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Articles from 2018

#SurfaceDrop: Seahawks star Russell Wilson births new celebration with Microsoft tablet during big win

Russell Wilson may have inadvertently invented the geekiest touchdown celebration of the NFL season. The Seattle Seahawks quarterback was on… Read More

Microsoft tops Forbes ‘Just 100’ list of most responsible companies

Microsoft has taken the top spot on the annual “Just 100” list of the most responsible U.S. companies, compiled by… Read More

Leadership lessons: 5 startup tips from this Ironman CEO and venture capitalist

Clayton Lewis knows what it takes to win — both on the race course, and in the boardroom. Lewis, the… Read More

Planet SkySat view of Beijing

Images start to stream in from new crop of satellites after two launch extravaganzas

More than 100 payloads have been put into orbit over the past couple of weeks, including 64 satellites riding a… Read More

Tech leaders denounce new ‘public charge’ policy limiting green card eligibility

Leaders of more than 120 U.S. companies are speaking out against what they see as an effort to dramatically curb… Read More

Amazon Books

Amid reports of abandoned projects, Amazon says it’s still ‘excited’ about physical bookstores

Amazon Books was the tech giant’s first take on brick-and-mortar retail, starting in Seattle in 2015 and setting off a… Read More

Bennu

That was fast: OSIRIS-REx probe detects water on asteroid Bennu during approach

Just one week after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s official arrival at the asteroid Bennu, the mission’s scientists have announced a significant… Read More

Tech Moves: OfferUp’s VP of product departs; UW hires Impact Hub managing director; and more

—Chloe Harford has left her position as VP of product at digital marketplace OfferUp. Harford joined OfferUp in June 2017 from… Read More

EagleView completes $90M acquisition of Australian aerial imagery firm Spookfish

Privately held aerial imagery and data analytics company EagleView Technologies has completed its previously announced acquisition of Spookfish, an Australian… Read More

Voyager probes' positions

NASA says its Voyager 2 probe has entered interstellar space, six years after Voyager 1

NASA says its Voyager 2 probe has become the second human-made object to fly into interstellar space — six years after… Read More

WeWork opens startup incubator WeWork Labs in Portland as part of global expansion

Co-working giant WeWork is expanding its WeWork Labs startup incubator concept to Portland, just a few months after doing the… Read More

Uber reportedly files IPO paperwork, accelerating race with rival Lyft

Uber has filed preliminary documents to take the company public in 2019, with a goal of debuting in March or… Read More

Straight outta Linux: Cloud tech conference KubeCon will feature hip-hop star at ‘Ice Cube-Con’

Will Tuesday be a good day? It will be for those attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle this week if… Read More

Rhapsody and Sony Music Entertainment bring ‘Powered by Napster’ streaming service to Japan

Napster is coming to Japan. Or, at least, its underlying technology is. Seattle-based Rhapsody International and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)… Read More

Amazon reportedly taking action against global staff over leaked or sold third-party seller data

The alleged leaking or selling of inside information about Amazon third-party merchants by Amazon’s own employees is now said to… Read More

LSAT goes digital on Surface Go: Microsoft wins big contract for Law School Admissions Test tablets

When tens of thousands of aspiring law school students sit down next summer to take the Law School Admissions Test… Read More

Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020

Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack, according to a new survey that shows… Read More

Seattle Children’s spin-out MDmetrix adds operating room capabilities, looks to expand

After a recent staff meeting at Seattle Children’s Hospital, several doctors gathered around the coffeemaker to discuss sedation protocols used… Read More

10,000 Year Clock construction

The team behind Bezos-backed 10,000 Year Clock is looking forward to visitors

With $42 million in funding from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, the Long Now Foundation can afford to take the long… Read More

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More

Microsoft-funded U.S.-China tech institute GIX graduates first class, reveals student projects

The latest milestone for the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) came Sunday as the U.S.-China tech institute celebrated the graduation of… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 2, 2018

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 2, 2018. Read More

Cast of "Bathtubs Over Broadway"

‘Bathtubs Over Broadway’ unearths the wacky world of corporate musicals: Where did they go?

No fan of Broadway musicals should miss classics like “I Never Enjoyed My Operation More,” “My Insurance Man” and “My… Read More

How a ‘driveway moment’ with Microsoft’s Brad Smith led to the creation of nonprofit Code.org

As 2018’s Computer Science Education Week comes to a close, a key detail has been revealed about the origins of… Read More

Aurora eVTOL

Morgan Stanley says market for self-flying cars could rise to $1.5 trillion by 2040

The market for autonomous flying cars — also known as eVTOL aircraft, air taxis or personal air vehicles — could amount… Read More

Aurora Station

One small step: Orion Span kicks off $2M crowdfunding campaign for space hotel

Orion Span, a Houston-based venture that’s planning to put a luxury hotel in orbit, has kicked off a crowdfunding effort… Read More

‘Celeste’ and ‘Into the Breach’ take home prizes amid a few surprises at the Game Awards 2018

The annual Game Awards presentation in Los Angeles on Thursday night included a few surprises, a lot of big announcements,… Read More

Working Geek: Eugenio Pace’s journey from failed startup to CEO of Auth0 with $110M in funding

Eugenio Pace was destined to be a tech entrepreneur. He just jumped the gun. After earning a degree in electrical engineering… Read More

Chang'e-4 launch

China launches Chang’e-4 probe, destined for landing and roving on moon’s far side

China’s space effort launched its most ambitious robotic lunar mission to date, taking aim at a crater near the south… Read More

Mars InSight lander's solar panel

NASA’s InSight lander captures the first sounds of a ‘windy afternoon’ on Mars

NASA’s Mars InSight lander is designed primarily to study the Red Planet’s interior, but it’s already produced a big bonus… Read More

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