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Articles from 2018

NYC Council grills Amazon over HQ2: ‘You’re worth $1 trillion. Why do you need our $3 billion?’

Amazon got a healthy dose of New York brashness Wednesday as city councilmembers grilled company executives and their economic development… Read More

Fake moves: Dancing Russian robot that wowed state media turns out to be a human in a costume

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=154&v=4YUqUunt3Ns Oh, great, more Russian propaganda. Only this time it appears it was the Russians who were fooled by some… Read More

Robotics manufacturing firm Bright Machines expands to Seattle, hires senior Amazon engineering leader

San Francisco-based Bright Machines is coming to Seattle. The maker of software and robotics systems for manufacturing plans to open… Read More

Washington state ranks in top 10 in annual Speedtest U.S. broadband performance report

Even if it feels like your broadband connection is slug-slow at times, on the whole fixed internet connection speeds are… Read More

New compact Amazon Go store opens the door for locations in office lobbies, hospitals and more

Amazon showed off the newest location of its cashier-less Amazon Go concept for the first time Wednesday, but this store… Read More

Allen Institute for Immunology

Allen Institute launches new immunology division with $125M from its late founder

Billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen died two months ago, but before he passed away, he passed along a $125 million commitment… Read More

Biotech journalist Luke Timmerman sets his sights on Mount Kilimanjaro and $1M for cancer research

As a journalist, Luke Timmerman has covered biotech for more than 17 years. Now, the Timmerman Report founder is making… Read More

Voice is fine, but Synapse introduces a robot named Gerard to show off more contextual awareness

No doubt the proliferation of voice assistants has changed the landscape in which we live. Whether it’s Alexa or Siri… Read More

SpaceShipTwo / VSS Unity

Virgin Galactic gets set for SpaceShipTwo flights that aim for space — but how high?

Virgin Galactic says it’s beginning a series of SpaceShipTwo test flights that could cross the edge of the space frontier… Read More

Cutting into Soyuz cover

Russian spacewalkers carve away at Soyuz spaceship to inspect plugged hole

During an extraordinary spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts used sharp objects today to cut away layers of protective insulation on a… Read More

A baby dies, and a woman’s heartbreaking open letter implores tech companies to fix algorithms

We’re all freaked out, too frequently it seems, by the realization that our movements online are being watched and used… Read More

Tech Moves: Bumped fills out leadership; Starbucks lawyer leaves for equal-pay tech startup; and more

—Bumped is putting last summer’s $11.5 million funding round to work. The Portland-based startup, which rewards shoppers with shares of stock… Read More

AstrumU raises more cash for platform that matches Fortune 500 companies with college grads

Stealthy Seattle-area startup AstrumU continues to add talent and investment as it builds technology to match employers with job seekers.… Read More

After questioning moon landings, NBA star Stephen Curry gets an invite from NASA

One way to get an tour of Johnson Space Center’s high-security Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is to question whether people… Read More

Working Geek: For Amazon’s Alex Kravis, passion and practicality combined for role of a lifetime

Not only is Alex Kravis’s job as head of product and creative teams for Amazon’s Prime Video X-Ray a gig… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Bee with backpack

Bees with backpacks? Gnat-sized systems turn swarms of bugs into sensor networks

Bees with tiny electronic devices on their backs could sound like a researcher’s dream come true, or like a science-fiction… Read More

Photos and documents reveal Amazon’s future Queens home and how New York lured the company

Talent, real estate, accessibility, and killer views of the Manhattan skyline. Those are just some of the selling points New… Read More

An Amazon fulfillment center comes to ‘South Park’ and the tech giant is a Prime target for comedy

So, this is what it looks like when we do all of our shopping online and an Amazon fulfillment center… Read More

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The Education Equation: What the numbers say about the state of U.S. public K-12 schools

Back in ninth grade, Steve Ballmer transferred to a new school in Detroit and found himself behind in math. Fortunately,… Read More

Microsoft buys 300+ acres of land for $30M for ‘potential future use,’ growing European presence

Microsoft purchased a huge chunk of land in eastern Sweden that the company said it will hold on to for… Read More

Can a climate change candidate win in 2020? Washington Gov. Jay Inslee thinks so

“We defeated fascism. We went to the moon. We can beat climate change. I fundamentally believe that.” Speaking like a… Read More

Red Hat donates a key open-source Kubernetes tool to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Red Hat plans to announce Tuesday that it will donate an important tool that helps ensure Kubernetes clusters run reliably… Read More

Crashing KubeCon: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?

What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over… Read More

Hexa ultralight aircraft

Lift unveils an ultralight aircraft made for fun flights, with Seattle on its radar screen

A startup created by Matt Chasen, the founder of the uShip online shipping marketplace, aims to sell rides on electric-powered… Read More

Women-focused co-working startup The Riveter raises $15M, plans to open 100 locations by 2022

The Riveter has raised a $15 million Series A investment round as the female-focused co-working space operator prepares for a… Read More

Washington Gov. Inslee proposes ‘Clean Energy Smart Deal’ for next state legislative session

Electric vehicles cruising I-5, net-zero buildings emerging from construction sites, high-speed rail zipping through Cascadia, electric-hybrid ferries plying Puget Sound,… Read More

Remitly expands coverage for mobile remittance program to 40 countries, nears 1K employee mark

Remitly today announced a major expansion, expanding its mobile remittance service to 40 countries across the world. That’s up from… Read More

Microsoft’s investment arm M12 announces winners of $4M Female Founders Competition

Microsoft’s investment arm M12 on Tuesday announced the winners of its inaugural Female Founders Competition that awarded $4 million to… Read More

‘We’re going to find out if it’s a horrible idea’: James and Michelle Silva put a physical edition of their indie hit ‘Salt and Sanctuary’ on store shelves

On Tuesday, Ska Studios’s Salt and Sanctuary releases its “Drowned Tome Edition” for the Nintendo Switch. The package includes the… Read More

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