read More

Rover acquires U.K.-based dog care company DogBuddy, accelerating its European expansion

Pet-sitting powerhouse Rover has made an acquisition that will help the Seattle company build on its European expansion, first disclosed earlier… Read More

From little kid to president of the company, Wizards of the Coast leader stays in the ever-evolving game

RENTON, Wash. — There’s something special about a workplace where you meet with the president of the company, ask to… Read More

Lime pursues car sharing in Seattle, breaking new ground for the bike and scooter startup

Lime wants to add cars to its Seattle mobility fleet, expanding beyond the bright green, rentable bikes the company currently… Read More

Loge Camps taking hospitality for outdoors enthusiasts beyond Northwest as it raises $4.5M

Loge Camps, the hospitality startup that caters to outdoors lovers and adventure sports enthusiasts, is expanding beyond the Pacific Northwest… Read More

Cray has already struck one of its biggest ever deals for its new Shasta supercomputer

Cray plans to announce Tuesday that the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center has signed a $146… Read More

Healthcare tech startup 98point6 raises $50M, led by Goldman Sachs, to expand its ‘virtual clinic’

98point6, a Seattle-based startup developing an entirely virtual primary care service, has raised $50 million in a round led by… Read More

Tech Moves: Qumulo taps Amazon exec to lead HR; Lighter Capital appoints CMO; and more

Qumulo, a fast-growing file storage technology company, has hired a new VP of people to oversee its growing workforce. Robyn… Read More