Articles from 2018

Rentberry sues city of Seattle over ban on rent bidding sites, alleging free speech violations

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with a statement from Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda. Rentberry, a San Francisco… Read More

Planetary scientists suggest that Pluto was put together from a billion comets

Did Pluto form like its closer-in brethren in the solar system, or is it the result of an agglomeration of… Read More

Next-generation GOES-17 weather satellite encounters infrared imaging glitch in orbit

Two months after its launch, the main imaging instrument on a next-generation weather satellite is experiencing problems with its cooling… Read More

TLDR: Judge rules Trump can’t block critics on Twitter, backyard cottages & urban housing crisis, Russell Wilson’s new show on TraceMe

[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

Microsoft says AI is finally ready for broader use to help solve Earth’s environmental woes

REDMOND, Wash. — Lucas Joppa agrees we’re living in the Information Age. But he wishes that the present tech era… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Mysterious new smartphone from camera maker Red and getting hyped for the Tesla Model 3

The Geared Up Giveaway is back! We’re giving Geared Up subscribers the chance to win an Oculus Go headset. See… Read More

Elon Musk berates media critics and vows to create ‘Pravda’ news rating website

Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed… Read More

Controversial Seattle ‘head tax’ may head south: Silicon Valley cities weigh tax on tech giants

Seattle is an innovator in a lot of things — from speciality coffee to cloud computing to commercial spacecraft. Could… Read More

Here’s how much Amazon, Starbucks and Vulcan donated to campaign to repeal Seattle head tax

Amazon and Starbucks have donated $25,000 each to a referendum campaign on Seattle’s divisive new head tax, according to disclosure… Read More

Judge rules President Trump can’t block his critics on Twitter and calls the action unconstitutional

Blocking people you don’t agree with on Twitter may be a good way to silence them in your social sphere,… Read More

Secretive startup Pattern Computer emerges from stealth, promising a ‘revolution in computing’

A mysterious startup helmed by well-known tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is coming out of hiding today, with a goal of… Read More

Google Home overtakes Amazon Echo in smart speaker sales for the first time, study says

Google outsold Amazon in the competitive smart speaker market for the first time ever in the first quarter, a report… Read More

Celebs join NFL star Russell Wilson as he launches new video series about success on TraceMe

Russell Wilson already knows a lot about success. But he wants to learn more — and share those lessons with… Read More

A solution in your backyard? Startups take on the housing crisis with new approaches to urban cottages

Like many entrepreneurs, Bryan Copley had an ambitious — and slightly naive — idea. He thought he could make a… Read More

‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Solo’ star Emilia Clarke slays stock photography like a real businesswoman

Actress Emilia Clarke may be best known as the mother of dragons, Daenerys Targaryen, in the HBO hit series “Game of… Read More

Facebook teams up with Porch, HomeAdvisor and Handy for new Marketplace home services offerings

Facebook is partnering with Seattle startup Porch, as well as HomeAdvisor and Handy to launch a new Services addition to… Read More

Smart lighting startup Deako unveils plug-and-play lighting system for home-builders, raises $4M

Seattle smart lighting startup Deako has raised $4 million as it begins to roll out a new “modular” system designed… Read More

Under new product leader, Chef rolls out strategy for modern app development teams

Simply automating your computing infrastructure won’t cut it anymore; forward-thinking software-development organizations need to automate their processes across the board… Read More

Grail raises $300M for cancer detection tools, boosting total investment to $1.5B

News Brief: Grail, a biotech company with early backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says… Read More

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sees satellites as bigger market than rockets

SpaceX is taking a commanding role in the rocket business — but Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer,… Read More

TLDR: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to police, Paul Allen’s $1M donation to gun safety initiative, GlimpseCam