Articles from 2018 – Page 92 of 161

Study unveils impact of high drug costs: Cancer chemotherapy is twice as expensive in the U.S.

A new study from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found a huge price discrepancy between cancer care in… Read More

Space Force? Space Corps? Space Guard? Experts study ways to patrol final frontier

Two months after President Donald Trump said the United States may create a new military branch to focus on national… Read More

New research finds 95% of teens have access to a smartphone; 45% online ‘almost constantly’

Our kids are growing up behind the screens of their smartphones. What they’re looking at and how often is the… Read More

In cities competing for Amazon HQ2, reaction to tech giant’s Seattle tax battle is all over the map

Three days after the Seattle City Council passed a head tax on large businesses, the editorial board of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,… Read More

Signs point to Fortnite heading to Nintendo Switch in potential match of gaming crazes

The hottest game in the world and trendiest console appear to be on a collision course. There’s mounting evidence that… Read More

Helm, an open-source project for managing Kubernetes apps, gets its own home inside the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Another project has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, after members voted to include Helm at the incubation stage within… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services and lock-in: ‘You never want your customers to be trapped’

Enterprise tech buyers have worried about the prospect of “lock-in” — in which their vendors make it nearly impossible to… Read More

The brilliance of ‘NBA Twitter’; Microsoft powers AI golf caddy; and more sports tech news

TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: You watch Game 1 last night? What drama! LeBron put up a career… Read More

Working Geek: Long-time techie Raghu Murthi of GoDaddy aims for a big impact in massive markets

Over Raghu Murthi’s career, he’s worked for leading tech companies in key sectors, including hardware-maker Intel, software giant Microsoft and… Read More

The way we think of black holes just might be in for a radical change … again

After decades’ worth of mystery, it feels as if physicists are finally closing in on the nature of black holes,… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft’s Ability Summit, Amazon’s 4th pillar, testing out Getaround

[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

GeekWire 200: Amid IPO frenzy, M&A has its day

IPOs have thinned the ranks at the top of the GeekWire 200, our ranking of privately held Pacific Northwest tech… Read More

Pentagon delays the release of requirements for the once-in-a-generation cloud computing contract

Cloud companies lining up to bid on a ten-year cloud contract for the U.S. Department of Defense will have to… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Inspired by mother’s cooking, ex-Amazon engineer creates Indian food delivery startup

The unique workplace culture at Amazon provided Mitra Raman both the motivation to quit the technology giant and the engineering… Read More

Amazon targets small businesses, takes aim at Tableau and Microsoft Power BI with new QuickSight pricing model

Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on… Read More

See which Seattle tech company earned a spot on this map showing every state’s highest payer

Nothing quite like hovering your computer mouse over a digital map of the United States to get a better sense… Read More

Blue Origin gets in on NASA studies for resource utilization on moon and Mars

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among 10 teams that will share about $10 million in NASA… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Travel to space with an astronaut; Tech and music in Pioneer Square; and more

Compete in a year-long televised contest. Beat out 36,000 candidates. Complete rigorous cosmonaut training in Russia. Then — travel through… Read More

From AI to inclusive hiring, Satya Nadella seeks further inspiration at Microsoft’s Ability Summit

Microsoft’s mission to create technology that can empower every person doesn’t just begin and end with the products it is… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Malala Yousafzai tweet cute over ClickHole’s Starman parody

More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed… Read More

What will be the next big driver of Amazon’s business? Jeff Bezos points to 3 possibilities

There were billboard trucks circling the block, a giant Bezos Bot looming over the crowd and, new to the show… Read More

Seattle indie games legend Jeff Vogel takes to Kickstarter for his newest project, ‘Queen’s Wish’

Back in March, we had a talk with Jeff Vogel, the Seattle-based developer who, working almost solo, has been putting… Read More

Kavli Prizes go to pioneers of gene editing, neuroscience and astrochemistry

Three inventors of the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 technique for editing DNA are among the recipients of this year’s Kavli Prizes, which… Read More

Melinda Gates says VC firms are ‘leaving money on the table’ by not investing in women-led businesses

Traditional venture capital firms are missing out on returns by overlooking women-led startups. That’s according to Melinda Gates, who spoke… Read More

Mystery solved: The story behind a rogue JUMP bike spotted in Seattle

When Mighty AI CEO Daryn Nakhuda spotted a runaway JUMP bike on a ferry in Seattle, he put GeekWire on… Read More

Taking Getaround for a spin: Can the Airbnb model work for renting your neighbor’s car?

Over the past decade, we’ve been conditioned to be comfortable with the notion of spending the night in a stranger’s… Read More

Science of ‘The Expanse’: TV show sticks to space realities (with one big exception)

LOS ANGELES — The sci-fi saga known as “The Expanse” has attracted a huge fan following in part because it… Read More

Microsoft mixed reality exec Kudo Tsunoda in limbo as engineering reorganization continues

The future of one of Microsoft’s top executives is in limbo as the company continues to shuffle its engineering teams, following… Read More

Microsoft and Apple collaborate to help visually impaired people use braille displays across operating systems

Microsoft, Apple, and other tech companies are working together to make it easier for people with impaired vision to use… Read More

AT&T CEO says T-Mobile and Sprint have ‘tough hill to climb’ to get regulatory approval for merger

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson knows a thing or two about wireless carrier mergers. He was leading the company when it… Read More