Articles from 2018

Teleporting holograms, a belt for fetal health, and more at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup student contest

Bill Zhou wanted to be able to help his mom fix the WiFi router when she called. The only problem?… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Facial recognition enters grade schools and Bird scooters landing in Seattle

It was quite a week for controversial news. First up: Would you let a facial recognition program track your kids… Read More

Freshly hatched Loon strikes deal to beam internet access from balloons over Kenya

News Brief: A week after becoming an independent business under Alphabet’s wing, the venture formerly known as Google’s Project Loon… Read More

Boeing outdoes Airbus’ jet sales tally at Farnborough, but the details are murky

Boeing declared victory in its multibillion-dollar sales competition with Airbus at this week’s Farnborough International Airshow — but the details are… Read More

The gift of grunge: Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture to receive Chris Cornell statue from singer’s family

Update, Aug. 23: In order to accommodate more fans and expected crowds, the Museum of Pop Culture has moved the… Read More

Geek of the Week: Slalom’s Jeremiah Dangler helps find solutions to big problems as Hackathon leader

Jeremiah Dangler came to technology later than many who make a career out of it. But at Slalom, the business… Read More

Amazon opening 1st distribution center in Eastern Washington, 4th overall in home state

Amazon said it will open a fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash., the state’s second largest city. The 600,000-square-foot facility, which… Read More

T-minus-1 year: The moon is on the rise as Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary approaches

Forty-nine years ago today, humans first set foot on a world beyond Earth — and by the time the 50th anniversary… Read More

FCC wants to know if the public thinks the T-Mobile/Sprint deal is a good idea

T-Mobile and Sprint certainly think their plan to join forces is good for the public, and now regulators want to… Read More

Why this new Silicon Valley seed-stage VC firm thinks it can win — and why it’s focusing on Seattle

David Rosenthal knows about the dearth of early-stage financing options available to entrepreneurs in the Seattle region. The venture capitalist… Read More

How Microsoft’s record-setting $10B gaming year compares to rivals Sony and Nintendo

In a fiscal year littered with firsts, Microsoft’s gaming division hit a new high water mark. RELATED: Microsoft closes record year… Read More

‘It’s actually my favorite holiday’: Singer Demi Lovato plays to Amazon’s Prime crowd in Seattle

Amazon’s latest Prime Day is in the books, and now so is the celebration for employees in Seattle. The tech… Read More

Enjoy July’s gems from Juno at Jupiter

NASA’s Juno orbiter made another close pass of Jupiter this week, and that means there’s another crop of stunning pictures… Read More

Photographer Chase Jarvis partners with Apple to create Photo Lab to teach the craft in 500 stores

Seattle photographer Chase Jarvis has been capturing images and teaching people how to make better ones for years. Now he’s… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Skillspire helps immigrants build tech skills in a supportive environment

Despite his background in computer science, one of Yasmin Ali’s students had been stuck working warehouse jobs. The man is… Read More

Tech Moves: Tune hires VP of product management as director of product leaves for Rover, and more

Seattle-based mobile analytics and marketing company Tune hired Bhavana Mathur from Apptio to be its new vice president of product management.… Read More

Eww! Experts open black sarcophagus to reveal skeletons lying in a soggy mess

Egyptian archaeologists say they’ve opened up a mysterious black sarcophagus found during excavations in Alexandria, and although they didn’t uncover… Read More

Updated: Microsoft records 23% jump in Intelligent Cloud revenue, Azure revenue up 89% but undisclosed

Microsoft’s cloud division remains one of the primary architects of its comeback in recent years, posting a 23 percent jump… Read More

Microsoft closes record year with $110B in revenue, cruising past Wall Street expectations again

PREVIOUSLY: Microsoft caps off a historic fiscal year filled with firsts Microsoft finished off a record fiscal year by hitting all-time… Read More

Report: Amazon underestimated traffic demands for Prime Day, scrambled to add servers in hopes of fixing widespread glitches

Even though it has the world’s leading cloud-computing service within the corporate family, Amazon engineers have to configure its retail… Read More

Teleporting holograms, a belt for fetal health, and more at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup student contest

Week In Geek Podcast: Facial recognition enters grade schools and Bird scooters landing in Seattle

Freshly hatched Loon strikes deal to beam internet access from balloons over Kenya

Boeing outdoes Airbus’ jet sales tally at Farnborough, but the details are murky

The gift of grunge: Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture to receive Chris Cornell statue from singer’s family

Geek of the Week: Slalom’s Jeremiah Dangler helps find solutions to big problems as Hackathon leader

Amazon opening 1st distribution center in Eastern Washington, 4th overall in home state

T-minus-1 year: The moon is on the rise as Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary approaches

FCC wants to know if the public thinks the T-Mobile/Sprint deal is a good idea

Why this new Silicon Valley seed-stage VC firm thinks it can win — and why it’s focusing on Seattle

How Microsoft’s record-setting $10B gaming year compares to rivals Sony and Nintendo

‘It’s actually my favorite holiday’: Singer Demi Lovato plays to Amazon’s Prime crowd in Seattle

Enjoy July’s gems from Juno at Jupiter

Photographer Chase Jarvis partners with Apple to create Photo Lab to teach the craft in 500 stores

Startup Spotlight: Skillspire helps immigrants build tech skills in a supportive environment

Tech Moves: Tune hires VP of product management as director of product leaves for Rover, and more

Eww! Experts open black sarcophagus to reveal skeletons lying in a soggy mess

Updated: Microsoft records 23% jump in Intelligent Cloud revenue, Azure revenue up 89% but undisclosed

Microsoft closes record year with $110B in revenue, cruising past Wall Street expectations again

Report: Amazon underestimated traffic demands for Prime Day, scrambled to add servers in hopes of fixing widespread glitches

Nearly half of job openings at tech companies are for non-tech roles, study finds

The joke’s on Batman — and Seattle — in Conan O’Brien bit pitting Marvel superheroes against DC

Bird landing in Seattle? Job postings indicate electric scooter launch, despite city objections

The cities making a dent in homelessness — and what Seattle can learn from them

Microsoft earnings preview: Tech giant caps off a historic fiscal year filled with firsts

Dockless bikeshare service Ofo reportedly laying off most of US workforce

Working Geek: This CenturyLink exec turns family and friends’ feedback into systemic fixes

Heads up! Amazon wins a patent for robotic arms that toss warehouse items

TLDR on location: Prime Day breaks record, Bill Gates invests in Alzheimer’s initiative, Wanderlust Society

Evolving cloud services need flexible chips, and Portland’s Megh Computing thinks it can contribute