Special Olympics open in Seattle with celebration of inclusion; Microsoft CEO applauds athletes’ spirit The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games opened in Seattle on Sunday at the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium with a… Read More
Seattle Mariners turn ahead clock, again, to 2027 and the fun is in the geeky, futuristic details The Seattle Mariners went back to the future on Saturday night with a celebration rooted in the past. In honor… Read More
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 24, 2018 See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of June 24, 2018. Read More
Lessons in artificial intelligence from Nest, Audi and a cockerel The most important thing to get right about AI is what you are trying to optimize. For all the hype… Read More
From virtual reality to ebooks, the future of digital media in schools is a total toss-up The future of content in education is … robots? Well, not really. But it was easy to get that impression… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek podcast: Under the hood of Amazon’s surprising new delivery service and $1B acquisition This week, like so many, was filled with big announcements from Amazon. First, the company unveiled a new last-mile delivery… Read More
Nintendo’s NES Classic returns to stores after massive hype in limited run, and it’s going fast If you missed out on the Nintendo NES Classic craze in late 2016, you’re in luck. Friday’s relaunch of the… Read More
Geek of the Week: Arborist Brian Holers uses technology to get to the root of tree preservation When he was growing up, Brian Holers had a love for the outdoors — fishing, playing baseball, running through corn… Read More
Funko stock returns to pre-IPO price in rebound from rocky start as a public company Shares in Funko — the Everett, Wash. maker of Pop! figurines — hit an important milestone Friday, continuing a rebound… Read More
GeekWork Picks: Mechanic service mobile app Wrench searches for software engineer Long ago, people flipped through the yellow pages to find a mechanic. Now, there’s Wrench, and the team is looking… Read More
GeekWire 200 June update: Bezos’ Blue Origin is No. 1 as dust settles following another IPO For all of Jeff Bezos’ accomplishments, one accolade he hadn’t attained was leading a company sitting atop the GeekWire 200, our… Read More
Resilience and risk-taking: How the immigration experience shapes the path of foreign-born entrepreneurs First- and second-generation immigrants make up only 27 percent of the U.S. population, yet more than half of the most… Read More
More details leak about Microsoft’s ‘new and disruptive’ dual-screen Surface device Microsoft’s long-rumored, dual-screen Surface device will fold up small enough to fit in a pocket, according to an internal document… Read More
Seattle-based cloud telecom company Flowroute to be acquired by West Corporation In a move to expand its existing service technology, Omaha, Neb.-based telecommunications company West Corporation announced Friday that it agreed… Read More
‘Defining moment’ for Seattle as Microsoft, Amazon, others support Special Olympics USA Games Seattle-area tech companies are making a statement about building an inclusive workforce as the city hosts one of the largest… Read More
Litesprite, maker of games that treat mental health, wins inaugural TRAILS healthcare competition Seattle startup Litesprite, which develops mobile games that treat mental health disorders, took home the crown at the inaugural TRAILS… Read More
AI2 taps University of Washington researcher to lead $125M ‘common sense AI’ initiative The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle is making an ambitious bid to give AI common sense, a major factor… Read More
We asked GeekWire readers which Amazon HQ2 city they would live in — and it’s not what we expected More than 2,000 GeekWire readers told us which of the 20 cities in the running for Amazon’s second headquarters they… Read More
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends AI robot pal and other experiments to space station SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending an AI-enabled, sphere-shaped robot… Read More
Building a ‘cell tower in a box’ to connect some of the billions of people lacking internet access Roughly half of the world’s households have internet access, leaving billions of people without a tool that’s become essential for… Read More
Simulated moon dirt is turning up some real challenges for future lunar missions RENTON, Wash. — When commercial ventures start setting up shop on the moon, they may well run into nasty clouds of… Read More
Master Chief comes to TV: Showtime and Amblin team up to make Microsoft’s ‘Halo’ into new series Like a lot of things that were popular in the 2000s, Microsoft and 343 Industries’s Halo franchise was optioned for… Read More
TLDR: Amazon’s blue crew delivery, Amazon agrees to acquire PillPack, Coinme installs 50th Bitcoin ATM Today’s featured stories Inside Amazon’s Prime photo op: A secret bus ride, a spectacular Seattle view — but alas, no… Read More
Harlan Ellison, fiction writer well-known for Star Trek’s ‘City on the Edge of Forever,’ dies at 84 Speculative fiction author Harlan Ellison, perhaps best known to the general public as the writer of the well-regarded original Star… Read More
Startup Spotlight: For $499 per month, this startup will fold laundry, sort mail, deliver packages and perform other chores around the home If you’re already getting groceries delivered, dry cleaning picked up, and a dog walker on call 9-to-5 for Fido, you… Read More
Facebook cancels its internet drone program, will partner with Airbus instead News Brief: Facebook says it’s ending its campaign to build a fleet of high-altitude drones to boost internet connectivity, after… Read More
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and tech’s battle for the hearts and classrooms of teachers If the ISTE 2018 exhibit hall was a high school, then Google and Microsoft were the enthusiastically competitive drama and… Read More
Inside the 2018 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: Photos and recap from a perfectly cloudy day Our second annual GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit brought together some of the most interesting people in cloud computing for a… Read More
Amazon’s new delivery program sparks early interest as shares of UPS and FedEx dip “I’m keenly interested in establishing myself in this program.” “I am a disabled combat veteran and I’m interested in Amazon’s… Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase opens Portland office, plans to hire 100 employees Coinbase, the cryptocurrency startup that helps users buy and sell digital currencies, is opening an office in Portland. The San… Read More
