Articles from 2018 – Page 59 of 161

Russians toss satellites and install animal tracking system in marathon spacewalk

News Brief: Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev tossed four small research satellites into orbit and installed an animal-tracking… Read More

TLDR: Alexa-Cortana integrations now available, thousands block Fortune 500 companies on Twitter, T-Mobile wants to fix customer service

Today’s featured stories Microsoft and Amazon begin public rollout of first Alexa-Cortana integrations, promise more to come Cortana meets Alexa,… Read More

No GPS? No problem! Researchers test new and improved systems to track drones

As more and more drones fill the skies, increasingly sophisticated methods will be required to track them under increasingly challenging… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Galaxy Note 9 hands-on review

The smartphone of the moment is Samsung’s new high-end Note 9, the super-powered competitor to phones like Apple’s iPhone X.… Read More

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs reveals plans for Toronto innovation district featuring light-up streets and timber towers

Google’s sister company, Sidewalk Labs, is reconceiving urban planning with one big, high-stakes experiment on Toronto’s waterfront. The company is… Read More

A ‘perfect storm’ of wildfires puts Seattle’s terrible air quality in the record books

If this week’s smoky skies seem unprecedented, that’s not far wrong: Thanks to an unusually unfortunate weather pattern, Seattle just… Read More

Republicans outraged after poster for Pearl Jam’s Montana concert depicts White House burning

“The Home Shows” have turned into “The Away Shows” for Seattle rock band Pearl Jam, and with that comes a… Read More

Clobotics lands $11M to keep wind turbines spinning safely with drones and AI

Clobotics, a startup using robotics and artificial intelligence to capture and analyze images for energy and retail companies, has raised… Read More

Dell EMC opening a retail store in Seattle? Turns out this storefront isn’t what it seems

Another historic Seattle building is undergoing a change. But don’t worry. The minor transformation of a space in the city’s… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: The saga of the stolen plane — and the flaws it revealed in airport security

After his shift last week, Horizon Airlines employee Richard Russell successfully stole a medium-sized plane and flew it across Western Washington,… Read More

Y Combinator to open research lab in Seattle, hires former Microsoft exec Qi Lu for new China arm

Y Combinator is extending its reach in both Seattle and China. The famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator announced today that… Read More

Cortana meets Alexa, Lesson No. 1: Keep your Windows 10 PC away from your Amazon Echo

I’m testing out the new integration of Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa, released as a public preview for the first… Read More

Most Americans believe tech companies should be regulated like news publishers, survey finds

A whopping 79 percent of Americans believe that tech companies should be regulated in the same way that news organizations… Read More

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson has another new startup: Limitless Minds applies mental lessons from sports to business

Long before the Super Bowl championship and the four Pro Bowl selections and the Rookie of the Year award, there… Read More

T-Mobile’s next ‘Un-carrier’ target: Customer service

T-Mobile has set its “Un-carrier” sights on what it calls the broken customer service process. T-Mobile today said it is… Read More

Quadriplegic man keeps on riding, using tech to enable 475-mile trip across state

Ian Mackay was 26 years old when a bicycle accident left him with a life-changing spinal cord injury. Ten years… Read More

Valence Group acquires Seattle studio 8ninths to harness expertise in VR and AR technology

8ninths, a small Seattle-based virtual and augmented reality studio with big visions, has been acquired by Valence Group Inc., a… Read More

Portland’s Twistlock raises $33M Series C round as demand for cloud-native security grows

As more and more companies start developing applications on top of cloud computing platforms, sometimes they need a little help… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon begin public rollout of first Alexa-Cortana integrations, promise more to come

In a somewhat surreal moment three months ago, an Amazon executive appeared on stage at the Microsoft Build developer conference… Read More

Engine test for NASA’s heavy-lift SLS rocket cuts off early, but achieves goals

News Brief: NASA put a developmental model of the RS-25 engine for its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket through a… Read More

Amazon Prime Air drone gets delivered to Smithsonian for museum display in 2021

Amazon’s drone delivery service is still in its experimental phase, but it’s already destined to become a part of American… Read More

TLDR: Real estate market slows, HQ2 cities that Seattleites are most interested in, Google’s massive Seattle campus

Today’s featured stories Redfin CEO warns of slowing national real estate market, as frustrated buyers are sitting out Seattleites are… Read More

Kroger inks deal with Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as it battles Amazon

Kroger today announced a deal with Chinese tech giant Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as the U.S. chain… Read More

New Intel chip flaw resembles Spectre and Meltdown, but targets special chip security features

Even security products have security flaws, and chip researchers just found a big one in Intel’s chips that can be… Read More

Social media activists pressure Twitter to drop Alex Jones by blocking Fortune 500 companies

Earlier this year Jeff Reifman — a veteran of the Seattle tech industry — contacted Grab Your Wallet co-founder Shannon Coulter… Read More

Trulia’s ‘Neighborhoods’ uses insight from locals, original photos and more to enhance home search

Various tools and apps exist in an effort to better inform home shoppers about schools, restaurants, crime, transit, walkability and… Read More

Podcast

How this workshop creates some of the world’s top sci-fi and fantasy writers, inside a Seattle house

This and every summer around the first of August, 18 students leave a house in Seattle’s University District, after an… Read More

Google doubles down on massive Seattle campus with another new building in Amazon’s backyard

Google’s huge Seattle campus being built on Amazon’s backyard of South Lake Union is about to get a lot bigger.… Read More

Next week! Join us for a GeekWire podcast event and ‘Thirsty Thursday’ rooftop meetup in Seattle

It’s summer in Seattle, and we’re excited to bring everyone together next week, on Thursday, Aug. 23, for a special… Read More

There’s a big difference between how men and women see employer salary policies

Given the breadth of data about unequal pay and other obstacles for women in tech, it should come as no… Read More