Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 10, 2019.
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Vikram Jandhyala, UW innovation leader and key figure in Seattle tech, dies at age 47
Vikram Jandhyala, the University of Washington’s vice provost for innovation and a key link between the UW and the Seattle region’s technology community, has died as a result of suicide, according to a statement this afternoon by Ana Mari Cauce, the University of Washington president. … Read More
Facebook and Instagram outage drags on for hours as social media giant denies DDoS attack
You know it’s a rough day when Facebook has to use Twitter to let users know that Facebook and Instagram aren’t working properly. … Read More
MIT computer scientists troll Donald Trump over tweet about planes becoming ‘too complex to fly’
In the wake of Sunday’s fatal Boeing 737 MAX airplane crash in Ethiopia, President Donald Trump took computer scientists to task today for making airplanes “too complex to fly.” And the computer scientists struck back. … Read More
F5 Networks paying $670M to acquire NGINX, a web server that runs a big chunk of the internet
F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670 million. … Read More
On 30th anniversary of web, Amazon shares first homepage, Google keeps doodling and more
For better or worse, the World Wide Web sure has come a long way in 30 years. … Read More
Changing the game? Microsoft’s ‘Xbox One S All-Digital Edition’ may hasten the decline of physical media
Credible rumors have been spreading for months that Microsoft was working on a new, digital-media-only edition of its Xbox One video game console, without a disc drive. … Read More
‘We don’t even use computers!’: Watch a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation get mocked on ‘SNL’
It’s the first Monday back at work after daylight saving time and hopefully you don’t have to make a PowerPoint presentation today. … Read More
Paul Allen’s Petrel research ship finds out where USS Wasp’s WWII odyssey ended
The USS Wasp, an aircraft carrier that saw service during World War II from Iceland to Guadalcanal, has been located lying 14,000 feet deep in the Coral Sea 77 years after its sinking. … Read More
Party like it’s $1,999: Jeff Bezos and Robert Downey Jr. will headline re:MARS fest in Vegas
Amazon didn’t have to look very far for one of the biggest headliners due to appear at re:MARS, the Seattle-based company’s open-to-the-public event focusing on artificial intelligence and other tech frontiers. … Read More
Inside Amazon’s ‘Haven’ healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase
It has been more than a year since the healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway was announced. … Read More