Articles from 2018 – Page 90 of 161

Lightform unveils $699 augmented-reality projection device from the brains behind Xbox IllumiRoom

Almost five years ago, Microsoft showed off an eye-catching prototype of an Xbox feature that projected games beyond the monitor and… Read More

Tethers Unlimited delivers tiny but powerful satellite transmitter for Army

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it’s delivered the first flight unit of a K-band radio transmitter that’s designed for use… Read More

New hotel south of Seattle features a robot that makes room-service deliveries

Vroom-vroom service! A new hotel that opened last week south of Seattle features a zippy little robot that will roam… Read More

Paradox Interactive to pay $7.5M for indie studio Harebrained Schemes, makers of ‘BattleTech’

Paradox Interactive, the Stockholm-based video game publisher known for its lineup of “grand strategy” games, announced Tuesday that it’s entered… Read More

Hungry for Shake Shack in Seattle? Pop-up will preview burger joint’s menu before it opens near Amazon

Amazon employees and other Seattleites waiting anxiously for another food option in the city’s South Lake Union neighborhood will have… Read More

Amazon Web Services now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS

Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project that… Read More

Tech Moves: Remitly hires first chief people officer; Amazon VP of finance leaves for Snap; and more

Remitly, the Seattle-based digital remittance startup, hired its first chief people officer as it expands to more than 700 employees… Read More

High noon in the asteroid belt: Bungie’s ‘Destiny 2’ goes space Western with ‘Forsaken’ expansion

One week in advance of this year’s E3 Expo in Los Angeles, Bungie fired up its Twitch channel Tuesday morning for… Read More

NASA’s New Horizons probe wakes up from its robotic slumber for post-Pluto flyby

The mission operations team for NASA’s New Horizons probe has awakened the spacecraft from its robotic hibernation, and now it’ll… Read More

Axon and DJI strike a deal to sell drones directly to law enforcement agencies

Axon, the make of police body cameras and other law enforcement technology with headquarters in Seattle and Scottsdale, Ariz., is… Read More

Siri Shortcuts vs. Alexa Skills: How Apple is tapping apps to compete with Amazon’s voice assistant

One of Alexa’s biggest competitive advantages is its catalog of more than 40,000 skills, leveraging third-party services to provide additional… Read More

It’s a fact: Bill Gates is gifting one of the most important books he’s ever read to U.S. college grads

Hey, college grads, Bill Gates wanted to offer his congratulations on your achievement by giving you all a gift. Sorry,… Read More

NASA’s chief talks about handing over space station to commercial consortium

For months, the White House has been talking about transitioning the International Space Station to commercial control by 2025, and now… Read More

SAP vows to take on Salesforce, as cloud vendors line up to pitch its database customers

Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and… Read More

Cybersecurity training company MediaPRO lands investment from Frontier Capital, names new CEO

MediaPRO has landed more investment and hired a new CEO to grow its platform that helps companies train employees on… Read More

Microsoft veteran Chris Jones leaves to lead product for AI marketing startup Amperity

AI-fueled marketing startup Amperity is bringing in a big name with its latest hire. The Seattle-based company announced Tuesday that longtime… Read More

New Microsoft Azure tech could let smart building operators model the links between people and objects at work

As Microsoft leans into its focus this year on cloud services for the internet of things, it’s introducing new platform… Read More

Enterprise security startup OneLogin raises $22.5M, opens Seattle-area engineering office

Another Bay Area tech startup is setting up shop in the Seattle region. Enterprise security startup OneLogin today announced a… Read More

Which president or first lady do you look like? Amazon helps provide answer in White House app

Amazon is helping to power a new app which offers virtual tours of the White House as well as a… Read More

Facebook’s new cooling system might make it easier to put data centers in hot places

As the data centers that run the computing world have become more powerful and sophisticated, just like their marketing executives,… Read More

BMW’s ReachNow partners with apartment building to offer dedicated fleet of car-sharing vehicles

BMW’s ReachNow car-sharing service is partnering with a luxury apartment building in downtown Seattle to offer dedicated vehicles for residents.… Read More

State of bike share: 10K bikes in Seattle — out of 44K nationwide — and 468K rides, study finds

There were 10,000 dockless bike share bikes scattered across Seattle at the end of 2017, nearly a quarter of all… Read More

Google and Facebook sued by Washington state AG for alleged violations of campaign finance law

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed suit against Facebook and Google on Monday, alleging that the tech giants aren’t… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub, tech for women’s safety, Alexa & Google Assistant coming to Xbox

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Here’s where Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition ranks among the tech giant’s largest deals

Bigger than Nokia and Minecraft, smaller than LinkedIn and Skype. And nowhere near Yahoo, but that doesn’t count because it… Read More

Howard Schultz stepping down as Starbucks board chair in leadership milestone for iconic coffee company

A year after handing over the reins to new CEO Kevin Johnson, long-time Starbucks leader Howard Schultz is stepping down… Read More

Boeing goes vertical and partners with Safran on auxiliary power units for planes

Boeing and Safran have set up a joint venture to design, build and service auxiliary power units for airplanes, marking… Read More

Smartsheet posts first quarterly earnings since IPO, revenue up 63% but losses swell to $14.3M

Smartsheet on Monday posted its first quarterly earnings report since going public in April as the cloud-based work management company… Read More

The Pride of Amazon: Spheres take on a colorful glow as tech giant celebrates LGBQT community

Amazon takes a lot of pride in the Spheres it built at its downtown Seattle headquarters. And this weekend the… Read More

Apple’s new macOS: Dark Mode, a souped up Finder window, additional screenshot effects and more

Complementing the new iOS 12, Apple introduced the latest version of its operating system for desktop computers and MacBooks at… Read More